so i brought it to mike at meineke. we gave her car a free road handling check. i like free. free is good. my money. my choice. my meineke. >>> on december 19, 2011, benjamin gupta, a law and mba student at george washington university died suddenly. mysteriously. he's no relationship to me, but when his family got word, they spent hours trading phone calls. they were in stunned disbelief. >> there was a message from his mom, and she had left three messages for me so i knew there was something wrong. >> i received a call from my mom. i didn't answer but then i got a text message from her, which is very unusual. >> and i called her back. and i said, what happened? and she says, it's ben. he died. i just didn't have any of the information. >> i finally said, how did this happen? and she said he went to sleep the night before and he just never woke up. >> he's always smiling, every picture he's smiling. >> for day ben gupta's family was desperate for answers. what killed him? he was only 28 years old. he had recently been given a clean bill of health. how could he just not wake

my meineke. >>> cyber monday deals are not just for monday any more.es posted online deals before black friday. spending on cyber monday may reach $1.5 billion this year. hi-tech toys are big this holiday season but actually finding them that can be a different matter. we report on ways to track down those popular presents without wasting your time. >> reporter: just like their parents many kids want tech toys this holiday season. whether it's a tablet designed just for them or something that interacts with a device that they already have. >> you download the furby app and open up different things in it. >> reporter: with the same toys topping lots of wish lists they can be tough snag. >> both of the tablets and furby will drive parents crazy. the purple teal and furby are difficult colors to get your hand on. >> reporter: tech makes the chase easier. the search no longer entails going store to store. >> i'm a big fan of sticking in the name of the toy, googling it and then i find ama son, toys "r" us, target, walmart everyone will come up. i can choos

my meineke. >>> we're back with our global panel.breal, kishore mahbubani, dominique moisi, and ari shavit. do they have time to think about who would be a better president for them? how do you think they're looking at the succession? this is going to be the most important bilateral relationship in the world in some ways. >> you're right by the way. there's some things very strange happening in china right now in the midst of this transition in china. people expected it to go much more smoothly than it has, and i'm sure they're very internally preoccupied. but the dust was settled. the chinese have kind of a very strange paradoxical concern about the united states is. on the one hand they don't want to have a china -- america that's too strong, too aggressive, pushing china in a specific region the way it could as china has seen in other places. at the same time, the chinese also realize that an american that is weakened too much is also bad for them because, i mean, the chinese at the end of the day want a strong global economy and

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my meineke. >>> november is lung cancer awareness month.ething that you probably didn't know. lung cancer kills more people than breast, prostate, colon, liver, kidney, and mel knanoma cancer combined. and you don't have to be a smoker to get lung cancer. no one knows that better than chris draft. his young, healthy wife was taken too soon after a fierce battle with lung cancer. >> reporter: for as long as he can remember, chris draft has cherished what most of us take for granted, that next breath. >> just gasping, gasping. looking for the air. >> reporter: fighting to breathe is a way of life for draft, who played linebacker in the nfl for 12 seasons, despite debilitating asthma attacks that often sent him to the hospital. >> i look at it as a blessing of sorts, though, is that it makes me have to wake up and really take that breath each day. >> reporter: what would you do today if every breath mattered? what decisions would you make if tomorrow wasn't guaranteed? chris draft and keisha rutledge met in 2006, when he was playing for the ca

my meineke. >>> and we are back with bob rubin and paul o'neill. opening commentary, paul o'neill says if you want to provide subsidies for people, write them a check. why do it in this hidden way through the tax code which first of all is permanent and perpetual and secondly, you're not being up front about it. >> two comments if i may, fareed. one thing it's not permanent. you can always change it through legislation. number two, even if you're right, which i'm not sure that you're right, we're not going redo the federal budget. if you think it's important, i think charitable contributions and health care are important, then you have to maintain it in its current form. >> you would try to get rid of the corporate side. i think it's like the individual side yochl view to take each one of them and decide on an individual basis. in the long run, i think paul is right in one sense. it probably makes more sense to have it all on the spending side. on the other hand as i said a moment ago, think there are a lot of important issues being observend and w

at meineke i have options... like oil changes starting at $19.95. my money. my choice. my meineke. >> joining me is ralph portman. thank you so much for being with, you senator. let me start with exactly where you are. are you in ohio. this has become the place to be in the final days of the campaign. what we had on friday was a jobs report showing strengthening in the number of hires. we had an increase in consumer confidence. you have in ohio a jobless rate that is better than the nationwide jobless rate and you have an auto bailout that the president put in place that's highly popular. what is it in this state that makes you think that president rom my -- sorry. governor romney can overcome those particular statistics and field the voters? >> i like your freudian slip on president romney. >> they are as bad as the rest of the country. i think the jobs numbers last week were really disappointing. i heard rahm emanuel bragging on them too. it showed the unemployment number going up, not down. in fact, unemployment is higher today than it was when president obama was sw

my meineke. >>> houston, waikiki, washington, d.c.ike great vacation destinations and all these places have received star treatment. that's because the president stayed in these places, and you can, too. we started with a hotel in the epicenter of all things political: the madison in washington, d.c. >> the madison is named for james madisomadison, the fourth president of the u.s. the father of the constitution has also hosted some presidents. george bush stayed there when he was in transition to the white house, so, you know, it's got lots and lots of history going on there. it's also a prime position in d.c. only five blocks from the white house. jfk attended the opening in 1963. it costs about $179 a night. >> let's go west coast now. san francisco. what president has stayed at the fairmont hotel there? >> the first fairmont was opened in 1906 and it's on knob hill so it's a prime, prime position. it's actually where the u.n. was drafted in 1945. lots of history there, too. while you're in san francisco, make sure you take a tram,

my meineke. >>> we're back. senator, just the last word, if you will, before we get to the middle east on whether there were calls for help and whether they were denied. congressman says no. >> well, i'm not sure yet, and there are really two questions here. one is the level of security at the temporary mission and why it wasn't better. once people in benghazi were called, they got there pretty quickly. they had left their location within 24 minutes of the call, but my other question would be there was nobody anywhere in the world that we could get there in six or seven hours to save those last two lives and potentially other lives that could have been lost in that attack that occurs hours after the ambassador is killed and the mission statement -- the mission itself has been abandoned to the second facility. >> you have added on to that the arab spring, which gave us new leadership in egypt. how scary is this that mohammed morsi will be a source for good. >> clearly they have a right to defend themselves, and t

so i brought it to mike at meineke. we gave her car a free road handling check. i like free.ood. my money. my choice. my meineke. >>> welcome back. 27 minutes past the hour. here's a check on some of our stories. there were a number of people injured in this clash between the demonstrators and members of the muslim brotherhood in dammann hor. they fooip fired stun grenades at the protesters. >>> in the portsland, grorngs suburb of beaverton, a close call on a highway overpass. take a look. what they found was this. that red truck dangling over the edge there over the bridge and the driver believe it or not was still inside. fire crews securet the truck in place while they released him with a basket. police say alcohol may have been a factor. >>> thick black smoke bill lowed off a beach saturday when an 80-foot yacht went up in flames. the coast guard said they were about to board the boat as part of a routine inspection. a fire boat arrived to help put out the flames. even who was on board jumped into the water. they were taken in for police questioni questioni questioning. >

at meineke i have options... like oil changes starting at $19.95. my money. my choice.eke. >>> israeli troops near gaza are awaiting orders for a possible ground invasion. they immobilized reservists and massed hundreds of tanks near gaza. british foreign secretary william hague is among those warning the israelis not to launch a ground offensive. he says invading gaza would cost the israelis international sympathy. the white house says it is up to israel to decide whether to enter gaza to try to stop rocket attacks against the israelis. >>> well, like anything in the middle east, nothing is ever simple as it appears. a major player in this conflict is iran. which has been supplying hamas with long range rockets and training hamas commanders how to fire from underground launch sites. here what he is israeli prime minister -- i'm sorry, israeli president shimon peres had to say to iran with our piers morgan. >> obviously' serious situation escalating by the hour now. how do you see this resolving itself? >> well, there is an attempt to introduce a cease-fire. we have a p

at meineke i have options... like oil changes starting at $19.95. my money. my choice.y meineke. >>> as all those pictures and different videos continue to come in to us here at cnn, flooded streets and homes like this one, i want to remind you, that water we're all looking at, that contains millions of gallons of raw sewage. folks, waste, chemicals. one man trapped today in hoboken, new jersey, describes the water flooding his apartment. >> when you see the water up close and you kind of go up to it, you can tell it's not average lake water. there's oil in it. you can kind of tell it's contaminated. it's an odor to it. you want to stay as far away as possible and the live wires inside of it. just kind of really a booby trap. >> something else. baltimore, maryland, pictures from the sky. sue sanlg treatment facility as it spewed untreated sewage in to the chesapeake bay in connecticut. this is hit by sandy. each one spilling raw sewage. we have to talk about the water and let's do so with elizabeth cohen and chad myers. good to see you. elizabeth, just hearing that pers

my meineke.l right, this is just in to cnn. new york city marathon set to go ahead this weekend. it is going to go. but anger is mounting with fears it is going to take away precious resources from sandy's recovery. but new york city mayor michael bloomberg is -- he's defending his decision this afternoon, saying fire and police resources won't be diverted. >> the police department right now has to be at all of the intersections where there is no lights. lights are going to be back on tonight. mass transit solves a lot of other problems. we have a police provide those. traffic control resources. it does use some resources, but it doesn't use resources that can really make a difference in recovery and that sort of thing it is a different group of people. it is a relatively small amount of sanitation departments, resources. and we have to have a city going forward. >> so he's pretty confident about that, but not everyone is. state senator liz kruger will join us next hour, not happy about that deci

at meineke i have options... like oil changes starting at $19.95. my money. my choice. continuing coverage of the ongoing cease-fire that began at 9:00 local time, here more than one hour ago. hanan ashrawi is joining me now. appreciate you being with us. your thoughts on the cease-fire. >> well, anderson, we think it is a very positive move. the first objective is to stop the bloodshed and save lives. and you have almost 150 palestinians killed and 1100 wounded, and massive amounts of destruction. we are very pleased that the shooting and firing has stopped, but we also believe that this is a first step. and if it stops there, and if we don't deal with the causes of violence again, then it will erupt again. and in a sense this is a positive first step, but we do hope that there will be a serious battling of the issues of the occupation and the siege and we can achieve genuine police rather than temporary truces. and the palestinian people constantly pay the price when there is a temporary truce. >> more negotiations are to begin 24 hours from now. negotiations about th

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my meineke. . >>> bottom of the hour now. welcome back. i'm randi kaye.tor blackwell is on assignment. thanks so much for starting your morning with us. here are some stories we're watching this morning. a few moments ago president obama departed for his first overseas trip since winning re-election. he'll spend three days in thailand, myanmar and cambodia where he'll attend an asian summit. he'll also meet leaders from japan and china. his stop in myanmar will be a first as a u.s. president. >>> in missouri police arrest a man planning an aurora-style shooting in the premiere of "twilight." the suspect is 20-year-old blake lammers. police were tipped off by his mom. he purchased two assault rifles, 400 rounds of ammunition and was off his medication, and says that he was also thinking about shooting people in walmart. >>> in aurora, colorado, details finalized for dividing up the $5 million in donations to the theater shootings. families of the 12 people killed and five people who suffered permanent brain damage or paralysis will get $220,000 each. six p

my meineke. >>> bottom of the hour now. welcome back, everyone.e. >> i'm victor black wey. thanks for starting your morning with us. after black friday now i'm getting comments from people on twitter starting with breakfast with pound cake on top of it. >> oh, my. >> kashi and then pound cake. fit in the leftovers some way. >> no way, no way. five stories we're watching this morning. >> protests have largely died down in cairo's tahrir square. protesters were calling for the resignation of president mohamed morsi. this week morsi declared his word is final. he removed power from any judges to overturn any decrees he makes. judges are considering a strike in response to morsi's, panded powers. >>> number two, just 38 days left until we cross over that so-called fiscal cliff. a move that would trigger massive spending cuts to government programs and could even send the u.s. into a recession. earlier this morning i asked morgan stanley smith barney director ron hart if there were any benefits of actually going over. >> getting our fiscal house in ord

at meineke i have options... like oil changes starting at $19.95. my money. my choice.e. >>> after those big losses in the voting booth, church leaders are trying to figure out how they can use their differences moving forward. a prominent scholar and author, i've read two of his books and i have learned so much about his work with the church. >> bishops from across the united states met in balkan last week. >> the physician assisted suicide referendum in massachusetts. a couple of things about that struck them as very interesting. even though shaun o'malley were the ringleaders to the opposition, they made this strategic choice to stay in the background and let others carry the argument. and the joe biden people to do is messaging and that did have impact in reaching out to the undecideds. in general, of course you are right, they did take it on the chin, particularly in the same-sex marriage issue. and there i think there is a division among the bishops. some think if they just hunker down and fight harder, they can win. and they are open to a sort of new way to make

my meineke. >>> welcome back, everyone. 22 minutes past the hour now. much of the rest of the country, new hampshire's economy is humming along and unemployment is at less than 6%, so when president obama and mitt romney visit the battleground state, their stump speeches tend to include promises of more job creation. our david mattingly visited two small businesses there to see what their executives think about the candidates' proposals. >> reporter: randi, victor, the unemployment rate in this critical battleground state is under 6% and well under the national average, so when it comes to campaign promises about creating jobs, businesses here say leave that to the professionals. two new hampshire small businesses that found a way to beat the recession. one is a free-wheeling tech company. producing codes that makes e-mail and the internet work better. the other has been in business for five generations. >> high carbon steel photograph needles. >> reporter: manufacturing metal pins for everything from antique phonographs to the military. >> these are pi

at meineke i have options... like oil changes starting at $19.95. my money. my choice. hopefully you haven't had enough of presidential politics because it is full force in ohio in a very big way. mitt romney was in cleveland this afternoon and president obama has a rally in cincinnati, 8:00 tonight, paul ryan was in mansfield around lunchtime and vice president biden is making three stops today in the buckeye state. so while a recent poll shows that president obama maintains an edge in ohio, 51% to romney's 45%, neither campaign is easing up. our jessica yellin arrived in ohio for tonight's rally. the past few days have been grueling and it can be arguing that that's the case for all of those who are campaigning. but what is it that the president really wants to find some assurance in ohio, especially since there are very few undecideds in ohio? >> reporter: this is the so-called fire wall for the obama campaign. ohio has one of the so-called electoral state they feel if the president holds it and can keep mitt romney from winning here, there are other ways for mitt ro

at meineke i have options... like oil changes starting at $19.95. my money. my choice. my meineke. >>> i want to get back to our escalating story, the crisis in the middle east. i want to bring in my colleagues wolf blitzer who's in jerusalem, and anderson cooper what's in gaza. peter i want to start with you, president obama has been on the phone with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. what was the tone of that meeting? >> as both wolf and anderson have outlined, the immediate crisis is to try to resolve this, obtain a cease fire and avoid an escalation. israel is connected to everything else in the middle east. what's different about this situation versus four years ago is the entire regional environment has changed. you have got a civil war going on in syria, you've got protests going on in jordan, you've got unrest along the israeli -- gyp shan border. you've got iran close to a nuclear weapon. >> how important is the relationship right now between president obama and president morsi in egypt? >> it will be critical. and as the president said in the advance

at meineke i have options... like oil changes starting at $19.95. my money. my choice.eineke. >>> i ask every guest one question and i'm going to ask you just because i'm amused by your response. how many times in your life, mr. president, have you been properly in love? >> translator: i'm in love with all of humanity. i love all human beings. >> that might be the best answer i've ever had. >> i love members of my own family, like any other human being. >> that's the best answer i've ever had to that question.

at meineke i have options... like oil changes starting at $19.95. my money. my choice.ear-old girl who was bullied because of the way her clothes looked has come up with plan to fight bullying. now her district in alamosa is adopting a plan. isabella griffin said she wanted to step in when kids made fun of a special needs student. >> i stood up for myself and i would like to stand up for even. >> her program is called be a buddy not a bully, and yesterday i talked to isabella and her dad john about it and asked how she came up with her tips to stop the bullies. >> i remembered what i did for myself and i know what i could do for others, so i thought about what i could say to them to make them feel better like don't listen to them, they're wrong or be who you are. you're fine the way you are. and something like that. >> john, you must be so proud of your daughter. did you expect this to come out of the work that she was doing? >> absolutely not. basically isabella brought -- sat me down and presented 20 pages worth of information on why she wanted to create a plug in sch

my meineke. >>> they're witnesses to war.r lives to capture and reveal the truth about the deadliest wars across the globe. now the camera's being turned on them in a new hbo documentary which airs on mondays through november. war photographers like aros hoglan are profiled. instead of running away from gun fire in surz, mexico, he runs toward it. taking groundbreaking pictures. he's joining me now from san diego. good to see you. you've been doing this for years. you have been in conflict zones from iraq to afghanistan, mexico. so tell us about your experience in juarez that you feel many people wouldn't necessarily know about. many people read about it but this is a place you have dared to go and photograph. >> yeah. thank you for having me. i think the main thing to take away from juarez is the amount of violence and killing was so extreme that everybody in the city and the surrounding areas is affected by it. you just everywhere you go, you meet someone that's been affected directly by the violence. and state corruption.

my meineke. >>> so far so good. the cease-fire between israel and hamas is going.nians and six israelis. palestinians took to the streets in wild celebration when the truce was announced. hamas declared today a public holiday to mark what its leaders are calling a victory over israel. a spokesman says hamas remains the enemy of peace. shuttle diplomacy by hillary clinton helped seal the deal. some israeli troops have began pulling back. >>> a once promising career, one that had people talking about a u.s. senate seat is over for illinois congressman jesse jackson jr. he resigned yesterday saying he needs to spend time restoring his health. jackson was treated for what was described as several serious health issues. including bipolar disorder. just two weeks ago he was reelected to a tenth term from his chicago congressional district. his troubles are far from over. he's the subject of a federal criminal investigation. ted roland is joining us from chicago. did jackson's move come as a surprise to most? >> reporter: people were expecting this over the last month or

at meineke i have options... like oil changes starting at $19.95. my money. my choice.meineke. >>> a terrorist attack right at the -- first time in about six years there's been a bus bombing. you're just back from tel aviv. so walk us through first of all, casualties. how many? >> after the initial explosion that took place on the bus itself in the heart of tel aviv there were 24 people treated in the main hospital three of them in moderate to serious conditions treated from the shrapnel, and it's clear that it was a terrorist attack by at least one individual. we've heightened security in general, as well as tell avive. >> you haven't arrested anyone yesterday? >>> what do you believe happened? i know the investigation is preliminary, but i assume you have interviewed eyewitnesses. what do they suspect happened? >> we questioned a lot of people at the scene obviously i don't want to go into too much detail, but what we do know is after the initial explosion, the bomb disposal experts examined the device. we believe the actual size itself was probably 2 to 3 kilos. this

my meineke. >>> much much the focus has been on the white house.droel control of the u.s. senate. right now democrats hold a working majoritied of 63 seats. they have 51, and the two independents that caucus with them, republicans hold 47 seats, so the balance of power could swing to the gop if republicans win some pretty close races. our cnn reporters across the country covering the battleground states. dana bash is joining us from d.c. dana, this is about math, and it's about turn-out. get those -- how is this all going to play out? >> it is. it's all about math. republicans need a net pick-up of four seats to get a 51 majority. that is a clear majority. they need three of mitt romney wins the presidency, and then his vice president paul ryan could provide a tie-breaking vote. there's so much drama on how it's going to turn out because there are so many competitive races going into election day. more than a dozen. in fact, we can put up a map to show our viewers. there are so many races up for grabs. you can see them. it's very clear when you loo

at meineke i have options... like oil changes starting at $19.95. my money. my choice.>> a gorgeous june day. the nation's capital. but this is no ordinary golf game. for president barack obama and house speaker john boehner, this is a chance to be partners rather than political foes. by june 2011 it had been eight months since the republicans won control of the house and the senate's top republican declared -- >> our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny president obama a second term. >> eight months since the midterms when a chastened president promised a new way forward. >> we were in such a hurry to get things done that we didn't change how things got done. >> and eight months since a bipartisan debt commission offered a host of painful solutions. solutions washington ignored. by the time both men hit the links, the looming crisis over the debt ceiling threatened to make a bad economy even worse. >> it would be two to three times worse of a recession than the one that we were facing as the president comes into office. >> the stakes were hi

so i brought it to mike at meineke. we gave her car a free road handling check. i like free.ree is good. my money. my choice. my meineke. >>> the opening ceremonies for the 2002 winter olympics were still more than a month away, but mitt romney already had other plans. beth myers remembers getting a call from romney in january. >> i'm thinking about running for governor, and would you have any interest in helping me run my campaign? >> massachusetts had a republican governor, jane swift, but party leaders saw her as weak so they came to romney in a panic. >> jane swift gets wind of this, and two days later she bows out. so she's out and mitt romney is in. he flies back to belmont with his wife, ann, they're both wearing olympic jackets and give a press conference, and the campaign's begun. >> romney's campaign spokesman. >> it was like being launched out of a rocket. >> how you doing? >> as you know, this is a very democratic state. the legislature is 85% democrat. very few republicans make it into statewide office. so we had a fight on our hands. >> he ran as a moderate on s

my meineke. >> how you like? >>> this was amateur video.nn is covering it like no other reporters can. covering this from all angles. 30,000 israeli troops on the border of gaza with another 75,000 reservists waiting to be called up. >>> you know, this week's escalation between israel and hamas is just the latest round in the decades-long conflict. israel's air strikes have taken a toll, especially on civilians. meanwhile hamas has fired hundreds of rockets. some those rockets even reached jerusalem. that changes the dynamic. joining me is a professor from middle eastern politics from the london school of economics and political science. sir, thank you for joining us. israel has threatened a ground offensive and they have thousands of troops at the border as we said. give us an idea of what it looks like and how it would compare to what we saw at the end of 2008, the beginning of 2009, the last time there was this kind of offensive. >> well, victor, if israel decides to invade this time, thing this would be a major strategic miss calculatio

my meineke. >>> 911. what's your emergency? >> reporter: february 28, 1993. >> hello?rter: this is how the war in waco began. >> yeah, this is lieutenant lynch. may i help you? >> yeah, there's 75 men around our building and they're shooting at us. >> reporter: the caller was wayne martin, sheila martin's husband. >> our children were down on the floor. if we would have been standing up, we would have been hit. >> tell them there are children and women in here and to call it off. >> all right, all right. hello? i hear gunfire. >> reporter: it was a raid by the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. >> hello. >> call it off! >> who is this? >> reporter: atf agents trying to arrest david koresh and search the branch davidian compound. the operation that winter morning was the culmination of an eight-month investigation. feds believed koresh was illegally converting semi-automatic ar-15s, like this one, into the fully automatic machine guns soldiers use. the federal agents had rented a house across the street, posing as college students, trying to buddy up to koresh. bu

my meineke. >>> breaking news on the p petraeus investigation. just learned that david petraeus will appear before the house intelligence committee on friday to testify about the benghazi consulate attack. there had been some questions on whether he would appear, but we can confirm he will also be appearing before the house. >>> now, to tonight's outer circle where we're going to reach out to our sources around the world, we go to ga sa tonight, where hamas says israel has opened the gates of hell on themselves. egyptian state news reports mohamed abbas is calling for an emergency session to discuss the circumstances. sara sidner is in jerusalem. >> they are concerned this is going to turn into a full scale war. what happened around 4:00 is that there was a targeted air strike on a hamas leader. the leader of its military wing was killed. ahmed al-ja'abari, also one of the founders of hamas. hamas saying israel has opened the gates of hell on itself and that they will see a reaction and retaliation from hamas. so far, we've seen dozens of rockets