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guidelines that many argued discriminated against african-americans for years. hello to you all. good morning. here in atlanta, georgia, it's 5:00 a.m. i am t.j. holmes. look what we were able to drag down. >> look what the cat dragged in. >> we'll introduce you to kate. >> since you all have forgotten me. >> good morning lovelies. thanks for having me, guys. >> do we need company? >> we do need company. it's been like a locker room, dude locker room. we need elegance sitting here. >> they picked the wrong person for that. anyway. it will have to work. >> we have a lot going on this morning. >> we do. >> reynolds and i are going to talk about something near and dear to us. we're taking a road trip. we'll get into that in a bit. also, chocolate to sexual

enhancement items. how the miners are poised to make serious money from their two-month ordeal. >> this might be painful. we're talking about botox. painful to get the injections, some say. now, it's been approved as a treatment to relieve a particular kind of pain. we'll explain that. also, you remember, reynolds, kate, all of us how excited we were to get our drivers license. it was a big moment. >> a huge moment! best ever. >> i shouldn't have had mine until i was 30. >> well, a young man, a teenager, immediately after he got his drivers license, an embarrassing moment. he already has a driving record. >> what? >> we'll explain. >> you'll have to stick around

to find out. >> the place for politics here on cnn. we have two weeks left until the midterm elections. president obama and president clinton is out rallying. republicans bringing out their heavy hitters as well like sarah palin, rnc chairman, michael steele. they are campaigning on the west coast. >> let's begin with president obama. he's cam panning for duvall patrick. he's in a tight race with baker. president obama is trying to energize democratic voters with his visits. some pundits are questioning his motive. now, to the west coast. another democratic heavy hitter is stumping for votes. bill clinton is on the campaign trail. he was at a rally backing his

former political rival in california friday night. he and democratic, gubernatorial jerry brown embraced. both men praised each other at the rally. there was no love loss between the men in 1992 when clinton beat brown in the presidential primary. brown is in a tight race with former ebay ceo meg whitman. she's funded her campaign with $119 million of her own money. clinton told the crowd, the election is all about them. >> this is your life. you need to know where are we now, what are we going to do, who is more likely to do it? nothing else really matters. okay, so -- s well, the republicans had their heavy hitters out there as well. one of the biggest playing a major role this campaign season

is sarah palin. she's going to be out with rnc chairman michael steele. they will be out there together in anaheim, california. it's supposed to happen tonight. yesterday, the former governor, palin all but endorsed the gop candidate meg whitman. she did it on the sly. didn't have to say her name. >> your next governor will have to make tough choices. certainly, she will be working in a bipartisan manner. >> yeah. she, it's easy to figure out who she is. we are hitting the road once again here with the election express. we are coming to your town. there's a good chance we are. i'm hitting the road monday. columbia, south carolina. macon, georgia, wednesday. thursday, we'll see you folks in

jacksonville, florida. then we're hitting tampa on friday. what i want you to do, right now, before i get to your town. let me know what it is you want me to talk about. maybe who i need to go see. what restaurant i need to eat at. what local brewery i need to hang out in. whatever it may be. okay. skip the brewerry part. we might be able to stop by and tell the stories you want us to tell. i'm at tjholmes on twitter and facebook as well. we'll have more political news coming your way at the bottom of the hour. if you are away from your tv and need a political fix, go to cnn.com. you know this, halloween is just around the corner. that may have inspired a would-be thief during a burglary attempt. >> dressed up as a tree.

there he is. we'll explain it more. he was trying to rob a museum. he was hiding in the woods after an alarm sounded. we'll talk about that a little more. reynolds, what are you going to be for halloween. >> a tree? that's the weirdest thing i have ever seen. we are going to look at the forecast. it's a trick or treat for some people. plus, a look at your college football forecast. we're going to cover all the bases in a moment. you are watching cnn saturday morning. green wookies. green. >> a lot of games today. one in particular to talk ability. before you go anywhere, we have a quiz. this is an easy one. >> listen up. >> "money" magazine has a list of highest paying jobs in america. what is number one. an attorney, an an theseologist

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magazine. reynolds, always enjoy asking you these. >> i was going to go with b. i know in terms of network news anchors, that's not the case. >> yeah. >> i have to go with b. >> he has a cheat sheet. it is b. these are the doctors who, of course, if you had surgery, they help you stay asleep and stay under during surgery. the average pay, $290,000. for more information on the highest paying jobs, because we all need them. go to money.cnn.com. >> to put people to sleep. >> do you want to be awake during surgery? >> you can knock them out. there are other ways. i know guys who will do it for free. >> this is not the doctor you are going to go to, ever. >> it's not at all. reynolds, we have the wookie now.

this is actually a burglary suspect. he was caught in that outfit or in deep cover. >> yes. this man is wearing a gilly suit, it's used by snipers or hunters. police in hillsboro, oregon think he was planning to steal rocks in a mineral museum and wanted to blend in with the nearby woods. a police dog was called after a security alarm went off at the museum. the dog sniffed him out in the woods and bit him. the 36-year-old is now charged with burglary and criminal mischief. >> is that the first place you think about robbing? i'm not condoning, but a mineral museum. >> it's ripe, ripe for crime. >> maybe he's a collector. >> if you need ore, you can go

to the ends where you have to put on a gilly suit and get bitten by a dog -- >> maybe he didn't have black. >> maybe so. >> when you are really into geology -- >> it's definitely a reynolds halloween costume. my wife wouldn't let me back in the house if i wore that thing. >> it's like a car wash. >> it's cutable in parts of the northeast. we are going to see rough weather there today. >> thanks for the downer. >> let's be the downer. let's show you a shot we have outside in atlanta. dry and cool. epic football games played across the southeastern conference. we are going to get to that later on. let's pick up where we left off in the northeast. it looks interesting here. once we zoom in, we are going to see a lot of blue, light to

moderate showers. yellows and orange spots. you notice pink popping up across the radar. it's light snow. light is going to be the nature. some parts, the green mountains, we could see light snow in the highest elevations. quiet conditions. temperatures in the valleys warmer. in terms of temperatures across the eastern sea board, it's going to be just beautiful for you. nice fall weather. 62 in new york, 68 in washington, d.c. a nice ridge you have in the southeast. 85 degrees in dallas. houston with 86 degrees. 84 in new orleans. 55 in billings, 73 in san francisco, the home of the giants. a quick look at the forecast. >> what's the temperature today, auburn, alabama. >> 78 degrees. >> is michigan going to win?

yes. >> yes. they will not win in auburn, but they are going to win today. no question about it. >> come on. so, a popular rapper will be returning to prison for violating his parole. probation, i mean. >> just got out of prison, got out of a half-way house earlier this year. in two more weeks, t.i. will be back behind bars. stay with us. ♪ where'd you learn to do that so well. ♪ ♪ where'd you learn to do that so well. ♪ the new cadillac srx. the cadillac of crossovers. cadillac. the new standard of the world.

a staggering new number came out about the state of the economy. a record number of foreclosures. >> yeah. one in every 139 homeowners received foreclosure filings last quarter. josh, there is good news. you tell us. >> yeah, it's kind of like we need to trudge through how ugly it is to see the good news. one thing, some states are better off than others. more equal than others. look at what we have been learning. foreclosures are soaring, 930,000 foreclosure filings in a quarter. we have never seen anything this high. look at this. bank repossessions. banks just taking over people's homes topping the 100,000 mark

in the first quarter. look here. the biggest impacted state in terms of per capita, one in 29 homes in nevada. if you are going to look at raw numbe numbers, 191,000 homes in california. one more thing to show you. put california, florida, arizona, illinois, and michigan together, you have half of the foreclosures in the entire country. in some places in this country, things are a lot, lot better. look at the map here and zoom in a little bit. the darker red the worst in foreclosures. north dakota, south carolina, wyoming, iowa, is actually doing well. they skipped the boom. they were never part of the real estate boom in the first place. the bust didn't hit them. if you are concerned foreclosure might impact you, there are a bunch of agencies that can help you. i posted them at facebook and

twitter. go ahead and take a look at my pages. what you will find are resources. you'll find government resources, private resources. you want to avoid that. the good news is that a lot of this is being reduced now. you have 50 state's attorneys general making sure it's not happening. banks have stopped reposessing homes. they are not expecting the numbers to go up. they think it will go down. a little bit of good news there. >> all right. good news, i'll take it. >> something to hold on to. >> something for your morning coffee. >> there you go. >> we are going to talk more about this. clyde anderson is going to be here at 20 or 25 past 7:00, east coast time, he's going to talk specifically about foreclosures. josh said one in 140 homeowners are facing foreclosure. a lot of you out there, he eesz

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taking a look now at some of the stories making headlines, we are 22 minutes from the hour. at least 20 are dead in an explosion in a coal mine. they closed 1,300 small coal mines this year. china has one of the deadliest records for miners.

rapper t.i. violated his probation. his real name is clifton harris. he's sentenced to 11 months. he had the limit for second chances. i interviews t.i. last spring after his release from prison and talked to him before he went to prison. listen to what he sad to say to me about how he was going to change his life. >> i don't feel the need to make any assurance to others. you watch me live my life and you see how i move different than i did before and you see how i behave different than i did before, i think that in itself will be your assurance. i think that's the main question everybody wants to know. how do we know it's not going to happen, again. i mean, you know, you have to sit and watch and see. you know what i'm saying?

i know it's not going to happen, again, but i can't convince you without action. >> that was a big part of the hearing yesterday. he violated his probation after being arrested on drug charges. his defense team made the case he's an addict suffering from the disease of addiction and needs to go to rehab and not back to prison. next here, the cosmetic drug, botox, it's been approved to treat some forms of chronic migraines. the fda says the drug can be injected every three months to dull the symptoms of migraines. they are those that occur 15 days or more for more than four hours a day. botox is not known to work for other forms of headaches.

welcome back to the cnn saturday morning. 25 past the hour now. you remember the basket brawl in '05? what year was that? >> maybe it was. it was intense. >> we have another one to show you. this was not in the u.s. if that's the good news, possibly. look at this. this was supposed to be what they call a friendly between nations. this was not a tournament or anything, just an exhibition. china. the chinese team and brazilian team. this came about because of what happened during hard foul. one of the players got a concussion after a hard foul. it set everybody off.

this is what ensued. >> from the video, it looks like it went on for quite awhile. >> it did. >> one of the odd things is when they first created basketball by getting a peach basket. some wonder if it will be able to keep its structure, its beauty. overseas, it's still a great american sport, still playing out as the founders intended. >> exactly. as a brawl. >> we are going to move to another sports story. we like sports here. >> yes, we do. >> this has to do with a young man in frederickstown, missouri. josh lake is a football player for a high school football team. he looks like some of the other players. you can't tell the difference from him. but, the young man is deaf. you saw the lady on the sideline giving him the signals. her name is kathy and she does signs for him.

she's done it for another player over the years. she's going to make a joke that you don't expect a middle-aged women to be in the boys locker room. take a listen. >> not being able to hear your coach's directions, do you ever have a challenge? >> well, yes a little bit, but really, for example, the coach would tell me ahead. if i look over at the coach on the sidelines, a lot of times the team will help me, too, the coaches, of course. somebody is always there to puts me in position. >> can we redeem ourselves now? it's a great story. >> right. >> the chinese and brazilian basketball teams should be saying we should get along. >> there she is on the sidelines. she's a part of it. she's not a coach or anything. she's there to help out. most of the young men came up through their high school career with a middle-aged white woman

in their locker room. >> the record, 5-2 now. they are doing well. this is the story we have been talking about. >> go ahead. >> okay. the instructor, the driving instructor maybe handed out the approval a little too early. take a look at this video. you can see it sometimes in a coffee shop -- >> a random place. >> this is the interesting part. bridgeville, pennsylvania. the guy crashing into the building, he just passed his driving test. pennsylvania's newest man behind the wheel, he was actually dropping off the instructor who just gave him a passing grade and clearly forgot the one important rule of the gas is on the right, the break is on the left. >> poor kid. >> poor kid. >> a lot of questions when you see something like that. not necessarily for the driver, but the instructor himself.

did you have him put his hand on the steering wheel? that whole thing about driving. i wonder if that was part of the test. >> probably very excited. remember how excited you were when you got your license? >> i wasn't that excited. >> he was a little overly excited. he getting to keep his license. >> as soon as he gets it, it's suspended. >> his parents are probably upset about the insurance. >> more on the top stories when we come back. stay with us. you want some fiber one honey clusters?

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a lot of things have changed since you were last year. >> i know it has. it's a very big deal. oh, we're back. >> hello, everybody. 33 minutes past the hour. i'm k.j. holmes. >> i'm kate baldwin. >> we'll start with the mexican government suspending the search for david heart li, the american, the texan. she said her husband was shot september 30th by mexican drug pirates. they were out jet skiing on falcon lake that borders the u.s. and mexico.

the lead investigator in case was beheaded. they talked with mexican authorities and they have hopes the search could start up, again, on monday. secretary of state, hillary clinton says the u.s. could end vie lensz. she said drug cartels are acting more like terrorists these days. they are helping mexico make anonymous tip lines. she said the u.s. could do more to help train mexican police. also, folks up in the northeast are going to have to go without this weekend. at least for their sports on fox. news corp. blacked out 3 million cable customers because of a dispute over fees. this could affect, it will affect the national league championship series that starts tonight. if you are one of the 3 million customers, you are not going to

get fox. the nfl, is not going to be seeing those games. cablevision says it's paying news corp. that owns fox channel $70 million for the programming. they say news corp. now wants $150 million. they say that is way too much. government is trying to get them to work out their differences. so far, those folks right now don't have fox. we have 17 days to go until one of the most important elections in recent memory. midterm elections, anyway. sarah palin and president obama and president clinton o are out from maine to california. >> they are heading out to help raise money for their parties and encourage people to get out and vote. paul steinhauser has more from the political desk in washington. >> reporter: hey, good morning. a busy weekend in politics. barack obama is heading up to

massachusetts to help out a friend. i'm talking duvall patrick. he's the governor and he faces a tough re-election this year. the president is on his way up there today. what about the republicans? they are busy as well. let's talk sarah palin. the former alaska governor and john mccain's running mate in 2008. she's teaming up with michael steele in anaheim, california. they are doing a fund raising rally to raise bucks for the republican party to help out candidates in the november election. palin and the republican national committee didn't always see eye-to-eye, but they are teaming up to raise money. back to you guys. >> thanks to paul steinhauser. we are all over politics here. we are hitting the road, once again, with the cnn election express and trying to see what is on your mind as we head into the critical midterm election. i am on board, once again, all next week. we wanlt to hear from you.

charlotte, north carolina, monday. columbus, south carolina, tuesday. wednesday, macon, georgia. get out the fine china. thursday, jacksonville, florida. we gonna make a stop by. friday, we gonna end up in tampa. all week on the road. what i want you to do is send me a message and let me know what we need to be talking about in your town, what neighborhood we need to go to, what politician to talk to and what restaurant recommendation you might have. whatever it is, hit us up at twitter and facebook. we want to hear from you. you know the website, cnnpolitics.com anytime you want to get your fix. now, another question from the "money" magazine highest paid jobs in america list. good news this morning. highest paying jobs. the first seven jobs are in the medical field.

psychiatrist and primary care doctor. what is number eight? the first non-medical job in the top ten. here are the choices. software architect, sales director or project management director. the answer? you're going to have to come back for that one. [ advisor 1 ] what do you see yourself doing one week, one month, five years after you do retire? ♪ client comes in and they have a box. and inside that box is their financial life. people wake up and realize i better start doing something. we open up that box. we organize it.

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all right. before the break, kate asked this question, what is the first non-medical career on "money" magazine's list of highest paying jobs? number eight, what was it? software engineer, sales director or project management director. without look k at the answer, i'm going to say software architect. >> software architect? >> no. it is actually c. a project management director whose average pay is $148,000.

the top pay $192,000. it sounded awfully vague to me, a project management director. it sounds vague. hey, do your thing out there. no matter how vague it is. >> the way they explained it to us is every ginlgetwidget is pr made by them. a lot of things people were criticizing for years and years. a sentence guideline if you are caught with crack-cocaine. new guidelines. it will take 28 grams of crack-cocaine to draw the mands tour five-year sentence. it's up from where it used to be which was five grams. now, 280 grams to trigger the ten-year mandatory sentence. that is up from 50 grams.

it brings prison terms for crack-cocaine in line for powder cocaine convictions. >> the argument is people said it discriminated against african-americans because overwhelmingly they were the ones caught with crack-cocaine. they were getting a higher sentence than those who used cocaine. the miners. survived 69 days under ground. now, they have become international celebrities. >> yes, they have all kind of offers out there from sunglasses to chocolate. some offers sexual enhancement offers. how they are poised to make more money from their two-month ordeal. it's 42 minutes past the hour.

43 minutes past the hour. let's look at the stories making headlines now. that guy, rapper t.i. is going back to prison. he has two weeks to get things in order before he has to report to prison, once again. yesterday, a federal judge sentenced him, once again, to 11 months for violating terms of his probation. his real name, clifford harris. he was arrested on drug charges. he was caught driving around with ecstasy and the smell of marijuana in his car. he was trying to tell the judge he needs treatment, not prison

time. i interviewed t.i. on several occasions now. earlier this spring, i sat down with him and he told me about his proposed change of heart. >> i don't feel the need to make any assurance to others. i think, you watch me live my life and see how i move different than i did before. you see how i behave different than i did before. that, in itself, will be your assurance. i mean, i think that's the main question everybody wants to know. how do we know it's not going to happen again? how do we know? >> you have to sit and watch and see. you know what i'm saying? i know it's not going to happen, again. but, i'm not going to convince you without action. >> the judge thought he wasn't convinced, yesterday. botox, it's supposed to be

painful, right? it looks painful. shots to keep you beautiful for years and years. as painful as it looks, you can use botox to relieve pain. migraine pain. the fda approved it as a preventive treatment for migraine sufferers. great britain did the same thing. insurance companies are more likely to pick up the tab for treatments. also, your favorite story, chile. all but two of the 33 miners rescued from the mine are out of the hospital. hope the remaining two are going to be released tomorrow. they spent 69 days trapped underground. the men are featured guests of a block party today in their honor. from mining for gold to maybe hitting the jackpot, the rescued miners are poised to

cash in big in the coming months and from those two months of that ordeal. there are endorsement deals and all kinds of free items offered to the miners. brian todd counts the many ways. >> reporter: why is this man so happy? he's got a new lease on life, of course. he may be looking to what lies ahead. some of the miners might have been charting their future course while still trapped. here is a quote from yonni barrios. if we do this properly, we won't have to work for the rest of our lives. how much do they have to gain? here is what we are looking at. the paper, the mail says tv networks are offering up to $400,000 each for the miners to tell their exclusive stories. predictably, agents are climbing all over themselves to sign the miners and families to book and

movie deals. also, money chilean mining tycoon pledged to give each miner $10,000. the government is also giving them money until they are fully recovered. they have offers to endorse various products including mining equipment, naturally, chocolate bars, beer and a sexual enhancement vitamin. i'm sure you cant wait to see those videos. something interesting are gifts that the miners got. the soccer team, has sent signed jerseys and balls to the miners. manchester united, one of the most popular soccer teams in the world, offered expense paid trips to see the game. a local wine maker is offering free wine for a year. here is my personal favorite, this is edison pena.

a die-hard elvis presley fan. he's offered an all expense paid ticket for two to graceland. i'm brian todd, cnn in washington. >> all right. so, from the mines in chile to snoring in spain. in today's morning passport, we go to madrid where there's a competition to rescue it. >> i wouldn't do so well, actually. >> why? >> all you have to do is lie down and go to sleep. i don't do so well. i don't get much sleep. >> you're a restless sleeper. i just don't get a lot of sleep. 49 minutes past the hour. they come to us for help. at ge capital, we've been financing taylor guitars for over eight years, helping them build a strong dealer network. bringing music to people... i like that. ♪

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top of the hour. our editorial producer joins us. a woman of so many talents around here. we love this story. there's a contest you can win by sleeping. >> what is it, the friends of the siesta association of madrid want to bring back the siesta. they were creative. they had a shopping mall and said let's have a competition in the middle of the mall. we will allow people to have naps. the person to sleep for 20 full minutes -- >> they check your pulse. if your pulse says you are sleeping. you get extra points if you are snoring. you are in a deep sleep. they will win vouchers to the mall. you get extra point ifs you have lovely pajamas on. let's create a winner and bring the siesta back. >> we don't know anything about

the siesta here. >> where did it go? >> it was a two-hour break during the day. during franco's day, they had two jobs and it was very hot in that part of the world. as globalization happened, in the city, they know siesta time. people live further out. what's happening to people is during the two-hour lunch, if they get one, they go to the mall. they don't nap. that's not happening. let's talk about the positive effects of taking a 20 minute nap. >> please tell me. i don't think it would work for me. >> can you do it? >> i don't know. i don't nap. if i'm out, i'm out. 20 minutes, i feel like i would be more tired. >> it's refreshing 40 minutes you get too much of a deep

sleep. >> i don't nap. >> maybe we need to teach you to do it. >> i get this couch. >> at 7:30, we will nap, before the 8:00. >> it refreshes you on a cellar level. when you are very tired, you don't feel like exercising. if you take a short nap, it allows you to exercise more. here, in the middle of the mall, you have these beds set up. you win per round. there are a couple rounds. if it starts at 1:00 on thursday until the 23rd. at 1:00 p.m., four people come in to enter the competition, you have to have spent a certain amount of money at the mall to enter. go into the competition. then, not only do the people decide based on how much you fell asleep, but there's a national competition and people will vote according to your pa

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can you be too disabled to fly? that's apparently why one man was kicked off a us airways flight. that story, straight ahead. a 50-state investigation into foreclosures. what it could mean to you. >> hello to you all from the cnn center in atlanta, georgia. this is cnn saturday morning. itis 7:00 a.m. wherever you may be, glad you are here. i'm t.j. holms. >> if you haven't noticed, it's football day. college football. >> it is. >> with a little more than two weeks left until the midterm elections, president obama and former president clinton are raising money for the democratic party. republicans are bringing out their heavy political hitters. sarah palin and rnc chairman michael steele are campaigning

on the west coast. let's tell you what president obama is up to. he's campaigning for an old friend, duvall pat trick in a rival with charles baker. some p some pundits. on the west coast, republicademe bringing out the heavyweights. he's backing a former political rival. jerry brown and him embraced at a rally and praised each other at that rally. you wouldn't have found that back in the day in 1992 when they went at it in the presidential primary. brown is in a race with meg whitman. you can see her there.

whitman funded her campaign with over $1 million of her own cash. >> this is your audience. you need to know, where are we now, what are we going to do and who is more likely to do it? nothing else really matters. okay, so -- >> that is on the democratic side. on the republican side, you can't get any bigger this campaign season as far as big heavy hitters than the former alaska governor, sarah palin. she's going to be out with michael steele. >> it's a busy weekend. they will speak at a rally in anaheim, california. sarah palin all but endorsed meg whitman without mentioning her by name. >> your next governor will have to make tough choices about

spending cuts and certainly she will be working in a bipartisan manner. >> of course, the best political team will be covering the last seven days. surveying what's on the minds of americans. i will be aboard a bus reporting all next week. these are the stops we are going to make. please, please, roll out the red carpet for us as we stop by charlotte, north carolina, monday. columbus south carolina on tuesday. macon, georgia, wednesday. jacksonville, florida, thursday and friday, we wrap up in tampa. let me know ahead of time what we should be talking act ahead of time. places to go, things to see. hit us up at twitter, tj holmes cnn or face book. first, another question from "money" magazine's high eest pa

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senior sales executives, management consultant or a network, a network meteorologist. so the meteorologist already has the big-time seal of approval. right? you have to go through a lot in school. then you get to work for a network. that's got to be huge. i'm going for c. >> despite the fact reynolds is close to me in proximity. the answer is actually a. a senior sales executive. that comes in at 13, averaging $127,000 a year. lawyers at 15, averaging $118,000 a year. for more information on highest paying jobs go to money.cnn.com. >> is that accurate, reynolds? >> what do you mean? absolutely. when it comes to attorneys, they don't need money in the first place. they don't need to sleep. they are basically, as long as you get garlic -- actually, i

come from a family of attorneys so i'm allowed to say that. >> you are allowed to say that. >> i have an attorney at the house. >> you do. >> you are scared of her, aren't you? >> backtrack. >> backtracking into weather. we have one area where the weather might be dicey. it's going to last through midday and that system is going to move into the atlantic. looks like a good day coast-to-coast. >> really? >> yeah. let's get over. let's take a minute and show you what's going to happen nationwide. chicago 72 degrees sunshine and clouds. the clouds you might see are whispy. dallas 86 degrees. in los angeles, 73 degrees. along the coast, you might see the marine layer, but it should be gone by 11:00 local time.

85 in miami. showers to the south and the keys. for tomorrow, looks like it's going to be nice. the dominant area of high pressure is nailed to the ground. it's going to be phenomenal conditions. boston 65 for your high. san francisco 65 and houston 85. we have a few delays to talk about. quickly, let me get to these. you are going to see a back up at laguardia. 1:40, nearly two hours. las vegas, we have a delay, 45 minutes at sky harbor airport a 25 minute delay. midday should be nice there, no issues in terms of travel. we have something else coming up soon. we are going to take a sneak peek at the college football forecast. the weather should be picture perfect. more in a few minutes. >> epic, i like that word. thanks. talk to you here shortly. a story we want to share with you.

a man called too disabled to fly. >> yeah, us airways called him off a flight for safety reasons. he used a wheelchair. he has cerebral palsy but he's flown for 20 years. the airline says he couldn't help himself or others if there was an emergency on the plane. the passenger says it airline was just plain wrong. >> i immediately thought something was up with my family. i let them take me off the plane. this is a flat-out issue of civil rights. >> he has traveled nearly half a million miles in 20 years and no airline has ever taken him off a plane. this is the first time. >> he is now looking into his legal options. >> we have a medical breakthrough. the military is putting finishing touches on a test that

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breakthrough, one offering hope of people suffering brain injury. military medical researchers developed a test to see if someone suffered a concussion. military doctors believe they have a breakthrough in detecting such injuries. >> it's huge because for the longest time, today, we have such a difficult time because both post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury share the same symptoms. to have a test like this, a biomarker that allows us to tell whether an individual has tbi is huge. >> if more research confirms the accuracy, it could be used for people injured on the football field, car accident or other situations where there's head injury. in two weeks the balance of

power could undergo a major overhaul. the stakes are high. we don't have to tell you that. higher than the usual number of races that are going on. explain this. >> you have a lot of things coming together. you have incumbents in trouble and that are leaving. this is very unusual for us. >> the math makes it. >> yeah. a ton of elections this year. this is from the election center at cnn.politics. what we have this year in the senate, 37 races instead of the usual 34 because of special elections going on. i have cool graphics for you here. this is how it's shaking out. we are going to start with the senate. the incumbents up for re-election, you have 12 democrats and 11 republicans. over here, open seats in the

senate, 23 democrats, 20 republicans. now, let's jump over to the house. house seats are up every two years. 230 democrat seats up for re-election. 156 republicans up. over here, if you are going to take a look at the number of open seats, you have even numbers there. you are seeing a huge number of democratic seats open in that way. i want to jump you over to the election center. you have exceptional information here. let's zoom back into the map. this is the map we have going forward. we can take you over to the map for the house. it talks you through what is happening in your state. if you want specifics of what's going on anywhere, all the way into your own district, click on your state, it breaks it down for you. it talks through what's happening and how contested the races are and the top issues in your state. the governors races.

we have more governor's races this year, too because of a special election in utah. you have all these states in color with governor spots open for re-election. it's why we are seeing in terms of raw straight up numbers a huge number of elections this year. all these things coming together, the elections, a lot of incumbents are in trouble. the balance of power of any election is really big. guys, coming up next hour, i'm going to show you the new cnn app for your smartphone. it gives the latest political information wherever you are. >> good breakdown, thanks. >> you got it. a new report showing foreclosures hit a record high last month. we'll explain what you can do if you are in that situation.

19 minutes past the hour now. home foreclosures are at a record high, but there's allegations some banks may have taken shortcuts to get people out. >> 50 states attorney's general are investigating and many of the top lenders suspended foreclosures. as alan reports, there are many questions surrounding the entire process. >> t.j., the biggest mortgage lenders in the country allowed them to manufacture documents to foreclosure on homeowners. if the paperwork was accurate, that would be okay. the fact is, some of the details in some of the documents are made up, allowing banks to

expedite foreclosure. >> oh, man. >> she bought her dream home in new york four years ago. hard times hit and she fell into default on her mortgage. this summer, she declared bankruptcy, hoping to head off foreclosure. how important is it for you to hold on to this home? >> there's nothing more important outside my family and children. >> citigroup doesn't own her mortgage, fannie mae owns it along with millions of other homes. fannie mae's name is nowhere to be found on the documents. it states the mortgage was assigned to citimortgage. the lawyers say the bankers are not following proper legal procedure. this is assignment of mortgage

meant to shortcut the system. it's less about the truth and help get the property foreclosured on. >> what did you get wrong? >> reporter: the servicer of the loan says there's no foul play here. this is how it operates all the time. in fact, citimortgage owned the loan very briefly, for only a couple months back in 2006. the original lender, home loan center sold the mortgage to citimortgage on november 3, 2006. the very day she borrowed the money. less than two months later, citimortgage turned around and sold the loan, as an investment to fannie mae january 1, 2007. the mortgage documents is dated june 24, 2010. that information on the document comes from a virginia company

owned by citimortgage, fannie mae and other big mortgage players. mortgage electronic systems. when banks sell a mortgage, they use it to keep track. they have 64 million loans in the data base. if a bank wants to foreclosure, it simply turns to mers for the necessary documentation, it's faster and cheaper. the mers papers sometimes don't reflect the true status of the mortgage. >> seeing forgeries. we are seeing back datings. we are seeing post datings, largely cause lenders are scrambling to come up with a chain of title that mers was ill equipp equipped. >> it provides trance parn si to the housing finance department.

citimortgage says it relies on it for people that are delinquent. j.p. morgan chase says they are no longer using mers for foreclosures. they remain a shareholder in mers. t.j.? >> now, we need to bring in our guy, clyde anderson. good to have you here. >> good to be here. >> man, people are freaked out. they are facing foreclosure. i mean, it's hard not to hyperventilate. >> foreclosure is still foreclosure. you are going to lose your house because you are behind in payments. the thing is, they are talking a freeze. some banks are going to stop selling foreclosed properties. some people are going to continue to sell them. it doesn't mean stop paying your mortgage. >> if you are facing foreclosure right now, there are some out there. it's a possibility your process

is going to be delayed at least. it's possible. do we know the numbers? >> in 23 states, most lenders stopped them. they have the toughest laws. they have to go in front of a lawyer or a judge. the judge has to make a decision. you have to have all your paperwork right. a lot of times, the paperwork is not right. >> remind us, how did we get here in the first place? >> they started seeing cases where people were foreclosed and the bank didn't own the home. they were trying to do a loan modification and the bank pushed it through. >> how will the president play into this. the administration said we don't want this freeze. a lot of people thought that was odd. it makes sense from the president's standpoint. >> it makes sense from a housing standpoint. a freeze is going to hurt the market tremendously.

it's taking a huge chunk off the market. on the other side, it's going to help prices fall a bit. now, you have a further decrease. they are talking about turning around by spring of next year and we are going to have a freeze. it's going to hurt the market. >> what about those in the process of buying a foreclosed property. if they stop, and the banks decide not to sell them, it could leave you stuck. you have inventory sitting in the neighborhood and people can't buy it. it's going to hurt you. >> the ones who are concerned or in foreclosure now, is there a way to find out? or are they alerted to find out the process is on hold? >> they need to call. you need to read the documentation thoroughly. there's a lot of errors in the paperwork. they used the automated systems. it's not working that efficiently. go back and see what the document says. consult with a home counselor or

attorney, if you can and have them read the paperwork you have. >> anything you can do once you get the notice to stop the foreclosure? >> you can modify. >> even after you get the notice? >> you still have time. sometimes they will stop the process if you can modify or do the short sale. they are pushing the banks to short sale. >> great information. clyde anderson doing some home schooling for us. >> quick break here. more top stories as we come on to the top of the hour. er you d? ♪ client comes in and they have a box. and inside that box is their financial life. people wake up and realize i better start doing something. we open up that box. we organize it. and we make decisions. we really are here to help you. they look back and think, "wow. i never thought i could do this." but we've actually done it. [ male announcer ] visit ameriprise.com and put a confident retirement more within reach.

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