president obama in indonesia, the country he spent some of the childhood years. we'll have a live report in a moment. for more than a generation, the mcdonald's happy meal is a staple and today it could become outlawed in a san francisco city. critics say, well, we'll take the toy away and then they won't want it. chew on this. junk food could be the secret weapon in the next diet a. nutrition professor says he lost weight and improved his health with a lot of calorie counting. but we begin with president obama in indonesia. the second stop of the asian tour. this visit much more than just a return to the boyhood home. ed henry is traveling with the president. what's the president trying to accomplish in indonesia? >> reporter: well, you know, kyra, the broader message he's planning a big speech at the

university of indonesia tomorrow and the message white house officials says he wants to spend is this is the most populist muslim majority nation in the world and he wants to send a message they trade with the u.s., works together with climate change and counterterrorism and keeping the musl muslim identity and reaching out to the west. you don't always see that. by the way, it's a democracy. just as india, the last stop, the next stop, south korea, democracy. japan, the last stop, democracy. maybe a not so subtle message to the china the u.s. has other applies in the region to trade with and not dependent on china, kyra. >> talking about the meeting, obviously, with china's man in charge, as well. but he's also got a very special connection to indonesia. personal connection. >> reporter: yeah. he spent as you noted four years as a boy here and interesting because, you know, he wanted to

spend sometime at the old school, maybe pop by the old place where he and his mom and stepdad stayed, lived. the first time it was cancelled with the health care debate. second time cancelled with the gulf oil spill. third time now, shrunk down. the president basically arrived in a driving rain. he looked kind of jet lagged and interesting because he sort of brightened when a reporter asked him about growing up here. he sort of brightened and noted, you know what? perks of the job are not bad. >> when i first came here was in 1967, and people were on bedchaks which those of you are not familiar is sort of a bicycle rikshaw thing. and they weren't on those they were on bemells which are sort

of like little taxis but you stood in the back and it was very crowded. and, you know, now as president i can't even see any traffic because they block off all the streets. >> that's what happens when you have a lot of high security. the trip might be cut short because of the volcanic ash, right? >> reporter: yeah. talking about the perks of the job and certain things even the president, the commander in chief, can't stop and this volcanic ash spewing out of the mountain here, bottom line is experts say it can wind up in the jet engine and white house officials nervous about what that means for air force. press charter. other planes part of the u.s. delegation and bottom line is it's looking more and more likely to leave town early as are we, kyra. folks saying it's not safe to stay here too long and can't go on to south korea and japan. sort of maybe a little bittersweet tour of where he

once stayed and not staying as long as expected, kyra. >> no doubt. ed, thanks. a week ago today voters went to the polls an democrats went down in flames. tea party candidates seized on taxpayer anger. rand paul won in kentucky and fellow republican marco rubio did the same this florida. in the house, republicans seized control and a rising star of the tea party christie noem will be part of the freshman class in january. now trying to figure out if tea party candidates are part of the group. brianna keilar on capitol hill. what's going on with this? >> reporter: kyra, you know during the election season, you heard republican leaders here in congress saying to tea party folks, we hear you and one of the ways sources tell us they're talking about trying to make sure that voters know that they have been heard is making sure that some of these new, incoming fresh men who aligned with the tea party they will have a voice and one of those ways is by actually putting one of them at

the leadership table. this is kind of a big deal allowing them to sit there with the establishment republicans and have input. so who are we talking about? sources say that christie noem of south dakota is interested in the position and republican leaders are interested in having her. the caveat is to be endorsed and elected by the freshman class. this creates potentially an area where republicans check the box and say, hey, we have someone from the tea party at the table and michelle bachmann throwing her hat into the ring to be conference chairman. and at this point she doesn't have as much support as her opponent and so it's making you wonder if republican leaders say, look, we could have this person at the table or have a tea party person at the table. is it going to be michelle bachmann? perhaps not as the jockeying goes on, kyra. >> back room deal making with democrats, too, now that they're

in the minority. not enough leadership roles to go around, obviously. >> reporter: yeah. as they move to the minority, they lose a leadership role. you have steny hoyer and jim clyburn and vying for the role of minority whip. the number two position for democrats once they go into the new congress. you have steny hoyer aligned with moderates, many of whom did lose seats during this midterm elections and jim clyburn is a prominent african-american seen as more part of the liberal wing, representing liberals, and every day, kyra, we are just waiting to see exactly what is going to happen here. i have spoken with two senior democratic aides who tell me that hoyer an clyburn met yesterday for half an hour. playing it close to the vest on what they talked about r. they possibly trying to work out an arrangement or just sort of a -- they're touching base with each other as we wait to see how all of this is going to play out? >> all right. we'll definitely be following

it. thanks so much. former president george w. bush breaking the silence on key moments of the presidency, long-awaited memoir in bookstores today and deals with the controversial elements and among them the decision to use waterboarding on terror suspects in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. >> we believe america's going to be attacked again. there's all kinds of intelligence coming in. and one of the high valued al qaeda operatives was khalid shaikh mohammed and they say he's got information. i said, find out what he knows. so i said to our team, are the techniques legal? a legal team, says, yes, they are. i said, use them. >> bush say that is the low point of the administration came during the hurricane katrina disaster. he now admits that the government's response was too slow and he takes blame for not acting more decisively.

white house controversials, former president george w. bush talking about it all in the book and sit douns with candy crowley for a special edition of "state of the union" this sunday night 8:00 eastern. children as young as 12 years of age forced into a prostitution and this morning possible hope for dozens of them. a federal crackdown called "operation cross country v" ended sunday night. 69 kids were recovered, more than a dozen in seattle. 884 people were arrested in 40 cities. among the arrests -- pimps and gang members with connections to somalia. assistant attorney general in michigan is out of a job after tar getting a openly-gay college student leader. they say that he engaged in borderline stalking behavior. the a.g. says s s he also lied investigators and allegedly targeted chris armstrong online and in person.

take a look. the slopes are covered in snow now. time to strap on the skis and snowboards. sugar mountain in north carolina, hundreds of skiers on the mountain after a dusting of the snow. second earliest opening for sugar mountain in 34 years. rob, will you hit it? >> never been up to sugar mountain. >> it is a neat little place. not real challenging. you always like a challenge. >> well, listen. within striking distance -- >> beautiful. take a little drive. >> i knew it was cold the past week or so but snow on the mountains in north carolina, fresh powder, not the middle of november, awesome. low pressure here, this is what brought tremendous amount of rain, even some flakes of snow mixing in. from time to time. to the point where we saw, you know, some records tied in areas like new york city. providence, rhode island. where snow came down earliest

they have seen that. lexington, new york, 2.5. rhode island getting 2.5, as well. eastern mass in spots seeing about an inch of rain -- show yesterday. here's the low. still spinning. eastern massachusetts continuing to see some rain here and also a little bit of wind. winds gusting to 60 miles per hour yesterday across portland, maine. caused trees down and power outages. breezy conditions here and that will slow down some air travel from time to time today. so far, not much in the way of delays. another storm into the inner mountain west from billings through salt lake city. some of it putting down snow at the higher elevations and could pile up to 6 to 12 inches in the rockies. maybe 12 to 20 in the wasatch and another rainstorm in seattle. in between, we're looking at some spectacular weather for chicago, kansas city. 75. 75 degrees in memphis, tennessee. so we go from talking about snow

and ski resorts opening to maybe putting on the sun sauce there across the midwest. >> a little bit of everything. are you a snowborder? >> i can do it. my ego doesn't allow it. i'm horrible. >> it is very challenging,n't is it? >> when you fall, it's embarrassing. >> i can surf and snowboard, no. whole other issue. you need a lesson. maybe we'll hit north carolina. >> let's do that. road trip. >> road trip. that would be interesting, wouldn't it? we'll bring the cameras. thanks, rob. >> you bet. elizabeth smart made national headlines when she was kidnapped and then found alive. now years later, she is on the stand being able to recount that nightmare and her testimony is today's talker. it's powerful. and we'll talk about it straight ahead. [ male announcer ] introducing listerine® zero™.

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well, take a look at what's making news cross country right now. snow mass village, north dakota. what crews found this weekend may change the reputation. scientists dug up what they

believe is the skull and horns of a gigantic bison from the ice age. they thought it was a mastedon. our next stop, palm beach garden, florida. shoppers thought they saw lady gaga with a personal security detail and everything. it turns out the lookalike was part of a training exercise for mall security. there's nothing like a personalized thank you. as these eighth graders at the lady of mercy school in rhode island found out. ten marines fresh from afghanistan came to thank the class for letters, poems and well wishes they had been mailing to the troops. well, elizabeth smart's very name synonymous with kidnapping, missing and victim. she's the poster child for a parent's worst nightmare. she made national head loons in 2002 when a man snatched her out of her bedroom, took her out in the middle of the nowhere in utah and raped her daily. she was 14 at the time. elizabeth emerged from the

walking nightmare nine months later alive and now she's testifying against her kidnapper. no one's denying the horrible things that brian david mitchell did to her. the issue is was he insane when he did it? jean casarez is following the trial in salt lake city and, jean, after talking to you this morning, i can just imagine what it was like to sit in that courtroom and watch her testify for the first time in front of a jury. >> you know, kyra, i sat there yesterday. her first day of testimony. i said this is it. i'm sitting here watching elizabeth smart, a surviving victim, testify before a jury. well, she was very soft spoken. she looked at the jury. it was like she was just telling them the story step by step. she'd look at the federal prosecutor. she was thoughtful and dlib ratd. she never said i don't know. she always knew the answer. i've got to show you this, kyra. this is the headline of "the

salt lake tribune." no matter what it took i would survive. kyra, she said that in the bedroom that night, brian david mitchell came in with a knife saying if you say anything, you're going to be killed and your family's going to be killed. she said he took her to her closet and said, get shoes. the sturdiest you have. she said she was led out of the home with a knife to her throat. she said that then they started walking up the mountains. and it took three to five hours to get to the camp where wanda barzee was and said if she tried to get away she would be killed and sexual assaulting her, she said, i'm just a little girl and she said it didn't matter and that was the beginning of her nightmare. >> my guess is reporters covering this story, probably pretty much everybody that's been in that room listening to

this and has watched her do various interviews over the past number of months are all sitting back, we are sitting back and saying to ourselves, this is an incredibly strong, young woman. she was so strong as she had to endure such a -- just horrific treatment. but just how she is talking about this so calmly and remembering everything in such a precise way, you tend to wonder, you know, where this strength came from and how long it's going to last. >> this is what i think. this is what i see in the courtroom. i see her testifying about an elizabeth smart that went through so many things eight years ago. she's not that person right now on the stand. she is describing what happened to that person. i think she has separated herself from the actual events. it's been eight years but she knows what she went through. she said it was indescribable horror. that's how she described it and

she is reliving it to a point on that stand. >> what do you think is going to happen to this man? listening to the crimes that he committed and then reading how he said that he had planned for months to make her his wife in a celestial plural marriage and he was singing hymns in the courtroom. >> right. well, there's two sides to every story. there's the insanity defense. i looked at the federal guidelines. it is not over until it's over. the defense is saying that he is not to be criminally responsible because he didn't appreciate the criminality of the acts. god was asking him to do this. he wanted a number of wives. he couldn't get them so he decided he would have to kidnap a young girl in order to get one but they're saying he didn't know that right from wrong. >> wow. she's an incredibly strong, young woman and it's been pretty amazing to watch her testify. and i know it's touched you

deeply. jean casarez, appreciate you joining us from salt lake this morning. >> you're welcome. >> be right back. lifts her calf to its firstshe breath of air, then protects it on the long journey to their feeding grounds. one of the most important things you can do is help the next generation. at pacific life, we offer financial solutions to accomplish just that. ask a financial professional about pacific life. the power to help you succeed.

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all right. big credit card bills, looming foreclosure. for many americans, this is still their reality. it should come as no surprise that bankruptcy is becoming more and more common. alison kosik, it is like the daily bad news hit with you. i'm sorry. >> oh, god, you know what? i talked about this. i hate being debbie downer. it isn't good. 1.5 million people filed between last september and this september, i'm talking about

filing for bankruptcy. the number's been going up since the recession began and doubled in just four years. here's what's interesting about this. because of the recession, there's a change in how people view it. bankruptcy doesn't necessarily come with that horrid scarlet letter and it is one of the sound business decisions, you know, similar to foreclosure. but you know? you can't take something like this lightly. bankruptcy stays on the credit score seven to ten years and that, of course, limits your financial flexibility. kyra? >> expecting from the stock market today? >> yeah, don't expect any huge moves today, kyra. investigat investors say they're playing it safe ahead of the g-20 meeting. commodity prices are -- gold at $122 an ounce. oil at a two-year high above $87 a barrel, probably going to

translate into higher gas prices soon. if it hasn't already. as for stocks, kind of a flat open. we are slightly lower on the dow jones industrials average. the nasdaq is slightly higher. back the you. >> thanks. half past the hour now. time for other stories that had us talking this morning. president obama in indonesia, the country where he spent some of his childhood years. it's the second stop of president obama's ten-day tour of asia. and former president george w. bush breaking the silence. his long-awaited memoir in bookstores today deals with the controversial elements of the presidency and says the low point of the administration came in the hurricane katrina disaster. from london to laredo, video gamers lining up for call of duty: black ops. a military shooter game went on sale at midnight. that duty sold 4.7 million copies in just the first day.

well, football at any level is all about sound and fury, bodies slamming, wills being tested and makes this play so remarkable. if you didn't see it, here you go. the middle school quarterback takes the snap, casually saunt erps through the defensive line and then bolts for the end zone. the trick play is good for six points and nearly 2.5 million hits on youtube. john roberts had a chance to talk with the coach that plotted the play and the player that pulls it off. he joins us with the "a.m. extra." it was the coach's idea and what did the players think? did they think they could pull it off? >> it was actually the assistant coach's idea. john de los santos. he said this is something i did in the seventh grade and it worked and pitched to the team. they were in the championship game in the fourth quarter. they're down by six points.

all they need is a touchdown. and then two-point conversion gets you the lead to probably hang on to so he says to the quarterback jason garza, draw them off side for a penalty which is a five-yard penalty but i'm going to pretend it should be a ten-yard penalty and just before the snap, i'll tell you to add another five yards to the penalty. so jason garza is there ready to take the snap and from the sidelines the coach says, jason, move it up another five yards. so the center gives him a side arm, side snap. jason counts off five yards. saying the coach, i do what? walk it up fooifd yards here and now that i have the five yards, i go for the end zone. the lines men on the side were in on it. where are you going here, jason? i asked jason and the coach what they were thinking when he was walking through the line and saw it. here's what he said. >> i don't know. it was just a rush. of adrenaline.

it was fun. i had a blast doing it. i didn't think i was going to get very far but i -- it turned out to be a touchdown. >> you were thinking executing the play, oh my gosh i'll walk through the line without protection? they'll kill me. >> that's what i was thinking at first. that's what was running through my mind the whole time. >> practicing the play, we even said, there's going to be two results of the play. either jason is hit really hard by a line backer or safety or he is going to get a first down or touchdown and for us thank goodness it was the latter. >> all right. and apparently the other team was surprised that the play was even legal, right? >> yeah. well, apparently it is. and going back, this is not the first time this happened because going to call on pam there for the hour as a producer. a couple of minutes ago, i found this. i don't know where it is. middle school. lakeland versus heartland.

watch this. they line up for the snap. there's the quarterback. watch. now, the quarterback will get the handoff. another side snap from the center and goes -- >> hi, how are you doing? >> something's wrong with the ball. i have to ask you a question. walking here and everybody's kind of looking around. watch this. goes for the end zone. >> okay. so you know what? >> this is not new. >> not a new trick. he had a different method there. that's different. we should find all the various trick plays. >> some question over the legality of that play was the quarterback communicating falsely with somebody on the sidelines? to create a deception. that's in question but apparently the other play, the one in texas, because the instruction was coming from the sideline, that didn't constitute bad sportsmanship and as far as we know it was all legal. >> guys. kids are so clever or the coaches. i love he remembered it from the seventh grade year. that was amazing. fun. thanks, john. sales of e-books reaches

nearly $1 billion so are books headed the way of the phone booth? josh levs joining me. so josh, look at the kindle and the other types of -- computers to kindle to even our iphones, there goes, you know, the old newspaper and the book. >> yeah. >> and what we're used to. >> it's a huge change in a massive industry. one of the big questions is whether the united states is going to stay at the forefront on this. worldwide. let me show you why everyone's talking about this right now. because this brand-new figure. close to a billion dollars. $966 million in e-book sales expected to take place this year. and take a look at where we're going by 2015. $3 billion in e-book sales from a researcher who's at forester research that wrote about this on paidcontent.org and it could ultimately be a sign of the times and what he's saying is not only are we having the billions of dollars in sales but

it could be even faster than that as new types of e-readers develop. right now as you were saying, we have the kindle. very popular out of amazon and one of barnes & noble and the analysis says the book business may be the most digital of all the media that there are. in fact, digital could be the new default within just four or five years from now. which means publishers start to focusing on these far before they would even start to think about publishing actually good old books with supplement them. it's a question of what we'll use to teach our kids. this is two more things that show when's going on. 7% of online adults that read books read e-books. doesn't look that like much. look at this. just the people out there who have e-readers and more and more people are getting them, 66% of the time they're choosing to read their books digitally instead of in the classic old

american way of holding the books in the hands and especially this younger generation's grow up having learned to read digitally. good old books might be a thing of the past. kind of like with newspapers and magazines and hearing from you on this. i have conversations on facebook and twitter. and it's interesting, kyra, what people are saying about what they'd miss about the current books and what is good about them. what is convenient about them and some ways environmental friendly and looking forward to hearing that. upshot is this year if this is right, probably is, looking at a billion dollars in e-book sales showing you how fast that industry exploded. >> so the day of the library card and, you know, going with the buddies to check out a few books is over. >> might go the way of blockbuster. i know. these days press a few buttons and get it faster. >> bummer. where do we go to find peace and quiet and really nice librarian that helped you out? >> i know. we need peace gardens around the country now. >> there you go.

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did you see the president and first lady dancing in india? michelle, she is so great with kids. she loves children. here she is. take a look. here she is. got some moves there. looks good. having fun. but, you know, president obama, he is a very competitive guy. did you see him a little later? here, show him outside.

♪ one move. that one move. that's -- okay, paul steinhauser, let's see your move. key up a little music here. give us your moves. >> you don't want to see me dancing. just ask my wife. >> no? we don't want to see your big moves? >> nah. i'll talk about -- yeah. i don't want you to lose any viewers over my dancing moves. let's talk about politics a. guy that republicans think has some moves and that is chris christie. this is my only move walking around here. chris christie, the governor of new jersey. speculation of whether he'll run for the white house in 2012, kyra. he is pushing back big time saying, no, not interested in doing it and a new poll this morning indicates that people in the home state agree with him. they say that they like him,

doing a good i don't know in office and don't want him to run for governor so, i mean, for president which is a much bigger thing than governor, obviously. brand new on the cnn political ticker. check it out. another person keeping our eyes on, maybe running for the white house, there's a huge list, getting bigger, add george pa a pataki of that list. he thought of 2008. he didn't do it. comments to abc news yesterday indicating maybe, maybe he wants to run in 2012. we'll keep an eye on all of these guys. two years away. the clock is ticking, kyra. >> you know, about how much money was spent to attack nancy pelosi during the midterms? >> a lot of money. a lot. let me give you some numbers. brand-new numbers of campaign media analysis group, doing analysis of the groups from the beginning of the year through the midterm elections. record breaking. more than $65 million spent on ads attacking the house speaker. 161,000 ads ran. the whole idea by republicans

was to try to tie democratic candidates to the house speaker. why? because polls suggested nancy pelosi is not well liked by most americans. our recent numbers before the election indicated 1 in 4 people had a favorable opinion of here. record breaking money and ads tying democrats to nancy pelosi. i guess in a way successful because, of course, the republicans as of right now picked up 60 house seats. a lot of seats. kyra? >> by the way, when did you pick up the new neon sign behind your head there? >> nice. isn't that -- come on up. we'll tap the keg later. >> you used to hang signs like that in your bedroom in the eighth grade. remember that? cool. hips the place up. thanks, paul. you can go to our website 24/7, cnnpolitics.com. "parker spitzer" is looking for the news that affects you every night and last night it was

suggestion of thinking outside the box coming to fixing the economy. >> all these temporary measures, frankly trying to pump back up the economy in various ways to be more like it was in 2007, it's not going to work because the consumer is maxed out. businesses are wary. they went through the worst credit bubble of -- since the 1930s. >> right. >> so there's a part of me thinks really we should accept a tough few years an entry to build an economy for the long term and don't keep trying these gimmicks. as i say, the end of the day i understand what the fed is doing. i don't think it triggers inflation and the real answer is build a new economy. >> "parker spitzer" every night 8:00 p.m. eastern. rio de janeiro may have carnival but may no longer lay claim to the world's largest jesus statue. the explanation and more in our "morning passport." first, flashback, november 9th, 1962.

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all right, today's morning passport requires you to buckle down and brace yourself. we begin in rural, eastern poland where residents got a rude awaken when two freight trains loaded with petroleum collide and go up in a flash. engineers of both trains survived with minor injuries. next stop, germen, the protest of the german government's policy on accepting nuclear waste. as many as 4,000 demonstrators showed up and tried to turn back the shipments with passive resistance, lying down in the road to block the trucks.

german police eventually arrested all of the protesters. back to poland. if you don't think jesus is big in the catholic country. watch this. they just unveiled the largest jesus statue in the world. the local priests say the memorial is the culmination of his life's work. it's set to be consecrated later this month. let's check in with stephanie elam. >> guess what? thanksgiving is going on a diet. i'll tell you what americans are giving up in the next hour. >> that's not right. i'm rob marciano in the cnn severe weather center. it's unusually warm across the midsection of the country. storms roll across the west and the storm in the eastern part of the country won't go away. rob, maybe you want this. junk food could be the secret weapon in your next diet.

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♪ bust it that's right. give me the grand entrance. give it to me. c'mon, obama danced in india. you can give me a bust a move. >> did you see that dance? that was barely a dance. how are you? >> does it take you back to the '80s? >> what, "bust a move." >> sugar hill gang, i'm going to bring that back. >> hip hop, don't stop rocking till -- what about the trickery. forget the middle school trickery. here we go, steelers. their receiver, antoine randalle. he tosses a 39-yard touchdown pass and pittsburgh beats

cincinnati. were they watching the middle schoolers? >> yeah. everybody's got a bushel basket full of trick plays. you have your own? >> i have all kinds of tricks in my hat. i'm like a magician pulling things out of the black hat. >> roethlisberger, quarterback of the steelers has handled himself pretty well on his return after a messy couple of months. he needs to, and he's done a good job. you know what i wanted to bring you this morning? >> you being the tennis fiend that you are. >> you as well. >> i played with you and you smoke me. >> we played together and you're really, really good. >> i was laid up for 48 hours after playing with you and the boys. >> it's going to be a while before we play again? >> my feet still ache. >> i want to bring you one of the classiest acts in all of sports. he's a tennis guy, roger federer. over the weekend, he won his

65th professional tennis tournament. that puts him ahead of pete sampras, an all-time great. there he is. tennis may not be the sport in the united states that it was in the days of mcenroe and connors and agassi, but it is still a huge global sport, and he is the epitome of class and at 29 years old, he continues to beat the kids. >> at 29, he's considered old. >> in this game, he's considered old. he is a guy with wife and twins. hello. >> we love those twins, yes, we do. >> any news. >> i'm feeding them now, five months in. hopefully they'll be as good as federer. >> they will be do well if they're's as good as you are. one more thing, tiger woods would go back to -- some would say the scene of the crime. >> i hope my kids don't turn out

like tiger woods, although good golfers would be good. >> melbourne, australia, site of the australian masters. he won that last year. this was the location where all of the seedy underwere belly of tiger's life began to become exposed. remember that. it was rachel who was photographed in the hotel where he was staying. i don't recall seeing a photograph of them together in australia. >> apparently they had a nice little get away, end of story. >> later in the month, we know what happens, two irons, everything else, cars, accidents, effect else. but this is the -- >> but he's still getting paid millions of bucks to do appearances here? >> he is getting an appearance fee. it's a healthy one, and the other bit, folks have been warned, spectators have been warned if you heckle tiger, you

will be bounced from the event immediately. >> why? he deserves it. >> hopefully a better 2011 for tiger. >> maybe he ought to bust a move. >> pretty good 2011 for you, lady. >> i'm working on it. tony harris, ladies and gentlemen, he has the big play. not a big player but he has the big play. bust a move, t. >> there you go. that's sports. >> what a way to roll in the 10:00 hour. here are the stories that have us talking this morning. president obama in indonesia, country where he spent some of his childhood years. the visit may be cut short this morning. mcdonald's happy meals for a generation, the staple of american childhood. today it could be outlawed. san francisco board of supervisors voting on banning the fast food icon. they say they use the toys to entice kids into food that's bad for them.

chew on this -- junk food could be the secret weapon in your next diet. this college profession says he lost weight and improved his health eating twinkies and little debbies and lots of calorie counting. >> a week ago democrats went down in flames at the polls, and today they are meeting to begin the process of taking over the house of representatives. among the challenges, the gop has to decide how to treat all of the tea party winners and whether they'll have a seat in the leadership. brianna keilar is on capitol hill. what's going on with this? >> reporter: these are interesting pictures that you're seeing here. this is the gop transition team. they just had this meeting, and they are dealing with a lot of housekeeping issues and also important things, like how long does a bill get put online so lawmakers and the general public can read them? you see these folks on the screen. the folks on the left, you probably don't know who they

are. why? because they're new, the incoming republican freshman and they are seated prominently there because they're being showcased. this is what republicans are doing. they're trying to say we are putting the new members out there, giving them a seat at the table. the new members aligned with the tea party, giving them a voice, and, kyra, one of the ways they're doing this is sources tell us the gop leadership in the house are going to add a leadership position for one of these incoming freshman aligned with the tea party, and this is something that doesn't really happen very often, so that when we do see these press conferences every week, like we do with the gop and democratic leadership, we're going to be seeing one of these tea party members, and at this point, we understand there's a south dakota representative, kristi noem that she is interested from this position and has backing from gop leadership. there has to be an election but this is how it is playing out. >> what do we know about kristi

noem? we don't know a lot about her. she was supposed to be on "american morning" this morning and couldn't make it. >> kristi noem is the mother of three. she ran a really interesting race because she's seen as a very charismatic politician, and she ran a very interesting and contentious race against a very charismatic democrat, and she was able to win. she's seen as someone who is articulate and someone who could kind of come in here and see her star rise, and if republicans, republican leaders, were to give her a seat at the leadership table, assuming that freshman republicans sign off on it, it could be important because we have a woman at the table and one of these brand new republican leaders aligned with the tea party. it would let them check a lot of boxes if it plays out that way. >> we'll track it.

well, children as young as 12 years of age forced into prostitution, and this morning hope for dozens of them. a crackdown on child sex trafficking resulted in hundreds of arrests. police recovered 69 kids, more than a dozen in eyalt. 884 people were arrested. they talked about the kids that were saved. >> not adult women in control of their lives, but girls who were moved about and used for sex so that others could profit. >> in tennessee, 29 men and women, many legal immigrants from somalia are acaused of taking part in this prostitution ring. an assistant attorney general is out of the job because he targeted an openly gay college student. andrew shirvell engaged in

border line stalking behavior and lied to investigators. he was accused of targets chris armstrong on line and in person. you remember former bp chief executive tony hayward. he tells the bbc that bp was not prepared for the gulf oil disaster. he says he would still be on the job if the first efforts at killing the deepwater horizon well on the first try had been successful. he was removed as ceo, and he told the bbc the contingency plans were inadequate and they were making it up day to day. what was going on was extraordinary engineering but when it all played out in the full glare of the media, it looked like fumbling and incompetence. those of you in new england, you better hold onto your hat, the wind is picking up. rob marciano will give us the rundown on what's happening

across the country. >> they had winds yesterday. still breezy in new england and the rain just now beginning to lighten up a little bit. there's the old curlicue. here's your low and things beginning to wind down across cape cod. martha's vineyard is starting to dry out. damage is it done in places like portland, maine, where winds gusted over 60 miles an an hour yesterday. certainly enough to take down tree limbs and even big trees, and that took down power lines. at one point, 60,000 folks without power up there, and the power crews out and about trying to get the nasty situation fixed. we had not only the winds but the rain, and couple that with temperatures in the upper 30s. not good stuff. billings to denver, another storm rolling through utah getting into the inner mountain west and rocky mountains. could see 6 to 12 inches of fresh powder.

12 to 20 once this is all said and done and we have another storm coming into the pacific northwest. rain in seattle expected there. look at the warmth in kansas city and 75 in dallas. 68 degrees as far north as sbhips chicago. if that's not tennis -- i heard you and tony playing tennis together. >> i'm not going to tell you what i called it. it was like boot camp. not only is he tough but the kw guys he plays with are tough. playing with some little girl that plays in the wnbap. >> play big or go home. >> that's my moat toe. did you watch conan? you were probably fast asleep. >> i will watch it on dvr. >> this is like the biggest thing. he's paid more than larry king. you better watch. >> really? >> i don't know.

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i have two words for you. basic cable. >> basic cable? >> conan, i think you'll find our terms very attractive. >> i think we have a deal. >> well, nothing like larry king as a guardian angel, huh? after ten months of being off the air, conan o'brien launched his late night show on tbs. a.j. hammer is joining us. did he live up to the hype, and do you think he is getting paid less? >> much, much less. all kinds of reports about that. he's been off the air for a while but it's home to him. it's what he does. i thought it was terrific. the reviews have been great. he really is back to his old style and a lot of reviews

reflecting that, and the feeling he never left. headlines, stronger, more self-assured conan, looser, goofier conan. like he never left. i think he's off to a terrific start. >> he's still got the big hair. he kept the big peacock in front even though he's not with nbc. >> yeah. he says there's nothing he can do about that hair. >> here's the big question, a.j. can he rival david her man and jay leno to be the new king of late night? >> that remains to be seen but people think the time slot being on earlier will help him out and his fan base, team coco they're called, were supporting him, using twitter. that became his greatest asset, and even david letterman talking about his new competition. he said about will:30 in the middle of the show.

he said right about now conan is halfway through his first shows, and everything is going fine. no signs of foul play yet. i need to move on to another show, the monster hit "dancing with the stars" going strong as bristol palin is speaking out, and trying to survive the competition. they did this downright sexy tango. i want to you take a look at what bristol and mark told us after the big dance about trying to keep hope alive and what mama sarah has been saying. >> i had a blast doing the tango. i felt like it was intense and powerful. >> i saw sarah, and tripp, and sara has encouraging words to say which is awesome. >> bristol will find out if she

survived again. a lot of people say a vote for bristol is really a vote for sarah. there is a general consensus she is not the best dancer in the bunch. i'm not saying anything that hasn't been said before. >> there always has to be a political twist. >> how about you? can you tango, a.j.? >> won't even try. >> can you west coast swing? give me something. >> i can salsa. >> you can salsa? >> i can eat salsa. >> a.j., we love having you in the more than. appreciate it. we want to see more of bristol and everything else breaking in the entertainment world, watch a.j.'s show. monday's episode of "oprah," the children of the late king of pop spoke about their beloved father, not the performer but the doting parent that few of us really knew. >> i felt like no one understood

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"hillary clinton" wouldn't make you blurt out words like warm you can sweet, delicate. >> i suppose i could have stayed home and bake cookies and have teas. i'm not sitting here some little woman standing by my man. >> that cost her some warm and fuzzy points during the 2008 presidential campaigns. remember this. >> i was fighting against those ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor res co-in his slum landlord business in inner city kraug chicago. >> you don't probably think about the secretary as a laugh line, either. conan's job is probably safe from hillary clinton but check out the interview she did with a comedy duo in australia who

talked with her during her diplomatic trip down under and unleashed the fun-loving, jokey hillary clinton. >> we start way gift. it's potato chips or crisps. it's the gravy chip. >> i'm thrilled. can i tell you how much this means to me. >> are you a collector of chips? >> i'm an eater of chips. >> we recommend not. if you try to eat them, it's an assassination attempt by us. >> should i wait until i'm out of australian air space. >> with a lot of foreign travel in your job, you must get very good at accepting gifts. >> i do. >> and making believe thank you love them like this. >> usually, it is a very happy expression on one's face. now, sometimes the gifts are had to do that with. >> have you ever left one behind? >> no, no, we take them all. we do thank you notes.

you will get a thank you note for this. >> not necessary. consider us thanked. >> she has a lighter side. let's talk about it with the writer of politics for "the washington post". what did you think? >> if you asked me two years ago, would barack obama be down in the polls, and hillary clinton a comic genius, i would say, low odds on that. she is coming into her own. she is outpolling her boss. she's the one bright spot in the administration. she is lightening up, and more comfortable in her own skin and she was outright funny and parts of that video and i found for the first time i was chuckling with hillary clinton rather than chuckling at her. >> were you surprised she went on this show? >> it was a little bit unusual. i wouldn't be surprised to see her do more of that. he is in a position now where she can lighten up a little bit.

you saw president obama go on "the daily show," and it didn't work out well because he has to answer tough questions about why didn't you achieve thus and such. hillary clinton can comment on gravy chips, and it seems like everyone on tv and either wrestling or wearing bikinis. >> she references the kardashians. a second on that. why do you think we're seeing this lighter side? is it because she's been up against such a popular husband for so long that she's felt like she's maybe needed to be the complete opposite of him and now she's, you know, she's doing well? there's even people talking about her possibly running for president once again. >> right, right. >> what do you think happened? what was the change? >> i think it's that the spotlight, the pressure has always been on her. she was always performing,

whether during her husband's administration or for the voters as a senator or as a presidential candidate and she was painfully earnest, and when she did try to use a joke like the one she said about bringing obama a pillow, it came across as canned and akward and she's reached a point where she does not have to stand for re-election in two years. if she's going to run for president, it's a long way down the road. so instead of being tightly managed, she's there reading the stage directions out, talking about what she actually thinks when she gets these dumb gifts from world leaders. >> that's right. they will get a thank you note for the potato chips. you brought up the bikini. they brought up the kardashian reality show. she says if you look at american tv as much as the world does, you would think we all went around wrestling and wearing bikinis. that's what would you think we

do, right? who thought we would hear secretary of state hillary clinton mentioning the kardashians? >> i wouldn't expect it at all but if you continue watching the show. right after she gets off, one of the hosts is attempting to do some pole dancing. this is pretty edgy for an american secretary of state but i expect as it goes viral on the web she perhaps will be attempting to carry her comedy routine into other steps of the secretary of state. >> definitely a different side to the secretary of state. love reading your stuff in "the washington post." thanks for joining us. they called him barry, a far cry from the commander in chief we know today. a look at president obama from the eyes of childhood friends in indonesia. ordinary rubs don't always work on my arthritis.

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they want to scale back. second thanksgiving in a row they are scaling back according to first command. first, they are celebrating with just the immediate family, they're happens not going over to aunt marge or uncle bill. staying closer to home, less traveling. people cutting back on what's going to be on the dinner table. this one cracks me up because it's too expensive to have thanksgiving at our house, so let's go to someone else's house for dinner, and serving a potluck, having everyone do that. 2% of people going out to dinner, and 1% of people are canceling thanksgiving altogether. now that, that is wrong, kyra. you need thanksgiving in your life. it's good. if you think about it, the economy is rough. you need the merriment of your family and friends turnd keep you going through it, right? >> amen. nothing better than good conversation, family, friends and good food. do the potluck thing. have everybody bring something. that's the easy answer, right?

>> it seems to me the easy answer. still one house, but most people, get the kids to pitch in and clean the dishes up. that's what we had to do. kids have to do the kitchen detail. >> i don't know if your little simone is going to be able to do the dishes yet. google, free holiday gift? >> maybe if you are one of the people who is traveling, this is good for you for the holidays. free wi-fi service on select domestic flights for people flying on airtran, delta and virgin america's flights, free wi-fi from november 20th through january 2nd. that's the window. they partnered with go go, who offers the most inflight wireless service. this will be on 700 planes and 15 million people will take advantage of this free service. you may remember last year google was offering free service in dozens of airports around the

country. they are not doing that again and they worked with virgin america last year and they saw an uptick and people like that. if you are on the west coast and live on the east coast, not bad to have something to do on the flight. >> you can handle a lot of business in four hours. we were reading about the wi-fi in the sky, is it safe and secure? >> oh, right. this is something that comes up a lot. basically, if you are going to surf the web and see what's out there, check out your facebook page or send a tweet or two. i know you don't do that, but for someone who may want to do that, that's cool and fine, but if you are sharing the personal data make sure you are logging onto your personal site because it's easy for people to make something look like your hot spot. if you see an "s" after the http, you're safe.

>> thanks. half past the hour. a cruise ship stranded off the coast of mexico after an engine room fire shut down most of the power system. the fire broke out yesterday morning aboard the carnival splendor about 150 miles south of san diego. 3300 people are aboard the ship without air conditioning, flushing toilets and hot food. junk food could be the secret weapon to your next diet. one college professor said he lost weight, improved his heart health with twinkies and little debbies and calorie counting. people lining up to buy call of duty: block ops. this call of duty game sold 4.6 million copies just the first day. minutes ago, we learned president obama is going to cut his visit short in jakarta,

indonesia. they are citing concerns that the ash from mount merapi could ground air force one. it has been more than just a return to the country where he spent several of his childhood years. he was reaching out to muslims in the world's largest majority muslim nation. >> our efforts have been earnest, sustained, and we don't expect that we are going to completely eliminate some of the misunderstandings and mistrust that have developed over a long period of time, but we do think that we're on the right path. >> earlier today, president obama reflected on just how much indonesia has changed since he arrived there as a grade schooler in 1967. his former classmates are marveling at how much barry obama has changed himself.

suzanne malveaux has their story. >> reporter: when barack obama lived in jakarta, indonesia, he was barry, the big kid with the big smile, always running around with the neighborhood boys. >> running and bicycle. this was his friend who lived around the corner from obama's first home. >> very, very energetic boy. >> reporter: his first nous jakarta, where he lived for three years is largely hidden behind concrete. they're paving the street now? >> yeah. >> reporter: for his arrival, yes? >> i think so. >> reporter: for the last 40 years, a dirt road leading to obama's home. now a makeover with friendly neighbors eager to see the 6-year-old who grew up to become the american president. just down the street is. obama's first elementary school, a catholic school. >> pray for us. >> reporter: obama's first grade teacher remembers a sweet kid

who helped her erase the black board. >> his mother took him to school every day. she walked him to the front gate. obama was a good listener. >> reporter: she likes to thinks is success has something to do with his indonesian experience. >> it comes from the neighborhood. it was a small area but full of diversity. that might affect his personality as a president. >> reporter: when his family moved into a more upscale neighborhood, he moved to the basooki school that during the u.s. presidential campaign some people labeled as a radical muslim school. his classmates here say he stood out. she was a boy scout, couldn't stand kids who cheefted in sports, and he could hold his own. i under he was teased because he looked different? >> yes. some of the kids teased him, but he liked to tease, also. >> reporter: four years living

in indonesia, and everyone who knew bar pri has a story to tell. this boy has a story about a fight over a toy gun. >> he lifted me very high and dropped me. >> reporter: if you see him, are you going to remind him he picked up you up and dropped you. >> yes. >> reporter: still hurting? well, unfortunately, the people who were hoping to see president obama during his visit will likely not see him. he is only scheduled to be on the ground for less than 24 hours, and now with the erupting volcano, the president's trip will be cut short about two hours or so. many of obama's friends i talked with really wanted to see him but also the first lady and sasha and mall lea to see them. they say it might happen next

year when he attends the east asian summit. >> we were ribbing on you showing you were a new orleans girl calling it a shotgun house. we had to explain it to those e-mailing saying, what is a shotgun house. we got it fixed up there, new orleans house. >> straight through the house, shotgun. >> exactly. thanks a lot. eati ining twinkies and los weight. sounds outrageous, wrong and possible. sounds like a vending machine urban legend but one smart professor says he did it, and we're talking to him next.

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>> that's your clue we are talking about twinkies, and zingers and little debbies. a kansas state professor said he ate that stuff every day and lost 27 pounds. >> how could a person polish off this stuff and actually lose weight. nothing against duncan hines family style brownies or doritos, but aren't we told to avoid this stuff? let's talk to the guy who claims that the so-called twinkie diet worked for him. he's a nutrition professor, not just some crazy guy that tried this diet. mark hobb joins us from kansas. i see all of these postgraduate degrees that you have in exercise and medicine. didn't this diet seem counterintuitive to you? >> it's definitely counterintuitive and that's why i wanted to take it on as a

class project to give the students a live look at metabolism in action. >> so, it was obviously an interesting experiment to take on, but explain to me how this would possibly work and be good for you -- or maybe i should say how did it work? because i think we know it's not good for you with all of the sugar and fat and calories. >> yeah. those are the two primary principles that we touched on in class. . if we decrease caloric intake, weight loss should incur. that was the easy part the. the other part, the health aspect was the unexpected outcome. as you noted, the sucrose sugar, high fructose syrup are supposed to increase the health markers and in my case it did the opposite. >> you lost the weight, but how did you feel? did you feel zapped of energy

and just gross eating all of this stuff? >> day one was the toughest. i have done low carbohydrate and low fat and the first day, it was one of those things i didn't know if i would make it through the weekend but i started on a wednesday. by friday morning, when i woke up friday morning, i felt fine and normal. since then, i think with the weight loss, sleep apnea and senatoring-related issues have decreased which has enhanced quality of life and energy levels. so it may not be directly related to the food i'm eating but due to the weight loss. >> in lehman's terms, because i'm looking at your degrees here, i'm trying to comprehend the breakdown and how your body responds as you eat all of this stuff. but in lehman's terms explain how you could eat so much shul gar and fat and still lose

weight. >> i think the issue, the definition and terms is used so much. it's not so much. i would keep my snacks to about 400 to 500 calories and have four of them. so it's a twinkie or a snack cake, a zebra cake, what have you, and a glass of milk with a multi vitamin once or twice a day and throw in some caters, celery or tomatoes for added nutrients. it's not the amount of cash hide drits i was consuming but the amount of fat, although the content is high, the actual amount on a daily basis is lower than what i was consuming as well. so as an overall 24-hour nutrient intake, the numbers decreased. i was just eating too much. i was eating good things but eating too many. >> got ya. so you could eat less good things and throw in a little

garbage and yush's going to be okay? >> i think we're trying to remove all of the bad things out of people's diets when maybe a few of the bad things may have positive effects mentally or socially to allow us to feel a little better. you talked on your show about thanksgiving dinner. i totally agree. that's coming around the corner, and the positive mental aspects may be as important as some of the physical as respects if you remove some of those things. >> now i see where your psychology degree comes into play. >> touche. >> it all makes sense now. as you can imagine, we got a lot of responses to the junk food diet, and josh levs has been getting all kinds of feedback on twitter. what are folks saying. now he clarified it a little bit. he did have healthy food in there. >> it sounds like the lessen here is learn portion control rather than stuff yourself with

the twinkies as much. as you can. just because he didn't gain weight doesn't mean his arteries aren't clogged because of his decision. junk food is not healthy. let's look at another tweet here. i don't doubt the weight loss from junk food but he will prematurely die due to lack of proper nutrients. he won't because he knows what he were doing but if someone were to only eat twinkies, you can imagine through would go. twinkies and little debbies, give that guy the nobel prize. twinkie diets is as wises a using cocaine as a panacea to all medical ailments. we know better, they didn't. keep them coming. >> lighten up over this. >> because of you. we all want to hear from you. go to my twitter page. to save i. don't want to deal with a lot of flibbity-flab or mumbo-jumbo.

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california governor swarz swarz arnold schwarzenegger is raising eyebrows. you knew that was going to get attention. >> definitely. it's getting a whole lot of attention on the political ticker. outgoing governor arnold schwarzenegger said quote no one cares if you smoke a joint or not. he's talking about proposition 19, which would have legalized the recreational use of marijuana. he didn't actually back it and said it went too far and was

written badly. here's another story on the ticker. this has to do with darryl issa. he will be the thorn in the side of the obama administration. he is back pedaling from some comment he is made on rush limbaugh's show where he said that obama is one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times. he was talking to wolf blitzer last night and said that he doesn't think obama is personally corrupt but his point is when you have hundreds of billions of dollars in stimulus money, that allows a president to make favors. he certainly was back pedaling. >> republicans getting set to take over the house, and they're sure making the tea party -- bringing up the tea party voice, rather. can you update us on that? >> reporter: we're seeing a lot of this. this will be on the ticker soon

cupping from our veteran hill producer. she's working on a story as we speak. the gop transition team is gearing up to take over the house of representativess, and they had a meeting this morning. you can see the pictures, they speak volumes. that's greg walden in charge of the group but the others are new, incoming republican freshman. some of them associated with the tea party. the message here, the republicans are paying very much attention to the tea party, trying to give them a seat at the table, kyra. >> all right, brianna keilar on capitol hill. thanks. we'll have your next political update in about an hour and you can always go to cnnpolitics.com. [ male announcer ] it's a rule of nature.

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