folks bracing for tropical storm ida. downgraded from a hurricane when winds decreased to 70 miles an hour. nothing to sneeze at. forecasters say this could dump up to eight inches of rain when it makes landfall. most likely somewhere around mobile, alabama. bonny schneider has been watching this and i know we say, oh, it's not a hurricane anymore, but there is still a sense of danger with this. >> absolutely, christi. a strong tropical storm. winds, almost the highest intensity for the tropical storm. that's why we still have warnings in effect. the latest with tropical storm ida. you see the winds at 70, but gusts higher, up to 85 miles per hour as the storm gets closer and closer to the gulf coast. we're already seeing the bands of wind and rain affecting the region at this time, and the track is moving on forward in its advancement towards the alabama area. somewhere in the vicinity as we get closer to mobile, in the early hours of the morning, we're going to see this actual storm come onshore. when we talk about land

this woman. 61-year-old zoe koplawitz completed the new york city marathon on monday wearing a back brace and using crutches. she suffers multiple sclerosis and finished the run in just under 26 hours. she is truly an inspiration. >> definitely so, rafer. thank you. >>> new numbers this morning show a slight majority of americans approve of how president obama is handling his job. in a cnn research corporation poll, it found 54% of people surveyed gave him a thumbs up, but they're not as happy about how he's handling the economic crisis. 49% said they liked his tax policy, and 47% approved of how he is handling unemployment. >>> all right, so we're not having any flooding or rain in the studio. i knocked over the water bottle with my belly again here. how you doing? >> every time i see someone rush to your desk with towels, i get nervous. should i call 911? >> not yet. >> it's just a spill, okay. remember what happened last week with all the rain stretching across texas? you had flooding concerns. today is different. you have a dry atmosphere, and that's going to give you about five or si

. >>> brace yourselves for a waffle shortage. no joke. kellogg's says eggo frozen watch waffles will be in short supply until next june from the "atlanta journal-constitution newspaper." the eggo plant was flooded back in september. remember the rain in the reach jn now there are equipment problems at their largest waffle bakery in tennessee. >>> a young pitcher overcame anxiety and depression to win the most prestigious award for its position. rafer has more on a great comeback story. >> it is robin. this young man is very inspiring. zach of the kansas city royals had a lot of hype around him when he first came into the league. he struggled so much he left the team in february of '06. during that time diagnosed with social anxiety disorder and depression, and seven months later, worked his way back to the majors. now he just won the cry young award. goes to the best pitcher in the league, and he did 2 on a losing team which is very rare, but he's got a very big week this week. he married his high school sweetheart on saturday. >>> meanwh

and steve young is on the side lines and has the right shoulder braced up. and cannot get back in this one. and he is another one the defensive tackles you would love to have. >> this is the biggest 3rd down of the game without question. trying to hang on to it with the right. and back to throw for treister. and looking down feel. and sousa knock it is away. and incomplete. third and 17, you are looking to get positive yardage or the best you can. and put yourself in a situation. and keep the clock running and punt. and to be quite honest with you. >> you would take a 2-yard run and keep the clock rolling. and orlando is back. brusko to punt. nice punt as he sends orlando back to mack the catch and his own 34-yard line. and it is going to be tied for the defense. 4:46 to go. maine leads it 24-20. with a title on the line in occur lamb. oh! blue! i touched the ball before it went out, coach. come on, alex, the ref did not call that! it's the championship game! i touched, it's their ball. don't foul them when they inbound. team! alex! good call. >> gary: welco

if your net he needs money for braces, you do not give your predict if your nephew need money for bracesu do not -- if your net you need money for braces, i do not give it to your niece. you are paying their charity with your money. it is administered on behalf of their own job security breaded and the truly needy people in the community. the problem is government of lax discipline and discretion. private charities where they have that. [laughter] [applause] >> i'll give you two minutes to respond. then we will have our closing comments. >> i think there is a difference between defending government and attacking capitalism. there has been a lot of attacking social security and medicare. there are not 11 people who were alive when sir security were put in. -- a lot of people who were alive and social security was put them. the poorest group in america before social security were people over 65 years old. the reason they are not the poorest age group in america anymore is because the social security and medicare. i think it is legitimate to have debate about capitalism and what we will do.

but 61-year-old zoe koplowiz completed on monday wearing braces on her back and knee and using purple painted crutches. koplowitz walked the entire route with her supporters in just under 29 hours. the motivational speaker was diagnosed with ms 30 years ago and this woman is truly an inspiration. more sports in a bit. >> that is really inspiring, rafer, thank you. >>> the polls are open in new york. this race is being watched all over the country, too. conservative party candidate doug hoffman is battling with democrat bill owens to represent the state's 23rd congressional district. former republican nominee scozzafava dropped out amid conservatives who said she was too moderate. top gop leaders and the republican national committee have put their resources behind hoffman. now you may remember disturbing video of anna nicole smith dressed up as a clown months before she died of a drug overdose. it could become key evidence in the trial of three people accused of giving her those drugs. now watch as smith, who was pregnant at the time, appears to confuse a doll for her unborn child. >>

. >>> brace yourselves for a waffle shortage. no joke. kellogg's says eggo frozen waffles will be in short supply across the country until next june. now that's from "the atlanta-journal constitution newspaper." it was flooded back in september. remember all the rain this region had? well, now there are equipment problems at the largest waffle bakery in tennessee. >>> a young pitcher overcame anxiety and depression to win the most prestigious award for his position. so here's rafer with a great comeback story. >>> it really is, robin. it's a great success story and hopefully it will be inspiring to other people who may also suffer interest the same condition. zack greinke of the kansas city royals, call it a royal comeback, now there was a lot of hype when he first came into the league but he struggled, the young man. in fact, he even left the team in february of 2006 and got a lot of criticism when he did. well, during that time he was diagnosised with social anxiety disorder and depression. now he was named the best pitcher out of hundr

and then if you are getting by on unemployment benefits, brace yourself. you are among a million people who could lose this and time is running out to stop that. plus, a father lost his child in a dwi wreck and turned his grief into some action. now drunk drivers in one state face some very stiff penalties. first off for you this hour, the federal government could face billions of dollars in lawsuits regarding hurricane katrina after a judge ruled the army corps of engineers' negligence led to the problem. they did not properly maintain the shipping channel linking new orleans to the gulf of mexico. people in new orleans recognized the importance of this ruling. >> it's a major, major win, a vindication for st. bernard parish and our residents and so many people who for the last years have fought to make this known that the mrgo was continuing to be a threat and was going to eventually result in the devastation of st. bernard parish so we're pleased in that sense, but it's very hard to celebrate that the destruction was something that had to take place to

this character as some sort of radical conservative bent on taking us back to the stone age was in braced and every fact that contradicted which as i write in my book is most of her political profile prior to 2008 directly rebuts that cartoon. those facts were dismissed. >> host: does the call want to respond? >> caller: yeah, it seems to me everything you just said she seems to have this bunker mentality as do many like her that in any type of questioning or this latest negativity right away is an attack on them. i haven't read the book obviously it hasn't come out yet. i'm looking a hold of -- forward to getting a hold of it. it seems like a great deal of it is devoted to those guys are out to get me, the left-wing media. >> host: what else do you want to add their? >> guest: there's something to the fact people are out to get her and i think it has something to do with the earlier call. she is in many ways a threat to the current power configuration in washington. if we recall the only time john mccain was winning the presidential election last year, the only time that he was pulling a

. >>> plus, if you're getting by on unemployment benefits, you better brace yourself. you are among a million people who could lose this help and time is running out to stop that. and then -- >> i was a little concerned i was afraid we'd start to see headlines, tammy, two, turnpike ze zero. >> tammy the turkey dodged more than cars and she may get a new boyfriend. >>> just in -- we want to warn you a computer glitch at the nation's busiest airport causing some major headaches for travelers. bob van dillen has been following the story over the past hour. what is the latest on this right now? >> we've been following this for just a bit. we're seeing the delays back up around the airports. i don't have a specific time for you, but this is atlanta right now. this is hartsfield-jackson airport. the computer glitch is the system the pilots use to file their flight plans in there, basically their estimated time of takeoff, their altitude and also their path and also when they're going to touch down. that is down. now we're looking at air traffic controllers having to type tha

lewis immediately drew a brace of pistols, stepped towards them and challenge them to fight a duel.day, not likely in this salutation, rolled onto the next house 5 miles. the second statement is that she heard three gunshots instead of two gunshots. supposedly, lewis committed suicide by using each one of his two pistols. if instead it was actually three pistol shots, then it must have been an assassination. she also said that after his death, lewis was found to be wearing old and tattered clothing when his body was discovered. his servant, john, on the morning of lewis' death, was wearing lewis' death and carrying his gold watch. it seems likely that lewis and john were planning for lewis to try to escape his pursuers by having john act as a decoy. there is yet one other separate account called the russell statement made in 1811. in this account, lewis not only shoot himself twice, once in the head and once in the chest, but he is down cutting himself from head to foot with razors before he died. historians have generally mixed up these accounts together, picking and choosing as th

the region is bracing for as much as 8 inches of rain. i'm not just talking about the gulf coast area. florida and louisiana are taking precauti precautions. both of those states have joined mississippi and alabama in declaring states of emergency. >> usually when we have hurricanes it's so muggy out we can come out in our shorts, it's not brr out down at the beach. >> it's a little weird. you don't see that much, but, you know, it happens and just got to roll with it. >> bob's tracking ida this morning and the big concern maybe not so much the storm surge, but the rain and wait until you see where it's going. >> the exact location, switch sources to jr 199, here's what it looks like. the new updated numbers coming in. look at the squalls coming on through. the center of circulation is still offshore. if you look at the satellite picture all the big thunderstorm action is north of there as it begins to develop. when you look at landfall not that big of a deal with the storm system itself. all the rain is in play when you get towards alaba

ok, this young man with braces. yes? >> i would just like to say that i think it is not capitalism, it is communism. mao killed many of its people, pulled pot killed one-third of its population. -- pulled pot killed one-third of its population. the ideology works, but it does not work in writing. thank you. >> the young lady in the back. >> basically, the word i want to give you today is progress. if we do not have progress, we cannot continue to get out of recession. people are not getting jobs because they do not have experience. people are not employing them without experience, that means they also cannot progress without experience. by building experience, we can progress. if communism, as he was saying, it will inhibit any opportunity of progression and we will hit this brick wall and young people will not get jobs if we do not continue . >> thank you, the young man in the black with the great pull over. >> my point is is not the employers to employ young people. i think young people personally are not doing enough

he seems to have been rejuvenated >> craig: no, ma'am encumberred by the brace he has been wearing.hysical therapy, you a the training he did, the system fits perfectly in washing tonight one of the reasons, he elected to sign with the caps. he has been better than expected. he has been all over the place, a q b on the back line on the power play and he has that secondary scoring to that line that desperately needs it. he had the last goal last night that turns out to be a 3-2 loss to montreal. he brendon morrison had not missed game in many seasons until all the injuries started could many craig ostertag up >> joe: sharp angle, stopped by toskala. toskala and varlamov have been the stars in the spotlight. both have been very good. jamal mayers, drifting wide. to varlamov and he will squeeze. 1-0 washington. the only goal provided by varm's country man, alex ovechkin has d.c. in front. >> joe: bruce boudreau, caps coach, former maple leafs player >> craig: he had some great times here. he hacks this one home. trying to beat, it looks like bill height here of the buffalo sabres and h

. >>> plus, some candidates are celebrating, other bracing for runoffs.we'll down yesterday's races and what the surprising results may be telling us. >>> if your favorite beer doesn't pack enough punch for you, you may be able to buy a stronger brew. some states are pushing for it, critics pushing right back. >>> a convicted rapist is now accused of keeping at least ten bodies in his basement, backyard and living room. police in cleveland, ohio, found four more corpses and a skull at anthony sowell's home yesterday. the bodies of six women were found there this week. today authorities will search the walls and floors of the home. >> do i believe there's more bodies? i don't know at this time. what we're going to continue to do is search the property until we're totally satisfied it is totally clean. >> sowell is expected to be in court in about 30 minutes. as a registered sex offender he was required to check in regularly with police but officers didn't have the right to go into his house. but they would stop by to make sure he was there. and neighbors s

white house viewed him either in a wheelchair or as this rare film footage revealed, in the metal leg braceswears the remainder of his adult life, after contracting polio in 1921. partly because of his limited mobility, the white house is the center of his presidency, and he uses it and a handful of rooms inside it to his advantage. >> i am happy to address this evening in this unique manner. >> utilizing the growing power of radio and film technology, fdr transforms how the building is seen by the nation, increasing its visibility far beyond any president before him. >> franklin d. roosevelt had an acute awareness of the power of the white house. the main stage was in the historic house. >> just below the south portico is the entrance the white house reserved for the president, first lady, and their guests. leading and the first room of the home they see, the diplomatic reception room. centrally located on the ground floor, it is beyond the bounds of public tours, and is made famous by fdr. >> never before, since jamestown and plymouth rock. >> is here that fdr makes the first of many fires

police dragged her out on a blanket, as you see there yshgs brace yourselves for a waffle shortage. ain't joking here. kellogg's says eggos will be in short supply until next june. the company says the eggo plant in atlanta was flooded back in september, and there was a lot of rain, flooding, too. now there are equipment problems at their largest waffle bakery in tennessee. >> the horror. >> well, all the waffles were soaking up the water, i guess. >> i'm glad they're making waffles here. >> if you want some, run down the road in atlanta? >> glad they're making waffles in the united states. that's good. >> oh, a good point. you've been following all the stories, manufacturing abroad. we've told you how the detroit automakers are struggling. huge news this morning. jennifer westhoven joins us. talking about things produced abroad. a home product. >> a big win for ford. talked quality ratings had gone up this year. really all of detroit hurting for some good news. this really is some for ford and for detroit's morale. the fusion was named the motor trend car of the year. the magazine

they braced gunfire to save the wounded.ne young soldier, amber, was so intent on helping others she did not realize for some time that she herself had been shot in the back. two police officers mark todd and kim munley saved countless lives by risking their own. one medic treated both officer munley and the gunman who shot her. it may be hard to comprehend the twisted logic that led to this tragedy but this much we do know. no faith justifies these murderous acts. >> nothing justifies it, he said. a ceremony continues. you can see it on cnn. continuing coverage. live pictures. i can also add that bases all over the world, including all those in the united states, you can imagine that soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen are watching this ceremony going on right now all the way from ft. drum to camp pendleton. that ram pain last week at ft. hood. >>> there will be no more appeals to stop tonight's scheduled execution of the convicted d.c. sniper. earlier a clemency appeal was denied from lawyers. he's scheduled to receive a

>>> somebody walked into a convenience store and stole money donated for a 10-year-old boy with a bracesorder. >> i was absolutely sick. it made me sick. i couldn't believe that somebody could do that and, i mean, how do you sleep at night? how do you live your life. the woman collecting donations says she doesn't want to press charges. she wants the money back. >>> a teen on the streets of memphis goes from being homeless to playing for the nfl. michael oher's life inspired a movie. check out a clip of warner brother's "blind side." >> who is that? >> big mike. >> what is he waring? it is below freezing. >> do you have any place to stay tonight? don't you dare lie to me. >> mike galanos has an interview with the player known as big mike. >> it was tough for me. a lot of people don't make it out. i'm the only one i know that made it out. so to get an opportunity like i got, i had to take advantage of it. >> don't miss the primetime news exclusive. michael oher, 5:00 eastern on hln. catch the whole interview. >>> happening right now, live pictures from deep in the heart of texas. former

white house viewed him either in a wheelchair or as this rare film footage revealed, in the metal leg bracese wears the remainder of his adult life, after contracting polio in 1921. partly because of his limited mobility, the white house is the center of his presidency, and he uses it and a handful of rooms inside it to his advantage. >> i am happy to address this evening in this unique manner. >> utilizing the growing power of radio and film technology, fdr transforms how the building is seen by the nation, increasing its visibility far beyond any president before him. >> franklin d. roosevelt had an acute awareness of the power of the white house. the main stage was in the historic house. >> just below the south portico is the entrance the white house reserved for the president, first lady, and their guests. leading and the first room of the home they see, the diplomatic reception room. centrally located on the ground floor, it is beyond the bounds of public tours, and is made famous by fdr. >> never before, since jamestown and plymouth rock. >> is here that fdr makes the first of many fir

this would offer a bracing referendum on competing visions. a victory for dick cheney would mean that america wants unilateralism and not multilateralism. host: i think then it is not likely that happened. if dick cheney was going to run, he would have run. he quit the job with no intention of doing it. he served the job as city had no intention of a further political career. it was on popular of him to do what he thought was right for my policy standpoint. damaging what was a pretty good political reputation. he had been a fairly well respected guy, not really thought of as an ideologue. it is this idea that elections are a referendum on one stark policy charley against another, which is not the american reality. years ago george will described the american look of game as a contest between the 50 yard lines. we run campaigns, use polarizing language about the consequences, but the reality is that our -- is that president obama's foreign-policy is what the bush foreign policy became after rumsfeld and dick cheney were out of our. he wound up

early 1990's between chuck robb and oliver north were at their work as that chuck robb is a free bracing cocaine using candidate. and then the other sayyaf adds -- the other side had ads about ollie north running for congress. where is the line? >> [inaudible] the premise of this, taking the poison at a partisanship. you mentioned that the beginning that you wanted the panel is to talk about whether partisanship is really a negative thing, if it is poison. when partisanship can be good, whether there is a way to make partisanship less -- perceive the less like boys and among the american people. is there a way we can get people to understand that politics is about conflict, about people with different perceptions and ideologies, that we should celebrate that rather than denigrate differences just on principles? >> the common theme is when does it really cross the line? let's start at that end. dollars i'll pass to steve. >> charlie. dollars things have to be fact- based. you have to tell the true story and you do not cross the line of personal attacks unless it is really legitimate. i li

thank you for this bracing, galvanizing context.i will treasure this honor as a call to action in these times of danger and in these times of hope. everything we do has heightened consequences. every choice we make matters. so i will strive, together with my wife and my kids, to make good choices. thank you very much. [applause] thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome richie havens. [applause] >> how you doing? [applause] and a lot of good doing is happening right now. [inaudible] and to tell everybody in the audience we really steal -- still listen to this man. ♪ we still look good. [laughter] really good. ♪ ♪ sometimes i feel like a motherless child sometimes i feel like a motherless child sometimes i feel like a motherless child a long way from my home ♪ ♪ freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom sometimes i feel just like i'm a motherless child sometimes i feel like a motherless child sometimes i feel just like i'm a motherless child a long way long way from my home singing freedom fr

competitiveness, but also about the very difficult challenges of helping americans bufted by the bracing winds of global competition to compete effectively and the policies that that would require. if confirmed, this would be my third time in public service. it is a very proud tradition in my family, on both sides of my family. my father served in the army and then for many years as a diplomat. my husband, as you know, is currently serving in the administration. i served 20 years ago at the time of the fall of the berlin water on the transition in eastern europe. i served working on the structural embedments with japan. i served first as a white house fellow and in the white house for many years during the mexican financial crisis, during the asian financial crisis and working a lot with china on its trading relationship. since i left public service, the world has changed a great deal. it is a moment of great challenge, and we have to navigate a greatly changed global economic landscape. the global economy is coming back slowly and haltingly from the most severe and synchronized crisis w

watch "nancy brace" for late breaking developments on shaniya's death. that's 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on hln. again, we're also waiting for a news conference. >>> this just in to hln. court papers show the woman charged in the 2002 abduction of elizabeth smart will plead guilty tomorrow as part of a plea deal. these papers were filed in salt lake city. they don't specify the terms of the agreement or which charge or charges wanda barzee is going to plead to. she and her estranged husband brian david mitchell were indicted on federal kidnapping charges in 2008. this is video of elizabeth smart from 2003 where she was taken from her salt lake city home at knife point and was found knife mon -- nine months later. >>> a brush fire just about three miles east of san juan near the cleveland national forest. there's about 70 firefighters on this scene, 10 fire engines, a couple of choppers involved as well. ten acres have burned so far. no structures are threatened right now. let's hope it stays that way. >>> federal officials toured a western illinois prison today that ma

if your nephew needs money for braces, you don't give the money to your knees. you give it to the nephew. -- you do not give the money to the niece. this is not that hard. the problem is when the government administers their charity with your money, it is administered on behalf of their own job security rather than the true needs and truly needy people of the community. the problem is government that likes discipline and discretion. private charities rarely have that lack. [applause] >> howard, i will give you two minutes to respond. then we will have our closing comments. >> i will be fairly brief -- there's a difference between defending capitalism and attacking government. there has been a lot of attacking of social security and medicare here. probably not a lot of people in this room who are -- who were alive and social security was put in, probably a lot of people who were alive when medicare was put in. the poorest age group in america before social security and medicare was people over 65 years old. the reason people over 65 years old are not the poorest