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disguise. he was escorted by border service officers but we can't get enough of this story and we'll dig deeper at the bottom of the hour. the monthly jobless numbers for october just in. added 151,000 jobs last month and labor department says that the unemployment rate held steady at 9.6%. that's nearly 15 million americans who can't find work. chief financial correspondent ali velshi here to talk about 9.6% jobless rate since the spring. >> 150,000 jobs a month, economists say that's what you need to keep the unemployment rate level. i want people to ignore the unemployment rate and look at how many jobs we gain or lose on a monthly basis. 151,000 jobs were gained. here's the good news. more than that came from the private sector. there were some government jobs lost but you don't want the government, you know, adding jobs. let me take you over to the wall and show you what the job situation looks like since the recession began at the end of the 2007. remember, december 2007 was right before the recession, when it started and we gained jobs that month and then started to lose them in january all through 2008. the end of 2008, that was the election of president obama. we were losing about 700,000 jobs a month for three months and in 2009 we started to gain fairly substantially and one month where we gained jobs and then down a bit and 2010 looking fantastic. gaining all the way through and then losing for the last three months. now we finally got another gain. kyra, where are the job gains coming from? i want to break it down for you. temporary help added 35,000 jobs. health care, that's been adding jobs the whole time. retail trade up. food services were up. leisure and hospitality down. local government losing jobs. an obviously that's going to happen. i want to tell you that 6.2 million people have been unemployed for more than 6 months so that's a difficult one. >> all right. staying on the topic of jobs, the president's heading out to india. talking about this this morning. you know, a lot of people when they think of india, they think of whoever's at the end of the call, whether the airlines or fixing a computer and they have a hard time understanding and really frustrating because the jobs outsourced to india, right? even the center of a new sitcom. have you seen it? >> i haven't seen it yet. >> i'm curious if it's offensive to you. that's another discussion but, you know, are these jobs still taking away jobs from americans or do we have a misconception of where this stands right now? is this why he's going to india? >> we continue to lose manufacturing jobs to the far east, china and countries like that and we continue to lose service jobs. american companies responded to frustrations of getting somebody that doesn't speak english on the other side or speak it clearly. a lot of that changed. frustration level with overseas call centers is reduced but the bottom line is it's still cheaper and effective out of bangalor than california. we are struggled with visas. indian workers here in the tech boom, software engineers, went back and now engineers in india. we have this education issue in the u.s. and not graduating enough people in the industry of software engineering so the problem we have is long term. and there are twoishes to tell you about. one is globalization. right? we all trade with each other. trade barriers e deu s reduced. service phone kauls. china's a place for manufacturing and the benefit to us is computers are cheaper and bicycles are cheaper and shirts are cheaper. technology is as big a problem in our economy and that is that we can do more with one person than we used to because of technology and info vags. what we need is something that takes advantages of our particular strengths here in america, strong education system, versatile and mobile work force and provides the world with something for the future. i think president obama in india is also trying to get a handle on what we can sell these indians who are becoming more and more prosperous. >> what can we sell? what's this give and take that is -- that we are most likely going to see? >> if i had that answer, i would be a rich man. >> you should be traveling with the president. >> some think it's green energy. some think that we are better innovato innovators. they can be design experts. we are clamoring to see what it is that we can do but any opportunity we can have. i tell you one thing to do in america is we can start to deal with the fact that there will be outbound travelers from the countries coming to america over the next five to ten years, that's the biggest source of tourism and business visits to america. hospitality and leisure industry may kate tore the audience better. as far as replacing the manufacturing and technology jobs, it is a big question. >> got it. all right. thanks so much. we'll talk some more. appreciate it. president obama is expected to speak at the bottom of the hour, 9:25 eastern time. catch it right here live when that happens. now, after making remarks, the president leaves on the trip to asia that we told you about just there with ali. the president's first stop will be india meeting with the prime minister. then he'll visit indonesia with a speech to the people and then the president will travel to sxrae for t south korea for the g-20 summit and wrap up in japan at the site of a corporation summit. we'll follow the entire trip. okay. after three days, the midterm elections results are still trickling in. democratic incumbent patty murray declaring victory in washington state's race. dino rossi conceded. murray's win gives democrats 51 seats in the senate and two independents that caucus with democrats. after a long, contentious race cnn projects that pat quinn will win as illinois's next governor and served as lieutenant governor under the disgraced rod blagojevich. quinn beat republican bilbraydy in a close race and brady won't concede until the votes are counted. nancy pelosi holds the seat until republicans take over in january and she hasn't made a decision about what comes after that. she says the colleagues are encouraging her to make a run for house minority speaker. haitian camp residents are pushing back against aid workers trying to get them to relocate. hurricane tomas is sweeping by haiti today dumping up to 15 inches of rain, flooding and mudslides could heavily damage the tent cities and endaunger living. the residents are afraid of losing their possessions on the phone now from port-au-prince is journalist eto goen. what are the conditions right now? what r the haitians still fighting the relocation process? >> reporter: well, at this point, i mean, most of the people have been relocated as of yesterday and the rain -- shortly in the evening. today, it's a little hard to say because we're starting to get a little more rain and wind. so a lot of people have just sort of -- wherever they are, that's where they are. they can't move or really go anywhere. and they expect in the next few hours to get a lot worse. >> now, so you said that pretty much everybody got evacuated. what about those suffering from cholera? all the people that we have seen on ivs, in these makeshift little hospital rooms, on cots. what about them and is there a fear that that could get worse as all of this rain comes in? >> i'm sure there is. i mean, we were in st. mark yesterday afternoon and seemed like people trying to get organized. and so, the people that -- at the hospital are staying there. they're not moving. and the people of managed camps asked to move or forced to move and u.n. yesterday, we witnessed that the u.n. relocating a bunch of people to much more secure people and people refuse to leave and nothing that can be done about that and now that the rain is really coming down, it's sort of like we have to wait and see what happens next few hours. >> got it. we'll be watching. thanks so much. reynolds wolf, of course, tracking tomas for us. they cannot catch a break. >> two major incidents. earthquake and then the cholera outbreak. >> and now tomas. >> one, two, three things happening. one thing that's a big concern about the situation is really that the topographical area we have in port-au-prince. you've flown into los angeles? when you fly in, you see how the city the ringed by mountains. part of the coastal range. in port-au-prince, you have a similar situation where it's tucked back. very hard to sooe it right now with the cloud cover. it's tucked back like a lopster claw and right here and what we're seeing is as the storm makes the way, the hurricane goes between haiti and cuba, some of the heaviest rainfall drops in port-au-prince. so you have all that rain, some places over a foot of rain and moisture goes right down the mountainsides possibly with widespread flooding and mudslides. tremendous, tremendous damage for people in that part of the world. where's this thing going to go? where does it go? latest forecast from the national hurricane center gives us this information. the winds are at 85 miles per hour. showing some signs of strengthening this morning. the latest forecast brings it right through the winward passage, haiti on this side. cuba on the other. going through warm water and fairly strong and into early saturday and then saturday afternoon, winds are going to drop a little bit and then fast forward into saturday, it should weaken and six to eight hours where things are very crucial for people in haiti. we'll watch it for you very carefully and the latest information regarding the forecast. it is a very interesting and frightening situation. kyra, back to you. >> thanks, reynolds. weather sure kept space shuttle "discovery" on the launch pad yesterday and a gas leak today. they planned to send it up at 3:04 eastern time and looks like it won't happen until monday at the earliest. this is the 39th and final voyage. more than any other shuttle and several other spots in the history books. flew the first female shuttle pilot. first african-american swpace walker. funny thing happened on a flight from hong kong to vancouver. the old man who got on the plane, freddy krueger on the right, went into the bathroom and came out the young man on the left. funny how the international date line changes people. remote keyless entry and turn-by-turn navigation available in every model. so it must be hard for you to hear autoweek.com say our interior raises the small-car bar. if you want to talk about it, call me... that is you know when you get home... since you don't have bluetooth in every model. the all new chevrolet cruze. starting under $17,000. get used to more. ♪ may not be getting the nutrition they need to keep their bodies strong. carnation instant breakfast essentials supplies the nutrients of a balanced breakfast to help build strong muscles and healthy bones. carnation instant breakfast essentials. good nutrition from the start. aveeno hair shines in real life. new aveeno nourish plus shine with active naturals wheat smooths damaged cuticles for 75% more shine in one use. real shine, for real life. yours. this chicken tortilla soup has such a wonderful zesty quality. that's the chipotle and cilantro. it's one of our new mexican soups. it reminds me of guadalajara. a special man. his delicious soups. sheila? 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check in with alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. good morning, alison. >> good morning, kyra. i'll tell you what. markets were definitely pretty nervous ahead of the jobs report we got. we were watching dow futures, they were in the negative column before the report came out, negative 30 points and then bam the report came out and a 180 and then we hit the positive column up 30 points. stocks right now are still positive ahead of the opening bell wech bell. we found out that 151,000 jobs gained in the economy and especially big because the gains mostly happening in the private sector. we really want to see the private sector hiring. it is the engine of growth for the economy and how unemployment rate will be chipped away at and more of the wall street expected but keep in mind the bulls are resting a bit after the powerful rally yesterday and while job creation was good, it's still not enough to bring down the unemployment rate. in fact, the unemployment rate really hasn't moved much since may. it's kind of stuck in that 9.6% range. it kind of makes the case for the fed action announcing that more stimulus is needed in the economy but let's look on the positive side. the dow, the nasdaq, s&p 500 opening at two-year highs right now. let's take an early check. the dow industrials just getting started. we are in positive territory and the nasdaq and s&p. back to you. >> thank you so much. here's what we're talking about this friday morning. no relief for the people of haiti. hurricane tomas making a powerful pass by the island and 15 inches of rain and that january quake left a million haitians homeless. fighting a cholera outbreak, as well. and now this. and attention costco shoppers. gouda cheese might make you sick. dutch-style is linked to an e. coli outbreak. 25 people have gotten sick. old in arizona, nevada, colorado, and san diego area and learned that the stores offering up free samples of the problem gouda. monopoly celebrating 75 years of passing go, collecting 200 bucks, buying up property and going to jail. hasbro says more than 275 million games have been sold over the years. early results from a big government study of heavy smokers are in and show when doctors use ct scans to look for lung cancer instead of chest x-rays deaths drop by 20%. that could mean 32,000 lives saved from the deadliest cancer every year. cnn's john roberts talked to the director of the national cancer institute about that. >> i don't think that we can yet be sure that the screening would be applicable to all of the people that get lung cancer. it is important to remember that the study that was conducted was really in a special group of high-risk people who had been smoking for many, many years. and although smoking occurs predominant -- lung cancer occurs predominantly among other smokers, there are other people that develop lung cancer that smoked less. >> dana reeves being one of them. could in applicable -- in someone like dana reeves, if someone that never smoked could die of lung cancer, should everybody get screened? >> this is an excellent question and the kind of question that's going to be addressed as more information from the trial becomes available. the problem is that there are potential downsides or disadvantages to having the screening. such as exposure to radiation and there are also a lot of false positives because many of the abnormalities picked upturn out not to be cancer and, yet, they may result in surgery or biopsies that have a complication. so as we go forward and get more information about the study itself, it will be then easier to try to make determinations who is most appropriate for screening, how frequently and how -- and for how many years. >> the doctor added insurance and medicare don't cover screening ct right now and expects that will change as more research is done. the election's not over yet. a senate seat, nine house seats and three governor's races up for grabs. details ahead in our political ticker. this is usually what the floor crew does on a regular basis. they enjoy monopoly and josh seems to dominate the game. snags the money. special anniversary for the shoe, the horse, the car, the little green houses and little red hotels. you can recognize that game, of course. it is monopoly. 75 years later. sure i'd like to diversify my workforce, i just wish that all of the important information was gathered together in one place. [ printer whirs ] done. ♪ thanks. do you work here? not yet. from tax info to debunking myths, the field guide to evolving your workforce has everything you need. download it now at thinkbeyondthelabel.com. straight to the roosevelt room and the president of the united states talking jobs and his trip to asia. >> -- can open an and expand so that people can find good jobs and so that we can repair the terrible damage that was done by the worse recession in our lifetimes. today, we received some encouraging news. based on today's jobs report, we've now seen private sector job growth for ten straight months. that means that since january, the private sector has added 1.1 million jobs. let me repeat. over the course of last several months we have seen over a million jobs added to the american economy. in october, the private sector has added 159,000 jobs. and we learned that businesses added more than 100 thousa,000 august and september, as well. we have seen four months of private sector job growth above 100,000 which is the first time we have seen this kind of increase in over four years. now, that's not good enough. unemployment rate is still unacceptably high. and we've got a lot of work to do. this recession cause add great deal of hardship and it put millions of people out of work. so in order to repair this damage, in order to create the jobs to meet the large need, we need to accelerate our economic growth so that we're producing jobs at a faster pace. because the fact is, an encouraging jobs report doesn't make a difference if you're still one of the millions of people who are looking for work. and i won't be satisfied until everybody who's looking for a job can find one. so we have to keep fighting for every job, for every new business, for every opportunity to get this economy moving. and just as we passed a small business jobs bill based on ideas of both parties, and the private sector, i am open to any idea, any proposal, any way we can get the economy growing faster so that people who need work can find it faster. this includes tax breaks for small businesses like deferring taxes on new equipment so that they've got an incentive to expand and hire. as well as tax cuts to make it cheaper for entrepreneurs to start companies, this includes building new intrastructure from high-speed trains to high-peed internet so that the economy can run faster and smarter. promoting innovation and creating inkrentdives in growth sectors like the clean energy economy. certainly includes keeping tax rates low for middle class families and extending unemployment benefits to help those hardest hit by the downturn while generating more demand in the economy. it's also absolutely clear that one of the keys to creating jobs is to open markets. to american goods made by american workers. our prosperity depends not just on consuming things but also on being the maker of things. in fact, for every $1 billion we increase in exports, thousands of jobs are supported here at home and that's why i set a goal of doubling american exports over five years and that's why on the trip that i'm about to take i'm going to be talking about opening up additional markets in places like india so that american businesses can sell more products abroad in order to create more jobs here at home. this is a reminder, as well, that the most important competition that we face in the new century will not be between democrats and republicans. it's the competition with countries around the world to lead the global economy. and our success or failure in this race will depend on whether we can come together as a nation. our future depends on putting politics aside to solve problems. to worry about the next generation instead of the next election. we can't spend the next two years mired in gridlock. other countries like china aren't standing still. so we can't stand still either. we have to move forward. i'm confident that if we can do that, if we can work together, then this country will not only recover but it will prosper and i'm looking very much forward to helping to pry some markets open and help american businesses and put people back to work back here at home during the course of this trip. >> all right. president of the united states there at the roosevelt room of the united states going on a ten-day trip of india, indonesia, south korea and japan. longest foreign outing of his presidency and he is hoping to seek out economic benefits for the u.s. we'll be following his trip. jobs also top priority for congress and the president. department if i political director paul steinhauser with the latest. hey, paul. >> hey, kyra. you heard the president talk about unemployment and jobs. you know, no surprise. our exit polls indicates more than 6 in 10 americans said the economy by far the top issue facing the country. check this out, though, also from the exit polls, what's the highest priority for congress when it comes to the economy? off the top, 39% saying reducing the deficit. followed very closely at 37% by people who say spending more to create jobs. and then finally, at the bottom there but also important, 19% saying cutting taxes, of course, the lame duck congress coming back this month dealing with the possibility of the extension of bush tax cuts and the issue on the minds of americans, talking about it on the cnn political ticker, as well, health care. you have heard top republicans just yesterday, the two top republicans in congress talking about doing everything to not implement the new health care law. what do americans think from the exit polls, 31% saying that the new law expanded with 16% saying leave it as it is. that's about 47% of the country and that's pretty much divided country. another 48% say repeal the new health care law and seems americans are pretty much divided with that controversial, new health care law, kyra. >> and some updated results of today's election? >> it ain't over yet, right? earlier this hour you talked about washington state. it ain't over. exactly. it is over in washington state. but there are still some elections out there. we've got alaska on the senate side. that one is still unresolved and probably going until next week to count the write-in ballots up there. nine house contests still remain unresolved and three gubernatorial contests, connecticut, minnesota and vermont. may have resolution today in connecticut. until every race is resolved, your cnn political you is there. >> you sound like a used car salesman now, paul. i'm glad you're always there for us. see you soon. we'll have the political up dmat about an hour and reminder for the latest political newses, go to cnnpolitics.com. monopoly is the focus of the flashback history. parker brothers introduced monopoly in 1935. it's board game that brings families together. listen to what some of the people that make the game in east long meadow, massachusetts, have to say about 75 years of monopoly. >> monopoly is the quintessential board game. it's sold in 111 countries and 43 languages. >> best game to play. >> this is where monopoly is manufactured. this is the hasbro games facility. it is the largest games and puzzles producer in the world. we produce up to 2 million monopoly games a year. >> my job to make plastic parts for our games and toys. i'm sure everyone plays monopoly. it's something that's just never going to go away. >> i've been here 25 years. i work on the monopoly line. all are different. this is 30 pieces in each pack. >> i think it teaches you part of life. you know? you make the right decisions in life. if you make your investments how to save money, how to buy property. it's being a part of history. more fun with the family. you get to talk with the family. video games you just sit there and do this all day. >> this is a final assembly line. this is where it all comes together and where the magic happens. just a way to bring the families together. teaches you about numbers. teaches you about competition. teaches you about relationships. life is just too hectic now. it moves at a pace we're not used to. this slows it down a little bit. perfect family game. >> thanks to our photo journalist bob crowley for that. all the monopoly memories got us thinking. we want to know your favorite board game and the favorite memory with it. just go do my blog. post your comments. we'll read some of them in the next hour. breathe in, breathe out. as volatile as markets have been lately, having the security of a strong financial partner certainly lets you breathe easier. for more than 140 years, pacific life has helped millions of americans build a secure financial future wouldn't it be nice to take a deep breath and relax? ask a financial professional about pacific life. the power to help you succeed. ♪ what's the name of the game ♪ does it mean anything all right. scanning the morning passport, jerusalem. we think of board games as simple family fun. a diversion. for two young boys trying to survive the holocaust, one game in particular helped them give the will to keep carrying on. it is a story about imagination, inspiration and the power of the human spirit to overcome your circumstances no matter how dire. here's cnn's kevin flower. >> reporter: these are not your ordinary monopoly players. so this is the game? >> this is the game, yes. >> reporter: brothers miha and dan glass were happy schoolgirl in 1938 until the nazi invasion of czechoslovakia a year later turned their lives upside down. your world changed. >> completely. changed completely. >> you can't understand it. everything changed. >> reporter: the boys were sent to a nazi-run jewish ghetto and for tens of thousands of jews, a first stop on route to the death camps further east. amidst the horrors, a jewish artist designed a makeshift version of the board game and the recognizable ghetto monopoly was born. >> the buildings, the huge building, the big building were named after german steets, so e hamburg, and these are the properties. >> reporter: fashioned from cardboard and drawn by hand, the game was made as a subtraction for the thousands of children and used as a tool to teach them about life and death in the get toe. transactions were conducted with worthless paper money, and the game's board pieces and properties served as a grim reflection of the reality faced by the camp's conditions. this researcher studied life in the get toe. the care and attention adult prisoners paid to children, she says, was an important way for them to maintain a sense of humanity and purpose. >> maybe give some time of happiness, to create such a game like monopoly. for a little bit, you can forget from everything. but, you're coming back to the reality at the end. >> reporter: the brothers glass survived that reality, and with them, they took their game. 15 years ago, they donated it to israel's holocaust museum so the world could see and remember. >> because there are many, many people that they think that it was not the holocaust. and we had a very happy family before the war. and after the war, there was nothing. >> reporter: for both brothers, the game brings up difficult and painful memories, but through it all, they're able to see the silver lining. what was good about it? >> good. the time standing here with my brother, and what i told you, that i have a family, big, loving family. >> reporter: to survivors who hope a game will help people remember. kevin flowers, cnn, jerusalem. >> as we know the game lives on. we're following lots of developments next hour in cnn newsroom. let's start with sara sidner. >> reporter: trade, equipment sales and education, some of the items that are on president obama's agenda as he makes his way onto his asian tour. first stop here in india. i'm john zarrella at the kennedy space center. the often delayed final flight for the space shuttle discovery delayed again. a young child actress dies. her parents hope her death is not in vain. how can you save other children. live to port you a prison haiti where they're bracing for hurricane tomas, and tent city dwellers are pushing back against aid workers to relocate to safer ground. we were actually thinking, maybe... we're going to hike up here, so we'll catch up with you guys. [ indistinct talking and laughter ] whew! i think it's worth it. working with a partner you can trust is always a good decision. massmutual. let our financial professionals help you reach your goals. tony, baby, exciting end to last night's virginia tech football game. here it comes. virginia tech's david wilson returns a kickoff 90 yards for a touchdown. boom, boom, boom. beep! tech went on to win 28-21. >> tech against tech. >> we know how it is. we live here and see the rivalry. >> how are you, kyra? >> great. good to see you. sparky. i was so bummed to hear that news last night. >> this strikes home for me because in '69, my baltimore orioles lose to the mets, and the following year they get back to the world series, and who do they play? they play the reds. this is before they were the big red machine, but you had two iconic managers. you had sparky anderson, who was everyone's best friend and earl weaver, who was a crotch chetty guy. >> sparky got his nickname because he would get angry at the umps and would spark. >> they were both combustibles but larger than life characters managing two teams with all kinds of icons. you had johnny bench, pete rose, joe morgan, tony perez, to name a few of those reds. >> we traded those baseball cards as kids. >> my beloved orals, brooks robinson, big powell, and my youl time favorite, paul blair in center field, don buford in left. >> tony has the entire lineup from 1973. >> he was a terrific guy, the only manager to win the world championship in both leagues, terrific guy. there he is. >> there he is in action. >> you're out of here! no, you're out of here! you're out of order! just terrific stuff. a great guy, sparky anderson, certainly a part of my childhood growing up in baltimore and watching that series in '70. you ready for an upbeat note. >> this is up your alley. >> there are too many moving parts in this dance. this is the rookie john wahl, the amazing rookie. take a look at this. have you seen this dance before? >> no. >> this is called -- kids help me here. this is called "the dougy," right. it's a tribute to the great rapper dougy fresh. we bring it back so that it makes sense for us. >> the days of the shul gar hill gang, dougy fresh. >> six minutes, dougy fresh, you're on. this is the new dance sensation for the kids in sports. this guy is a superstar in the making, unbelievable as a player. my question is now, is he obligated to do this dance every time he's in a home game. do you want to roll it again? >> i want to see you give me a little dougy. >> again, too many moving parts, and i'm sure i would snap something. so, there it is, kyra -- >> happy weekend. >> happy weekend. >> we could split screen it, a little john wahl and tony harris. >> you crazy kid. see new an hour, kyra. >> all right. top of the hour, now. 10:00 a.m. on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. out west. the jobless numbers for october are just in this morning. our economy added 151,000 jobs last month. president obama called those numbers encouraging news but said there's more work to be done. it wasn't enough to boost the 9.6 unemployment rate. no relief for the people of haiti. hurricane tomas making a powerful pass by the island, winds up to 80 miles an hour and 15 inches of rain. the january quake left up to 1 million haitians homeless and they have been fighting a cholera outbreak and desperately are seeking shelter. an old man boards a flight in hong kong and gets off in vancouver as a 20-something. he was escorted away by border service officers. we can't get enough of this story and we're digging a little deeper this hour. we have to move forward. i'm confident if we can do that and if we can work together, this country will not only recover, but it will prosper, and i'm looking very much forward to helping to open up new markets and help american businesses and put people back to work during this trip. president obama leaving on ten-day asian trip, hoping to help more u.s. businesses get a foothold. he goes to india and meets with the prime minister. his visit to indonesia will include a speech to the people, and then he travels to south korea for a g-20 summit and talks with the president. he will wrap it up in japan, the site of an aibs pacific cooperation summit. sara sidner joins us from new deli. what does the president hope to get from india, and what does india hope to get from the president? we lost contact there with sara sidner. we'll try to get back to her and we are following live pictures of the president of the united states as he gets ready to take off on that trip. haitians pushing back against aid workers trying to get them to relocate. flooding and mudlieds could damage post earth cake tent cities and cost a lot more lives. a lot of residents don't want to leave because they're afraid of losing their possessions. crystal wells is on the phone. she's the representative from the international medical corps. crystal, has everyone been able to relocate up to this point or are there still people fighting and not wanting to go? >> reporter: to be honest with you, the large number of the displaced, more than 1 million displaced here, it's simply too many to relocate and there's really nowhere for everybody to go. however, those that are living in camps and low lying areas, coastal regions, we, the international medical corps and other aid agencies have worked to relocate those camps and bring them to higher ground, but absolutely as this storm comes in, not everybody will be relocated. >> so, crystal, where does the international medical corps step in. tell me exactly what you're doing now and how you're preparing for this. >> absolutely. primary the international medical corps we're obviously a medical agency, and our very first priority in situations like these is going to be to save as many lives as possible. so we have preproigsed medical teams along the western pen nins la where the storm is moving across right now, as well as the southern coast, and the cholera emergency teams up in the north. all of these medical teams are currently on standby and they'll move out into the community and work in our network of 14 clinics as soon as possible and work remote medical units to reach as many people as possible during the storm. >> crystal wells, international medical corps, thank you so much. reynolds wolf is here tracking tomas right now. what do you think? >> i think haiti is in for a rough time. there are couple of scenarios that might have played out, and if it made a direct hit, it might be better in some ways. that would be the idea that the storm would be away from its primary power source, the warm water of caribbean but instead, the forecast brings this system -- let's enlarge this one more time. to the due west of haiti, and if that happens, the main center of that storm will be over that warm water, still relatively strong, although some weakening is expected as the circulation interacts with the highest elevations of southwestern haiti. you have to consider the topography, the ring of high hills that surround port-au-prince, and it's almost like a bowl, so to speak. with the high hills and heavy rainfall, that rainfall will be more dramatic in the higher spots, the lift where it helps to squeeze out some of the moisture from the storm. you could see a foot of rainfall in some places and maybe even a bit more outside port-au-prince, and it's going to go right downhill into areas without vegetation, nothing to hold the soil. smud slides will be a tremendous danger. wind, not so much, but the wind expected to be fairly strong and as we wrap things up, you look at the forecast in the national hurricane center into saturday and sunday and even monday, you expect the storm to weaken but the next six to eight hours will be rauf for haiti. heavy showers along parts of the northeast. delays in boston and new york possible later on today. also, one more thing, time to set your clocks back. it is the fall weekend, when we make the transition over so you get an extra hour of sleep over saturday night into sunday. for those working this weekend, it's a little bit of help. >> it is. reynolds, thank you so much. as you know, we were talking about the president of the united states heading to india for a ten-day trip through asia hoping to build better jobs and relations with those kunds. going to india to indonesia and japan. we have sara sidner up from new delhi. let's talk about what the president is looking for from india and what india wants from the president. >> reporter: well, what we know now is that the president is really pushing business ties. of course, that including trade. it also including defense sales. on the trade angle, he's looking at how more american jobs can be created by india allowing things like stores like walmart in. they have very strict policy on foreign retailers who can't just come in and start selling to the population which, as you know, is more than a billion people, a huge market here that's growing, but there are a lot of barriers to that. that will be talked about. also, the u.s. is looking at trying to get a defense sale to go through. it's worth billions, literally billions of dollars, for c-130 aircraft, and other military aircraft that the u.s. would build there and the administration anying that that money and the building would happen in the u.s., which would, in turn, they say, create jobs in the u.s., and then those items would be sent to india if that deal goes through, and, also, of course, you have the angle of counterterrorism. india is in the region with pakistan, and afghanistan and certainly a player because it's a stable government, and the u.s. wants to have strong strategic ties with india. as far as india, india's looking for a couple of things that are not yet on the agenda but certainly you think would be talked about. they have been asking for big support for a u.s. security council seat, a permanent seat and they also want some assurances from the u.s. in its relationship with pakistan and how the u.s. is handling pakistan and how pakistan is dealing with terrorism inside its borders. kyra? >> we'll follow that trip. thank you so much. one year ago today, a gunman opened fire on the sprawling post of ft. hood texas. 13 people died, dozens more wounded. that military post is marking the advertise with a private service for the families of the fallen and also an award ceremony to honor those who helped save lives during that rampage. the post will hold a series of events this weekend, including a half marathon. photos of the 13 victims will displayed at mile markers of the 5 k race as well. chris howell, we talked a lot about this during the past year. a lot of changes have been made on that base. why don't we start with that. >> yes, ma'am. ft. hood has taken a hard look at its different processes across the post and the army has done so as well. but, first of all, i'd like to say that our hearts and our minds are with the families and the children of those that lost someone. they are resilient. we are a resilient force, and they are an example of that resilience, and we hope just to honor them here today. >> let's talk more about the changes, chris, if you don't mind, because that was a huge concern, as we know, among the public, among the military, that how could one of your own, an individual that was supposed to be helping otherwise struggle wi with ptsd and other issues. what have you done to make sure that those who are helping others are mentally stable for that job? >> well, actually, we have taken a hard internal look all across the army and later today, the secretary of the army, and the chief of staff of army will hold a press conference to discuss the details of that, but it will deal with installation security, workforce training, to improve the safety of our military, our civilian workforce and their families, and those measures that i really want to let them talk about later this afternoon we'll outline but we are much safer now than a year ago. >> how are those coming back from war getting the treatment that they need? >> here at ft. hood, we have a behavioral health campaign that has taken a holistic's proechb at looking at not only the folks coming back from war and giving them the treatment that they need but those that are preparing to go and deploy and make sure they have the resilience they have that they need to endure the hard. s of war. as an example, there is a resiliency campus here that looks at the mind, body and soul of the soldier and the family members we have a fiscal fitness center and a cognitive center. >> what a way to honor those lives lost, this run to remember. what's going on behind you? what time does it start, chris? >> well, this is the location of the remembrance ceremony. this will start about 9/p.m. today. you'll hear from the chief of staff of the army and he'll, talking to not only the folks from the families and friends from that day, but also the general public. at about 10:00 a.m. today, we're going to honor the members that went above and beyond that day and give them some due recognition. the secretary of the army will be heading that up about 10:00 this morning, and they'll be receiving medals, soldiers's medals and for their actions of going above and beyond the call of duty, and following that, we will unveil a memorial dedicated to those we lost that day and after that, we will come over here and do our remembrance ceremony. >> chris haug from ft. hood, we appreciate your time. we asked people all over america where the best potatoes come from. the best potatoes? idaho. idaho! idaho. and how do you know you're getting idaho potatoes? well...uh... uhm... heh.. 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amber lyons spoke to his good friend tom sizemore. >> tom had issues with drug and alcohol addicts himself and charlie helped tom get into rehab, and now tom is trying to repay the favor. he's saying, listen, charlie, you're a mess. tom sizemore is saying that he feels the only way that charlie will go to rehab is if he's fired from "two and a half men." you look at the incident isn't new york, two weeks later, he's back to work. there is no time for charlie to spend time healing charlie if he goes back and to the show so quickly. we looked into that and into domestic violence. here's a quick preview of the though that's going to air saturday. >> reporter: last week, reports of an alcohol-fueled rampage. a hotel suite trashed. charlie sheen naked, hospitalized, and this porn star, 22-year-old christina walsh locked in the bathroom. what really happened at the plaza hotel that night with charlie sheen? >> i think there are two people who know what happened inside the room, charlie sheen and the other is christina walsh. what we think happened inside that room is at some point in the night, early in the morning, really, things got ugly. there was an argument of some sort over something. >> reporter: actor tom sizemore is his friend of nearly 20 years. >> in six hours, you can undo 17 years of hard work and people remember the six hours. >> reporter: like charlie, tom has long battled addiction and like many of charlie's friends, tom fears for him. have you tried to reach out to him and helped him get into rehab? >> i tried call him. i couldn't get lieu. he wouldn't talk to robert downey. >> reporter: robert downey tried to call him as well? >> yeah. he knows about treatment. he's been to treatment, and marty knows all about it. >> reporter: marty is actor martin sheen, charlie's father. he is a recovering alcoholic himself and is reportedly trying to stage an intervention and trying to help his son overcome a dark family legacy. there are lot of lists in hollywood, the a list, b list, and the death list that succumb to these alcohol and drug addictions. tom and dr. drew pin ski both say if charlie doesn't get his act together, they fear that's where he's going to end up. >> here's what's sad. obviously, there's a problem, and the show does well every time he acts up, so his employers want to make a lot of money and want him to keep doing the show because the ratings go up and it's more money for them. where is the accountability to do something for a guy that's a train wreck? >> we looked at that in the special because every time he screws up big time in his social lich are the ratings soar. you look at last december when he was accused of holding a knife to his wife's throat, that next airing was the highest ratings they have had. >> what does that say about men and the abuse against women and ratings go up, and it'sle to righted and he still has a job? what a sad statement that makes. >> we looked into the psychology of that, and more than anything it's because no photos or audio tapes have been released. you look at mel gibson, the audio is there. chris brown, there were photos. there are no photographs to let people know the gravity of the situation going on here. charlie is charlie in his characters. he doesn't really veer too far away from his natural personality in his shows. he's not a tiger woods or someone people expect to be a good guy. he's hollywood's bad boy and that's why people accept it. they don't expect anything more. >> that's sad because something dramatic is probably going to happen eventually. look forward to the doc. has america had enough of one of it's bad boys. that's saturday 10:00 p.m. eastern, sunday night a 109:30 p.m. eastern on cnn. a funny thing happened on a flight from hong kong to vancouver. this old guy went into the bathroom and came out a young guy. funny how that international dateline somehow changes people. you never considered making bluetooth, remote keyless entry and turn-by-turn navigation available in every model. so it must be hard for you to hear autoweek.com say our interior raises the small-car bar. if you want to talk about it, call me... that is you know when you get home... since you don't have bluetooth in every model. the all new chevrolet cruze. starting under $17,000. get used to more. ♪ this chicken tortilla soup has such a wonderful zesty quality. that's the chipotle and cilantro. it's one of our new mexican soups. it reminds me of guadalajara. a special man. his delicious soups. sheila? 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"columbia," the first of the fleet launched on april 12th, 1981, a few months after president reagan took office. there was no space station back then, so "columbia" spent a couple of days in orbit before it came back home. and oufr the year, the that program has seen its share of triumphs and tragedies. let's talk more with john zarrella from florida's space coast. john this has been your beat for quite sometime and we have watched these lives for so many years and talked to the astronauts, and it's been a real journey. >> reporter: it's been quite a ride, pardon the pun. here's a trivia question for you. you mentioned the first shuttle flight. who were the first two astronauts to fly? >> the first -- yeah, i should have prepped for this. >> reporter: "columbia" was john young and bop crippen, and i interviewed them back a few months ago as we prepared to cover the final flight when it does happen, whenever that is. you mentioned the milestones for "discovery," this being the 39th and final flight when they do get off the ground. they have been plagued by weather and numerous other issues along the way towards liftoff. they're trying to figure out now whether they can make another attempt to launch "discovery" on monday or tuesday next week. that's very, very questionable. if not, it would be early december before they would try to launch again. but, you know, "discovery" also launched the hubble space telescope and the yew list cease probe and flew john glenn into space in 1998 and both of the return to flight missions following the tragedies of "challenger" and "columbia." and, you know, on board this vehicle, this time, besides the six astronauts -- you know, this was supposed to be the final flight of the entire space shuttle program and things changed and it had to be rearranged because of scheduling, but this hand-picked crew was supposed to be the final crew to fly a space shuttle and, of course, now they will not be the final crew and we are not shoe exactly who will be at this point as things continue to unfold with nasa wanting to add another flight perhaps as late as next june or july. no question, when "discovery" gets off the ground and returns here, it's earmarked to go to the smithsonian but the question is who will pay for the 25 million to 40 million it will cost to fix it up, clean it up and get it up there. >> john, you tested my astronaut history. i've been gathering a number of nasa inventions. technologywise. i have a list here i put together. i want to see if you can guess any of them. just throw out and don't say tang or velcro because we can talk about those myths and stories, but nasa inventions. can you throw some out? >> reporter: some nasa inventions? well, they have invented a lot of pumps for hearts. they invented communication systems, a lot of the cell phone technology that we have today, many of those kinds of communications devices that we take for granted today all came out of the space program. what else? >> okay, very good. um, let's see. you've got -- hold on, john, two seconds. i will get back to our little quiz in just a second but i'm getting some information actually. carrey, go ahead and repeat that. i was listening to john and you at the same time. nasa has been placed on lockdown -- unverified reports of a gunman inside the building. are you getting word of this, john? >> reporter: yeah. i talked to folks at nasa headquarters in washington a little while ago and they said that all they have is a report that there may be a gunman at the glenn center, which is a research center outside of cleveland, ohio. the facility is at this point on lockdown. that's all of the information that the folks at nasa headquarters have at this time. kyra. >> all right, got it. we're working on getting contacts there out of ohio to find out if, indeed, we can confirm this. so it is on lockdown, this glenn research center there out of ohio, the nasa research center. unconfirmed -- john, you said unconfirmed reports of possible gunman there on the premises? >> reporter: we don't know where on the premises, other than at the glenn somewhere. somewhere at the glenn research center, but that is the reason for the lockdown because of this unconfirmed report and i'm not real familiar with how large and expansive an area that glenn research center,how many buildings. >> we're working that. with regard to your inventions outstanding. i heard part of what you said. did you say the ear thermometer or the cordless tools? >> reporter: no, i did not know the ear thermometer. how to, that is a very interesting one. not bad at all. the cordless tools, you know, a lot of the tools that they're using, that they have used to build the international space station that we've seen all of those spectacular pictures outside with the astronauts using those cordless drills and things, a lot of those applications have been transmitted to track cal use down here on earth. no question. you know, the big question, kyra, now the space station up and fully operational, six astronauts, cosmonauts and european astronaut, now they believe they can do the cutting edge science research, things that may help with heart disease, high blood pressure, all of those kinds of things. >> a lot of that research being done at this center that we were talking about, the glenn research center there in ohio. john, stay with me because we're starting to get some more achings about this. now we're hearing there's a standoff. is that correct? have we confirmed that there's a standoff with an alleged gunman or more? okay, so we don't know if it's a standoff. we probably shouldn't say it's a standoff if we can't confirm that. we are not sure if, indeed, there are gunmen on the premises or not but we can tell you that the research center is on lockdown and we are just getting our google map together to give you an exact loexz. john zarrella, are you still with me? >> reporter: yes, i am. tell me where in ohio this research center is? i leave it's just outside of cleveland. >> outside of cleveland. >> reporter: by the cleveland hopkins international airport. i have flown in there a couple of times, and it's not far from there. >> okay, got it. i'm trying to work some information to get more. here we go. go ahead, john. >> reporter: i was just going to say, there's something like 300 acres, more than 100 buildings there at that center. so it is quite a large facility. >> here we go, and you're right. it looks like brook park police have responded there to lewis field at the glenn research center and one of the affiliates, the abc affiliate is reporting that police have been called to the center, reporting that at least eight police cruisers have been seen there. it says that they received reports that a gunman was inside building 77. that building, in addition to the entire research center, we're told, is now on lockdown. now, we're being told shots were fired about half an hour ago. that's what the affiliate is also saying, too, that a viewer that has a connection actually inside that building said that they actually heard shots fired. also, 3,000 people work at this facility. also, the abc affiliate there in cleveland saying that an e-mail was sent to the news station apparently trying to communicate with somebody win that building. that person saying that one person had been shot and that the shooter was an accounted for. this is coming from one of the affiliates here out of cleveland. so, once again, if you are just tuning in, breaking news, just outside of cleveland, ohio, happening at the glenn research center, nasa glenn research center, on lockdown now, possibly a gunman that has been holed up inside that building. that's what one of the affiliates is reporting now at that we are trying to confirm this information. we did get a comment from katherine trinidad, a spokesperson with nasa, confirming that the glenn research center is on lockdown. she said all i have is unverified reports of a possible activity involving a gun. local police on the scene. the center is on lockdown. we are following this breaking news for you right now and will bring you more from the cnn newsroom. 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>> reporter: no, not really anything more than what you have, kyra, but i wanted to point out and i'm sure most of your viewers know this, that any time you come to one of these nasa facilities, the security is fairly, fairly tight. like, for us even to get on the base here to the press site, we have to fill out forms and we get one of these media badges, and other people do as well. certainly there are tours from the visitors center that take people in confined areas in buses out to some of these centers. so it doesn't seem like it would necessarily be someone from the outside who was involved in this because it's awfully difficult, whether it's the johnson space center, the kennedy space cen r center, the jet propulsion will beer to -- laboratory, security is very tight to get on the bases. >> we will continue to follow this, and we are also following this breaking news just outsided of cleveland. getting word about another issue with a qantas air bus. as you know, in the past 24 hours, we were talking about that whole fleet that was grounded after an engine blew, regarding a flight to singapore. now we're getting word something -- there's been another issue with another qantas aircraft. we're getting information for you right now about five minutes before the top of the hour. we'll take a quick break and bring you that info right on the other side. ♪ [ rock ballad ] ♪ ahh-ah-ah-ahh ♪ ahh-ah-ah-ahh ♪ ahh [ announcer ] just because you'll never want to let it go... doesn't mean it won't reward you if you do. only one car has the highest resale value in its class. ♪ here i am presenting the one. the 34-mile-per-gallon accord, from honda. boss: just going over how geico helps people save in even more talkways... ...with good driver discounts, multi-car discounts, defensivdriver discounts... boss: just going over how geico helps people save in even more talkways... woman: you! oh, don't act like you don't recognize me! toledo, '03? 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