woman: when i was running for office, i met someone who knew mayor hartsfield, who, in the late 1960s, said, "i don't know who the next mayor will be, "but i know they'll have to fix the water and sewer infrastructure." woman: the city had chronic sewage overflows into the chattahoochee and its tributaries. fecal coliform bacteria levels were in the millions of colonies per hundred milliliter, which was a significant public health threat. and this had been occurring for decades. but neither the federal epa nor the epd back in the '90s were willing to take action under the clean water act to make the city fix its plumbing. so in 1994, we started upper chattahoochee river keeper. we filed a clean water act lawsuit. in 1997, we won. and so for the past decade, the city has embarked on a program to clean up the river. now, with 1,800 miles of sewer system, three sewage plants and combined sewer overflows, it took a number of years to figure out what would be the solution. we are facing a crisis in infrastructure. bethea: a huge change came about when mayor shirley franklin became the mayo

we will keep you posted if you are traveling into hartsfield-jackson international airport. >>> okay,thank you so much. an unusual effect just then. i don't know if you saw that. >> that was clever. very much more seriously. the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attack. the u.s. state department is taking the unusual step. straight ahead, we will have the warning on u.s. travelers around the world. imagine... one scooter or power chair that could improve your mobility and your life. one medicare benefit that, with private insurance, may entitle you to pay little to nothing to own it. one company that can make it all happen ... your power chair will be paid in full. the scooter store. hi i'm doug harrison. we're experts at getting you the power chair or scooter you need. i didn't pay a penny out of pocket for my power chair. with help from the scooter store, medicare and my insurance covered it all. call the scooter store for free information today. >>> all this week, cnn is bringing you special coverage of next weekend's tenth anniversary of the terror attacks on the united states. we are

a significant infrastructure project are moving forward like heart hartsfield mif jackson internationalnt funded the atlanta streetcar which is a $90 million infrastructure project. we're doing $2 billion in the water and sewer space. so every public project that is ethical and appropriate, we're moving forward with aggressively. but the national government does need to change its policy and really reward municipalities and state governments that take on significant infrastructure investment. right now the country does not have a policy to do that. we need to change direction right now. >> we will see what comes from the president on thursday night addressing the session of congress there. mayor of atlanta, georgia, many thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> we invite you watch the president's speech at 7:00 eastern on thursday night on msnbc. >>> well, the dme may have an impact on this labor day weekend, the travel that is. aaa says the roadways won't be as busy this year. the economy may be due to hurricane irene. we're joined from washington, d.c. by charles leoca, t

security at atlanta's hartsfield jackson airport monday as usual.t waiting on a train platform that brantley says the tsa made a shocking request. >> we have to check your hair for explosives. i thought they were kidding. i said, you can't check my hair. i just left the checkpoint and security and they didn't pull me to the side. >> reporter: isis brantley says she was in tears by the time the patdown was over. >> so, she's all in my hair, checking my hair. i just asked her to hurry. it was humiliating. it was very, like, disrespectful. and i was very distraught. i thought, you know, how could you do this in front of everybody? >> reporter: she says she was not offered a private screening. that's something the tsa disputes. in a statement issued, agency officials say tsa screening procedures are designed to ensure the security of the traveling public. additional screening may be required for clothing, headwear or hair, where prohibited items could be hidden. this passenger left the checkpoint prior to the completion of the screening process and was

in atlanta, hartsfield, jackson and a lot of delays all the way up the east coast.ia has intensified and now becoming a major hurricanes. maximum winds around 115 miles an hour, not really bothering anybody out there right now. but we're going to get some big waves in this thing. this is going to be approaching the coast. there's a strong threat of rip currents and also big waves. but it looks like it's going to make a nice big curve. so a swing and a miss on that one. >> when you say it looks like. i'm always a little skeptical. do the experts think it's going to do a miss. >> they hope there's a series of irk is circumstances that will keep it off the coast. >> al qaeda leader arrested that was reportedly set to do attacks on the united states. i'll spoke to a top official on the libyan transitional government. stay with us. uh, i'm in a timeout because apparently riding the dog like it's a small horse is frowned upon in this establishment! luckily though, ya know, i conceal this bad boy underneath my blanket just so i can get on e-trade. check my investment portf

this was in public on a train platform at the hartsfield jackson airport in atlanta. >> i saw these peoplep, stop. you, you, you with the big hair. she started digging around in my hair several times just touching it and digging and i said find the explosives. do you see any? >> this was after she went through the metal detector. she -- she said she left the security checkpoint before they were -- tsa agents said that we weren't finished. you left before we were finished even though she had gone through the metal detector. and she had turned down a more private screening. that's why they were running after her. >>> ahead on "american morning," the timing hard to ignore after more than two years, iran release two jailed american hikers just as its president is set to appear before the united nations. and the world. we will tell you about that. 35 minutes after the hour. met an old man at the top asked him if he had a secret and the old man stopped and thought and said: free 'cause that's how it ought to be my brother credit 'cause you'll need a loan for one thing or another score 'cause the