people argue his sentencing was racially biased. the prosecutor in the case has said the execution should be stopped. house speaker john boehner says the bipartisan supercommittee should stick with spending cuts, enentitlement reform and forget about raising taxes. boehner says they should look to reduce the deficit because it threatens job creation. the house republican plan for job creation includes requiring that congress approve government regulations that have a significant impact on the economy or small business, lowering the tax rate for businesses and individuals to know more than 25%, passing free trade agreements with columbia, panama and south korea. they say that will create up to 250,000 jobs and increasing domestic energy production. the pentagon says the don't ask, don't tell policy in the military officially ends on tuesday. the defense secretary has been asked to hold off on repeal. congress needs more information about the policy changes they say. the pentagon says the repeal of the policy of gays serving in the military has been through a rigorous vert fiction, process. thousands of students in tacoma washington will not be in school again today. the teachers' union voted to keep its strike going despite a judge's order to put the signs back and get back to the classroom. >> we were surprised and disappointed. we fully expected students would be arriving and teachers would be arriving. >> the district has been bullying us and forcing us no a position that's simply not right. >> the teachers union is clashing with the school district over issues like class size, teacher pay and the way teachers are transferred between schools. clemson university has found a way to bring professors and students closer together, put them in the same dorm. the school launched a new program that has some teachers living in residence halls. the idea is to foster a better understanding between students and faculty. and the motorcycle rider who was pulled from underneath that burning car in utah is now talking about his experience. remember, some bystanders proved to be life savers for brandan wright in they heaved a car off of him and pulled him to safety as his motorcycle and a car burned. he's pretty banged up but thanks to those people, those heroes,' live and boy is he grateful. >> i just want to thank all the heros that put their lives on the line to save mine. i'm forever in debt. i can't thank them enough. and i just hope they know how much they mean to me. >> wow. wright has a broken leg, a broken pelvis, bruised lungs and burns on his skin. he was not wearing a helmet but says he is going to buy the best helmet he can find once he's ready to ride that motorcycle again. now let's head to atlanta to check in with rob marciano. wow, it's chilly out this morning. >> it is! >> you know, record low temperatures yesterday and that cold air is beginning to infiltrate the eastern two-thirds of the country. good morning, everybody, if you're tired of summer and ready for fall, we have a treat for you. a handful of records there. this doesn't include spots in northern minnesota where temperatures got into the teens. can you believe that stuff? and check this out. earliest snowfall in north central wisconsin, september 15th, 191. we'll see what happens there. 20s and 30s across parts of the western great lakes this morning. a freeze warning and watch has been posted for some of those areas. going to be a chilly, chilly start there. tomorrow morning will not be a barg an cross parts of the northeast. the cool air gets down into the gulf of mexico as this front takes a little dip further south than we're used to for this time of year. 66 the high temperature in new york city. 61 in chicago. and only up to 72 degrees in atlanta. by the way, hurricane maria is heading towards newfoundland. winds of 80 miles an hour. just thought i'd mention that. it's the third hurricane of the season. scientific discovery out in outer space, scientists discovered a planet that orbits not one but two suns. now, if you're a "star wars" person, you might remember in "star wars" 4 there was such a sun -- such a planet. i believe it was called tatuwine. they are referring this -- officially it's called kepler 16-b. it will take us 200 years traveling at the speed of light to get over there. the telescopes are super powered and they're giving us glimpses into the universe like we've never seen before. >> if it takes 200 years to get there, both of us won't be going any time soon. >> not this lifetime. >> thank you, rob. >> all right, carol. >> european leaders are trying to ease concerns about a default in greece but not everybody is ready to rest easy, including stephen colbert. here's your punch line. i want to start by reassuring investors and calming the markets were for starters, everybody close your eyes, take a deep breath. and just pretend there is no place called greece. we're all going to die. suck it up. suck it. i want to address those of you who are concerned because swiss financial giant ubs reported yesterday that they lost over $2 billion from rogue trades. how could something like this happen? 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"a," did that create 50,000 jobs, "b," 150,000 jobs or "c," 250,000 jobs? the answer is "c," 250,000 jobs. that's according to facebook's chief operating officer, cheryl sandburg. she actually sat down with "nightline" to talk about the most successful media company in the world. great interview. check it out. it's probably on abcnews.com. let's bring in our cnn contributor. >> good morning. >> tell bus this big endorsement. >> cnn has learned that former homeland security secretary tom ridge will announce he's endorsing jon huntsman for president this morning. i'm told by a campaign source that ridge was impressed by huntsman's combination of experience both internationally and in the public and private sectors. huntsman most recently served as ambassador to china and was also governor of utah and worked for his family's chemical corporation. this source says that ridge believes huntsman can offer the serious solutions needed to solve the nation's problem. it's a big get for the huntsman campaign which is struggling in national polls. they'll announce this endorsement today in new hampshire. >> we'll be listening for that. let's dive more into this cnn/orc poll and talk about the tea party movement versus more traditional republicans and what it says about both movements. >> sure. i can tell you, being out on campaign trail, that jobs and the economy are certainly the biggest issues out here. this new cnn poll shows that tea party republicans have different views with other republicans. half of all tea party supporters say they want the president and congress to focus on trimming the ballooning federal deficit which is an issue we saw play out in the controversy about raising the debt ceiling. among the republicans that don't see themselves as tea parties, 55% say washington should focus on creating jobs and reducing deficit numbers. >> the gay marriage statistic is interesting. >> tea party republicans are more conservative. the poll shows 73% of tea party republicans do not support gay marriage. that's compared to 55% of all republicans. republicans who don't identify with the tea party movement. and that 55% don't believe that marriage would gay and lesbian couples should be recognized as valid. carle? >> interesting. it should be an interesting primary. because you can see the split there and the differences in opinion. rachel, thanks so much for being live with us this morning. let's take a quick look at sports now. the nfl might look like the tsa this year. the league wants fans to get enhanced patdowns from the ankles up, not just the waist up. the idea is to keep everyone in the stands safe, so you might want to get to the game earlier than it did last year. it might take a bit longer to get in because you will be patted down, your entire body. don't call nba star ron artest ron artest any more. as of today, his name is metta world peace. metta means loving kindness and friendliness toward others. world peace, that's self-explanato self-explanatory. he's been improving his image since he punched out some fans in 2004. a woman in qualcomm stadium accidentally made it rain. she's a server for the club level seats and she carries a lost cash, tips with her. all of that money, all those tips went flying down to the lower level when she tripped on a stair. that's about $1,000 raining dunn on all those fans. get this, she got all of the money back within ten minutes. thanks to those honest charger fans. you go. a message in a bottle washes ashore more than 4,000 miles away from where it was sent. we'll tell you who sent it and what was inside. first on this day in history in 1893, the man who invented vitamin c was born. we're talking about hungarian physiologist senger giorgi. google is celebrating life with their google doodle today. check it out if you get a chance. if something is simply the color of gold, is it really worth more? we don't think so. chase sapphire preferred is a card of a different color. unlike others, you get twice the points on travel, and twice the points on dining, and no foreign transaction fees. call now or apply at chasesapphire.com/preferred. good morning. happy friday to you. it is september 16th. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." i'm carol costello, joining you live from new york. it is 47 minutes past the hour. swiss banking giant ubs lost a whopping $2 billion in a rogue trade. the man accused is behind bars. let's head round the world with nina dos santos. she's in london. nina, we're now hearing this this $2 billion rogue trader thing could cause ubs to split in two? >> well, various people i've been speaking to, including former board member of ubs itself, carol, have been telling me that this could be the catalyst for a major re-organization at the swiss banking giant, even before news of this alleged unauthorized trading at the london headquarters of ubs already management have been for many years debating the merits of keeping an investment banking division that undertook rather risky operations along side a lucrative and well-respected private client wealth management business that is primarily based in switzerland and elsewhere. what we should also talk about is potentially, carol, the trade that caused this bank to lose so much money. because traders have been telling me throughout the course of today and yesterday that one of the reasons white bank lost so much money was linked to a particular bet placed via a derivative product on silver futures, essentially betting on the price of silver but that bet was priced in swiss francs. what the 31-year-old, this is the man british reports say has been arrested, what they've been saying, his job was to buy silver futures and sell silver futures and to buy and sell the swiss franc versus the u.s. dollar. it was the latter part of that equation, the hedging on the swiss franc that caused the problem and the bank got called out. the swiss national bank decided to defend the swiss franc and prevent it from appreciating more. >> i can't help it, the picture of the rogue trader, he's sleeping? >> yeah, this is a picture that has been taken off of facebook page. this is the picture that he put on his facebook page. i should stress that cnn hasn't been able to independently verify whether that is actually him, because the facebook page has now been taken down. that was the first picture that we got in connection with the name when it was released to some of the media reports here in the united kingdom about 24 hours from now. what we do know, carol, there will be plenty of questions that will have to be answered, mainly, how did this trader, if did he manage to breach risk limits, how did he manage to do so? what exactly happened? $2 billion is an awful lot. one of the biggest incidents on history of unauthorized trading. the only thing that was bigger than that was the french trader jerome kerviel with societe generale. >> two developments you might hear more about, rebel fighters are closing in on the last of gadhafi's stronghold including his hometown of sirte. rebels pushed into the center of the town yesterday but pulled back for the night. they also warned residents of b bani walid to leave. people are being sent to niger to demand that the country turn over one of gadhafi's sons. we're learning about new charges in the sex scandal involving silvio berlusconi. eight people have been charged with supplying berlusconi with prostitutes. his lawyer says he's unaware of the alleged activities. the prime minister is facing his own troubles in another case. he's accused of paying for sex with an underage girl. a message in a bottle washes ashore. john moore found the bottle during a cleanup project in hawaii. it had a note from a sixth grader and a picture of her class siene more than five years ago from japan. moore says he will definitely responds. first lady michelle obama is giving a thumbs up to the olive garden restaurant and red lobster they are revamping their menus to offer healthier choices on their kids menu. mrs. obama calls the changes a breakthrough moment in the restaurant industry. she's been bringing attention to childhood obesity through his let's move campaign. now let's head to rob marciano. when you think of olive garden you don't exactly think of healthy food. i think of the big bread sticks they heard and the endless salad bar. >> it's good, it's tasty. >> it is. >> if you eat there every day, you'd get a little larger but you'd be happy. as i like to say after a good meal, i feel fat and happy. cooler air will make people feel happier after the summer we've endured, that's for sure. it's engulfing a good two-thirds of country. we've seen snow in the mountains of colorado rockies, we've seen temperatures dip down into the 20s, even teens, breaking record records in parts of the great lakes. parts of northern wisconsin saw their earliest snowfall that we've seen in a decade. how about that? how much -- deck kaades i shoul say. let's look at the temperatures for today, right now. freezing warnings and watches have been posted for the western great lakes. temperatures in the 20s and 30s in spots right now. if you are traveling, new york metros, this is post-frontal stuff. we shouldn't see a whole lot of rain with the exception of the carolinas. san francisco, we'll see low clouds, which is typical at this time of the year. 87 degrees in dallas. you'll take that. 93 doesn't sound cool but it's cooler than it has been in houston. 76 -- 61 in chicago and 66 degrees for the high temperature in new york city. found this video of somebody -- a father and son out fishing in lake michigan. and they found a fawn. a baby bambi was out there in the middle of the lake going the wrong way. not like it was going towards shore somewhere. they grabbed the baby bambi and put it in the boat, carol and brought it back to shore. how about that? i watched the whole thing. it took them 15, 20 minutes to do this. we obviously edited that down. that was quite an ordeal for them to do that. >> wait a minute. wait a minute. the baby deer was in the middle of the lake swimming? >> deer, they'll traverse bodies of water to get to another peninsula or island, we've seen that. make a wrong turn, certainly if you're a young guy, where your gp is is not quite as tuned as it should be, you might head in the wrong direction. >> good for them. i'm glad the little baby deer is safe. >> me, too. >> thank you, rob. it's one great deal but many americans can't buy into it. we're talking about low mortgage rates. details and a live report from the nasdaq market site. first let's take a look at our word of the day. actually it's a phrase, it's called rare earth. find out what it means and why you need to know what it means after this short break. it's about six minutes to the top of the hour. hi. hi. you know i can save you 15% today if you open up a charge card account with us. you just read my mind. 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