good morning. so you're waking up you look in the mirror and your hair is making you crabby. it had a party after you wept to bed or something. i'm robin meade. the northwest pilots whose plane overshot its destination say they were working on their laptops, what they say they were looking at. it's looking like the public option might be included now in the big health care reform plan but even if it is passed most of you would not have a chance to switch your coverage. and an actor at a haunted house decides to spook some of his customers even more and then a cop pulls a gun. so in other words somebody

turned the tables on the actor. we now know what the pilots say they were doing when they overshot the airport by 150 miles. the pilots said they were using their personal laptops and lost track of time. now the pilots told the ntsb that they were focused on a new computer program that arranges schedules, crew schedules. they did not monitor the airplane during their talk. >> these pilots were simply not paying attention for a period of time, and is that a serious offense? it is. but it's not one that i think put the lives of those people in jeopardy. >> you're always supposed to maintain situational awareness and somebody is always supposed to be watching and flying the airplane. that's your first order of duty. that's your first priority. there really is no excuse, no reason to allow it to go to this point. should not have happened. >> well rng the pilots say they didn't realize their mistake until a flight attendant called the cockpit five minutes before

they were supposed to land. by then they were flying over wisconsin. delta airlines which owns northwest, suspended the pilots. it says it violates airline policy and may cost the pilots their job. delta sent passengers a $500 travel voucher for the inconvenience. the health care reform roller coaster is taking another turn. senate majority leader harry reid says a government run health insurance plan will be in the senate bill. now states will be allowed to opt out, though. he admits he's not sure that he has the 60 votes he needs. moderate gop senator olympia snowe says she is disappointed. >> it's regrettable because i have worked in good faith all of these months on a bipartisan basis and as you know have been standing alone at this point as a republican in order to do so because i believe in good public policy. >> we'll have to move forward on this and there will come a time, i hope where she sees the wisdom of supporting a health

care bill. >> well, even if the senate can get the votes for a public option, it may never be an option for you. in about ten minutes correspondent richard lui explains why people with employer-based coverage still would not have a choice. the woman who couldn't remember her own name when she turned up in new york city apparently left everything behind when she left home. police say that she emptied her bank account but she left behind her wallet i.d., cell phone clothes and her bike. authorities have no idea how she got from washington state all the way to the east coast. here's her high school principal. >> she was a very bright girl very intelligent smart. we enjoyed having her here. she was a model student. she didn't act out against anything we did here. she was a good girl. i hope she gets her health. i hope she gets safe and gets her life straightened out. >> well, her father says she's disappeared before five months ago she was found lying near a creek on the family farm and

couldn't remember her name then. and once she was found unconscious on her bedroom floor. want to know if you are walking right into an h1n1 hotbed? well, there is an ad for that. har harvard medical school released an iphone application with real time updates. it includes video, animation and text about how to avoid it. plus, it shows you ways to protect your home and work from the outbreaks. and there's even an interactive guide to h1n1 symptoms. at least one south carolina lawmaker could bring up impeaching the governor during a special session that's actually about employment benefits today. lawmakers adjourned in june just before, you remember the story, governor mark sanford secretly went to argentina to be with his mistress. one south carolina republican says that impeachment would have been explored sooner if lawmakers had been in session when sanford returned. get this story -- a police officer is accused of pulling a gun on a chainsaw wielding

haunted house kashgcharacter, an actor. police say the actor chased the off-duty cop and entered the parking lot to get an extra scream. that's when he pointed a gun at him. the police officer says alcohol may have been involved. >> we were about three or four feet apart and he held his arm out like this with his gun and his child was pulling on his arm. >> callers said he seemed to be very intoxicated and people inside the house of screams noted that. again, when he was being processed two of the officers noted his speech was slurred, a moderate odor of alcohol coming from his breath. he didn't seem to be taking this quite as seriously as he should have been. >> moderate odor of alcohol. the officer is charged with assault and reckless endangerment. he will find out this morning if he will be suspended without pay. so far there's been no response from him or his attorney.

someone on a part-time job yeah i'll take a job as an actor in a haunted house. you scream! you scream! >> it's here, buddy. i don't know who i am. >> hey, bob. >> what's going on, robin? lots of action with the weather. two storm systems, one on the east coast, one across the west coast will bring a lot of snow for the rockies. down to the gulf, heavy rain. you can see pulling out of the gulf of mexico all around a frontal boundary. all of this is lifting to the north right through georgia and the carolinas. look at the rain around new orleans, heavy at times. stretching in to atlanta, trying to get in and out of the airport in atlanta. showers coming in starting this morning, lasting all the way through until tonight. look at the flash flood watches. that's for atlanta in towards the carolinas. you get over to the west, all flood warnings from yesterday's rain. everything moving up to the north. all the rain comes up due north. when you start seeing the oranges and reds about three inches, maybe even four inches

of rain across the north georgia mountains into the carolinas and then across the northeast. we also have a weak area of lpow pressure offshore from the delmarva peninsula. look at the rain thrown at you from philadelphia all the way in towards new york city. weather delays at the airport. we'll tell you where and when in about ten minutes from now. >> busy map there. >> it's going to be tough. that's not even looking at the west coast yet. >> good morning to our east coasters. we call you the early bird club. this is a big day in the music world. the soundtrack to the michael jackson film "this is it" hits stores today one day before the movie comes out. now the soundtrack includes new takes on some of his classics including "the way you make me feel." ♪ the way you make me feel ♪ ♪ you really turn me ♪ >> the only tracks that are new are two versions of the title track and jack sob recites a poem that he wrote called "planet earth." critics say fans will want to

keep this -- want this as a keepsake but really it's not much more than a greatest hits collection, other critics say. just in time for the holidays you could be seeing something different about your credit card. looking out for you, a top democrat wants a new change right now. and things are getting a little crazy at health clinics. what some people are doing to make sure they get the h1n1 vaccine.

it's time now to salute our troops. private 1st class daniel ruiz is the father of a 2-year-old daughter and a 2 had been week-old son. he was home for the birth of the baby and left for afghanistan two days later. his wife salutes him and his

brother rafael who is also serving in afghanistan. maybe you have loved ones in the military you want to salute. cnn.com/robin. more details now on a major turnaround in health care reform efforts. senate majority leader harry reid put the public option back in with a caveat that states could opt out. correspondent richard lui joins us now. will that help get him the 60 vobill? >> even senator reid admits he's not sure about this. he still has to persuade three moderate democrats to back his plan. ben nelson of nebraska mary landrieu of louisiana and if reid cannot get their votes he may lose other support from other democrats who want to make sure health care reform is passed this year. >> i am for any version that gets us to 60. my goal is to get on the floor and pass it off the floor. that's my goal. and public option may not be part of that. >> now baucus had voted against a public option in the past. >> for argument's sake let's say

the version becomes law, what would it mean for the average person watching right now their health care coverage? >> what's in it for me? if you have health insurance through your job, nothing, robin. people with employer-based coverage are actually blocked from switching to this public option right now. he says many people pushing for it don't realize this. >> when i've been in my town meetings, people stand up at rallies and say public option or bust. and then i would say, folks, i really appreciate your activism. are you aware that the way these public option bills are written more than 90% of you wouldn't even get to choose them? and people were practically falling out of the bleachers. >> with that said, there are still tens of millions of folks across the united states without health insurance who would be able to buy into this public option robin, unless of course, their state decided to opt out. now we want to know what you think, post your comments on the facebook page and we'll show

those for you, robin coming up. >> we have the best viewers. they're going to get right on that. we look forward to what you have to say folks. remember we told you yesterday about african-american students who were not allowed into a chicago bar. they were told that their pants were too baggy but they claimed racism. new for you in the next half hour, what is happening now that could end the controversy. well looky here. looks like you could get another chan to cash in on the home buyer tax credit if you haven't yet. money expert jennifer westhoven looking out for you. so the word is the government is going to extend it. there have been rumors about it so where are we now? >> so the action could come this week and there could be a key test vote as early as today to keep alive the $8000 tax credit to buy your first home. a lot of people credit that with propping up the housing market. democrats are eyeing legislation that would keep it alive next year but, get this so it would

start at $8,000 like it is now and then every quarter it would come down so $6,000 then $4,000. you get the idea. now that's less expensive than a competing plan that would extend the full credit, the full $8,000, and also make it available for a lot more home buyers as buyers. as of right now the clock runs out, november 30th. the recession may be over. a report due thursday is expected to show the economy grew over the summer. i said grew. that would be good news in a bad economy. this is the gross domestic product and it will likely confirm the recession theoretically ended in june or july. i say theoretically because i know you don't necessarily feel it. gp is the biggest gauge we have of the whole economy. everything, every car, every service, every haircut, it may be improving but the job market is a different indicator and it tends to lag the rest of the economy.

robin? >> i feel like when you said the recession may be over we should have bells and whistles going off. seriously. you know, you don't feel it. >> exactly. in the jobs, that's for sure. oh no levi johnston may let it all hang out. the latest reports about his planned photo shoot with "playgirl" magazine.

a 7-year-old florida girl whose body was found in a landfill will be laid to rest today. hundreds of people paid respects to somer thompson during a viewing last night. her funeral is this morning. after the service people will release thousands of purple balloons into the air, her favorite color. >> we don't know her personally but our hearts with there as parents. that's what tears our hearts out.

>> it just feels like one of ours. >> we thought it would be a nice thing to come and pay respect to the family. >> i'm sorery for your loss. i'm not family but i have kids, too. >> police have about 1,500 leads in somer's death but they have not named a suspect. she disappeared last monday walking home from school. her body was found in a georgia landfill two days later. police won't say how she was killed. motivated by the loss of his father an nfl star led his team to victory on "monday night football." obviously it must have been an emotional game. good morning, rafer. it's been an emotional year but a good story. this guy, desean jackson of the eagles he's actually small by nfl standards, only 5'10", 175. his dad always taught him to think big and he has been playing like a giant on the field. last night he led the eagles to a win over washington with two touchdowns. this reverse and he later caught one. and he says this year he's been playing for his late dad who died of pancreatic cancer in

may. he said his dad is the reason he's in the nfl and calls him his number one fan and coach. and there's the long pass to him right there. friends, family and teammates have slain connecticut football player jasper howard said their final farewell at his funeral monday. the entire uconn football team was there. head coach randy edsall praised howard saying he was on track for greatness. howard was buried in a nearby cemetery. police have still made no arrests in the killing. the last time you saw this man he was in a congressional steroid hearing. well, now home run slugger mark mcgwire is back with the cardinals as a hitting coach. he is. he's back. he famously refused to answer steroid questions. you may remember that. the team says they're not going to shield him from the media, but most in the media, including myself, believes he deserves a second chance. let's see how he does. this guy needs way more than a second chance. a former nba star may have squandered away $1 10e million. >> doing what? >> who knows? friends and former teammates say antoine walker lost almost everything he made and is facing

three felony counts of passing bad checks to las vegas casinos. each charge could get him four years in prison. court documents show he owes more than $4 million to other in institutions including his former agent. that's a look at sports. >> where did it go? >> don't give money to the posse. i don't want to be insensitive but that's a lot of money to lose. >> speaking of money lost the bernie madoff investor found dead in his swimming pool had a heart attack before he drowned according to an autopsy done on je jeffry picower, accused of making money off the ponzi scheme. attorneys say picower's death will not stop efforts to get some of his money. levi johnston may be very close to baring it all. media reports say his manager is pretty sure johnston's photo shoot will include full frontal

nudity. his manager says johnston hired a trainer so that he would look buff. johnston is the father of former alaska governor sarah palin's grandchild. ♪ sexy thing ♪ >> yeah he wishes! people would think i'm obsessed with these stories but a but it's because i don't understand why people would want to see levi johnston's full frontal nudity. >> air and space magazine is not calling him. it was playgirl." they're not calling him for some reason. not calling levi. what's going on? let me show you what's happening. rain showers across the deep southeast and now spreading into the mid-atlantic new jersey and the new york city metro area. the rain is there in new york city. you see the rain heading up to the north. that's going to be a problem for you specifically first part of the day. it's early. i think by 7:00 we'll see it pop

up. one hour or more. gusty winds, robin. more on that in a half hour. >> a man says he was drunk when he posted threats against president obama. well, now he's going to be punished for it.

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technology today in florida. he will announce $3.4 billion in grants to make the electrical grid more efficient and reliable. aides say the move could create tens of thousands of jobs and change the way that we pay for energy. a wildfire that threatened dozens of homes in person california is expected to be contained today. the fire in the santa cruz mountains was 55% contained last night and burned almost 500 acres and forced some to evacuate. they were allowed to return home yesterday the a turning point in the health care debate. yesterday senate majority leader harry reid announced he's including a public option in the senate bill. those states will be able to opt out. president obama supports a public option but he is sad it is not a requirement because he wants bipartisan support. let me take a breather and say how are you doing? it's 31 past the hour. morning, sunshine. i'm robin meade. back into the headlines now. it's 31 minutes past the hour. i think i said that. more details now on the shift in health care debate.

for months the senate appeared to be steering away from a so-called public option so they could try to get some bipartisan support. correspondent richard lui joins us now. why would senator reid change course now? let's talk about how. >> that's right. when he announced his plan he pointed to national polls that show strong support for a public option but multiple democratic sources say he also has some personal politics in mind there. the liberals he needs to win re-election in his state are already running a critical ad in nevada. >> i'm watching to see if harry reid is strong and effective enough as a leader to pass a public health insurance option. >> well the white house is backing reid although they have said robin, the public option is not a must at the moment for health care reform. >> so there are always strong opinions on both sides of this debate. let's see from our viewers what they're saying on our facebook

page today. >> teresa wrote in and said it scares me to think the government will be in control of my health care. they can't even run the programs they have in place right now. brandon wrote about time. the only way to enact true reform is with a public option. all right. thank you both for posting on a facebook page. we want to hear from you and to share comments go to cnn.com/robin for a link to facebook. >> good job to our viewers. we appreciate you getting in there so early and giving us your thoughts. we always welcome them. in less than 90 minutes nasa takes a big step into the future of space exploration. come here and look. this is when the ares i-x rocket is scheduled to lift off for a test flight. so it's going to be at 8:00 a.m. eastern. it's a live picture. there's a chance of rain. eventually nasa hopes to use ares to launch missions to the moon and mars.

>> i think it is a-r-i-x. >> it cost as lot of money. nobody's in it. negotiations are under way after complaints of racism at a chicago nightclub. student leaders at washington university in st. louis say that they've been talking with voters for the club. they did not reveal details. complaints were filed with state and federal officials after six african-american students were turned away from a bar supposedly because their pants were too baggy. >> particularly students who are just going to have a good time. >> well the students believe that the decision had nothing to do with the pants he isespecially after a white student wore the same jeans and was admitted to the nightclub. president obama said he won't rush his decision about sending

troops to afghanistan. some republicans have been pressuring him to decide quickly about deploying up to 40,000 more troops. he says he's not ready. obama spoke at the naval air station in jacksonville yesterday. >> i will never rush a solemn decision of sending you into harm's way. i won't risk your lives unless it is absolutely necessary. >> well, he spoke on the deadliest day in the country and more than four years. 14 u.s. troops died on monday. a man walked into a quf uiznos you know, a sandwich shop with a gun demanding cash. now look at the gun being pointed at the worker. the guy just stands there like what's your problem? he said he thought the gun was a fake. the suspect left empty-handed. police say later another quiznos was robbed and they're looking for the guy.

yeah, what is that styrofoam? >> what do you want from me? >> pay for your sandwich. >> if at first you don't succeed, try try again. go to another one. what's wrong with that? >> even if i thought that -- yeah, i don't know. >> you'd give it to him? it's a sandwich shop. take it all. if i don't own it, take it all, man. just spare me. >> good morning. areas of low pressure one across the gulf coast, one developing across the rocky mountains. lots of snow out there. i'll get to that in a second. heavy rain pulling out of the gulf of mexico all to lower parts of louisiana. right now a lot of rain over lake pontchartrain and into mississippi, alabama georgia too. here is that atlanta radar. most of the rain to the west and down to the south. it pulls in later today so the warnings still up there for areas around texas and louisiana, parts of arkansas and mississippi. flood watch now for northern parts of georgia into the western part of the carolinas.

all the way up to the north carolina mountains by late they are afternoon. rain showers around philadelphia going to find that data today and more rain in new york. then that big snow maker is out there. let me show you the pacific northwest. mt. hood oregon, expecting a foot to a foot and a half of snow. they've seen a bunch of that pile up. that snow is heading towards denver for tonight through tomorrow. denver, winter storm warning. watching for ten inches of snow a possibility. more details on that rocky mountain snow in a half hour. robin? we now have an apology from our director who said he started the ares ix rumor. >> it says ares i-x. >> it's a new rocket. we'll be watching for that. i know you remember joe the plummer. well, he's talking about the tea party express and what he believes the movement represents. so here is what he's say to go hln's joy behar on the show last night. >> the tea party movement isn't

against obama it's against the government. >> but bush was the one who really sent us into oblivion which is why we're in this position. >> it's not just because we're in this position. freddie mac, fannie mae there's a lot of reasons we're in this position and it has to do with those not truly representing the american people. >> catch "the joy behar show" at 9:00 p.m. eastern here on hln. remember the 13-year-old boy with cancer whose parents refused traditional cancer treatments. you'll hear how he's doing after he did have chemotherapy and what a judge says he'll do if the boy continues his treatment.

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♪ doing dishes again ♪ we've had a lot of people say, oh, my gosh, i love the music you play on your show. we're going to start listing it -- or we have started to list it on our facebook page. remember the 13-year-old boy with cancer who fled with his mom to avoid chemotherapy. the judge says he will close the case as long as the boy completes 12 raiddiation treatments and no new issues come up. daniel hauser has childhood hodgkin's lymphoma. he finished chemo and his father says there is no sign of the cancer. a chain reaction crash made a mess in a massachusetts toll booth. look at this outside boston. sides of beef were left along the highway. another truck was stopped in one lane when a car and two other trucks approached from behind. the meat truck was the last in line. hit another truck. the car's driver had minor

injuries. an iowa woman broke her hip while watching her favorite team but refused to go to the hospital until the game was over. now that is a fan, rafer. yeah, robin. i guess you call her a super fan. 71-year-old carol wal deny says she can't remember the last iowa football game she's missed. well, she came close in the hawkeyes game against wisconsin. she slipped and broke her hip during a commercial break but in instead of going to the hospital asked her husband to carry her to her favorite chair for the rest of the game. the team heard her story and the coach sent her a card. >> get well soon. go hawks! i mean, how neat. who would ever expect anything? i didn't expect anything, no. >> now she's never been to the team stadium to see a game. the university president after hearing her story invited her to watch the next one from the sky box, or one next month rather,

from the sky box. can we say how great she looks? >> she really does and that was great of them to extend the invitation, too. >> thanks, robin. >> good, thank you. if you have a credit card, this could directly affect you. a freeze in credit card rates is being proposed. our money expert jennifer westhoven, is here to explain it. good morning. that would mean no more rate increases, no more new fees no more new stuff for them to pull on you before the new rules go into effect. senator chris dodd proposed this plan. it would immediately freeze interest rates, fees, so whatever you got right now, that's what you would keep until those new laws go into he can. there are roughly 700 million credit cards in the u.s. right now. every two for every man, woman and child. you should know dodd is facing a tough re-election bid so the move may help him with connecticut voters but we'll see. not so sure it's going to get

very far in washington. robin? >> thanks for the heads-up on it. even more violence at a chicago school where a 16-year-old boy was killed last month. now parents are taking a drastic step to get officials to do something.

♪ i'm going to guess that's josh stone. more students are expected to stay home from a chicago school where an honor student was beaten to death. parents and leaders are encouraging the boycott which started yesterday. they want chicago officials to stop the growing violence at christian sanger academy high school. 16-year-old der yab albert was killed during an after school fight last month. >> they need to get that school under control. it's not under control at all. >> it's not even a safe haven nor is it an educational tool for learning. >> three teens have been charged with first-degree murder in albert's death. just last week five other students were arrested and

charged for fighting in the school's lunch room. a police dash cam caught a wild car chase in michigan. take a look at this. two guys were trying to get away after they reportedly stole an atm. they ran for half an hour, sometimes going the wrong way on the interstate. at one point they t-boned another car and kept going. the suspects were arrested when they crashed at a gas station. they are expected to be arraigned today. haven't they seen the movies where it does you no good to steal an atm? you can't get into them. >> what's going on robin? >> hi bobby. a bad day to travel. we haven't seen any delays pop up but they're going to be there shortly. heavy rain through philadelphia and into the metro airspace. new york city looking at about an hour delay or more especially this morning with the rain heading in. philadelphia, the same thing. an hour or more and then atlanta, rain heading in here, too, for the morning lasts all

day long. how about san francisco, winds today gusting to 55 miles per hour. high wind warnings for the entire bay area. more on that in a bit. an hour or more possible at sfo. more possible in half an hour. nfl players charged with assault for allegedly punching the friend of nba star lebron james. i don't think you heard half my intro. an nfl player is charged, right with assault for punching a friend of lebron james. >> exactly. >> this is what started some rivalry between them. >> exactly. and james was upset. he called this guy out and the guy, braylon edwards, alleged lyly this punk is what drove the cleveland browns to trade edwards to the jets. now cleveland city prosecutors have charged edwards with misdemeanor assault. he allegedly punched a friend of lebron's outside a nightclub this carries a maximum of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. edwards, like i said, was traded to the jets. james said that his friend is about a foot shorter and weighs

about 90 pounds less than edwards and called him childish. kansas city running back larry johnson ripped his coach on his twitter page after the chiefs lost to san diego then attacked one of his twitter followers using gay slurs, according to "the kansas city star" and then when asked about his coach by reporters johnson cussed the reporters out using another gay slur. saying, quote, get your bleeping bleep out of here. he didn't say bleeping bleep but i can't say what he said on the air. the dumbest move ever. he will be fired, i'm guessing. brad childress said he dressed up like a flit attendant. he wanted to remind them to block out pressure. he wore a wig nyand lipstick.

that's a look at sports. >> so that will be the end of that. >> i think the wig will be put away. a little kitten cause add commotion in miami. a woman saw it go down a storm drain. she called the fire department. crews had to put on dive gear to get the little kitten out. it caused traffic to back up for some time. when you look at this face, isn't it all worth it? rescuers say it was a dangerous situation. situation. >> whenever there is an animal incident which quickly becomes a human incident they're going to put themselves in harm's way to rescue that animal, so we wanted to do it as safely as possible. >> did you see the little oxygen mask they had for little animals? firefighters gave the cat to the woman who had called about it. the irs advises you to keep their tax return for up to seven years or your tax returns but hln money expert clark howard tells you why you should keep

them forever. >> what's the last year's tax return you can lay your hands on? if you're like most people it's maybe four five six years ago. not good enough. as states are scrounging for every penny they can get their hands on, they're reaching way, way, way way back. in fact i saw a story in the "chicago tribune" about them beating somebody up for state taxes from 1983. now, who's going to be able to produce a return from 1983? well actually i can because i've kept all my returns going back to the '70s. and you should moving forward, save, if you have a state income tax, save your state tax return. always save your federal. after six years you can dump the supporting material, but keep the return so that there's some proof that you properly filed your return. why? because there's no statute generally, if they say you failed to file. i'm clark howard. for more ways for you to stay

out of trouble, go to my website, cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> well, thank you, clark. he's the guy to teach us to save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. watch him on the weekends at noon and 4:00 on hln. some people let their voices be heard in the health care debate, but check out how. >> okay. they're not the only ones singing either.