when you get rains like this, 21 inches in marietta. it's more than anybody has ever seen in their lifetime. some folks indeed, drive-through areas that 99% of the time, they think they can get through. exceptional rains like this, you can't. look at the temperatures now. our high, 81. 84 in atlanta. 73 right now and the dew point is still humid to the south. you can see that overall pattern and there's more and more indication. we tend to get the overall circulation that gets separated from the overall flow in the atmosphere and sit there and cause the terrible, terrible floods. atlanta itself, about eight inches. on the dry side of the pattern, less than a half inch of rain for the month. in and around us, nothing going on. look at what's been going on in the south. the areas under flood warnings in atlanta, fortunately, the latest batch of rains in mississippi. as they continue to move more to the north, they are going to be missing georgia. marietta, look at how much rain has fallen for the month, 21 inches. new orleans, 11 inches.

the bricks i mentioned martin marietta. please do not forget vulcan materials.nd now we have commercial real estate. boy, no one believes in that. which many people thought would be the next crisis. that's going to be joining the bullish pattern. people hate this call, short sellers were all over me saying i don't know what i was talking about. do you know that's the first time anyone's told me i didn't know what i was talking about in my whole life in the the treasury department's alouth real estate people to massage the tax code to their advantage. the real estate investment trusts are doing well. the commercial real estate market is going to roar back. that's why i have been saying the ishares dow jones real estate etf the iyr is right. here's the bottom line. you need poly, ethyl, jason, freddie, and mike myers can't let the doom and gloomers get in our way. but we can't get greedy, either. the real way to defeat the gloom and doomers is to take some money you've made off the table and go buy yourself something real. or of course, as my late mom louise crame

and joins me from marietta. what's the scene where you are there? >> reporter: good morning, contessa. no rain, you are right. it is overcast. no rain in the forecast, a big relief for the folks here. this is marietta adventist church normally closed on sundays because they do services here on saturdays but the doors are open for another congregation. town center community church it was heavily damaged. the floodwaters ruined the carpets, the walls, everything torn up. to the south of here in austell, it takes a long time. the city sits in cobb county which is one of 17 north georgia counties now declared federal disaster areas meaning homeow r homeowners with no flood insurance will be eligible for federal aid to help and so heart breaking to see how much the homeowners have lost. the state insurance commissioner estimate it is cost of the damage, half a billion dollars. the road back will be a very long one for the flood victims. many of whom worshipping here this morning. this church will be able to -- this congregation will be able to return hom

this is in marietta, georgia. the last two days almost a foot of rain and see for the month, these are spots that would normally get this over six to eight months and they've been getting it just in the order of days and i can show you the doppler that's continuing to show torrential rains especially now around the atlanta area but not only in georgia, as a matter of fact, all way into northern parts of mississippi and alabama. there are the areas that are under these flash flood watches and warnings all in green. you can see through georgia, and i've taken the radar off briefly. these are flash flood warnings in affect in the deep south, around south of tuscaloosa. all of this is caused by some very, warm humid air to our south. at the same time we've got a little bit of an upper-level circulation. so it's been, as you can see, one line after the other that will continue. there's going to be more on the way, unfortunately, for parts of alabama, into western north carolina. for us, on the other hand, a lot of this

she's 5'5", has a twin sister from marietta, georgia. her parents t cry after every m.to it. the nfl season hasn't started yet. we're all about oudin. there's a huge vacuum right now. this is going to be the first u.s. open since 1881 where there hasn't been a u.s. man in the quarter finals. that means in united states tennis, american tennis, people are looking for that star. it's going to be oudin. >> they showed video of her in times square. it's amazing the response fans had for her. clambering to get attention, just to get her autograph. you mentioned the william sisters. would she be the -- her tennis style is so different from the two of them. would she be the next in line to have all of the admiration of the young tennis fans out there? >> without question. we started seeing articles about the william sisters 15 years ago. they have been on the map for a long time. the william sisters, i say this to their great credit, have other interests than tennis. part owners in the miami dolphin, gone to fashion school. they want to have lives and not become tennis tragedy

the 17-year-old is from marietta, georgia. >> like today there are no tears because i, i believed that i could it and it's like -- now i know i do belong here and this is what i want to do and i can compete with these girls no matter who i'm playing. >> for "teen kids news," i'm lara. >> there's a new twist on "survival of the fittest." hunters wanting trophies to hang on the wall go after the biggest animals. their less impressive brothers and sisters tend to get ignored by the hunters. which means it's safer to be smaller. the result is called "reverse evolution." >> thanks lauren. we think of dating as something romantic. but sometimes it can turn very ugly. even dangerous. the department of justice helped us prepare a report on what it calls "relationship abuse." felipe has the story. >> rich or poor, your race or religion -- it doesn't make a difference. an abusive relationship can happen to anyone. anywhere. >> the very first day of school was the first time i had ever been hit by a guy in my whole whole life. like just full fist -- punched me and and i just stood there in shock.

yates the junior from marietta, georgia, that was his first fourth quarter game-winning drive of hisareer with the tar heels. >> ray: he's really grown in the leadership role. last year they had this senior wide receivers that kind of ran this team a little bit and this year with the void there he realized he had to kind of step up vocally a little bit more and coach shoop and coach davis encouraged him to do so and he's taken the reigns of this football team. >> pam: not really his nature to be that kind of guy. you deferred, as you mentioned, to the seniors and now he's a junior with a lot of inexperienced players around him. that one went through the hands of east carolina's defender. >> ray: michael brooks. >> pam: yates said he used to get really frustrated with himself. he's his own worst critic to make a bad throw or bad play in practice. he would go off and take off his helmet and go sulk and the coach said, don't do that. you're not setting a good example and he stopped doing that. it's all about the karma. third and eight. that's incomplete. christian wilson, an h-back, the

marietta, georgia, look at how much rain they've had for the month. 17 inches. this is the last two days, 11 inches of rain. and birmingham, alabama, also with flooding. over four inches of rain. so for us overnight tonight, what we will be seeing is that still general area of high pressure continuing to control our weather. we'll see some of theoisture coming this, but in the form of clouds, not the torrential rains down south. fortunately, those will be breaking up. but on the other hand, as our winds turn more into the south and southwest smshgs humidity coming in after all of that refreshing air. tomorrow morning when you get up and head out, a lot of clouds around some of the low clouds, light, southeasterly wind. a little on the cool side. could some fog around also. tomorrow for the most part, a lot of clouds around. could be a sprinkle. nothing very, very heavy. a little bit warmer and a bit more humid. also with temperatures mid-toigh 70s. then as we get into the next seven days, we will be seeing a bit more of the same. better risk of showers and maybe

ranked 70th in the world coming in from marietta, georgia. typical, dramatic come-from-behind fashion. always getsing behind and then overtaking her opponents and that's after she beat former number one maria sharapova. four aces that she's gotten to get to the finals. and tomorrow she will play against caroline. she plays like an adult, robin, but she doesn't sound like one. >> yeah, she's true to her age, 17. >> which is so impressive when you can see how well she's been playing. >> it is endearing. >>> in less than three hours some. schoolkids around the country are going to watch a live feed of president obama's back-to-school speech, and many of you are sharing your thoughts about that on our facebook page. for example, keikol. writes -- james w. says -- you can find a link to our facebook page when you go to cnn.com/robin. >>> hey, have you been to the supermarket and noticed a green checkmark showing up on different ideals from? they say, "smart choices." is t sounds like an easy way to find healthy foods. don't tell that to nutritioni

the teenager from marietta, georgia, advanced to the quarterfinals, with our fourth, stunning victory she beat russian, nadia petrova, after beating champion, maria sharapova. being down doesn't seem to phase her. >> i don't mean to lose the first set. and people might think that. but i don't mean to. i'm trying hard. i just haven't been able to figure it out until like the second set. >> reporter: another thing that doesn't seem to phase her, the russian tennis juggernaut. she's beaten four so far at the open, shredding their best players. what do you have against the russians? >> i didn't mean to have that draw. >> reporter: so, what's her trick? >> her passion to be out there and play. it's great. if we could bottle it, her attitude and her competitiveness, point in and point out, we'd all be doing pretty well in u.s. tennis. >> reporter: on her sneaker, one word, believe. she might sound like your average high school kid. >> i think it's awesome that people want to know who i am. >> reporter: but you can tell by the reaction from her twin sister, this was no average day. giant-kil

melanie from marietta, georgia. she's making a splash.he's going to play her quarterfinal match against another teenager. she's trying to keep the dream alive. larry smith has more on the cinderella story. >> reporter: serena and venus williams may be -- the 17-year-old from marietta, georgia started hitting balls by age 7. by 7th grade, she wanted to be home schooled. >> it was to play more and not get in trouble for missing so many days of school to play tournaments. i had to start home schooling. the amount of improvement i got was unbelievable. >> reporter: her focus on tennis improved her game. it didn't come without sacrif e sacrifice. she misses hanging out with friends and the bond with her twin sister. >> we have always been close since we were little, now, we definitely drifted apart because i'm gone a lot. she's got different friends than i do and different interests, but we are happy for each other. >> she turned prolast year. on monday, at the racket club where she trains, her friends and fans watched her advance to the quart

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this is marietta, georgia, north of town. it is now six to seven feet deep.our viewers, if you think you have video to share. >> more if a bit. >>> kidnapping suspect phillip garrido apparently made a discovery that he thought was so unbelievable. he claimed he was on a mission from god. it's a simple black box. you won't believe he said it could do. @pq michael jackson and it shows him rehearsing for his comeback concert series. ♪ they say why why tell them that is human nature ♪ that's jackson singing "human nature" during the rehearsals just before he died in june. he appears thin, but his voice seems sharp, he is getting his dance moves down, seems very intense at rehearsing. routers reports that the movie "this is it" opens to the general public on october 28th. it will have a two-week run. the la times reports that a soundtrack will be released. you look at that and it's hard to believe he was dead a short time later. >> his moves are very crisp. >> so precise. it's surprising because being you know, it still seems weird he's gone but you know someon

this is marietta when it was at its height. the waters are receding. this area got about 20 inches of rain. >> it looks like a water fall almost. >> kind of a break there. unreal. >> it's ridiculous all the flooding. >> bridges are beginning to open up around atlanta. it's a lot better. >>> sarah palin is following in the footsteps of former president bill clinton. the former alaska governor is heading in a new direction and it's apparently making her bank account a lot fatter. and a major search is over at the home of phillip and nancy garrido. ring ring ring ring. progresso. your chicken tuscany says it has fiber in it. yep. four tasty new soups with 28% of your daily fiber. but i like this chicken tuscany., i like it too. but it has fiber in it. that's right. fiber? yeah. but i like it. (announcer) progresso. you gotta taste this soup. >>> the controversial libyan leader moammar gadhafi has one new york suburb in an uproar right now. he arrived in the u.s. yesterday for the united nations general assembly then set up a huge september in their neighb

. >> that's what i figured, since you're a marietta guy, you know about the marietta mauler. did you hear about what happened at her hotel room? >> no. >> okay, so, you know, everybody thinks she's so far down the list, she's 17, nobody knows who she is, that they only made reservations for a certain amount of days, so all of a sudden, she comes out, she's beating everybody and the hotel said, sorry, you got to check out. you didn't check -- you didn't keep the room long enough. and can you believe they actually told her, find another place to go? >> you know, maybe cnn could help. i think there's a really nice hotel right above cnn center there on -- >> we would never boot her out of the omni, would we >> absolutely not. uuuuuuuuuuuuuu >>> phillip garrido's dark past getting darker by the day. police say a piece of bone found in the convicted sex offender's backyard is probably human. garrido is accused of kidnapping jaycee dugard, holding her captive for 18 years and fathering her two daughters. >>> could milwaukee police prevented at least one of the deaths in a string of

that was one site in marietta, georgia, they had almost as much rain in a month as we had the entire year in washington. that gives you an idea why that terrible, terrible flooding in georgia. i think they are going to see an absence of rain the next few days. 76 degrees our winds from the southeast. hasn't been a terrible season for ragweed. pollen count today 1. look at temperatures up and down the east coast. at the same time, out west it's cold. 51 in denver. no snow in denver, but there has been some in the mountains. they are getting ready for ski season in the rockies. here is what's been going on. we still have that moist pattern. there's more and more signs that sometimes now as we get into global changes and a warmer world that sometimes we get these patterns that break off and stay by themselves. that leads to some of the terrible, terrible flooding in some of these extremes we've been seeing a bit more of. each and every day is because of global changes, but when you see some of these patterns, it's getting more persistent and occurring more and more frequently. there are

look at marietta, georgia. over 20 inches of rain for the month.ew orleans has been catching it with 3.5 inches today. overnight tonight, we'll see more of the same for us. any of those rains will be staying to the south. with this general south-southwesterly pattern it will still be moist, a lot of clouds around, maybe a passing shower. i don't think anything for us heavy. more likely i think later on tonight and tomorrow morning for you folks into southern maryland, a few sprinkles and showers. temperatures overnight tonight into the mid 70s. then here we are heading into the autumnal equinox where we are into autumn. tomorrow will start out in the 60s. a little bit of humidity, too. once again tomorrow afternoon primarily there may be a few scattered showers around. after that, i think we'll be seeing some breaks in the clouds and a little bit less humidity on thursday. still, a chance for a few scattered showers thursday afternoon. friday and saturday, i think we'll start out the weekend okay by late saturday. perhaps another chance of some sho

look at marietta, georgia. the last two days, 11 inches of rain.ecatur, georgia, for the month now closing in at 20 inches of rain. so overnight tonight, that area of high pressure that's brought all of our great weather moves off will begin to get a little bit of the moisture coming around with southeasterly winds and then also as winds turn more into the south some humidity but as you can see the rains that have been down in the south really not coming our way. other than a lot of clouds and maybe a few sprinkles. so for the remainder of the evening partly cloudy. it's a warm, delightful evening. temperatures overnight tonight, certainly not as low as they'd been in the last few nights. we're going to see a fair. a clouds around it tomorrow. maybe a lile bit of fog. temperatures around 60 degrees. tomorrow afternoon a lot of clouds. i think specially for you folks out towards the blue ridge, maybe a few light showers and sprinkles. really not too much. next four days, another chance of some showers and a little touch of humidity. and even though

this is marietta. unbelievable amounts of rain. it fell just yesterday in this region.e a little bit of a stream. now it's about six to seven feet deep is what they're telling us. you can see it covers up the entire backyard no damage to these people's houses. we saw lots of damage reports from yesterday. just unbelievable. >> we really did. it's like yards turned into streams, rivers. >> whole roads washed away. it's been terrible. we're going to see rain off and on at least through the weekend. >> hey, thanks to our i reporters, too. just go to cnn.com/robin. >>> a kidnapping suspect phillip garrido made a discovery so unbelievable, he thought, that he claimed he was on a mission from god. it's a simple black box and you won't believe what he said it could do. ♪ kelly saunder's nature valley. ♪ the place that inspires her to go faster... ♪ and slower. ♪ elk mountains, colorado. where's yours? 100% natural nature valley granola bars. the taste nature intended. traders at td ameritrade are a demanding bunch. in fact, they want it all. you know, when i place an order, do

marietta on over towards dallas and on down into locations just to the west of atlanta seeing a tremendousjust from this morning. last six days have been very wet and more rain is on the way. flooding rains back into birmingham as well and those moving off to the east and northeast. despite all this flood warnings in effect and more rain on the way, atlanta hartsfield only running 30 to 40-minute delay for their departures but more rain is expected, i do think that the departures will be gaining ground here through the afternoon hours. more rain is expected today and tonight and as we get into tomorrow, maybe some break in the pattern but flood warnings are ongoing and more rain likely to move into the metro area. >> ryan phillips, great to have you. thanks. >>> three terror suspects head to court today in an alleged bomb plot and afghanistan-born man and his father set to appear in colorado and a third man at a mosque in queens is in a new york courtroom right now accused of knowingly and willfully making false statements to the fbi in a matter involving international and domestic terrori

from marietta, georgia, this is kay a teacher at marietta high.er: i was inspired by the president's speech. our students listened intently. i thought it was interesting that everything he said are things we tell our students every single day and i'm a math teacher and math doesn't necessarily come easy. you may have to read something several times and the perseverance and the persistence are what will make good habits. host: so you think the president saying that will make the words seek in as opposed to the math teacher saying it? >> i'm hoping it will reinforce what we already tell them. that the president also feels that way. >> it's not the subject of math, but did you have a post-speech discussion for a few minutes after he had his comments? >> we had just finished listening to the speech, we have not had a chance to talk about the speech yet with the students. host: i'll let you go and give you a chance to do that. we have a student on the line. what grade are you in? >> i'm in 12th grade, i'm a senior. host: what did you think? caller: i t

the 17-year-old from marietta, georgia, is making a name for herself at the u.s. open. she first knocked out the number four seed maria sharapova then yesterday beat 13th seed petrova in a come-from-behind. she's in the quarterfinals. there hasn't been an american player this young since serena williams did it ten year ago. this incredible run is like a dream come true. >> this is my dream forever. i've worked so hard for this, and it finally is happening, and my first quarter fein at a grand slam. it's amazing. this is what i wanted forever and finally i've achieving my goal. >> forever. and she's only 17. clearly her commitment to the sport, it is paying off. as manuel our atlanta affiliate reports, also inspiring the next generation of american tennis players. >> reporter: they are ecstatic, amazed, proud, but not surprised. after all, this is the melanie they've known for years, and what the world is now seeing they knew was there all along. >> she's as nice as she can be. she's the best sport and she's a champion. >> every time she pulls it off, it's just great to

same story in the fourth round for the talented teenager from marietta, georgia. she dropped a set and then toppled the third consecutive russian, nadia petrova. melanie will face ninth-seed caroline wozniacki tonight in the quarterfinals. >> it's kind of hard to explain how i've done it. like today there are no tears because i believed that i could do it. and it's like now i know that i do belong here, and this is what i want to do. and i can compete with these girls no matter who i'm playing. you know, i have chance against anyone. mentally i'm staying in there with them the whole time, and i'm not giving up at all. so they're going to have to... if they're going to beat me, they're going to have to beat me because i'm not going to go anywhere. >> with melanie oudin stealing headlines, we now welcome a former teenage tennis prodigy herself and former world number two andrea yager, who is now an anglican dominican nun. now, andrea, back in 1980 you were 15 and became the youngest quarterfinalist at wimbledon, also the youngest semifinalist at the u.s. open that s

i know that i and the other residents of the marietta, georgia, are proud to call her one of our ownand we look forward to watching her continued rise in sports of tennis and her life. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlelady from colorado rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. markey: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to applaud the critical actions taken by this congress to create jobs, cut taxes, and invest in america's long-term economic growth by passing the american recovery and reinvestment act. with the goal of creating and saving jobs, rushing relief to america's business and families, and pulling our country back from the brink of catastrophe, the recovery act was signed into law by president obama in my home state of colorado. as a member of the transportation and infrastructure committee, i was especially pleased to see that the colorado department of transportation was prepared with shovel ready projects th

marietta, again, some areas receiving as much as acceseven inches of rain. we'll see the same pattern through much of the rest of the week. also in the mid mississippi valley, southern plain, we're talking about strong storms today and high winds, thunder and lightning. we're talking about showers rolling through portions of the midwe midwest. high heat continues in the pacific northwest. meanwhile, look at these temperatures in the 40s dropping in to the 20s around areas in denver, colorado. well below the norm. and in the foothills and some of the areas to the west of denver, you're also seeing some snow on on the >>> that's a quick look at your weather picture. maggie, we'll send it out to in you los angeles. >>> coming up next, what really happened on the day jet oig travolta died. his father is set to take the stand and we'll bring you a live report from the bahamas. ever worn your clothes in the shower? if you're using other moisturizing body washes, you might as well be. you see, their moisturizer sits on top of skin, almost as if you're wearing it. o

. >> the fair maid of marietta, georgia. 17 years old. what is she trying to do to the russians?he beats dementieva. now she's going to go after maria sharapova. there may be more. >> give you some credit. you have noticed her game from all the way back in wimbledon when she stretched it into the second week. what is she doing so effectively, bud? >> she's moving the ball very well and moving herself very well. she keeps, as she did with dementieva, kept her in corners and kept her running, and she's a terrific competitor, and when it came down to match point, after she had blown two match points, she hits a service winner, a jammer into the ribs and what a shot on a winning point. >> certainly when it comes to movement. , there are some question marks about venus williams and all the attention focused on her knee. how serious do you think the injury is and is there any gamesmanship in it? >> i think it's serious. she's well strapped up. she tiewght get a golf cart. it would help her move better. i think she's hurting. test test test test test test test test test test test test t

the 17-year-old marietta, georgia, teenager lost her match last night to a ninth seed who was a fabulous player. oudin arrived at the open unknown. she defeated four opponents including the world's fourth ranked player. here's what she had to say on cnn's "american morning." >> i'll definitely learn that i have gained confidence this tournament that i can do this again hopefully and compete with the best in the world no matter how highly ranked they are. i beat a huge champion and been number one in the world before. my confidence has gone up. >> cnn's sports larry smith was at the open and will join us in about 20 minutes. >>> let's go in depth right now. president obama made a forceful and passionate plea for health care reform during his prime time draaddress to congress. he said it's crucial to the country's future economic health. >> our health care system is placingen unsustainable burden on taxpayers. when health care costs grow at the rate they have, it puts greater pressure on programs like medicare and medicaid. if we do nothing to slow these skyrocketing costs, we'll eventuall

and what a bummer about our marietta mauler. your own community, we were all behind her 100%. >> i didn't even realize this, she lives about ten houses from me. >> really? >> in a different subdivision, someone told me, well, no, she lives right there. i didn't know. >> you need to stop by there and tell her how well she did and how much we all paid attention to her success. >> we believed. >> yes, we did, just like on her tennis shoes. >>> top stories. yale police are asking for your help to find a misses grad student who was to be married on sunday. they haven't heard from her since tuesday. annie lee who is in medical school was last seen at her lab. her purse, her cell phone, money, credit cards all left behind. >>> the suspect in the shooting death of an iowa high school football coach is in court today. mark becker is charged with first-degree murder in the june killing of ed thomas. becker once played football for thomas. the question now, is he competent to stand trial? police say days before the shooting, becker led the

a 17 year old from marietta, georgia, making a name for herself at the u.s. open.larry smith spoke to michelle last month as she got ready for the open. >> reporter: it's no surprise that venus and serena are considered among the best in tennis players. to find the third best american you have to go down to 67 and 17-year-old oudin. >> melanie burst on the scene this year at wimbledon where she advanced to the round of 16 defeating the 16th player along the way. >> it's the key thing realizing in the first set she was no better than me and i was right there and whether i won or lost the match at that moment i knew that i was right there with her and i can compete with her. >> there's pressure on her now. we have to maintain that. i've seen so many kids come and go have and have great tournament and you never hear from them again. fire from the hips. come on. do that shot again. make that. that's sloppy. make it. and again. make it. very good. >> reporter: brian has coached melanie for eight years and has a theory on why there aren't more american players in the wor

the 17-year-old from marietta, georgia, entered the tournament ranked 70th in the world.o becoming the youngest quarter finalist since serena williams back in 1999. something tells me we have not seen the last of her. >> i saw her on monday on labor day at the u.s. open. she is amazing. she's got a huge future. she's a senior in high school. >> yeah. >> getting home schooled right now. only 17 years old. amazing young woman. >> all the folks in georgia who watch her play say she is a power house and she's handling this instant celebrity oh, so well. >> she certainly is. thanks very much, fred, for that. >>> afghanistan's risky power struggle. president hamid karzai's top rival is blaming him for the resurgence of the taliban. i'll speak about that with dr. abdullah abdullah. >>> a teen suffers a vicious beating. his father calls it racially motivated and claims that because his son is white, police aren't treating it like a hate crime. >>> plus, a family values politician speaks about sex, spankings, and skimpy underwear. but his crude comments are all caught on tape in t

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this i-reporter, jim, in marietta, georgia. you can see the water. look at that.nd his wife directed traffic telling drivers to turn around. the right lane of that road since clapped. he has never seen the creek flood like this in 20 years of living there. >>> meanwhile, amazing pictures of the flooding creek in his retirement community north of atlanta. take a look. >> this is bob. i'm sure all of you trout tishermen would know where bob's creek is. anyway, it's taken our little, small trout creek and turned it into a raging river, which is all up and down, moving down towards you. >> definitely a raging river there. luckily, it found 12 feet above the creek. >>> meantime when i-reporter heard of flooding in downtown atlanta pe grabbed his camera, parked on a bridge and captured this video. a shot of a downtown atlanta connector that basically turns into a lake's we're talking interstate. we're showing you live pictures here from one of our affiliates in atlanta. wgplp people having to use both to get around bp so much flooding has gotten oh deep in areas where t

. >> they lives north of where you are in marietta. >> i wouldn't kick her out.she played well. and congratulations. i wouldn't kick her out if i was managing the hotel. >> i'm going home. you two need a talk show. >> check out this storm. south of new york. these folks in new york want to kick this thing out of here. it will hang around for a couple of days. coastal flooding, high surf as well. that's what the forecast calls for with this particular system. also, down to the south we're looking at some showers across parts of florida. that may be a problem. i want to talk briefly about what's going on with fred. hurricane, category 2, it was a 3. this will be a fish storm. i wouldn't worry too much about fred. i don't think it will bother anybody too much. one thing about what's going on with the space shuttle, trying to land tonight at 7:05. right now looks pretty good. isolated showers. they should land this. y at 7:05. the space shuttle was to help the hubble telescope. this cluster of galaxies. that's an actual galaxy with more stars as carl sagan would say

saying all this limelight that was all on her did not affect her tennis game but the 17-year-old from mariettane wozniacki losing in straight sets 2-2 and oudin did show signs of shakiness. this was the biggest stage she has ever played on and she says from this experience she is a better tennis player. >> i wanted to win, you know, and losing isn't good enough for me but, you know, the whole experience here that i've had is going to take me a long way, i think. >> and it will take her a long way, robin. tony bennett was in the audience and ep said this girl has arrived. >> tony bennett? >> he was there. >> i'm proud of her. i think she seemed to have a mature attitude about it. >> for 17, too. amazing. >> thank you. >>> the man who made your ipod possible has returned after almost a year out of the public eye. steve jobs is promoting the latest ipod and more and our money expert jennifer westhoven is here. people get excited whenever apple has a big announcement. >> in some ways it's so funny he is more important than the products themselves. a bit of a scare there, a few months off he had a

host: marietta, ga.-mont? caller: how are you? guest: fine, good morning.ller: if we look at the middle east, it seems like the main focus on the of. whoever controls the middle east controls the world. -- it seems like the millie's is the main focus of the earth -- the middle east is the main focus of the earth. it seems like the war we're fighting is many for israel. we're losing our soldier, our military people. my question would be, -- and i would like a clear answer -- why did the taliban or any other terrorist warrant from americans -- would the theywant to make them stop? guest: i'm not sure there's anything we can do that will encourage radicaljihadists, al qaeda or the taliban to stop. they have made it very clear that their objective is to overthrow and destroyed the u.s. anything short of that is a mission that has not been completed from their perspective. they are willing to use a lot of different things to make it happen. they attacked us on 9/11 and have tried to a number of other time since then. we have seen with in the last 10 days the spe

she is 17 years old, born in my hometown of marietta, georgia. she has a pair of tennis shoes that have the word "believe" o it. she started competing in tennis years ago. she was thought to be pretty good. so her parents from the seventh ade on home is-schooled her so she'd have enough time every day to practice. well, were they ever correct. as i'm sure the president knows a few weeks ago at wimbledon, this amazing young lady, 17 years old, 5' 6" took on the worlof tennis and moved to the quarter finkals at wimbledon. along the way she beat the former world number one. she made all the newspapers, all the sports shows. but was she a flash in the pan? no. what happened this last couple of weeks in new york city at the u.s. open proved this girl is the real deal, because she advanced again to the quarterfinals, again defeating numberne players and former number-one players like maria sharapova.she didose in the quarterfinals, but she will eventually get to the top because e believes, she's committed an she's dedicated and she has the support and

practiced ob-gyn medicine for over 26 years in your district in northwest georgia, cobb county, marietta, you've delivered 5,200 babies, you've practiced medicine for over 27 years, you sit on the energy and commerce committee where this bill, this h.r. 3200 -- my colleagues, i just happen to have it. fresh copy of it. i think 1,100 pages. pretty thick. kind of hard for me to even hold. you know, what do you think about the bill? and after the august recess when everybody went home, this bill passed the energy and commerce committee. it passed the ways and means committee, and it passed the education and labor committee. very narrowly. strictly along party lines. and we went home for the august recess. and that's when things really got exciting. typically during the month of august members are in their district, they're seeing constituents maybe one-on-one, more typically in a town hall meeting setting on a busy day, you might see 50 people or 75. and rarely 1 hupped if the weather's perfect. well, during this august recess, which lasted about 5 1/2 weeks, all across the country congress

the 17-year-old from marietta, georgia, have upset four top russian players and will play in the quarterfinalsstory to tell you about. kim clijsters is back after taking two years off to have a baby. clijsters wasn't even ranked but now faces serena williams for the semifinals. she defeated venus on sunday. great tennis stories. >>> here's a question for you, what if your child webts to a high school function and came home baptized? that is what happened to some members of a kentucky high school football team. bill alexander with affiliate wdrb tell us about the incident and why some parents are furious. >> reporter: football practice at brecken rinlg county high school has a few distractions these days. in between the sprints and passes, some of the parents are yelling offsides. >> they took my son without my knowledge or my consent, they say it's not school function but they took them anyway. >> reporter: two weeks ago after football practice several players boarded a bus. they were told by their coach they were going out for a stake dinner and a motivation a speech. before the night was ove