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the week's news from the man called the new mr. las vegas. you're in the cnn newsroom. i'm fredricka whitfield. first up, congress returns to capitol hill tomorrow for a hectic lame duck session. they're jam-packed to do list includes a possible vote on repealing the don't ask don't tell policy on gays in the military. kate baldwin joins us from washington. this is a heated battle, largely along party lines. how likely will it be that there is a vote held this year? >> reporter: the lame duck session is only a few weeks long, and because of that, democrats are not likely to take up many of the more controversial measures that are still out there, that they still haven't dealt with, and that includes the repeal of military's don't ask don't tell policy banning gays from is serving openly in the military. listen to the state of the union today. texas republican senator corwin

and they're talking about the chances. >> sounds like a no on don't sg don't tell. >> jonk there's a lot of time and appetite to jam stuff through. the president said he wants to pass a new start treaty in a lame duck session. i don't see that happening. >> senator warner. >> i'm glad to see the pentagon finished its study, and it looks like they'll say we can change this policy. i support changing the policy and changing the policy will not affect military readiness. that pentagon study and report is very important. >> they don't seem very confident it will come up in the lame duck session, but that report that senator warren is talking about is due out after december 1st. it's part of the comprehensive review working groups, that's the name of the group mission to determine the impact on the potential repeal of the policy on military readiness and effectiveness and recruiting and retention. so it's a big report everyone is waiting to see. at the same time, the legal

challenge to the military policy is working through the courts. bottom line, fredricka, it doesn't sound likely we'll see much if any movement on this issue of don't ask don't tell by the end. year when the new congress comes in. >> kate baldwin, thanks so much in washington. that brings us to this. is the mccain couple at odds on this very issue? senator john mccain is responding to comments made by his wife cindy on a gay rights ad. mccain wants to wait for a pentagon review. in that newly released ad cindy mccain said our political and religious leaders tell the youth they can't serve our country openly, end quote. senator mccain says he respects the first amendment right of all his family members, mrs. mccain later clarified her position saying while she supports the ad campaign, she stands by her husband's stance on dadt. president barack obama is

back in washington after wrapping up a four-nation tour of asia. on the trip home he told reporters that he plans to redouble his efforts to get back to the core principles the american people want, like maintaining a bipartisan tone and targeting earmarks. at the closing session of the apec summit while in japan, the president and 20 other world leaders pledged to work towards a free tr-trade agreement in as for the first time since the vietnam war a living sftsman is set to receive the medal of honor. saul hunta will be honored for bravery in afghanistan. barbara starr has a special report at 7:00 eastern and she joins us in washington with a preview of him and why he's so deserving of this award. >> fredricka, this is a remarkable story. just a few years ago saul hunta

was a young man mopping the floor one night at a subway sandwich shop where he worked. he heard a commercial on the radio go to the recruiting station and get a free t-shirt. i wasn't doing anything and i thought i'd get a free tt-shirt. he joined the army. he'll step into history standing next to the president of united states to receive the medal of honor, the nation's highest award, for valor above and beyond the call of duty. saul and his entire unit was ambushed in afghanistan in october 2007. i want you to listen to just a little bit of what saul junta had had to tell us. >> it's very bittersweet. i mean, it's such a huge honor. it's a great thing, but it is a great thing that has come at a personal loss to myself and so many other families. >> and that is what you want people to know? >> absolutely. >> and tonight at 7:00 saul

junta will describe the loss and describe an ambush they all suffered in afghanistan. one very dark cold night in october 2007. saul will tell you is he a mediocre soldier. i will tell you that the president of the united states, defense secretary robert gates, and general david petraeus beg to differ. they say that this is a remarkable young man. he will receive the nation's highest award on tuesday. watch tonight at 7:00. fred. >> so barbara, so often this award is given post human yusly. has the criteria changed? what is it about the circumstances here that makes it historying-making that a living service member gets this medal of honor. >> it's remarkable. there has not been a living service member since the vietnam war receiving the medal of honor in an ongoing conflict like

this. there have been a handful for their actions in iraq and afghanistan. a lot say it's the nature of warfare that's changed. today's war is not the sort of hand-to-hand combat that you might have seen in the past. i will tell you that these men in this unit on that night in afghanistan were engaged in very close combat. they all suffered very greatly. they continue to suffer. they lost two of their own that night. those two men are very deeply remembered by this unit. and this is something that defense secretary robert gates has really pressed for in the last few years. he wanted to know why were there no living recipients, and there are going to be more to come by all indications in the weeks and months ahead. fred. >> congrats to him for sure. thanks so much, barbara starr. we look forward to that special tonight as well, 7:00 eastern time. former george w. bush is defending his decision to bail out wall street. he talked about the financial

collapse of 2008, and the bailout that followed during an interview today with cnn's candy crowley. >> i wonder if you knew two years ago when you're talking about i think the wealth will come back, it hasn't. still struggling. >> yeah. >> was it as bad -- was it as bad as you thought it was or worse than you thought it was at that time? >> well, when i talk to you, i had just finished making a very difficult decision, and that is use taxpayers a money to prevent the economy from collapsing or preventing a depression. i believe that those decisions made in the fall of '08 did prevent the economy from heading into a depression. >> you can see candy crowley's full interview with former president george w. bush tonight. it airs at 8:00 p.m. eastern, 5:00 p.m. pacific. russell simmons, a business mogul with everything money can

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people see the word rich and they i want to be a billionaire like russell simmons, and you say that's not what this is about? >> it's a guide to having it all. the first chapper is redefining rich. it's a tricky chapter because i don't want people to throw the book out, right? it talks about rich being -- >> you want to rope them in, lure them in? >> i want people to be more productive and greater givers.

its okay. but the idea of needing nothing, the state of needing nothing, that's what christians refer to as christ consciousness. buddhist calls it nirvana. i couldn't write a book about that or heaven on earth. he i wrote a book of super rich, because that's a state of needing nothing. it's operating from abundance. my audience might not be the same at deepak chopra. they have the same hopes, desires, right? they all have different ways of going about it and different voices. this is just another voice. >> i know you're very accessible and approachable, but people see russell simmons and think he's a megaguy. he's huge. how can he tell me i can operate with nothing? >> if you read the book, it will stick.

it's written in such a twha people can digest this idea that operating from abundance and that work itself is the prayer and that there's no payment. this sounds like a lot, but i have so many rich friends that are suffering rich in terms of worldly things, and so many people who don't have a lot who are happy. we are only here to be happy. >> what should be at the root of someone's happiness? >> a peaceful state. you know, there's a lot of discussion about meditation in there. when the mind is still, everything surrenders. >> how did you get there? >> it's a practice. to have faith in the practice. went to a yoga class and came out for a minute was at ease. i thought if i kept doing it, i would lose all my money. after that i sold my company and started to really make money and create new companies. >> why did you think that? >> i thought anxiety drove me, but it's the option. i take my half an hour in the morning, and i take my hour and a half in the afternoon for

morning meditation, yoga practice in the afternoon and another 30 minutes at night. i take all that time out of my day, and i'm so much more product sxif healive and health of it. >> at peace? >> i'm struggling with that. more than i have been. >> do you mean enlightened? >> meaning you feel you have a center because you're using that collectively two hours to concentrate on you and meditation. >> it has changed my life dramatically in the physical practice of yoga we're told to smile and breathe in every pose no matter how difficult. >> the person who is one of the millions who is unemployed, down on their luck and can't pay their bills, they want to know how to reclaim the happiness, what you would you say? >> if you make work your prayer

and you're present, the results are more fruitful and valuable and they keep coming. the cycle of giving speeds up. it the result of a cycle of getting speeds up. you want people to be present and awake and focused, and that's what the book is about. the book is about the basic practices that promote happiness. money doesn't make you happy, but happy makes you money. >> quite inspiring. simmons built his multi-million dlar empire without a business plan. he reveals a secret of success at 5:00 eastern. you don't want to miss that. america's most atritractive people don't live in new york or l.a. according to this survey. you might be surprised by this year's top choice straight ahead in the chat room.

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it's common knowledge that some actors earn millions of dollars making a single move he vee. there might be actors you think are overpaid. check your opinions with our list coming up. that's in the chat room. first a look at the top stories. an explosion at a popular tourist resort in playa del carm carmen, mexico at a hotel. a gasoline or stove exploded in the kitchen. and finally free. a british couple is in kenya today after being released by somali pirates. paul and rachel chandler was captured over a year ago on

their yacht. they say the chandlers were freed after the pirates were paid $750,000. honoring those who fought and died for the british crown. prince william took part in a rememberness day service at the main military base in afghanistan today. he's second in line to the throne. time now to enter the chat room. jacqui jeras here. we have interesting stuff. a little something for everyone out there. >> yes. >> beginning with those who need a little help being a little responsible when it coming down to embibing too much and getting text happy or e-mail happy. this new technology to save you from yourselves. go back in the day by doing messages or facebooking andor

things like that. basically they have an undo feature now. they had it all along but it's only five seconds. >> you need a little more time. >> it's better, but it's only 30 seconds. it's not like you can wake up and go, what did you do? basically what you do is you click on the little green icon, which is in the top right of your inbox which takes you into google labs, and you find the enable undo send. you choose the 30 second option. so you got 30 seconds to say i really didn't want to send that message. better than nothing. >> i guess it is better than nothing. oh, boy. >> there's a new web security company -- >> maybe give yourself an extra 30 seconds before you hit send. this is a nice little safety net. >> they probably weren't thinking the first time. this other one, this company web route is a firefox plug-in.

so you can do that with anything. it won't allow you to get into places like twitter, facebook or my space during a certain number of hours. anytime between midnight and 6:00 a.m., you have to answer a series of questions and get them correct -- >> this is called the sobriety test. >> you're not blowing into the little thing like on your car, but if you can't do simple math, maybe you shouldn't be facebooking at that time. couple of tips for you. >> i think that's some cleaver stuff. maybe somebody will be very happy that's a nice safety net available. >> we hope it helps. let's talk about this. folks think that they know where all the best-looking people are across the country. they think of some of the more popular big cities. miami was on the list. "travel and leisure" magazine has a list every year. mia miami, no surprise there. it's not number one this year.

it's fallen from grace, charleston, south carolina. >> i am not surprised, having lived there and seeing the people -- >> oh, fred. >> come on. wait. let me finish my statement. i'm telling you while living there people look so refreshed and relaxed because it's a resort town. it struck me when i live there that why does everybody look so good. i'm not surprised it's on the list. it's one of my all-time favorite places because it's a beautiful city. you have great seafood, the lifestyle is wonderful, and that is in large part what defines a city that has people who are considered attractive. they get a chance to take care of their bods and stuff too. >> it scores high for friendliness, a classic sense of style, that you have my, dear. >> i'm not a charlestonian. i lived there and observed the people that were there. it's beautiful. i was a witness, is what i'm saying. >> all right. she participated as well. san diego is number two.

savannah is another coastal city not far from charleston. >> a common denominatodenominat conducive to being fit outside, walks, and that's part of the criteria. >> they had a list of cities of least attractive people. >> people are not going to like this. >> do you want to know? number five was orlando, number four was aj raj, alaska, number three philadelphia and number two baltimore and number one memphis, tennessee. >> same criteria? >> memphis has number one for barbecue. >> i love philly and love baltimore. >> yeah. >> i haven't been to anchorage yet, but i'm sure i'd like it, too. >> this is forbes and not us, people. >> can we talk about the actors. -- >> i'm sorry. travel and leisure. >> let's talk about that list now. you know that actors make millions. among them jim carrey, drew berrymore, could we go on, denzel washington.

now apparently there's a list that says they may be paid a little too much given the take, what the movie makes. >> what the anchor gets paid versus the profit that's made. >> put your bifocals on. look at that. they're talking about what the movie house makes to the dollar, right? what they pay out to the dollar. >> right. >> made. >> profit, right. >> jim carrey with 8.60 there. all of these are huge names. >> tom cruise is on this list at number five. >> they're big names and a big draw. jim carrey, adam sandler, vince vaughn, matt damon, drew barrymore. >> and will ferrell is number one. >> oh. do you like the will ferrell movies? >> of course. i love everybody on the list. >> i look at will ferrell and giggle. >> he's funny. you know funny is about to happen. let me just preemptively giggle

right now. >> all these people get movie after movie for whatever it's worth. >> it's good stuff. we all like to giggle. we're going to giggle more next hour, too. we'll have a comedian in the house. george wallace is a regular here. he'll gis us his take on the news, you know. a lot of the news material in some circumstances may seem like good material for stand-up. we see it happen live today, because george has examined a few news items of the week, and he's going to make us all laugh. he was here last month. we were like, you know, bent over laughing. it was side-splitting kind of humor, and we know he'll make us laugh again today. every sunday 5:00 eastern hour you'll be able to catch george wallace right here in "the newsroom" with george's take. that's what we call it on the news. lots of fun. thank you so much.

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than 800 and more than 1200 others are sick. the outbreak started last month before haiti got slammed by hurricane tomas. then in africa there's a cholera outbreak that's quite significant as well. the illness has killed hundreds of people in nigeria and the death toll is still climbing. the latest now from christian per foye. >> reporter: infected with cholera, over 1,500 children, men, and women have died from one of the worst cholera outbreaks here in years in northern nigeria. he was so ill he had to be brought to his local clinic in a wheelbarrow. of the 27 people in my village with cholera, only six survived. helping to set up a makeshift clinic, nsf and the local governments are trying to cope with over 100 people admitted in the last week alone at the

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a family taking the adventure of a lifetime. they'll share their story in a mome moment. first, a look at the top stories. president barack obama has arrived back in washington after wrapping up a four-nation tour of asia. the last stop was in japan for the apec summit. it was aimed at opening up new

markets to legalize medical marijuana. the vote was so close that it took until now to finalize the results from the november 2nd ballot. arizona joins 14 our states and d.c. to allow medical marijuana. the federal government collected more than $2 million by auctioning off some of the bernie madoff's personal items this weekend. madoff is in prison for swindling billions from investiga investors. the proceeds go into the victims compensation fund. so a lot of us daydream about doing something like this, but one family actually did it. they cashed in their investments, rented out their home, and then took their kids on waa one-year trip around the world. now they have written a book about the family's adventures. it's called "pins on a map." they're joining us right now

from phoenix, arizona. good to see you all. >> thank you for having us. >> i wonder how boring home is now that you've been to 17 countries in one year with kids in toe. what's that adjustment been like, jill? >> it's been difficult. it's very challenging to find meaning in the mundane activities of everyday life definitely. >> so what was the real impetus for this in the first place, david? why did you decide this is a good idea, and we're taking our three kids, at the time 13, 9 and 7 around the world, which is a very expensive venture? >> well, jill and i took an unforgettable trip to nepal in 1993. after that trip we wanted to travel around the world and figured we would do it when we retired. travel for us as a family was life under a microscope. it was the disappointments were bigger and the joys were bigger and it was something that we

loved so much and we thought that bringing the kids along, we could add education to it and change it to an unselfish endeavor. we realized they wouldn't want to be around us forever, so that gave us a gift of a deadline. we planned the trip when they would be those ages where they'd be old enough to remember but not old enough that they didn't want to be around mom and dad. >> so you ended up embarking on this trip. did you a lot of highlight places in the united states, whether it be, you know, yosemite, whether you were in yosemite, california or whether it was rafting in medford, oregon. you went to the grand teton national park in wyoming, and you went to tanzania, dubai and paris. all of these extraordinary places. how do the kids appreciate all these places? did you kind of rough it so they

got a lesson somewhere out of this, or how did you plan it? >> well, we roughed a lot of it. we roughed our safari. our safari in tanzania was intense in unfenced camp grounds, and we stayed at a lot of very low budget places. we gave up our comfortable life. we traded it in and traded it for this trip. >> what do you think ultimately these kids got out of it? as a couple you talked about nepal, talking about how beautiful that journey was and what it meant for you as a couple. so your kids right now are they constantly talking about favorite places or certain lessons or things they were exposed to? are you hearing their experiences out loud all the time? >> yes, it's amazing. we see the kids' excitement when they come home from school and

there's a topic from school that they have come upon that is a place that we've been. they look at doing a paper on something like the iyo sophia in turkey as exciting. they're very much into all the stuff. it's exciting for them to say that's somewhere we've been and seen. in the book you kind of notice through the beginning to the end of the book you notice the changes in the kids. our oldest took a real leadership role, and our middle child, he really grew a lot, too. he kept us laughing all the time. our daughter who is only 7, she was very brave. she had broken a leg, and i thought for sure she would want to come home. but she was worried that it was going to be a trip-ender, you know. you really see the changes in the kids. it's just been invaluable, and we talk about the trip every single day. it's something that we share. we share as a family.

it's something so special, and it really brought us closer together. it's been a wonderful, wonderful gift. >> so as a couple you made a decision because you think go around the world and the whole family. this is a hugely expensive trip. you sold all your investments and put your home up for rent so you had something when you got back. along the way on the journey, weren't you worried, david, along the way, that oh, my gosh are we going troun out of money or will something happen back home at our house? give me an idea of all the worries you had? did you say i'm not going to worry and we'll just live in the moment? >> fredricka i will never approximate forget standing on the brooklyn heights promenade on the night of september 11th, 2007. it was our last night in the country, because we flew out on the 12th. they had the beams of light coming up from where ground zero was. it was such a reminder to us that the rest of the world doesn't always like americans. i remember looking at jill and

saying, i don't know that this is the right decision. that was -- >> you almost turned back sort of mentally, but what made you say no, we're going to go forward? >> she talked me out of it. >> we just -- whenever we started getting nervous, we would just pretty much have the motto, ignore the problem. it will go away, and just keep pushing forward because you cannot really let the fears of everything, losing parents back home or something happening at the house or the children getting kidnapped. you have to let those fears something and plan to be the safest you can and experience life and what it has to offer. >> wow. fantastic, david and jill bash. your kids are 16, 12, 10, joseph, thomas and camilla? >> yeah, they are. the oldest is 16. he's a sophomore in high school, and they're doing very well. you know, when we left i didn't plan to write a book.

neither of us really did, but the journey was so rich we felt like we had to tell it. it was just about not just about how our daughter broke her leg, but the courage she showed and also, you know, jill throwing a monkey out of the car when we were in tanzania, those kinds of things. and i tried to -- like i said, it just was such a rich story, and i try to tell it in a way that was funny and people would learn something and also hopefully be inspired to travel. >> something tells me a lot of people will be inspired to do what you did. this is now going to be like the family road map on a family vacation in a big way. david and jill, thanks so much from arizona for joining us, and "pins on a map: a family's yearlong journey around the world." very fun stuff. congrats on a great injure any. >> thanks for having you. >> thank you, fredricka. the big bang.

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started with the big bang. what was it made out of? scientists have used this massive -- it's called the large collider. this massive machine that spans the border between switzerland and france. ipts underground and designed to discover and study the tiniest building blocks of matter. scientists say it will revolutionize our universe. they're working to smash together atomic particles at a faster rate to create this incredibly tiny microscopic particles seen for a fraction of a second. in recent days they managed to get faster than ever creating temperatures a hundred thousand times hotter than the center of the sun. that was their mini-big bang, and they smashed together ions for the first time. before now it was protons colliding.

the big idea is they're reproducing the conditions that existed a few millionths of a second after the big bang. the thinking is that an understanding of these tiny particles give us a new whole new understanding of what everything is made out of, including us. a lot more information on this. here are cool pictures for you on my facebook and twitter pages. take a look and let us know what you think and learn all about the mini-big bang. back to you. >> thank you so much, josh, prethat. a snowstorm more than a month before winter. we'll check in with jacqui jeras for the latest on dangerous weather in the upper midwest.

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it's very cold outside. in fact, it's snowy, blustery, midwest. >> i know. some people have said, come on, right, it's november. you should expect to see snow. >> you should in this -- you should to this degree? >> not this much snow. >> that's what i was trying to say. it's not coming out of my mouth. >> this is the heaviest snowfall that the twin cities has seen in 20 years pre-thanksgiving. they had a couple of big halloween ones, but this was a big one, you know. a lot of snow falling, and you can see that snow moving eastward across parts of wisconsin, a little wintery mix across green bay and this is across the u.p of michigan. the snowfall accumulations, a foot in maple grove, 10 inches in duluth, 10 in mankato, and a record for you in minneapolis at the airport at 7.9 inches.

i-reporters have had fun taking great video and still pictures as well. this is from erica nude seven in woodbury. this came over the weekend and didn't cause too many hassles. there were flight cancellations and delays. it's looking better for the twin cities and down towards chicago into tomorrow. we're concerned about the southeast. it's been gorgeous in the southeast. in fact, how many things have i seen on my facebook page it's sunny and 80 in atlanta compared to the snow up north. the sun is going way. the cold front is pushing on through, a really weak front. what's going to happen is an area of low pressure is developing right over here across parts of louisiana, and this low will take over and be the main system. this is going to head up to the north and to the east. it will ride on up towards the coast, but i think it will stay interior so we're not talking about a big nor'easter event, so that's good news out of that. it's a big soaker for the

southeast. we really need it, because we've been looking at pretty significant drought conditions across much of the southeast, even into parts of tennessee valley. so this is actually a good thing unless you're trying to travel, right? i want to take a quick mention about what's going on with the tropics there, and there you be see the western caribbean. that is showing an area of showers and thunderstorms, which could develop into our next main system there. our list has just been incredible. we've had 19 named storms so far in year, and there you be see all of them this season. tomas was our last one. virgine would be the next one, but we don't think it would exact the u.s. it's heading towards nicaragua and honduras who has had a tremendous amount of rainfall this season. >> thanks so much. check back in later. an american with a mission hits the road to promote a new national symbol. it's a flag that honors those

who died in military service. julia peterson reports. >> it's a different kind of a death, you know, when you send your young, educated, healthy loved one out into a war situation. >> reporter: a father's trip, all 50 states in just five minutes. george lutz is an army of one delivering the honor and remembering flag he designed for military families, families that lost a loved one fighting for their country. lutz lost his son in iraq in 2005. these flags are not shipped to families. they are presented. they're frietheir friends and fy and peers can see and appreciate what that sacrifice has meant to that family. as i've traveled around want country, i've been able to present many, many flags to all generations of families from