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kathy griffin has the gosselins. as a matter of fact, kathy has a new tv movie coming out that blows the lid off jon, kate and the plus eight. >> she was a wife. >> hi, honey. >> hi, mrs. gosselin. >> we'll see more of that later in the show.3 that was georgety assemblyman southern california by the name of michael duval. he resigned today after getting caught on microphone saying this. >> the man spotlighted is michael duvall. he is talking about a very sensitive subject into a hot microphone without realizing it. >> >> what a wonderful story. well, young people do need discipline. i all wondered what those guys are whispering about during the meetings and it turns out it's spanking and underwear. a big day for the beatles fans today. they remastered the original recordings which means nothing really. no one i have ever met can tell the difference between the regular ones and the remastered, but also today they released the beatles video game called beatles rock band. this is game where you play along to the beatles

. >>> tonight kathy griffin kwesz. secret family dysfunction. >> when i was a little girl, he was very sexually inappropriate with me. >> and a deep down desire to look like kate gosselin. does she really believe this book will sell better than the bible? the queen of the bee list tells it like it is right now, right here on larry king live. >>> she's the only winning star of bravo's "my life on the bee list" and the author of "a memoir according to kathy griffin" -- wait a minute, a memoir according to you? it's your memoir? >> i can't remember if i had my liposuction this month or that month -->> larr larr >>>> larry:. >> has oprah said that? >> yep. >> when did she say that, kathy? when did she say that, kathy? >> all right, look, it hasn't been chosen for the oprah book club. sue me. >> larry: i'm sure she will. >> people who watch this show read? larry, this is a dream come true. >> larry: your book has oprah-type themes. it has dysfunctional family. >> check. >> larry: scandal, eating disorders, heartbreaks. were

. >>> and our newsmaker tonight, kathy griffin, is there anything she won't say? the queen of the d list on politics. >> the very most important question on this administration is her arms and how did she get them? >> her personal life. >> i've never been a keeper of secrets and i'm not going to start now. >> and the truth about being a cnn junky. >> i finally found love, you're going to have to address me as kathy griffin johnston. >> here's campbell brown. >>> hey there, everybody, it's good to be back, those are our big questions tonight, but we're going to start as we always do with the matchup, our look at all the stories making impacts right now, the moments you may have missed. and back to work in washington, d.c. today with the white house desperately trying to hit resets and get health care reform back on track, take a look. >>> make or break moment for health care reform, congress is now back in washington, ready for a special address from the president. >> the president lost control of the health care debate over august, and this prime time speech may b

drew griffin, cnn, berkeley, california. >> kidneys for cash, as you see there, drew griffin's special investigation continues. you will meet a man who sells organs for a living. brokering dangerous deals that brokering dangerous deals that as you'll see can turn deadly. >>> illicit buying and selling of kidneys is a problem not only in the united states, but worldwide. our drew griffin was reporting from berkeley, california, before the break and now he travels to israel as he continues his special investigations unit report on organ trafficking. >> reporter: in this tel aviv hospital room, you can see just how desperate some israelis are for kidneys. ricky shay's mother is nearly unresponsive, blind, her diabetes slowly killing her. she's been on a national kidney waiting list for years. sitting beside her, sitting beside her, his father, a diabetic who decided not to wait for a kidney of his own and took matters into his own hands. >> my father didn't want to be like my mother. >> reporter: so in april he cut a deal with a man who buys and sells kidneys. a kidney broker who for $100

mcchrystal summing up the assessment, warning, quote: trace: jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. the general putting this in some pretty blunt terms. >> that's right. but the commander is waiting to send a request for more troops, tens of thousands of them, we're told. here is what he warned in the document. quote. failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near term, next 12 months, while afghanistan security capacity matures, risks an outcome where defeating the

. >> al: griffin and fuller right together there. ward, getting inside the 10, exasperated as he comes to the bench. 50 secon now. stephen tulloch winds up recovering thera >> cris: boy, now, if you're the tennessee titans you just want to get out of here. >> al: jacob ford is hurt on the play. roethlisberger has time. finds ward wide open. >> cris: this four-man pass rush is just not working. they just can't do it. when you have zone defense, it gets stretched. the launch you hold the ball as a quarterbac instead of conferring 40 yards of field, you're covering exiting yards of field. those holes are gaping in there. when you talk about a ay that we may look back on the season between these two great football teams could be monumental. now, they have to get this clock run out. >> al: griffin went to the pro bowl last year. first and ten. now, the ball is at the 4 yard line. and this is johnson. tennessee will take -- pittsburgh wants to use their time-outs they have to. and they will spend the first of ose right here. >> cris: i thi

our drew griffin we want to those remote locations in montana to investigate and this is his report. >> reporter: we knew this we had to see this to believe it, but after driving for hours we thought we might never see it. we've been driving for five in a country that has more antelopes than people. bridges to nowhere. this may be the topper. it was supposed to be $15 million to replace what appears to be a perfectly fine border crossing station. especially when you consider the bureau of transportation statistics say this border crossing station in montana sees fewer than 20 vehicles a day. it's not that you could just call this border crossing slow. here i am in the middle of the day sitting in the middle of the road. there's nobody here. it's even quieter here, the boarder crossing at white tail, montana. the bureau of transportation statistic says the custom agents here have aj an average of fewer than two vehicles a day. yet, this, too, was to see a $15 million upgrade thanks to the federal stimulus bill. >> i think there's been $32 million on a new border station. i believe the

jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. thank you. let's look now at the political fallout from the president's move. here is senior white house correspondent major garrett. >> president obama walked into a firestorm of criticism republicans hurling adjectives like appeasement and betrayal alleging that the president buckled under russian pressure and sent a signal of weakness to iran. the president denied both charges all we have repeatedly made clear to russia that its concerns about our previous missile defense programs were entirely unfounded. our clear and consistent focus has been the focus of iran's ballistic missile program. that continues to be our focus. >> the white house specifically denied any deals with russia. >> this is not about russia. this is about protecting our homeland. it's about protecting the troops that we have deployed overseas and to protect our freedom, and it was about ensuring the defense of our allies, our european and nato allies. >> and yet u.s. missile defense plans have dominated mr. obama's meeting

the jennifer griffin is live from the pentagon.ting their long-range intercontinental missile system was much further behind than they originally thought and the threat from short and medium- range missiles was greater. that is why they decided to change. i spoke to a former bush administration secretary who was involved in negotiating missile defense, negotiating with poland and the czech republic, and he expressed serious skepticism that the intelligence has changed. he had access to the intelligence and iran was certainly making progress on these long-range missiles. so that is a contradiction that we will be asking about when we speak to officials this morning. essentially, a very big change and we are getting some reaction from poland and the czech republic. bill: polling done in those countries suggest that they do not want it, but political leaders have gone against the people, pushing for it. what have we heard? >> leaders in poland or taking a political chance. the pentagon press secretary says that this has nothing to do

jennifer griffin is at the pentagon, rick leventhal is at ground zero.as there that fateful morning and is here for us now. >> this has to be the worst weather we have ever experienced on 9/11 anniversary, and probably a big reason why crowds are much smaller this year at ground zero. i talked to family members who told me despite the weather they were determined to be here under any circumstances, and certainly there were volunteers here pairing up to read the names of the 2750 people who died at the world trade center on 9/11, 2001. family members were also allowed to take flowers and place them at in a reflecting pool -- placed them in a reflecting pool replace -- place them in a reflecting pool. it is set to open in the 2013. some of the more compelling moments of her when they read their own family members -- were when they read their own family members' names. >> we miss you. life will never be the same. this is not the rain. i am sorry. this is tears. >> a lot of tears falling on us today. shepard: deed. thank you. robert gates also spoke today ab

kathy griffin makes a living, of course, from making people laugh. something that is really no laughing matter. her oldest brother kenny was a pedophile. yanlg i can't imagine a whole lot of people who would want the world to know such a shocking family secret. when i sat down with kathy, i had so ask her why the story needed to be in her book. >> i'm not a secret keeper, as you know. and there's nothing about my life that has any secrets. and what i learned is, you know, i grew up in a very traditional irish-catholic family. and you know the mix, they love their secrets. and that's all well and gad, but i think at the end of the day, when you're talking about pedophilia, something as serious as that, you can't keep that secret. it's something that needs to be exposed. when i was a little girl, i'm 48 years, but when i was a little girl, it's almost like the word "pedophile" didn't exist in our world, but we all had that relative that you knew not to go near. i couldn't write the book without writing about him. because, in fact, he was actually a ver

. >> drew griffin out in the middle of nowhere, tracking down this money. we do want to check our other top stories this morning. an afghan national from colorado at the center of a terrorism investigation facing more questions from federal authorities. cnn has learned officials think the target of the alleged plot could be new york city's subways and trains, places without tougher airport-like security. the fbi not commenting now, but sources say they think the plot involves "real deal terrorists." >>> police in california say that two different cadaver dogs each working on its own, showed interest in the same spot on phillip and nancy garrido's property. in just a few hours, they will check that spot with radar equipment that will let them see what's under ground. the couple is accused of kidnapping jaycee dugard and keeping her in backyard tents and sheds for two years. phillip garrido is charged with fathering two children with her. meanwhile, police think the couple could be behind two other disappearances in the area. >>> raymond clark, accused of kil

shepard: jennifer griffin, thank you. bernie madoff. his beach house. we are told that the spacious beach house sold for more than $8.50 million. that was well above the asking price, although we do not have the exact figure. there were reportedly several bids. next up, the manhattan apartment of bernie madoff and his home in palm beach, florida. bernie madoff is in prison, serving 150 years. police have found bones, more boats, in the yard of philip garrido, and cops say they are not clear on whether or not the bones are from a human being, -- they have found more bones. he is accused of kidnapping and 11-year-old jaycee le dugard, and cops say that he hit her in the yard and abused her for all of those years. beijinghe dogs hid her in the ya -- he hid her in the yard. we are speaking this hour about another girl. these two women lived about one hour from that man's home, and with us now is a friend of that little girl who was kidnapped that many years ago. she is our guest allies. it is nice to talk to you. thank you. >> hello, shepard. >> as bad as l

baltimore teen pleads guilty in a violent escape from the victor cullins center. 17-year-old carl griffin junior is one of nine youths charged as an adult in the escape that left six staffers injured in may. a judge ordered the teenager to serve 18 month at the frederick county adult center. >>> the centers for disease control issues a report on how often binge drinkers leave a bar and get behind the wheel. the results have some calling for new laws for those who serve alcohol. >> reporter: how often do people drink a handful of drinks or more, get in the car and drive? a new government study from the centers for disease control says quite a bit. and it's raising debate about how to stop that from happening. >> we're potentially going to go out and take a lethal weapon. that couple tons of steel that they're driving and injure someone. or kill someone. or kill or injure themselves. >> reporter: binge drinkers, are define as those who drink five or more drinks on one occasion. one in 10 got in a car and drove. 10 percent said they were leaving a bar or restaurant. and half of those admitte

jennifer griffin begins our coverage. what is the status of the defenders? >> the self-proclaimed mastermind of 9/11 was captured in pakistan on march 1, 2003, by pakistan's intelligence service and handed over to the u.s. he is the biggest catch since 9/11. he is sitting at guantanamo bay. the 20th hijacker was refused a u.s. visa, or else he would have been on those planes. he was also captured in pakistan in 2002 in a gun battle. there are five co-conspirators being held at the gitmo. shepard: the top al qaeda leader has been taken of this year. >> the cia predator program, a program they neither confirm nor deny exists, has been very successful in hunting down al qaeda in the tribal areas of pakistan. they have had about one dozen big hits in the past year alone. one terrorist planned to blow up 10 airliners with liquid explosives. he was killed after pakistani court set him free. most recently, there was the head of pakistan's taliban. he reportedly ordered the assassination of benazir bhutto and blow up western hotels in pakistan. of course, 0 osama bi

bret: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. thank you.news around the world, thousands of supporters have ousted manuel zelaya marched toward the brazilian embassy after the government lifted a curfew, where zelaya has taken refuge, but the protestors were blocked by armed forces who used tear gas to disperse them. honduran police say they have arrested more than 100 people. in iraq, a manhunt is underway for five al qaeda prisoners awaiting execution and 11 inmates who broke out of a prison late wednesday. the city of tickets is now -- tick crit is now under a curfew. arms control, middle east peace and iran. those were the big topics at the united nations general assembly. we will get the thoughts from the fox all-stars when we come back. boss: so word's gettin' out that geico can help people save in even more ways - on motorcycle insurance, rv, camper, boat insurance. nice work, everyone. exec: well, it's easy for him. he's a cute little lizard. gecko: ah, gecko, actually - exec: with all due respect, if i was tiny and green and had a

jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. thank you. back here at home, counterterrorism officials have issued security bulletins to police all over the country, warning of terror plots targeting stadiums, entertainment complexes an hotels. this follows earlier warnings following mass transit growing out of a suspected plot centered here in new york city. president obama spoke to a u.n. climate change summit this morning here at the united nations. senior white house correspondent major garrett reports on an issue that has generated plenty ofette rick but little real action. >> president obama joined a spirited effort to jump start stalled global change talks with no new proposals, the president fell back on his efforts that he spearheaded to improve gas mileage and reduce tailpipe emissions. >> the united states has done more to promote clean energy and reduce carbon pollution in the last eight months than in any other time in our history. but the environmentalists here and european leaders here were frustrated mr. obama did not push h

it's just i don't think you could just strike key players. >> jennifer griffin now joins me live. jennifer, where do we stand on the request for more u.s. troops? >> well, general mcchrystal is expected to make a request for more resources in the coming days and weeks t could include up to 48,000 troops but it has not made its way up to the chain of command or to the president's desk but when it does, president obama will have a tough choice to make, now with leading democrats opposed to more troops, mr. obama may have to align himself with republicans to get the backing he needs on capitol hill. bret: the clock is ticking on this one, too. >> that's right. it is not clear where secretary gates stands on more troops. bret: earlier today, just a short distance from where i'm standing, a coast guard training exercise caused widespread panic in the area. reports of shots being fired and the coast guard's decision not to notify local, state or federal authorities before the, quote, routine exercise sent in motion a chain of events, including temporarily shutting down reagan national a

trace: jennifer griffin live for us at the pentagon. jennifer, thank you. it's not like presidents ever get a ton of down time. president obama will barely have time to breathe this week. he kicked things off yesterday by appearing on five sunday morning talk shows. this afternoon, he became the first sitting president to tape an appearance on letterman. tomorrow, he sits down for a summit with israeli and palestinian leaders. later this week he plans to address the united nations here in new york. and then he will meet with the leaders of the world's largest economies in pittsburgh. just a few hours ago, he took some time to push his economic recovery plan at a community college in upstate new york. major garrett with a rare appearance here in new york. major, the president just is not slowing down this week. >> it's a big night for san diego, trace. trace: it is. [ laughter ] >> look, the president is working hard. this week is going to have to be an issue of the accomplishment gap. a lot of activity but how much accomplishments. is he going to get very f

when you think about comedian and good friend of the show tonight kathie griffin, and now she's beenn for months now. she's been doing this for a while. check out the hell airus spoof that she did for gemmy kimmel live. roll that. >> she was a mother. >> i told you monsters to cram a poly pocket in those pie holes. mommy is doing a satellite feed with regis. >> but, mom, we're thirsty. >> waa, waa, waa. drink the teersz of pain. >> kathie griffin did not hold back when she told me what she really thinks of jon. >> he is a tool. you know, i hope people think she's a neat mare, and they want to call in and say she's horrible. he is a tool sitting there rolling his eyes. it's kate plus nine. that's what that show is, and she's another one with the tummy tuck and, you know -- my mother dent have a tummy tuck. is he has a box of wine and a moo moo. >> lisa thinks this can help them, but when comedians make these kinds of jokes could it ruin jon and kate's chances of being taken seriously? they are trying hard to strike out and create serious careers outside of the reality show. >> yeah. h

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trace: jennifer griffin, thank you.rtha: the house minority leader john boehner is among those who is calling for the top commander in afghanistan to come to washington, d.c. and to lay things out in afghanistan before congress. this is what john boehner had to say. rumors have circulated in the past few days that's general mcchrystal might be considering stepping down. in captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- -- he made it clear in "the new york times" article. joining me now is major general bob skcales. good to have you here today. we have seen a little bit of back and forth on this issue in the media. just yesterday there was a question about whether or not to general mcchrystal might be in not able to follow through on what he believes should happen on the ground, adding troops. he has expressed that he thinks that needs to happen fairly quickly. how do you reconcile what he is a year now with what happened over the course of this week? >> stanley mcchrystal is a good soldier, and he wil

that is what drew griffin, cnn's special investigations unit has been looking into. he has for us now this exclusive report. >> reporter: the fib arrested this brooklyn businessman, they had no idea what they say they uncovered would be so big. law enforcement source who is will still investigating tells cnn that he was using hospitals in new york, boston and philadelphia. what he was doing was selling kidneys. >> his business was to entice vulnerable people to give up a kidney for 10,000. > >> reporter: investigators say the donors and patients had one thing in common, they were all jewish. zone f donors usually came from eastern europe, usually poor, selling their kid aniy s kidneys for $5. rosenbaum's attorney said he has not had enough time to evaluate rosenba rosenbaum's case and had no accident. those who study the illegal trade of organs, allegations of widespread trafficking of kid y kidneys on the east coast should surprise no one. in the recent passes, according to researchers dr. nancy shepard hughes -- >> it has been run by british mafia and they have bee

first to jennifer griffin on the military angle. jennifer, tell us about the system the president is putting into works now. >> well, essentially the pentagon is shifting to a mobile ship-base system it will used the space missile system on board navy ships. it's already been tested. they can carry up to 100 missiles it will defend better, we're being told, against the short and medium range missiles that are pro-live rating inside iran. >> this comes as we learn of new evidence about iran's nuclear capabilities. >> that's right. there is a leaked report out tonight out of the iaea in vienna. suggesting that, in fact, there is a secret annex to an iaea report suggesting that iran actually has sufficient information, it says, to build a nuclear bomb and has been experimenting with delivery systems. this is very different from what we have heard officially and publicly from the iaea harmid, who the u.s., france, israel and others have been accused of suppressing this information, shep. shepard: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon to

jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon.ennifer, what prompted this strategy review to begin with? >> well, sources tell us that the white house is currently debating whether afghanistan is even in the u.s. national security interest at all and whether any u.s. troops should be fighting there. that is the debate currently going on. it is very different from the strategy that was announced by president obama back in march. what the white house is saying changed is the election on august 20th was for of more fraud and corruption than they had anticipated. that caused them to wonder whether they had a partner in afghanistan and the strategy is now currently being opened and reviewed as a result. trace: calling for general mcchrystal to answer questions on capitol hill. >> that's right. in fact, everyone from senator john mccain to house leader john boehner has called for mcchrystal to come and testify on capitol hill much the same as general petraeus did from iraq. tonight, however, the press secretary for defense secretary rob

marty griffin says she is not sure it will help. >> i'm just not willing to do it. i'm hoping that the problem does not become a massive outbreak. if it does, may regret this decision. >> health officials reassured congress that the vaccine was safe. >> we have data from decades of experience from seasonal slow, which will made in the same manner. >> the whole district in huntsville, texas shut down with too many kids and homesick. >> coughing and headache. they are really tired. their bodies >> a> hospitals in n.c. have barred children from visiting patients. too risky, they say. other hospitals have set of special tents to handle overload in a slew season that officially starts sunday. >> officials say h1n1 never really went away this summer. they say that help them track the virus and confidence the vaccine is a good match. >> coming out in our medical alert, experts take on a dangerous trend. we also look at how families prepare for an outbreak. that is in about 10 minutes. and, more than a dozen students are recovering after a chemical odor traveled through the

drew griffin, cnn, nazareth. >> it is a crime to buy or sell an organ for transplant in the u.s.olicy should change. this woman received a kidney from a woman in 2006. also is a psychiatrist. on the opposite side, dr. danvich is a professor. he's also on the board of the national kidney registry. doctors, good to have both of you with us tonight. doctor, we just saw on drew's piece, essentially the rich preying on the poor. if it were legal to buy and sell organs, how would you keep that from happening? >> well, what you have shown, the story you showed is appalling. this is the ravages and deprivations of the black market, which is exactly why we need a transparent legal means of exchange. what i'm referring to here is not a free market, but a regulated system where the state or federal government would give a reward to a stranger who would like to give his kidney and save the lives of someone else. >> should that reward be in the form of cash? >> we envision that reward more in terms of an in kind benefit, a tax credit, contribution to a 401k, even a contribution to the charity

i'm anita griffin, have a great week. >>> welcome to timeout for your health. a quick look at the real lives touched by chronic disease and the real solutions being found all anders. in today's segment taking care of our own, we'll explore how the greater family has come together take an important stride in health and home. >>> they're the perfect redskins family. chris cooley has played tight send since 2004 his wife was a cheerleader. his wife cheers them on every sunday. they are a family that believes they can face any opponent and now they have. >>> it was just the week before chris' wedding i was driving to the school and i got a call from my doctor on the way to school at 8:00 in the morning on may 16th said you have breast cancer. the thing is i had had a check up not that long ago before i found the lump. so there is just -- its, you know, kind of scary because i had all that done and then three months later i have this huge lump. >> i think any time you hear news that anyone has cancer it's devastating because you just don't know what's going to happe

. >> al: griffin went to the pro bowl last year. first and ten. now, the ball is at the 4 yard line. and this is johnson. tennessee will take -- pittsburgh wants to use their time-outs they have to. and they will spend the first of those right here. >> cris: i think they're going to get the clock to run out here. i think they can do that. remember, just in case, if the titans had to punt it. remember that weird rule, that they can fair catch the kick and then get the free kick for a game-winning field goal. that i think the way this clock sets up right now, they should be able to run it out. >> al: right, there's only one time-out remaining. and that will take you to a third down situation. and then you can let the clock run out. >> cris: one of the toughest, most physical players. certainly, ever to play the wide receiver position. and makes a big play. and just pure competitiveness, makes and tries to score. if he just takes a knee, it's bakley game over. but he just doesn't have that in him. >> al: right. second and eight. and you've gaul a fal

jane: thank you, jennifer griffin at the pentagon. we want to know what you think. we have an unscientific poll. you can go to our website. it is very easy. so far, the majority of voters say that the president should send more troops. register your vote if you will. jon: russia's top general says that the military of that country still plans to base missiles next to poland. this is despite an earlier statement from the kremlin saying that the plan would be shelved. the kremlin always said that russia would only deploy short- range missiles near poland if washington went ahead with its anti-missile defense system plans. the russian general says that washington has not given up the missile shield, but will simply shift the missiles to ships at sea. jane: heavy rain heading in atlanta. here is a look at some pictures. as much as 20 inches of rain over the past couple of days. unfortunately, this has turned deadly. two drivers died when their vehicles got submerged in the floodwaters. let's get to dominican davis. >> hello, jane. flash flooding has been a big problem f

decker griffin is with us from the pentagon.in is with us from the pentagon. >> this is new is that we have gleaned by speaking to our sources at the pentagon. this resource request, more troops, we understand, will be requested from general mcchrystal to be said to secretary gates some time in the coming days. it could be as early as tomorrow. what one official told us was the perception that general mcchrystal was asked by someone in washington not to send that request. that has become more of a distraction, and therefore, want to put an end to these rumors. remember, the general mcchrystal, according to reports, is prepared to request 30,000 to 40,000 more troops. we are being told now that that request -- the pentagon is going to ask him to said that request in the coming days. martha: reconcile that with what we learned a couple of days ago. even if the request comes through, troops will not be ready to be added before january. is that correct? >> it is interesting, i spoke to other top officials who declined because of the

jennifer griffin, what is the bottom line? >> general mcchrystal in this 66-page classified report -- basically, this was the assessment that everybody was waiting for from general mcchrystal about the way ahead in afghanistan. he talks about the need for more resources. resources means troops. he is asking for more troops. he says, a "failure to gain the initiative and reverse internet momentum in the near term, the next 12 months, risk an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible." he is warning that if the resources are not sent, there could be a possibility of failure. it is very clear from the sunday talk shows where president obama spoke to five the sunday talk shows is that president obama is putting the brakes on and buying some time as he reassesses the strategy. he announced a new strategy on march 27. he said they would pursue counterinsurgency. that is what general mcchrystal was out there to pursue. now, president obama says he wants to reassess the strategy. trace: as i was reading through the

jennifer griffin at the pentagon. we are tracking h1n1, and new word from the world pork -- world health organization today is that manufacturers will not produce as much vaccine for the virus as originally was thought. jonathan, why are drug makers producing less vaccine with flu season just getting under way? >> the original estimate, 4.9 billion doses worldwide, was based on a hypothetical. if 8 h1n1 -- if a 21 became so severe -- if h1n1 became very severe, they would possibly have to create that much. but h1n1 has not mutated and is not as deadly as thought. and now, rather than two doses to build immunity, adults may only require a single dose. manufacturers may continue to make seasonal flu vaccine. as far as supply here in the u.s., it will not affect us at all. the government is ordering 195 million doses of vaccine, all set to arrive before the end of the year. back to you, rick. rick: any other headlines from that press conference? >> mostly good news. the virus has not mutated, so they say that it is a goo

music from boys like girls. [ cheers and applause ] tomorrow night, kathy griffin will be here with usention to celebrities or courtrooms, you may be familiar with man named jake byrd. wherever there are news reporters, jake byrd is there. this is jake last month at the jackson family custody hearing. >> i want to applaud debbie rowe. she's faced difficulties and pressures none of us know. and today's agreement shows that she responded with heart, integrity and selflessness. >> see, he tries to lend a hair wherever he goes, and it turns out that celebrity trials aren't the on thing that jake byrd is passionate about. last week, we had a healthcare rally in here in l.a. needless to say, tempers have been running high at these things. so jake showed up to help calm everyone down. >> we're just looking for major healthcare reform. bring the change to healthcare like was promised in the election. >> i'm a doctor, it's a sad thing. you know that burying -- they're burying michael jackson tonight and you know who loves playing doctor? michael jackson. [ laughter ] >> all right. thanks. you g

and a plea of guilty in a violent escape from a juvenile detention center, a 17-year-old carl griffincharged with attacking the guard at the center before escaping back in may. he told the judge he grabbed handcuffs from a staffer to help one of his accused accomplices, but did not intend for anyone to be heard. he has been sentenced to 18 months in an adult detention center. a part-time deli clerk, gail brown, claim to that mars would notç hire her as a meat cutter because she was a woman. in a settlement, mars agreed to give her 180-$118,000 as well as attorneys' fees -- to give her $118,000 as well as attorneys' fees. he has been ordered to train managers and offer jobs to any woman denied a meat cutters position. >> sales of preowned homes have hit a high in the month of july. combine that with a better month for rosales and analysts say it offers a broadening picture that the u.s. economy may be on the road to a lasting recovery. but consumer confidence is still mixed. >> eight sectors of the economy showed the strength in august and july, more signs that a strengthening economy

marty griffin says she's not sure it will help. >> i'm not willing to do it.'m hoping that the problem doesn't become a massive outbreak. if it does, i may regret this decision. health officials reassured congress the vaccine is safe. >> we have safety data from decades of experience with seasonal vaccines which are made in the same manner. >> reporter: will the doses arrive in time? the whole school district in huntsville, texas, shut down. too many kids sent home sick. >> coughing, headache, just they're really tired, their body aches. >> reporter: two hospitals in charlotte, north carolina, have barred children from visiting patients. too risky, they say. other hospitals have set up special tents to handle flu overload. in a flu season that officially starts saturday. >> health officials say h1n1 never really went away this summer. but they say that's helped them track the virus and give them confidence the vaccine is a good match. in washington, brooke hart, nbc news. >>> the centers for disease control is reminding people that swine flu deaths are rare. m

drew griffin, cnn, scobey, montana. >>> all right, so to be clear, cnn tried to get comments from thesenators from montana for two weeks before the project was put on hold. the only response we received was what you heard in that report. >>> a medal of honor recipient joins his brothers in arms. in about a half hour, army sergeant 1st class jared monti will be inducted into the pentagon hall of heroes. president obama presented a posthumous medal to sergeant monti's parents yesterday. was recognized for actions above and beyond the call of duty in afghanistan, losing his life trying to save a wounded soldier. >>> and even as the nation honors such selflessness, questions have been raised by our highest award for combat valor, namely, why are so few medals of honor awarded for the afghanistan and iraq combats? and why aren't more awarded to living troops who fought there. more from our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. >> reporter: president obama awards the medal of honor to the family of sergeant 1st class jared monti who died trying to save others in a brutal firefight in afgha

meet alex griffin. >> i was abandoned at a hospital number 20 at birth.ld. >> the first time we saw alex, he was malnourished and we fell in love with him immediately. there's my son. let's go home, son. >> hospital number 20 gave me a chance to survive and i wanted to give something back. i'm alex griffin and i'm building a playground at the hospital where i was adopted from. i have been a boy scout for five years. i wanted to build a playground for my eagle project. i was at hospital number 20 had a wooden -- -- we had to design the playground. these are the double slides. volunteers from all over the world helped to build this playground. all of us adopted from russia have not and probably will never forget our birth place. >> translator: i like this playground because when you slide on it, all the sadness goes away. >> it makes me very proud. he shows that anything is possible if you don't give up. >> it makes me really happy just being here, that's all i can say. >> well, if you want more information, you can go to our website cnn.com/heroes. >>> eig

drew griffin picks up our story from there. it's a big one. >> it is a big one and it's ongoing, and there's a lot of circumstances here that we can't explain. nagi is a shuttle limousine worker in the denver area, and from his attorney he tells us that he was in new york recently, did stay at one of the apartments raided earlier this week for the joint terrorism fantastic force and naji had driven from new york to denver in a rental car. while he was there he was actually stopped by the nypd on the george washington bridge. it was as naji described as a ron come drug stop. he was released without even getting a ticket. later on this same trip in new york, his rental car was towed for parking violations and while there, the nypd asked to search his car and then they asked to search the lap top on his car, the attorney says he doesn't know why his client drove to denver from new york. he says he went to new york to resolve a business issue. speaking to our affiliate kusa in denver, the attorney insists zazi has nothing to do wit

. >> kathy griffin here. okay. here we go. will there be a health care for my dates?certainly hope so. >> okay. can you not give us three specific dates i hate? perez helton, julio. >> my bill could cover all americans, even spencer pratt. >> get a room. >> who's next? >> fox news? they can be fair and balanced. >> let's see. >> if i write down "obama" the letters can be rearranged to say aroma. i don't like. those letters don't arrange to spell that. in russia they do. >> next? >> the food network. it's guy fiueri. >> here is my health plan. call caught up with tortilla chips. >> that doesn't seem leak a viable plan. >> we top it off with liquid caso. >> i'll show myself out. >> next? >> there is someone from cw. it it's a teenage vampire. >> oh, obama. give us blood, dude, or don't, you're not the boss of me. >> finally nbc. >> i thought we did nbc. >> it's someone else. >> please, god, don't tell me it's brian williams. i give that guy one day of access and he acts like we went to camp together. >> it's keith morrison from "dateline." >> tell me more about the deat

plant, where it is and what it is designed to do here is national security correspondent jennifer griffin. >> it is the third time that iran has been caught red-handed hiding aspects of its nuclear program according to u.s. officials. first in 2002, a dissident group revealed the existence of a previously unknown uranium enitch arement facility, and then a breach of iran's computer network revealed the country was working on weaponizing a warhead, abruptly stopping in 2003. now, a secret uranium enrichment facility, an underground tunnel complex outside the religious city of qom. the u.s. intelligence said it knew about the site for three years but only recently could confirm it had a capacity for 3,000 centrifuges. no centrifuges have been introduced to the facility, but the infrastructure for a small military infrastructure is ready. the same group that revealed the other facilities said it warned the iaea about the qom facility in december 200 a. >> the national council of resistance of iran revealed to the iaea and to the public that the revoluntionary guards are making tunnels near q

maxwell is here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] next week, jennifer connelly, nick cannon, kathy griffiny ross, rumor willis and rod blagojevich will be here. we'll have music from boys like girls, brendon benson and try to tune in for that. because it's pointless otherwise. all right. time for our first guest. like the invisible tape and the people who beamed people up in "star trek", you know him from "the ugly truth" and he's trapped in a video game fighting for his life in the new movie "gamer". please welcome gerard butler. [ cheers and applause ] what's happening? thank you for coming. good to see you. >> you too. >> not that i know the country, but where exactly in scotland are you from? >> i'm from -- it's called glasgow, which is not the capitol of scoand. can i say something? one, you have party going on back there. hello to everybody in the greenroom. i never -- i'm walking in and it was like a club. then i run into this girl who i haven't seen since i was 17 years old from glasgow. >> is that right? >> yeah. christy over there. >> did anything go on between the two of you? >>

starting for the injured mark griffin, his decision to throw to art monk, not a good one here. willie white picks it off and takes it in from 34 yards out for the touchdown. detroit leads. stan is not the man. pass to gary clark way overthrown. blades with the take away. humphries third interception of the game and end of his day. >> when the opportunity came, i think i gave everything i had as far as guts and heart in the game, but just things didn't work out. that's going to happen. only thing i can do is learn from it. quarterback can't go out three weeks and throw three interceptions and expect your team to win. >> coach gibbs goes to his third string quarterback jeff rutledge. a ten-year vet who lights it up. he finds gary clark. check out the hard cut and chug into the end zone. skins trail by seven. less than 30 seconds to go in regulation. skins, 12 yards away and out of time-outs. rutledge calls the quarterback draw. here comes benny blades again. blades goes low. rutledge up and over. it's a touchdown. we are tied at 38-38. >> you've got to be the slowest quarterback

griffin looked for clark one more time. clark right under it. the jmu grad misses the ball again. time for redemption. third quarter. from the giants' 7 yard line, the bonus to clark and this time he hangs on. skins trail 13-7 now. fourth quarter, long again. again he chooses gary clark. this a 54-yard attempt. it stays in his hands. clark gives the skins a 14-13 lead. >> i was able to come over a few plays myself to make up for the first half i dropped the ball. it's a big game for us, an emotional win for us. kind of drained right now. don't know if i'm come organize going. i'm glad we have the win. >> vindication. it's sweet. they are a great team. we have to face them again, i'm sure it will be the same type of fight. i hope we can win that one, too. >> one final piece of drama. skins up 17-13 with 25 seconds to go. jeff hostetler leading a last-second charge for the giants. his pass picked off by wilbur marshall. wilbur laterals it. coach gibbs none too pleased. >> 8 plus for the interception, he gets an f for trying to lateral this. the only way we can lose the game is to pi

. >>> let's go to the two shot here, because drew griffin is here from our investigations unit. been working on the story, pretty hard over the past few days. >> deb's been out there, and a lot of people are working on the story trying to get to the bottom of this. >> and you developed some new information on this story. we will take a quick break, and we will come back, and we will talk to you about what you're learning. >>> we want to get you the very latest information now on a -- the investigation of a possible terrorism-related raid in new york city. drew griffin is here, and as i mentioned ahead of the break, you've been spending a lot of time on this investigation. what are you learning, drew? >> what we are learning, tony, is the target was a terror cell composed of afghan nationals. they all attended or circulated at a new york-area mosque. a source with direct knowledge of the investigation is telling cnn that the joint terrorism task force raided several locations, and they were searching for explosive devices or components intended to be used at targets in the new yo

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national security correspondent jennifer griffin has the story. >> well, bret, we've received the 66-page declassified report that the "washington post" had leaked to them last night. essentially what it says is general mccrystal is warning that this could be a mission failure if it is not resourced properly. i'll he quote from t "inadequate resources will result in failure." and "a perception of our resolve that is uncertain makes afghanis reluctant to align with us against the insurgents. " we heard from the chairman of the joint chiefs saying at his reconfirmation saying that more troops would be needed, and it was clear that he thought that the strategies for afghanistans needed to be reviewed again. remember back on march 27, he actually announced his new strategy and said it would include counterinsurgency and that general mccrystal was being sent out there essentially to come up with a way to pursue counterinsurgency. now president obama is saying not so fast. don't send me a request for big resources because i want to make sure i have the strategy right first. bret: jennifer,