joining sus don brown and joined again by mort zuckerman.lion people most think about the sendus as important in terms of allocating political power and think about it in terms of who gets members of the house of representatives and sway things. but you were saying this also impacts the private sector? >> it impacts this show. the ratings -- for instance the ratings of television shows are based on the sendus. a lot of economics is based on the numbers and sendus. billions and billions of dollars of funding goes to where the population is. if you're counted, you count. if you're not counted or you're undercounted, you don't and you don't participate in what is mandated in the constitution. >> now it was a huge flash point that showed up when president obama wanted to select judd gregg, a republican from new hampshire, to be his commerce secretary. disagreements about how do you count undercounted populations. some democrats suggesting sampling you could do so if you couldn't see people you might extrapolate based on some numbers. is there an

maximum seen waters and california representative linda sanchez and don brown is with us and "the new news rich engel live in afghanistan where the elections going on and savannah guthrie live at the white house. kelly chao is with us this morning and joins us to preview tonight's big finale. >>> as we always do, i want to fast forward through the top three headlines we're following. 75 people killed in a series of baghdad blasts. truck bombing explode inside iraq's foreign ministrministry. it was by far the deadliest day in baghdad since the u.s. troops withdraw from the city in july 30th. >>> a body was found stuffed notice a suitcase inside orange county trash bin as that of a missing model who disappeared over the weekend. police say she has been strangled. >>> richard hatch is back and behind bars. the original "survivor" winner taken back to jail hours after giving a "usa today" "today" interview. this morning on the "today" show they don't know why hatch was arrested. >> i really don't know what the grounds are for why they have him back in jail. i haven't had any respons

john brown, senior buyer and don ya yackman of yackman asset management, not entirely bullish and lee, a rather generic name, lee and joe miller. take it away. >> hey, man, i'm feeling good again. these numbers are showing exactly what i was talking about, consumer confidence is entering the market again and as a result, people are buying houses and getting active in the marketplace. as we go to the end of the year with the stimulus plan and $8,000 tax credit you will see a flood of activity and think the numbers will continue to rise and i stay in the bullish corner. >> lee munson i was reading a note pointed out even though they're bearish, the more the markets rise, it does have a direct impact on consumer sentiment and that in turn could end up helping growth. >> exactly. >> go ahead, lee. >> sorry. >> i think one of the things we have to look at, we all know the housing 0 bottomed this summer. but it's regional. like three stops in brooklyn but for most americans can see the light at the end of the tunnel. when you look at these numbers, get away from the regional concept when yo

don. you're absolutely correct. i like what mr. brown said. that's fantastic. we need to put a human face on the police. the sergeant a human face on the police, the sergeant crowleys and dr. gates of the world let them see each other as human beings and understand each other's realities and that's when we can bridge that gap. most of the folks are trying hard as you put it in difficult jobs. i would encourage will brown and be glad to help him in any way i could. bring law enforcement into that discussion, into that reconciliation and truth-telling sessions. now all of a sudden, we'll see each other as people as opposed to us versus them. >> i said to one of the people who work here is that you know, we have an opportunity here. >> absolutely sfwhul special media and cnn to have a nationwide town hall meeting at churches online and here on television to really talk about these issues and hear people out without judging them. i appreciate all of you for this. your frank discussion, amos brown, senior pastor of the third baptist church in san francisco, estuardo

don hewitt dead at the age of 86. we thank you for being with us tonight. please join us here tomorrow. we thank you for watching. good night from new york. next, campbell brown. >>> tonight hear the questions we want answered. will the civil war in the democratic party doom health care reform? >> the democrats are imploding. >> the president tries to get on message while his own party tries to get past the in-fighting. >>> will democracy prevail in afghanistan? the polls open in less than three hours and voting could be deadly. >> armed men going house to house. >> in iraq, six coordinated bombings kill nearly 100 people in baghdad. do we pull back too soon? what really happened when the mayor of milwaukee was beaten with a metal pipe? >> things got very, very ugly very, very quickly. >> for the first time, hear from a politician being called here go this is really bad. this is really bad. >> also, the supermodel who fought back against a cyber bully. she sued google and won. find out how her case helped detect you online. and hurricane bill now a category 4. we are going to tell you where it is headed. . >> this is your only source for news. cnn prime time