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morning, the eviction of new york's zuccotti park now under way. police are moving in. the mayor saying the people in the tents have got to go for now. a medical break through, reviving a part of your heart that's dead. a stem cell treatment that has the potential to extend or save the lives of millions. and target target. tens of thousands of employees upset they will have to miss thanksgiving so christmas can start early for shoppers. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." good morning to you. this is your a.m. wake-up call for tuesday, november 15th from the time warner center in new york, i'm carol costello. here are this morning's top stories. breaking news to tell you about, wall street protesters told to pick up their tenths and leave. the new york police department moving in to kick them out overnight as cities across the country begin to say the camps are too dangerous and too disgusting. we will take you live to lower

manhattan to zuccotti park in about 60 seconds. ex-penn state coach jerry sandusky admitting to showering with young boys but denying he's a pedophile saying he's only guilty of a serious lapse nl judgment. we'll have more on that in a moment. herman cain has his own oops moment, gives a shaky answer to reporters about president obama's libya policy that included a very long pause. the campaign saying it was taken out of context and blaming a lack of sleep, but critics saying it's another sign he's clueless on foreign policy. let's head to atlanta and get a check of today's weather, meteorologist rob marciano in the house. good morning, rob. >> good morning, carol. rough weather yesterday across the midsection of the country. one report of tornado and hail and wind. today that focus is going to be sliding the the south. the system itself is pretty big. here is the radar. it stretches into the northeast, will affect some of the areas north and east into new england and slicing back through texas.

that's where we are seeing the severe weather rite now. severe thunderstorm watch in effect for parts of south central texas mostly in the form of gusty winds and some hail. a few severe thunderstorm warnings now. more gentle rain moving across the allegheny and over top of the appalachians in through upstate new york and eventually into new york and i-95 corridor later today as that front pushing off to the east. there keys your threat for severe weather. mild ahead of the front. temperatures will be slow to come. 67 in d.c. still relatively mild in new york. laettner the program, about 15 minutes, we'll talk about how much cooler it's going to get once this front comes through. carol, back up to you. >> it will really seem like actual november. >> yeah, get you in the mood for thanksgiving. >> that's a good way to look at it. thank you rob marciano. >> you bet. more about the breaking news now. a very tense situation in new york's zuccotti park, home to the original wall street protesters. police moving in overnight to kick them out. the mayor claims it's only

temporary. the mayor's office tweeting early this morning that occupants of zuccotti park should temporarily leave and they can come back after the park is cleared. one protesters posted they are too big to jail on the occupy new york city website. the protesters calling it an nypd raid on their website. this comes two days before protesters threatened to shut down wall street on thursday to mark the two-month anniversary of the movement. poppy harlow is in lower manhattan now. poppy, are things peaceful? >> reporter: carol, i'm having a hard time hearing you. i assume you're asking what is happening down here. tension has escalated. ive i've been here since 1:30 in the morning when i got a call from a protesters saying the police were evicting him. what you're looking at is hundreds of protesters, supporters of the movement.

we're just a few blocks from the new york stock exchange, about a block and a half from zuccotti park. you have protesters on this side. also a number of new york city police officers in full raid gear. this barricade is where the dividing line is. carol, what happened is the protesters were woken up in the middle of the night, about 1:00 a.m. they were told the city needs to clean the park. they were given a flier of brookville properties who owns the park, saying there's an increased health and fire hazard. we need to clean the park. you can come brack if a few hours. the sentiment by the protesters is that they do not believe they will be allowed back in the park to protest. we're told they won't be able to bring in tents, i don't want be able to set up and live there, if you will. this is a huge sea change in the movement. i will tell you i was walking down nassau street, all of a

sudden about 200 protesters came running towards me. there was this increasing momentum in the last hour or some right now they are deciding whether they're going to stay here or whether they're going to move elsewhere. increasingly tense in the last hour or so. as people will start funneling in here, we are in the middle of manhattan down by wall street. as the sunrises, it's going to get very, very busy down here. >> poppy, just to be clear, zuccotti park itself, have the protesters cleared out of that park? >> yes, completely, carol. we were actually able to make it into the park. it took us three hours to get past the police barricades. we had not been allowed in whatsoever. in the last 20 minutes we made it past the police barricade into zuccotti park. i don't know if we have footage for you. we'll get it for you within the hour. the park is completely cleared out. no tents whatsoever. all that is left are new york city cleaning crews sweeping up. i saw piles of clothes and

tents. remains of what was occupy wall street. all the protesters were out of the pacific. i saw a number of of protesters basically handcuffed with plastic restraints. they were being processed by police an loaded onto a new york city police bus. i attempted to talk to them. a police officer moved me aside and said you can't speak to them right now. one of the protesters was plang, she said she hadn't been read her rights. i have to tell you, carol, everything looks very orderly down there. as you can hear right now, one of the police officers next to me is on his megaphone asking the crowd to move to the side of the street. he is saying once the park is cleaned that the protesters will be allowed back into the park, carol. it sounds like within the next hour or so these protesters will be allowed back in the park. they are told they cannot bring tents, et cetera, to set up there and live there as they did before, carol.

>> all right, poppy harlow, we'll check back with you at about 30 minutes past the hour. poppy harlow reporting live from near zuccotti park in manhattan. jerry sandusky speaking publicly for the first time since being accused of sexually assaulting young boys he was supposed to be helping. he says he showered with young boys and horsed around with them but is not a pedophile. he was on the phone speaking to nbc's bob costas. >> i say that i am innocent of those charges. i could say that, you know, i have done some of those things. i have horsed around with kids. i have showered after workouts, i have hugged them and i have touched their leg without intent of sexual contact. >> the attorney also spoke to our jason carroll. he called his client just a big

overgrown kid. >> i want to wait before we go to that because that's different. but even just in talking about the showering, i think a lot of people have trouble with the idea -- >> i agree. >> -- of a man showering with a young boy. what are your thoughts on that? >> i wouldn't do it. i'm sure you wouldn't do it. >> i would not. >> i would feel uncomfortable doing it. but jerry did that. but that's a far different thing than saying he got showers with kids than saying that he committed these other acts which the prosecution has alleged he did. what's going to come out in this case is that jerry did get showers with kids. >> sandusky, accused of 40 counts related to child sex abuse. charges carry a total of more than 400 years in prison. the attorney saying he's also hoping to identify and interview one of the alleged accuser and

the penn state coach that allegedly witnessed sandusky of abusing that boy. herman cain's response totally fell off the rails when asked about president obama's libya policy. he was talking to editors and reporters at the milwaukee general sentinel. listen. >> president obama supported the uprising, correct? president obama called for the removal of gadhafi. i just want to make sure we're talking about the same thing before i say yes, i agree or no, i didn't agree. i do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason. no, that's a different one. i got to go back.

i got all this stuff twirling around in my head. specifically, what are you asking me did i agree or not disagree with obama? >> later on cain tried to explain why he appeared to get all mixed up. >> i mean, they asked me a question about libya, and i paused so i could gather my thoughts. you know, it's complimentary when people start documents my pauses. it's one thing to document every word. it was a pause. that's all it was. good grief! >> critics have been all over cain's grasp on foreign policy. he also recently said he was concerned that china is trying to develop nuclear capability when, in fact, china is one of the world's oldest nuclear powers. we'll take you back live to zuccotti park near wall street.

as you can see protesters have filled the streets. that's because police have asked them to leave zuccotti park so they could clean the park which city workers did. we saw them power washing the park grounds there a short time ago. protesters fear that police are not serious about allowing them to go back to zuccotti park to set up their tents and tarps to stay there overnight. police insist they're being honest. we're continuing to watch this tense situation in lower manhattan. we'll have more when "wake-up call" returns. see if we can "stitch" together a better deal. that's a hint, antoine. ooh! see what anandra did? booking your flight and hotel at the same time gets you prices hotels and airlines won't let expedia show separately. book it. major wow factor! where you book matters. expedia. when you're a sports photographer,

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you're looking at live pictures in new york city. these are pictures of protest frers the occupy wall street movement earlier this mork, about 1:00 a.m. eastern time to be exact. new york city police asked protesters to clear out of zuccotti park so they could clean it. the protesters did that. thousands have joined the cause

because they fear they will not be allowed to go back to zuccotti park. this, i believe, is at pine and broadway. protesters gathered there, thousands of them, although you can't see them in this picture. police are pushing them out of that area to get them out of the street so that traffic can move. we're following the story, poppy harlow is on the scene. she says there's been dozens of arrests. she sees protesters in handcuffs. we'll check with her in just a few minutes. just to keep you updated, no reports of violence, but we have reports of arrest. this is your a.m. wake-up call. former penn state coach jerry sandusky speaking out, saying he's not a pedophile. she's charged with 40 counts related to sexual abuse. these are his first public comments since the scandal broke. a promising new study is out. researchers found that heart damage may be reversible with stem cell therapy and without dangerous side effects. 16 patients underwent the procedure and showed major

improvements in their heart functions. in money news, the transportation department is cracking down on lengthy tarmac delays. american eagles airlines was slapped with a $900,000 fine for keeping passengers stranded on the runway in hours for may. it's the first time this rule has been enforced. in sports, no deal for the nba and this could mean no season at all. the players' union turned down the league's latest offer in a dispute over collective bargaining calling it unfair. the union says they're planning to file an antitrust suit against the nba. rab marciano in atlanta. >> threat for severe weather today across texas, moving into louisiana and points to the east. but mostly staying down to the south. here it is highlighted graphically. one report of a tornado yesterday across illinois and several reports of wind damage and some hail. but the focus today will be across southeast texas. we have a severe thunderstorm

watch that's posted for parts of the hill country in south central texas. damaging winds and large hail possible across the i-10 corridor eventually moving east of new orleans. here is the watch i spoke of, west of san antonio as that cluster of thunderstorms makes its way off towards the east, mostly heavier rain, hail and gustier wind with those. the north side of the front stretches all the way to the northeast. that will bring eventually some rain to the i-95 corridor. low clouds in new york city later today. expect delays because of that action. d.c. and philly, if you're traveling, rain as well. yesterday we were all clear as far as travel conditions were concerned. today a little bit more of a mess. as we mentioned earlier, cooler air coming in behind this. on average, 10 to 15-degree drop as to what you're seeing right now. cooldown coming, carol. be prepared. >> we're ready for it. we are. we have the winter coats out. >> at a girl.

a first in the arab world. jordan's king appears to urge the embattled syrian president to resign. king abdullah saying that's what he would do if he was in bashar al assad's place. this comes after bloody crackdown on antigovernment protesters which has claimed more than 3500 looiches. zain verjee joins us live with more on this. good morning, zain. >> good morning, carol. dozens more killed in yet more clashes in a brutal crackdown by the syrian government. this comes a day after the king of jordan, king abdullah said that bashar al assad should step down. this is a really big deal, the first arab leader that's come out and said something like this so explicitly. he said this, i would step down and i would make sure whoever comes behind me has the ability to change the status quo that we're seeing. now, that comment was preceded by the arab league taking

action. a lot of people thinking this is an organization that's essentially toothless. but they surprised everyone over the weekend by moving to swiftly temporarily kick out syria from the group. at the same time the european union is targeting sanctions on at least 18 lead senior leaders of this country. the question is will he step down? is this going to be the writing on the wall. with more arab leaders jump on the bandwagon here and ask for him to step down. carol? >> what we're thinking is this is how libya went. everyone is wondering, if assad refuses to step down, might some sort of military arc shunl be taken? >> it's interesting because syria's foreign minister actually spoke at a press conference. he said essentially that syria is no libya. he also said over at the security council, you've got the chinese and the russians that

would never support military action against syria. that's what he says. who knows what will happen. everything in the arab spring has been so unpredictable. will say can't happen and then it does. we'll have to wait and see. >> zain verjee live in london, thanks so much. still ahead, what would you do if your boss said you had to work on thanksgiving? one worker is mad, he launched an online protest and he's not alone. tens of thousands of people have joined him. steak burger soup. [ dad ] i love this new soup. it's his two favorite things in one... burgers and soup. did you hear him honey? burgers and soup. love you. they're cute. [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. at aviva, we wonder why other life insurance companies treat you like a policy, not a person. instead of getting to know you they simply assign you a number. aviva is here to change all that.

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23 minutes past the hour. the next story is sure to create a buzz around the office. a nebraska man is protesting his company's plan to open on thanksgiving. it's not just any company. boy, has he managed to find support. christine romans joins us now. christine was hot about this this morning. >> i've worked an awful lot of thanksgivings, a lot of thanksgivings. so i feel like everyone should know that when i do this story. a guy named anthony hardwick works at target in omaha, started a petition on change.org, you can pet tigss on there. he was having to work a ten-hour shift on thanksgiving day. everyone from target to macy's to gap to kohl's, toys "r" us is

opening earlier and earlier and earlier so they can get you for the day after thanksgiving for your shopping. last year 22 million people, carol, went and actually spent money on thanksgiving late at night to buy things, to buy holiday presents. this guy says, look, he wants to have thanksgiving dinner with his family, that it's just not fair. it's not right to make retail employees work on the most important retail spending day of the year. this guy has 79,000 people, carol, who have signed up and say it's just not right. >> let me play devil's advocate for just a moment. i know all these people are shopping on thanksgiving day which is odd to me because i would rather be with my family, too. i also am working on thanksgiving day. what's so wrong about wanting to stay home with your family? i'm talking about why do people have to shop on thanksgiving day? why? why is it necessary for stores to open up on a holiday?

>> i have always been surprised by how this hype machine gets bigger and bigger and bigger every year where these holidays -- i mean there's black friday and there's cyber monday and other holidays before that. there's actual shopping on the actual holiday. people do it, carol. that's what really surprises me. millions and millions and millions of people, consumerism is part of their holiday, whether it's thanksgiving or christmas or new year's. this one lone voice in nebraska is saying, come on, do i really have to work -- do i really have to work on thanksgiving? by the way, i will say target -- we have a call in to target for more target, but they will pay time and a half on thanksgiving and regular pay on the day after. there are plenty of people the day after thanksgiving saying there's 9% unemployment. a lot of people would love to have that problem. so interesting debate. >> i know. but it just goes back to the same question i have. why do stores insist on opening up on thanksgiving day or even

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a very tense situation right now in new york's zuccotti park, home to the original wall street protests. police moving in overnight to kick the protesters out of the park. they're arresting protesters. the city says the protesters can go back to zuccotti park after the park is cleaned. of course, the protesters don't believe them. poppy harlow live in lower manhattan. i say things are tense. tell us how tense? >> reporter: very tense. since we last spoke half an hour ago. what is interesting now and what you're looking at on your screen is that police have completely cleared out the protesters from broadway, about a block and a half away from zuccotti park. right now they're telling me and everyone we need to move off the corner. we're going to try to move and talk as well. traffic is now moving through, carol, on broadway. there was a lot of resistance. we saw a number of

confrontations between police officers an protesters trying to move the protesters out of the streets. police say if you do not move out of the street and allow traffic to go through, you risk being arrested. police now clearly in control of the situation down here. carol, i was in zuccotti park about 45 minutes ago, it's clearly cleared out of protesters. they were finishing cleaning. almost no sign of occupy wall street. they had removed all the tents, clothing, food, makeshift kitchen and finishing up cleaning. i would expect in the next hour or so it would be fully cleaned. as the city said, they will allow protesters back in the park. we'll want to see if and when that happens. what protesters have also been told, and this is why, carol, they don't believe it, is they will not be able to bring in tents, for example and set up shop there. they believe they won't be able to stay overnight and camp out as they have been doing. the situation has escalated. as women' watching now, there

are cops coming down broadway and trying to block protesters away from walking into the park. >> poppy, as i'm looking at these pictures, i see many of the protesters shooting footage, for lack of a better term, with their cell phone cameras. for police this must be kind of a frustrating thing to do. >> it's a very good point, slr interesting observation, the citizen journalism. obviously we've been live tweeting all night, but so have the average people. there's been a huge conversation going on on twitter. there are a lot of photographers down here, people with their own video cameras documenting this situation which is just the reality of modern day media and journalism as we know it. they're documenting all of this. i tried numerous times to talk to police officers. i still have not gotten a clear answer of why for almost three hours down here. we were not allowed past the

police barricades? eventually about an hour ago i was allowed past. as far as i could tell we were the only journalists allowed in the park, and we were only allowed for about ten minutes until we were told to clear out. people down here are documenting each and every minute of this. >> poppy, i'm curious because a couple months ago the mayor wanted to clear out zuccotti park for cleaning and he didn't do it then. he changed his mind. so what changed in the ensuing months that police decided now was the time to do this? >> i wish i had an answer for you. no one i've spoken with knows why this came now. what we do know and what we have seen is a flier from brook field properties which owns zuccotti park along with the city of new york, that they have determined there's an increasing health risk and fire hazard to the protesters in the park. they called for them to clear out. they said they would be allowed

to return to the park, just not with all the belongings they had before. why this came now? no idea. from the reporting i've done and what we have seen, there's not been escalated tension in recent days. interesting timing. it came in the middle of the night. i got a call at 1:30 in the morning from a protester who woke me out of bed saying you've got to come down here. i live just a few blocks away. we came right down. i do not think this was expected at least at this point in time. >> the other question i have is could they have decided to do this now because there have been violent incidents reported at other occupy movements, like the one in oakland, california, and the one in philadelphia. there hasn't been that kind of violence associated with the occupy wall street protesters in new york, but do they fear that? >> reporter: that's a good question. i wish i could get an answer from a new york city police officer down here. we've tried to talk to them. they have not been talking to

the press. that could be the case. i just don't have any confirmation of whether that's the cause or why this is the timing. i'm told by a source we're with that one of the top ranking police chiefs in new york has just arrived down here on the scene, the chief of department -- four stars? four-star chief of the nypd, apparently the only one. we'll attempt to talk to him and find out why this happened now. >> okay. we'll spring you. go get him, poppy. thanks so much. poppy harlow reporting live from near zuccotti park in new york. is the media making much ado about nothing regarding herman cain's response to president obama's handling of the libyan conflict. this is what the republican presidential candidate said when editors of the milwaukee journal sentinel put that question to him yesterday. listen. >> okay. libya.

president obama supported the uprising, correct? president obama called for the removal of gadhafi. i just want to make sure we're talking about the same thing before i say yes i agree or no, i didn't agree. i do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason. no, that's a different one. >> hours later cain had this to say. >> it was a pause. that's all it was. good grief! >> "washington post" political reporter malik ka henderson joins us now by phone. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. how are you?

>> good. it's the republican primary that just keeps on giving. that's all i can say this morning. what's really important, was this just a long pause as herman cain said? was he just exhausted? or did he truly not know how libya went gone? >> as i was listening to the clip, it was a long pause. it did seem he couldn't get his thoughts together. laettner that interview -- the whole interview is 30, 40 minutes. laettner the libya segment he actually does have a pretty co-heernts answer on libya. i think what we're seeing is that a lot of these republican candidates, two of them specifically, rick perry and herman cain are having passing the commander in chief test. we saw perry in the cnbc debate not seeming to know his own plans for the federal government agencies. and then here with her man cain appearing not to quite be sure of his own stand on libya and how he felt about the

president's approach. so that's the problem. the press, of course, is pouncing on this because it comes at a time when her plan cain is really struggling under the sexual harassment allegations and his support has seemed to be cratering. >> let's talk about that. a new "washington post"/abc news poll shows cain is losing support. unfavorable rating among republicans has more than doubled in recent weeks. more republicans see the sexual harassment allegations against cain has a serious matter, 64% compared to 37% just days after the allegations first surfaced. i guess many analysts must be wondering, you know, is cain pretty much over? >> yeah, that's the question you're going to get all day today and probably for this week. it was a question raised about rick perry last week after he had that flub in the debate. i think the question is if -- how can he climb out of what looks like a tailspin? i think in some ways people

looked at this, republicans looked at this and maybe they didn't know what side to take, were the women correct? was herman cain correct in terms of his handling, those i talk to say he just didn't pass muster in terms of handling this, in terms of his responses. he just seemed to be caught flat footed in terms of dealing with this. of course, the presidency, being the commander in chief, is one crisis after another. so in some ways, again, that commander in chief test, people feel like he failed it in even dealing with these sexual harassment allegations. >> something else i'm curious about, you always hear that, one, the media is posing a bunch of gotcha questions and the media is piling on because we're the lame stream press and we want these candidates to lose simply because they're republican. and the other way that perry and

cain seem to be digging themselves out of the hole is by using humor, so they attack the media, they use humor. but are voters tiring of that? >> reporter: yes, and i think one real evidence of that is newt gingrich doing so well on these issues because he has been so competent, so proficient in answering questions, tough questions about very complicated issues. also, he has played the media card, attacking the media for asking gotcha questions and trying to get republicans to go against each other. i think we're at a moment -- the iowa caucuses are january 3rd. people are starting to get serious about this race and really figure out who can they imagine against barack obama on stage in october, in november in these debates that will lead up to this election. how can they imagine standing toe to toe with obama and really making the case for a republican presidency?

>> nia malika henderson from "the washington post." we appreciate it. tune in next tuesday night when wolf blitzer is set to host the gop debates in washington. one of the main topics, national security. 41 minutes past the hour. let's get a check of what's coming up at the top of the hour on "american morning." christine romans is here to share that with us. >> ahead in 20 minutes, unoccupied. we're watching the scene in lower manhattan right now as the nypd clears out occupy wall street camps there. we'll speak to an officer about why the police across the country decided enough is enough and why now is the turning point. we'll discuss the most shocking and most resented penn state. there's no fallout for the decades-old children's charity and for a football icon.

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procedure and showed major improvements with their heart surgeons. lax is about to earn the title nation's busiest airport. during thanksgiving week, according to orbitz. rounding out the top five, o'hare in chicago, orlando international, san francisco international and logan in boston. in sports, no deal for the nba, and this could mean no season at all t. players union turned down the league's latest offer in a dispute over a collective barr gang agreement calling it unfair. the union says they're prepared to file an antitrust suit against the nba. you got your wish early in the program, talking about houp stores shouldn't open on the big holidays. the big games on christmas day, we have that day off from basketball. enjoy. >> a good way to look at it. >> or head to the stores and shop. good morning again. listen, if you are traveling to the stores or traveling just

about anywhere today, there's an issue from the northeast back through the southwest. here is the radar from this elongated frontal system which down to the south is creating headaches as far as severe weather, severe thunderstorm watch out for south central texas in the next couple hours. that severe threat will move into southeast texas and louisiana throughout the day today. not so severe, it will be wet and kind of dreary. this is heading over cooler air. eventually from d.c. up through boston, you'll see some rain, low clouds and on the dreary side. might see delays because of that as well. the new york metro through d.c. once this front comes through, we'll dry it out. with that dry air will come a price. temperatures will easily drop 15 to 20 degrees below where they are right now. so good-bye indian summer and hello the middle of fall and get you in the mood for thanksgiving and all the good things that come with that. carol, back to you. >> thank you, rob. a group of researchers are real curious about why parts of china's desert is etched with

white designs. they're so big you can actually see them from space. they're just weird. let's bring in zain verjee who is live in london to explain it all. >> and you and i both this kind of really weird stuff, carol. so let's take a look at some of these pictures that you can see from space. this is somewhere in the heart of china's gobe desert. it's actually in an area where china tests its military space and nublg lar hardware according to analysts. is this china's area 51? or, carol, could this be ufos? we don't know. all we know is this, these are the white designs about a mile long, 3,000 feet wide. many analysts observing these analysts are saying maybe the chinese military have constructed these pictures and structured these grids, actually, so they can use them for target practice. if you look closely around this area, there are structure that is have been destroyed.

and apparently in one of the photographs you can actually see an aircraft that's landed right in the middle of part of that grid. so i don't know, carol, what you think. ufos? >> i don't know. china's version of crop circles? i don't know. i like to think -- >> crop grids. >> crop grids, right. i like to think ufos just because it's fun. >> me, too. we'll look out for an alien or something in there. still, it's a compelling story. because it does point to china's testing of its own military hardware and how they do it. >> very strange. zain verjee, thanks for enlightening us, at least a little bit. a late night show force occupy wall street. police in riot gear move in with a message. we'll take you there live in a few minutes. you ever say to yourself, i wish i could get someone just to do those mundane tasks in life for me? well, there's an app for that. stand by.

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seven minutes till the top of the hour. are you having some trouble assembling the furniture? there's an app for that. need someone to pick up the groceries? there's an app for that. called task rabbit, a digital twist to paying your neighbor to

mow your lawn. lori, this sounds fantastic? >> it's what we've all been waiting for. a simple way to out source your errands online to people in your community. let's say you don't have time to pick up the dry cleaning, you post the task on task rabbit and say i'll post $20 to picking up dry cleaning. you people bidding on doing that job for you. some people might try to charge a little more. some people might charge you a little less. you get to pick the person who is right for the job. everybody has reviews. people are more active than others. so it's a really cool way to kind of out source your work. on the other way -- on the other side, you have people who want to make an extra dime. they're in the neighborhood and they're running odd jobs for people, for quite a bit. so it actually -- it works pretty well for the community. >> how much money could you make being a task rabbit, so to speak, as in the rabbit that picks up the stuff for the

people who don't have time? >> you can make -- some people who do this for an income, for their main source of income, they make up to $5,000 a month which is quite a bit of money when you think anti it. $5,000. so the average task, and that can be anything from house chores to spring cleaning, walking the dog, picking up groceries, about $45. depending on how much you do it, you can make a good amount of money. we followed susie who is a musician, in her free time she's a task rabbit. what she would do is go run errands for people. she says it's just enough to cover the grocery bills for the month, just enough to take the edge off. depending on how much you use it, you can make a good amount of money. >> that's insane. i guess i have two questions then. how can you make sure it's safe to be a task rabbit, and is this ser slis available nationwide? >> it's a great question. safety is always a concern. what we're seeing in tech are all these trends of people

turning off-line. this sense of let's try to get this community back. let's have apps that let us share our apartments, our cars. there's an app in development right now that people are sharing their bathrooms. the tlend is going crazy. but the idea is who are we sharing with? an apartment sharing site recently took a hit when a homeowner's place was completely ransacked after someone used it. to their credit they're offering a $50,000 insurance policy. but at the end of the day safety is a big concern. you need to do your homework. task rabbit says they vet people. you to be careful on this kind of service. >> thanks so much. that's really interesting. we appreciate it. for more of what's hot in tech, you check it out. it's easy. go online. cnnmoney.com/technology. that's it for this tuesday edition of "a.m. wake-up call."

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