it is thursday. good morning to you. natasha curry. robin meade is on assignment today. you have to see this rescue video. look at this. now they have been hit yet again. plus, police are looking for a newborn baby they say was snatched after a violent struggle. what the faint's mom is now saying about the abduction. also -- >> i wasn't afraid. >> you have to hear how this 5-year-old nabbed an 800-pound alligator. oh, yeah. top of the hour now. the theory is thousands of people may be buried in the rubble from yesterday's earthquake in indonesia.

a second quake hit overnight about 150 miles from the worst devastation. now, we haven't heard of any injuries from that one. but yesterday's quake is blamed for more than 400 deaths. people were sleeping outside unprotected because their homes were destroyed. here's one coordinator explaining how the 2004 tsunami that ravaged the country is helping the government deal with this disaster. >> we were working indian hand and know each other well. we coordinate carefully like -- the government loaned us two planes this morning to fly in relief supplies. the government is coping well. on the ground, the local authorities such as the fire services, police are are doing a good job. i think what has come out of the tsunami operation is -- we have very good coordination in place. >> watch as rescuers freed one woman here from a collapsed building. people are digging through rubble with their barehands to

find survivors. poor thing. some are using twitter to locate lost loved ones. right now police are searching for a newborn snatched from a nashville home. the boy is six days old. here is his picture. investigators say the kidnapper posed as an immigration offer and showed up at the home which had a sign innocent front yard saying "it's a boy. "the suspect stabbed the mom nine times and stole the baby. maria now has a collapsed lung. >> translator: the only thing i remember is that -- that -- she went for help and when she came back the baby wasn't there anymore. her 3-year-old daughter was there. >> after the attack the mom ran for help. her neighbors saw a car speeding away from the house. the mom is said to be in stable condition. any changes to the military strategy in afghanistan won't be made for a couple of weeks. that's from white house spokesman robert gibbs.

president obama met with his national security team about that yesterday. the top u.s. koomder in afghanistan has said the situation isn't getting any better. and he is expected to request more troops. the national security team meets again about it next week. john travolta says extortionists were going to tell the media he was somehow responsible for his son's death. two people are charged with trying to extort $25 million from the actor in the bahamas. the case revolves around documents travolta signed after his son jett died earlier this year. in cross-examination yesterday, the actor said the defendants never contacted or threatened him directly. they pleaded not guilty. one game back had the nfl, michael vick back with nike? larry smith has the latest details on this. >> good morning. i was shock pd when i heard this. months out of prison on dogfighting charges, not only resumed his nfl career but also his career as a spokesman.

vick's people and nike are mum about the details. this could be tied to the quiet reaction to vick's return to play and mott many protests, as many expected. the sponsors of his new team, philadelphia eagles, have not dropped their support of the team. your thoughts? what do you think about nike re-signing michael vick? the nfl said come play. is it too soon? we will air your comments throughout the zblorng larry, thank you very much. a 13-year-old arkansas girl is a breast cancer survivor. taylor thompson said he was in a class when she felt a lump and her doctor said that the type of tumor she had is rare for someone her age. surgery removed it. her mom says at first she cooperate figure how she was going tell taylor she had cancer. >> i was very shocked. i broke down. >> very, very rare that we see either invasive breast cancer or this kind of tumor in a young person this age.

it just makes us know that you can't exclude it unless you know for sure. >> there is a chance taylor's cancer could r reoccur. october is breast cancer awareness month. check out the forecast. start dreaming about it. >> natasha, one major storm system we are watching now, wrapping up across the middle of the country. satellite picture with the radar on top of the cloud. you can see most of it around k.c. and iowa headed towards minneapolis. still ahead of the cold front and frontal boundary up towards the north. look at that line of rain striping out from oklahoma all the way up towards the upper midwest. northern plains and with snow falling across eastern montana. that's the cold air. that's where it is located. one part of it. more cold air over the great lakes region. we will show you that in a couple of seconds. rain and thundershowers, too. earlier this morning, des moines here new. that's all moving on in towards lower parts of minnesota.

watch minneapolis and get rain coming in here shortly. you can see off towards your west, it is all moving in your direction. it is going to be a watch for the first part of the day. morning come ushgts minneapolis, rough go. later this afternoon, things ought to dry out a bit for you. later this afternoon, though, severe thunderstorms possible. spots we put in red. lower gulf coast in towards noornts of texas. here is your other batch of cold air. freeze warnings, lower parts of michigan and back on in towards parts of indiana and ohio. frost advisories out here as well. some of the temperatures cooler than they were yesterday morning. 32 in alpena. 33 in flintd. 38 degrees in detroit. you get outside of here and temperatures are below freezing in the areas you see in darker blue. it is going to be like that for one more day. that's this morning and warmer air tries to come back on in. look at the clouds wrapping around the upper-level low. still cloudiness around nyc, too. take you live to new york. traveling up there. cool start for you. temperatures into the upper 40s, low 50s. daytime high today, about 65 degrees with mostly sunny skies. here's the city court building.

>> gorgeous. >> more details in a bit. >> all right. thank you, bob. looking forward to it. chicago is rolling out the big guns in its olympic bid. oprah, first lady, the president. what are the chances we are digging deeper? and a florida representative is throwing gas on the fire in the health care debate. the speech his opponents are calling december pick kabul. despicable.

nine minutes after the hour. thanks for waking up with us on hln. president obama flies to denmark today to throw his support behind chicago's bid for the 2016 olympics. the first time, though, any sitting president has gone in person. correspondent richard lui is joining us now. what's the chances he will be successful in this? >> good morning. we talk about chicago here. it has a few great selling points that will be brought up. first, it is low risk. the ioc knows there is a secure source of the in marketing

income in the united states, lake michigan provides a very picturesque setting. and, of course, you have star power. have you the president, first lady, and even oprah, as you know, will make her case for why which i economy should get the games. on the flip side, chicago by lesser known. many ioc members have never been to chicago. the u.s. could also bring a greater risk of terror threats, too. so some pros and cons for. >> did you what about the other cities in the running? who is chicago saying is the biggest competition right now? >> you might want to be there right now to enjoy the weather. rio de janeiro. there is a lot of buzz. south america never hosted the olympics, too. rio has the highest crime rate and most expensive bid. we are talking about billions of dollars when they take the estimates. madrid is the most ready with more than three-quarters of their venues built or under construction so far and have the most public support. european cities got the last two olympic bids. finally, we have tokyo and it has the most experience hosting

major sporting events. the last summer games were in asia and they have not created much buzz for their bid as of yet. >> richard, it will be inning to see that. announce many coming tomorrow. florida expects the man who buried jessica lunsford four years ago has died. authorities say the death of convicted rapist and killer john couey was not a surprise. new in 40 minutes. why jessica's father said he was sad when he heard the news. you can say good-bye to saturn cars. jennifer westhoven has more on why general motors is pulling the plug on the brand. >> hey. they couldn't sell it. they tried. there were months of negotiating and with penske. penske pulled out saying we can't buy it. gm will stop making saturns. the dealerships will have to close. that's 13,000 dealership jobs at risk. if you own a saturn you can still get it serviced at gm

dealers. don't worry about that. here's people reacting at one saturn dealership in michigan. >> kind of unsettled as i drive off the lot. but i still think it will be a good car. >> i just think that it will be taken care of. i'm not concerned. >> right. so the gm dealerships -- those cars will be taken care of. you can't buy them in the future. penske never made cars and were hoping somebody else would make them and start to deal for that. the deals broke down. it men the whole deal didn't work. bank of america's ceo ken lewis says he will resign. he helped build the company from a southern bank. regional bank and into the first true national bank in this country. it is the biggest u.s. bank by assets. although, of course, it owes us all about $45 billion because it borrowed bailout money. lewis quitting amid heavy criticism over his bank's takeover of merrill lynch. he may be facing some civil charges on this. interesting because this was a

completely different story a year ago. he was hailed as a hero for this. he made this choice to buy merrill lynch at the peak of the financial crisis. when lehman brothers had just gone under, we were right at the peak of oh, my god, it is the financial system going to collapse. take the economy down. people thought he really helped. now again facing civil security charges over that. back to you. >> jen, thank you. tiger woods' lists of accomplishments seems endless. now "forbes" says the golfer's latest win gives him something no other athlete ever accomplished.

14 minutes past the hour. a second weaker quake hit near the tsunami battered samoa islands overnight but did not trigger more warnings of waves. the u.s. said two military cargo planes loaded with supplies to help people recover from tuesday's deadly tsunami. take a look at this here. this is american samoa. at least 139 people died. look at that truck. buried in the water there. officials say they could find more victims as rescuers reach remote villages. a florida democrat is refusing to apologize after saying the republican plan for health care is just calling for sick people to die quickly. republicans are blasting freshman representative alan grayson. one called his remarks despicable.

grayson is apologizing but not the way you think. >> let's remember that we should care about people even after they are born. so i call upon the democratic members of the house and i call upon the republican members of the house, and i call upon all of us to do our jobs for the sake of america, for the sake of those dying people and their families. i apologize for the families we haven't voted sooner to end this holocaust in america. >> republican congressional committee spokesman ken spain slammed grayson for what he called a pathological pattern of unstable behavior. china is celebrating its rise to a world power. today is the country's 60th soon anniversary. thousands of troops marched in tiananmen square for the celebration. in new york, red and yellow lights honoring china lit up the entire state building. some critics say the lights on the u.s. landmark are wrong because of the communist country's poor human rights

record. okay, tiger woods, michael jordan, they are good friends. guess which one is a billionaire. can you guess? larry smith is here with that answer. hey, larry. >> good question. good morning to you. these two like to play golf together. i guarantee you this will be something they are going to talk about in words that we probably can't use on television about this. tiger woods making history again. as he's sports' first billion with a "b" -- billion dollar athlete. that's according to "forbes" which has been tracking his earnings since he turned pro 13 years. back in 1996. woods just last weekend won a $10 million prize by winning the fedexcup and that put him over the billion dollar mark in his career in combined on and off the course earnings and his estimated he makes about $100 million a year in endorsements. michael jordan earned about $800 million since he first entered the nba in 1984.

he -- you know, his jordan brand went over the billion collar mark in sales, jordan brand. nike. he is expected to top a billion dollars in his personal net worth. coming up in -- next few years. speaking of nike, eagles back, michael vick resigned with nike. the corporate are a giant has a reputation for standing by its players. nike severed ties with vick two years ago when he entered prison on dog fighting charges but they are back together. we want to know your thoughts on this. kim texting in -- keep your comments come thing morning. we will put those thoughts on air. college running back that needed seven hours of reconstructive surgery after a weigh bar fell on his neck during a workout is now resting and tweeting. stephon johnson created a twitter account to thank his fans after he crushed his larns

and his throat. his coaches visited him. limited visitors by his family but is doing well. can't move his head and neck. he has to keep that steady to help the healing process. >> yes. i'm glad he will make a full recovery. what a scary kind of thing. thank you so much, larry. all right. speaking of working you on, how old do you have to be before you start doing it? you know, getting in shape. check this out. ♪ >> do you believe that baby? look at that. lot of people are going ontlin see this cute kid. today's viral video. we dug it up for you. look at that bounce. isn't that cute? >> love it. worth more than beyonce's. thank you. >> okay. we have an exciting addition to

our primetime lineup. "the joy behar show" premiered this week and airs every tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on hln. here is a quick taste of what you will get. her not for nothing commentary. >> you know, not for nothing, but my show has been on the air for like, what two minutes and already i have been called every name in the book. i have been called stupid, pushy, dumb, a loudmouth, and a marxist. i take exception. i am not a marxist. i own property. okay. it is in foreclosure but still. this name calling doesn't bother me. you think it bothers me? i'm used to it. bill o'reilly once called me a pinhead. yeah, he's mature. christian limb nis named eric rush called me a fatty boom-bladdy. which version of the bible does he read? king james or dr. seuss? let me something to these

people, i am a mature woman capable of intelligent discord. i love to engage in cojent in well-informed conversation. i relish the thought of sitting down with all of my adversaries. so, glen, rush, bill, i invite all of you to come on the show and discuss things like rational adults. even if you are a big bunch of doodie heads but that's just me. >> you can catch "the joy behar show" at 9:00 on hln. richest of the rich can't escape the bad economy. just wait until you hear what some of the wealthiest people lost recently. a guy in a wheelchair springs into action. what he did to stop a girl from being snatched from a store. ♪ )$)$)$)$)$)$)$)$)$)$)$)$)$)$)$$

30 minutes after the hour. nashville police are searching for the person who stabbed a woman and then snched her newborn baby. the child is 6 days old. his mother was stabbed nine times. and suffered a collapsed lung. police say that the home had a sign out front reegd "it's a boy." the attacker came to the door claiming to be an immigration agent. yesterday's massive quake in indonesia killed more than 400 people. officials say that thousands more may be buried under the rubble. people are using chisels and even using their bare hands to search for survivors. ing a second weaker quake hit a different area of the island nation overnight. now we haven't heard of any injuries from that one.

state of michigan has a budget at least for now. overnight lawmakers approved a temporary 30-day budget. it was passed two hours after a government shutdown started. michigan is struggling with a $3 billion budget shortfall and the nation's highest unemployment rate. newly revealed nuclear facility in iran will be major topic today during a ming of the u.n. security council in switzerland. the u.s. i wants a watchdog group to have access to the site. one says washington is open to rare one-on-one talks with iranian diplomats. those are the headlines we are following. a busy one. welcome back. i'm natasha curry. robin meade is on assignment this thursday. democrats are saying they will get a health care reform bill on the floor of both houses within two weeks. it is a tall order. there's no agreement on whether they create a government paid insurance option and republican efforts to amend the bill

support has failed. president obama was working the phones yesterday trying to get more democrats to support the proposal. chicago police say they are fighting a code of silence as they try to track down more suspects in the beating death of a teenager. darion albert was an innocent bystander who was attacked during a gang fight. it was caught on tape as dozens of young people looked on here. last night on our sister network, cnn police superintendent vented his frustration. >> this young man was killed. the entire city is outraged and yet, we have gotten no tips, no calls. >> are you serious? no one? >> no one has called in that i'm aware of talking to detectives and provided us with any information. >> that's unbelievable to me when the offenders are teenagers and they are involved with other teenagers that go to the same school and no one calls in. we are literally getting killed by this code of silence, no-snitching rule. work hard to overcome.

>> it police have arrested four teens on first-degree murder charges. they say this all three were seen on videotape attacking albert. investigators are looking for three more suspects. first lady michelle obama says the gloves are off and their battle to get the 2016 olympics to chicago. she started making the rounds with the international olympic committee yesterday. president obama is going to join her tonight. there she is. correspondent richard lui joining us. richard, what's the president doing? >> you know, this could be partly personal if you think about it. president obama has a home two blocks from where the games would be held. political analysts saying he needs a win right now. tough battle on health care we were talking about. afghan war that's also been a difficult process for him. this could be a shot of good news in bringing the olympics home to chicago. the republican party chair suggesting the president may have too much actually on his plate already. the white house press secretary responded to that. >> who is he rooting for?

is he hoping to hop plane to brazil and catch the olympics in rio? i don't know. maybe it is madrid. >> the competent, we have brazil, japan, spain. they are all sending their heads of state as well. >> richard, there are a lot of bigwigs supporting the chicago games. there is a grassroots effort to keep the olympics out of the city. what's that about? >> we have bigwigs and little-wigs. a website, chicago is for rio that bashes the olympic bid and earlier this week, 200 people who share that sentiment and took to the streets in protest. >> hey, hey, ho ho! the olympic games have to go! >> all right. clear right there. they say chicago cannot afford the games and it is too corrupt to handle them. a group, another one, no games chicago is actually traveling to denmark to tell the ioc. >> allal that way. they are serious. richard, thank you. a 5-year-old hunter bagged a pretty big trophy in texas.

he took home an 800-pound alligator. the kid was hunting with his dad and a family friend when he shot and killed a 12-foot gator. look at him there. not even afraid. the boy's mom was worried. >> as a mom, it scares you to death because they are alligators and snakes, there's all of that sort of thing out there. >> the boy subpoena done yet. he hopes to get a bigger gator next year. look at him with that thing. bob? >> hope he will eat that thing. >> i never had alligator before. >> tastes like chicken. just like everything. what's going on? >> good morning. >> big line of thundershowers stretching to the plains. all the way down to oklahoma. cold front we were watching yesterday. it gets included when it gets up to the north. cold front warms into the warm front and going down to the south. heavy downpours are out there. heaviest rain by far is right around k.c., stretching towards columbia, missouri. it is moving to the east and

gradually the north as well. it is getting in towards des moines where the showers and thundershowers outside of minneapolis and getting towards st. paul now. here is what it looks like. you see st. cloud, showers and thunderstorms. the line will race through the region and basically fall apart into the colder air mass. you still get the rain showers out of that by chicago and maybe even milwaukee and green bay later this afternoon. something we will be watching. severe thunderstorms are possible again. mainly the southern end of the cold front. around the gulf coast, stretching towards arkansas and back in towards northern parts and southern parts of missouri. it is something we will be watching. back over to the east we go. cold temperatures. air you see in dark purple below freezing. rinds freezing for the blue shaded areas. check out this photograph we have. typhoon parma. we got it yesterday afternoon, 90-mile-per-hour winds. into the philippines possibly as a super-typhoon. we hope that doesn't happen.

they got slammed last week. that's a beautiful shot of a beautiful storm. unfortunately it is headed towards the philippines today. >> there's so much flooding there. lot of people just devastated. >> this will be round two. what a gorgeous shot. had to show it. >> thank you, bob. there's an exciting addition coming up here to our primetime lineup. "the joy beyhar show." have you heard bit? it premiered this week and airs every night at 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on hln. last night, joy chatted with bill mayer on roman polanski the arrest, after 32 years. >> is the hollywood community rallying behind roman polanski? do you have any idea what's going on there? >> i don't. you know, i'm certainly not rallying for roman polanski. you know, time guy who -- doesn't particularly like children. i don't really have a dog in that kind of fight. you know, i find, you know, you give a 13-year-old girl a quaalude and then do her in the naughty place against her will,

i mean, if that's not a crime, you know, i don't know where we draw the line here. >> exactly. >> catch "the joy beyhar show" at 9:00 p.m. eastern on hln. tonight's guest will be michael moore. going to be interesting. banks are biting the bullet. they are trying to help struggling borrowers make their mortgage payments. that's the good news and n a bad economy. also ahead, whatever happened to hanging a tie on the doorknob? telling students what you can't do for privacy.

♪ ♪ congratulations the number of gay characters

on network television is on the rise. gay and lesbian alliance against defamation released a report which reports 3% of actors on the networks this season will play gay, lesbian or bisexual characters. that number is slightly up from previous years. america's richest people are getting poorer. our money expert jennifer westhoven takes a look at "forbes" magazine list of the richest people in the u.s. "forbes" is saying how much did they lose last year n. >> maybe we want to say, you know, they got less rich. right? certainly these guys are nowhere in the poor league. >> true. >> very rough year. one of the editors called last year a billionaire bloodbath. they look at the 400 richest people in the world and lost 20% of their money. check out oprah winfrey. a big fall there. still worth a lot but lost $400 million in the latest year.

down to $141 billion bill gates, number one. 16 years. number two, warren buffett. millions of americans facing foreclosure have called their banks over and over. a lot of you guys called in to me to say we don't know what to do. banks weren't doing anything. there was no formula. people trying to find a way to keep their homes. new government report shows that some banks have stepped up when it comes to those mortgage changes that in some cases they are even reducing the principal. that is good news in a bad economy if you are a homeowner. it means that there is a better chance if they make a modification might able to keep your home. it will be reasonable. "the wall street journal" is reporting on the government report that it is mixed for the bank, though. if the bank loses money, they don't get the principal back but have a much higher chance of getting something back instead of nothing. they don't want a foreclosure. it is not good for them either. back to you, natasha. >> thanks so much. good info to have there. here's stories we are

watching out for today in your "morning express" planner. in atlanta, former president jimmy carter is going to celebrate his 85th birthday with the reopening of the carter center. later today, 4:00 p.m., captain sullenberger is expected to make comments after his first flight since the miracle on the hudson. the us airways pill on the will be with co-pilot jeffrey skiles for the same flight they were scheduled to make last january, new york to star lot. a former prosecutor in the roman polanski case says he lied about something. that led to a documentary and questioning the judge's conduct in the controversial case.

♪ quarter to the hour on this thursday morning. a former prosecutor involved in the roman polanski case now says that he lied to a documentary crew about the case. polanski's lawyer accused the judge in the 1977 case of misconduct for having plea deal discussions with the prosecution. now the former prosecutor says

he never advised the judge to send polanski to jail even though that's the claim in the documentary. the debate over polanski's arrest saturday is still dominating talk shows like "the view." >> what i'm saying is that he did not rape her because she was aware and the family apparently was aware. >> consensual? >> well, i don't know if it was consensual. i know he was not -- >> wait a second. >> when you give somebody drugs, i don't know. >> he was not charged. i guess i'm saying he was not charged with rape is all i'm trying to say. >> polanski was initially accused of rape. as part of the plea-bargain he pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse. let's check on air travel, shall we? a lot of people hopping on planes today. a lot of showers the last several day. >> you are right. watching the thunderstorm line now move into the midwest. i think areas by chicago, you

are going to star seeing delays pop up shortly. it will be overhead. about half-hour delay for you popping up here in a couple of hours. then st. louis, getting showers and thunderstorms. half hour delay. minneapolis just outside. watch for a delay first thing in the morning. dallas, more thunderstorms developing later this afternoon. houston as well. a look at that radar in just a couple of minutes. >> bob, next story is really interesting. students living in dorms at tufts university can't get no satisfaction. simply not while their roommate is in the room. new rule at the university bans sex while your rom mate is present. also a no-no according to the university, new instant handbook, so-called sexting.

all these new text terms, sexiling. >> what about putting the tie on the doorknob? not good. >> no. absolutely not. >> so bad. >> all right. shall we move on, boys? michael vick with another victory. the cat calls after some time here for prison being in prison for dogfighting. did anyone expect this? really switching gears here. larry smiths that latest on the quarterback. >> leave your mike open, you never know what will happen. i'm not surprised michael vick is back as a suppose but am surprised it is this soon. nike dropped the quarterback two years ago but now nike resigned him to terms not announced. he may have been prompted to do this by the lack of protests outside sunday's game which was vick's first in the regular season after serving time in prison. not everyone is feeling the love for vick. national retailer dick's sporting goods says it will not sell vick's new eagles jersey.

we are asking for your comments on this this morning. don't forget to start your comments with the word robin. make sure it gets to us. a girl playing high school football, controversy that's just beginning in kentucky. carol ray, 13 years old, gets ready to enter high school next fall. she is playing peewee football and got good to it. she is too old for peewee ball. they haven't decided what to do since she is not a student at their school just yet. this is different. in rio de janeiro. organizers are staging a mountain bike race in a shantytown. one of the finalists in the games. no word if this will become a venue for those kids. >> oh, my gosh. >> cool. >> serious good shocks on your

bike to pull that off. >> some good -- good helmet, too. see the narrow opening, the doorway? >> yeah, talent. thank you, larry. china is celebrating the to. today is the country's 60th anniversary. thousands of troops marched in beijing's tiananmen for the celebration. in new york red and yellow lights honoring china lit up the empire state building. some critics say the lights on a u.s. landmark are wrong because of the communist country's poor human rights record. he's often called country music's gun toting hotty. the third cd is flying off shelves and we caught up with her in this week's "road warriors." ♪ love's given up on me." >> i am a country music artist and i am on the road approximately 150 days a year. when i'm on the bus this is my home.

i wake up and drink coffee, walk my dog, everything you would do at your own house. we put pictures up, you know, to make it as homey as possible. things i have to have on the road would be my cell phone. i always have at least two or three pairs of jeans in my suitcase. i am dating a fellow country singer, blake shelton. we try not to go more than two weeks without seeing each other. we both have stories that happened on the road that we can share with each other. thank you so much for taking a look into my life and my world on the road. we will see you next time. ♪ maybe it's just me >> when a man learns to harness electricity and invents bifocals you don't go stealing his hat. but apparently a guy tried.