terry mcmillan no longer "waiting to exhale." out with a sequel for her best selling book. hear her candid face-to-face interview right after this. what's this option? that's new. personal pricing now on brakes. tell us what you want to pay. we do our best to make that work. deal! my money. my choice. my meineke. >>> terry mcmillan isn't waiting to find true happiness, she has rediscovered it. the acclaimed author of how stella got her groove back is back with a new book. "getting to happy" is the highly anticipated sequel to her novel "waiting to exhale." this time the four female protagonists are at a crossroads, forced to come to terms with the disappointment and deception in their lives. that's something mcmillan knows something about. several years ago her husband revealed he is gay and an ug ily divorce followed. i went face-to-face with terry mcmillan who explained how that played out in the pages of her novel. >> people have been waiting anxiously to know if there was going to be something, a sequel to "waiting to exhale.

is how. >>> conquering anger and resentiment, a bitter battle that best selling novelist terry mcmillan says he has wageded and won. but her personal life came crashing down several years ago when her husband admitted he's gay. mcmillan described that shocking moment during a 2005 appearance on ""the oprah winfrey show."" maybe you remember this. >> he said he was confuse it about his sexuality and then he said, i think i might be gay. i said what? >> you were surprised to hear that? >> he was on the bed, i was sitting in a chair. >> yeah. >> and then he said, i think i might be gay. and there's a hallogen lamp tha i had, and i said i feel like taking this lamp and bashing it in your face but i'm not going to. and he stood up and he said, i am gay. and i said, well finally you told the truth about something and look what it turned out to be. >> ouch, well that deep sense of betrayal ate away at mcmillan for years but she tackled her anger head on in a fierce internal battle that turned out to be the launching point for her book. >> after my divorce i was really bitter and angry and all

terry mcmillan is back with a new book and new outlook on life and she hopes you have one, too. you know prilosec otc can stop frequent heartburn before it begins? heartburn happens when stomach acid refluxes into the esophagus. prilosec otc uses a unique delayed-release system that protects the medicine as it passes through the stomach's tough acid. then it gets absorbed into the body, turning off many acid-producing pumps at the source. with just one pill a day, you get 24-hour heartburn protection all day and all night. prilosec otc. heartburn gone. power on. >>> all right. they're back. savannah, bernadine, gloria and robin, characters we first met almost two decades ago. the author terry mcmillan has brought them back together in a new book and soon to be sequel movie. their mission -- getting to happy. i talked face to face with her about whether this story parallels her own life. people have been waiting anxiously to know if there is going to be a sequel to "waiting to exhale." so here we are, "getting to happy." what happened in your life that you felt like it was time t

. >>> plus terry mcmillan, the author of "how stella got her grove back" tells how she got her happiness back after a betrayal that sparked anger that was eating her alive. it's saturday october 2, and this is the newsroom. >>> we begin with new worries about security for americans abroad which could lead to some important new warnings if you're traveling to europe. our senior state department producer joins us now by phone to explain, elise, what do we know about these potential warnings? >>. >> reporter: well, we have been hearing all week about potential threats to westerners in western europe, perhaps britain, france, germany that al qaeda could be plotting some signed of new attacks. we have to caution that there's been nothing credible or specific about any particular place, any particular attack. so we have been hearing a lot of what we call chatter. there's a lot of intelligence chatter about possible threats. now we're hearing that in light of these new threats, the state department and other news agencies are considering issuing some kind of alert to americans, not necessarily

more candid moments from best selling author terry mcmillan. can you hear more in the face-to-face conversation in the 2:00, 3:00, and 4:00 hours. meantime, yo"your $$$$$" starts now. >> what's the problem and which party can fix it? chief political correspondent and host of "state of the union." candy, number one problem around the country, rahm emanuel on the grog li growing list. >>> the departures early on were people saying i'm only going to stay a year, a year and a half. i'm not sure i'd look at that and say the president is changing positions. i do think the larry summers is key. the president, if he's pointing in any particular direction, any change-up in the way he's going, i think it will be the in the larry summers job. >> the signal for economic strategy. next, cnn political editor. mark, take a look at these polls. when you ask which party is more responsible for the economic problems, 41% say congressional republicans as opposed to 35% blaming congressional democrats. at the same time ask which party is more likely to improve the

face to face, our focus with chris gardner because today we've got face to gays with author terry mcmillan about her, how she got her groove back and now the focus is getting to happy. we sit down face to face -- getting to happy. so she still revisits the p protagonist in her book, "waiting to exhale." she learns her husband is gay. she finally said, you know what? she got tired of being angry. it was exhausting being angry. so she began to reflect on her life. i just want to be happy again. i deserve to be happy. that's what precipitated getting to happy. she talks about what's similar in her life. she's got some wonderful advice for anybody and everyone who gets to a point in their life no matter what your age bracket where you suddenly start to forget who you are, what makes you tick, what makes you happy and how do you grab hold of that and get to happy. >> we need to switch seats. i feel i should be on the couch. >> this is great therapy. >> this is heavy. >> they are really heavy ones. >> today -- >> you're going to do your show today. >> we've been busy. our legal guys will be with