yourself. also being myself had to do with gaining a little weight. kiss my fat [ bleep ] was heard around the world. my mother managed me. we would sit down over pizza, ice cream, as my butt got bigger, we would sit down and plot and plan, not about pretty, it's about this. >> reporter: you talked about the weight issue. how important is that that women get over that? >> i don't think women are going to necessarily get over the weight issue ever, ever, because society is saying that a certain size is what is prime. if you don't look like that, you're a failure. and it changes every 10 to 20 years, you know? in the '50s it was thicker, in the '60s it got thinner, '90 rs you have to be skinny. i zone know what it is now. a second personal disorder, i'm supposed to be this, i'm supposed to be this. to me the answer is media

highlighting different types of bodies at one time. all beautiful. all defined as beautiful. hello there, everybody. on this saturday, october 23rd. glad you could be here. i'm t.j. holmes. >> wikileak is calling the largest leak in history. published online for everyone to see. how the pentagon is responding. also, haiti right now, still trying to deal with the cleanup and the relief from the disaster of the earthquake earlier this year. now a koler ra outbreak. it's happening now. find out what's being done to try to contain it. and in the u.s., a political marathon turns into a sprint with just ten days left until election day. both parties are using star power to get out vote.

first, back to the story about nearly 400,000 classified military documents on the iraq war now laid out in full public view. >> the whistle-blower website wikileaks published the leaked documents saying they reveal hidden truths about the war. a massive trove of documents details about civilian deaths. wikileaks claims a15,000 deaths were never publicly documented before. >> wikileaks most explosive claim the circumstances surrounding some civilian deaths. in an interview, wikileaks chief julian assange levelled this charge. >> i think a stronger statement in the documents, there is very strong evidence, compelling evidence, of war crimes having been committed by coalition forces and having been committed by iraqi government forces in

this material. >> all right. atika shubert joins me now live from london. to our viewers, maybe they couldn't make out what he was saying but he's accusing the u.s. and coalition forces of war crimes. what does he base that on? >> reporter: well, there's several cases he's talking about but one of the most specific examples that of a helicopter gunship that apparently fired on militants trying to surrender. in the log, it appears there is a record where the people in the helicopter basically seemed to acknowledge that the militants are attempting to surrender but given advice that it is, quote, impossible to surrender to an airship, and they are given permission to engage, and they fire upon militants. that's one very specific example of that. wikileaks brought that case to human rights lawyers and those lawyers identified it as a war crime. so that's just one example. wikileaks says there is a lot of information here in the logs, and they do expect to see more

questionable incidents like these come up in the future. >> a lot of stuff in 400,000 documents. something maybe a lot of people weren't expecting to see, but information about those three american hikers that were detained in iran. >> reporter: that's right. this is an interesting story here. remember that this is information that's raw data, coming from the field by u.s. soldiers on the front lines of the war. but in this particular case, what appears to be happening is that certainly from the u.s. point of view, in these records these hikers were clearly on the iraqi side of the border, distinctly inside iraqi territory, and the conclusion, from these records, is that iran somehow went over the border to capture the hikers. so this is a very serious allegation. it's the conclusion that comes from these records but again, this is raw intelligence, raw data coming from the field. so you do have to take that into account. >> atika shoe better urt in lon

>> our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence has been going over them. chris, this is a lot to sift through, but we've seen a lot of this. obviously a very large amount of information. what strikes you as being important? >> reporter: well, i think one of the things is that, you know, in talking about the success in iraq, one of the things that was pointed to was ending some of the abuses that went on under saddam hussein's regime and looking at these documents, there seems to be almost a systemic pattern of abuse committed by iraqi officials over the last seven years. i asked the pentagon spokesman about that specifically one instance last december in which american forces were given a videotape of iraqi forces apparently executing one of their prisoners. >> reporter: the iraq war's been looked at as president bush's war. a lot these, as you say, having

been done in the past and yet a lot of the information in these documents is fairly recent. for example, an incident just last december, well into president obama's administration, of the iraqi army executing prisoners, a video of which was passed on to u.s. forces, and in their reports it stated no investigation necessary. how can you explain that? >> chris, again, i'm not going to sit here and speak to you by classified documents on national television. it just would not be appropriate of me to do so. but i would reiterate to you that it has always been our policy, in accordance to international law, for us to report up the chain of command any incidents we were to witness that involved the mistreatment of iraqis and iraqi prisoners, and that information, i am sure, would then have been passed on to iraqi authorities, given that we're dealing with a sovereign country here, then to figure out how to figure out discipline and change that behavior in the

ranks. >> reporter: this release of the iraq documents has a different affect on u.s. forces than the afghanistan one just a few months ago in that afghanistan's got 100,000 u.s. troops involved in active combat operations almost every day. iraq, less than half of that number and they have pulled back to more of a noncombat role. the release probably affects the troops in iraq a lot less. but the pentagon says the real danger could come down the road with other nations, other enemies down the road, in that it could reveal some of the tactics and ways that u.s. forces operate and some of the ways in which they cultivate their sources. >> something else i want to ask you about when it comes to the role of iran in goverring president bush you got a lot of flak of talking about iran's role in iraq causing trouble. what do we know? do we have new information about that? >> reporter: yeah, very much so. a lot of people said that president bush exaggerated iran's role in order to support

his get tough policy, as you know from covering the white house. but these documents really show a longstanding role of iran aggressively medaling in the affairs of iraq. some of the allegations are that iran trained some iraqi insurgents to assassinate iraqi leaders, that iraqi insurgents went to iran to learn how to become snipers. one incident even shows u.s. forces engaging iranians. they were on patrol, they say they were ambushed. take a look at what the field report says. it says the iranians to the northwest of the column started to engage the patrol. the entire column was under fire and returned fire as they conducted u-turns to try to leave the area. that report goes on to say that the patrol took fire from the iranians almost all the way back to their checkpoint well inside the iraqi border. >> all right. chris, thank you so much. we turn to afghanistan now where several militants were

killed today when they attacked a u.n. compound. this happened in western afghanistan. local authorities said the militants were wearing suicide vests. the u.n. is trying to get more information about what happen. herat has not experiences the high level of violences that has plagues other parts of afghanistan. to politics now where there are just ten days left until election day. now, this is a critical midterm election over the next ten days, you expect candidates to be working overtime, especially in the tighter races across the country. i want to show you a map here, few of the big events today. in nevada, harry reid fresh off a cam taken stop with president barack obama. the president is in minnesota today to support democratic gubernatorial candidate mark dayton. meanwhile, florida republican senate candidate marco rubio welcomes, yeah, sarah palin, to orlando. the tea party-backed rubio leads

the polls in the three-way race for florida senator. you can see all three duke it out, maybe they won't duke it out, maybe they will, in the cnn debate that is live on state of the union with candy crawly tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. eastern. don't want to miss that one. the minnesota stop you heard suzanne talk about for the president, that's going to be end of a four-day, five-state campaign tour. does the president resonate with voters this time snarn take a look at a new cnn poll of polls of his approval rating. split down the middle. approval rating 47%. disapproval rating 48%. held steady during the campaign season. another number to check out our standard generic ballot. democrat or republican, 50% of likely voters say they'll be voting republican. up two points from earlier this month. well, nowhere, i guess, is the straight democrat versus republican sentiment stronger than, yes, nevada. that is harry raeid's race with

sharron angle. the president was there to tell his people in his view at least, there is a clear choice. >> we've got a choice between the policies that got us into this mess and the policies that are helping to get us out of this mess. it's a choice between the past and the future, between falling backwards and moving forward a choice between hope and fear. i don't know about you, but i want to move forward. >> well, the closer it gets to election day, you can bet they're going to see a lot more political ads. >> a lot of them coming from the so-called third party groups. we're taking a look at some of them. josh levs will be along to show one that's getting a lot of attention. it's 11 minutes past the hour. what do you say we get the look we want, the softness we need, and an unbeatable lifetime stain warranty for whatever life throws at it. then let's save big on the installation. ♪ we're lowering the cost of going barefoot.

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well, that graphic and the dramatic music should let you though this is serious stuff, midterm elections. ten days from now control of congress up for grabs. states are up for grabs, at least 37 choosing governor, also

37 senate seats are up for grabs, and of course, the entire house, 435 seat there's. >> one of those is in annandale, virginia, where our cnn deputy political director paul stein house is there. why are we talking about a house race that some believe might be inconsequential? >> reporter: actually, this race is going to matter. we're in annandale. the annual fall parade and festival. it's been going on for an hour. a beautiful, festive day here. both conditions in this race in virginia's 11th congressional district marching in the race. i want to introduce you to both. i have both of them here. here's gerry connolly, the freshman democrat, first-term congressman, and his opponent right here, is keith fimian, the republican normal any. fimian ran against him two years ago. connolly won with 55% of the vote. connolly is being attacked by fimian because connolly voted

pretty much lock step with president obama and nancy pelosi and the house leadership, and that's a big part of the issue in the campaign. we spoke to connolly a few minutes ago. he said he's taking nothing for granted. take a listen. working our tails off up until the first vote is cast and maybe after that, too. you take nothing for granted. you take no one for granted. i believe that hard work and hopefully the passion for public service i bring to this job is going to pay off november 2nd. i'm confident it will. >> reporter: it's interesting about there is district, just outside washington, d.c., federal workers, federal contractors. there's a big anti-government feeling across the country, anti-washington feeling, not so much at play here because many people work in washington. why is this race important? because republicans feel if they can win here, they can win back the house of representatives. >> that would be a very big deal. thank you, paul. another way the political season is different from many of the others is that there is a

heck of a lot of money go into what is called third party ads. >> josh levs taking a look at some of the ads and attention being paid to something that done get a lot of attention this time around. >> reporter: a big clang this time around. we'll take a look at one of the latest ads that just hit the airwaves. >> reporter: he goes on to s saythe united states of america is one of the nations that fell, 2030, a chinese professor. skip ahead to the end. let's watch who the ad is from. >> you can clang the future. you have to.

join citizens against government waste. >> reporter: citizens against government waste. a group we've talked to you about them, behind the pig book that we talk about when they look at pork barrel spending. they declare themselves to be a nonpartisan, nonfor profit out there, and far from the only third-party group focusing on the national debt this year. another ad a lot of you have seen. >> washington is spending, and spending. we're $13 trillion in debt. almost the size of the nation's economy. >> this is from public notice and talk about their website bankruptingamerica.org, focusing on the issue that congress has been digging a hole and the nation's government has been digging a hole and the way it's spending and getting us into a place where we won't be able to work our way out. our expert on political advertisements told me this is extremely unusual. evan tracy of campaign media analysis group. in fact, he said this election is a whole, new story.

>> the national debt has been a losing issue for candidates going back to the 1990s. in this election, because people have experienced debt on a personal basis through the foreclosure crisis, the crash on wall street, things like greece in the backdrop, these messages are going to help notice elections, they're going to help candidates positioning against government spending. yeah, these groups are going to have an impact. they're helping, again, reinforcing macro themes. >> reporter: now that debt has been striking so many people, the nation's debt is becoming a bigger concern to a lot of people. he also told me third party ad money's flying around this year, as a result of a supreme court decision we told you. citizens united versus the federal election commission which allowed corporations to put funds in a bigger rate into political campaigns and take part of positions in campaigns. there's a partisan tilt. when we look at ads i showed you, especially focused on issues like the debt, the republicans are putting money into that because they believe it plays against the current

presidency. this time around, we're seeing a lot of republicans, he says, are willing to put their money forward. last couple of elections they didn't think they'd get that much out of it. this time republicans see an opportunity. more republicans opening their wallets, putting money out there whereas democrats holding back a little bit, not muching as much money into third party ads. i would like to know what third party yaads you're hearing and seeing. we have been having this conversation. join in. i have been looking at numbers, millions of dollars pouring in for some of these third party ad buys. expect a lot more in the remaining days to that election day. >> unbelievable amount of money. you might recall, two years ago, beginning the campaign, we kicked off "ballot bowl." i was notice freezing cold in iowa. >> nicer weather this time around for "ballot bowl." >> it's back. "ballot bowl" is back. this is hearing what the candidates, president obama and former alaska governor sarah

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24 minutes past the hour. a look at some stories making headlines. in haiti, another tragedy after another. a cholera outbreak has killed about 200 people, and it's spreading. this outbreak comes after recent, heavy rains as haiti still tries to recover from

january's major earthquake. going to be talking about the cholera outbreak with a u.n. aide worker in haiti. also today, in juarez, mexico, another horrific crime. gunmen opened fire on a house where there was a party taking place last night. 11 people killed, 7 others at least wounded. the victims, all young people. no word on a moatsive. juarez is the epty center of mexico's battle against drug gangs. california, a deadly shark attack. 19-year-old college student killed. he was boogie boarding with a friend when the shark bit off his left leg. three beaches in the area are closed for the next few days. well, they are the movers and shakers from the white house to the boardrooms and the catwalk. offering up words of wisdom on all hot topics. "fortune" magazine held a women's summit. i had a chance to sit down with some of the most powerful women

in the world to get their ideas on business, politics, how to break through the glass ceiling. all part of our sear arieier se who rule the world. >> reporter: mothers. >> my passion is my kids. >> you can never be a successful model because you're a black girl. >> reporter: media moguls and movers and shakers. >> i rule the company with my head, heart, and hands. >> reporter: women who rule the rule. >> i rule ann taylor. >> i run pepsico. >> secretary of health and human services. >> rule b.e.t. networks. >> right now my household, even my husband would question that. >> reporter: we sat down with some of "fortune" magazine's 50 most powerful women, many ceos to get their take on the big issues, starting with any words of wisdom for president obama. what do you think about the obama administration's economic policies? is it good for big business like yours?

>> the health care reform is going to be tough for a lot of big businesses. >> this administration needs to do a lot more and understand business a little bit more and ooh think with larry summers leaving and some of 0 the other turnover notice white house, maybe this is the opportunity to get more business leaders involved in the discussion. >> reporter: getting into the discussion has meant figuring out how to punch through the glass ceiling. >> i think i think slightly differently but i think i think differently than other women, not just other men. >> knowing the subject matter. being the expert. >> i bring a lot of emotion to work. i look at all of my employees in pepsico as members of my family. >> defying people telling me i couldn't do. it's been like that throughout my career and it used to frustrate me. now it excites me. >> reporter: the excitement comes from following their passion. for some it was instilled early in life. >> i wanted to run for office when i was 5 and i think that's what people did, they went to

door-to-door, put up yard signs. >> reporter: you sole cupcakes? >> i did. i did. i was about 8 years old and my parents were always very active in the community. >> reporter: for others, a hard, earned struggle to be on top. >> i was very strategic in figuring out how to break through. and i was like, just be yourself. also being myself had to do with gaining a little weight. >> reporter: as mothers and wives, balancing professional success with family life means sacrificing. >> we've been married for 35 years and we're sort of in a commuter marriage. >> i try to leave by 5:00, 5:30 at night because i want to have dinner with my boys. >> reporter: any advice to young women today? >> i think women have to be willing to take a few more risks. >> to not be ashamed of the dreams, not be ashamed to want to be the best. >> reporter: one thing they all have in common is they love what they do. >> to me, you know, they never see you, it's true today, work

is life and life is work we actually love it. i love my job. >> reporter: if your job is hanging out with p. diddy what do you do for fun? >> that's a good question. i guess my job is fun. you know, i enjoy it. >> it's one of those things that they all share in common. they have the passion for what they do. they love their work. and they encourage other people to especially young women, don't shrink, get out there, ask for what you want, work for what you want, but speak up. >> well, most of the women i know don't have a problem speaking up. >> surrounded by a lot of outspoken women. >> and successful and beautiful women, as well. very beautiful, eclectic group of women you got a chance to interview. i lobbied for that story but they wouldn't let me do it. >> they might have let you in. there were a few guys around. oprah winfrey wasn't in that particular room, i don't think. >> no, she wasn't. >> clearly she deserves to be. one of the most famous in the world. she comes from very humble

beginnings. the town she comes from down in the deep south. even heard of this town? >> what's the town called? >> i can't pronounce it. >> we'll take you there at the bottom of the hour. today just seemed like a great day to save. oh, it's not just today. with our free loyalty program, you earn great stuff like accident forgiveness and bigger discounts just by staying with us. oh! ooh! so, what you're saying is, it gets even better with age. oh! tell me we're still talking about insurance. rewarding loyalty. now, that's progressive. call or click today.

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coming up on 33 minutes past the hour. turn to haiti where hospitals are overflowing from a fast-moving cholera outbreak. the water borne illness killed 200 people in a regioner in the of port-au-prince. i spoke earlier with a united nations humanitarian aide worker in haiti. >> i think we're looking at possibly a crisis that's going to last several weeks. we don't believe we're at the peak of the epidemic yet. this is an extremely situation. the most important thing is to do our best to contain it. part of the problem here is that haiti is -- this is not an

endemic disease to haiti. the last case in 1960. there is little resilience among the population. there is little expertise about how to handle this. one of the most important thing is isolation of patients and isolation of those suspects. we've got two units going up in the hospital in the center of outbreak at the moment, and support going to the clinic so they can actually manage the case load effectively and try to contain this. >> try to put in context for us the case load you speak of. how many are coming out to get treatment at how many places or how man physicians or other health care providers. >> the health facilities in the area where this outbreak is centered which is not an area primarily affected by the earthquake, extremely rude men tri. trying to cope for the next three days, that gives us time to get them replenishment they

need. we have materials in country to get them -- to get there to cope with this. there's a logistical problem. some areas are flooded because it's the rainy season. we are moving equipment and personnel into the area as fast as we possibly can. cholera is treatable. one of most basic things to do is get fluids into people. a huge part of this if they recognize the symptoms early enough, they can get safe water and hydration into their family members who appear to be suffering, they can recover themselves. so we are doing a huge push to empower the population to manage themselves this illness. >> a big part of the task right now is trying to keep the cholera contains in the area where it is. they don't want to certainly to spread down to port-au-prince, the capital, because the country's trying to bounce back from january's earthquake and they are a lot of tent cities, people still essentially homeless out there in a lot of

the camps. they don't want it to spread. looking at stormy weather in the midsection. texas is under the gun. we'll get the latest from meteorologist bonnie schneider.d showed me a degner handbag. and like that, we had a new side to our business. [ male announcer ] when businesses see an opportunity, the hartford is there. protecting their employees and property and helping them prepare for the future. nice boots. nice bag. [ male announcer ] see how the hartford helps businesses at achievewhatsahead.com.

top stories now. the website wikileaks posts nearly 400,000 classified military documents about the iraq war on the internet. wikileaks editor in chief julian assange says the documents give new details about civilian deaths. they show the vast majority of murdered civilians were killed by other iraqis. the documents also reveal unreported instances where american soldiers killed civilians at checkpoints and from helicopters. wikileaks claims 15,000 civilian deaths were not publicly documented. several militants are dead after attacking a united nations compound in western afghanistan. it happened in herat. local officials say they believe the attackers were wearing suicide vests. google admits it failed badly by accidentally collecting private information being sent across wireless networks in more

than 30 countries, including the united states. the company says private e-mails, urls and passwords were collected and stored while it's street view service documenting roadway locations. company officials say they are deleting the stored information. i want to turn to bonnie schneider standing by. you had your eye on texas a little earlier. are they still under a severe threat right now in. >> they absolutely are. take a look at this. we have a severe thunderstorm watch box across much of texas. just to the west of dallas. now, these storms are on the move. dallas, though the rain's kind of i would say spotty right now, look for heavier thunderstorms to roll on through the city later this afternoon. and the areas you see highlighted in red, counties near san angelo, texas, flash flood warnings. some of the roads this morn having been impassable due to water coming down. we even had hail an inch and a quarter in diameter. and northward into oklahoma, if

you're leaving oklahoma city, driving eastward on i-40, you're going to encounter wet weather. for those traveling, there's wet weather in the midwest affecting chicago. thunderstorms rolling from the southwest. all of this rain is likely to affect air travel. the only delay we have right now for those flying right now, san francisco, that's where we're reporting delays. overall still look agent stormy conditions across the nation's midsection. let's het hed down to the tropic. tropical storm richard an active hurricane season for 2010. notice the burst of convection. this storm has intensified a bit since the last advisory. the thunderstorm activity is bearing down on honduras, nicaragua and towards guatemala and belize. we will see a lot of heavy rain. possibly 3 to 5 inches, maybe 7 inches in higher terrain, we cannot rule out mudslides which of course would be deadly and dangerous for this region. i want to show you the track. there have been some changes. check out the intensity.

the storm is meandering north, it becomes a category 1 hurricane according to the latest track from the national hurricane center. emerges in the bay of campeche but likely to weaken and make the sharp turn to mexico. it looks like it's heading in that direction. we're monitoring it closely. we still have to deal with richard. folks in central america and mexico will have to deal with heavy rain from this storm. >> first of november the season is supposed to end? >> when it's finally over. >> maybe get a couple of more letters in there. appreciate you as always. why are thousands of people flocking to a tiny, tiny mississippi town? >> oprah. enough said. we'll explain after the break. [] one look can turn the everyday into romantic. ♪ an accidental touch can turn ordinary into something more. moments can change anytime -- just like that. and when they do men with erectile dysfunction

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a quarter to the top of the hour. every year thousands of people flock to this tiny, little town in mississippi. >> that's where oprah winfrey was born, and now it's kosciusko has been a tourist trail if her

honor. >> jason morris and our photographer ken tillis takes us there. >> i like to welcome you to kosciusko, mississippi population of 7,372, located geographically notice center of the state and proud to be the birth place of oprah winfrey. >> we're on oprah winfrey road standing at site of her first home. she was born here, left when she was 6 years old, and this was the community that she grew up in and she would walk from this spot where her house was to her church, which is just down the road. about a quarter of a mile. >> this is the original buffalo church where she did face her first audience. >> when oprah performed in front of her first audience at the church, it was an easter recital, and she wore just as all of the children did at that time a paper ma shea dress. all of the girls had

papier-mache dresses as costumes. we have 30,000 tourists that come through our center in a year's time. we have bus tours. we have four to five bus tours a year, and they all come to oprah winfrey road. we have people that come from within the united states and international visitors that come here as well. >> this is her gift back to her community. this is oprah winfrey boys and girls club. she funds 100%. a gymnasium, an art room, music room, computer lab. upstairs a teen center. >> there is is grassroots, mississippi. go anywhere in mississippi and find a spot just like this on a small country road and to come from this to where oprah is today is one of the wealthiest people, not just women in the world, i think that gives everybody a little encouragement. >> all right. my favorite parts of the morning. >> is that because it's the end? >> no. >> it's you.

>> okay. >> you can show up at 7:00 and i'd be happy to see you. >> you've had a good morning? >> great. >> we have a great day, a long day ahead beginning with noon eastern hour, as always, right? we like to invite our legal guys because they're so smart and know everything about the interesting cases on the docket out there, beginning with a case where two people were tried, convicted and sentenced for the same charges, one being o.j. simpson in las vegas, the other the co-defendant actually appealed, he gets a new trial, why not the same for o.j.? >> i have to know now, why? >> you're going to have to listen. >> disparities in the case. >> o.j. stays in jail. >> our legal guys will explain why, why the despaisparities in character, in the handling of the cases, all of that kind of stuff. you can probably presume some stuff. >> character plays in. >> yeah, character plays into

it. >> he's got a history, i hear. >> prejudicial juries. that's their argument. listen at noon to find out. they'll give you the better legal vernacular than i. i'm giving you the layman's stuff. blackwater, what's going on with the federal prosecutors? why is that case falling apart? and then we're going to talk about a georgia mother who is suing tyra banks, you've been featuring her all morning all morning long. >> what's that about? >> this is an interesting case where the mother alleges her daughter was invited to be a guest on the show without the mother's knowing, was flown to the show. >> which show? this is top model. >> yeah. and so now, you know, the mother wants to know why. she's suing for millions of dollars, parental consent was not involved here. and probably a sticking point had to do with the topic. it was sex addiction among teenagers. and so the mother, a little set aback about why didn't i know

about this, and why didn't i know my child was getting on a plane and going to new york. >> how old is this girl? >> 15. of course, tyra banks' camp has a response to all of that. we're also going to talk about diabetes. and right now, 1 in 10 americans has diabetes. so in about 40 years, possibly, one among us three will have it. diet plays a role, obesity, big problem in america. almost half of americans are struggling with obesity. and that likelihood is to increase. all of that impacting diabetes. our diet, how we take care of ourselves. we'll have a doctor joining us to tell us some of the things you need to be doing right now to make sure you don't become one of the seven. -- one of the three. and speaking of seven. seven deadly sins of money management. you want to take a guess? >> spending what you don't have. >> spending what you don't have. being envious of something that

someone else has you want it. so envy is one of the sins, being a sloth, maybe not even keeping track of the kind of money that you spend. you don't write it down, whether it be in your checkbook or just document. big no-nos, we're going to talk to a money expert who is going to help us eradicate those sins. >> forgive us. >> and be forgiven. and of course, ballot bowl beginning at 3:00. >> of course. >> big, gubernatorial races. all from florida, nevada, california. >> great stuff. >> i'm worn out. >> did i get it all in? >> i think you did. >> you managed to fly right there that. >> they're like, wrap, wrap, i got more. go ahead, take it away. >> you take your time, fredericka. as she mentioned, we're just ten days away from the midterm elections. you want to get caught up on the campaign trail. here's what we have crossing our political ticker right now. the senate ballot in washington state getting nasty with the new

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well, if you weren't running for the illinois governor's office, he might actually laugh about this. >> yeah, the green party candidate is rich whitey on some ballots. his name is rich whitney, though. he's not laughing about this typo on the ballot. last hour we talked to him about this misprint that made him the headline. >> you have to laugh a little bit. there is that humorous aspect. i especially like the blogger who wrote, you know what? why don't they name all the

candidates rich whitey on the ballot and save us a lot of time. >> have they done enough to correct the problem now in your eyes? has this been taken care of? >> well, we are told that they have corrected the problem. we haven't had any new reports of problems. but you know what? it took them the better part of two weeks to fix it. and this does underscore a very serious issue. we're dealing with machine politics at two levels. the machine, the notorious chicago machines and then the little machines, the electronic voting machines, which are run for private for profit corporations. it's black box voting. it's a real problem. >> and would you say, mr. whitney that this -- are you convinced this was just an honest mistake. you ever suggest possibly somebody did this intentionally? >> well, there's no way of knowing it for certain, but you know what? the explanation we got is that a technician for this private company, dominion, if that isn't

scary enough, that's the name of the company. apparently said that while they only had so many characters for the name, so they had to take a letter out. and that just happened to be the one they chose. i'm not buying that. i am not buying that. this probably cost me votes. people can go to whitneyforgov.org. but it's still unfolding. as a matter of fact, i got another -- we learned yesterday one of our other candidates had another problem with the voting machines. if you'd like, i can tell you about that. >> i have a couple of other things i want to get in here. i know you've run for governor of illinois before. people are familiar with you enough now, but because of this, you be labeled rich whitey on a ballot. has that helped you out in that you're getting more press than you ever realized? >> well, that is certainly the silver lining. but it's hard to say how that plays out. because, you know, there is a novelty factor to