>> sorry, sid.good for me. >> well, some sunlight is good for you, sid, but too much sunlight can be harmful. >> ok, but i spend a lot of time under the lights at home and at school, so why don't i have to wear sunblock there? >> oh, good question, sid. at school and inside the house, we have a roof that blocks the sun. >> that's right, sid, and the light from the sun is much more powerful than light from a regular old light bulb. >> oh. i thought light was just light. hmm. i'm going to investigate more about the sun at school. >> well, before you go, you'd better have some breakfast. you're gonna need lots of energy today for our... >> special dad day! pow! ha ha ha! >> it's gonna be so great. ♪ i love my mom >> uh-huh >> my mom is cool >> uh-huh >> but now it's time for having fun in school yeah ♪ >> hi! >> ♪ i'm looking for my friends i'm looking for you there's gabriella >> watch what i can do ♪ ha ha! yeah! here we go! >> wow! ♪ i'm looking for my friends i'm looking for you hey, there's gerald

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>> oh, thanks, gabriella. >> sure. >> sid, sid, sid. >> hi. >> hey. >> hi. >> hey.ndy. maybe you've thought about what clouds are made of, too. and there you have it. i am sid, roving reporter and cloud expert. >> everybody, rug time. >> that's teacher susie. >> rug time! rug time! >> all right, we're coming! >> ♪ it's rug time come on in! rug time take a seat rug time >> we're ready >> everybody move your feet rug time >> teacher susie >> good times on the way rug time, come on in we've got a lot to learn today ♪ >> yee haw! ha ha! howdy, partners. this here's my horsie. come on, giddy up, horsie. >> all right, partner, trot on over to your seat and sit a spell. >> okey-dokey, partner. whoa, horsie. oh, easy, critter. whoa! [thunder] >> ooh! thunder. i love thunder. that means rain. >> oh. that's what i was afraid of--rain clouds. >> you're right, sid. rain does come from clouds. >> susie, on the playground, we were talking about what clouds are made of. do you know? >> oh, that's a good question. have any of you ever flown through a cloud on an airplane before? >>

. >> reporter: one day alone, sid had 5 purchases totaling $33. the bank charged him $175 in overdraft fees. total overdraft fees imposed on this soldier over five months, $1,785. >> when he gets his next paycheck it is going to go right to bank of america. the whole thing. >> reporter: it is not just bank of america. overdraft fees especially on debit card transactions have become a cash cow for many banks. and are expected to generate $27 billion this year. >> this is pure profit from a predatory practice and something in the long run hurts consumers. >> reporter: consumer groups claimed that banks manipulate processing of transactions to maximize fees. the banks say at the end of the day they pay largest transactions first because they're the most important. that often means more of the smaller transactions bounce, generating more fees. a spokesman for banks says overdraft protection is a courtesy that spares customers embarrassment and it is a consumer's responsibility to know how much is in the account. >> there is a way to control the fees t

and they wt to renergize democrats who sid the resident was not forceful enoug in rebutting republicans nd advocating what was iportant. gwen: the present said my mn, okay, what was the presidt's man exactly? ke itapart. let's talkbout cost and how do you pay for something ke that. >> the president says e wants to hold th coss to $9 bh over years. he as ways to o that, firstby extrting savings from medicare, billions of dollars there are expertswho say there's a lo of wast and inefficiency. the questionis can you reem that out of medice. there's al, going to bea qution of he seeme to -- to give someendorsement, t it is not ear whether it would happen this y or it woul place a fee oninsurance oviders. there's details to be illed in. the president thinks those concessions were the olive branch he needed tget it ving again. >> yes, he mde a point o ntioning republican ideas that he wand to includein his pln, as yet unwrittn, inuding one proposed by senatormccain and a prop opponent from lst year and another lot prject for reform, hich is soething that the publicans have been supportive ofn

let's play "oddball." >>> happy birthday sid caesar. we begin in the land of 10,000 lakes with minnesota's junior senator al franken entertaining folks at the state fair by drawing a map of the united states freehand and from memory. we have speeded it up, i think. his map-making skills prove senator franken an accurate alternative to rand mcnally as well as a great party guest. later on norm coleman dropped by and he drew a spiral representing his career options. >>> to the state fair in texas, where the treat that clogged a very hard oddball last week, fried butter, has headed home with a blue ribbon. takes the prize for the most creative new fried food of 2009. flavors include sweet cream, cherry and garlic. hmm. honorable mention goes to the peach that was dipped in batter, rolled in graham cracker crumbs, filled in grease or fried in grease and topped with whipped cream. talking about a piece of fruit there originally. this year's victory course setting up an arms race for next year's contest where somebody will need to offer butte

a little bit aw from the equipmenside -- equipment is very impornt -- andxpanding it to t services sid >> do u think that you are going to have t do some more acquisitions to round out the stratec plan? >> this is aig acquisition so we have to make su we nage r excess cash carefully, pay down debt first -- that is the most important thing, butfter we do that, whic we think we wi be able to do in a reasonable amount of timethen 're back into acquisitions again, smalle ones that fit into the p.o. space and fit in distribution. >> xerox stock soldn today's news. what do u think you need to do to get investors on board with wh you are doing? >> communication, communication, commication. it's aut clarity and havg them underand the message -- by the way, i have been doing it all day, my team has been doi it as well we didn't pect a reaction on the stock -- most deals ha a downrd pressure on the stock. thiseal in size -- 's kind of largend it actually lls out a p.o. kind of instant, something that h been strategic for us but no clear in the psent day. this is communicating with invests to mak

the commsion sid that 69 taliban milants and 30 civilians were killed in the attack. says that wle nato ed in thembing, ] ] the taliban were also to blame for pting civians at risk. italled it an inhune act >>> in neighborinpakistan, officials are reporng that two top militts were apparently killed i recent ameran missile attas. in the country's northwes tribalon. the attaswere in north waziristan and wereaunched from unmned aircraft. officialsaid in one attack,n al qaeda operations chief w pantly killed. in the other, top militant from uzbekistan is thought to have been killed >>> in another area of e northwt, the swat valley, things are still tenstwo mont after the military drve the talian frompower. there has been repos of dozens of killis of set lgs of scores, possibly involving the pakistani militar and the middle of all of this, t children have been going backo school for the rst ti since the fighting broke out in may. if you've just senyour kids back to schooln recent weeks, consider what it is like for those in this report from kamal haidar of al jazeera engli

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. >> i was talking with sid at the newsstand about chipotle.apers, from sid. we talk stocks every morning. i think even though it's already had a good run i am with danny meyer who wrote "setting the table," and we think chipotle is a great buy, cmg, even in the 90s. that is a recovery stock, and thank heavens i actually know it. the "lightning round" is over! thinking about mutual funds-- think about this: the best place to buy one may not be a mutual fund company at all. instead of emphasizing their funds, td ameritrade has tools that can help you choose funds from the leading fund companies. there's even a "recommended" list by the independent experts at morningstar associates. so you can get a fund that matches your objectives instead of someone else's. announcer: before investing, consider the fund's investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. contact td ameritrade for a prospectus containing this and other information. read it carefully before investing. are working from the road using a mifi-- a mobile hotspot that provides up to

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my mo sid, you not wearing makeup until your 16.adought teeth like i do n even know how toell you. -- i had buck teeth. it was so b, i had to wear neck gear. it was heaear. not just while you sleep, i had to wear ito school. i had to wear it while ite. the 22 train my teeth. and then my bra didn't t, i was not allowed to wear makeup, and then fricking headgear. those werthe key years. i could not even wear makeup t spice up the head gear. tas: and loohow thisll turnedut. >> well, thanks. tavis: for you with the peabody store, it means what to have succeeded in this busins -- for you wh the puberty sory, it means what have succded in tsbusiness, in this to? >> i s a dancer. i would audion forommercials when was a kid. i did exa work. i was always on t perhery. i always knein my heart that is where i wanted to end up. apparently, i ld my mom while weere driving when i was i was staring out the window, penny for your thought she had to ag out of me. aid i wanna be famous on televion one day. apparently. i caot remember right,ut she rem

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was a persetion going on to the immigrants, especlly in euro, the acks in europe, the latino and i sidvery clearly the crisis was caused not by blks or by latinos the crisis was caused by the bank banke that have blue eyes. >> reporter: so you wantedo make sure that there sn't a con nation or miske that people s "let's keep out the immignts because we're having onomic trouble" becauset wasn't their faut. that was youroint? >> yes, that was my point. becauset's afalse idea or concept thathen there's a crisis pop you put the blame on the immigrants and you pit the immigrants againsthat pple of the country where they are. >> reporter: gen the importance of the amazo and taking thearbon out of the atmosphere, a you willing comprose more on glal waming? as china's president hu now eems to be, instead of just, as enou the past, largely blamed the develong... the devoped world or at leastsaid we have to take aion first >> translated ): i'm n putti the blame on anybo. what we want is to find a solution for the future because what is at stake isot my life anymore for my generation but for my gr

feed their sunny sid. >>> fall is almost here. happens in a few hours. to justin berk who is checking the weather today. >> we're going to take to you woodland park in colorado. why? because guess what happened there yesterday? take this thing full screen and we'll see -- we'll move the camera a little during the day. panning the view, that is snow. snowing in the high country of western colorado. is that a beautiful thing or what? the streets are dry but as you can see at least the sidewalks and some of the trees got a little covering. this morning, they are at 28 degrees. why do i show that you? because our 63 in perry hall, 64 rock hall, not too bad. we got some patchy fog and we'll make it to 77 as fall arrives this afternoon with some spotty showers. not too bad there, kim? >> no. the sight of snow actually makes me cringe. i'm allergic to winter but we don't have problems here. 95, volume starting to build pretty early as you approach the whitemarsh boulevard area making your way down towards the 695/895 split. no problems to let you know about alo

finish the restorion or cleaning of one side of the monument, the alady have to start on the other sid continuous job. >> repter: it's angelo's job to make sure it gets done, but ask him ifhe's got the mey to do it. absolutely t, he says. we get some helprom the ate, but mo of the moyes from sellg tickets, and it's not engh, he says. touris do pay to t into the forum,s the center o the ancien roman empire, is a huge attraction. but st of the people who come here really do't know how lucky they are. because the buiings around here are rough 2500 years old, it's easy to thi that it's ways looked like th. well, it hasn't. it was only about 150 years ago that these buildgs were excavated. after the fall of t roman empire, the forum was forgotten and slowly buried as the ceuries passed a the city grew. archaeologists onlytarted stripping away the layers in the 19th century. a piece o rome past glory s finally revealed but this hiory professor thinks it's a miracle svived after it was unvered. >> we ca in'69. you could drive a car near the churchross the waext to the th and you could dve a c

i see it in make up of the children there, sid tear habits, less willing to -- sedden tear habits.ess willing to participate. we have a nice core of kids who are athletically inclined. participate in a lot of sports outside school and our own intramural program but this will help us. >> matt and darren here. >> we let the children apply for the minicamp. we have over 100 kids out on the field after the pep rally and i know they are just going to have a blast. >> thank you so much for joining us. how exciting for the kids. thank you so much. this all kicks off at 10:00 a.m. this morning. i understand they have some surprise guests that will be dropping in. really exciting day for the kids. live in glen bernie, sherrie johnson. >> of course this is the man. his day. former raven oj battling lou gehrigs disease. not long after his diagnosis he and his wife started brigansk brigade. they are hoping to help others. today his former teammates from the cfl and nfl days along with current ravens will join him to celebrate his 40th birthday and tackle als. it is dubbed two rings for oj. tic

some healthca experts say the vaccineshould not e required because thereisn't enough research n sid effects. vaccine-maker merck say the company oes not suppt mandatory vaccinatn of new fele immigrants. do we have a right to require anything we want befo we give somebo the privilege of cming tothis country? >> it seems at way, in the se of this vaccin listen, iquestion hy this has become a reuirement. i think the governmet is getting a prileged status to this phrmaceutical company. it's good forthe company, but for t real person on the street, it's costly, i's not clear if it effective, and it's not clear it's even need. >> i'll spk as a former immiant. before apping you have have tb tes, this vaccinad and-- >> bone: about 20 tests and vaccines thatou have to get >> tb's not -- bonnie: and, by the way, ast time i went to africa or asia, i had to gt a whole lot of shts because i didn't have- i didn't didn'tet them reguarly oridn't get them asa child. >> well, tb is not a -- what do you call it? a dsease that appears now qte often, but hpv does cuse -- i think people ae -- half a million wome

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lik rockefeller getting an opportunityo offer his own amendments, and at is happening on the other sid too. it is part of thprocess. >> but it is ue that this has been a debate that iseen on for 10 years. this is not a debate that started last week. >> this is somethi we have been over before >> but the detls and regulaons in theform of this are all new and real and counting numbers. >> that is why want you to pay attention. ted kennedy'senate seat does not stay vacant long. >> this appointment is profod honor, and i cept it sincyou humility did -- i accept it with siere humility. that is paul kirk, poted to represent massausetts in thsenate untilanuary when ere will be a special alexian. the pcess w not exactly pretty. >> but at least we've seen e governme do it pretty well prepared -- see a governor dit pretty wel if you looat the other appointments, thegovernor of nework kilhimself in the procs, the governor of delaware has been criticize for appointi a placeholder for e vice president's son, and of course there is illinois, and in alask you had sarah palin overlooked to fi the spot

t flip sid is they ve a werful tool.someone like ashton kutcher has access to 3 million people like that. he sends a message to 3 or 4 million pple. it is growing every day. for us, i think, the adoption from intertionally well known pele has been a goodrowth mechanism. but i thinkhe flipide of it, it is valuabl for the celebrites. tavis: do yo know, and what does your researc tell you about the e group -- ian ptty much guess the group that most embracewitter. i think now about -- i was talking to my mom. my mom has a cellhone. people's gndparents have cell phes. its a technology tha everybody eveually over tame came to embra. can you seeeniors embraci twter? absolutely. we don'tnow a lot of informtion demographically speaking becausehere he don't ask people too much information. anecdotally we see a wide rain of -- ran of people. i'vead people tell me my whole senior center is getting on twitter. there'over 4 billion mile phon in use on the planet. every one is a twitter ready device. becausewitter works on texting or s

. >> you sid both sides are reluctant to play their cards at this point. can you sum up why there is that feeling? >> both sides are each other's present victims, and they not want to let go of their painnd trauma but athe same time, until they know what is the destination, wre are th going? what will theinal outcome look like? what guarantees, asrances, economicid -- theyre not going to show their final ncessions, what they are reallyeady to give. they areoo wea traumatized, so iis not part ofwhat they will bable to do. >>e hav to leave there, but thk you very much. >> thank to you both. now, the head of the commissio investigating the widespread legations of fraud in last month after anlection is sayi t final rests will not be known for 10 to 14 ys. western governmenthave pushed for ty want whoer is declared winner to be ses a credie victory. that is not a poin of ew shared by ma afghans. in the capit, the bb's alan little has been gauging opinion. >> it is one of the hoest times of theear. e muslim stival that marks the end of ramadan, the monthf fastin

. >> the family of then 2-year- old payton pa attach knee, burned after they poured a sid on a slide, have settled. details of the settlement have not been named. the acid was not properly secured by the school. the $60 million suit was supposed to go to trial next month. >> good news in the fight against crime in baltimore county. 7 of the 8 major violent crime categories have dropped this year compared to last year. the number of solved violent cases is well above the national average. our officers achieved a 75.9% clearance rate for violent crimes which is about 31% higher than the national clearance rate as of the end of 2008. this includes an almost 889% clearance rate for murder investigations. >> they say traditional community policing practices combined with new technology is helping to keep crime down. but don't tell that to a baltimore county church which was burglarized again two months after a string of similar break-ins. judy gobs is live outside baltimore police headquarters and, delia, are police making a link between the two. >> reporter: detectives are trying to piece

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he worked with bob hope, johnny carson, red buttons, sid ceasar and george burns. contied wringntil three weeks ago. lay gelbart, a giantf hollywood, was 81 years old. >>> the oldest person in the world died today in los angeles. we last saw gertrude baines when she celebrat her 115th birthday last ril. she is believed to be the granddaughter of former slaves. when she was born in 1894, grover cleveland was president. there was no such thing as penicillin and the u.s. flag had just 44 stars. she cleaned college rm rooms for a living and she loved jerry springer, crispy bacon, fried chicken and ice crea she was mentally alert until the very end. she lived long enough to vote for barack obama for president last november. again, gertrude baines was 115 years old. >>> when we come back here tonight, spending american blood and treasure in afghanistan and why a growing number of influential voices areay@@ sg enough is enough. a growing number of inflntial voices are saying enough is enough. whether i'm at the batting cage.. down by the lake or... fishing at the shore. '

actually, though, e first question is, what will russia really do russ has sid somethings.dmitry medvedev, the president of rusa says we don't like sanctions but we he to go do them. no one has actually seen russia pport sanctions, fnancial sanctio, the real tough ones uld be cutting off il and gas for iran. it pduces oil but not as. we'll ha to see if that happe. gw: so october 1, the nextset ofmeetings we'll see. anotheset of hard choices awaithe president back in washingtonas litary leaders press for a shift in afghistan strategy th could mean adding 40,000 troops to t forces on the ound. but athe root of it all is debate aut how, exactly, the u.s. shoulproceed. by cusing on counteterrorismor on counterinsurgen and whats the difference between thetwo, nancy? >> gwen, thee are lots of phrases we throw aound a lot. they are t ends of the spectrum. counterinsurgency some call it nation buiing. it's a manpower heavy te of assignment. you send a lot oforces in. ey secure the area and they help build local overnments. the idea being that they leave a viable sysm in place so th

that they are not eligible for the credits, what are called afford built credits, the government sus sidelping for them to be covered. this is the first time that we fat checked a heck cler. i think that's what has happened in american politics republicans are also making a more sedate claim about the illegal immigrant to look at this more specifically. house republican caucus says, anything in the democratic bills that would require individuals to verify prior to receiving subsidized benefits. is that true? >> we gave that a half true on our truth-o-meter. the truth is that there's nothing specifically in the bill. there's no language that requires that kind of verification. but there are some mechanisms that would make that happen. one, that the credits might be enforced through tax credits and the irs, that would be a liable enforcement system. but also the health care administrator would presumably enact some sort of regulations to enforce the rule that said that illegal immigrants were not eligible. we gave that one a true on our truth-o-meter. >> the president said in his speech th

. >> you talk about how moynihan and buckley came together even though they were on op sid sides sides. one quote i find interesting blindfolded you could find a liberal. who could step up to the plate and lead them to their good point in history and lead them for the u.s. >> that's the crisis right now. we don't see a strong leader in the republican party. when we look at federal governments who are most prominent, they are either defeated politicians like sarah palin who actually walked away from her job as governor of alaska or newt gingrich and john mccain who belong to an earlier era. at this point there is a vacuum no one has filled. just as important is when you mention figures like moynihan and buckley you are talking about intel lectures and the conservative movement doesn't have the level of thinkers it once did. it not only makes the case better for the right but make liberals think harder and examine their own ideas, too. that's what we need in the country today. >> a fascinating book. the death of conservativism and you have a book signing on the at sixth and i synagogue o

you say that we're sort of doatic in refusing to sort of criticize our own sid as when bill buckley said, you know, those things about the primary lots. national review opposed george bush's creation of the department of homeland security, opposed no child left behind, opposed his immigrati plan. now, that may be a separate issue. opposed much of bush's domestic agenda. and so when i look -- and meanwhile, you say that a sure sign of dogmatism and bultural enmity is is when people start believing in secret cadres. a piece was run saying that who cares if there are people in the administration who believe in truthism? who cares if they believe their own government conspired to kill 3,000 of their own citizens in the greatest domestic attack in american history because that's just, you know, that's trivial. and that, it seems -- and this is the same magazine that ran in 2002 the cover saying in praise of bush hatred. so it see when you look at the actual landscape out there, it is far easier to find examples of conservatives extending an olive branch. barack obama'seen far more partisan th

it has be sid solid. >> charlie: and israel h to control the borders you sa. d are ai space, israel will control the air spa too. there are many paltinians and othe beyond that who say that the state you propose for them was hardly a state. >> why is thout. >> charlie: bause they wouldn't cell the air space, they wldn't control the borders, they wod not have had -- they had tobe totay delitarized. israels strong both in terms on of of military and id. and. >> we are strong. >> charlie: ectly. >> we can move great rength to extreme vulnerility in a heart beat. is is our problem, do you kno what, bausewe're so small. w if you're amall country like monaco -- just take a countr like belgiumr luxembourg, who ar surrounding by neighbors who not only call for -- destction but thro 12,000 rockets into that ty country,ou'd think we have real problems. now these rockets, 10,000, 12,000 rocts falling on the united ates that is coressed to thesize of new jsey. that would makeyou think. >> charlie: no leadewould want that to happen. no leader wl stand by while that's happe

the pacific tsunami warning center sid it appears the quake did, in fact, trig err tsunami. that is the news. there are reports of deaths in american samoa but it is not known how many people. the tsunami warnings have been issued for the region including new zealand and fiji. meanwhile, a tsunami watch has been issued for hawaii. joining us is wtvj meteorologist john morales. thanks for joining us. what is the latest? >> well, the latest is this earthquake under water, of course, which has already generated a tsunami, confirmed tsunami as we know from american samoa, was one that was an order of magnitude below the intensity of the one we saw in 2004. keep in mind, the one in 2004 had a reading on the richter scale anywhere between 9.1 and 9.3. this one is being talked about in the 7.9 to 8.3 range. for every grade or every point, if you will, on the richter scale, that means that the earthquake is ten times less strong or ten times less destructive. so, this one is ten times weaker than the one we saw in 2004. and i think that's very significant in terms of the wave height

>> listen, larry, you have $3.5 trillion sid, on the sidelines making, i don't know, 10, 20 basis points in money market funds? the fed is basically pushing the kids outside to play. it's happening. again, i have a feeling for the next 6 to 12 months you'll see that and i think you'll see more m & a because companies are going to find it hard to grow earnings organically and they'll find a lot of cash on their balance sheets and find it compelling to buy earnings through acquisitions. it's going to be -- we're telling our clients to be bullish until the bill comes due. until the waiter shows up with the check -- have a good time. >> that's what it was like at citicorp. they said, keep dancing until the music stops. going back to fundamentals. the individual, the consumeer is pretty much dead on their feet. they are not borrowing more. they are trying to pay down debt. >> isn't that good? isn't that what everybody wants, including you? >> but they are not dead on their feet. in the second quarter, consumer net worth will go up and watch what happens in the third quarter. it will still go

. >> i never hay conversation with teddy loza where he came to me and sid will do you this or do thateporter: now, graham does chair the committee that oversees the taxicab commission and did recently introduce legislation to force taxi drivers to pay a monthly fee. but remember, graham introduce as a lot of legislation and to be clear again, no charges ha been filed against graham. he saws he knew of no wrong going on in his office. now, loza has been ordered to give up his passport and to stay in the d.c. area. he faces 0 years in prison if convicted and according to the indictment, loza says he took the money because he needed it. live at the wilson building, sherry ly, fox 5 news. >>> a big name tea clunes a request to endorse a fellow democrat for governor of virginia. former virginia governor doug wilder says he was asked to endorse state senator creigh deeds but he has reservation about the candidate's stand on guns and attacks. >>> mcdonnell has added another big endorsement to his list of backers. the fraternal order of police says it supports the republican candidate. other

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look we've heard it all before, blame the lower level employees, and call them stupid, as she just sid around we have the testimony of 8 former acorn board members, who were removed illegally from the board last year and what was their crime? they asked for an audit of the organization's books. and they didn't want the audit. now, bertha lewis, who took charge of acorn at that time, last year, is promising an audit. and i don't believe there can be independent audit of acorn because i think it will turn up all kind of things under all kinds of rocks, it isn't an organization, it is 196 organization and some of them are profit making and some nonprofit and when we certificate out we'll find a lot of money, i suspect has been going to the top and not the people at the bottom they claim to be helping. >> alisyn: and let's throw a snippet when chris wallace asked her what she thought of those undercover videos, made by that documentary filmmaker, who posed as a pimp and a prostitute. let's hear her on that. >> you were brought in a year ago, to clean up acorn. is this the new and improved