also the save the clock tower flyer. the three-movie set is going to be released on blu-ray, october 26, 25 years to the day marty mcfly traveled back in time in the first film. >> wow. and we're here. >> 25 years ago. we're still here. >> wow. that brings back memories. >> where's biff? >> i don't know where he is. watch how you are in high school. you never know who is going to come back. >> thanks for joining us. we'll see you bright and early tomorrow morning. >> the news continues with kyra phillips. >> hi, guys. 9:00 a.m. on the east coast. here's what we're talking about this morning. a terrifying video sweeping flew the neighborhood. 125-mile-an-hour winds destroyed at least five homes, four people

with minor injuries. a somber homecoming for a world class swimmer who died over the weekend. 26-year-old fran crippen died during the last leg of the marathon swimming world cup in the united arab emirates. they blame fatigue but investigation is searching for more precise cause of death. there are concerns the warm weather and high air temps contributed to his death. the largest newspaper in new hampshire is refusing to publish a wedding announcement for a gay couple. it believes that marriage should only be between a man and woman. here's the twist. the state legalized same-sex marriage in january. the couple have contacted gay rights groups and are considering their options. i just got right here and said you know, lord, be with us. >> his face saw him through the storm. today it face as new test. his shom one of the five destroyed by a powerful tornado that swept through rice, texas, home video capturing the sound

and the fury. that storm system sweeping eastward as well. a large part of the southeast bracing for severe weather. reynolds wolf is watching it all. we could hear the thunderstorms or hear the sounds from the "newsroom." >> absolutely. the building here at cnn center was reverberating from the sound and it's going to come on. can you see it here on radar? shoot. how can you miss it. it's across the landscape. several hundred miles wide. a few places we have tornado watches that are in effect until 10:00 eastern time. up from the panhandle into alabama and back in portions of georgia, even in tennessee and the carolinas and now this yellow box, a severe thunderstorm watch in effect. let's zoom in a little bit. you're going to see impulses that are drifting across the state line past i-75 moving closer to macon, georgia, into the carolinas. if you happen to be in alabama, back in gadsden, you're in the clear for the time being.

and if you're in charlotte, fayetteville, get ready. it's going to be coming down. this is not the only area we're concerned with. the southeast, yes, some rough storms here. back in the midwest, the western great lakes, later on this afternoon into the evening we could have strong storms and not only big rainmakers but wind makers, the potential of having wind gusts topping 50, maybe 60 miles per hour later on today's. so another day of rough weather. back to kyra. >> we're down to eight days until election that could change the balance of power in congress. all 435 house seats and 37 senate seats on the ballot. democrats scrambling to hold on to their control. candidateseri are going all they to the top. hitting a dozen states in the final weeks. suzanne, what's the strategy behind these final campaign stops? >> reporter: we're packing our

bags, the president, the vice president, the first lady, everybody is going to fan out across the country. it's a critical time and critical midterm election. it's going to impact every sngle one of us here, what happens and just a few days. about a week or so. the strategy is to try to convince voters that are very necessary for the obama administration, their base, that is black voters, that is women, also young voters, so a quick stop in rhode island for fundraising, but then he heads off later in the week to bridgeport, connecticut and then philadelphia, pennsylvania. pennsylvania very important state here. it leans democratic, a senate race very important there. that is because neither one of the candidates are incumbents so interesting to see how voter anger as well as frustration and unemployment plays out. then the president is going to head over to illinois, his home state, chicago, there is an open senate seat. it's his old senate seat. privately white house advisers

say symbolically this means something to us because it will be embarrassing if the republicans were able to get bragging rights and say we got your old seat so he's going to make a stop there. on to ohio that will be the third trip that -- the third stop he'll be making. a very important governor's race there, also house seats that are up for grabs. very, very hotly contested and that's where you find unemployment. big unemployment numbers. kyra, at least half the counties in that state have unemployment more than 11% or so, that's above the national average. so they want to see how that's going to play out. that's a critical place to be. but all of these places are going to be hit hard. they are going to be hit hard in the next couple of days because this matters to every single one of us. if you like the president's policies as they say, you want to keep the democrats in control. if you don't like them and you want to see them reversed or repealed you want to see the republicans win. we'll know the answer to that question in a little more than a week.

kyra. >> got it. thanks, so zan f. you missed or candy crowley on sunday morning we're going to show you how the two trailing candidates ganged up on the front-runner in the florida senate debate. kendrick meek and charlie crist tried to show mark rubio. rubio hit back. >> any time we get in the issues the governor wants to turn it into something else. he's wrong on the issues. let me say ol the ideologue part. >> why won't you release and clear this up. >> as of today i have now been -- >> investigation into your reporting income. >> there is one falsehood after another. >> across the state of florida for the past year. >> release the full statements from what you charge. >> the questions have been answered since february. my tax returns are public. i have gone beyond the point of disclosure. people want to focus on issues

because they're wrong on the important issues. this country has a -- >> doesn't believe in transparency. i created the office for the first time in the history of our country. >> i always had them in the audience. >> did you understand any of that? i don't think i did. cnn will have live coverage of a big florida debate for governor. the race considered one of the closest in the nation. john king moderates that tonight. 7:00 p.m. eastern. for years our reporters have been telling you that iran has been funneling cash and weapons to the terrorists in iraq. now a surprising revelation, from afghan president hamid karzai. he admits that iran has been funneling cash to the afghan government. >> this is transparent and this is something that i have also discussed with even when we were at camp david with president bush, this is nothing hidden, we are grateful for the help in

this regard. the united states is doing the same thing, they are providing cash to some of our offices. >> according to "the new york times" it followed up on this story saying that the payouts account for millions of dollars, so what's in it for the iranians? karzai says iran has, quote, asked for good relations in return and lots of other things in return, unquote. the worst may be over. that's the word from haiti as it's suffering through an outbreak of cholera. more than 250 people have died, more than 3,000 have gotten sick. the fast-moving illness showed up in the countryside. health workers are trying to keep the deadly illnesses out of the crowded capital where thousands are living in tents and tarps. paula newton was at st. nicholas hospital. what's the risk to the capital of port-au-prince that this could spread there? >> reporter: well, the risk is there. five people from this area are nowport-au-prince.

there are no signs that cholera has spread to port-au-prince. considering what's happened here at the hospital i'm at where you had this hospital overwhelmed, people coming who were violently ill and then unfortunately 253 dying, the good news here is that the death rate is coming down. the challenge, you know, the faces this country is how now that cholera is here after 50 years of being absent, how do they deal with it, get sanitary conditions up in terms of washing hands, clean water, using clean water sources. that is the challenge. they are going to do not make sure that that cholera does not spread to the capital. we have more than a million people living out in the open and things there in terms of diseases can spread quickly. >> so what's the next big challenge in fighting this outbreak you think, paula? >> reporter: the next big challenge is you know, when we're speaking to people about their water source, here in this

community or even in port-au-prince they are told don't use that water source, it's contaminated. people say what do you want me to use? i need water. and that is going to be the challenge going forward for this country. cholera in a certain measure may be here to stay for sometime. and what they want to avoid is what is happening and hopefully stopped here, the violently ill people coming and just die in a 24-hour, 48-hour period without getting pep whatsoever. the health groups are mobilized across the country. the cdc is trying to figure out the cause. so sad, though, i have to tell you, there has been little change in the earthquake zones here and for the lives of these people since that deadly earthquake in january. >> we'll keep following it. that's for sure. thanks so much. sean penn has been helping haitians since january's earthquake. hear what he's saying about the cholera outbreak. >> we've got a story that's a

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a junked house, a house of junk and taste of depression part of our trip across the country. first a look at the little house that took on the pacific ocean and lost. a storm pounded parts of the pacific northwest with such heavy wind and waves the beach cabin couldn't take it. it washed away beach, washington. believe it or not. >> bought the property in '84. we had to sign a piece of paper saying we knew it was going to erode. we had a mile from the water. no idea how long but knew eventually one day it would come our way. >> and so since they knew it was going to happen they moved everything out beforehand.

seems absurd to say hey, my pile of trash is up to code. that's what the owner of the cathedral of junk is saying. this is one of those landmarks that keeps austin, texas weird. that's a compliment, by the way. this place is so crammed with odds and ends, mostly odds, that the city was afraid visitors could get hurt. the owner removed 30 tons of stuff to get back in the city's good graces. the great depression lives on in shelby, north carolina. at least a taste of it. folks there celebrating liver mush over the weekend. it's a pork-based product with corn meal filler. think spam before spam was cool. this was cheap that folks in the area could eat during the hard times of the 1930s. here's a talker of a story. i'm going to want your input as well. it's about new hampshire's big newspaper refusing to run a gay couple's marriage announcement. this is a state where same-sex marriage is legal. the editors say we're not anti-gay, however, they also

made it clear that a marriage should be between a man and woman. double standard or just being direct? watch this story from josh from wmur and then weigh in. >> reporter: the day same-sex marriage became legal in new hampshire it was proud for greg. >> it sort of highlighted all of the values we had when we grew up. individual thinking, independence. >> reporter: despite living now in new york greg and his soon-to-be husband set a wedding date, hiring a wedding planner to help. >> there are a lot of nerve-racking challenges that any couple faces when they get married. >> reporter: one they didn't expect came from the largest newspapers, told by the union leader that since it was a same-sex marriage the paper would not print the announcement. >> i was disappointed t. yoon yoon leader is a big voice in the state of new hampshire and seem to be so out of touch. >> reporter: greg took his complaint to the publisher but

to no avail. on friday the union leader release add statement saying the newspaper has never published wedding or engagement announcements for homosexual couples. it would be hypocritical of us to do so given our belief that marriage need to be between men and women. it says it is not anti-gay, and since it's a privately owned paper it's important to note that it has the right to print what it wants. not that they see that as an adequate response. >> to specifically exclude same-sex couples in wedding announcements seems vindictive. >> all right. so tell me if the paper was being vindictive as greg gould said or if it justifiably is trying to keep its message and actions consistent. several things to consider. first, yes, the paper is a private business, and doesn't have to run a same-sex wedding announcement if it doesn't want to. at the same time this is a state where same-sex marriage is legal. a wedding announcement is just

that, a fact that reflects that the lives of people in the state acknowledging that an event happened. it's not an endorsement more than running a story about man made global warming is akin to agreeing with it or running a negative story about a republican is equal to endorsing a democrat. what do you think? does it seem like the editorial page is creeping into parts of the paper where opinions don't belong? how about running the announcement then at the same edition run an editorial explaining why you think the guys are wrong for being a married couple. weigh in. blog me. here's the question. is the union ledger out of touch or taking a stand against gay marriage in new hampshire? show your comments at cnn.com/kyra. an american swimmer at the top of his sport and within reach of the olympics, dies during a long distance race. a look beyond fran crippen's death and discuss the life his friends are honoring today. chef in the kitchen.

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you may never have heard his name but fran crippen was on a mission to change that. the 26-year-old american was considered a star in open water swimming and appeared on track to make the olympics. but that dream died on saturday. his body was found during the last leg of the marathon swimming world cup in the united arab emirates. doctors say he died of severe

fatigue from the race. investigation will try to determine if high air and water temps may have contributed to his death. crippen -- there has hit hard in the sport and in philadelphia where he grew up in a family of competitive swimmers. last night don lemons spoke with his former spoke who said that crippen's athletic gifts were nothing compared to the quality of person he was. >> he not only was a world class athlete, national champion numerous times, he got in the pool and helped the little kids as a volunteer coach, they loved him. we all lover him. we're all going to miss him immensely. he's been a great friend. the last two years we had a cup of coffee after every morning practice. and we chatted about local sports teams and -- just a great guy. the open water community is

small, close knit, and the swimming community is larger and equally close knit and we're all in shock, dismay, saddened. >> can only imagine. 26 years old in the prime of his life. do we know what was -- what happened, coach? >> no. we do not know. whatever it says on the internet, is guessing. and nothing has been concluded, and we're hoping his body will be brought home in the next 48 to 72 hours and there is a stream of swimmers from all over the world coming here and spending time with the family on the deck of germantown academy. >> coach, listen. we've been hearing things maybe it was exhaustion, maybe heart

attack. we don't know until the investigation is complete. you've known this young man for virtually his entire life. did he complain about anything? did he have health issues? >> not at all. none, absolutely none at all to my knowledge. he was fit as a fiddle. >> i want to ask you this quickly. usually just for lap swimming the water is always cool. 87 degree, that's pretty warm. you think that may have contributed to this? >> i hope not but -- i worried more about the content of salt in the water. because the higher the content of salt, the quicker the athlete becomes hydrated. that's the thing that's ringing a bell in the back of my mind. but i'm not a physiologist, i'm a swim coach. >> you don't know. listen, from the little bitty boy as they say, to 26 years old, what are you going to remember most about him? >> pardon me? >> what are you going to

remember most? >> i love him. i'm just -- want to remember that. i love him. >> here's another measure of how loved fran crippen was. when word got out he had not yet finished the race the swimmers who had just emerged from the water immediately headed back into the surf to search for him. deep sea divers found him two hours later near the final buoy of the race. someone is floating the idea that president obama might actually benefit from losing the house to the gop. pretty interesting. we'll take a closer look at that. sure i'd like to diversify my workforce,

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the housing market made another turn for the worse this month when banks stops foreclosures because of cases of robo signing. many feel they lost their homes unlawfully. many investigations have been started. the chairman of the federal reserve is weighing in. alison at the new york stock exchange with more on what ben bernanke is saying on this. >> reporter: bernanke is really focusing on trying to calm people's fears. banking agencies are looking into procedures because of the issues that you mentioned. the investigation should be finished up by next month, that's when a report is also expected to come out. and at the same time there are reports that bank of america is admitting there were some mistakes in its foreclosure documents though they were small like misspelling a person's name. boa is maintaining no one was wrongfully floorsed from their

homes. regulators and many are questioning the practices of the biggest mortgage companies at this point. this whole debacle is going to create more problems for the housing market. stocks are moving higher now. we have good news there. the dow jones industrial average is up about 28 points, the nasdaq is higher by 12. investors didn't get much news out of the weekend's g-20 meeting of finance ministers so investors are focusing back to earnings which has been a bright spot so far. finally, kyra, i'm sure you remember this. long before we had mp-3 players and ipods we had the sony walkman. now it's the end of an era. sony pulling the plug on its iconic device, once the existing supply is sold out there will be no more walkmans. this came out in 1979, you know, the walkman was the original portable cassette tape player and a symbol of what was cool. it really caught on globally and now it's going to become this thing that sits in a museum. the walkman.

say good bye. >> if we hold on, i think we probably have two, can we make money in 10, 20, 30 years? >> reporter: i was wondering the same thing. what the heck. hold onto it. you held on this long, why not hold on a few years. see what happens. >> there you go. thanks, alison. it's 9:30. here's some of the stories we're talking about. chandra levy's death was a mystery. the man accused of killing the intern goes on trial. he's accused of killing levy in may 2001 when she was jogging in rock creek park. >> we are in a tornado. we are in the tornado. we are in the tornado. >> pretty frightening moments in texas. this tornado was shot by eric meyers about 50 miles south of dallas. the twister was so powerful it knocked train cars off tracks.

despite the fury only four were hurt. and snoozers competing in spain's first siesta championship. why? well, they hope to bring attention to a tradition that is slowly disappearing. nappers won points and cash for snoring, odd sleeping positions and coolest pajamas. only eight days until the hugely important midterm elections, it's getting katty out there. check out this ad from gay conservatives. >> if you thought house wives were dysfunctional wait until you neat real democrats of washington, d.c. they are katty. >> trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. >> they are arrogant. >> you know, do me a favor, could you say senator instead of ma'am. it's a thing i worked so hard to get that title. >> and they are in charge. >> the american people voted for change. >> under democrats, reality bites.

>> of course these elections will be more like survivor or the biggest loser than real housewives. right now a poll from politico suggests that democrats could get voted off the island. among independent voters, 51% leaning to casting ballots for the gop. 39% say they will vote democrat. john roberts actually talked about that this morning so on our a.m. extra, we know how crucial the independents are so what's the take away from the poll? >> yes, you want to get elected you have to attract independent voters. for the republicans to have such a margin, eight days out really is an indication that the democrats are in difficulty. not only are independents breaking in favor of republicans in that poll, it was a george washington poll that nearly two thirds have less faith in government and don't think that the stimulus package is working for them. i asked hilary rosen and ed rollins how they thought that was going to play out next

tuesday. >> i don't believe that people are going to throw a vote away. i think people want change and see the republican party in this election as the party of change. we'll see that a week from tomorrow. i think in this case independents have decided the election in 2006 gave you a majority in 2008, gave the president a 53% margin, i think in this case gives us the house of representatives. >> however, in early voting shows that the democrats have less of an enthusiasm gap than was first thought. how you think that will play out? >> first of all, independents have never historically had big turnouts in midterm elections. they do make the case almost every time in a presidential election. i think what we're seeing on early voting is the democrats are coming out, that the base is home. so we'll see. you know, i think some of these independents voted for change, a lot of their dissatisfaction is that they haven't seen enough of it, that doesn't mean that they are aligned with where the tea party wants to take the republicans and the house. i think this is much fuzzier.

>> if you are describing -- describing three words. that are the factors in this race. the president, nancy pelosi, speaker pelosi, and obama care. i think those three issues are driving a vote to our side significantly and i think the president who has been out there with a very shrill tone has had an impact on he didn't change what washington is about, if anything he made it worse. >> so will the president actually benefit from losing the senate or the house to republicans? >> well, there's one train of thought that says if the president does lose one or both houses, that he's up against a republican congress or a half, that he will look better in 2012 because he'll be fighting against an opposition. there is another school of thought that says no, you are better off to have control of congress. does it help him out if everything is not the democrats' fault in the next two years? perhaps it does. but there are just as many people who would say it's better to have full legislating power

and the ability to push forward your agenda. we'll see how it shapes up, kyra, and we don't have too much longer to wait. >> about a week away. thanks, john. remember that candidate for new york governor her his rent is too high. guess what. we knew what was going to happen next. "saturday night live."

all right. amid the nastiness of the election campaign there has been a lot of humor even if it wasn't intended to be funny. you remember last week's new york governor's debate. right?

>> it's a simple message which i say all the time. someone say i'm a one issue candidate. but it boils down to one thing. rent. it's too damn high. >> so you had to expect "saturday night live" was going to jump in on this. >> now mr. mcmillan, what about these reports you haven't paid rent since the 80s. >> you know why i don't pay my rent? >> i would say it's because -- >> the rent is too damn high. so this halloween, vote for jimmy mcmillan. with your help i hope to become the first black governor ever elected from the rent is too damn high party. come aboard the jimmy mcmillan express. you can grab on here, or here. because there's going to be a wild ride. a very short, very wild ride. >> jimmy mcmillan, everybody. >> the rent is too damn high. >> going to be a wild ride for

the next eight days till we get to the midterm elections. i guess we should have expected snl was going to jump on jimmy. >> you know, kyra, you give me a hard act to followow. i got nothing like that. >> give us something that's too damn high. >> i'll give you brand new stuff on the cnn political ticker. let's talk about the vice president joe biden. he's going to be in new hampshire campaigning for a democratic candidate up there. he does it all the time. why does this matter. the white house is touting this as the 100th campaign event for the vice president. i'm going to ask reggie to zoom in. that is new on the scene. we talk a lot about barack obama the president, the former president bill clinton. joe biden for the democrats. let's talk about the strategy in this last week before the election. and talk about california. and the national republican senate campaign i confirmed they're are pumping $3 million to help carly fiorina going

after senator boxer, the three-term democrat, it's part of the strategy. that brings up to $8 million the national republicans have spent on ads in california in these closing weeks, it's all about strategy with eight days to go. >> well, any news about the tea party today? >> yes, that tea party express keeps rolling along. they are doing that cross country tour t. chairwoman amy cramer giving a big endorsement to tom tancredo running for governor, part of the american constitution party. we remember him, former congressman outspoken on illegal immigration. it's a three-way race and the republican nominee is falling farther behind. new polls suggest that tancredo is 10 behind the democratic nominee. back to you. >> paul, thanks. we'll have the next political update in an hour. for the latest political news go to our website.

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with halloween days away the season to make horror movies. around the world, there are growing reports of ghoulish flesh hungry creatures on the march. it's zombie time. legions of undead stumbled and staggered saturday for the annual event. 1400 bucks catch a few zz,. people who want to put you to sleep. that's what the winner of the spain's first annual siesta fiesta brought home when everybody woke up. who is he? let's say he's qualified. al goodman live with more on this snoozer of a story. i should have known this is exactly what you were going to do, al. i know you better than that. you never sleep on the job. but you do appreciate a good

siesta. >> reporter: sorry, kyra, i was trying to catch up. it's after spanish lunhour. this competition was very serious. we went over there, i must say i was not an official contestant. i hope that cnn management does understand that. but there was a doctor on hand. hundreds of contestants at this shopping center, they put a little pulse meter around your chest so that the judge who sat on a high chair overlooking the. a judge could tell whether you were faking it or not, and the winner was an immigrant, a man from ecuador, an unemployed security guard who slept for 17 minutes out of the maximum 20 you could, and he senatored very loudly. he got a lot of extra point are for that. so he gets the $1,400 to spend at the shopping center. >> when i lived in spain, people

had their siesta in the middle of the day. people were healthier, more relaxed. there's no argument this is good for your health. they don't want to see it go away. >> reporter: that's precisely why this group that is called the friends of the siesta held this event at the shopping center. spain's life-style has really changed. it's not the old spain where everything shuts down for two or three hours in the mill of the day, especially not in the big cities. that shopping center is an example of that. stores are open, so people get a couple of hours for lunch but they don't have time to go home, so they go out shopping and go back to work early. this is why they're trying to get the message across, let's not be too much like the rest of europe, work, work, work, let's try to preserve the spanish siesta. here's what we're working on for the next hour, beginning with reynolds wolf.

>> strong tornadoes ripped through texas yesterday and now severe weather is closing in on the southeast. we'll bring you the very latest. i'm elizabeth cohen in atlanta. a young american swimmer dies in a race in the united arab emirates. what caused his death? i'll have more on that. i'm stephanie elam in new york. google streetview. apparently it's seeing too much. i'll explain in the next hour. let's take a look at the intersection of political culture and pop culture. you see candidates using tv show es like "real house wives" and "glee" to push their message.

♪ but i had faith and i had hope ♪ ♪ and thankfully the padres choked ♪ ♪ even then, it may have been the rally thong ♪ >> is that what halves? >> that what he said? >> i'm looking at the hair and

it's taking me back to high school, brother. look at the back and forth. then again, i don't think we had thongs back in that day. >> i'll take your word for it, right? >> i'll take your word for it. i was wearing the tidy whities back in the day. is that too much information. hi, kyra. >> hi, nice to see you. glad i can't see the tidy whities. boy, world series, a lot of money in this game for not a lot of action. >> yeah, but how about this? the teams with two of the biggest payrolls in all of baseball, the yankees out, and the philadelphia phillies out, and so we get these teams, the san francisco giants. the giants haven't been to the world series since, what, 1954 when they beat the cleveland indians, when they were the new york giants playing games in the polo grounds in new york, and you get the text rangers. >> do you remember that, 1954?

>> thank you, kyra. >> i remember the catch. that's the yankees going out. how about this? you have a team -- there are yankee haters all over the country, right? one of the papers after the yankees lost, ding dong the witch is dead. the evil empire came up short once again. >> are you sure they're happens not just angry that a-rod makes $33 million and they're out. >> that's a team with $210 million. the team that makes it to the series has a payroll of 55 million. don't you love that underdog story? put on your hard hat and play the game. pampered millionaires and they lose. >> we could feed a lot of hungry people with that. >> we really could. >> how about this video game. it's gone viral apparently. >> we're playing a video game,

and what happens is i want to win this game, right, but one of your players is gumming up my results. your player, right? so i get ticked off and what do i do? i send a note to the team, the actual hockey team, in this case, the dallas stars, and i'm complaining. you know what, i would have beat kyra in my video game if only your player, this burris game played better. want to hear sound from this story? >> let's listen. >> alex, hey, what's up? sorry i ruined your game. you know what, when your guys are that slow, they get in my way. whoever is controlling them, i don't know if it's you or the computer, talk with them. they're in my way. it was a mess out there. get your guys going. get your guys skating a bit so they're out of my way. sorry i ruined the game, but talk to your guys next time. >> get it together! that's great, isn't it!

>> should we bring a little journey back just for old times? >> sans the conversation about the thongs? >> let it tell it's own story. ♪ had you faith and i had hope and thankfully the padres choked ♪ ♪ even then maybe it was the rally thong ♪ ♪ let's go giants ♪ nls division champions feels good but we ain't stops here ♪ ♪ we got timmy and tores it's 10:00 a.m. on the east coast. i'm kyra phillips. you're live in the cnn newsroom. a somber homecoming for a world

class swimmer who died over the weektd. fran crippen died during the last leg of a six-mile race in the united arab emirates. a new york congressman wants youtube to remove hundreds of videos from a radical cleric. he's known as the bin laden of the internet and uses his postings to recruit new terrorists. now, texas. >> we're in the tornado! >> a terrifying view of a tornado sweeping through the northeast texas neighborhood. 125-mile-an-hour winds destroyed at least five homes and left four people with minor injuries. well now that storm is sweeping east ward and large portions of the southeast bracing for severe weather, right? >> every place you happen to see in the map that happens to be shaded in an orange, red color

or yellow, that's an area of concern. can you see how many spots there are shaded out like that? parts of the carolinas, alabama, even parts of i-10 in the panhandle we can expect possibility of strong storms. you saw some rough ones in alabama and georgia. some very intense. if you happen to see a place with orange or red, that's some of the roughest weather we have at the time. we are not just talking about hail and rain, but strong winds. tree damage a possibility, power outages also a possibility. if you happen to be in atlanta, the worst appears to be over for you. if you are in aiken, south carolina, charleston or columbia, look out, all of this is coming in your direction. his is only one of two areas we're watching for the potential of severe weather. back agros the western great lakes and corn belt, from missouri, northward and iowa, and even portions of wisconsin

and illinois, it could get especially rough. not just rain but wind gusts that could top 50, perhaps even 60 miles an hour. what does that mean? not only rough weather the side effect of massive delays, chicago airports, milwaukee, possibly st. louis today and maybe even denver as we round out the rest of the day. nationwide, this is going to be the hot spot but we have a lot to talk about, plus possibly heavy snowfall in the rockies. that video, just breath taking to watch, that damage. like a giant saw blade moving across the texas landscape. they'll be cleaning up today. >> we're teaming the effects here in atlanta, thunderstorms shaking the building this morning. >> absolutely. amazing to see the stuff. not only do we have the video from this particular spot. the damage from that one tornado that's ripping through the area, just amazing. one storm chaser happened to be,

you make the call, is it the right place or wrong place? if you're trying to get video, great place. again, that is something you have to be careful. the safest place to be during a storm, obviously, under ground. some of the damage took place near a school. thank heavens it took place on a sunday, not on a monday morning with a building full of kids. just eight days away from an election that could change the balance in congress. crunch time for the candidates, and some of them using pop cult to help connect with voters now. check out how a group of gay conservatives is going all "real house wives" on democrats. >> if you thought the house wives were dysfunctional. wait until you meet the real democrats of washington, d.c. they're catty. >> trying to have a conversation with you is like trying to argue with a dining room table. >> they're argue gant. >> ma'am --

>> do me a favor, could you say senator instead of ma'am? it's just a thing. >> they're in charge. >> the american people voted for change. >> under democrats, reality bites. >> reality bites. that's a bonus reference to a popular generation x movie. here's one for "glee" fans in illinois. >> too busy watching "glee" to watch up for the governor's race. the republican party is split. first thing bill brady did was proposed a bill to kill dogs and cats in gas cham bers. why did do you that? >> i owned a pet all my life. i -- excuse me. >> then tried to repeal civil rights for gays. >> then there's an ad from the senate race in alaska, joe miller channelling an old spies commercial. >> hello, voters, look at your ballot. not look at him. this is joe miller.

back to your ballot. you see his name. look at her, back to your ballot. look at her. she is not on the ballot sadly. look up, joe miller, an officer in the u.s. who served in the first gulf war, a father of eight and a respected judge in alaska. >> these elections will be more like "survivor" and "biggest loser" than "house wives" or ""glee." 51% of independent voters leaning toward casting ballots for the gop, 39% saying they're vote democrat. democrats are scrambling to hold control in congress and are going to. top for help, the president, mrs. obama, and vice president biden hitting a dozen states in the last week. the president is going to pennsylvania and ohio. the president and vice president will campaign there. we have three big debates. tonight, massachusetts, kentucky

and florida. the last debate in the bear knuckle brawl for massachusetts. they are fighting for the florida governor, one of the tightest races. sink and scott, 7:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. in kentucky, debate between rand paul and jack conway going on. things got pretty ugly when they faced off last week. remember this? >> you know, jack, you know how we tell when you are lying? it's when your lips are moving. >> when is it ever a good idea to tie up a woman and ask her to kneel before a god, your god, you call him aqua buddha. >> i will not shake hands with someone who attacks my religion and my christian beliefs. >> chief executive of national public radio is issuing an apology this morning, not to juan williams, who she fired but

rather the way she handled his dismissal. howie, what do you make of this, why apologize, and do you this this an apology? >> it's a pretty tepid apology. vivian schiller is not backing off the decision of why she fired him but saying it was poorly handled. he was fired over a cell phone after ten years of service. the reason is npr is getting hammered not just from the right, but the liberals are not defending why he was kicked out of his job for the comments he made about muslims on fox news. >> i thought we were going to lift ton that. sorry about that, howie. she apologizes but then goes on and says in the statement he was explicitly and repeatedly asked

to respect npr's standards and avoid expressing strong personal opinions on controversial subjects in public settings as that is inconsistent with his role as an npr analyst. i'm confused. it was it stated in his contract? last week they say he's a commentator, not an analyst, and now he's an analyst. it seems like there's a lot of back and forth. it's not clear. >> you're an analyst but not have any opinions. i don't know how one analyzes that way. by the way, the whole flap over juan williams saying he gets a little nervous if he's on a plane and sees people in muslim garb. not the way i would have put it. he wasn't calling for profiling or discrimination and went on to make the opposite point, talking about his feelings. a lot of this what to do with the fact that he said it on fox news. a lot of people at npr don't

like fox news. vivian schiller but this ow because it looks like npr is not tolerant of other viewpoints, and particularly if they're expressed on fox news while fox news leans right in its opinion shows looks very open minded because it has a liberal in juan williams who is going to have a much bigger role and make more money as a result of this flap. >> he is coming out way fat contract. is anyone defending npr at this point? >> you know, with a couple of exceptions, i haven't really found even full-throated liberals defending national public radio on this. it looks like in both the way it was done and the fact that juan williams lost his job over these remarks which i don't consider to be a firing offense, it really is hard to under what point npr was trying to make despite schiller going on about

spre respecting boundaries. vivian schiller trying to repair damage with her staff which knows that she did not handle this well. i give her points for that but she is still not backing off her position, and some of the republicans who don't like npr anyway using this juan williams flap to talk about cutting off subsidies to national public radio. i don't think it will happen but she is having to play defense because of that. following a story internationally, a surprising revelation coming from karzai who admits iran has been funneling cash into his country. >> this is transparent, and this is something that i have also discussed with -- even when we were at camp david with president bush. this is nothing hidden. we are grateful for the iranian help in this regard.

the united states is doing the same thing. they are providing cash to some of our offices. barbara starr is live in kabul. any reaction from the united states, because, barbara, our reporters have talked about for years iran was funneling cash and weapons to the snurtinsurge? now he's talking about cash but not the insurgency? >> reporter: no reaction yet. we asked the u.s. embassy since earlier today when that press conference occurred, what president karzai meant, that the suz also giving bags of money to the karzai government. no response from them yet. no response from the u.s. military. it's a concern. then, we don't have a lot of facts here just yet. if this is a foreign aid program, the u.s. government normally doesn't hand the money in bags of cash.

karzai talked about the fact that it was being distributed to government employees for expenses and even to outsiders. we don't know what in a means. there's a real possibility here that some of this money is being diverted for purposes that it is not intended for bite united states, and as far as the iranians go, the two countries, afghanistan and iran have very close tieses, but this furthering of ties, what do the iranians want in return for the money they're giving karzai? that's a big concern to the united states. >> the story will continue to develop, i'm sure. new hampshire's major newspaper refuse tofs run a gay couple's wedding announcement. >> the union leader is a big voice in the state of new hampshire and they seem to be so out of touch. >> there's a huge reason why he thinks the paper is out of touch. same-sex marriage is legal in new hampshire. we're going to have you weigh in

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♪ hello good norm ♪ hole low go morning there's another civic minded rally slated for the washington mall on saturday created by jon stewart and stevphen colbert. >> we are presuming that 75 to 85% of the country, reasonable people that get along, that may not agree on things but they can do things, and the other 15% control it, the dialogue, the legislation. this is for the people that are

too busy, that have jobs and lives and are tired of their reflection in the media of being a divided country, and the reflection that they are ideological and conflicted. it's for those people. it's going to shot not honely this world real world. >> reporter: we've seen the million man march. the million mom march. >> i testify to you here and now. one man can change the world. >> glenn beck's rally to restore honor, and now -- >> tonight, i announce the rally to restore sanity. >> reporter: jon stewart announced plans for a political rally on the washington mall on act 30th and while there were laughs, stewart wasn't exactly kidding. >> it is happening! a real gathering! we will gather! we will gather on the national mall in washington, d.c.!

a million moderate march where we take to the streets to send a message to our leaders and our national media that says we are here, we're only here, though, until 6:00 p.m. because we have a sitter! >> reporter: he called on american moderates to gather and take it down a notch. stephen colbert kwukly announced plans for a mock counterrally. >> my fellow americans, two score and four days from now on october 30th, 2010, i am calling for the nation to join me on the washington mall for the march to keep fear alive. >> reporter: the stewart/colbert rallies are a satirical attempt to model their rallies after glenn beck. they poked fun at stewart's moderate motto. >> ladies and gentlemen, it is

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a junked house, house of junk, and some tough love are part of our trip across the country. look at the house that took on the pacific ocean and lost. the storm pounded the pacific northwest with such heavy winds and waves that this beach cabin couldn't take it anymore and it

washed away in washed away beach, washington. >> we bought the property back in '84, we had to sign a piece of paper saying we knew it was going to erode. we were about a mile from the water. we had know idea loulg it would take but eventually it would come away. >> the family knew this would happen as you just heard and they moved everything out beforehand. it seems be a stourd say, hey, that pile of trash is up to code. that's what the own of the cathedral of junk is saying. this is one of those land mashes that keeps austin ex-text weird. that's a compliment. this place is is so crammed with odds and ends that the city was afraid visitors could get hurt by falling debris. the owner has removed 30 tons of stuff to get back in the city's good graces.

>> this girl has hold up a sign that says i got in trouble in school and this is my punishment. her mom is making her stand on a corner for ten days even on the weekend. she got in a gong fight at school. she can make calls, listen to music. mom took away the phone and ipod. this a story about new hampshire's big newspaper refusing to run a gay couple's marriage announcement in a state where same-sex marriage is legal. the nape says we're not anti-gay. however, they also made it clear that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. double standard or just being direct? watch the story from wmur and then we got you to weigh in. >> reporter: today, same sex marriage became legal in newspaper, it was a proud one for manchester native greg ghoul. it highlighted the values we had

when we grew up, individual thinking, independence. >> reporter: so despite living in new york, greg and his soon to be husband aurelio set a wedding date even hiring a wedding planner. >> the same nerve wracking challenging anyone faces. >> reporter: one challenge they can't expect came from the newspaper, told by the union leader that it was a same-sex marriage, the paper would not print the announcement. >> i was disappointed because the union leader is a big voice in the state of new hampshire and they seem to be so out of touch. >> reporter: greg took his complaint to publisher of the paper and the union lead said this newspaper has never published wedding or engagement announcements for homosexual couples. it would be hypocritical for us to do so given our belief that marriage is and needs to remain a social and civil structure between men and women. they say they are not anti-gay and since it is a privately owned paper it is important to

note it has the right to print or not print whatever it wants, not that greg or aurelio sees that as an adequate response. >> to specifically exclude same sex couples from wedding announcements is vindictive. >> kelley says, i'm not gay nor do i condone homosexuality, but i don't think humans need to be discriminated against nor do they need to be. this couple is not violates the law of the state they reside in in any way i can see. the union leader needs to move into the present. mark said, i am writing this as a fully out gay man. the paper has the right as does any business to decide what it does and does not do. we're quick to claim discrimination when someone does not do what we think they should. the constitution is our most char riched document and

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surprising. >> not surprising. i think what's difficult for these poor college students, kyra, is the fact that they're having a hard time finding a job. they're saying that on average, someone who graduated from college last year has debt of about $24,000. that's up 6% from the year before but if you take a look at their unemployment rate, the unemployment rate for those coming out of college is up to 8.6% in 2009, the heightest annual rate on record. it's one thing to have the debt but that's the debt you want to have because you want to go out and get it good job afterward. one other thing worth talking about is about google. have you heard the story about google street view and how they are taking in a little too much of the view as they were cruising around the streets of dozens of countries. google saying they took too much. when they go in their cars and they take the views.

they have little cars that drive around to get the images. when they were doing that, they were picking up e-mail addresses, pass words, web page urls from residential wi-fis. so that's one of the issues they're going to fix, delete the information as quickly as possible and beef up their privacy training as well. last thing, because i want new graduates to feel a little better about trying to find a job. hiring outlook has improved in the third quarter. it's the highest level we've seen since the start of the recession. this is based on survey of economists, and they say the hiring outlook over the next six months is improving. it rose to the heightest level since 2006. companies are starting to spend more and making more. while we would like to throw confetti and say, yay, everybody's getting a job, the recovery is still slow. things are moving in the right

direction i had to find is positive in there somewhere. here are some of the stories that got us talking in the cnn newsroom today. murder trial set to get under way for the man accused of killing sandra levy. they believe he attacked levy as she was jogging in the park and murdered. >> jim fritz, charged with dui manslaughter in a 2007 car crash opinion a 30--year-old woman died in that crash. >> we are in a tornado! we are in a tornado! a texas tornado up close and personal. these are 125 mile an an hour winds ripping apart that building. five homes destroyed. four people suffered minor injuries. you may never have heard of his fran crippen.

he was on a mission to change that. the 26-year-old american was a star in open water swimming and appeared on track to make the olympics. that dream died on saturday. his body was found on the last leg of the swimming cup in the united arab emirates. >> not only was he a world class athlete, national champion numerous times, he got in the pool at g.a. and helped the little kids as a volunteer coach. they loved him. i love him. i'm just go fing to remember th. i lover him. >> he died of severe fatigue, but there are also questions that the warm water and hot air temps may have played a role. elizabeth cohen is joining us to telt us more about that. >> we know it was 100 degrees outside and 87 degrees in the water and on cnn, we had another

swimmer on who was also in that race, and he said that people were really struggling, that it was really a tough race, and his former coach said he was fit as a fiddle to start with. he didn't have any conditioning that would have made this particularly dangerous for him in particular. >> it's interesting when you listen to the coach's interview saying he was concerned about the salt water. we haven't heard that come up. is it possible the conditions were too hot? >> we spoke to an extreme sports experts that it is possible, just like you hear about people running marathons and dying. you need to get rid of the heat, and if the water is too hot, that becomes difficult and your organi organs will shut down.

the club that runs that event denies the reports that the water played a role. >> there are number of opinions going on. >> they have to figure it out. some people will say it's the heat or fatigue. they need to find out sm if swimmers should be swimming in water that temperature. >> four guys from down under sinking basketballs for fun and charity. you have to see it to believe it. hey, did you ever finish last month's invoices? sadly, no. oh. but i did pick up your dry cleaning and had your shoes shined. well, i made you a reservation at the sushi place around the corner. well, in that case, i better get back to these invoices...

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even if it wasn't intended to be funny, jimmy mcmillan's mantra from last week's governor's debate was. >> it's a simple message i say all of the time. some say i'm a one issue candidate. it all boils down to one thing -- rent. it's too damn high. >> leave it to "saturday night live" to just continue the entertainment. >> now, mr. mcmillan, what about these reports that you, yourself, haven't paid rent since the '80s. >> you know why i don't pay my rent? >> if i had to guess, i'd say it's because -- >> the rent is too damn high! this halloween, vote for jimmy mcmillan. i hope to become the first black governor to be elected from the

rent is too damn high party. come aboard the jimmy mcmillan express. you can hold on here or here. it's going to be a wild ride, a very short but wild ride. >> jimmy mcmillan, everybody! back to the real campaign now. just eight days until the midterm elections. the debates are heating up. senior political editor mark preston at the university of south florida in tampa. what are you watching, mark? >> i'm here on the campus, as you said, the university of south florida. in a few hours, john king will moderate the governor's debate. yesterday, candy crowley on the stage in the theater to my left moderated the senate debate between rubio, meek and crist. it was very heated at times with kendrick meek charging that

charlie crist quit the gop primary because he was going to lose to marco reeb joe, and marco rubio told charlie crist he was a heckler because he kept on interrupting him. in a couple of hours, john king will have the two governor hopefuls here, alex sink facing off against rick scott the republican, in a race tied up in a very contentious race. that's on john king usa at 7:00 p.m. kind of nice and quiet right now but i'm caught in between two political battles. >> what's the deal with sheriff joe arpaio giving sarah palin a pair of underwear? >> is my face turning red right now because this is one of those political stories where you bring it all together. it's a little uncomfortable.

sarah palin is in arizona for a political event. a couple of days ago, that tough-talking sheriff is known for pink underwear because he makes his inmates wear it. he tweeted out that he presented her with a pair of pink underwear, kyra. you can't make that up. >> isn't that kind of sexist? pink? why is it pink? >> you know what he says about pink is because the inmates were stealing the white underwear, so he turned it pink and said pink is actually a calming factor. so if you want to calm somebody down, buy them a pink shirt or pink underwear. >> that's good advice. your next political update in an hour. for all of the latest political news, go to cnnpolitics.com. there's 2 billion searches on google every single day. what do you think google keeps on you? the ceo talked about in a an

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>> giants fans having a little fun there. what would we do without viral videos? what would we send to our friends and laugh outloud about in the middle of our workplace. josh levs has the latest and greatest. >> that's a really good one. this one comes from comedy central. they have this thing called the night of too many stars when they are raising money for autism education. steve colbert and steve carell came out to sing a song. they are going to sing what everybody's talking about, and all of their references are from a year and a half ago. ♪ he's a legend and his fame will never die ♪ ♪ his name will live forever just like sanjaya ♪ he's even more beloved than

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more people joined in. guards joined in. everybody got up and started dancing. raising money to fight breast cancer. we have about a minute left and we will tell you about one more thing. you got to talk about this with tony. this is a kid playing a hockey game on a video game and gets upset because one of the players out of dallas comes along and blocks him. so what happens? he writes a letter saying this is totally unfair. please help me through this crisis and apologize to me. the player puts together a video. take a look. >> alex, hey, what's up. sorry i ruined your game. you know what, when your guys are that slow, they get in my way. so who ever is controlling them, you or the computer, have a talk with them because they're in my way. passes are in my skates. it was a mess out there.