apps, really be careful because a lot of the apps charge you and take your credit card information and they will track you and the thing i'm nervous and scared about is google reading the messages and reading the messages. just the next frontier in terms of privacy. that will be very interesting, too. >> thanks so much carmen wong ulrich and james, thank you for a terrific hour. that wraps up for this show. make sure you join us every week for "your money" saturdays at 1:00 p.m. eastern and sundays at 3:00. logon 24/7 to cnnmoney.com. have a great weekend. for a thief in california, a tragic way to learn a lesson. he pays the ultimate price for his crime. just nine days before the mid-term elections the candidates are pulling no punches going to-to-toe in one key race today. the big senate showdown in florida, and this.

>> i was saving a guy and he asked me do you have bed bugs in your apartment because if you o do, you won't be seeing me. i love you, but i miss >> you if dating in new york wasn't always toughy enough, a teensy factor creeping into the romans mix, bed bugs. hello, everyone. i'm fredericka whitfield at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. we start with politics and the florida senate race. just over a week left before the mid-term election and three men taking on the issues and each other in a debate today right here on cnn. the contentious back and forth between the campaign trail spilled over into that debate. >> any time we get into that issue the governor wants to turn it into something else because he's wrong on the issue so the bottom line is -- let me say on the ideolog part. >> why won't you release your ipo credit card and clear this up. >> on the ipo issue -- >> and why is there a federal investigation into your reporting income. >> one litany of fallshoods

after another. >> can you answer this question. >> why won't you release that across the state of florida. >> why not release the full records and full credit card. >> my tax returns are public and i've gone well beyond the point of disclosure. people want to focus on this issue because they are wrong on the other issues. >> that's not true. he doesn't want to release them because he doesn't believe in transparency. i opened the office of open government for the first time in the history -- >> i never had a heckler at the debate. always had them in the audience. >> did you get that? mark rubo and charlie crist going at it right there on the debate floor so cnn's senior political editor mark preston is in tampa, florida, right now so when we talk about heckling, like you said, usually from the audience and usually this time the heckling, as it was described right there. how contentious has this gotten? >> it's gotten very contentious. this is a spillover from the republican primary. charlie crist was supposed to walk into this seat, fred, move from the governor's mansion and

move up to washington, d.c. however, marco rubio came out of nowhere, a tea party favorite and refused to get out of the race and built momentum and built momentum up to the point earlier this year that charlie crist decided to leave the republican party assin independent and charlie crist was ready to get rid of him in the primaries and has him nipping on the heels heeding into november 2nd. polls show that in fact marco rubio has a 14-point lead over charlie christ and a 26-point lead over the democrat, kendrick meek but it shows you that things have gotten very contentious down here in the senate race. >> each side is calling the other side extreme. republicans saying democrats are too extreme. democrats saying the republicans are being too extreme so how is this going to affect and impact people who are supposed to show up to the polls on november 2nd? ? >> well, you know, it all comes

down, the enthusiasm gap, viewers have heard this over and over, and the idea is democrats are trying to get their base fired up. president obama has talked about it over and over again over the past couple of weeks and in fact we've seen republicans such as sarah palin west of me in orlando yesterday doing the same thing. what they are trying to do is say, look, republicans are saying democrats are too far out there. their policies haven't worked and the economy is still in tatters. we have a 9.6% unemployment rate. meanwhile, president obama and democrats are saying look what i was handed. the fact is the economy was -- was a disaster when it was handed to me and we had to make tough decisions so when voters head to the polls now on november 2nd, fred, it's going to come down to this. can democrats convince enough democrats to show up to vote in order to really try to stem what's expected to be some pretty tough losses for them. >> mark preston, thanks so much from tampa. appreciate that. all right. well, it is indeed crunch time for the candidates with this last week looming, so it will be a whirlwind on the campaign

trail as well. political director paul stein hasser is at the cnn politics desk this washington. what do we expect this week? who is going to be where? >> all the candidates are. nine days left. everybody will be out this week. let's talk about top sauer gates because they often grab a lot of attention. map made up of democrats. the president barack obama in rhode island helping democrats there and then he's down for a couple of days here at the white house in washington, but at the end of the week going back on the campaign trail with some crucial states. you'll see the president in pennsylvania, connecticut, illinois and ohio over next weekend, crucial races there for the house and senate and governor's races. what about the vice president. well, joe biden is in florida and new hampshire tomorrow and for the vice president it will be his 100th campaign event of this mid term election season so he's been extremely busy. later in the week the vice president will be all across the country as well and into next weekend and through election day

on the 2nd. michelle obama, the first lady, also very busy heading out west this week. seattle washington and san francisco and l.a. and california, helping out with barbara boxer, the senator from washington facing a tough race for re-election, as is barbara boxer and michelle obama will end up in nevada the day before the election and not on the map but bet your bottom dollar that former president bill clinton will be everywhere he can be over the next week. he has been tireless on behalf of democratic candidates in the last couple of months, freds. >> and how about the republicans? >> oh, yeah. there are some big names on the republican side as well, and this is interesting. starting on tuesday, haley barbour, the mississippi governor and head of the governors' association, he's going to kick off a five-day 13-state tour. that's serious travel. 13 states in five days. also joined by other top republican governors out there, and let's keep our eyes on sarah palin. may see her again. i'm pretty sure before this is

all over. >> that's probably an understatement. she travels a lot. paul stein hauser, okay. you can still catch a little bit of time this weekend before it's all over to catch a flick, help out clint eastwood's latest film, matt damon take on the topic of life after death. >> i hate to bother you. i'm mr. andrews' neighbor. the great guy, mid-50, who lost his life. i believe you recently did a read. >> our movie critics grades this weekend's new releases and yoko ono reviews the inspiration behind the beetles' hit strawberry fields. ♪ 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."

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no doubt about it. feels like fall, very much in the air and on the trees there. isn't that beautiful. check out these photos from our i-reporter. loaves turning beautiful red, orange, yellow. how gorgeous. when they do fall to the ground, that means it will be extra work for all of us. >> pull out the rake, right? >> enjoy it while they are

attached to the leaves. >> i love those eye reports. >> kind of fun to run through all the leaves, isn't it? >> oh, my gosh, yeah. >> my kids could do it all day, rake them up, jump in it. >> hi, jacqui. >> how are you? >> i'm good. >> speaking of leaves, awkward transition, kind of. we've got a big storm system out west, right, and one of the concerns with this storm system is that our winds are going to be really, really strong and there are still a lot of leaves on the trees out there so that could mean that power outages are going to be a little more widespread because it adds that extra little weight and surface on those trees which could help bring more down so that's something we'll be watching. this is a really vigorous storm system. strongest one we've seen so far this season. the first significant snowfall of the season for many people and it's kind of got a subtropical connection and look at the cloud cover in the river of moisture making its way up towards the west coast. this extends well beyond hawaii. extends well into the western parts of the pacific ocean. today we're getting heavy rain

and heavy snow into the higher elevations. winter storm warnings are in effect here, and we could see several inches of rain into the foothills which could be a little bit of problematic so we'll be watching that. the peak of the winds will be coming in we think late tonight early tomorrow morning and widespread 50-mile-per-hour winds in the valleys will be a real possibility with higher amounts, maybe even gusts up to 100 plus miles per hour and the rich tops especially across the sierras behind this system. the snow looks beautiful. are you ready for it? this is my happy spot of the day. i was dying for this picture, so thank you, wusa for providing this for us of the low ofland ski area just outside denver and they opened up today, yeah, the first ones in the country, so they say to open up so that's some great news for a lot of people who are wanting to see so that's the bright side of this storm system. now we've got another storm system that we're watching, too, across the arklatex region. no warnings right now but discreet super cells it looks

like that may be developing in the area so if there are any warnings, anything for you to be concerned about, of course, we'll pass that along to you. that system moves to the east for tomorrow and we'll still be dealing with that windy wet weather, and by the way, that storm system will make its way all across the country and it will be affecting really everybody at one point. want to show you the latest on richard which is now a hurricane, if you haven't been paying attention. category 1 with 85-mile-per-hour winds, slamming into belize and moving across the yucatan peninsula, and that is going to be staying well clear, we think, of the united states and there you see the forecast path. want to show you a couple of pictures. megi, the typhoon that slammed into the philippines and caused heavy flooding, slammed china yesterday. dumped 13 inches of rain. you can see the huge waves in that area. at least 48 people have now been killed from this typhoon. >> beautiful image. >> inland now. bringing some rain but it's weakened rather significantly. >> those images are gorgeous even as frightening as the

forces of nature are, and damaging, too. thanks, jacqui, appreciate it. see it again in the chat room coming up right around the corner. good stuff coming up. meantime, yoko ono, she's speaking out about her late husband john lennon during what would have been a milestone month for the legendary singer. the former beatle would have celebrated his 70th birthday october 9th. in an exclusive interview in cnn's anderson cooper ono reflected on lenon's tragic death, life and legacy. >> remembering how john lived as opposed to how he lost his life? do you think about the day he died? >> not always, no. that's one thing i don't really want to know about. i mean, at the time, when i went to hospital, and i was waiting and then the doctor came, and -- and he was carried something of john's, you know, like the rings, and that's when i thought ah, what is that, what is that, you know, just funny feeling

about it and when he said, you know, he passed away i said no, he didn't. he's alive, you know, and i was very, very upset about it, you know, and i just refused to think that he died. >> do you still come here to strawberry fields often? >> well, you know, when i take a walk, i walk a lot because, you know, it's very good for your health and everything, so when i take a walk in the morning, of course, i pass here just checking, you know. everything is all right, you know, that kind of thing, yeah. what's your feeling when you come here? >> well, i feel good that i made this tribute to john. this is a tribute to john, and i realize that it was very important to do it. >> i think a lot of people don't realize straw by fields was a place to go to as a child. >> you see, john was raised by his aunt, aunt mimi, and his mother was somewhere else and his father was somewhere else and so strawberry fields was the

orphanage right next to it and whenever he was a bad boy, mimi would say, well, you better be there. i'm going to send you there. >> to the orphanage. >> to the orphanage, and she so was really frightened by. >> we all remember the night, the day he died and people coming spontaneously and thousands of people outside singing. did you hear those songs? >> of course. because i was -- my bedroom was right in front of it. i'm right next to it and so all night i'm listening to him singing or sometimes they play the radio, and when john was singing, just made me feel strange because he's supposed to be in bed with me and then, you know, wasn't very easy. >> was it helpful? did it make it harder. >> made it very hard, yeah. >> and now, i mean, on this 70th birthday, what -- what do you want people to celebrate? what do you want people to -- >> his spirit and the fact that

there's so much that he gave to us and to sort of thank him and i know that people love him for what he has given them, you see, because he did give a lot. >> ono also predict that had lenon would be a social activist if he were still alive today. >> can i ask you a question? >> would it be okay if i told you the answer was no? >> you don't even know what i was going to ask. >> yes, i do. you can ask me if i can do a reading for you. >> okay. now we're going to talk movies. that one right there, that clip from "hereafter," the new film starring matt damon and directed by clint eastwood. a lot of buzz on that and one of two releases i'll be asking pete hammond about. good to see you, pete. >> hi. >> "hereafter," clint eastwood

has a midas touch, does he not, doesn't seem to be a bad movie he's directed and here we go. already a lot of buzz. why? >> clint eastwood is 80 years old and cooking on all the front burners still. i think it's because he's got great taste. "hereafter" is a really interesting look about what might happen after death but it's not a movie that necessarily is interested in giving us those answers. it's just interested in asking the questions and it does it in a very unique way with a unique structure of three distinct stories that don't seem related for most of the film and they are all really fascinating, and they all deal with death or near death experiences here, and i think that clint has touched on something that people are very interested in, and it's a very tasteful, very beautifully crafted film. >> and so what's your grade? >> my grade is an "a" on this. i have to give it to clint. he's really become a master. look, he was a great actor all those years, and then became an even greater director, and i think you have to give the guy a

lot of credit. >> yeah. >> this is a move for adults and something worth seeing. >> oh, fantastic. everybody loves clint eastwood. let's look at now a sequel. pa "paranormal activity 2," might be my only peek because i'm not going to see this one, no matter what you say. >> camera on. my girlfriend katie. she thinks there's something in the house. >> you believe me, right? >> i think we're going to have a very interesting time capturing whatever paranormal phenomenon is occurring or not occurring. >> and the only reason why i wouldn't see it is because i don't like scary movies that much but it might be great. what did you think? did you like this one? >> you know surprisingly, considering it's a sequel to the one that came out last year, i thought this was going to be like "blair witch 2," a disaster. actually scarier than the first one and takes off on the whole ghostly goings on and very primal and very visceral experience. all sort of seen through security cameras, and we feel

like we're just sort of peeking into this home, this natural family home and seeing all these scary things that are happening, and i'll tell you. there are a lot of, a lot of scary moments. i will never look at a kitchen cabinet again the same way. >> oh, see, this is why i will not be seeing this movie. it's going to run it for me for everyday life. what was your grade on this? >> you know, it's a "b." it's a decent movie, and it's good, so i had fun. >> that's impressive. >> okay. let's talk about the next movie, and, of course, this, too, just in time for halloween, but we have another movie that is actually opening on halloween, and, well, the word alone conjures up, you know, the nasty grisly images. talking about "saw," "saw 3," right? >> "saw 3." >> let's take a peek, sort of. >> fear, suffering, death. you haven't seen anything yet.

. all of my work has been leading to this. >> and this has to make you scream because this is in 3-d. >> that's right. >> it's in 3-d, and, of course, they are not showing it to people like me, film critics. they don't want us to ruin the box office for next weekend, but you can't. you can no possibly hurt a saw movie. this is the seventh run in a row and they say it's the last one so i don't know what's going to happen to "jigsaw, the main character there. i suspect it may not be the last one if it makes a lot of money and with the hyped box office prices for 3-d they will probably do very well on 3-d. >> 3-d costs you a little bit more, but how much. >> yes, yes. by about $2 or $3 per theater. yes. they charge for those glasses. it's a way that the 3-d movies have made a lot more money than other movies coming out and it's totally because of the hiked box

office prices. >> wow, even though this is the seventh one for "saw," it's "saw 3" because of the 3-d. >> yeah. >> what was your grade on this one? >> exactly. it's actually "saw 7" since i haven't seen it yet i will hold off and i won't grade it. we'll if in there with a fresh way. >> okay. makes sense. yeah, can't grade what you can't see but the trailer is a thriller. pete hammond. >> scary. >> thanks so much. good to see you. >> happy halloween. >> happy halloween. appreciate it, from l.a. >> okay. so paying with cash at the grocery stores. that's something you do. well, guess what? it may actually be good for your health. we'll tell you why in the chat room right after this. [ male announcer ] the next big thing from lexus is not a car.

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okay. what are the best cities for trick-or-treating? talk about this in our chat room just one minute from now but first a look at our top stories. police in southern california say a man was killed and his female partner in critical condition after they tried to steal a copper wire from an electrical volt on a vacant property. the man was electrocuted and the woman severely burned when the vault exploited. the couple apparently thought the power was turned off. health officials in haiti are scrambling to keep an outbreak of cholera from spreading. the death toll is at least 253 and more than 3,000 are sick. the outbreak started north of port-au-prince, but several cases have already been confirmed now in the capital city. belize and mexico's yuktan peninsula are in the line of fire as hurricane richard churns in the caribbean. the storm is getting stronger, and right now the chief concern,

heavy rain, that could trigger flash floods and mud slides. and time now for the chat room. jacqui jeras and i on the so ashe. >> kind of our therapy. >> it is. >> and now apparently there's new information that gives new inspiration to trying to acquire wealth. >> yeah. >> you know, and it sounds very superficial, but really apparently it might promote longevity in your life. it also might mean that you are perhaps surrounded. you have more time and more freedom to eat well and be surrounded well by your friends and family and there's a real correlation between the wealth and your longevity because of a hormone that is produced in your body. >> right. >> so it may be genetic. it's not your fault. >> genetic, and it also depends on the activity. the time that you have for activity like exercise and eating well. it helps produce this hormone called dheas. >> a natural steroid that's produced in your body, and people who have more of it tend to be wealthier. they tend to exercise more, have

more hobbies, have closer relationships, like everything, right? >> almost all the important things. >> exactly, but you've got to have, i guess the financial wherewithal to have the time for all these things, according to this study. >> right. >> but there are recommendations according to this study to try to improve your own life if wealth is not a factor. you just simply have to make more time for exercise and make more time to spend with people important to you so, you, too, can have benefit of this hormone produced in your body. >> it really is all about that. if you have time to exercise, you'll do it, have time to do fun things, you'll do it, reracks and get rid of the stress. >> look for the zen moments that josh is always helping us find. that's coming up a bit later. and speaking of your health and wealth, do you ever try to grocery shop with cash? >> i don't think i ever have. >> ever? >> almost never.

almost never. maybe i'm just picking up one thing or two things, you know. >> yeah. >> if it's under ten bucks. >> quite the challenge, but apparently another study out and its conclusion is when you grocery shop with cash, you're more apt to buy healthier things for your body because you're less likely to i guess get that kind of boost, unlimited spending, impulse buy or the twinkies on the shelf. >> exactly. >> you were going to start calculating, get this pound of apples here, and you start counting down with the kind of money that you have, and so you're more apt to buy more healthy for you. isn't that interesting? >> kind of surprises me, maybe grocery store is different than like say if i'm going out to lunch or really having a busy day. if i have five bucks i'm going to mcdonald's. if i have a credit card i'm going to panera, you know? >> that's interesting, true. you may think you're going to stretch your dollar more by going for the cheap and the cheap might not necessarily mean the healthiest.

>> i don't know. >> i think they were talking about grocery shopping. that's a bigger thing. >> yeah, yeah. >> i think i can see where they are coming from. >> yeah, only have $5 you'll only get the vegetables that you need as opposed to grabbing the vegetables and some granola bars. >> it's a personal test. maybe we should test it all. take some cash, $50, $100, whatever you use, see if you spend your money differently. >> i bet you spend last. >> we can test out that effective and see if they know what they are talking about. >> bring all the coupons this time of year. >> halloween season. >> love it, zillo.com, don't know if you've been on their website. >> no. >> came out with a list of the top 20 halloween trick-or-treating cities. >> where are they? >> actually a little science, things like the wealthier neighborhoods. had to do with the distance between houses, right, which impacts. >> the density. >> how much loot you're going to get and the crime rate too. >> and how hard you have to work

for cannedy. >> safety is key. >> number one city. >> seattle. >> interesting. >> seattle washington. >> they are densely populated. >> talking about philadelphia, cleveland, milwaukee. >> san francisco is number two and portland number three and san jose four and denver five and then you get into the midwest, chicago seven, boston eight, vegas nine and d.c. is ten so you can go to zillo.com if you want to know where your city ranges. the key is it's not the city, it's the neighborhood. >> it's all about the chocolate. >> all about the chocolate. tell my kids every year, forget the smarties. don't go for the jolly ranchers, all about the chocolate. bring it home to momma. >> at the door handing out at the door and kids are like that's not what i want. the kids get choosey and picky and i'm like are you kidding me? >> yeah, they do it. some of them do it, or if you just say take a few, they are like -- >> yes, yes. >> have you had that? >> usually i'll say take three. got to give a number because

i've had that experience where i'll, you know, hold the whole bowl and the fists come in and i'm all about giving but got to have something for the other kids that come. >> you do, and need one butterfinger left over. >> maybe next week we'll talk about the etiquette of halloween trick-or-treating because there is an etiquette. >> nobody has a trick anymore, do they? >> no, not really. >> maybe the trick was they were getting the fistfuls into the bowl. >> there you go. >> all right, jacqui, there you go. being in the chat room, always a joy. african-american church leaders have fought for civil and human rights. well, now they are waging war on debt. that story is straight ahead. [ male announcer ] the financial headlines

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cnn's paula newton is about an hour north of there. paula, you are at ground zero, so to speak. what are you seeing? >> reporter: just to give you a snapshot of what's going on here, i mean, it's later in the day but people continue to arrive at the entrance to the hospital. fred, behind me they are supposed to be staying in an isolation area but the kind of medical area they are getting is still quite crude and improving, we should stress. we've seen many, many children, you know, lying very weak desperately with their parents trying to rehydrate them with those kits and with some ivs. now what they are trying to do on the larger scale is to be able to prepare the country just to make sure that they are prepared if there is a cholera outbreak in other areas. that means upgrading sanitation and telling people how to wash their hands and make sure they are drinking clean water and not to go into. some of the rivers around here which perhaps are now contaminated with cholera. fred? >> all right. paula newton, thanks so much

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fighting the financial crisis from the pulpit. cnn anchor and special correspondent soledad o'brien examines personal debt in her new "black in america" special, "almighty debt." >> live within your means. people that don't manage their money wisely are not managing our lives wisely. >> reporter: this is the senior pastor at first baptist church of lincoln gardens in central new jersey, and he's on a crusade. he thinks black america has a new enemy. is debt a bigger problem than racism? >> yes. debt is a bigger problem than racism. >> reporter: you didn't even hesitate? >> there's no question to me that debt is a bigger problem than racism. >> reporter: it's a provocative theory but he stands by his claim. >> one out of five of us has no

bank account. we still do pay day loans. we still do rent to own, but, you see, we'll drive shiny cars and wear designer clothes and we have all of the appearances of doing well, but we won't admit that we're broke. being in debt is slavery. when i'm paying last month's bills with next month's check, that's slavery. when i'm writing a check hoping that it doesn't bounce or when i pull up my credit card praying it's not rejected, then i'm living in financial bondage. >> reporter: it's a problem exacerbated in today's economy, the worst since the depression. >> bow our heads. >> reporter: these longtime church members feel like they are living in financial bondage. they have refinanced their home twice and are now on the verge of foreclosure. they have turned to their pastor for help. >> one day i just broke down. we were at a funeral at the

church and then the pastor in his innimable style said how you doing? i said i ain't doing so well today and he said what's going on and that's when i had to tell him what the deal was. >> douglas kind of convinced me that he was going to ask anyway and i said okay but i was reluctant. >> reporter: was tim bearsing? >> oh, yeah, quite. >> reporter: why help doug and mary jeffries? super nice people, in a way they make enough people, they could move to another place. >> you can't assume that a person in middle income is less impacted than a person of lower income with problems. >> watch the rest of the special "almighty debt" tonight on cnn. millions of women get hormone replacement therapy despite the long-standing risk

to breast cancer. the lead author of that study joins us now from los angeles. good to see you. >> happy to be here. >> doctor, i'm wondering. how now saying that under no circumstances should any woman take this hormone replacement therapy because of these risks? >> yeah. really can't go that far. i think there's a number of women who certainly have really limiting symptoms. i mean, they can't function unless they have these symptoms associated with menopause, hot flashes, night sweats controlled. now what we did show was that with additional followup of the woman's health initiative trial, where we treated a large number of patients with estrogen plus progestin, we showed the breast cancers were increases and there were aggressive types of breast cancer also increased and deaths from breast cancer were nearly doubled, so this is a very concerning thing. i think women who are on hormone therapy should talk to their doctors about stopping to see if

they need to still take that therapy. >> so if you are on it and your initial thought when you hear this information, forget it, i'm going to my doctor and telling him or her i want to get off this completely, is it an issue of i guess the combination, the formula of this estrogen and progestin that you're taking? >> yeah. we tested only one combination which was estrogen plus progestin. probably the progestin is the bad actor. unfortunately, women who have a uterus must take the progestin to protect the outus from endometrial cancer. some have suggested other therapies of combined estrogen plus progestin is safer but we don't have evidence that that's the case. >> what are the options then? >> well, i think for -- the question is howie is veer should the symptoms be before you take therapy? 15% to 20% of post-menopausal women are using hormone therapy whereas in spain only 5% of women are using the hormone

therapy so the threshold for the initiating therapy really differs as people make individual judgments. >> this is a discussion you end up having with your doctor about how much can you handle the hot flashes or, you know, what these symptoms are that usually come with menopause, what your personal threshold, is and that means you're saying that really is up to the individual. >> well, that's right. i think the women should really consider whether they want to start it, and if they are on it they should really consider stopping after a period of time, one year, two years, go to their doctor and say i'd like to stop the only consequence of stopping is if the symptoms come back. we know over time many, many women the symptoms abate and get less over time so it's good to test that out. >> it's really an issue of comfort over degrees of cancer because there have been so many other studies that say there's already the link between this hormone replacement therapy and cancer but now you're saying it's the degree of cancer, and i need to weigh that with your personal comfort. >> yeah.

i think the other way to look at it is we've previously shown that this same preparation increases deaths from lung cancer so when you say taking estrogen plus progestin for five and a half years increased death from the two leading cause of cancer deaths in women it sounds like one should give serious consider before initiating such therapy. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. it's already been confusing for a lot of women, and do you have a sense as to whether this offers more clarity, or does it make it even that much more difficult of a choice for women? >> well, i think itrations the bar and makes it a more difficult choice, but i think it will also engage the medical community to take some of these issues more seriously perhaps than they had been previously in the past. >> thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >> coming up next, harry reid is locked in a tight battle for his senate seat but he's still talking tough. your cnn political update next. ♪

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all right. count them, just nine days until the mid-term elections so we want to get you caught up with the developing stories from the campaign trail. here's what's crossing now on the cnn political ticker. harry reid says he's confident heading into the final week of campaigning in nevada. he told cnn's senior white house correspondent ed henry that he's happy friends like president obama and vice president biden have been in nevada to lend their support. he says their interest is not a sign that he is in trouble. first lady michelle obama will also be in that state on election eve, and jerry brown is widening his lead in the race for california governor. a new poll from usc and the "l.a. times" shows brown sporting a 13-point lead over republican meg whitman. his biggest boost may be coming from hispanic voters who favor brown over whitman by 36%, and

alaskans will get to hear from their senate candidates during a debate tonight. right now it looks like a battle between republicans joe miller and lisa murkowski. the incumbent murkowski is running as a write-in candidate after losing in the primary to miller. miller is backed by the tea party movement. the bedbug outbreak in new york claims an unexpected casualty. >> i know somebody that broke up? why? can you tell me more about the story. >> because they are scared to death about bugs. >> reporter: and they broke up why? >> she wouldn't date him because he had bedbugs. i said "sure." "well, let's grow some algae." and that's what started it. exxonmobil and synthetic genomics have built a new facility to identify the most productive strains of algae. algae are amazing little critters. they secrete oil, which we could turn into biofuels. they also absorb co2. we're hoping to supplement the fuels that we use in our vehicles, and to do this at a large enough scale to someday help meet the world's energy demands.

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caesarean section at a florida hospital. doctors say the babies were healthy even though premature. and forget the fear of sexually transmitted disease. there's a new row moomance kill town, at least if the town is new york city. as richard roth reports, bedbugs are killing sex in the city. >> reporter: stacy handworker is always on the lookout for a good man. >> shears. >> reporter: but for stacy and millions of other singles in new york looking for love, there's a new fear to add to romance anxieties. >> i was dating a guy, and he asked me, he said do you have bedbugs in your apartment because if you do you won't be seeing me. i love you, but i miss you. >> reporter: love now means never having to itch. >> i know someone who broke up. >> reporter: why, can you tell more about the story. >> because they are scared to death of bugs. >> reporter: and they broke up why? >> she wouldn't date him because he had bedbugs and she freaked out and she's like i'm out. >> bedbugs are definitely a

creepy aspect to dating at this point. >> reporter: relationship coach donna barnes saw one client who admitted to having bedbugs. >> she was horrified and if that's the case you're better off to not date for a little while and to clean out the problem before you then go out. >> i have here some samples of bedbugs, dead bedbugs. >> reporter: tom wong is the exterminator. his company is getting more calls >> you know, i know it's a shot when you first have bedbugs but vfl the city does so you're not alone. >> calls with a boy versus girl blame game. you exterminate that had relationship. >> i did not exterminate that relationship. got rid of the bedbugs but not able to salvage that relationship. >> bedbugs are given a new meaning when someone says you are bugging me. >> reporter: for some the prospects of bedbugs are even scarier than a sexually transmitted disease. >> condoms can't protect you from bedbugs. that's for sure. >> reporter: with couples of all kinds embedded at night it's the female bedbug who has the most

fun. >> chase me. mate with me. seduce me. actress isabella rows leone captured bedbug sex in her sundance channel film series. >> reporter: >> and they can go on to the whole cycle of 100 to 150 eggs before they need to mate again so it's not fun being bedbugs because they don't get to mate for six more months. >> reporter: does the female at least get to have a cigarette after? >> love and fear at first bite warns another bug company. who is worried more then when you get under the sheets? >> men and women are different. a woman would care if a man about bedbugs but a man if he met a hot girl wouldn't mind. >> reporter: confirmed later down at bar. >> come back to my place. >> a toast to bed burgs. >> reporter: richard roth, cnn, new york. >> just nine days and counting

before the mid-term elections and it's crunch time for the elections which makes for some very busy days on the campaign trail. cnn deputy political director paul stein hauser is at the politics desk in washington. paul, where do we stand right now in the battle for congress? >> well, fred, let's talk about the house of representatives. that is the chamber most likely that -- that republicans have a better shot of grabbing back. check this out. our cnn poll of polls, take the national polls and average it together and this is the generic ballot. we ask a standard question that others ask. would you vote for the generic republican or democrat in your congressional district. look at numbers. 50% says republican and 54% democrat. that eight-point advantage is up two points from a week and a half for the republicans. fred, it was in 1994 the republicans had a ten-point advantage on the generic ballot just before they came back and won control of both chambers of congress. look at this as well. the magic number. republicans need a net gain of 39 seats. 39