tropical storm wind warnings for lower parts of alabama and mississippi. so you're going to get slammed over here the next couple of hours. some of the winds i'm watching right now green point, florida, sustained winds, not the gusts. sustained. to hollywood, beach. it's about 20. but look at the rain squall coming in. that's where you get the strongest winds as they come on through. look at the heavy rain shield in to atlanta, back to birmingham with the heaviest rain by far falling. that is into eastern parts of mississippi where the winds picking up to about 19 miles an hour. eight inches, the purple shading by birmingham north of atlanta and back to the carolinas. that's over the next two days. >> what i find amazing is the storm is not that strong. but yet look how far inland people are going to get 8 inches of rain. >> it's because there's a cold front here. that's going to drag it up kind of like a conveyor belt and throw it across the entire mid-atlantic. that's the reason why you see rain that far inland today. >> all right. thank you. >> you've g

panhandle through alabama into mississippi, too. video we got from about an hour ago. we're watching the dry air come back on in through southern parts of alabama. sunshine peeking through. look at the water. i wouldn't suggest getting close to the water. look at the size of those waves. more details in a bit. >> thank you for live look. i don't know if that's live. >> that's about an hour ago. >>> stocks powered ahead yesterday with the dow rallying about 200 points. why are we looking at the pullback today? >> monday's big gains bought the dow to 13-month highs. not much to keep the rally going today. we're talking marginal losses. instead, well, the big news is job cuts to tell you about. sprint and nextel announced it will cut up to 2,500 jobs. sprint cut 8,000 jobs in the first quarter. video game maker electronic arts meanwhile is laying off about 1,500 workers. ea has been stung by a big invest it it made in the nintendo wii. ea rival activision blizzard could shatter records for retail video game sales. it released "call of d

it's due to make land fall near the alabama/mississippi state line tomorrow morning.isiana already declared a state of emergency. let's see where it is right now. bob's saying it's weakening this morning. >> it is. good morning, robin. i want to show you the picture of the satellite. i'd be surprised if this actually came ashore as a hurricane. looks to me like it is losing strength right now. blown apart with the southwesterly wind in the mid to upper levels. that's good news. also running into colder sea surface temperatures. 80 degrees or warmer at sea surface to make this thing sustain itself or get stronger. right now it's below 80 degrees. it is going to come ashore overnight tonight sometime right around that florida/mississippi line. or alabama line. that's what it looks like as it moves to the north. makes a beeline to the right and gets absorbed by the cold front. it's going to be a very heavy rainmaker either way. who's going to get just downpoured on. >> in the next 24 hours. thank you very much. >>> the yays are 220, the nays are 215. the bill is passed.

alabama/florida border and takes a hard beline through southern georgia. it will throw a lot of rain for georgia, florida, all the way through louisiana, mississippi and alabama, too. i'll show you that in a couple of minutes, robin. >> thank you. >>> now to the ft. hood shooting. the suspect and shooting, major nidal hasan is off a ventilator this morning. investigators are asking for help from anyone who was there this morning that may have inadvertently left the scene with evidence like firearm residue or shell casings. meanwhile, families are trying to cope as best they can. private joseph foster was shot in the hip. >> you have to get a taste of it. it's like a giant family. when anything like this happens, we just get stronger. >> amid the stories of heroism, there is the grim reality of what happens after the shootings. >> the part that was probably most troubling was in the event that one of the parents may have been wounded or killed and having a youngster waiting there to get picked up and never getting picked up and not being able to tell the school leadership which ones had been killed and which ones were wounded as we were sorting through that. >

middle of the gulf of mexico and you can see where it's headed northward towards florida, mississippi, alabamabut, really, first has to restrengthen. let's hope it doesn't. as for the area of low pressure it's a clipper from yesterday. really bombed out nicely across the northern atlantic. wind behind it gusting to about 35 miles per hour near new york city, near boston. ocean effect rain. you're getting that right around cape cod and you get to the pacific northwest and another look at it. a lot of clouds, a lot of rain and snow. snow levels right now at the cascades, the olympics, 3,000 feet. so relatively low. it's going to be there through tomorrow with about a foot of snow just south of seattle. >> folks will be heading to the hills. >> i think so. skiers will start to like this. a little breezy though. >> fresh powder is always good. bob, have a good weekend. >> you, too. >> thanks. >>> this guy is a hero to a lot of folks in the northeast especially new york. manager joe girardi went from winning a series to being a hero of a different sort. a good samaritan. >> how many times have you

hurricane has prompted a watch all along the gulf coast from grand isle, louisiana, to the mississippi/alabama border. right now ida is about 70 miles northeast of cozumel, mexico. it's forecast to skirt the yucatan peninsula and then move through the gulf coast over the next couple days before finally making landfall somewhere between mississippi and alabama. but forecasters expect its winds, which are peaking now at about 90 miles an hour, to weaken by that point. >>> families of those killed on flight 93 were on hand for yesterday's groundbreaking for a permanent national memorial. it'll honor the crew and the passengers who died in the september 11th crash in pennsylvania. one mom who lost her daughter said it was a joyful day. >> i was thinking of my daughter, deora, who was the passenger on flight 93, and, you know, what she would think of about today. and she would be very happy and proud that people will have a permanent memorial to come to and remember her and her fellow passengers. >> organizers say they will push to make sure the memorial is completed by september 11th, 2011. now, t

it's due to make landfall near the alabama-mississippi state line tomorrow morning. forecasters saying watch out for flooding, rough surf, and possible tornados if you're in that part of the country. louisiana has already declared a state of emergency. >>> okay. bob van dillen, you've been tracking this for us last week, over the weekend, and now today. now downgraded. that's good news. >> that's some great news. and we've been watching all morning because it's encountering shear, richard, and basically what that means is it's moving up to the north, it's getting some wind coming up strong out of the southwest. once you get the thunderstorms on the inside of the circulation to begin to develop that shear effectively takes the thunderstorms away and blows it up to the north. so that weakens the storm. great news there. also, it's running into colder sea surface temperatures. you need about 80 degrees at the surface of the water to really sustain its strength. i don't think it's going to see that. it's going up to upper 70s right now. path of it still up to the north a

florida, alabama, mississippi, will have the low down on that on monday.ore in a little bit. >> thank you. >> yeah. >>> all right. yesterday the dow surged. there was some upbeat economic news. today, i think a completely different story. i'm not going to say upbeat at all. i wonder how investors are reacting this morning to news we are in double digits when it comes to jobless numbers. >> not favorably, to say the least. the dow industrials down 50 but not a huge loss at this point. it was an unexpected jump in the unemployment rate but it's a scary headline and not entirely unexpected. economists saying for months that unemployment will top 10%. so, you know, they expected it to happen just maybe not this early. even though the job losses are high, the pace of layoffs is slowing. compare 190,000 job losses that we had in october to the 700,000 job losses we saw earlier this year. all right. jump to earnings from today. we heard from aig. they made money for the second quarter in a row. more than $450 million and this is the company that got the big e bai

laughter] describing, and this again is how they started out, nothing but for kids from mississippi texas and alabama. god that's why they picked the states to goody ginna decent shover of insurance of a joined the military because that is all we offer them. i am not bragging or complaining. this is my 16th trip to cover this war. i spent months in the field with these youngsters. that is not the description of youngsters somehow magically these ne'er-do-wells in misfits don't show up in the units like cover. i have only covered 45 units in this war. that book out there not one of those photographs to stage, not one of those images of hundreds of miles of footage i have shot were set up. it is all the real thing. >> this was a portion of a booktv program. you can view the entire program and many other booktv programs on line. go to booktv.org. type the name of the author or put into the search area and the upper left-hand corner of the page. select the "watch link." now you can view the entire program. you might also explore the "recently on booktv" box or the featured video box defined recent and fe

nothing but poor kids from mississippi, texas and alabama.god knows why they picked those three states. couldn't get a decent job aren't health care joined the military because that's all that we offered them. i am not bragging or complaining. this is my 16th trip to cover this war. i spent a month in the field with these youngsters. that's not the description of the youngsters somehow magically these misfits don't show up in the units that i cover. i've only covered 45 units in this war. that book out there, not one of those photographs is staged. that one of those images of hundreds of miles of footage that i have shot were sent out. it's all the real thing. >> this was a portion of a booktv program. you can view the entire program, and many other booktv programs, online. go to booktv.org. type the name of the author or book into the search area in the upper left hand area of the page. select the watch link. now you can view the entire program. you might also explore the recently on booktv box, or the featured video box to find reason and f

then they go to the mason-dixon line, alabama and mississippi, and that is when all hell breaks loose. one day joe louis is using a telephone on army base in alabama. a white officer -- a white guard tells him that he should be at the phone booth for black soldiers and lewis gets upset, young sugar ray robinson, known as walker smith in the army, thinks that the officer is going to hit joe louis and sugar ray, like a panther, jumps on the white army guard and there is a tussle. why anybody would want to tangle with joe louis and sugar ray robinson on an army base is unimaginable. >> host: it says something about the times. >> guest: it does. and so they are both taken to an officer to be disciplined but now the army has a pr nightmare of its throat. what if the two black public relations figures who were being engaged to tour the south are arrested because they oppose segregation, segregationist policies, so the army backed off and didn't press any charges. but it really i think cut to the bone of who each man was. joe louis was willing to accept it. sugar ray robinson came from a dif

he did not fully understand why his catholocism was a problem in places like texas, alabama or mississippi but employed the resources to understand it and try to address the issues as he talked to advisers ouc a dexterity of policy in action in kennedy's mind when he found the problem. he said were the best people we can bring to help us with the problem and then he took their advice and in the end it was that a device that allowed him to win the election to triumph over these more conservative protestant forces. the second thing i learned was this this prize, richard nixon had an anti-caplet strategy. in retrospect-- as you look at some of the standard accounts of the 1960 race nixon always said i'm not going to raise the religion of my opponent in this election. there was a certain nixonian fallin stew that. even this sunday night before the general election nixon half-hour prime-time television and he reminded his audience i not going to raise the religion of my opponents said me reminding you that if you had a problem, please be reminded when you go to the polls in two days. but, beyon

through the eastern seaboard into florida and inland as far as tennessee, kentucky, back into mississippi and alabama, too. here's what's going on. big low pressure region, that's old ida. this is being absorbed by the cold front to the north and also notice the clouds behind me. that is south of bermuda. that energy gets wrapped up you within that circulation off the coast of south carolina this afternoon, tomorrow and over the weekend. we can see a big coastal type storm develop, not a schmomaker but rain and windmaker through mid-atlantic and new england. it will last through saturday afternoon. columbus, xrornlg george, 5.81 inches of rain, atlanta, right around the charlie brown airport, 4.59 inches of rain, birmingham, almost 4. that's how much rain they had. rain continues, heavy at times, coming through south carolina, stretching through basically north carolina, the entire state seeing rain back into virginia, even towards d.c. let me take you live to walk. here's what the white house looks like, rainy, gloomy. for the entire day, you could see as much as one to three inches of rain today wi

didn't fully understand why his catholicism was a problem in places like texas or tennessee or alabama or mississippi, but he employed the resources to understand and then try to address the issues that got identified as he had talked to these advisers. you see dexterity of policy and action in kennedy's mind. when he found the problem he said to her the best people we can bring to help us with that problem, and then he took their advice. emmy and i argued it was with that device that allowed him to win the election and try to win over the more conservative protestant forces. the second thing i learned was richard nixon had an anti-catholic strategy. in retrospect, perhaps not surprised by the revelation, and as you look at some of the standard in the 1960 race, nixon always said i am not going to raise the religion of my opponent in this election. there was sort of a nixonian bailiffs to that. even the sunday night before the general election, nixon bought a half-hour primetime television. he reminded his audience yet again i'm not going to raise the religion of my opponent in this election subtly r

the heavy rain continues in louis ton, towards dallas and the clouds are streaming through mississippi and alabamave to atlanta, we're dry right now. traveling in or out of the city, patchy fog beginning to burn off. cold start, 40 degrees, up into the mid-60s. the rain shield headed towards atlanta for the weekend. watch for heavy rain and a lot of delays tomorrow afternoon if you're trying to get in to the busiest airport in the country. as for the houston radar, look at the rain showers coming through. it's mostly right offshore, some of it bleeding back in. the stuff that is is really moisture-laden with clouds that have a lot rain with it. watch for heavy downpours over the next 24 hours. dallas toward houston, rain showers coming through i-20. dallas radar picking up very well also. toward the pacific northwest, here's your cloud cover. storm number one is currently right near kan vufr, british columbia. look at the cold front jacking toward the pacific, heavy rain pulling in towards oregon, washington and northern california coast. storm number two, tomorrow afternoon, it goes right on the

alabama, area. at last report, ida was 165 miles south-southwest of pensacola, florida. tropical storm warnings are in effect along a 200 mile stretch from louisiana to florida. the governors of louisiana, mississippiand alabama and florida have declared states of emergency and flood-weary georgia is getting ready to get soaked again. so far, no mandatory evacuations have been ordered, but authorities in some coastal areas are encouraging people near the water or in mobile homes to leave. encouraging, nudge, nudge. they want you to be on top of things, all right? >>> the suspect in the ft. hood shootings, major nidal hasan, is now conscious and talking and a military hospital in san antonio. hospital officials are not saying whether he's talking about the shooting, though. 15 victims of the rampage are still in the hospital. eight are in intensive care. the commander of ft. hood says he's focused on helping the victims and post heal. he also wants to prevent any future outbursts of violence. >> i think what's really important is that hasan was a soldier. and we have other soldiers that might have some of the same stress and indicators that he had. and we have to look across our entire formation. no

mississippi. i would say alabama. >> we should just take a ride through the south and just film it. we should. see how many states we can get through. you know, here's the mississippi border. >> i mean, has anyone in your family come to see the kids? are they accepting of it? do you care? >> my brother and his wife, my nephews, they've seen the kids. and it's just like an issue as far as with distance, i guess. my parents do plan on seeing the kids. >> so everything is copacetic at home with this? >> not going to say that, but it's getting there. >> when does your new show start? >> november 7th. >> do you feel nervous about it? >> a little. but usually everything just comes together. you know? i work hard at it. keith robinson, a very funny comic, we've been friends for 20 years. so it will be -- it's great. i get to hang out with keith and just every week just rip him apart. >> i just want you to be successful at this, because it's been so many years and there's never a woman in late night, particularly on the big three networks. we have "chelsea late night" and now you. you know, those real

that's basically around atlanta to the northern half of alabama and moving away from mississippi and kentucky and into the mountains and back into central south carolina. here's the big feeder band dropping down into the region. you see the winds ahead of that 19 miles per hour, not that bad. 16 miles per hour behind it. when you get inside the feeder itself, that's where you start seeing winds gust to 30, maybe 35 miles per hour. and the rain is all moving up to the north in atlanta, back down around into northern parts of alabama and stretches all the way down into the lower part ofs of tennessee. let me show you a couple of videos we have. this is in orange beach. you have the center of circulation move on by just about two hours ago. can you see the dryer air coming in. this is the way it looked two hours ago. looking beautiful. >> it does. >> waves still choppy out there across the gulf but things are getting back to normal already as the tropical depression heads to the north. where is all of the heavy rain going, richard? we'll talk about that in the next half hour. >> i'm thi

"usa today" cites examples of alabama and virginia, both passed laws to raise the legal alcohol cap. it's 16% in vermont. iowa and mississippi follow suit. some substance abuse experts don't like the idea. they say more alcohol means you get drunk faster and stay dprung longer. >>> higher alcohol content in beer possibly. what do you think? >> my canadian friends will stop making fun of me for the beer i drink. that's not beer. >> put hair on your chest. >> let me show you the great lakes, trying to get in or out of the airports, back towards cleveland and cincinnati, some low, hanging clouds falling out of them. it's on the light side, but will be a staple for the morning before it moves on. look at the rain now when you get toward middle parts of ohio. back into kentucky, cincinnati, down south of indiana, indianapolis, you're looking at showers. up to the northwest, more rain, but this is the back edge of it. it's around wisconsin and northern sections of illinois. chicago might get a brief shower or two. that energy will form as a coastal storm by friday off the coast of new england as it merges with another low. in flor