good morning, everyone. live from studio 7 at cnn world headquarters, the news and information you need for this tuesday, november 23rd. north korea lobs heavy artillery

at south korea, perhaps the most serious since the 1953 korean truce. the government says the fuss over full body scans and pat-downs is hyped. some passengers aren't buying it. >> i think it's ridiculous and i think the pat-downs have gotten -- if he did it to me, he'd go to jail. and a tennessee soldier returns frommed war in afghanistan as ston niching his shocked family. >> a surprise two-week leave. >> the surprise homecoming goes down at an nfl game. >> is. >> i'm tony harris. those stories and your comments right here in the cnn newsroom. we begin with breaking news. we are standing by awaiting news the of aruba. there was a jaw bone frag meant found on the island and it was sent to the netherlands for analysis. we are waiting for a

determination from the prosecutor's office. prosecutor's office to tell us what the results of the testing have indicated, and this is the critical question. is that jaw bone linked to the natalee holloway case? our martin savidge is on the island and when we get any indication of any news when this press release, this statement is released, we will, of course, get to marty and bring you that information as soon as we get it. we begin with the escalating tension between north and south korea, two countries technically at war. north korea was showing you have its nuclear facilities. the north fired artillery toward the seaboarder, shelling an island in the yellow sea. officials say it killed two south korean troops and wounded 15 others.

the south fired back and deployed fighter jets. the usda has more than 28,000 troop s stationed in south kore. chris lawrence is here with us. chris, north korea says its toirltial waters were violated by south korean shells which landed essentially in their pond? is that why it attacked? >> reporter: sort of. the south koreans were in the middle of a training exercise. i spoke with a defense official here at the pentagon who said this exercise has been planned for some time and the south koreans innormed north korea before they fired the first artillery shell, so he says the firing of the artillery should not have come as a surprise to north korea but as the south started the drill, that angered the north, and the north with three separate barrages started shelling the island in south

korea, and then south korea responded. hundreds of rounds were fired between the two of them over the course of about an hour, hour and a half and i was told that defense secretary robert gates just got back from an overseas trip around midnight. he was briefed on the situation and was scheduled to speak with his counterpart in south korea by the end of this morning. the reason americans are worried or concerned about this is because the war between the two koreas never officially ended. they signed an armistice but the u.s. is still pledged to defend south korea and there are tens of thousands of american troops there. more than 50 u.s. naval vessels there. that's why, obviously, the american people have a stake in what happens over in that area. >> secretary gates is it getting briefed on this. aside from that, has there been an official response to all of this from the pentagon as of yet? >> no. if you're talking about any sort

of escalation of force or moving more naval vessels to that area, nothing like that. they're talking with their south korean counterparts, i was toll. the phrase is "taking stock of the situation." they're saying, look, this just happened, they're still trying to fit the pieces together but as of right now, nothing that would escalate the situation further. >> chris lawrence at the pentagon for us. thank you. a quick reminder for those of you who don't necessarily remember your korean war history. korea was divided into the north and south at the end of world war ii. five years later, the north invaded the south hoping to unite the entire peninsula under communist rule. three years later in 1953, an armistice was signed ending the fighting, but there was no peace treaty and technically, the

korean war is still not over. let's get back to aruba. martin savidge is on the phone with us. my understanding is we may be close to getting some kind of a statement from the prosecutor's office? >> reporter: that's correct. we have been told it could be momentarily, that there is a statement that's going to be coming from the prosecutor's office. it will come in two ways, one transmitted electronically by e-mail and a hard copy of some sort, and then we anticipate that the solicitor general will then come out for aruba and deliver that statement and perhaps take questions from reporters. you know, of course, all of this dates back to the jaw bone that was discovered on about the 12th of november by tourists. it was turned into the hotel desk of the devry phoenix hotel. they turned it over to authority, and they turned it over to the authors in the hague

in the netherlands, and they have been putting it through forensic testing ever since to determine if, one, it's human. it's believed it is. and then the most important question, is it directly related to the natalee holloway disappearance case. >> when you get anything on this, give us a heads up. let's take a break. [ male announcer ] opportunity is a powerful force. set it in motion... and it goes out into the world like fuel for the economy. one opportunity leading to another... and another. we all have a hand in it. because opportunity can start anywhere, and go everywhere.

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we are standing by for news out of the aruba's prosecutor's office. as you know, there was a jaw bone found on the island. it's been sent to the netherlands for an examination first to determine, as you heard from marty savidge, whether or not it is a human jaw bone and then frankly whether or not it is natalee holloway's jaw bone. that's the news we're waiting for right now. we expect that shortly in some kind of a statement. maybe the prosecutor will come out of his or her office to make the statement. maybe it will be a written statement. we will share it with you. you are packing your bags in

many cases, heading out, or waiting for your loved ones to arrive. it is a big travel week across the country. jacqui jeras is watching everything from the travel desk. it starts today, and i know it picks up in ernest tomorrow. >> tomorrow is the busiest of all of the days, and we have a lot of weather. >> reporter: dealted travel problems. today the problems are volume related. we have delays in teeter borrow, new jersey. they have runway issues going on. two of the worst problems today, salt lake city, utah, the temperature 37 degrees, wind gusts of 36 miles per hour. a blizzard warning kicks in around 3:00 this afternoon. if you have to be somewhere in salt lake city later today or tomorrow, you have to go now because it will be impossible to travel later on today. we are trying to get things

moving in nashville, tennessee. very cloudy and overcast. showers and thunderstorms expected through thursday, and there are multiple accidents around town. big accidents around:-24 and i-40. >> good to see you. britain's royal couple announced wedding details today. prince william and kate middleton will marry april 29th. it will be a national holiday. the bill is expected to be $20 million. british taxpayers will cover security costs. making news around the nation right 2340u, bed bugs in a southern indiana hospital. health officials say the unwanted visitors have shown up in two patient rooms in bloomington hospital. they are using heaters to try to kill the blood suckers and their eggs. warning are out in boca

raton, florida, about an aggressive otter. they are worried it may be rabid and they are trying to trap it. gulf coast casino workers are demanding more from bp. they are picturing outside the claims facility and saying they are tired of demanding claims for compensation that they say are legitimate. >> i have lost almost $9,000 for the year to date and they want to say it was because of the economy and not due to the fact that thousands of tourists during our best months did not come down to the gulf coast. today is the last day to file an maefrps payment claim for financial losses caused by the gulf oil disaster. the head of the bp claims fund, kenneth feinberg, is promising lump sum checks to individuals and businesses who file by midnight tonight. the people who accept the money give up their right to sue bp later. just how much has the bp fund paid out so far?

about $2 billion to more than 125,000 individuals and business businesses. >> brad childress is fired and after all of the hype, the miami heat are an average team. the great michelle beadle joining us to tell us why the heat are so average. let's do this in a couple of minutes. >> all right.

let's see here. the minnesota vikings fire head coach brad childress, and when lebron james and chris bosh joined wade in south beach, the miami heat was supposed to be an instant championship contender. they are so far an average ball club. espn's michelle beadle. where are you in buffalo? >> i'm in buffalo. matt said he was going to help fan me off, but i don't know when that's starting. >> you need these handlers. good to see you. you do a terrific job on that show. >> thanks. >> what's the story with the heat? the record is 8-6. lebron says they're not having a whole lot of fun right now. what's going on? >> it has been an interesting project so far. you know, i was a lebron fan before the decision last summer, so for me it's been one of those

180s that i had in the spores world. i'm leading the hate wagon against the heat. it's fun to watch. they don't have a big man. they are not playing like a team. the bench had four points last night. dwyane wade hit one shot. this isn't what everyone had in mind when they said big three in south beach and if you are a big fan of karma, this is what we're seeing happen right now. >> who takes the hit for this? they're going to get a beatdown tonight. aren't they playing orlando in orlando? >> they handed it to orlando last time they played each other. 22 points they beat them by. i don't see this being the same miami team. i don't know who takes the hit? what you're seeing on the court is not what the coach is putting on the boards. they are trying to play one on one ball and that's not going to happen. this could be a great ball, magic playing them. i think orlando is looking for

serious revenge at this point. >> let's talk about brad childress, the minnesota vikings lost season. you are getting you a kinds of reports from insiders in the camp talking about how the team just didn't like childress, that he had lost the locker room. any surprise? should it have come earlier? >> i think maybe that's the surprise, that it didn't come earlier. it feels as though he's been a dead man walking for quite a few weeks. it's weird because he wanted brett favre there and brett favre stave saved sis job. now the anonymous players who don't want to put their names on their hate for coach childress. it's too late for this season. i'm sure brett favre is done. never say never with number four. it's hard to walk into a locker room knowing half of the guys hate you but you don't know who

it is. >> ben roethlisberger decides to jump in here and richard seymour says, you know what, big kids play here. this is where the men play. all right. sit down, children are seen and not heard. have some ground. c'mon, you loved this moment, beadle, c'mon. >> i love this moment. i'm not fooling anyone when i'm saying i'men unbiassed journalist. i'm a sports fan. watching ben roethlisberger get slapped in the face was great. seymour got a $25,000. it's his second offense, so he got a fine. they are saying, he should be suspended, james harrison being one of them since he's been writing checks all season long. it was a pretty good moment as far as the week was concerned. >> tell everyone when your show is on the air. you do a terrific job.

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so we understand that the analysis is in on the jaw bone that was found on the aisle of aruba on or about the 12th of this month. marty satisfy individual is standing outside the prosecutor's office and waiting for the results to be made public. when we get that information, of course, it goes without saying, we'll share that with you. stocks all around the world are selling off today, in asia, europe and here at home. carter evans is on the new york stock exchange floor with the

details. how much goes back to what's happening on the korean peninsula? >> certainlily is a lot of it goes ba, to what happened in south korea. wall street hates uncertainty, and there is a lot of uncertainty there right now, and you can see it clearly reflected in the numbers. the dow down about 152 points. not a good thing today but we did get good news today. we did find out the second revision on our third quarter gross domestic product is higher. the economy grew at a rate of 2.5% and that's good news. >> that's good news. is it where we thought it would be? you would think if it's a good number, we would see a little pop in the positive direction on the dow? was it baked in? >> well, you know, it's all relative. yes, it's where we thought it would be but no it's not good enough. let me show you how bad it got

at its worse in the fourth quarter of 2008. down 6.8%. we were in a recession. economy was receding. analysts say we need to see a gdp of 5% to see the unemployment rate go down. >> wow. carter, so with the trend lines here, this is obviously a good thing. what's working well in the economy right now? >> okay. what's working well is we're seeing people spending more but we need to see more of that. we're seeing bigger exports but we need to see more of that. three words bottom line bigger faster stronger. that's what we need for the economy right now. >> good to see you. a rare sight in november. tornadoes. we will show you which states took a pretty big hit and face a really significant cleanup.

just like you, we are online looking fought for trending stories to get them on the air. sandra endo covering that area of what's hot right now. what are you finding? >> a lot is trending today. check this out. eagles quarterback, michael vick on a redemption tour of sorts and crazy huge numbers on the field. now he is going back into the communities and he's going to two schools in connecticut to talk to high school students about the brutality of dog fighting and an mool cruelty. it's a joint event with the humane society. he was suspended in 2007 and thrown into prison to serve a nearly two-year sentence for

bank rolling a virginia dog fighting reasoning. he was released in may and picked up by the eagles and vowed to turn his life around. good news for him. that's trending on cnn.com. >> he is in this conversation for most valuable player of the nfl. so we'll see where that goes. is that the number one item or is there something else? >> michael vick cleaning up its image. this guy has an image problem, actor charlie sheen. he's getting sued and now he's countersuing. it all stems from his wild night at a new york city hotel when he was with a porn actress, capri anderson. she says she was hired to escort him to a dinner and he was heavily drinking and using a white powdery substance and later put his hands around her neck, and she was fearing for her life. so she slapped him with a

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long-awaited statement. >> reporter: correct, tony. the information is that the bone that was discovered on the beach november 12th is not, i repeat, is not natalee holloway. that, of course, had been the speculation ever since the discovery was found by tourists and turned over to authorities and send to the hague for forensic examination. the testing has come back and shows it does not belong in any way to natalee holloway, the missing teenager from alabama, whose case is not torious. hopes were high this would give some insight as to what may have happened to her but authorities say it is not natalee holloway. they have done dental comparisons and dna comparisons and have determined it is not the missing alabama teenager. the question is, who is it and who does it connect to? that is the next part of the investigation authorities are

working on. they are hoping there is enough dna still contained within the bone to determine who, exactly it is because clearly we are talking about someone who is deceased. that is the next effort under way. the question was, is it natalee holloway, and the answer is, no, it is not, that coming from the prosecutor's office just moments ago. we will give you more details as that becomes available. >> oh, boy. marty savidge, appreciate it. thank you. let's get an update on one of our other top stories, the escalation of tensions between north and south korea. stan grant is following developments from south korea. stan, again, we're trying to assess what happens with this story next. is there going to be some kind of an escalation in response to what has happened here? what are you hearing? >> reporter: that is really the unanswerable question right now,

tony. you talk about north korea, it's difficult to predict at the best of times. this is a regime that has been paranoid and concerned as what it sees as provocative measures coming from the united states and south korea. if you look at the language of north korea, they are calling south korea a puppet group, a puppet of the united states and that they were carrying out war exercises, and that's why it retaliated today with shelling of this island about 70 kilometers from where time standing here and north korea says it will respond to any more provocation with military might. it says it will be a merciless military confrontation, and gives you the indication of just how they are ratcheting up the tensions. the south korean leadership trying to find a way forward. what we're hearing from south korea's president is they don't want to respond just with words, either. they want to take this to another level. this has been simmering for a

long time. earlier this year there was an attack on a vessel here in the waters, and 46 south korean sailors were killed. what makes this different is this was an attack on a civilian island. we are now seeing civilians brought into this, an already volatile place now really at knife's edge. >> in this case, we are also talking about the deaths of two south korean troops, and 15 others wounded. that would seem to indicate some kind of response from the international community would be forthcoming. we've heard nothing concrete from the u.s. pentagon at this point. are you hearing anything from other nations in terms of what might be a response to this? >> reporter: no. the united states, of course, doesn't want to relay its alert. it doesn't want to give away what it may do in response to

this, but it's interesting that stephen bosworth is in the region at the moment in crucial talks with china. now, china the closest ally to north korea and say it is like beg like lips and teeth. that's how close it is. if anyone can bring influence to bear on north korea, it would be china. japan also watching it wearily. they have a tense relationship with north korea, and they have talked about shelling tokyo and says it has missiles that could reach tokyo. so this is very much an unknown situation, and when you get north korea with kim jong-il at the helm with his own health problems, looking to a transition to his son and developing their number weapons program. it gives you just an indication of just how fluid and volatile this is, and any reaction from the united states, from japan, south korea, will be seen by north korea as a provocation. >> stan gran, good to see you. as always, thank you.

let us circle back to the news from just moments ago, the jaw bone found on the island of aruba the 12th of this month. the testing has come back and from the netherlands, and we received a statement from the prosecutor's office on the island of aruba just moments ago, that the jaw bone is not that of natalie hallow way. alti. 20 minutes later, she'll bring one into the world in seattle. later today, she'll help an accident victim in kansas. how can one nurse be in all these places? through the nurses she taught in this place. johnson & johnson knows, behind every nurse who touches a life... there's a nurse educator... who first touched them. ♪ you're a nurse ♪ you make a difference ♪

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and our martin savidge. it's my understanding you have the statement from the prosecutor's office on the test results of this bone fragment. why don't you work through that for us, if you don't mind? >> reporter: it's difficult because it was electronically transmitted, and i don't have a device that picks it up. we are anticipating that the solicitor general from aruba will come out. once it was electronically transmitted, he will come out and deliver the statement in person and take our questions. i have reviewed the statement and i can tell you that the way the dend fiction process was made was through dental records, and that's how excluded that this bone belonged to natalee holloway. once that bone was discovered by tourists on the 12th, shortly

thereafter, it was sent to the hague in the netherlands and went through forensic testing by their best people. a request was made of the holloway family for the dental records, and dave holloway made that happen, and they were transmitted to the hague, and that's how they were able to essentially rule out it was natalee holloway. they were looking at things like molars and wisdom teeth and they did not match up in any way and they quickly moved it out. it is human and it clearly belongs to somebody, and how did it happen. do they have a missing person here or a case of foul play? we don't know. it's far to early to speculate. what they will do next is try to glean whatever dna is left in the jaw bone to make some match. they say this bone has been exposed to a lot of weather and been greatly decomposed. we are waiting for an official announcement, someone to come out from the solicit ever

general to make an announcement to us. >> thank you. martin savidge on aruba for us. about 40 million people are heading out this thanksgiving holiday. if your destination is seattle, plan to take it easy. a big storm has slammed into that city and the roads are icy at best as we take a look at pictures from our tower cams around the country. miami, plenty of sunshine in miami, and you can bet that airport is going to be packed. don't forget to pack patience along with the sun screen. government officials say the uproar over full body scans and enhanced pat-downs at airports is hyped. during the first two weeks of enhanced screenings, the tsa says it got about 700 complaints out of 28 million fliers. 700 complaints out of 28 million fliers. still, the debate rages as americans head out for the long

thanksgiving holiday weekend. >> i have no problems doing it, as long as we are secure in america, it's fine. >> we have not had a flight go down since 2001. we have not needed any of these procedures, and i don't believe tsa has ever found a terrorist. >> i get dental x-rays once a year. i understand it's similar to that. i fly probably 50,000 a year. i wouldn't worry one second about it. >> all of the griping over full body scans and pat-downs leads to the question are there other options. we have the director of security at el al in tel aviv's ben gurion's airport. he now works as an aviation security consultant in the washington area. i mention el al because they are widely recognized as having the best procedures for keeping

fliers safe. there are ways to keep your privacy and dignity in check? >> are no perfect opportunities except a different approach that has been implemented in israel for the last 40 years. focused on the passenger himself, trying to realize the level of threat each passenger and adjusting the level of search to the level of risk. most of the general public which does not represent the high risk level is subjected to very standard, relatively low and less intrusive procedures while those that end up on the high end of the risk spectrum can expect to be subjected to even more intrusive procedures than those that we see here. >> those who end up on the high end, get the additional screening. how do they get there?

are they profiled? >> you can use the term profi profiling but i wanted to make sure we all understand we are not talking about racial or ethnic or religious profiling. actually, all of those elements are not really essential in a good, professional security profiling program. and i will just show you a simple straightforward example. if we look at the prisoners that came out of yemen a few weeks ago, and we just look at the information that was involved with those packages as they were sent. first of all, we see printers being exported from yemen to the united states, which already doesn't make a lot of sense, to start with, but the red flag becomes much bigger when you realize that those passengers and printers have been addressed to a jewish synagogue in chicago which doesn't make sense, and

that was enough to draw special attention to that. same principle can be applied with people, and we can pick up a lot. it has been done a lot in the past successfully, many times, and it has proven to be a strong deterring factor for bad guys. >> you also say that an interview process should be added at the airport. >> correct. >> what would that entail and wouldn't that slow things down? you know, americans and travellers don't like to be inconvenienced. >> i'm not suggesting that everybody would be interviewed, of course. what i do suggest, though, is when we do decide to make somebody a selectee for one reason or another, and we find out that we're not satisfied with just by the simple screening process, we need to have the ability to talk to this person at a professional level and find out if there's something else of interest. that was -- that could have been the case with people like

abdulmutallab on christmas day or richard reid years earlier. i'm sure a professional interview would have exposed these people as highly spus spishs. >> thank you for your time. snow in the pacific northwest, no big deal, right? unless you live in seattle. we will look at a city pretty much snowed in right now.

violent storms in oil now? this is, i guess, just one of a serious of tornadoes spotted yesterday. witnesses say one touched down near rockford causing a school bus to roll over.

six children were injured in that accident, and another destroyed several buildings in caledonia, and ripped up transmission towers, knocked down power and knocked it out to about 40,000 homes and businesses. those storms moved east. but what's happening in the seattle area? >> we have snow there. you look at the damage there and it's remarkable there went more injuries. we are certainly lucky and fortunate with that. this storm is pushing east, and it's weakening as it does so but the southern edge is dumping a fair amount of rain across this part of the world here. heavy rain across parts of tennessee and back through parts of alabama. nothing severe there. so that's good news. we don't expect a ton of severe weather today. what's happening in seattle, what happened in the hills of pofrt land, unusual snow for this time of year and pretty much locked down the town of seattle. not going to melt anytime soon. right now, it is coming down.

seattle tower cam. beautiful day, but temperature is like 20 degrees. ferry is still moving but not moving so quickly on the frozen roadways. friends in the emerald city getting hammered as they are in lake tahoe and reno. this is part of that system that dropped through the pacific northwest and is heading to the basin where it is going to be a blizzard. it's been gusting over 30 miles an hour for a good 24 hours in salt lake, and it hasn't begun to snow but it will be that shortly and we're looking a lot of snow piling up. we are looking at this storm to eject north and east but notice it doesn't get to close to the east coast. warm enough for rain. the precip will fall east of the mississippi for the next couple days. minnesota will get another snow and ice storm.

okay. personnel changes for the obama administration, brianna keilar part of the best political team on television live from the white house. personnel changes. tell us more, brianna. >> reporter: that's right, tony. president obama bringing in his former campaign manager, david plouffe, to work alongside his senior adviser david axelrod. before axelrod leaves the white house to go work on obama's re-election. this is coming to us from our

chief white house correspondent ed henry who is telling us axelrod could be leaving sooner than expected, as soon after the state of the union in january and this could be part of a spate of turnovers in the white house. maybe this is just one of them. also on the ticker, let's head to texas. the fate of former house majority leader tom delay now in the hands of a jury. closing arguments held monday in his trial. he's charged with illegally funneling corporate donations to help elect republicans in the tx legislature. he was indicted in 2005, he resigned in 2006. he's actually pleaded not guilty to both money laundering and conspiracy and said this trial is going to exonerate him. we'll certainly see there, tony. and to chicago now. the mayoral race there. the first african-american woman to win a seat in the u.s. senate, she's now thrown her hat into the ring for this race. she's joining a pretty crowded

field with major contends ers including rahm emanuel, all of them jockeying to replace richard daley who has been the mayor of chicago for more than 20 years. all of that on the ticker. >> that's carol moseley brawn that you're speaking of. >> reporter: of course. i didn't say. i buried the lead. >> appreciate it. thank you. your next political update in an hour. for the latest political news, you know where to go, cnnpolitics.com. another heart attack could be lurking, waiting to strike. a heart attack that's caused by a clot, one that could be fatal. but plavix helps save lives. plavix, taken with other heart medicines, goes beyond what other heart medicines do alone, to provide greater protection against heart attack or stroke and even death by helping to keep blood platelets from sticking together and forming dangerous clots. ask your doctor if plavix is right for you. protection that helps save lives. certain genetic factors

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let's take you to aruba now. you're looking at the solicitor general on aruba, and let's listen. >> this bone, that made the exclusion possible. it's a human bone. >> female? >> the experts will not take a guess on that. they say it's too much mixed material here to say whether it was female or male. it's human and it's a young age. that's the only thing they can say. >> so, again, the identification

was made as a result of dental records? >> yes, that's correct. >> the bottom line, natalee holloway didn't have wisdom teeth, but the tooth on the skeleton was a wise wisdom tooth? >> correct. >> can you explain? >> what do you mean? >> what did they find it's proof it's not natalee? >> we obtained the dental records from natalee holloway from the united states. they were sent in last week. late friday in the afternoon they were sent to holland. and during the weekend it had been established that the molar that was in the jawbone that has been found is a wisdom tooth, and from the dental records we got from the united states we learned that with natalee her wisdom teeth had been taken out. >> it was obvious? >> it was obvious. right then and there it was obvious it wasn't natalee. >> can you describe the condition of the bone? >> bad. it's porous. it has been in the water, probably in the water for a very

long time. >> what do you mean by that? how many years? >> i posed the same question to the experts and they said, we cannot tell. i cannot tell either. >> what happens next? >> within the investigation into the disappearance of natalee holloway, this is, well, business as usual. we go on examining every lead we get. every information we get will be examined. and as to this particular bone we are now checking together with police whether or not we have missing humans which we can match with this material. >> do you have missing people? >> there are a few people missing, but we have no information as yet if they can be matched with this material. >> from the prosecution's point of view, this has been another moment where we get expectation and then -- >> well -- >> what does this do for your investigation? >> the investigation is ongoing, as i'm saying, and even if this bone would have been natalee's,

this wouldn't have brought us a step closer to what has happened because the material present would not have given us any leads into the cause of her death. so in that respect it wouldn't have mattered any much, anything more. it's only for the family that this is another tragedy that they still don't have closure, and that is a bad thing, of course. >> what was the ups and downs? there have been so many of them in this case. >> yeah, what about them? i cannot say very much about that. it's a prolonged investigation. i know that. a hell of a lot has been done, and at this point in time we have no new leads to proceed upon. >> have the parents of natalee holloway been personally notified on this? >> we have notified their lawyer, and he is the one who will notify them. >> there is a name of a woman that is a missing person in this area. does that name ring a bell at all? >> no, not to me.

>> there are reports that another bone had been found on another part of the beach. >> another bone has been found and presented to the police and we have had this bone looked at by a pathologist and he determined that it was not human. so we're not investigating that any further. >> was there any notification given to joran van der sloot or his attorneys? >> no. there's no reason to do so at the moment. >> we had heard several months ago arub yan authorities would be going lima to meet with joran van der sloot. are there plans? >> there are no specific plans at the moment. not as long as joran is not giving any valuable information. up until now nothing he has said has been proven to be correct. so in that respect there's no reason at this moment to go. >> are you following the

stephany flores case in lima? >> as an interesting third party, yes, not involved in it. let's put it that way. >> how frustrating is it for your office to spend this time, to have the expectations -- >> in any case you don't get answer -- it's a frustration. this case is a long-running case so for certain -- >> the human bone that was found on the beach, are you going to cordon off the area? >> you've been listening to taco stein, that's his name, the solicitor general on the island of aruba. he is following up with a news conference based on the statement issued in the last hour. last 15 minutes of the 11:00 a.m. eastern hour. indicating that the jawbone that was found by tourists on the island of aruba turned over to aruban authorities and then sent to the netherlands for analysis has come back negative as being the jawbone of natalee holloway.

and the moment when that exclusion was made, and of course it was made through dental records, the jawbone contained a wisdom tooth and natalee holloway's had been removed. that excludes natalee holloway. the investigation continues because that jawbone belongs to someone and that someone is undetermined at this point. the critical point here is that the jawbone is first of all human and is not that of natalee holloway. we'll continue to follow developments and get to marty savage in the cnn newsroom. so many of you heading out for thanksgiving holiday celebrations around the country. travel this season might be an obstacle course for a lot of you. 40 million people are expected to hit the roads according to aaa forecast, the highest percentage of automobile travelers recorded at aaa for

thanksgiving. you can expect delays at checkpoints and uproar over tsa's enhanced scans and pat-downs and have the potential for a big holiday headache. chad myers now and some of the weather conditions around the country. >> yes. >> going to be a little tricky. >> have you ever thrown into salt lake city? >> i have. forever ago. >> you fly into nebraska for whatever random reason. >> to watch your corn huskers. that's why. >> i know. i don't even get there. kau-tv out of salt lake. it is snowing in the key resorts. they are loving it. they are loving thanksgiving skiing because it always boosts the travel. if you can get there, this is part of the problem. all the snow here that you're seeing here is the next 24 hours. there are areas here with pink along here. right there. salt lake city. that's where our shot was right there. just to the north and to the east there. that's 10 to 12 inches.

there are darker purples through the sierra here and over through here, the big horn is going to see some and the detons. boy, oh boy, great snow for skiers. you need to be careful trying to get there. it is going to be one difficult travel adventure across the west. going to talk about blizzard conditions. things will change foot by foot. 100 feet by 100 feet as you go up the passes. you may get nothing then all of a sudden it could be a whiteout out there. let's go to a couple pictures we have for you right now across the country. people are driving everywhere. it doesn't really matter. here we go. this is what it looks like and looked like up here, this is california. if you take the 80, i-80, if you go west of san francisco, you go into the ocean, you go east you go up the hill. this is koufax, california, kx-tv, our affiliate there showed the pictures for a while. it's a mess. open for everything except for the trucks.

here's truckee from kgo. the ski resort. can you see anybody moving? no. i bet they are going downhill. it's definitely going it be goggle weather. if you have a brand new set of beautiful sunglasses you might not need them. grab the goggles from out of the box. i don't want to be on that motorcycle. i've owned two and they both went on the ground on dry pavement and i don't want to drive that on that. it got cold in seattle, down into the upper teens in some of the suburbs. the slop hat happened got the ice slippery and had seatac slippery for a while. this is going to be one adventure after another. we had severe weather in illinois and wisconsin. the weather teams are out there from the national weather service determining whether they're tornadoes or not. so far one, of course, is a tornado in wisconsin. the other team still out there, northern illinois. i suspect they'll find the same thing. >> i think you're right. chad, appreciate it, sir. breaking news in the

five-year-old disappearance of alabama teenager natalee holloway. cnn's martina savage is on arub and he joins me live. we just heard from taco stein, the solicitor general on the island and pretty much confirmed on camera the information that was spent electronically, oh, about 20, 25 minutes ago. >> reporter: exactly. the way he described how that identification was made was basically through dental records. and when they got the dental records, first of all, they had a jawbone, excuse me, had one tooth in it. that was sent off to the netherlands in the forensic investigation unit there. they determined it was a wisdom tooth. clear identification right then and there, it was human, it was a wisdom tooth. they asked from the dental records to come from natalee holloway. what was significant was natalee holloway had her wisdom teeth

removed. instantly they knew this was not natalee holloway. clear cut, black and white, this is how they know it's not natalee holloway. of course, it is somebody and that is the question that still remains open and what they will do is go over their missing persons reports from aruba and curacao to see if they can ascertain if this is a missing person or where the bone came from. this bone has been very weathered, it's been out there for quite some time and there may not be enough clear, good dna inside to make any kind of determination. the one big determination for the family of natalee holloway is this bone is not her. the mystery of her whereabouts remains. that was really the sad news that was going to come out. either way it was going to be sad news for the family. they were either going to confirm the fate of natalee and that would, of course, remove all hope whatsoever that one day, no matter how stretched that hope might be, that she would come home, or you have another dead end, and that's what it is. it's another dead end. they just haven't gotten any

real solid evidence at this point. where does the investigation goes? it remains open, but right now there aren't many leads. >> well said. all right, marty, appreciate it. thank you. threats and accusations following deadly strikes and counterstrikes between the two koreas. we'll have a live report for you. plus, look what doctors found lodged in a child's head. ouch, ouch? a random moment in 90 seconds.

okay. a bad headache. the source isn't what you'd expect. that's why it's the random moment of the day. a cat scan on alexis mccarter's skull shows a large safety pin lodged in her sinus cavity and the pin is open. it's a safety pin. it's not supposed to be in your skull. well, doctors think she swallowed the safety wpin when she was a baby so it's been there perhaps six years. mom is stunned. >> i couldn't say nothing. i just -- because it broke my heart that, you know, and it all makes sense now. she has headaches sometimes. she'll point and it makes sense. she'll say my head's hurting, she'll point. you know, you look at the picture and it's right where she'll point. >> doctors will remove the safety pin in early december.

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tensions between north and south korea racht up after the two countries exchange fire. south korea's president is calling for enormous retaliation. according to south korea's defense ministry the north fired toward the sea border. south korea was conducting military exercises at the time. the attack killed two south korean troops and wounded 15 others. south korea fired back and deployed jets. the u.s. has more than 28,000 troops stationed in south korea. and the white house has strong words for north korea. let's get the latest from cnn's brianna keilar at the white house. brianna, what is the white house saying about all this? >> reporter: press secretary robert gibbs making it clear the white house is in touch, tony, with south korea, condemning this attack and calling on north korea to, quote, stop its belligerent actions. also he said in a written

statement, the united states is firmly committed to the defense of our ally, the republic of korea and to the maintenance of regional peace and stability. that said, we're hearing from pentagon sources that there's no expectation of the u.s. getting involved here in any sort of military action. and tony, it's really interesting to note that while you see -- we just heard from bill burton, spokesman from the white house as he was on his way to indiana on air force one, president obama heading there today. he said the president is expected to make a call to president lee, but will you see press secretary robert gibbs putting a statement out there today, burton told us not to expect that from president obama, tony. >> it's interesting. you wonder in what way the administration will support south korea's president's call for enormous retaliation. i suppose we'll just wait and see. brianna keilar at the white house for us. appreciate it. thank you. tensions on the korean peninsula are rattling world markets including the dow. let's check the numbers.

they have been down most of the morning. look at the big board. okay. we are down 145 points. we'll follow these numbers for you throughout the day. and the cnn newsroom, the nasdaq is down 34. it is a down day all around. here in the states and for most of the major indices around the world as well. let's take a break.

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let's do this. let's get you caught up on stories making news across the country right now. in new york, the ninth annual holiday train show rolled into grand central. check it out. the trains actually run through a miniature manhattan all the way to the north pole. that's pretty cool. to knoxville, tennessee, right now where volunteers are putting finishing touches on the fantasy of tree celebration which starts today. 50,000 people are expected to attend. it features the most ornate tree decorations in the country to be found anywhere. and in brockton, massachusetts, more than 800 merry makers gather to celebrate the city's role as home of the first ever department store, santa. there he is, huh? the town came up with the idea some 120 years ago.

okay. you have got questions about investing and rebuilding your credit. stephanie elam gets answers at the cnn help desk. time for the help desk, where we get answers to your financial questions. joining me this hour, carmen, personal finance author. and ryan mack, the president of optimum capital management. thanks so much for being here. first question is coming to us from will who writes, i want to start investing in futures but don't know where to start, what's the best thing to do? how do you help this novice out here? >> futures is one of the most risky things you can think about. unless you want to put time in terms of research. there's a good book out there "all about futures" in terms of getting a good overview. they have classes you might be able to take here in new york. have security analysts that might give different classes on how to invest and go about doing it. talk to professionals, network. i see a lot of individuals lose money quick by putting money into the futures game. i would advise doing something more conservative, mutual funds,

exchange traded funds as oppose to futures. >> know what you're getting into. next question from debby in maryland writes, after going through foreclosure is there any way to reestablish good credit? which i guess should be a goal for a lot of people. >> absolutely. there are a couple ways. first is time. that's something you don't necessarily have control over. as time goes by your credit report is going to look better only if you manage your credit well from this point on. that means if you have credit cards, make sure you get the balance down if they have a balance below 20% or so of your credit limits so your score can go up quickly. if you don't carry balance or don't have any oath dealt whatsoever at all, build credit. get a secured card that acts like a credit card but reports to the credit bureaus and will rebuild your credit. be meticulous about your credit for the next at least two to three years and she'll qualify for mortgage in another two, three years if she does that. >> it's something to keep your eyes on anyway as you go through

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pictures, information, insight you won't find anywhere else. cnn newsroom with tony harris. anything can happen. if you have been to a high school football game lately you know how rough it can be. the stakes are high, the hits are hard and players get hit, none so severely they never get back on the field. here's dr. sanjay gupta. >> here's what we do know. we know a concussion can confirm much more damage to a developing brain, a young person takes a longer time to recover from concussion. today we investigate the story of max conrad, 17 years old. played through concussions. something that a lot of high school players do. what he teaches us, tony, is the urgency of all this. friday night, game night. >> crosses at 20. >> reporter: on a kickoff return, 17-year-old max conrad

takes a hit. >> i think he's tripped up by conrad maybe. >> he took a knee to the head and went down for several seconds and was staggering off the field. >> reporter: a week later -- >> conrad under center. >> reporter: another game. another hit. >> the ball gets taken away from conrad. >> he drills his forehead and helmet right into max's chin. >> for some reason conrad let him catch the ball. >> reporter: astonishingly, max continues to play, but then -- >> he was walking toward me and he looked at me and he said, my chin hurts. and then he collapsed. >> reporter: max conrad, star athlete, stellar student, was dying. what happened, second impact syndrome. one concussion closely followed by a second one. before the brain has time to heal. in max's case his brain began to

swell uncontrollably. during a concussion the brain, which is the consistency of jell-o is stretched and twisted. all sorts of things are happening. as the brain is rocked chemicals start to flood it damaging cells within the brain and throwing the brain into a state of crisis. with rest the damaged cells can heal. when a second concussion happens too soon after the first brain cells die and that's when permanent damage sets in. max was rushed to the operating room. >> the head surgeon comes over and puts his hand on my back and he just goes, i'm really sorry. basically telling us he's not going to make this. he's not going to survive. >> throw the ball. throw the ball. >> reporter: three operations in ten days. max is alive, but barely conscious. >> max's first time back. >> reporter: it took months

before he finally woke up. >> what happened? >> what happened? >> yeah. >> you were hurt in a football game. >> what? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> oh my god. >> reporter: that was 2002. >> i don't remember this season. i don't remember the football season. >> reporter: this is max today. he's 26 living in a home for brain injured adults. he still has no memory of the hit that changed his life. in fact, these days he has problems remembering, period. >> once in a while i get upset about if i can't remember the stuff i want to remember. i wish it never happened. >> tony, i'll tell you that max still has no recollection of that particular game. in fact, the whole football season is just a haze to him.

his parents, incidentally, were instrumental in getting a law passed in the state of oregon, max's law, which requires that coaches at the high school level do have some training with regard to concussions and if a player has any signs or symptoms of concussions that they are kept out of the game for at least a day and only after a medical professional cleared them. a lot of people ask about the signs and symptoms of concussion. there's no blood test or particular scan, but the symptoms are headache, pressure in the head, nausea, vomiting, balance problems or dizziness, vision problems, light sensitivity, confusion, or attention and memory problems. again, a lot of these exams done at the sideline. good luck to max. tomorrow we're going to talk to fred mcneil, former nfl football player, and he's going to tell us a story about the long-term impact of concussions. back to you, tony. >> sanjay, appreciate it. thank you. we have got some crucial advice on how to avoid scams,

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we told you 4 million shoppers hit the stores for black friday. those sales in '09. this year, 4 million more are expected to join them. of course, it is never too soon to start your holiday shopping online. before you do, you need to know how to avoid traps like fake websites, hidden fees. christine romans is in new york with some important tips. great to see you. happy holidays.

where are you going to start here? >> hi, tony. well, i want to start first with a warning here. >> good, good. >> we all want to -- we all want to get back out there, right? and we want to have a great holiday season, but frugal fatigue shouldn't be replaced by, let's say, spending money we don't have. let's be real careful here. just because you're tired of being frugal doesn't mean you should spend money you don't have. be careful on the first front. 57% of people polled by the consumer federation of america and the credit union national association say people plan to spend the same amount or more. you're clereeping out there. you're going back to business. 41% plan to spend less. a lot of people are already shopping online, tony. they were online sales starting before veteran's day for christmas. so here's a few things you really need to watch out for. there's no reason to pay for shipping. we talked about this before. you need to look out for restocking fees if you're buying electronics online or one of a

kind kind of gift. you could send this back and have to pay 20% of it. don't do that. be very careful. look at the fine print. don't shop using public wi-fi. there are people out there cruising around, cafes and airports and the liooking for nonsecure connection to find your personal information, credit card information. be careful. don't wire money to pay. if you are especially out there googling looking for something in particular, it's a small store you've never heard of, they want you to wire money, don't do that. beware of social network urls. if you look on twitter, it says, hey, i found this great thing, there's a shortened url and you can't see what it is. it could direct you some place you don't want to go, some place where somebody is going to be able to get your information. it could be a scam. be careful there. use your judgment. always shop with a list whether you're shopping online or in the stores, tony. don't buy something if you can't afford it. how's that? >> boy, how about that? and you know, we understand that the retailers are starting to

ramp up right, didn't you tell us that they're hiring more people in anticipation of more folks getting out shopping and spending a bit more? >> they are. and that's good. i mean, spending your money for the holidays is good because it puts people to work, but spending money you don't have is not good for you. remember that. >> you first. yeah. great advice, great tips as always, christine. thank you. happy holidays. william and kate. william and kate set a date. we now know when and where the royal wedding will take place. you will, too. [ advisor 1 ] what do you see yourself doing one week,

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venue has been set. britain's prince william will marry kate middleton april 29th at westminister abby. the royals and snoop dogg? what's the shizzle for izzle as snoop might say? was that okay? i think i totally botched that trying to be cool. >> it was fantastic. >> was it all right? >> i think you're super cool. you're uber-cool. this story does deserve explanation, tony. >> yes, it does. >> according to reports in uk newspapers and tabloids and hip hop websites, snoop dogg is in talks to perform for prince william and his fiancee, kate middleton, at their engagement party. you may ask what in the world could prince william have to do with snoop? tony, i'm here to cut through the confusion, connect the dots. before you go writing this off, i should add that it's prince harry who reportedly is planning the party which they say will have a hip hop theme. harry apparently wants both snoop and another one of his

favorites, british rapper tiny tempa, to perform. in addition to being the better known partyer of the brothers. harry has never hidden his love of hip hop. he's been seen about town with diddy and ferel williams. listen to this. he recently shot a reality show in buckingham palace with uk artist goldie and miss dynamite for the bbc. times have changed. tony, william is also a fan of hip hop. remember 2007's charity and memorial concert for diana at wimbley stadium? he brought in kanye west and ferel williams for that show. i think this is great, tony, if anybody can loosen up the royals it's snoop dogg. >> think about this for a second. it's snoop dogg and the royal couple here sipping gin and juice. okay. so everyone -- >> can you imagine? >> everyone, brooke, is waiting

to see who will win "dancing with the stars" tonight. now, the truth is bristol palin could win this. she's considered a top contender. i know she's othere's outrage a to this. >> there is, tony. she's considered a top contender show bristol landed in last place again by the judge's scores on last night's "dancing with the stars" finale show. the viewer votes have not been factored in yet. "showbiz tonight" was there after bristol and her partner performed. they had a few words for everybody who is still angry, who's still outraged that she is in it. listen. >> people complain regardless. like, when you have nicole sherzinger in the final, mel b., christy yum yamaguchi and say,

that's not fair. >> stop complaining. >> you're never going to win at all. >> mark is fired up. bristol could win it all tonight. she could. once the viewer votes are calcula calculated. the vote is 50% of the score. we asked, if bristol winning "dancing with the stars" could hurt the show. 77% say yes. 23% say no. tony, people are floored, but the fact of the matter is it's not just a dance competition. it is in part a popularity contest and she's very popular. >> it's a tv show, friends. it's -- let's keep it in perspective. >> people are taking it seriously. >> great to see you and seeing you over the weekend as well. want more information on everything breaking in the entertainment world? brooke's got it this evening. "showbiz tonight" at 5:00 and 11:00 eastern on hln. sarah palin's road trip. her book tour could be a roadmap to her plans for 2012. details in our political update. so who wants to learn ab?

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north korea, its deadly attack on south korea is one of our top stories and it is one of the top things you're talking about online right now. josh is tracking that for us. good to see you. >> good to see you, too, tony. we look at how to get information to people online but we keep an eye on what people are talking about. there's something interesting going on today i want you all to know. usually when you look at twitter you look at the mosttop l popul like justin bieber, or a phrase. today, number one, people praying for peace in koreas and this tells you something about how many people are concerned about what's going on there by

the attack of north korea and the retaliation threatened by south korea and how many young people are focused on this today. what they're saying about it, some see it as central to world peace. i want to share a few of these tweets for you. god, please bless the koreas and the peace. let's go through a few more of those near. because they're going to need it. here's another one. i hope everyone manages to stay safe and they all come together to support each other. hope those in the army are doing okay. i have two more here. this one, god, please bless the koreas and the world, make this world peace. i'll get you to one more here. so many people are dying all over the world because of diseases, natural disasters and accidents. we don't need more deaths. they're adding this pray for korea at the end. this shows you how many people are concerned about this, tony. i want all of you to see, it's a complex region as we all know. sometimes it's hard to understand what's going on there. we do a really good job at cnn.com of breaking this down. let's zoom back in. i want you to see a few features we have through our main page.

this is an exploration of the dmz, remilitarized area at the border. this is about life inside korea with photos talking to you about what it's like inside north korea. and what people who have gotten out describe life to be like there. fi finally, an explainer section takes you through the hostility between the two countries. empower yourself with nojs whkn when you get on facebook and twitter. >> a lot of folks concerned about korea right now, that peninsula. thank you, josh. sarah palin back in the headlines or should we say still in the headlines? mark preston, paul steinhauser live from the political desk in washington. good it see you. what do you have for us this hour? >> let's talk about the book. this is it, "america by heart." this hit the book shelves this morning. we have video from phoenix, arizona, brand new into cnn. this is at the bookstore where sarah palin will be a little

later today. this is where she kicks off her book tour across the country and people are camping out overnight to get -- to be first in line to meet sarah palin a little later today. tony, later today we're going to be out there live in phoenix and have live coverage tonight as sarah palin signs books. will john mccain be there? this is phoenix, arizona, john mccain's home state. a spokeswoman said while mr. mccain and ms. palin are friendly and speak all the time, he will not be there, he's with his family on vacation. the book tour is going to take sarah palin to iowa and south carolina. what do those states have in common? they rate pretty high in the race for the white house, tony. >> that is terrific. all right. let's see here. where is your partner in crime? ah, there he is. what are you following there, ma mark? >> the midterm elections were earlier this month but they're still ongoing. last night another democrat conceded allowing republicans to pick up another seat. the count right now 62 seats,

republicans have picked up in the midterm elections. solomon ortiz represented corpus christi in the browns sh browns in texas, he conceded last night. again, 62 seats republicans have picked up. four house races still remain unresolved. two in california, two in new york, and of course we still have that ongoing battle between the two republicans up in alaska for that senate seat. and closing, tony, this whole race out to replace mayor daley in chicago is getting a little bit crazier. we have rahm emanuel, the former chief of staff to president obama running. danny davis. carol moseley-braun a former senator. roland burris is considering running. in fact, supporters yesterday filed nominating papers on his behalf for him to run to mayor. i spoke to one of his top aides a few hours ago. he said, in fact, burris is considering running for mayor. right now 20 people running for mayor to replace daley.

20 people right now, tony. that election is going to happen in february. >> oh, my goodness. that will be something to watch. good to see you. appreciate it. thank you both very much. your next political update coming up in one hour. for the latest political news go to cnnpolitics.com. netflix changed the way you borrowed movies. now they want to revolutionize the way you watch them. we'll tell you about that. first, a question. what was the first movie on dvd? we'll have the answer for you.

okay. sandra is in washington with stories on the internet. so sandy, what was the first movie released on dvd? >> hmm, i only know this, tony, because of your stellar producers, but the first dvd that was released was "twister." do you remember that movie? >> absolutely. >> back in 1996. yeah. starring bill paxton and helen hunt. i haven't seen that one in a long time. anyway, you know what dvds may be a thing of the past or at least a dying breed because even netflix, the popular dvd by mail service, is now offering consumers a subscription for streaming video. check out their website right here. they are promoting it, a month-free trial. they're offering it for $7.99 a month. basically you can download movies and tv episodes and it would just come on your computer. it would be streamline video. and it's also offering their

dvds as well and that's for a couple dollars more and they'll mail you the dvds. you know what, this is really a sign of the evolving market. now, some people would say they prefer getting a dvd in the mail, it's easy, it's tangible, they know what they're getting, but others say that streaming video is faster and ease your for them to use and netflix actually launched this program first in canada in september and now it's available online immediately here in the states. a word of caution, tony, i know you're a video fiend. you may not get the whole library they have on dvd yet. it's a streamlined version so far. >> i'll be good. i'll be patient. >> i'll tell you what else is trending today. 911, did you know the national 911 system was established in 1968 and right now it handles 230 million calls a year. 70% of those calls, now, tony, come from cell phones obviously.

people are out on the street calling in reporting what they're seeing. now the fcc wants the system to be able to field text messages and streaming video. and the fcc says it would give first responders a way to get more realtime knowledge when they get to the scene. they'll know what's going on because of people's text messaging and videos and really citizen reporters would be able to tell people what is going on. and really the last upgrade to the national emergency line was back in 2001 when 911 started to tap into gps locaters to see where those calls were made. so really a sign of the times here in this trending report. this is trending on cnn.com if you want to take a look at that story. >> that's terrific, stuff. sandy, great to see you. thank you. a new iphone app gives you security wait times and airports. yes, true. and something else we found pretty interesting. you can type in any item to see whether you can bring it on your flight.

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okay. the rules for what you can bring on a plane can get confusing. a new iphone application eliminates that confusion. type in the item and it spits out your answer. so we tried it. turns out you cannot bring toy swords, right, baseball bats or machetes onboard the flight with you. huh? yeah.

no huge surprise there. you can bring along pizza, sporks, a cross between a spoon and a fork, and even knitting needles. here's the strangest one. we plugged in goldfish. it says, yes, but they have to be transported in a clear container and the tsa officers will visually inspect your live fish at the checkpoint. who knew? your bags are packed and you are ready to go. want about your pet? jacqui jeras has tipsen on how to fly safely with your four legged pals. >> reporter: it's a union. they started their day in costa rica and arrived in houston. tell us why you decided to travel with your pets? >> they're my pets, travel with me forever i go. >> reporter: most major airlines allow pets to travel in cargo or the cabin for a fee. each has its own regulations. continental allowed us to follow their pet safe program for a day.

lisa shopa is in charge of it. >> they're the last thing put on the plane and the first thing taken off so that they just don't get exposed to the extreme weather temperatures. that's how we move animals 24/7, 12 months a year. >> reporter: pets check in just like passengers. >> we have a couple headed to orlando. we have four french bulldog puppies. >> reporter: with a health certificate, food, ice chips and proper labeling the animals are driven to the tarmac and loaded into the cargo hold. >> all of our aircraft is pressurized, heated, the same atmosphere down below the customer is feeling upstairs. the only difference is we turn the lights off. >> reporter: continental flies 120,000 animals annually. traveling with your pet can be stressful for you and your animal. we're going to visit with veterinarian dr. nancy sorensen to get tips on how to make that trip easier. >> hi. >> reporter: hi. dr. sorensen