>> did you guys hear that? touch my junk? 24 million americans are going to be flying over the thanksgiving holiday and for many of them it will be their first exposure to these newly-enhanced airport screenings. more than 60 airports across the

u.s. now have these advanced imaging technology machines. the transportation security administration says it has 385 of them in place and it expects to have more than 1,000 of them operating by the end of this year. they are walking through x-ray machines that conduct full body scans through your clothes. pilots and a growing number of passengers groups are raising concerns. tsa says that they are unfounded. if you refuse a full body scan? guess what you get? a enhanced pat down. the search includes the breast and genitalia areas. that's a strip search. if you refuse to do that, you don't fly. the man who made the video ended up going home without getting on the plane. he says he was also threatened with a civil suit and a fine. joining us now, clark kent

irvin, the first inspector general to the department of homeland security. he's currently director of the homeland security program. clark, good to see you. >> you, too, drew. >> you were a guy that was overseeing this when they had the task to make air traffic safe for all of us. i'm just going to ask you flat out, should we have been doing this all along or is this completely unnecessary? >> well, i really do which we should have been doing it since 9/11. the fact of the matter is the metal technology that we used at the airport checkpoint since the 1970s do not detect nonmetallic items. they can detect guns and knives. we know that al qaeda continues to probe for weaknesses and it's the best available right now to detect explosives. i think that the tsa has done everything reasonable to

minimize the privacy impact and to minimize the radiation ex positi pose sur. i don't think it was manned delled as it should have been. >> what about the selection process? these screeners are for everybody to go through. the pictures are not being shown in these public areas. we're not talking about generally secondary screening. i know i was called out and put through one of these machines simply because i asked a question about my belt having to come off. are they using these too much in. >> certainly it appears in this instance, there was a punitive attitude taken towards this bea passenger because he was ratesi ratesing questions. people have to go through this technology where it exists to checkpoints or they have to submit to pat downs and i would

argue that they are much more intrusive than this advanced technolo technology. >> i've got time for one more question. this is the explosive that they are searching for on my body. do they look at my carry-on bags find that? >> well, no. but what they can do is spot an anomaly and then it's up to the screeners to look at that anomaly, figure out what it is, and then call in the bomb squad to determine whether that anomaly is petn. there is a swab technology. it's the explosive of choice here and it's critical that technology like this be deployed in order to protect it. >> clark, good to see you. thank you for all that you do. take care. as you know, george w. bush is making rounds to promote his

memoir. the massive federal bailout of several federal companies. last night bush and his brother, former governor jed bush sat down with candy crowley. he talked about his domestic and foreign policy and also personal feelings for his father and it's today's sound effect. he makes comments about lee atwater who ran his father's 1988 campaign. >> he's referring to a time when dad had us at camp david and questioned lee's loyalty. if there's a grenade rolling next to dad, lee, we expect you to dive on it first because we love our dad. and, you know, it's hard for people to understand that how much we admire him and how much we love him and how much our

admiration for him motivated us to go into public service. >> bush dismissed the criticism that he took his eye off the ball in the early stages of the afghan war. critics say that happened when they invaded iraq and allowing the taliban to regroup as a strong, determined fighting force. bush, instead, blames some nato member who is had troops onned it ground claiming they were not willing to fight. well, we have breaking news. our sister station in india, reporting 24 dead, at least 40 people injured and transported to the hospital there. 20 people are still trapped after a building collapsed. this is, as you can see, is happening right now. we're gathering more information as we speak. but that's in new delhi.

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members of congress are getting back to work today in a lame-duck session. 20-term representative charlie rangel, the democrat of harlem,

one-time chair of the house and ways and means company committee, has 13 charges against him. failing to declare rental income from a villa in the dominican republic. leasing for rent controlled apartments in harlem meant to be one per family and city college of new york. rangel doesn't have a lawyer because after two years and $2 million in legal fees, he says he can't afford one. he can't accept free legal help because that would be a gift and an ethics breach in himself. now the panel won't give him time. >> i'm asking for time to get counsel. i have lawyers from washington, d.c., and new york, who are willing to give me free counsel, to be able to come here because

they don't think i've been treated fairly, and yet they say that if they do, that is a gift and violates all of the laws. i heard that perhaps they can do it at reduced -- well, reduced fees. or fair fees, if only we had time to develop the committee. you tell me that i don't have time to do that. and so while you tell me that, yes, i can hire anybody, get anybody, not have a lawyer, you're also saying, and that's the very part of your letter, that time does not permit this matter to be concluded before the end of this session. >> after he said that, he waked out. but the trial hasn't stopped. it started again at 1:00, or was supposed to. brianna keilar is on capitol hill. what is going on up there? >> reporter: it's about to get started again and this was really interesting because once

he walked out, the committee, the subcommittee, drew, they took time behind closed doors to discuss his motion and said, yeah, we're going to keep going. but they sort of smacked at the law firm, zuckerman, spader, for essentially leaving him in the lurch. he said that he's spent $2 million and then talking with lawyers it was apparent to him that it could cost as much as a million more. he couldn't guarantee that he could pay it. they withdrew. and this went down somewhat recently after it became clear that he was going to have this hearing. but you also have the committee saying, okay, sure, but on multiple occasions we've also given congressman rangel advice on what he could do to pay for his legal fees, what's okay, what's not okay, and we've given him a lot of time to look at the evidence. so this pretty secretive committee took this rare move of hitting back at some of his claims that he needs more time and he's not being given a fair

shot, drew. >> yeah. i mean, certainly he would have known that he was running out of money and couldn't pay his lawyers long before they quit on him and maybe gone to the legal defense route. they are using in his house his own words on the floor against him as evidence. right? >> this really struck me as the chief counsel for the ethics committee, which is essentially the prosecution in this, was laying out the case against rangel, he would bring up certain charges that rangel is facing here and then what they would do is play little snip-its of rain grel on the floor. this is a speech he gave back in august, a 37-minute speech, talking about really trying to take his case but they used it as an admission. there was one where he talks about using congressional letterhead to solicit donations and one of the things he's

accused of is solace sitting donations through the city college, the rangel center, and sort of doing it in an official capacity using congressional letterhead and staff time. the point that he's trying to make in this speech on the floor was that maybe he was sloppy, maybe he made mistakes, but that he wasn't corrupt and on the flip side you had the committee lawyers using it completely against them as an admission of guilt, essentially. >> i know that this is not like a real court in harlem. >> because i can't imagine that judge in harlem would buy the argument that i don't have any money to hire my own lawyer and one of the charges is, i've got $75,000 in rent that i didn't tell you about on my villa in the dominican republic. what happens if if they go on with this and he doesn't come back? >> reporter: i think the expectation is that he wouldn't be expelled. it tends to be reserved for

somebody that has been criminally charged. but there are different levels of rebuks here. i said earlier that it seemed to me also the worst punishment out of this whole thing would be the public humiliation aspect of this and alas rangel is not there to really receive that in person. so there are different levels. you're going to see the and the majority will bring it and it's a party-line split and then it's kind of like a trial and they would move on and some areas that he's guilty on to a sanction's hearing and that's sort of like sentencing, if you will. >> i don't know about public humiliation. all right. are you feeling this overwhelming, there is always

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millions of americans underwater and overwhelmed about their debt. christine romans has a story of a couple that dug themselves out of deep debt a little at a time. >> there are more than a dozen accounts here that you had to close up. >> oh yeah. >> three years ago, carol and don carroll were $88,000 in debt. >> all it takes is a little

pickup to start this horrible snowball effect. >> reporter: they put debt on gas cards, medical cards, gas bills. >> you were literally near a nervous breakdown? >> when you can't sleep, it gets to you. >> yeah. and that was the straw that broke the camel's back. >> we made the debt, we should pay for it. >> reporter: they were put on a five-year payment plan and finished it just over three. >> i think if there is a silver lining to the recession, it's refocused people's attention on their own finances. i think they are ready to move back over to the driver's seat. >> reporter: so how did they do it? >> i just have to get organized. >> i don't know if it's called

having less. you learn to live with what you need, not with what you want. >> reporter: what is your message for people who might see your story and think, wow, i have 40, 50, $60,000 in credit card debt. i will never get out from under this? >> never say never. >> it's totally fixable but you have to take the steps to say, i need help. >> christine, she talked about taking that step. whether you're stopping smoking or trying to lose weight. it's that first step. what did they do, facing that debt, $88,000 over their head? >> it was literally making them sick, first of all. they found out the number. how much do we owe? they couldn't tell. you have fees and they are getting bigger and bigger.

and came into their paychecks, every penny, once they are paying off that debt. and every week that was it and they paid it off. they paid it off. in just over 3, 3.5 years. $88 thourk$,000. >> it must have been addictive and fun for them to do, huh? >> they felt good. and their credit score have shot up so much, people are trying to get them to get more debt and they won't do it. >> thanks, christine. >> sure. be sure to join christine and ali on saturdays. and she's the author of "smart

is the new rich." checking top stories, a new week and head headache for qantas airlines. an electrical fault was the problem for the boeing 747. now one of the airbus that they had problems with. cholera spread is causing problems for the country. the death toll now is 950 people. police in southern california are hunting for the driver of a car that caused a deadly crash. five people killed on saturday. the wanted driver had moved into the oncoming lane to pass a group of motorcyclists. that put him on a collision course with a car from the opposite direction. that second car swerved to avoid a head-on crash and plowed right into the motorcycles. okay. quick quiz on fast food for you. it's a toughie. you roll-up to the drive through, find something

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chicken strips. once kids are hooked on happy meals, it's hard to break the habit. still worth a try, right? our correspondent is here with that. >> habit is a good word. how often do you take your kids for fast food, 84% said at least once a week. >> wow. >> yes. that's a major place where our kids are getting their meals. we decided, why don't we help people choose better meals? >> is that on the menu some place? >> yes. my kids are younger than yours so i make the rounds more than you do, i think. but we wanted to start, because kids as young as 3 are getting many of their meals at fast food restaurants. we wanted to help people decide how to order.

a kid who is 3 should be getting about 1200 calories a day. look at this classic kids meal. okay? so this is a classic cheeseburger, fries, and soda. how many calories do you think is in that meal? 650 calories. and the kids are supposed to have 1200 all day. you get half of your calories in one meal. that is not a good thing. that's why we have so many overweight children in this country. >> how do you change it? what are the options? >> there are options. here's another one. they make a big difference. these are 650 calories, getting macaroni and cheese, apple, and milk, that is 285 calories. that's what a 3-year-old should be getting in a meal. that's a good amount of

calories. a big difference. and if you do this week after week after week, trading this meal for this meal, it's a big difference. >> you pull up there, how dwu convince your kid, my guy, that that is not punishment. >> you're the parent. it's either this or go hungry. this is what you're getting. you're getting a 285-calorie meal. that's one approach. another a approach is bribery. in the city of san francisco, they certainly think it works. you only get a toy. you can only give out a toy if it is for one of the healthier meals. you can follow their lead and say, if you want a toy, that's what you're going to get. for my kids, it's all about the

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congress is in a lame-duck session finishing up unfinished business. it's a chance to get the feel of the place weeks before the new congress gets down to work. today, they all arrived by bus load to learn about hiring staff and finding the restrooms to following the ruleses. it's the biggest congressional turn over in decades. the in-coming class includes car directors, funeral directors, an airline pilot. many have never held office before. the house has 255 democrats and 178 republicans. come january, at least 61 more republicans. the senate has 57 democrats and 41 republicans now. in january, 51 democrats and at least 47 republicans and two independents. now, about that unfinished business i wanted to talk to you

about. between now and the holidays, the outgoing congress is going to do something about the bush tax cuts and they will take up another extension of unemployment benefits. one-time payments of $250 to social security recipients since they are not getting a cost of living raise. medicare payments to doctors which are set to drop by more than 20% in december. we still don't have a budget for fiscal 2011 which started october 1st. we wish them all luck. extending an olive branch for the man who detained her for 15 years. hear what aung san suu kyi is saying to the military leaders. [ male announcer ] a little bit of this,

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23 people were killed in a building collapse. on the phone from new dehli is sarah. >> at least 30 people now are feared dead in this building collapse in i said yeah's capital. emergency crews right at this moment suspect that about 20 people could still be trapped underneath the debris from the several-story collapsed building and it's now been four hours since the initial collapse happened around 8:15 this evening india time. there were about 40 people who have been hurt and taken to the hospital. right now what is happening is the rescue mission is continuing

as they try to see if more people are trapped underneath the rubble of this building. india went through a very heavy monsoon season, which means lots and lots of rain and the concern is that anyone that, you know, was this an authorized building, what was the condition of this building over time and how did this collapse happen? we heard from sheila, the chief administer of new dehli. she believes water was in the basement for many days. now is not the time to blame people but they are looking to who exactly may be at fault waurngs of these kinds of buildings. with the rain here, the buildings put together well here, whether rich or poor, there's a lot of water damage that seems to happen in this city. so a lot of concern right now about whether this building was

authorized and whether more may still be trapped underneath five stories of rubble. >> sara, thanks for for that. let's go to myramar. aung san su. kyi spoke to thousands of jubilant reporters. the key to bringing democracy from the country is working with the military government. >> we have to work together. that is the main message. those inside the country have to work together and also those of us. >> what do you plan to do next? will you revive your party, the lnd? >> we would like to form a network of people working for democracy, not just the lnd but

others to bring about necessary change. >> do you plan to challenge the legitimate see of the ee electrics in myranmar? >> we have formed a committee to look into allegations of fraud and all kinds of votes which you've heard of and we're doing it in the name of the rule of law. >> suu kyi is not thinking about the possibility of being detained in the future. she says, i just do what i can do at the moment. turning to the war in afghanistan, more signs of trouble in the u.s.-afghan alliance. the commander of u.s. forces there, david petraeus, warns that the relationship could be unten nabl if the afghan president karzai reduces the and

the comments published in the washington post yesterday said the time has come to reduce military operations, to reduce the intrusiveness into the daily afghan live. officials told the post that he expressed astonishment and disappointment with that call from karzai. well, how can $20,000 and spare car parts save a baby? we will tell you about that coming up. ♪

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premature babies are born each year and many die. incubators could save many of these children but can cost around $20,000, require upkeep training, continuous electricity resources unavailable in many poor countries. the company that has created a possible solution is design that matters. they designed a an incubator that costs about $2,000 and can can be built in a matter of days. what's most interesting, they are built from car parts. headlights and cigarette lighters are some of the parts used to keep these machines running. tell us how this works. joining us is thanks for joining us, tim. obviously a great idea. how does this work, though? i don't get it. >> well, there are really three ideas. the first idea was looking at --

there was a doctor working internationally on newborn health and found that there's a big stack of broken, donated medical equipment behind them and didn't understand, why is it that my car seems to run forever, the company car in this developing world context seems to run forever whereas the medical devices are all breaking. one of the first things we realize is that cars get fixed. there are car mechanics. what if we can make an incubator if if you knew how to open it up, you know how because it looks like a car. what if it was like a photocopier. when they break, you'd have to get a technician come and undo the paper jam and now the user, the average user can do most of the repairs. that was one idea. and, second, there's this joke

that michael anglo, how did you make david this wonderful sk sculpture? there are thousands of parts in a toyota truck, for example. what if we take away all of the parts that are not an incubator. and then there are four c's. you can find anywhere in the world. coke, condoms, cigarettes, and car parts. so we thought about the supply chain, the fact that toyota can get a car part anywhere in the world. >> let me ask you, has it caught on? is it as easy as you say it is to do and, if so, how many babieses are you saving? >> yeah. so the deaf deaf vil is in the detail. you want to make it easy to repair the device but you don't

want to make it easy to put the wrong kind of car part or dirty car part. so or partner is working with a manufacturing company in brazil to solve these implementation challenges. the opportunity is enormous. of thousand 4 million deaths thaw mentioned, 1.8 million, or half would make it if you just kept them warm from the first day to the first week. keeping a box warm so a baby can make it is not terribly hard. i think the challenge is, how do you do it in a way that if it breaks it's going to get fixed. i was in indonesia a couple of years ago after the tsunami. all eight incubators four years later, all of them were broken. and it's not because people don't want to use them. they can't get spare parts. they don't have trained technicians. >> and i imagine there are a lot

of fragile than a car? >> for sure. for sure. in fact, there's all kinds of things, these are very sensitive devices. there are all kinds of assumptions. for example, if you look at an incubator, it's designed to roll on smooth floors and go up and down hospital in the developing world. >> tim prestero, ceo of design that matters. making a difference. appreciate you being on the show today and explaining this to us. take care. >> thanks for having me. >> for more information you can go on our blog at cnn.com/ali. hopefully we have pictures up there too. it would be interesting to see. we do. president obama called it a shellacking. but was that republican win a mandate for the party? a new cnn poll says maybe not. our political update is next. y , out of the very best america had to offer.

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go to washington for a political update. deputy political editor paul steinhauser joining us. a new poll making some news. >> i guess the big question was this republican a mandate for the republicans? the republicans won at least 60 in the house, reclaim the chamber and made gains in the senate as well. the democrats keep the majority.

check this out. this is what we asked right off the bat. the republican control of the u.s. house, will that be a good thing or bad thing for the country? majority 52% saying a good thing for the country. 39% say not so good a thing. look at the next four specifically. this asks specifically about the mandate. just 17% say this is a mandate -- these election results are a mandate for republican policy. september% say no, it's a rejection of democrat policy instead. keep that up. these are similar to what we saw in 2006 when the democrats won by congress and similar to 1994 when the republicans won back congress. basically this poll suggests it's a throw the bum out. less we like the republicans than don't like the democrats. one more number. will more or less get done in the new congress. only 32 % say more. 4 in 10 say it doesn't matter.

finally the last thing, i promise the last number. what about the president himself, how is he doing? 48% approval rating, 50% say they disapprove of how barack obama is handling his duties in the white house. that 4% by the way is up from 42%. that was an all-time low for the president in mid-september. numbers coming up slightly but still nothing really to brag about. yet they're below the 50% mark. >> anything new happening up in alaska? we've still got a senator to decide. >> we do. this is the last remaining senate contest that hasn't been resolved. they've been counting the write-in ballots. lisa murkowski, the incumbent, doing very well. there are about 10,000 ballots still to be counted. we may have some finality by maybe wednesday or thursday of this week but joe miller who is republican nominee and you know this quite well, you've talked to him a lot, he may continue legal action if the results are very close. it may not be over this week. >> good poll. thanks a lot.

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spelled atom bomb. he said it refers to a childhood nickname, not an obsession with explosives. eventually they let him return to his seat. a guy in england getting harsher treatment over a tweet. trying to catch a flight but a snowstorm shut them down so he thought jokingly tweeting. robin hood airport closed, you've got a week to get your bleep together. otherwise i'm blowing it sky high. an employo saw it and he was arrested and charged with causing a menace and lost a big appeal. several jumped to his defense. i'm grew griffin in for ali velshi with you for the next hour. here's on the rundown. technology that could turn teaching inside out. it's tracking students' moods

and emotions and tailoring lesson plans accordingly. how do you make a city earthquake-proof? you hang on tight. dr. sanjay gupta sure did taking us to japan to find out the hard way. is facebook about to shake up the web by becoming the next big player in the e-mail world? we're keeping you posted on today's big announcement. we're going to start, though, by showing you a cell phone video that has gone viral. it was made by a california man who was about to get an enhanced pat-down at the airport in san diego. he's become an instant hero to people who think airport screening has gone too far. >> come on over here. >> all right. >> do you have anything in your pockets. >> i don't think so. they had me take it all out. >> no belt, no nothing? >> no, no belt, no nothing. >> do you have any external or internal implants that i need to be aware of? >> no. >> we are going to be doing a standard pat-down on you today using my hands like this. also we're going to be doing a

groin check. that means i'm going to place my hand on your hip, my other hand on your inner thigh, slowly go up and slide down. >> okay. >> we are going to do that two times in the front and two times in the back. >> all right. >> and if you would like a private screening we can make that available for you also. >> we can do that out here but if you touch my junk i'm going to have you arrested. >> actually we are going to have a supervisor here because of your statement. >> the airport transport association predicts 24 million americans are going to be flying over thanksgiving. for many it will be their first exposure to what a lot of us have been seeing already, newly enhanced airport screening. more than 60 u.s. airports across the country, major airlines and minor airports alike now have advanced imaging technology machines. the transportation security administration says it's got 385 of the machines in place. it expects to have more than 1,000 of them in operation just by the end of next year.

they are walk through x-ray machines that conduct full body scans through your clothes. pilots and a growing number of passengers are raising objections based on modesty and also radiation concerns. the tsa says they're unfounded. well, if you have refuse a full body scan, you can opt for an enhanced patdown. under new rules though tsa agents use the fronts, not the back of their hands and the search includes the breasts and genitalia area. critics call it a virtual strip search. if you refuse to do that you don't fly. the man who made the video ended up going hole without getting on the plane and also said he was threatened with a civil lawsuit. todd curtis, former safety analyst with boeing and the founder and publisher of airsafe.com joins us live from seattle. we've been talking about this all afternoon and really the past couple of days. is it really necessary, todd, to go through all this kind of

screening? >> well, that's the real question because obviously these screening devices work well. they are designed to do what they do and do it very well and the pat-down searches certainly could find contraband on a person's body. but unless there's a real danger and threat communicated or the intelligence services have said, hey, here's a problem here, we should screen people more carefully because someone is going to do something right now, without a warning like that that seems to be excessive for those passengers. >> we talk about 24 million flying this thanksgiving. i don't think they really have a clue how invasive this can be. the body scanner certainly goes right through your clothes. the pat-down that i have seen is downright -- looks like a violation really. and what you're saying is what a lot of safety experts have said. what is the basis for doing this so quickly in the process when there's no information that this particular passenger is a threat.

>> again, that's been my point for quite some time. there are a lot of tools for security and some of them are very invasive. some of them aren't and they should be used in an appropriate manner. what i think i'm seeing is the public is reacting at what they see as an inappropriate use of technology. >> tsa says the technology aspect of this is completely safe. do you buy that? >> well, when it comes to radiation, there is no safe level of exposure. zero is the only level that i think everyone can agree with as being safe. beyond that, there's some health risks that may not be known for years or decades. >> have you been aware of any testing that the tsa has done in advance to kind of determine medically speaking if this is a large amount of radiation or a little? >> no, i haven't seen anything from the tsa. more importantly, i haven't seen anything from more appropriate government agencies that might be involved with this kind of testing -- the fda, cdc, et cetera, the folks who are the medical experts in this.

>> there is a growing backlash among the population at least that i'm feeling. but the tsa is all powerful at the airport. you either add here to our procedures or you don't fly. secretary napolitano said virtually the same thing today, that it was either tsa screenings or find another method of transportation. is there any government entity that can look upon tsa and say, hey, you know what, we think you need to back off here or change your policies? >> i don't think it's any one agency that will be responsible for changing policies because when it comes to airline security, there are a lot of stakeholders. the government is clearly one stakeholder. passengers are another stakeholder. i think what we're seeing now is a situation where the passengers until now haven't had that much of a direct voice in policymaking are stet stepping up in a mostly uncoordinated fashion and saying enough is enough. >> are we any safer with these machines than a month and a half ago? >> we're safer in that there's another tool out there that can

discover some bombs and some other contraband that can be put on the airplane. so clearly more tools are good. but the implementation of this tool and the other policies around it may not make us more safe in that it may lead to a backlash of people not flying, for instance, or trying to circumvent the system deliberately or, i'm afraid, making the bad guys out there smarter about things. >> todd curtis, thanks for joining us from seattle. appreciate it. take care. as you may know george w. bush making the rounds promoting his memoir "decision points." in numerous interviews he touched on major issues in his eight years in office -- the decision to invade iraq and afghanistan, the massive bailout of several major companies and last night bush and his brother former florida governor jeb bush sat down with cnn's candy crowley. bush again responded to questions about his domestic and foreign policy but also shed light on personal feelings for his dad, former president george

h.w. bush. it's today's sound effect and makes reference to lee atwater who ran his father's 1988 campaign. >> what she's referring to is the time dad had us at camp david and we questioned lee's loyalty. jeb issued the great line that said if there's a grenade rolling next to dad, lee, we expect you to dive on it first. >> beating us to it. >> because we love our dad. and it's hard for people to understand that -- how much we admire him and how much we love him and how much our admiration for him motivated us to go into public service. >> bush dismissed the criticism that he took his eye off the ball in the early stages of the afghan war. critics charge that happened when the u.s. invaded iraq, turning its focus away from afghanistan and allowing the taliban to regroup as a strong, determined fighting force there. bush instead blames some nato members who had troops on the ground, claiming they were not willing to fight.

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also developed chair sensors to see if kids are slumping or sitting up straight which can show their level of interest.

they've given kids wrist bands that measure how much kids are sweating to detect their stimulation levels. they even program computer mice that measure squeeze level which can show if a student is angry or stressed. all these great ideas to help kids learn. the woman behind it all, dr. beverly park-wolfe joining me from d.c. i don't want to be in your chair. you're going to know all my secrets. does it really work? >> yes. we have been able to correlate what the student says about their own emotion, so we ask the student do you feel frustrated in do you feel angry, rough interested? and the senses detect that at about 80% accuracy. >> and what is the -- you're not advocating wiring up every classroom in the united states, are you? >> no. >> so what are you using this for? >> so first we use the sensors to make a model. so it's a computational model in the system of when the student looks frustrated.

that can be detected by if they get the last three problems wrong, if they race through hints to just see the answer. so we can make this model that figures out if they're from us traded and compare that with the sensors and we clearly want to wean ourselves from the sensors because we don't want to wire up every classroom. we've taken that model in other classrooms and validated the model used with different students in different classrooms still works. so we're just after this model. >> you have a classroom let's say of 25 to 30 kids. not everybody is stimulated or engaged by the same thing. so if i'm the teacher and you, doctor, come to me with your evidence or your research, what am i supposed to do with that? >> well, we're helping you to find out what topic p students know and don't know. so, for instance, the student we're talking about is now working on a system and learning mathematics and doing problems or physics problems and you are the teacher and we're giving you information about how much they're learning and which

topics they're learning. in other words, if we find there's a topic that nobody is getting right on all of these systems we let you know. instantly the teacher knows which topics the students are doing well, enjoying, not enjoying. it's not apart from a system that also teaches. >> i have to think some old school teachers already inherently know all this stuff and just can scan the room and engage what's happening. you're saying no? >> no. i say absolutely. that is what we are modeling. i would love to take the model teacher, the expert teacher and put that into our computers. we've constantly been enamored of beautiful teachers who know what they're doing in the classroom. that's what we're trying to duplicate. what we can do every teacher can have this assistant who is this ideal teacher that can detect emotion and every teacher can now use the system to help them because they have 30 people in front of them. it's easy enough to do one-on-one. you have to do that. but 30 you can't keep track of

it. this system keeps track of those who should go ahead because they're doing marvelously and ready for college mathematics. others that don't have the prerequisites get on other problems and others that need to slow down completely. the system is trying to give the message to the teacher so the teacher can orchestrate the system better. if i can go on to larger issues. this is one system we use. there are several systems in the country that are doing as well as this one and we see 10%, 20% increase in grades for the systems that are being used. we see two-letter grade improvements. what we are looking at -- i think we call it a classroom of one. a place where students can go for the technology that will improve what they're doing and they get the personalization that they need and also you understand about how kids are so social now, they are constantly talking with each other and working with each other. but if you look at our classrooms, our classrooms are

training people to sit alone, do their home work alone. what we'd like is for people to clab rate to be social. these systems allow students to work together and of course to chat together and see each other's home work actually. kids think they're cheating but we're trying to get them to collaborate because the 21st century needs people who know how to collaborate and lead and work together. >> there you go. thank you so much. wired classroom. i wonder if you could make it interactif and give the kids a jolt if they're not paying attention. >> i want to give them games. no, jolts. but i think we can do games. >> thanks so much for joining us. >> you're welcome. can you guess why cnn's dr. sanjay gupta is rocking and rolling in that tiny room? what are you doing, sanjay? tdd# 1-800-345-2550 tdd# 1-800-345-2550 but the moment they had my money? nothing. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 no phone calls, no feedback, tdd# 1-800-345-2550 no "here's how your money's doing." tdd# 1-800-345-2550 i mean what about a little sign that you're still interested? tdd# 1-800-345-2550 come on, surprise me!

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how many times have we reported on deadly earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes. they happen all the time often without warning. can we do anything to prepare for the next time? that's been the focus of the world health organization's global forum taking place in the japanese city of kobe. kobe rebuilt from a devastating earthquake years ago and authorities there say their city is about as close now to being earthquake-proof as you can get. cnn's dr. sanjay gupta explains why. >> reporter: there's something known as urbanization. it's the concept that half the world's population now lives in cities that is expected to go dramatically up over the next couple of decades. they're the most vulnerable to health problems and natural

disasters. there are lessons to be learned which is what the w.h.o. global forum is all about here in kobe. we're looking at some of those lessons. here's what we found. would you even know what to do if you found yourself in the middle of that? what we're experiencing is a 6.9 magnitude earthquake. they'll tell you to go into the corner of the room structured the most sounds. stay away from glass. cover your hands and face, get under a table if you have to, something to protect yourself. of course all of this is just a simulation and that's what you need to do as an individual. but given that so many people live in urban centers all across the world how do you recover and rebuild after something like that? that's exactly the question they were asking themselves in kobe, japan, in 1965. a 6.9 magnitude earthquake just like that one 20 seconds in length. 200,000 buildings gone, 5,000 lives lost. a lot of work to do to try to rebuild this place. kobe did it in less than ten

years and now they serve as a model for the rest of the world. a lot of lesson have been learned. for example, don't put all your disaster resources in one particular area. also, try and engage the survivors of an earthquake as much as possible in the rebuilding process. and finally, hospitals, they have to be able to stay open and functioning even after an earthquake. of course there are the buildings. the awful images like this one. remember 200,000 went down. this was one of them. take a look at what it looks like now. this is the same building rebuilt just quickly after the earthquake. what do they do specifically? they use materials here to try to ice late this building from the ground and the shaking that accompanies an earthquake. they also use metal plates to allow the building to move as well as materials that sort of allow this building to sway if the building is shaking. it's by no means perfect and kobe officials ai 80% is rebuilt. there are problems. narrow thoroughfares like this

would be tough to navigate and these buildings could come down into the streets making rescues that much more difficult. but the balance is always there. trying to maintain what japan has been for hundreds of years in the middle of all this reconstruction. and, drew, i can tell you it is sort of human nature to wait for a tragedy to occur before anybody does anything about it. preplanning, that's really the name of the game. that's what we're learning so far. we're going to have much more from kobe all week long. back to you. >> all right. that's sanjay gupta. checking some other top stories now. a new week and new headache for australian airliner qantas. one of their planes had to make an emergency landing in sydney today, smoke in the cockpit. the airline blaming an electrical fault. it was not one of the airbus a-380s. cholera's rapidly spread alarming health workers in haiti seeing seven or eight times the cases they saw days ago. the death toll there from cholera at 950 people.

police in southern california are hunting for the driver of a car that caused a deadly crash. five people killed in saturday's accident. the wanted driver had moved into the oncoming lane to pass a group of motorcyclists. well, that put him on a collision course with a car coming from the opposite direction. the second car swerved to avoid a head-on crash and plowed into those motorcycles instead. giant bubbles that pierce through the galaxy. they are 25,000 light years tall. you've got to see this one. we are going way "off the radar" right after this. p mnh-mnh. oh gosh! woo! it's this drab one-tone hair color, ick. yeah. let's szush it up. [ gigi ] try nice 'n easy with colorblend technology. in one simple step, get a blend of tones and highlights. so even in this lovely light, nice 'n easy comes to life with dimension. instead of drabulous... i love it! shhhhh. [ gigi ] ...you look fabulous with tones and highlights. nice 'n easy. your right color.

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weather across the country and i guess you know, fall, winter mix going on. ♪ it's a rainy night in georgia ♪ >> it's a rainy day and going to be a rainy night. alabama, georgia, mississippi wk tennessee and the carolinas. >> get in your car and crash into something. >> no, that's denver, colorado. they're doing that. snowing across parts of the i-25 corridor and up to the twin cities. rain atlanta down to montgomery. you've lived in atlanta long enough to know when it just drizzles, traffic takes three hours to get home. so in this rain you might want to leave now so you can get home by tomorrow morning. literally. >> no doubt. >> it can be that bad across parts of the deep south. temperatures are amazing. 45 in nashville to 77 in jacksonville. it's a long drive but still there. the rain is right along the separation between the cold and the warm right here and that separation is right over

atlanta, georgia. back to the northwest. snow. >> yes, sir. >> lots of snow. from cut bank up to the canadian rockies right on down into denver and they're already skiing at most of the major snow ski resorts in colorado and utah all the way up to jackson hole opening not early, but it seems early. >> they always hope for thanksgiving at least. >> they're well within thanksgiving. they should have plenty of snow. i don't see any warm-ups to melt all that. looks like if you're heading for thanksgiving to one of those ski resorts you should have very good ski weather. >> what's the weather like in the way out atmosphere of "off the radar"? >> "off the radar" about. >> got something wacky today. get your electronic desk ready because you're going to need to pay attention to this. >> get your gamma rays right here. this is what we can see. this little bit of the spectrum that we can see. spectrum in philadelphia, didn't they used to play hockey?

red, orange, yellow, green, blue and vaio let. but if you go down here you can cook things with longer waves called microwaves. down here you can send transmissions on radio waves. but up here gamma rays are very, very small but very, very high in energy. and gamma rays are what nasa found in the middle of our galaxy. here is nasa tv. if you want to look at this, at 2:30 they're going to have another press conference about this. go to nasa.gov and go to public channel and media channel. if you lick on media channel you'll be able to see literally live the media conference going on there. but here's what i'll explain to you what they're going to explain it and try to do it in smaller terms where maybe fifth and sixth graders can understand it. you think about milky way galaxy. i think about a candy bar.

galaxy kind of doing that way, this way. something like a hurricane. it's kind of spinning out there but it's flat, right. we think about our mickl milky galaxy being flat. what scientists have just found are lobes of giant gamma rays right here that stick out 25,000 light years. you can turn the lights on in your house and immediately they come on. light goes so very fast. from this side here to this side here 50,000 light yerls across. not quite -- look at that -- >> is that energy? what is that? >> well, those are electrons banging into other things with x-ray emissions and gamma ray emissions never seen before. this was all kind of in the clutter. couldn't see it but now the ferme telescope people have been able to find this and filter out all the other things in the galaxy. here's the milky way. we're flattening it out. >> what they're saying is this

is light somehow hitting electrons, right? >> we don't know where the electrons are coming from. but when they come in they bounce and bounce out as gamma rays. it's an amazing -- you want to talk about force field. remember the "star trek," "star wars" force field, this is an amazing force field through the middle of the galaxy. >> you wouldn't want to go walking through there. >> it's a long walk. >> all right. you got me. well, we're learning everything today. here's what we've got for you next. you know that lady in myanmar held 15 years in her house, aung san suu kyi? she is now reaching out to her captors. you want to listen to this coming up. y breakfast helps kids be their best. we think it probably helps teachers be their best too. quaker instant oatmeal. does your breakfast make you amazing?

time for "globetrekking." first new delhi, india. officials reporting 32 people killed. a building has collapsed. dz dos have been injured. they're digging for survivors now. the five-story building apparently collapsed perhaps because the foundation weakened from rainwater from this year's heavy monsoons. we're going to follow that story and bring updates when we get more information a. veilable to us. now to myanmar. she was held in detention for 15 of the past 21 years. she's a nobel peace laureate aung san suu kyi. she is offering a sand of reconciliation to the country's military leaders. those are the guys who held her. it am could on the third day of freedom from house arrest. yesterday she spoke to thousands of jubilant supporters and in an interview with cnn suu kyi said the key is working with the military government. >> we have to work together.

that is the main message. those inside the country have to work together and also those of us forces outside. >> what do you plan to do next? will you revive your party, the nld? >> we would like to -- we would like to form a network of people working for democracy, not just the nld but others who are interested in bringing about necessary change. >> do you plan to challenge the legitimacy of the elections recently held in myanmar? >> we didn't contest the elections, so we have nothing to do with the elections. but we have formed a committee to look into allegations of fraud and all kinds of vote-rigging, which you probably have heard of. and we're doing it in the name of the rule of law. >> i think she's still speaking out. she says she isn't thinking

about the possibility she'll be detained again. she says, i just do what i can do at the moment. turning now to the war in afghanistan, more signs of trouble between the u.s. and the afghan alliance. the commander of u.s. forces there, general david petraeus, he's saying the relationship could be untenable if afghan's president hamid karzai insists american military operations be sharply reduced. petraeus responding to karzai's comments published in the "washington post" yesterday. karzai told a newspaper the time has come to reduce military operations to reduce the intrusiveness into the daily afghan life. oceans told "the post" that petraeus expressed astonishment and disappointment with karzai's call. well, she is just a lady with a crochet hook and big old giant heart on her. today's "mission possible." hats for the homeless straight ahead. first we are giving you the top words of 2010 from global language monitor.

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after long last, the top two phrases of 2010, number two, climate change. what they used to call global warming. number one phrase from 2010, anger and rage. according to global language monitor it's characterization of the electorate by pundits. they say after closer look it probably should be frustration and disappointment.

here's our top storeies. a british couple arrived in kenya after the release from more than a year in captivity. paul and rachel chandler were kidnapped from their yacht by somali pirates. somali elders say $50,000 in ransom was paid. the family won't comment. the final vote count shows that arizona voters approved legalizing medical maenge. according to officials the november 2 nldz vote was 51.7% in favor and 49.8% opposed. an auction over the weekend raised $2 million for victims of convicted bernie madoff. madoff in prison serving a 150-year sentence for running a multibillion dollars ponzi

scheme. time for "mission possible" when we try to put om spotlight on somebody making a difference in their community, even beyond. today we want to take our hats off to this oregon woman who spent most of the year on a simple but heartfelt project and crocheted more than 300 winter hats for homeless people in the area. with thermometers starting to dip she's determined to get them out asap and keep on crocheting. >> i don't have a whole lot of money. i just have a lot of yarn and a lot of time. and i can -- i can do this. and if they can use it, that's where it's at. it keeps me out of trouble. >> i bet those are warm hats, too. jan says the local mission told her they'd find a head for every hat she and her crochet hook could make. well, the top republican in the senate says he is going to shift course and say good-bye to earmarks. we're going to explain that in our political update next.

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we continue to follow breaking news out of new delhi where a building has collapsed, the death toll climbing there, rescuers digging right now in the rubble searching for possible survivors. cnn's sarah sidener joining us live from new delhi. what can you tell us about not only the latest unfortunate death count but if there are any other potential buildings that might be in danger there. >> reporter: well, we were able to speak with new delhi's fire service and they told us that now the death toll is at 32. 40 people have been injured and taken to the hospital. and we're hearing from delhi's

chief minister saying this is an unprecedented tragedy she cannot remember happening in the recent past. we have a five-story building that collapsed around 8:15 in the evening. it's been five hours and authorities say there are still about two dozen people that they believe are still trapped underneath that rubble and there is a massive effort to try and lift some of these huge concrete slabs, the floors and the ceiling of this building up so they can try to get to those who they believe are underneath. we are hearing now they have about 200 to 300 rescue crews that are out there doing this work. this has been a very, very difficult monsoon. it's been a very heavy monsoon here this year, a lot of buildings sustaining water damage. and there is concern that this may be part of the cause of this collapse. also concern this may be an unauthorized building not built properly and that investigation of course will start to happen first. first they're just concentrating and trying to get those who were

trapped out. >> sarah, at this point, any warning that this was about to happen or something was happening to this building? >> reporter: that's what authorities are trying to figure out. what we've been hearing from the chief minister is that there was water that was in the basement for days. and she said that should never have been left there for days and that's information we're getting from her. she's saying this could be a very dangerous situation. this building is located near the yummina river which flows through delhi. there had been floods there in october. she talked a lot about the fak that there may have been water in this basement that may have caused this building to collapse but no one is sure how this happened but certainly a tragedy here in new delhi. >> sarah sidner joining us from new delhi. thank you for that breaking news. to washington, d.c. john king is there with our political update. mitch mcconnell in the senate wearing off earmarks?

this seems new to me. he wasn't part of the whole earmark reform before, was he? >> no, drew. as of sun up this morning he was part of the let's keep earmarks movement. so this is dramatic change from the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell and proof to cynical voters politicians do listen. he went through his long history of support for earmarks, talked about how he thinks most of the projects are actually pretty good spending decisions by the congress on behalf of the taxpayers but said he's listening, the voters clearly sending a message especially conservative voters who elected the house of representatives. they don't want that anymore. he'll join the house republican leadership. now the senate and house republicans hand in hand supporting a moratorium on earmarks. those are projects the congressmen specifically write. maybe a bridge to nowhere or a courthouse where congressmen specifically write in. mccouldn't a converted to on the earmark issue. he's on the floor because congress is back for a lame duck

session. we had the election and the republicans will run the house come january but for now nancy pelosi is still the speaker. the democrats run the house and have the majority in the senate and back for a couple of weeks trying to debate what to do. here are a couple of items on the potential agenda. they isn't settled but might have a debate whether to extends some or all of the bush tax cuts. that will be a big subject when they meet with the president. "don't ask, don't tell," the military policy on gays serving openly. some democrats want to bring it up for a vote. the s.t.a.r.t. treaty the president negotiated with russia. he would like to pass that but some conservatives say no. almost at the end of 2010 and people coming up with top ten lists. here's one top ten word list. spill cam from the bp oil spill, vuvuzela and sarah palin for refeudiate. one other, shellacking, the term

used on election night and the president used at his post election news conference to describe what it felt like to be a democrat this election season. >> you talked about the lame duck session. there's a lot of things to do. but can they do even one or two of those things? based on your observations,s what the most important thing they need to do? >> the biggest question is whether they can cut a compromise on the bush tax cuts. obviously they need to pass the spending bills to keep the government up and running. that will get done. then bigger questions. harry reid promised a vote on the dream act that would give young children who came to this country illegally if they go to college they could get a path to citizenship. "don't ask, don't tell" very controversial but one thing we know they'll debate is the bush tax cuts whether to extend them or cut a temporary deal. >> john king in washington. thanks. most of our lives are pretty much ruled by e-mail these days. so who do you think is the most popular service in the world for e-mail?

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send facebookers and non-facebookers alive. josh levs one of the big facebookers -- >> we'll have to make some calls. if you want that drew@facebook.com may be taken. this could be huge. facebook has 500 million users and major e-mail providers out there in the world. what facebook is announcing is they'll have e-mail inside the messaging system. this is part of the announcement. what they're talking about is creating a system when you're on facebook whether mobile or computer you can write to people not on facebook. right now it only lets you communicate with others on facebook but they're turning it into e-mail so you can write an e-mail to anyone. there's a few other things they're saying will be part of the messaging system. one of them they're saying they'll set it up so you don't have to think about how your kids like to be in touch with

you. the system will automatically know. all you do is type the message to them. it gets to them. also they say they'll keep a full conversation history so you can look back. they're talking about how they're jealous of the next generation who will have in some cases an entire history of every piece of communication they had with anyone. >> look at that information you want to say. awesome, cya, all right. people will study this and translate it into english later. >> they say the messages you want in this system so they'll set up basically whether he a message comes in all of your friends' message will be in one place and everybody else in another place. they're trying to take e-mail and capitalize it by turning it into something better than the e-mail systems you have. >> this is about domination. they just want you no the to leave facebook ever. >> why would you. look at these figures.

worldwide hotmail is the leader, 362 million unique visitors in the month of september. yahoo! 273 million. gmail 193 million. since i have it i'm going to show you what it's like just in our country. in our country yahoo! is the leader with 44% of the traffic. hotmail 30%, google 15%. these are the companies keeping a close eye on this that have something to lose as this takes off. read all about it on facebook also my facebook and twitter pages. they say they'll roll it out in the next few weeks. you can start to sign up for your e-mail address and your address will be your vanity profile. mine would be josh levs@facebook.com. if you're on there that's your address. some aviation theme "odds & ends" arriving shortly. find out how a tattoo and tweet got travelers in trouble. ♪

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the captain and crew saying that another passenger reported him for suspicious behavior. specifically it was the tattoo across eight of his fingers spelling out atom bomb. well, adam patiently explained it refers to a childhood nickname. not an obsession with explosives. eventually they did let adam return to his seat. a guy in england getting much harsher treatment over a tweet. paul chambers trying to catch a flight but a huge snowstorm shut him and his airport down. so he jokingly tweetings, roibin hood airport is closed, you've got a week to get your bleep together. otherwise, i'm blowing the airport sky high. that was dumb. an airport official happened to see it, sounding the alarm. paul was arrested and convicted of causing a menace and he just lost a big appeal. well, folks on twitter have sense jumped to his defense retweeting that original message going even a step further sending out their own mock threats to blow stuff up.