hello. yes, i'm doing some work. i'm just breaking everything. i think i might have one of those days. how are you doing? i'll keep talking. i'm robin meade. here's what's going on. entire neighborhoods are under water. streets are washed out and power lines are down and now dangerous flash floods in the south have taken lives. new revelations about former presidential candidate john edwards and the woman he had an affair with. why he may now admit he's the father of her child allegedly. >> that's what i -- i said what i meant and i meant what i said. >> the long arm of the law is going to have to get a little

bit longer. why a mayor is saying no to cops chasing suspects on foot. first, our top story, the flooding in the southeast isn't just making a mess. now it is deadly. it has been some of the worst rainfall that hit the region in a century. at least six people have been killed. some are drivers caught up in the flash flooding. one witness says that the conditions made it impossible to help people. >> no way i could help. i was screaming and yelling i was flashing my lights trying to get him to stop and there was no way i could help. he was on the other side of the creek. there was nothing i could do. one family thought to survive in a creek near atlanta. wsb reports that a woman held on to her 1-year-old in one arm and a tree in the other for three hours until they were rescued. down the creek, the father could not hold on to his 2-year-old son. the boy was swept aaand drowned. so awful.

the southeast does not need more tragedies like that or more rain. still more rain could be on the way. meteorologist bob van dillen has that forecast for you in a few minutes here. so far it looks like older kids will need one shot for the h1n1 but kids 6 months to 9 years of age may need two, that is from the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. this is early data. we should learn more next month. the director said none of the 600 kids in the studies had adverse reactions. new this morning, u.s. government offices in south africa are closed right now. the u.s. embassy's website says they're closed because of info from regional security officials. but the site says that they assume they're going to be reopening tomorrow. we will keep you updated about what's going on. brand new details about the rapper charged with killing a pastor and suspected in three other deaths. police in virginia say they'll charged richard mccroskey iii with the other killings once

they identify the victims. mccroskey calls himself syko sam and has rapid rapped about the thrill of killing. last night president obama chatted with david letterman. he said he's not the first commander in chief to face opposition for trying to make some changes. >> one of the things you sign up for in politics is folks yell at you. but i think that what has been missing from the conversation is that the overwhelming majority of people, republican or democrat, i think they just want to see some common sense, they want to see some honesty and integrity in washington. >> well, the president didn't just talk policy though. little later he jokes about what he'll do when his young daughters start dating in a few years. homeland security is warning transit systems across the country to step up patrols. the associated press reports that counterterrorism officials

issued a bulletin recommending sweeps and patrols at terminals and stations. now it's all because of the recent arrests in a possible plot against new york transit. no one is charged with terrorism in that case. just with lying to agents. while his former colleagues debate health care reform former leader tom delay was doing the cha cha, check out his debut on "dancing with the stars" last night. ♪ ♪ wild thing >> it just makes me uncomfortable to see this. every time, wasn't it him shaking his bum at us? delay plays air guitar and took a twist at wild thing. judges gave him a six and two fives. that put him in the middle of the pack. he wasn't the worse. >> i think that was a stunt bum. >> stunt bum. wasn't his bum. oh. wow. >> there you go. >> wow.

okay. he stepped it up there. okay. >> good for him. >> uncomfortable. >> it just makes me uncomfortable. you're right. i'm not used to seeing him in that arena. the rain, a lot of us are looking upward to the sky because the areas in which we live, perhaps, don't need any more rain. what's the deal in your back yard, no matter what region you're in, bob will cover it. >> tremendous amounts of rainfall we had yesterday, 6 to 12 inches reported around atlanta metro not going to happen today. i think we will see another stripe of heavy rain develop later this afternoon, i think it's going to be the west of atlanta mainly in alabama through mississippip you have high pressure off the coast that's going to bleed into the west a little bit farther and you have a cold front pinchg off some rain right now that moves on into the region right now. i think those two areas will get focused with the heavy downpour action. alabama through lower tennessee as well. the rain around memphis and the rain we had around the atlanta

metro area dropped off last night. now it's picking back up again just northern sections of the state towards northern georgia itself and then more rain back across alabama, that whole thing has the potential of moving over the massively flooded out areas by atlanta metro, western georgia, northern georgia too. we're not out of the woods by any stretch. flash flood warnings and flood warnings are out there in the bright shade of green, atlanta through rome, more through birmingham stretching back into mississip mississippi. lots of rain in store. look at rain mostly north of atlanta now and then more showers off towards the west. here's the mississippi river. see a line of showers towards western mississippi. that's where the heaviest rain is going to be for the morning and then texas too. a tower cam out of the d.c. we call this patchy fog. here's the white house looking okay. it's dry right now. just a couple showers, just across the way, you can see the capitol dome sort of. >> no, you can't. what are you looking at? >> it gives us the flag in

front. we'll call it patchy fog. you can see the white house but can't see the capitol. what about yesterday? more i-reports from atlanta. if you've ever been to the city, look at this. this is i-75 right before it hits 285. i mean that is just absolutely amazing. you have never seen it backed up like this before. that's 75. >> yeah. one of our folks here on the crusade that what was amazing was, they still saw people kind of crowding in the lane trying to merge on to this highway. >> you can never get through that. even if you do you're taking your life at hand. you get swept away. it's a miserable situation. robin, more rain coming in today and i had to take back roads in today like everybody else because of the flooded out roads around atlanta. >> no matter where you're living and what kind of weather you're experien experiencing, you're welcome to be an i-reporter. >> maybe it's because you haven't met your mr. or mrs. right yet, but we know why you're really not getting married if you're the single

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there are new reports that  former presidential candidate john edwards may change his story and claim paternity of hi former mistress' child. the news comes as one of his former campaign aides is shopping a tell-all book to publishers. sources say andrew young only said he was the father of rielle hunter's daughter because edwards begged him to do that. they say that young later recanted because edwards turned on him, according to the "new york times," young claims

edwards always knew he was the father and promised hunter he would married her after his cancer stricken wife elizabeth dies. meanwhile a grand jury in north carolina is looking into whether edwards misused campaign funds to cover the affair of up. this is video of hunter arriving to testify last month. edwards paid her production company more than $100,000 for a series of videos during his 2008 campaign. if edwards knowingly failed to report any other payments that could be considered campaign contributions and could go to jail. edwards does not think any campaign funds were used improperly in this. >> thank you. lower grocery bill is always nice and the price of the things that you buy from the farm are dropping. jennifer westhovan is here. i realize that's usually not good news for everybody. >> yeah. it's not good news for farmers. and for some of the big companies that make a lot of the food. but it is good news in a bad economy for most of us.

if you're at the grocery store. milk should be costing you about $1 less per gallon -- sorry, knocked the microphone there. compared to last year. the latest average, prices should be about $2.98 a gallon where you live, around $3. these are in government statistics cited by "usa today." bacon got cheaper, 25 cents less for a pound of bacon. a lot of the pig farmers say the drop is mostly because of the recession. they say, you know, confusion, though, about h1n1, swine flu, is also making it worse, though, because some people are making the mistake thinking that pork has something to do with swine flu and it doesn't. for the first time more americans say they would rather handle their money on their computer instead of waiting in line at the branch or trying to bank by phone and you got to go through that whole voice mail navigational maze there. this is according to the american bankers association. you can see some of the chart there. internet banking is pretty big. see there's a section that says unknown. what is that?

is that called my husband? yeah. whatever. wherever the money goes. >> it's not a majority yet. >> you must be sleeping in this morning or you don't care if he talks about you? >> i don't mean my husband. >> i thought you meant my husband. >> i'm ferocious about on-line banking. somebody else might be like, let somebody else deal with it. >> i let my husband deal with it. an arizona couple is suing walmart and the state over photos they tried to develop. they were accused of sexual abuse over the photos of their kids taking a bath. their lawsuit says that walmart turned the pictures over to police. the kids were taken away last fall and the couple didn't regain custody for more than a month. >> here where were forced to sit

and watch helplessly as they ripped our crying, screaming, terrified children away from us. >> we now realize how much control the state has and that they can pull any one of your children out of your home right now. >> that lawsuit claims that the store did not inform the couple it had an unsuitable print policy. so far we have no response from the state or from walmart. salute to the troops, almost home. that is what the family of lieutenant stock keeps saying. he's expected home in the next couple weeks. his family is ecstatic. >> good morning, robin. i'd like to sent a suit sa lute to my husband. he has been in iraq. we celebrated his birthday without him last week, but we're all really excited because he should be home within a week or two. anthony, i love you and i miss you.

me and the pups can't wait until you're home. >> do you have somebody in the service like she does? we would be happy to help you salute them. cnn.com/robin. former president bill clinton is talking about health care reform and accusations of racism. find out what he says about president obama's opponents. and -- >> like a shoe museum. that everything in the house that possibly can be shoe related is shoe related. >> what? we're hot on the heels of a truly massive shoe collection.

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a former ebay executive says that she can help california save billions. the company's former ceo meg witman will announce today she is running for governor of that cash strapped state. the republican says she wants to slash spending by $15 billion. the current governor arnold schwarzenegger's term ends next year. some say you can never have too many shoes. a woman in california must be testing that theory. darlene flynt owns more than 11,000 shoe-related items. she started collecting about nine years ago and has everything from a shoe toothbrush to a shoe bed. >> i used to buy everything i saw that was a shoe and then the last couple of years i just buy the things that are really unique because it's getting overwhelming. there's not enough room in my house.

>> flynn estimates her shoe collection is worth $500,000. she says some day she'd like to have a shoe-shaped swimming pool. i wonder how many pairs of shoes she has. >> no way that woman is married. >> no way that woman is married rafer said. not that there's anything wrong with that or i'm just saying. >> nine cats, right? is that what you're thinking? >> understanding husband if there is one. >> monday night football really kind of looked like the red carpet of hollywood. the stars were out in full force in miami. >> good morning, robin. they had an orange carpet. i'm not kidding. with velvet rope and the suvs and the people coming in and out. the dolphins were hosting indianapolis. you have gloria estefan, jennifer lopez, mark anthony. the williams sisters parading the sidelines, going step it up. unfortunately the dolphins for them did not step it up when it mattered most. the colts who only had the ball

about a fourth of the entire game, won. peyton manning led them in a come from behind play. gets a high five from tiger woods. sunday will be michael vick's first game since being released from prison for dog fighting. do not expect to see him much on the field. andy reid said even though donovan mcnabb is hurt vick will take a back seat to kevin cobb. vick hasn't played in two years but will probably see a few plays on the field slowly but surely. moms listen up, pedialyte and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches helped colt mccoy beat the flu at texas tech. mccoy had the flu all week, struggled in the first half against tech saturday. at halftime he downed the pedialyte and had a few pbjs and felt much better in the second half. he completed almost every pass he threw and had a touchdown. >> pedialyte and peanut butter, protein. >> for the flu. lastly, 102-year-old dodger fan got the chance of a lifetime and

the crew saw his dream come true when they made him a guest on his birthday. got to meet the players and take in a game and got a bag full of free stuff. that's a look at sports. >> sweet. what are you doing next tuesday night? not you, rafer. exciting addition to our lineup coming your way. the joy behar will air every night at 9:00 p.m. at hln. you're in bed by nine. >> what i'm doing tonight. there's a book party happening. >> thank you. >> that's another story. >> tonight. ? it is. want to carpool. >> here's what i'm togging about here. kicks off tuesday, september 29th. joy behar show. be sure to tune in. can a girl get a word in edgewise? hi, bob. how's our travelers doing? >> so far so good. going to be bad later today. low clouds across atlanta, traveling horrendous, trying to get to the airport, lots of road closures. the way it looks with the radar and the planes on top of it.

here's atl. rain to the north, rain to the west, though and that bodes poorly for us for the afternoon as the rain cycles back in here. thunderstorms to end it all. later today, be d.c. metro, charlotte, cincinnati, memphis, st. louis, houston and dallas, showers and storms, 30 minutes to an hour delay. chicago, san francisco, some morning fog. about a half hour to hour delay there. more details in half hour. >> thank you. one town's mayor doesn't want police to run after suspects anymore. but wait until you see how adamant she is. she wants to make a point.

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we are seeing some of the worst rainfall to hit the southeast in a century. nearly a week of storms and flooding are blamed for at least six deaths. coming up, meteorologist bob van dillen tells us whether the worst is over or if more severe weather is on the way. president obama is considering a new strategy for the war in afghanistan. it will focus on going after al qaeda, including using more spy planes to target suspected terror havens. administration officials say this could be a better option than a major military escalation. those are some of the headlines we're working on this morning and i see you're probably working on your coffee. good morning, sunshine. a terror plot investigation is getting bigger.

investigators now say that several others can be involved. the three men already in custody were in court yesterday. they're suspected of being involved in a plot to attack a major railway or subway station, but officials admit they don't know exactly where or when. right now the men are only charged with lying to authorities. maybe i should say they're charged only with lying to authorities. former president bill clinton is weighing in on the health care reform debate. last night he told larry king he thinks, some, but not all, of the fikts about president obama's proposal is motivated by race. >> i believe that some of the right wing extremists which oppose president obama are also racially prejudiced. and would prefer not to have an african-american president. but i don't believe that all the people that oppose him on health care and all the conservatives are racist. and i believe if he were white, every single person who opposes him now, would be opposing him

then. >> clinton also said that he thinks health care is a fight that president obama and the democratic party need to win on merit. three pharmacists say they warned anna nicole smith's doctors that the drugs they were prescribing would kill her. the "l.a. times" got court documents that show one pharmacist refused to fill a prescription that included 300 methadone tablets. smith's psychiatrist and internist are also accused of having sexual contact with her. they pleaded not guilty to charges of illegally providing her with drugs. new information this morning about the affair that unraveled john edwards' political career. one of his former aides claims edwards has known all along he was the father of the -- of his mistress' child. richard liu, good morning to you. is edwards mapping to admit that, say something different? >> good morning. that's what some of his associates are telling "the new york times" right now. edwards lawyer told the paper,

quote, there may be a statement on that subject at some point, but said that they would want to see how things unfold going forward. you might remember that edwards was publicly denied being the father of rielle hunter's child in an interview on abc last year. >> i know that it's not possible that this child could be mine because of the timing of events. i know it's not possible. happy to take a paternity test and would love to see it happen. >> that paternity test hasn't happened but a friend of hunter said the affair was going on when hunter got pregnant. >> this isn't just a story about a sex scandal. edwards is facing the possibility of criminal charges. >> yeah. that's right. the potential charges here in this case are felonies that carry up to five years in prison. a former federal prosecutor talked about some alleged payments to hunter on our sister network cnn. >> and we know that some of his campaign contributors gave her a

bmw, allegedly. we've also heard that she got lodging, she got other expenses paid. that could really be considered a campaign donation. i have to say, it's really novel, it's complicated, but it is possible. >> north carolina grand jury will decide whether edwards knowingly failed to report any payments to hunter, perhaps to keep her quiet. edwards has said he doesn't think, though, any campaign funds were used improperly there. >> we're going to watch that one. thank you. get this, a school bus ended up in a pond while carrying a swim team to practice. the high school students who were on board, they're okay. they say the bus went ten feet into the air before it veered and landed in the water. now police say the driver may have had a medical issue. that is one scary scene, isn't it? brush and grass fires force people to evacuate their homes for a while. people in more than 100 houses near medford, oregon, had to leave. fire officials are letting them back in now.

winds are making things difficult for the fire fighters. so far at least two fires have burned about 700 acres. it looks like a moment to dry out for some people who have been hit by rain too much for too many days. just a moment though, right? >> it is just a moment. i'll tell you this i think the focus of the heavy rain, it was over atlanta, down through macon yesterday, towards the val cost ta, georgia. central parts of georgia getting slammed. here's what it looks like on the radar. good stream of rain from georgia to alabama, towards mississippi. places around arkansas heavy rain as well. the biggest thunderstorms for the morning finding themselves around southern parents of texas. another part that needs rain they're getting it. look at the thunderstorms developing and moving up to the due north. there's a high pressure region right around the carolinas and off shore that's pushing all the action over towards the north. ultimately towards the northeast for today.

so the flash flood warnings are going to be extended through the afternoon. so those are all the areas that are shaded in green. watching for an additional one or more inches of rain today, especially if you're underneath one of those heavy rain-making downpours. you'll see as much as two to three inches again for the afternoon. atlanta radar picture, pretty important. we are beginning to dry out. things beginning to drain just a bit. notice the activity up to the north, more back off towards the west. this moves in later this afternoon. we are not out of the woods. neither is alabama and mississippi. rain showers in the forecast for louisiana and arkansas. the heaviest action by far across the lower parts of texas. they desperately need it. exceptional drought from austin, down to brownsville, they get rain today. this i-report out of atlanta, this is marietta, north side of town, they picked up about 6 to 12 inches of rain. right now it's about six to seven feet deep and encompasses the entire back-yard region.

no reports of damage to these people's homes but many people are reporting flood damage. it's just unreal situation. 15 to 20 inches of rain in three days, that's what we've seen in the west side of atlanta. >> let me show you the folks. we got brand new tape in here this morning, you can see what we're talking about. what people are dealing with. this is a major interstate. this is i-20 if you've ever been through the atlanta area, it intersects the city. this is out by the six flags area on the west side of the city and you can see there is so much under water. the roller coasters are under water. >> that's how i get to work and got detoured away from it this morning. >> this is the six flags, amusement park. obviously it is not sitting on a lake but it looks as though it is this morning. so wow, we have a lot of drying out to do. and we have a bit of a break but it's going to take a long time to dry out. these are live pictures of the same area, this is i-20 west of the city of atlanta.

and people are trying to squeeze through one way on the road, but you see nobody going the opposite direction for good reason. and thank goodness because i get a little nervous when i see people trying to traverse in the deep waters. >> you see the police car up there. they are letting them through legally. wow. unreal. >> there are a lot of schools in the southeast that are closed this morning. there are a lot of work places even that are excusing people because they can't get in. >> yes. >> one of our producers, in fact, was not able to get in this morning. what was the story? she went outside and her husband is like you better go back in. >> my son is off from school today. it's crazy. we're talking right there in this area that's by mlk about six to eight inches of rain in a 24-hour period yesterday. low-lying area, obviously, you can see what it did. >> thanks to our folks providing those live pictures from wgcl. kidnapping suspect philip garrido made a discovery that he thought was a discovery and he

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you can hear people telling you how -- what's going to happen and what's going to happen -- what the future says. >> okay. garrido also claimed that the box let him talk to people without actually speaking. garrido and his wife pleaded not guilty in the dugard kidnapping case. grizzly bears living at yellowstone national park are on the threatened species list. a federal court ordered it yesterday in response to a lawsuit. 600 grizzlies live around the park. hunting them is illegal but people killed 20 last year in self-defense or by mistake. just two years ago, authorities believed that grizzlies had been saved from near extinction. president obama's daughters have a few years to go before they're allowed to start dating but the president is prepared for when that day comes. >> what do you think it is like for them to have their father be the president? what does that do to the kid experience? >> you know, so far, i think it's fine.

this is seriously something michelle and i think about all the time. they're young enough where they don't notice it that much. i worry when they get to be teenagers because i suppose they'll want to go out on dates and i'll have all these men with guns surrounding them. >> that's a very good point. there will be no problems here. president obama also said that his daughters goofed off for the summer, something he couldn't do, but then letterman quickly shot back, well, you have and the audience loved it. maybe the recession has caused you to spend a little less and to save a little more. it's doing a lot of things, even keeping people from saying "i do." jennifer westhovan is here. you could just run away and, you know -- >> you could. >> remotely or go before the judge. you don't have to spend a whole lot of money. >> is it really just about, you know, eloping?

the cost of the wedding? maybe people think i want to be a little more secure in my job before i promise someone, you know, to spend my life with them. the recession making a big impact on our lives. everyday life and even some of the biggest choices of your life like getting married according to the census bureau statistics. more people waiting to get married. also, people thinking, you know, i think i'm going to wait to buy that home. or also waiting to move. more of us are also car pooling or taking mass transit. saving a couple bucks there. maybe you're leaving a little earlier these days to catch the bus or to pick up your co-worker, so the census bureau showed longer commutes, about 25 minutes was the average commute, and i couldn't believe this, one in eight american workers, out the door by 6:00 a.m. before our show even starts. >> i'm not surprised because i know television viewing habits get earlier and earlier in the

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a new video of michael jackson has surfaced now showing him rehearsing for his comeback concert series. ♪ they say why tell them that it's human nature ♪ ♪ why why >> look at this video. this is brand new tape that has surfaced. it would be just a short time before he died. there he is singing "human nature" and it sounds good. does he look like a man who would die a short time later? the rehearsals, these were just before he died in june. reports movie called "this is it" opens to the public october

28. it's going to have a two-week run and include the rehearsal video. you look at him, he looks thin, but really intensely rehearsing. very focused. he sounds, yeah, very, very good. ♪ tell them that it's human nature ♪ >> such a shame. >> it's weird to think he's gone. it's still weird to think that. the heavy flooding in the south could put a damper on the pga tour's final big event of the year. if it's rained out, what do they do? >> they have to keep pushing it. that's the big question, robin. i mean, we've never been in a situation like this. all this does is put more perspective on how severe the weather is here right here right now and the affect it's having. this is eastlake country club where the final leg of the fedex cup is. whoever wins the cup gets $10 million. you can bet they'll be paying close attention to what happens. it's hard to imagine anybody teeing off when it's skedsled in two days.

the club said some players were out practicing on the driving range even though the course is closed. former super bowl star plaxico burress is expected to go to jail today after he's sentenced for accidentally shooting i co-burris serving jail time immediately. if he can keep in shape while he's in prison, many say he'll return to football. dante whit ner was stealing passes from tampa bay, police say somebody stole $400,000 worth of jewelry at his home during the game. police aren't saying if there was forced entry or not. he says he's on "high alert" because he doesn't know who did did. another bill had his home vandalized. for now, we must bring you to this football player, michael irvin's debut on "dancing with the stars." did not score big with the judges. >> how can that be?

>> they say his footwork was off. you can tell i researched this. >> he might be a little reserved in his movement, but he's better than tom delay. >> but he didn't score like delay. >> they keep comparing him to jerry rice. >> he won it. >> so did emmitt smith. >> he has big shoes to fill. >> see, that part looks good. >> emmitt smith won, right? >> yes, he did. that's hard to follow in other athletes' foots. they were all good. i'm just not as uncomfortable watching that as i am watching tom delay. maybe tom delays was a little bit more of a showman. i still didn't feel comfortable. is it me? >> just a different generation. whole gunslinging thing, not my cup of tea either. traveling out, it will be atlanta again, rain, clouds being the whole nine yards. one hour more for atlanta, count

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rise and shine. how are you doing? it's tuesday, i'm robin meade. and we're always glad to have you as part of our morning family. here's what's going on. dangerous flash floods in the south have taken the lives of at least six people. roads are washed out. look at the homes just flooded and people are without electricity. we're going to find out when the storms are expected to let up. former presidential candidate job edwards may admit he fathered a child with a woman he had an affair with. why he may be ready to talk. what's different now? first, though, our top story. the flooding in the southeast isn't just making a mess. it has become deadly.

at least six people have been killed. some were drivers caught up in flash floods. two people are missing. it has been some of the worst rainfall to hit that region in a century. look at how bad things got at this gas station near atlanta. >> like i said, the manager said there's a car in the water out here. that's what i was looking for. can't even see it. >> probably 10 or 15 feet deep i'd say in the lower part of it. pretty deep out there. >> one family fought to survive in a creek in the atlanta area. affiliate wsb reports that a woman held on to her 1-year-old in one arm and her tree to the other for three ho hours until they were rescued. down the creek, the father could not held on to their 2-year-old son. that boy was swept away and drowned. it looks like another wet day for the southeast. there is a break so bob is watching to see if the end is in sight anywhere. >> good morning, robin. unfortunately, rain in the forecast at least through saturday for areas around

georgia, alabama, mississippi. everybody wants to know where the rain is right now. most of it north of atlanta, but notice light showers coming out of alabama stretching toward the boerder. most of the heavy downpour action setting up by central alabama and mississippi for the day. let me show you the flash flood watches and washg warnings. warnings include atlanta again, near miss torque levels on peachtree creek being the chattahooch chattahoochee, birmingham, to, another incho to two inches today. full details in a couple of minutes. >> thank you. so far it looks like older kids will need one shot for the h1n1 but kids 6 months to 9 years may need two. this is early data, and we should learn more next month. as the director also says, none of the 600 kids in the studies had any adverse reactions. good news. homeland security is warning transit systems across the

country to step up patrols. the associated press reports that counterterrorism officials issued a bulletin recommending sweeps and patrols. it's because of the recent arrest and possible plot against new york transity. no one is charged with terrorism in that case. new information about the rapper suspected of killing a rapper. t he calls himself sigh co-sam and has rapped about the thrill of killing. the suspect's sister says he's kind and passive despite being bullied as a kid. last night president obama chatted up david letterman. he promised to ask tough questions before deciding if he'll send more u.s. troops to afghanistan. >> the folks who killed 3,000 americans, they were based in

afghanistan. they've been driven into the foot hills and mountains between afghanistan and pakistan, but they're still there and they're still plotting and training folks and try be to penetrate u.s. defenses, and although they're weakened from where they were in 2001 they're still there. my central objective is making sure that we take those folks out, that they cannot cause harm to the united states. >> well, the president didn't just talk policy, though. little later on he joked about what he's going to do when his daughters get old enough to start dating. u.s. government offices in south africa are closed because of a possible threat to the united states embassy there. a state department rep says this is a precaution and that they'll be closed for just one day. he didn't give any more details about that threat. new reports that former president dernl candidate john edwards may claim paternity of his former mistress' child. richard lui is digging into this for us. edwards has denied being the

father in the past. has something changed here? >> robin, one of his former campaign aides is about to write eye tell-all book. according to the new york tiemdz, andrew young claiming that edwards always knew he fathered rielle hunter's daughter, but his friends say his wife elizabeth didn't want him to come forward. she addressed the paternity rumors on our sister network cnn in july. >> the continued questions about the paternity factor, is there any solution there? dna tests? >> my expectation is that some point something happens. i hope for the same of this child that it happens in a quiet way. >> andrew young claims edwards convinced him to say he was the father. sources say later he recanted because edwards turned his back on young. edwards did not respond to requests for comment. >> this isn't just a story about a salacious sex scandal.

edwards also faces a possibility of criminal charges here. yes. a north carolina grand jury heard testimony from rielle hunter last month. they want to know if edwards misused campaign funds to cover the affair uf up. hunter's company got more than $100 thoushg for a series of campaign videos in 2008. if edwards in this case knowingly failed to report any other payments, he could go to jail. etd wardz has said he did not think campaign funds were used improperly. >> richard, thank you. public smoking bans could prevent more than 150,000 heart attacks according to two new studies. they've found that heart attack rates fell 17% within a year after those bans took effect. the co-author of one of the studies says sproek-free laws not only protect smokers but guard nonsmokers from second-hand smoke and encourage those to quit smokie inor smoke less. >> and, no, i don't smoke.

people often ask me that because my voice is so deep. it's because i don't sleep. >> does robin smoke? number one, it's none of your business. no, she doesn't. >> six minutes aft hour. let's check out the rainfall in an area so plagued by it. >> you're right. i'll show you where it's going to be focused later this afternoon. we're watching heavy rain developing namely around north alabama toward southern tennessee, we have a convergence, winds coming out of the southeast right here, winds out of the southwest on oert side. where they meet is where you have the heaviest rain. that is going to set up shop about 200 miles to the west of where we had it yesterday. most of central georgia is going to dry out just a touch with all the rain focused toward tennessee. let me show you the atlanta radar, a lot of rain still sitting on the ground. rain sitting across northern georgia, showers, thunderstorms developing later this afternoon

with a daytime heating. more thunderstorms western parts of mississippi. they're not severe but this is it really going to grow in aerial coverage starting later today. once the sun sets i think you'll just see stat scattered light showers. same as yesterday. we'll see it die down overnight. lower arkansas, rain, same with northern louisiana. decent rain coming out of texas. this whole area really needs it. now we're seeing that el nino really kick in, we'll start feeling rain showers from dallas to houston into brownsville over the next couple of months. today you'll get decent rain all the way down to southern texas, which is good. little video coming in from atlanta. if you're trying to travel down here, same scenario as yesterday. low clouds in and it's going to be socked in like this for the entire morning. afternoon might feature a few peeks of sunshine, but that's also going to destabilize us. watch for more thunderstorms. can't even see the tops of the buildings. you know that will cause a problem at the airport. also some video from i-75

yesterday. check that out. that is a major artery going right through atlanta, and it just backed everybody up. look how deep that is. unbelievable. >> yeah. and if you look, there's a car sitting there. >> thousands of people all around georgia and alabama yesterday. >> people who tried it and were sorry they did. his former colleagues debate health care reform, tom delay was doing the cha-cha. check out his debut on abc's danning with the stars last night. no! don't do that. delay played some air guitar, then shook his cha-cha to "wild thing." the judges gave him, though, 6 and two 5s, putting him the middle of the pack. he gets a little warmed up here and it gets a little better here as we roll the tape. maybe not that part.

oh, that makes me uncomfortable. he's warming up now this is not the tom delay i'm used to seeing. >> i like the vest. it really touched it off, i thought. >> it kind of adds a little shimmy and shake. >> i like it. >> no. is he in high heels? >> no. he's not in high heels. maybe it's because you haven't met mr. or mrs. right yet. you're not feeling us. we know why you're really not getting married. girls getting out of the bathtub, try drying, wrestling, playing around. >> a couple lost custody of their kids for a month because they took pictures of them in the bathtub. now the parents are striking back. @%90s slacker hip-hop. ♪ singer: buckle up, everybody 'cause pu're taking a ride ♪

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12 minutes after the hour. why don't we salute our troops right now. he is almost home. that's what the family of lieutenant anthony stong keep saying. he's expected home in the next couple of weeks. they cannot wait. >> good among, robin. i'd like to send a salute to my husband. he has been in iraq with the 357 out of how hawaii. we celebrated his birthday last week without him. but we're excited because he should be home within a week or two. anthony, i love you and i miss you you and me and the pups can't wait until you're home. >> jess, i bet that's true. if you have somebody in the service, go to cnn.com/robin and we'll het you salute them. let's get you new video of some of the flooding in the southeast. this is tape on i-20 west out of atlanta. do you see that's an amazement park? it's an amazement park not built on a lake but darn if it doesn't look like that today. yeah. this roadway was closed for

about four hours last night because the floodwaters had spilled over onto the interstate. nearly a week of rains and flooding have been blamed for at least six deaths in the region. this is tape we got in a few minutes ago and it's going to take a while for that water to go down. that's six flags amusement park in atlanta if you've ever been to that area. lower grocery bills are always nice. yeah, and the price of the things that you buy from the farm are the things that are dropping right now. i know, nice for us, not so much nice for the farmers. hi, jennifer. >> hi. thank you, robin. this isn't great for farmers but it is good news in a bad chi if you shop at the grocery store. milk should be costing you about $1 less for a gallon compared to last year. the latest average price for milk is about $2.98 a gallon across the country according to government statistics cited by "usa today." and in the latest month, bacon is cheaper, about 25 cents less

for a pound of bacon. now, pig farmers say that mostly the reason prices are down is because of the recession. demand has dropped sharply. but they also say making things worse is that there's confusion about h1n1, the swine flu, because some people are making the mistake of thinking it comes from eating pork. it does not. it comes from being around other human beings. for the first time, more americans say they would rather handle their money online compared to waiting in line at the branch or trying to navigate that maze of banking by phone according to the american bankers association. obviously good news for the bank. if you're doing it online, no paying for the branches or tellers. there's a big section in this pie chart called unknown. how are you handling your money if you write "unknown"? >> that means, my husband does the checking. i don't. >> i guess so. just a quick one because those are two soft stories. the hard money stories you want to look for today is the dow going to make it back up, get

near 10,000? and the fed is meeting. we'll hear what they say tomorrow. maybe they'll agree with ben bernanke saying the recession is "very likely over". >> or we could answer it unknown. just joking. it's a tape that you haven't seen yet of michael jackson, brand new video, from his last days of rehearsal. plus -- >> i ran out like a devil. i ran out ready to fight being you know. >> yeah. an 88-year-old man says people were trying to steal his safe so he jumped out of his wheelchair, no less, to fight back. something new is happening at ethan allen! with "special savings" on select custom dining... and hand-made upholstery. you choose the style... we custom make it. always with free design service. ♪ hand-made for you at ethan allen.

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18 minutes past the hour. i just was coughing during the break so i'm going to sound like elmer fud. an arizona couple is suing wail mart and the state over some photos they tried to develop. they were accused of sexual abuse over photos they took of their kids taking a bath. their lawsuit says that walmart turned the pictures over to police. the kids were taken away last fall and the couple did not

regain custody for more than a month. >> here with we were forced to sit and helplessly as they ripped our crying, screaming, terrified children away from us. >> we now realize how much control the state has and that they can pull any one of your children out of your home right now. >> well, that lawsuit claims that the store did not inform the couple that it had an unsuitable print policy. so far we have no response from the state or walmart. monday night football looked more like a hollywood premiere. rafer has the story. >> good morning. the miami dolphins have become the planet hollywood of the nfl. >> because of their celebrity owners. >> they had an orange carpet as opposed to a red captain. they had a velvet rope, suvs coming in with the people coming out, the paup rauzy. why not? a-listers co-hosted dolphins.

jennifer lopez, marc anthony, the williams sisters walking up and down the sideline not paying attention to the game. heefr's why. the dolphins controlled most of the game but the colts still won. peyton manning let them in the behind win. a 102 dodger fan got a chance of a lifetime. he saw his dream come tu when the team made them his personal guest of honor on his 102nd birthday. it included a tour, meeting the players and got a bagful of goodies. nice of the dodgers to do that. this next story i'm really interested in. for anyone experiencing the flu -- >> you should listen up. because this guy here, mccoy of texas, peas area lighted peanut butter and jelly sandwiches helped him beat the flu symptoms

and win the game. completed almost every of pass when he came out and led texas to win over tech. >> little protein and a little peas ya light. ♪ peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat ♪ ♪ peanut jelly >> that's going to get you an e-mail. >> let me show you what's happening weather-wise. not much happening, one delay about a half hour in charlotte because of low clouds. atlanta, look, you guys are coming in and out no problems so far. low clouds are in so we'll get the delays and they're going to amount to more than an hour. showers, thunderstorms rolling in through atlanta, one hour or

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we are seeing some of the worst rainfall in parts of the southeast in a century. this is brand new video this morning. the water is rising in some areas above, looks to be like the ceiling of the first floor. coming up, bob will tell us whether the worst is over. we're talking the floods have been deadly. six people have died. president obama is considering a new strategy for the war in afghanistan. it would focus on going after al qaeda, including using more spy planes to target suspected terror havens. administration officials say a that this could be a better option than a major military

escalation. good morning. i see that you're up early today. it's about 30 minutes aft hour. morning sunshine. i'm robin immediate. former president bill clinton is weighing in on the health care reform debate. he tells larry king that he thinks some of the fighting but not all of president obama's role is about race. >> i think some of the right wing extremists which oppose president obama are also racially pracial ly prejudiced and would prefer not to have an african-american president. but i don't believe that all of the people that oppose him on health care and all the kov tc e conservatives are health care. if he were white, i think every person who opposes him now would be opposes him then. >> he thinks that health care is a fight that president obama and the democratic party need to win on merits. the ousted president of honduras is waking up in his

country's capital for the first time in june. he arrived home to cheers yesterday. he said he'll meet with critics to try to get his job back. he was overthrown after pushing for a constitutional referendum that could have led to longer term limits. we have new information this morning about the affair that unraveled john edwards' political career. one of his former aides claims that edwards has known all along that he was the father of his mistress' child. correspondent richard lui joining us now. is edwards planning to admit that now? >> that's what some of our associates with telling the "new york times." etd wardz' lawyer telling the paper "there may be a statement on that subject at some point" but said that they would wait to see how things unfold here. we may remember edwards very publicly denied being the father of rielle hunter's child last year. >> i know that it's not possible that this child could be mine because of the timing of events.

so i know it's not possible. happy to take a paternity test and would love to see it happen. >> that paternity test still hasn't happened, but a friend of hunter's said the affair, robin, was still going on when hunter got pregnant. >> so it's not -- i don't want people to watch this and say being oh, this is a story about a salacious sex scandal because edwards is also facing the possibility of criminal charges here. >> yeah. you hit on it, robin. edwards could face jail time of up to five years if he's indicted in this case. a formal federal prosecutor talked about alleged payments to hunter on our sister network cnn. take a listen. >> we know that some of his campaign contributors gave her a bmw, allegedly. we've also heard that she got lodging, she got other expenses paid. that could really be considered a campaign donation. i have to say it's really novel, it's complicated, but it is possible. >> a north carolina grand jury will decide whether edwards knowingly failed to report any payments to hunter perhaps to

keep her quiet. edwards has said he does not think any campaign funds were used being thou ed improperly. >> we also have more coverage. a.j. hammer and the team at "showbiz tonight" will be talking about the edwards paternity claims later this morning, catch the morning edition at 11:00 a.m. eastern. 34 minutes past the hour. for some people in an area that has just been flooded with ryan, there is a slight break right now. but how long is the break? hi, bob. >> good morning, robin. it's tough to say really because we have such a humid atmosphere of all the rain falling mississippi to alabama through journal xrornlg george, any thunderstorm that develops today will be a terrific rainmaker. that will the way it is through the weekend, too. hooer's how it looks on the rad radar. so far, so good, this is all ground scatter. you get to the north of the city, back towards the mountains, you start seeing the

rain and thundershowers beginning to develop. what about the rest of the day? the clouds are going to be out there. let me show you the tower cam. atlanta obviously a major hub. if you're getting in or out of the city, a lot of concerns. the highways around the airport are closed, the low clouds are there right now. we'll see delays at the airport because of the clouds. here is a live shot looks like i-20 just outside of the city. even trying to get in or out of the city is a tough go. usually it's just clogged with cars this time of day. you can see just the water on the road. nobody is even around it. what about the rest of the region? the flash flood warnings are basically ceased, now just plain old flood warnings because the rivers are running so high. how about the radar picture? the big story shows it like this, big area of low pressure back off towards the west. winds out of the southwest again right off the gulf of mexico. tremendous moisture source. you also have the winds coming out of the southeast and the convergence of these winds will

take shape right around tennessee, mississippi, and northern alabama. so i think the real nexus of the heaviest rain is going to be right around basically northern mississippi this morning and grow toward tennessee and alabama over the next couple of days. that's something we'll be watching. radar, couple lines of thunderstorms around central mississippi, portions of louisiana, arkansas, too. check out all the heavy rain, beneficial, this is good, around central and southern texas. more in a bit. more i-reports coming from outside atlanta. this i-reporter says that this is usually just a small creek that runs through their yard. this is marietta, georgia, north of town. it is now six to seven feet deep. there's thousands of pictures just like this, as you know. >> we welcome all of our viewers, if you think you have video to share. >> more if a bit. kidnapping suspect phillip garrido apparently made a discovery that he thought was so unbelievable. he claimed he was on a mission from god.

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michael jackson and it shows him rehearsing for his comeback concert series. ♪ they say why why tell them that is human nature ♪ that's jackson singing "human nature" during the rehearsals just before he died in june. he appears thin, but his voice seems sharp, he is getting his dance moves down, seems very intense at rehearsing. routers reports that the movie "this is it" opens to the general public on october 28th. it will have a two-week run. the la times reports that a soundtrack will be released. you look at that and it's hard

to believe he was dead a short time later. >> his moves are very crisp. >> so precise. it's surprising because being you know, it still seems weird he's gone but you know someone at that professional level could wing it, just make up the dance moves on the fly. but he was really rehearsing it. maybe the recession has caused you to save more and spend less. it's also keeping people from saying "i do." our money expert jennifer westhoven. >> i could see how that could be. maybe you don't have the money to get married or maybe you can't afford -- >> maybe you think that's a big commitment to take on to look afr after this human being for the rest of the their lives. it tells you that the recession is making a huge impact not just on what you're buying but some of life's biggest choices. numbers from the census bureau show that more americans are staying single, 31%, maybe thinking being i just want to be a little bit more secure at work first. a lot more people in their 20s,

too, are staying single as well. 31% of people have never been married, the highest in a decade. americans are also waiting to do things like buy a home. that number of people is down. also people willing to move. mobility is at a 60-year low. and more of us are saying, maybe i'm going to carpool, come in with a co-worker or use mass transit to save money. how is the recession affecting you? we'd love to know. cnn.com/robin. we've got a link to our facebook page, the latest edition to the many ways you can communicate with us. many americans are also giving up or cutting back on gambling, the legal kind. that's the first time in 20 years people have cut back. you usually think of gambling as recessionproof. the rockefeller institute says gambling revenues are down about 3%. casinos have less coming in, lottery tickets down, the biggest drop is at the horse and dog tracks. in case you're thinking, i don't

really gamble. this doesn't affect me. it does because it means your state or local government won't get as much money in tax revenues so when they look to plug the hole, what do you think they think about? higher taxes. >> i guess you can see how that's the case on both sides. we have an exciting addition to the prime-time lineup coming your way next week. the joy behar show. here is a quick sampling of it. this is her moment of joy commentary. >> you know, unless you're a professional kick boxer or a traveling salesman with a fetish, there is no real reason for an adult to ever engage with spanking. a new study says there are actually parents who are spanking a 1-year-old child. now, what could a 1-year-old possibly do to deserve being spanked? come home drunk after a date? lose the family fortune playing the ponies? start a war under false pretensions?

in my opinion, there's nothing a child can do that warrants parents spaivging them. young children pee, poop, and throw food. that's another story, my uncle louie, because he drinks. it's the parents' job to it raise them, teach them right from wrong and communicate them in a matter that doesn't involve bruising physically or psychologically. the philosopher renee decard, i gaited him. he didn't say i spank, therefore i am. said i think therefore i am. so when your children carry on and scream and yell, don't lift your hand to them. lift your mind, think it through. spanking your children won't make them love or respect you. it will make them fear and resent you. do you want to be a parent or a network executive? i believe that spanking is abuse. hopefully that's not just me. >> that's an example of her commentary, the joy behar show starts tuesday, sent 29th,

9:00 p.m. here on hln. we continually are getting new updated pictures right now of the flooding in the southeast. these are live pictures. this is in the atlanta area. this is the result of nearly a week of storms. that's hard to tell, but that's an interstate. where i can't see. is that what you're thinking? this storm has been blamed for six deaths at least. you can see people obviously with were caught up in the water and swept away in many cases. now, to the right of this picture is an amusement park and it's not an amazement park built on a body of water, though when you look at this shot today you would think so. a lot of neighborhoods are flooded around atlanta right now. look at this picture. it's the strangest thing to see a home that's on fire with the fire truck right there, the fire truck obviously can't get to it because of the flooded area. water everywhere but the home is burning to the ground.

this is from yesterday, by the way. now, can i show you this same exact building just from 15 minutes ago. there's the same fire truck. the home is still smoldering and still burning this morning. can you imagine the heartbreak of the homeowners? i mean, the fire truck is so close, yet so far when you're talking about situations and conditions like this. the water is receding being thankfully, just a little bit. nobody is going to be walking around for sure. but such destruction. we'll continue to bring you more live, updated pictures. a mother in cleveland said she screamed for her 4-year-old son because he was in the back seat of a car that was being repossessed. what happened when she tried to save him.an unr: "it looks like nothing else on the road right now," proclaims "gq" magazine. did you see that? the interior "positively oozes class," raves "car magazine." "slick and sensuous," boasts "the washington times."

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dragged down the street. >> i got the back door open, just kept it open so i could try -- she just pulled on out of the driest way and drug me up the street. >> for one thing, nobody knew the child was asleep in the back of the car. >> the mother said she was screaming. >> she was screaming, my man is about to shoot you. >> well will, local reporters say that the repo driver abandoned the car about five miles away with the child in the car. no arrests have been made, the child is okay. so you've seen all of these pictures we showed you of the flooding and damage in the southeast. well, that could put a damper on the pga's final event of the year. >> we've never been in a situation like this. we have no idea how it will go down. they could start, they could stop. all the while it's going to be pretty ridiculous. you've just got to take a look at some of this video here. we've been showing you video of the flooding in atlanta. this is the east lake country

club, the final leg of the fedex cup. this is a big tournament, the winner gets $10 million. they're supposed to tee off on thursday. a lot of players are thursday. a lot of players are here. they're coming into town. some were out practices on the driving range even though the course is closed. we'll see what happens. we'll see what happens to fl plaxico burress. he's sentenced today after shooting himself in the leg in a nightclub. he expects to play in the nfl when he's out in two years. some experts seem to think he can do it if he stays in shape while in prison. police say while he was stealing passes for tampa bay he had jewelry stolen from his home. this comes a week after another bills player had his home vandalized. speaking of the nfl.

monday night football highlights in the next half hour. for you, michael irwin's debut on "dancing with the stars." he did not score well. tom delay got a higher score that michael irvin. to tom delay's credit, i watched it. delay did go for it. he really tried hard. >> even though it was bad, he had no reservations about being bad. >> they're saying ervin -- they say ervin was way too subdued and didn't do nearly enough. >> i think he's holding back a little. i would agree with that. i think the foot work looks good. look at that. >> that is good foot work. >> he's just holding back a little. >> i got nothing. >> thank you. all right. it's a tough thing for him to come into that, because athletes

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well, hello, hello, hello. welcome to our show. how are you? i'm robin made. we're so glad we are a part of your morning routine. here's what's going on this morning. let me show you. come here and look at these live pictures. roller coasters at a six flags amusement park in georgia, well, they're sticking out of the water this morning. after days of deadly storms in the southeast the road closures are piling up. more live pictures like this one. more trouble for john edwards. a former aide is making strong claims about the former senator's affair and the child that edwards claimed wasn't his.

and you won't believe how a mother tried to save her son as her car got repossessed. what she says happened when she tried to get her 4-year-old from the backseat. first, though, our top story. the flooding in the southeast, it is not just making a mess, it has become deadly this morning. it has been some of the worst rainfall to hit that entire region in a century. and now at least six people have been killed. some were drivers caught up in flash flooding. a witness says that the conditions made it impossible to help one of the victims. >> there's no way i could help. that was the only thing. i was screaming and yelling. i was flashing my lights, trying to get him to stop. there was no way i could help. he was on the other side of the creek. there was nothing i could do. >> can you imagine? one family, they fought to survive in a creek near atlanta. our affiliate reports a woman held on to her 1-year-old in one arm and a tree in the other for

three hours until they were rescued. but down the creek the father could not hold on to his 2-year-old son. the boy was swept away and drown. i can't imagine having to watch that. there are more incredible pictures to show you. live pictures this morning. several interstates are still under water. and even if you don't see water on the side of this road, do you see the traffic? that's hard to miss. you're going to find neighborhoods flooded, too, around the atlanta area. so many colleges, high schools, elementary schools, have closed for today. here's an example of the problems close up. so you have a home on fire yesterday. the fire truck is right there. they can't get to it and do anything. so among the water, it burns down, basically. so is this a tape from yesterday or the tape from today? here is the same house, the tape from today, just a few minutes ago. the darn thing is still smoldering. still burning in some areas.

the fire struck is still right there. talk about frustration. well, it looks like maybe another wet day for the southeast. a see a tiny little break. but it's not big enough, right, bob? >> you're right. i think right now we're going to see the rain shift its axis to the heaviest downpour action into central alabama, northern alabama and parts of tennessee for the day. the current radar, a three hour loop, notice the thunderstorms beginning to develop north of atlanta and then pulling away. but the storms are still developing and they continue to hold on through northern alabama in through mississippi. and that whole thing is going to gradually slide across northern parts of mississippi, alabama, georgia, through tennessee. flood warnings still up there. yesterday we saw as much as 6 to 12 inches of rain in 24 hours just west of atlanta. atlanta itself got about 6 1/2. the flooding is our top story. and we're going to be showing you more video just as soon as we see it in our monitors here. we're going to move around and get you some different pictures. as soon as we see something that

is really grabbing, we'll go back and show you more. last night president obama chatted up david letterman. he says he's not the first commander in chief to face opposition for trying to change things. >> one of the things you sign up for in politics is folks yell at you. but -- but i think that what has been missing from the conversation is that the overwhelming majority of people, republican or democrat, i think they just want to see some common sense. they want to see some honesty and integrity. in washington. >> so the president didn't just talk policy, though. a little later he jokes about what he's going to do when his daughters start dating. a few minutes ago the president arrived at the u.n. today he's taking part in a climate change conference at the united nations. he's going to address the u.n. general assembly tomorrow. thought you'd like to see that. so far looks like older kids will need one shot for the h1n1.

but kids 6 months to 9 years of age might need two. that's from the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. this is early data. we'll learn more next month. the director said none of the 600 kids in the studies had any adverse reactions. that's good. new this morning, u.s. government offices in south africa are closed because of a possible threat to united states embassy there. a state department rep say this is is just a precaution and that they're going to be closed for one day. he didn't give any more details about the threat. new reports that former presidential candidate john edwards may claim paternity of his former mistress's child. correspondent richard lui is digging into this for us. you know, edwards has denied being the father in the past. i mean, has something changed here? >> robin, one of his former campaign aides is about to write a tell-all book. according to "the new york times," andrew young claiming that edwards always knew he fathered rielle hunter's

daughter. edwards' friends say his wife elizabeth did not want him to come forward. she addressed the paternity rumors on our sister network, cnn, in july. >> and the continued questions about the paternity factor? is there any solution there? dna tests? do you know if anything's going to happen. >> my expectation is at some point something happens. and i hope for the -- for the sake of this child that it happens, you know, in a quiet way. >> andrew young claims edwards convinced him to say he was the father. sources say later he recanted because edwards turned his back on young. edwards, robin, did not respond to requests for comment as of yet. >> this isn't just a story about, you know, a salacious sex skan scandal. edwards also faces criminal charges. >> the north carolina grand jury heard tchl from rielle hunter last month. they want to know if edwards misused campaign funds to cover the affair up.

hunter's production company got more than $100,000 for a series of campaign videos in 2008. if edwards in this case knowingly failed to report any other payments he could go to jail. edwards has said he does not think any campaign funds were used improperly, robin. >> all right. richard, thank you. all right. homeland security is warning transit systems across the country to step up patrols. the associated press reports that counterterrorism officials issued a bulletin recommending sweeps and patrols at terminals and stations. it's all because of the recent arrest and possible plot against new york transit. no one is charged with terrorism in that case. they're charged with lying to agents. his former colleagues debate health care reform. former house majority leader tom delay was doing the cha cha. this is his debut on abc's "dancing with the stars" last night. ♪ >> oh, no!

did he just shake his bum at me? delay played some air guitar. he shook it to "wild thing." the judges kind of liked him. they gave him a six and two fives. that put him in the middle of the pack. not bad on your first outing. but -- it just makes me uncomfortable seeing him in this light. i'm just not used to it. >> i like the vest. sets it off. >> what are you talking about? you like delaney. >> oh, yeah. right. right. >> no, please, i can't stand anymore. eight minutes past the hour. bob, we have a tiny bit of a break for some of our areas who have been watching and just been hit by too much rain. >> yeah. looking at some of the helicopter shots from atlanta, peeks of sunshine. drier air is trying to work in from the east. when you have sunshine, all the humidity still in place, that makes things more unstable. we will see thunderstorms pop up from north georgia through alabama and really focus in

tightly across texas right now. look at this area here, erupting with thunderstorms overnight last night. they continue to drive down into places like mississippi coming right out of arkansas. light showers also around louisiana. the heaviest stuff, this is all beneficial. san antonio back in towards austin. exceptional drought. still in there from the east texas coast towards brownsville. you're going to see a lot of rain starting today, ending up overnight tonight. could see as much as one to two inches of rain for the southern half of texas. so it's not all that bad. boston and new york city should be dry. the carolina coast, look at the thunderstorms coming in. just around myrtle beach getting to places like the outer banks today. the west coast in about a half hour. some more shots right out of atlanta. this is i-75. this is an i-report.

that is a major artery in atlanta usually packed with people going home from work. this is the way it looked yesterday during rush hour. a nightmare. standing water on the roadway. nobody moving. it was a mess. more on that, robin, in about a half hour. >> i'm surprised there was a time to take the video. every time i looked out the window, it was pouring. >> yeah. it was one of the two minutes where we didn't see rain come down yesterday. a couple thought they'd snap a few pictures of their kids having fun in the bathtub. but -- >> girl was getting out of the bathtub, drying, wrestling, playing around. >> because of those pictures, they lost custody of their kids for a month. and now the parents are striking back. úa

salute our troop. he's almost home. his family is ecstatic.

>> good morning. my name's jessica stong. i'd like to send a salute to my husband. we celebrated his birthday without him last week, but we're all really excited because he should be home within a week or two. anthony, i love you and i miss you and me and the pups can't wait till you're home. >> if you have somebody in the service, we always are honored to help you salute them. go to cnn.com/robin. an arizona couple is suing walmart and the state over some photos that they tried to develop. they were accused of sexual abuse over photos that they took of their kids taking a bath. their lawsuit says that walmart turned the pictures over to police. the kids were taken away last fall, and the couple didn't regain custody for more than a month. >> here we were. forced to sit and watch helplessly as they ripped our crying, screaming, terrified

children away from us. >> we now realize how much control the state has, and that they can pull any one of your children out of your home right now. >> the lawsuit claims that the store did not inform the couple that it had an unsuitable print policy. so far we've had no response from the state or from walmart. lower grocery bills. yeah. that's always nice. and the prices of the things that you buy from the farm are really dropping. our money expert jennifer westhov westhoven's here. good morning. >> bacon. i'm just saying we have a couple of prices in the store. i feel like most of the attention has been on the bacon part of the story. >> bacon, bacon. >> good news in a bad economy. the flip side, not so great for farmers. but milk should be costing you about a dollar less for a gallon compared to last year. the latest average is about $3 a gallon. $2.98, government statistics cited by "usa today." here comes your bacon. that is cheaper, too.

about 25 cents cheaper for a pound of bacon. big farmers say, well, it's mostly because of the recession. so demand is down. but they also say that there has been some confusion that's making things worse. they say that some people are mistakenly thinking that h1n1 or swine flu has something to do with eating pork. it doesn't. in washington this morning the fed is starting a two-day meeting. it is expected to keep rates near zero. but it's the policy statement due tomorrow that everybody's going to be looking at. don't worry, i'll look at it for you. the big question is, is the fed going to agree with its chief, ben bernanke, who last week said the recession is very likely over. of course we know, jobs, that's a lagging indicator. that heals after the rest of the economy. on that front today the house is going to look at some legislation that could help more than 1 million americans who are just making their ends meet with their unemployment benefits. the house is set to take up a bill to extend jobless benefits for a few weeks in states with some of the highest jobless

rates. it is expected to pass easily and then it's taken up in the senate. all right. if you're traveling this morning maybe you're thinking thank goodness i'm not in the southeast. bob, maybe there's some trouble in houston? >> yeah. it's going to be houston now. line of thunderstorms headed np p a ground stop in houston for the next 45 minutes as rain moves into the area. that's what we have right now. houston, that's the only one, ground stop until 10:00 eastern. the rest of the day, you have more showers coming in around atlanta. so far, soo good. just the low clouds. has not slowed you down. it will this afternoon. here's what we're calling from. an hour or more in atlanta. those will be the longest ones for the day. more thunderstorms around the carolina piedmont up to d.c., memphis, cincinnati, st. louis, houston, dallas. morning fog possible around chicago and san francisco. the flu is hitting a lot of people hard. one star college athlete may have a way to beat it. good news. >> yeah, bob. good news. especially for folks with kids. you guys know the flu has been

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okay. back to our top story today. some major flooding in the southeast. these are some pictures in the north carolina mountain. dozens of roads in the western part of that state are closed. and there are local reports of some evacuations and even small landslides. so mud slides. keep it on hln all day long. as soon as we get more tape in, we turn it around, we show it to you, and live as well. three pharmacists say they warned anna nicole smith's doctors that the drugs that they were prescribing would kill her. "the l.a. times" got court documents that show one pharmacist refused to fill a prescription that included 300 methadone tablets. smith's psychiatrist and internist are also accused of having sexual contact with her. they pleaded not guilty to charges of illegally providing her with drugs. key negotiations start today in the health care debate. the author of the newest bill is

changing it already. senate finance committee chairman max baucus says he wants to reduce fines for people who don't buy health insurance. today the committee will start wrangling over more than 560 amendments offered. the congressional budget office says the proposal will cost $774 billion over ten years. here are some of the live pictures of that discussion going on right now. there's a lot to plow through. monday night football kind of looked like a hollywood premiere. here's rafer with more on that. it was miami. >> miami. >> and you got a lot of celebrity owners? >> who own miami. which created an atmosphere, honestly, i've never seen at an nfl game. there was an orange carpet as posed to the red carpet. the velvet rope. suvs dropping people off. a lot of a listers own the dolphins. gloria es te fan, mark anthony,

venus and serena williams. they won it 27-23. peyton manning with the come from behind win. this was the first play, td pass. high five with buddy tiger woods. sunday will be michael vick's first game since being released from prison for dog fighting. head coach said even though starter donovan mcnabb is hurt, vick will still take a backseat to current starter kevin cob. 102-year-old dodger fan got the chance of a lifetime. the team made him their personal guest on his birthday. included a tour of the field and the clubhouse. got to meet the players as well. if you have the flu, listen up. texas quarterback colt mccoy was battling flu like systems in the long horns' game against texas tech. during halftime he downed some

pedialyte and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. >> that helped him with his flu. former president -- i love that. former president bill clinton is talking about health care reform and accusations of racism. find out ha he says about president obama's opponents.

the new york stox ck exchan just opened for business. while you were asleep the markets in europe rallied. the fed's expected to leave interest rates low as it meets over the next few days. a live report from wall street? just a few minutes. nearly a week of storms and flooding in the southeast are blamed for at least six deaths. and the associated press is now reporting that the body of a 15-year-old boy was found in a georgia river this morning. coming up, meteorologist bob van dillen is going to tell you whether the worst is over or if more severe weather is on the way. after president obama opens the u.n. climate change summit this morning he's going to meet with israeli and palestinian

leaders. it's an attempt to build momentum for the peace talks that stalled in 2008. the president will meet with them separately before three-way talks get under way. why bother with fall when you can go straight to winter? places across colorado are getting snow and cold temps. at least three inches of snow fell in the foothills west of denver. freeze warnings are in effect in some parts of new mexico, wyoming, nevada and utah. oops. i mean nevada. all right. i'm robin meade. morning sunshine. how are you? good to have you with us. former president bill clinton's weighing in on the health care reform debate. last night he told larry king he thinks that some, but not all of the fighting about president obama's proposal is motivated by race. i believe that some of the right wing extremists which oppose president obama are also racially prejudiced.

and would prefer not to have an african-american president. but i don't believe that all the people that oppose him on health care and all the conservatives are racist. and i believe if he were white, every single person who opposes him now would be opposing him then. >> clinton also said that he thinks health care is a fight that president obama and the democratic party need to win. the heavy flooding in the southeast could really put a damper on the sports world, the pga tour's final big event of the year. try playing in who knows how many feet of water? >> we don't know how long it's going to be there. they're supposed to tee off in two days. look at these pictures. it seems absolutely impossible. this is east lake country club. here in atlanta. it is the final leg fedex cup. the winner gets $10 million. supposed to tee off on thursday. that just looks downright impossible. you cannot play in those

conditions. the club reportedly says players are out there practices on the driving range. they're optimistic. they hope they can move forward. the course right now is closed, robin. interesting to see what happens. >> okay. see what happens. >> okay. got to soak it up. there will be a lot to be soaked up. rafer, thanks. a prosecutor described mob heir john junior gotti as a chronic criminal who's left a trail of victims in his wake. that was made at opening statements at gotti's racketeering trial in manhattan. gotti is accused of ordering the killings of two drug dealers. gotti's lawyer said his client never participated in the murders and quit the mob in 1999. a man who's family was found dead in florida is believed to be in custody in haiti. they want to question him in the deaths of his wife and five children. police are not calling him a suspect but he is wanted on charges of violating probation on a domestic violence case. >> in january of this year he

was arrested for a simple battery or misdemeanor battery against the female that we found deceased in the apartment. he pled no contest to it in june. i do not believe so, other than the initial arrest. >> the bodies of girlen damas and her five children were found saturday. the oldest child was 9. the youngest just months. get this -- a school bus ended up in a pond while carrying a swim team to practice. the high stool xupt school stu board are okay thankfully. they say the bus went ten feet into the air before it landied n the water. they say the driver may have had a medical issue. did you see how far the nose of the bus was? wow, the impact probably september sent it further into the water. 34 minutes past the hour. we have water to talk about

but not a pond. some area that's look like a pond now. when will we see a break? >> morning. i think the access of the rain setting off shop over central georgia yesterday is going to move to the west today. you can see the beginning stages of this. southwest wind coming out for mes and southeast wind coming out for lower georgia. they combine and converge around alabama. you can see the thunderstorms already developing here and then more showers developing across northern parts of georgia. atlanta right now so far is dry this morning. let me show you what it looks like live. in fact, a few peeks of sunshine now. here's what it looks like with a tower cam. if you are trying to get in or out of atlanta, anticipate more downpours. with the humidity in the air, any thunderstorm that develops is probable to drop one or two inches in atlanta. rain is in the forecast today. i think we will see it off and on through saturday. what about the flood warnings? all of the areas shaded in bright green are under a flood warning. almost the entire state of

georgia has at least a watch or warning, same with alabama. atlanta itself in a warning. birmingham, parts of you also and same with parts of mississippi. all of the rain isn't bad. most of the heavy rain falling around southern parts of texas. extreme drought here. over the next couple of days, one to two inches of rain is going to fall as an upper level low sets up shop to the north and gradually hangs around the next few days. decent rain for austin, san antonio, moving into houston. we will see showers as far south as brownsville today also. some more i-reports coming from outside of atlanta. this i-reporter said this is supposed to be a small creek behind their house in marietta, georgia. that's north of town. look how big it is. six to seven feet deep they estimate. that is unbelievable and there are thousands of pictures like this all around the state of georgia, alabama, and parts of mississippi, too. more on that robin, in a bit. i was looking at the doppler radar estimates, six to ten inches of rain just yesterday. grand total in douglas county, just west of atlanta, near 20 inches of rain in the last three

days. more details in a little bit. >> i'm just trying to think about that. 20 inches of rain. >> it's hard to grass. that's a yearly amount of rainfall in three days almost. >> wow. >> yeah. >> thank you. investors on wall street are back in a buying mood. susan lisovicz is back at the market exchange. she will tell us what's up this morning. >> good morning. the operative word is up. market is up. getting momentum from overseas market as they wait to hear from the federal reserve. policymakers of the fed gathered to take up the issue of the economic recovery, despite recent reports on housing and manufacturing that have shown the economy is making a comeback, the fed is expected to hold interest rates steady. one reason why -- growing unemployment numbers. today it's pratt and whitney cutting jobs. the jet engine maker is closing two of its plants, leading to 1,000 job cuts in connecticut because of decreased demand in the aerospace market.

oil is rebounding from an oil demand. oil demand in china fell in august for the first time since march, is up krading above $71 a barrel. finally, netflix announced the winner of a three-year, million dollar contest to improve its movie recommendation system. the online movie renter awarded the prize to a sefben-member group of researchers, scientists and engineers from around the world. there were more than 50,000 contestants from 186 countries who spent three years -- had three years to work on it. a lot of like -- >> okay, who won the million dollar contest? a group of scientists? >> yep. >> they were studying how to make movies, referrals better? >> yes, exactly. >> wow. >> because for netflix, that million dollars is money well spent because if it's a more efficient system, going to make more money. it's very competitive market. >> that's impressive. thank you.

>> you're welcome. kidnapping suspect phillip garrido apparently made a discovery so unbelievable. he claimed he was on a mission from god. it's this -- a black box, and you won't believe what he said it could do.

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>> when he brought that box in, he said you can hear people's voices from the other side. you can hear people telling you what's going to happen, what the future says. >> garrido also claimed the box let him talk to people without actually speaking. garrido and his wife pleaded not guilty to the dugard kidnapping case. new reports this morning that former presidential candidate john edwards may soon claim paternity with his former mistress' child. riyal hunter testified before a grant jury last month. they want to know if edwards misused campaign funds to keep her quiet. a former federal prosecutor talked about some alleged payments to hunter on our sister network cnn. >> and we know that some of his campaign contributors gave her a b bmw allegedly. we also heard she got lodging. she got other expenses paid. that could really be considered a campaign donation. i'm going to have to say, it's really novel, it's complicated but it is possible. >> edwards could go to jail for

five years if he's indicted and convicted in this case. now, he has said that he doesn't think that any campaign funds were used improperly. a.j. hammer in the scene on "showbiz tonight" are all over it this morning on the john edwards paternity claim. can you catch the morning edition of "showbiz tonight" at 11:00 a.m. eastern. first, it was cash for clunkers and now the government could soon be offering dlaurs to go green. hln money expert clark howard has details about a new stimulus pan pare plan apparently in the works. >> do you know following up on cash for clunkers, we're going to have cash for appliances? you think i'm making it up, don't you? but actually it could come up as soon as maybe november, december that we're going to have a gimme for appliance manufacturers where if you buy a new appliance that meets each state's standards for energy efficiency, that you will receive cash back

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i want you to look at this elementary school in georgia. we have been bringing you all kinds of different scenes of the horrible flooding in the southeast region of the united states. i don't see the school. it's underwater. obviously, a lot of schools and colleges are closed in the atlanta area. hundreds, in fact, in the southeast. and here's the sad part, we know of at least six people who have died in the storms in the region anyway. now, keep it on hln all day. as soon as we have new tape that comes in or live pictures, we're going to turn around and show you because it's just mind-boggling. some areas saw like 20 inches of rain in the past couple of days, and bob's going to be talking about whether more rain is on the way. a convicted rapist has admitted that he raped and murdered a brigham young university student five years ago. joel courtney gave police info that led to her remains. his plea means he will be spared the death penalty and get life without parole and it brings closer to brooke wildeburger's

mom. >> it might be hard for you to understand but we feel gratitude to mr. courtney that he could see fit to tell us where he left brooke. and for our family, what happens to him, we're thankful that justice was served and that he will not have the opportunity for parole. >> when crime happened near oregon state university, when brooke hill burger grew up, joe courtney also indicated he tried to kidnap two other women the day he grabbed her. they escaped. he was already convicted for a kidnapping and rape in new mexico. just awe few minutes ago, president obama arrived at the u.n. and these are live pictures. today he's taking nartpart in a climate change conference and tomorrow addresses the general assembly. just wanted to show you those live pics. also just into hln, a terror

plot investigation is now getting bigger. a source familiar with the investigation is telling cnn at this hour that investigators are looking for about a dozen people. the three men already in custody were in court yesterday. they're suspected of being involved in a plot to attack a major railway or subway station. but officials admit that they don't know exactly where or when. right now the men are charged with lying to authorities. can you imagine, first of all, owning $400,000 worth of jewelry? then can you imagine it being stolen? that is the deal according to police of one nfl player. and he's on a team that was targeted previously. >> previously. we have two players from the same team that have been involved in a crime in one week's time, robin. >> as the alleged victims. >> alleged victims. this time we're talking about buffalo bills safety dante whitner. while he was stealing a pass from tampa bay sunday, somebody was stealing a whole lot of his bling, $400,000 worth from his

suburban home in buffalo. his publicist said he's on high alert because he doesn't know who did it. police say it could have been someone invited into the home. either way, whitner said he's not going to press charges. he wants his jewelry back. former super bowl star plaxico burress is expected to go to jail today after he is sentenced for accidently shooting himself in a nightclub. burress will be behind bar two years after he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. he says he expects to play when he's out and some feel he could do it if p keeps himself in shape while he's in prison. we will see what happens. meanwhile, nfl hall of famer michael irvin's debut on ds ds "dancing with the stars" did not score big with the judges. >> what? >> i know. former star of the dallas cowboys tied for the lowest score, the lowest score, get this, tom delay got a higher score than him. but tom did not wear that outfit. maybe that would have helped.

>> tom doesn't have those guns. thank you, appreciate it. maybe he will be better next week. he will be more comfortable. what are you doing next tuesday night, by the way? we have an exciting addiction to o -- addition to our primetime lineup -- "the boy behar show" premieres september 29th at 9:00 p.m. some of president obama's are a few years away from the dating age but the president says he's already prepared for when that day comes. >> what do you think it is like for them to have the father be the president? what does that do to the kid experience? >> you know, so far i think it's fine. this is seriously something michelle and i think about all the time. they're young enough where they don't notice it enough. i worry when they get to be teenagers because i suppose they will want to go out and dates and i will have all of these men with guns surrounding her. >> if you're a father, that doesn't seem like a problem.

it seems like a good insurance policy. >> yeah. i think i agree with you on that. and one delay to tell you about, houston, 45 to 60-minute delay because of thunderstorms headed in. atlanta will get a taste of that as well. more "morning express" in just two minutes. interesting grooming. thanks.

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