>> good morning, kyra.ufacturing is one of the stronger sectors and partly because other sectors doing so poorly. the bar is so low. manufacturing activity expanding for a year now and lately getting reports showing that the broader economy is kind of slowing again and that's true today. the manufacturing report that you mentioned, kyra, missed wall wl's expectations. manufacturing in the north region is still expanding but t it's expanding at a slower pace than the month before. so, as a result, stocks are under some pressure right now. we are also watching for comments from former fed chairman greenspan speaking today in new york and when alan greenspan speaks, wall street listens. as for now, the dow industrials down 30 mints. nasdaq off about 8. and twitter is getting a major overhaul. if you like to tweet, you'll be able to post a lot more than just the 140 character tweets. soon you'll be able to attach photos and video clips, too. the co-founder said it's an opportunity for all sorts of content, ever

kyra? >> mark press upttopreston, tha. >>> iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad set to speak at the united nations summit on a public relations offensive. sunday he cold abc news he should get payback from the u.s. after helping to free american hiker sarah shourd. he wants the u.s. to release iranian prisoners and washington says the cases have nothing to do with each other. ahmadinejad is speaking live next hour. we'll be monitoring the remarks. >>> the fbi says that they have charged a 22-year-old chicago man with two terror-related counts accused of trying to detonate a bomb near wrigley field. fbi agents say he was nabbed in an undercover sting operation after placing what he thought was an explosive device near the stadium and facing a charge of attempted use of a weapons of mass destruction. >>> new details emerging in the investigation of that deadly pipeline explosion in san bruno, california. 11 days after that blast that killed 4 people and made rubble of a neighborhood, the uti

kyra? >> what's next, mark? >> well, kyra, excellent question. we have seen a lot of divisive primaries. incumbent republicans knocked out in utah and alaska. knocked out by tea party activists. angry conservatives. kyra, interesting to see if november will these angry voters still show up at the polls? will they vote republican? guess what, kyra. if the tea party activism continues to foster itself it turns what's expecting to be a good night for republicans into a great night for republicans. >> mark, thanks so much. cnn's shannon travis reported extensively on the tea party and in delaware where they're challenging the establishment. shannon, there's nasty words hurled around in this race. >> kyra, you follow these things for -- these political races. let me ask you a question. when did you hear words like canalism, prostitution and death threats being hurled in a political race? >> it definitely wasn't a political race. >> yeah. absolutely not. but those are exactly the kinds of words that you're hearing right now here in delaware. let's set

i'm kyra phillips. you are live in the "cnn newsroom." >>> mega church pastor eddie long has 25,000 church members but today all of the attention is on just a few of his former followers. a third man has come forward accusing bishop long of coercing him into sexual relationships. all three men said that they were teenages when long lavished them with gifts and initiating sexual encounters. long canceled a scheduled radio interview and news conference. a spokesman for bishop long denies the accusations saying that the lawsuits are, quote, a shakedown for money. the bishop issued a statement and we turn to ed lavandera first broke this story. ed? >> quick-moving morning. anticipated to hear from bishop long on the tom joyner radio show. that radio appearance was canceled. but the attorney for bishop long a man by the name of craig gillen talked about that he denying the allegations again, strongly. devoted his life to helping young men and allegations and hurt me deeply and what was interesting and we hav

kyra? >> that's true.so much. >> sure. >>> let's try and reduce the jobless number by one. she's going to show us what she's got, on the market at the age of 59. it's her second time being jobless. you say it's worse this time, why? >> there are more people out there looking for jobs, and it's just the jobs are just not there. particularly people in my age group. younger people are coming out of school who will work for less, with less experience. so it's really tough. >> now you've actually managed to keep your house, but foreclosures are creeping up on your block, right? >> yes. i have four houses in foreclosure on my block. there's been one short sale and several abandoned houses. i feel that, you know, the demon is gradually taking over the whole neighborhood. >> i'll tell you what, within the demons you have some angels. tell us about your son. he says he will take care of you, help you out, but you say, wait a minute, that's not how it's supposed to be? >> no. that's just not the way it's supposed to

kyra? >> how does the white house actually choose the families that host these backyard events, suzanne? >> reporter: well, one of the advantages, kyra, of being here at 4:30 in the morning had a chance to talk to the couple, jeff and sandy club. this is their home behind us here. and the white house doesn't really give away a lot of information but they did. they said a week ago they got a call from a white house advance staffer said they were one of eight families considered and both completely baffled by this because, yes, they voted for obama and not big fund-raisers. you know, they're not big in the community when it comes to politics. they got the call. said that they had been chosen and they asked why and they said, well, because of your backyard. it's a beautiful backyard. it's a lot of oak trees, elms, evergreens, this kind of thing and so they're hosting their neighbors and it was fun because we actually saw them early this morning. they were trying to hide their cat, figure out w

kyra? >> now, you know, the -- one of the most shocking things that came forward yesterday, the taliban wants to meet with hamid karzai. they actually want to create a peace council so was that part of what got him so emotional or specifically emotional about the fact that education system and the terrorism is affecting everyone including his children? >> reporter: not entirely clear. he told a long story about a russian doctor coming 130 years ago to afghanistan and treating the son of an afghan king who then died and i guess he drew a comparison to today and the fact that he sends his own son to foreign doctors and that afghanistan doesn't have the right specialists to treat its own people. there has been a development in the afghan government in the process of what some people hope could be a step toward reconciliation with the armed opposition here. a high peace council that the government anoubsed was formed today with 68 members, human rights groups coming out criticizing some of the

we are getting to the change of seasons, aren't we, kyra?beautiful, too, seeing the change in the tree colors. >> we will start to feel the cool air, first cool punch of the season in the next few days. >>> ditch your dialect and land a job. a number of people are saying it's controversial to restrain the tongues for the sake of getting hired. we're going to talk about it at the bottom of the hour. >>> checking top stories. 31 house democrats defying their leadership to let tax cuts expire at the end of the year. president obama only wants to extend middle-class cuts. >>> arnold schwarzenegger requesting an state of emergency for bruno. >>> the iowa egg controversial has had previous problems. hundreds of cases of salmonella contamination were found in a two-year period. >>> an old soldier is having a tough time on the home front. maybe you can help him out after his 30-second pitch. he has a wife, kids, a resumÉ to die for and almost through with his ph.d. but he hasn't been able to find steady work in two years. we will talk to jesse in a

>> big campaign cash, kyra.ident up in new york city for official business and fund raising. we know that the president teams up with house speaker nancy pelosi and leader harry reid. campaign cash so crucial as the midterms close in. i learned and check this out on cnn political ticker. vice president joe biden also into the cash mode today in boston for a fund-raiser today with senator lincoln of arkansas. hey, that's senate race -- governor race in new york state interesting. a brand-new poll suggests that the republican nominee in new york that pulled the upset paladino, a developer backed by the tea party, only six points down to cuomo. that race looks closer according to to a new quinnipiac poll. tomorrow the six-month since president obama shined into law the health care bill. today, two hours from right now he is talking about the new health care bill. is it helping or hurting the party as the midterms close in? check this national poll. and we asked, which party do you think will do a better job on heal

saw the damage there, kyra. one in new york, regardless, winds 80, 90 miles per hour it does damage. i don't care whether they're going straight or whipping around in a tornado. there's the line of thunderstorms that rolled through the jersey-new york city area last night between 4:00 and 7:00. look how it explodes heading over the delaware river and really staten island and queens and brooklyn really getting the brunt of this and the bowing of the radar echo indicates certainly heavy winds from the upper level and there was a tornado warning that was posted so they'll send a survey team to check it out. regardless, damage is done. cleanup is beginning and it is a mess boroughs. the storm going through, becoming calm. a potent storm. led to the outbreak. we'll look for severe weather in the plains today. this cold front is strong for this time of year. it is one that certainly brings with it temperatures that will be well, well below normal. let's talk about something that's in this time of year normal in the ba

kyra?> so, you also had a chance to ask the secretary about the new bob woodward book and obviously getting attention right now. what's his reaction to it? >> reporter: yeah, kyra. i wanted the know, coming a few months after the huge interview that general stanley mcchrystal did with "rolling stone," i asked him why would you speak to bob woodward? he said told me, he said, look, i got the questions beforehand. the things he was asking about was the tone of some of the meetings, things i felt comfortable discussing. he also said that he was one of the last people that woodward interviewed and felt more comfortable knowing all of the people in the obama administration including the president himself had already sat down with bob woodward. >> chris lawrence live from the pentagon, thanks. >>> now the faces of those heart-wrenching number that is we report on far too often. the number of our fallen heroes in the afghan war. nine service members were killed in a helicopter crash in southern af

tell us about that. >> reporter: absolutely, kyra.ettlements that cnn saw with a camera crew and producer this morning so you can't drive around the whole west bank. this is just what we saw in a short amount of time. according to monitors around the place, it is happening everywhere. this is really what we were promised on sunday by the settlers when they were celebrating what they saw as a victory that this settlement freeze had not been extended. they had a rally, a groundbreaking ceremony. and they released balloons, 2,000 balloons to signify 2,000 houses they intend to build in one settlement alone in the west bank. we heard from the palestinian president. remember, he said if you carry on building settlements we'll walk away from the peace talks. what he now said in a press conference in paris in the last hour was he was calling on israel to give it another three or four months to extend the settlement freeze and said that he'd be going to an arab league meeting in october, to try and decide on a joint response from all of the a

we're good. >> you and kyra, two of my favorite anchors. take a look. there's kyra.like. very different. wanted to get that out of the way. >> cool complement, kyra phillips. i love her. >> talk politics. about this election, how republicans, referendum on barack obama and what he's done in the white house in the last year and a half. well, do americans think barack obama's done a good job or not? check this out. cnn poll of polls. the most recent national surveys on the president's approval rating. right now, average them all together, 46% give president obama a thumbs up. 49% disapprove of what he's doing in the white house. an important poll number. we'll update a lot between noi and election day, which, remember, just six weeks from right now. also talk about tonight. john king usa. the show on this network, 7:00 eastern every monday through friday. well, tonight john's going to be busy. he's going to be up in massachusetts moderating a big showdown up there. a debate. the debate in the massachusetts governor's race. you've got three candidates up there. incumben

certainly an eye opening experience, kyra.s over the years but i've had a hard time reading up and seeing pictures. obviously, that's the idea when you work with a covert, small special forces unit. tomorrow we'll talk about exactly what they do when they get on the ground and you'll meet the here rose that are bringing the accurate forecast to the soldiers fighting next to them. >> do they have to be on the ground it forecast? >> reporter: we say, there's nothing like good observation b observations to get a good forecast, but, more specifically than that and something i didn't really think about until i spent time with these guys, they do much more than forecast the weather. in the military, everything is mission-specific. if they have to cross a river, they have to make sure the river is crossable for both men and equipment. if they have to go over a mountain pass, they have to make sure they can get over the terrain, if there's avalanche danger. there's a lot month to this than weather forecasting. these guys different tha

kyra thought she forever lost her autograph book with all of her favorite characters. newlyweds found her precious book and had loads of other characters add their autographs as well, sending it back with a personal note and their picture tucked inside providing the perfect storybook ending. >>> and i'm amara sohn, and this is just your first stop of the day, today, on your nbc station. >>> forget dispensing cash from an atm. in spain, you can get gold bars instead. the gold to go machine was unveiled at a hotel in madrid. you can choose one, two or five gram gold bars. or customized coins all starting for as low as $50. the inventor hopes it will attract those gift-givers and those playing it safe during tough economic times. >>> one english grandmother has shown it's never too late to get a jump on life. the extreme grandmother livened up her 90th birthday celebration with a skydive. granny took to the sky in a tandem jump attached by harness to an instructor and parachute. she says the first momentsing to her breath way, but called the rest of the ride smashing. >>>

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was new good morning kyra phillips. i did and we're standing close by and it's as if we were speaking the computers were speaking as if it was a dream because when the three d. model didn't really feel that way at the end of the room look a little sparse but it seemed muted at first but you know didn't see anything just hearing the face of the bombing by the bible school i mean not everyone was killed here i heard the explosion from. i don't know. national t.v. were. look this is what they pulled out of the woman's legs people were shot in your view the ambulance and police arrived immediately all the emergency services that we had were instantly citizens of buddy cop cars are very experienced in this set is someone. who paralyzed with panic the team and couldn't move the first saudi militants and they want to kill everyone in the course of then i looked at all car and if it was littered with pieces of flesh and my husband was touching them i said wait wait because it was really. only now is the time and distance that s

friends and which transforms the country into the region's fast parliamentary democracy remember those kyra pulls on one of the favorite. is the clock ticks towards the kurdistan elections the country holds its breath while the polls bring stability or plunge the country into another round of violence and chaos meet felix king of the country's former prime minister who could be next to lead the country following the controversial reigns of us got a cause and could not get bucky if cool for his one of the few figures who have not been tarnished in the last fifteen or twenty years old because a pretty hard moral thing to get a bit of your waist in and you have a good chance of winning the next parliamentary election has a different times being the national security general the regional governor and mayor b. capital bishkek but what he's most renowned and praised for in his home country is an ability to handle crisis situations. studied in two thousand and five there were total moments marauders in the capital police and national security that had all run away at that point that's when cool of

. >>> coming up, superstar she kyra. she can shake those hips. these lips don't lie.in. we have a big show. >> what you got coming up? >> shakira. >> karo. >> i get them confused. shakira is the younger one. >> that's why she's on our hour. >> after your local news. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal 11 news today. this is a news update. >> good morning. i m tony pann. the high temperatures today will be well above average, the average at 76, but we are shooting for the mid-80s to near 90. there is a slight chance for a shower. it will be warmer tomorrow, in the low 90s on f

and later on this morning, kyra phillips will be talking to bernstein about this.ather headlines. we have rob marciano with us here in new york on our last day of summer. it is officially 11:09 fall begins tonight. >> you're correct about that. >> that was up in your living room? >> it was. i had to make a quick call home. actually i tapped in with my iphone. good morning, guys. not only is it the start of fall, we've had a number of storms to talk about. that karl thing that went into mexico as a major storm has brought a tremendous amount of moisture to texas, southern texas especially. check out some of this flooding video. torrential rains here the past several days. and obviously the roads are flooding and people had to scurry out of their homes in some cases. and there's more rainfall on the way here. so we're talking about -- you get moisture that's this deep this time of year obviously from the tropics. it can come down in a hurry and it's been coming down for days at a time. they've had well over 1/2 foot of rain from corpus christi to brownsville. flash f

have a great weekend, kyra. >>> live from studio 7 at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta, big stories for friday september 24th. comedian stephen colbert tells congress about his day as a migrant farm worker. >>> the military special ops weather team in action. a critical unit when war depends on the battlefield forecast. >> what does this have to do with weather? >> well, you have to be alive to report the weather. >>> and home, after more than a year in an iran prison, sarah shourd sits down today with cnn. >> nothing in life can prepare you for something like this. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm don lemon. tony is off today. those stories and your comments right here right now in the cnn newsroom. >> but, up first, mr. colbert goes to washington. comedy central funny man stephen colbert brings his spin to serious issues, farm labor and immigration. he testified momenting ago before a congressional subcommittee. here's his take on a day spent picking beans. >> i started my work day with preconceived notions of migrant work, but after working with these men and women picking beans,

log onto cnn.com/kyra. tony, worst song ever? >> something from the star land vocal band, maybe england dan and john ford collie. >> give me a little something. i'm trying to figure out dat beat from d.j. pauly d. >>> don't remember it. good morning, everyone. let's keep the conversation going. send us some suggestions as to the worst song ever. the big stories for wednesday, the 15th of september, the gop strategy to retake control of congress in doubt today. a tea party candidate wins big in delaware despite firm opposition from the republican establishment. >>> federal workers who report violations may be putting their careers on the line. the government advocate for whistle blowers cuesed of retribution. >> it is set up to make sure whistle blowers do not blow the whistle. >>> i am talking live this hour with former u.s. senator sam nunn. good morning, everyone. those stories and your comments right here right now in the cnn newsroom. >>> how about a cup of tea with your primary election results? ahead of the vote, we've high

. >> kyra, have a great day. >>> live from studio 7 at cnn world headquarters, the big stories for monday, september 20th -- igor's roaring winds and crashing waves side-swiped bermuda. >>> african-american families struggling to close the every-widening wealth gap with white american. the divide has increased fourfold since the reagan era. >>> location, location, location -- chinese firms snapping up offices in a south-facing office tower. it's all about the positive energy of feng shui. >> as we do more international business, not only asians coming to this country but people this country honoring the time honored tradition. >> those stories and your comments right here right now in the cnn newsroom. >>> breaking news, now, the recession is over, so says a group of economists tracking it. let's get straight to poppy harlow in new york. poppy, i got to tell you here, it doesn't feel like the recession is over for a lot of folks in america right now, particularly if you don't have a job right now. >> it's exactly the point, tony. news flash -- the recession is over. we certainly don't fee

kyra, we'll talk to you again soon. we are starting anew this center live at the world headquarters in atlanta, georgia. let me tell you what we have on the rundown on thursday september, 30th. we have to start this with story out of rutgers, a freshman at the school apparently jumps to his death after a gay encounter is secretly streamed live on the internet and two classmates are now facing charges. >> i read it on-line i was like -- i was shocked. >> also, coming up, food made in a laboratory. scientists want this piggy to go to the market, but maybe then he could go straight to your dinner plate. >> what i can tell the american public no food from a genetically engineered animal will go on the market unless the fda has demonstrated -- >> and we've got a new planet to tell you about. a planet where possibly they're doing a newscast right now as well. earth-like planet they found in the so-called goldilocks zone, it's just right, maybe for life. hello to you al. i'm t.j. holmes in for tony harris. those stories and a

. >>> kyra, thank you so much. hello to everybody. i'm t.j. holmes in for my good friend tony harris. let me tell what you we have coming up. we're going up front today. what we're putting up front today, your job, health and lifestyle. we have new information from the census bureau that shows how the economy is affecting your state. we'll break it down and break down this map for you coming up. also, a live picture here of demoin, iowa. the president there on his campaign style tour that is taking him through four states. he'll be talking to a family in the backyard. also talking to other people who have questions. you want to keep an eye on this much he's talking about the economy. but you never know what's going to happen in the q&a session. we're dipping into that for you coming up. also, we're putting what you and your kids eat on the table, our series, eatocracy examines healthy food choices. >>> also, you can tell kids all day long about what they need to eat to be healthy, but does that really get to them? well, at the white house this

kyra tuck county, northeastern parts of north carolina, and matthews county, the pink polygons that you see here these are tornadoes. and both of these cells are moving north at 40 miles an hour. so moving very, very quickly. this saul within a tornado watch that empasses a big swath of real estate across the mid-atlantic until 1:00 this afternoon. so this is -- you know, we have remnants of a tropical system which was only around for a little bit. and we got a tremendous amount of rain. flooding a huge issue. boy, i'll tell you some of the areas that we've already seen flooding in, like wilmington, 7 inches of rainfall. that's just in 24 hours. and that doesn't include, john, the 10 inches that they had two days earlier. they could very well end up with 20 inches of rainfall without a hurricane there. >> how long is this going to last? >> north carolina will last for six to eight hours. but the northeast is in for it today. a lot of moisture out there. the silver lining is, a lot of these spots need it. >> so what you're telling me, you might want to take the train? >> yeah. >> back to

cnn news with kyra phillips will start right now. we hope. she is up in atlanta.hile. >> we technically started early this morning. >> what can we do for 60 seconds? soft shoe. drew's a pretty good dancer. >> let's talk about politics a enwhat you will do in the next hour and start now because i haven't eaten breakfast yet. >> okay. go get you some breakfast. kiran knows the good biscuits. see you guys later. >> oh, yeah. i'll show you the cafeteria. >> good morning, everybody. well, the pope says that the church hasn't responded to the sex abuse problem like it should have and we're going to hear from a victim in the uk who couldn't agree more. >>> a photographer was the eye of the civil rights movement and may be an ear for the fbi. we'll try to find out why the bureau would want this guy as its spy. >>> and peanut allergy awareness in new territory a. peanut free zone at the ballpark. 6:00 a.m. out west. 9:00 a.m. in the east. you are live in the cnn newsroom. we begin with your money, job and taxes. this morning, covering several stories that affect your botto

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. >>> coming up, superstar she kyra. she can shake those hips. these lips don't lie.get them confused. shakira is the younger one. >> e'shat whyshe's on our hour. >> after your local news. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> tonight at 11:00, banking, buying, booking. you do it all online and it's all protected by your password? right? wrong. online criminals have other ways to steal your identity. so what's better than a password to keep your information private? i'm scott budman and i have simple ways to keep your online identity safe tonight at 11:00 after "the apprentice" on nbc bay area news. wn and oakland's . what were the facts? fact: march 7, 2000. brown asks voters for new mayoral power to appoint school board members. he gets it, and promises better schools. but the drop out rate increases...50%. the school budget goes into a 100 million dollar deficit. the schools become so bad...the state has to take them over. it was "largely a bust," he admitted. jerry brown. failure as governor. failure as mayor. failure we can't afford now. >>> and good morning,