korea launched a deadly artillery barrage on the south korean island and now china has called on its communist ally to engage in diplomatic talks. assessing damage across parts of the south. a possible tornado strikes mississippi, even as it recovers from a massive twister that hit in april. the same storm system threatening that area today. happens right now, the pentagon is unveiling advanced copies of its don't ask, don't tell study on capitol hill. hundreds of thousands of our warriors surveyed of the ban and today the answers, answers that could change the future of our military policy. brianna keilar live on the hill where moderate lawmakers waiting for this report to make a decision but let's get right to chris lawrence at the pentagon. chris, any early clues to what's in the study? >> reporter: yeah, kiran. i spoke with a source saying that the study shows the majority of troops don't have a problem serving with openly gay service members. basically that most of the troops who were surveyed in the report found that either they think it's repealing don't ask, don't tell would have a positive effect, may have some mixed results or going to have no effect at all. the number of troops that think it will have a negative effect is small compared to that. the chairman of the joint chiefs said he wants it repealed saying it's in a culture that promotes honesty and integrity doesn't feel it's right to make troops lie about who they are but the commandant says, why now? why would you try to push this through right now? still others say, you know, president obama hasn't done enough to push this issue. others say he's just pandering to a special interest group at the expense of the troops. we'll hear the details in a few hours. kyra? >> thanks so much. lawmakers sitting on the fence about don't ask, don't tell say that the report is the one that they've been waiting for. brianna keilar is on the hill and can be a pretty critical day. >> reporter: this is a very critical day. i'm outside of one of these closed door meetings, the briefings that are going on right beyond those walls. a staff-level briefing. advanced copies of the report that the staff members are getting and they're going to be reporting back to the members of congress. why does this matter so much? well, because you have a lot of moderate lawmakers, especially in the senate where this is so crucial, and they are going to be making a decision. a lot of them have said they're not going to go public about what they think about repealing don't ask, don't tell until they get this report. well, it's here. they don't really have cover anymore and they're going to be under pressure to go public with the position. the other thing is awaiting hearings here later in the week. thursday and friday. we'll be talking about don't ask, don't tell in the ehearing. secretary gates, co-authors of the report and heads of the military branches asked tough questions s by lawmakers on bo sides of the issue. >> brianna, thanks so much. crunch time in the push to repeal don't ask, don't tell. let's look back at how we got here. don't ask, toent tell has been the law for 17 years. president clinton made it official on november 30th, 1993. since then, the palm center, a pro-repeal think tank says nearly 14,000 troops have been discharged under the policy. that includes the army, navy, air force, coast guard and marine corps. but don't ask discharges are plunging. in 2001, more than 1,200 troops were discharged. in 2006, that dipped to about 6700. and last year, it was 428. most americans are in favor of letting gay troops serve. 58% according to a pew survey from earlier this month. balance of power and taxes, in play next hour at the white house. president obama is meeting with congressional leaders of both parties just weeks before republicans seize control of the house. the big issue, whether to extend the bush-era tax cuts before they expire next month. ed henry joins us. what's at the crux of the tax cut debate right now? >> reporter: whether to extend the tax cuts for all americans or break it up as democrats want to extending it just for middle class tax cuts and then hold off on extending tax cuts for the wealthier americans where the president divides the line, $250,000 a year. under that, he considers that middle class for a long-term extension and some talk maybe a compromise here if this meeting goes well and some more talks down the road that maybe they could have at least a short-term extension on the tax cuts for the rich. maybe a year or two years. don't expect it to happen right away. this is really just the beginning of the conversation and in fact i'm picking up from senior administration officials, the president's considering delaying the hawaiian vacation to start around december 18th saying in private he might delay it at least a few days because they don't think the negotiations will happen quickly. they think it drags out for a few more weeks, kyra. >> all right. meanwhile, do we say famous or infamous slurpee summit? depends, right? >> reporter: famous if you're at 7-eleven because they're marketing the heck out of this thing. >> that's right. >> reporter: yeah. but i mean, a lot of people wondering will it go anywhere? how's the relationship between the president and john boehner, the speaker to be? if you take a step back, the president initially right after the election said, look, do this as a big summit. let's have a meeting and do business but then let's have dinner in the residence. a few hours. he wanted to restart the relationship. instead republicans said that they were busy up on the hill and couldn't do it before thanksgiving. they did come up with an ammicible time to do it now and not doing dinner but an hour, hour and a half meeting and moving on and suggests at least a little bit that the president's whole promise of this whole new start, big dinner together, it's not getting off the ground, kyra. >> got it. all right. ed, thanks so much. you hear that slow drip? actually it's speeding up a little bit. latest leak of classified information of a whistle-blowing information. wikileaks is reveals messages of embassies from around the world. china appears to be losing patience with the long-time ally north korea. senior figures in beijing describe the regime as behaving like a spoiled child. one u.s. diplomat says china is rattled by north korea's nuclear missile test. the chinese envoy quoted saying the activity is a threat to the whole world security. the u.s. is condemning wikileaks for exposing the candid and valuable exchanges. >> so let's be clear. this disclosure is not just a attack on america's foreign policy interests. it is an attack on the international community, the alliances and partnerships, the conversations and negotiations that safeguard global security and advance economic prosperity. >> well now, just to offer context, cnn declined a last-minute offer of wikileaks for advanced access to the documents. cnn found that the confidentiality agreement requested to be unacceptable. the bottom of the hour, we'll talk to a reporter sifting through the mountain of documents, amassed by wikileaks and share his insights. and next hour, we'll get insight into the young army private believed to have leaked some of uncle sam's secrets and find out if the problems with don't ask, don't tell might have driven him to do it. all right. this morning, folks assessing the damage across parts of the south. a possible tornado struck yazoo city, mississippi. the courthouse had part of the roof ripped off. several businesses in the area damaged, as well. but no reports of deaths or serious injuries. severe weather in winn parish, louisiana, damagestroyed a home damaged three others. tornado? is that what we're thinking? >> yeah. may have been a touchdown about two hours ago now and this was near laurel, mississippi. and that threat will be ongoing throughout a good part of the day today. we have a new watch in effect from parts of atlanta, stretching down towards mobile and this will continue until 3:00 eastern time this afternoon. and you can see that little skinny line. it is all within here that we're getting some isolated tornadoes. and we have had a number of warnings in the last hour. there you can see two new ones just popped up. that is getting close towards the birmingham area. we'll continue to monitor that threat in the day and we think the carolinas getting hit with severe weather in late afternoon and into the evening hours. now, the northeast not severe here but we are looking at some heavy rainfall at times. big cities hold off on the rainfall for the most part until the afternoon hours. but interior parts getting heavy showers and one to two anchs of rainfall in that area. lots of airport delays today. we had a ground stop lifted for atlanta. a ground stop means nobody's taking off from other airports to get into atlanta. while there aren't any delays any longer at this hour, look at the low overcast conditions. we expect to have more delays as you progress throughout the day today and there you can see the big picture. one of the other big stories here, kyra, cold temperatures. a 20-degree drop once the front passes through today. november 30th, the end of the hurricane season. >> oh. you and you have covered many hurricane seasons and you have been out there. >> i'll say. >> you've seen how bad it is. how bad was it in 2010 would you say compared to other seasons? >> put together a graphic for you to show you that. it was really very active. here in the u.s., you might say gosh we hardly had anything. they didn't hit the u.s. for the most part. good news. overall, we took second place for the most number of hurricanes. zero landfalls here in the u.s. and we had one tropical storm if you remember bonnie early in the season. on average, one out of four make landfall in the u.s. we were fortunate. >> we like to be fortunate. if you can be honest, turn back time, what age would you go back to? >> i'm telling how old i am now. >> just give -- give years. >> 30 was a great age. i loved being 30. >> you'd go back only a short period of time. >> only a year. >> okay. well, you might want to tune in to this. cher saying about turning back time, we love that song, right? researchers might have actually done it, as well. may have old mice young again. how long before they can do the same thing for old men and women or young women like me and jacqui jeras that want 15 years off of our lives? 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it is not -- it is not like a lightning strike. the guy on the right, he's kind of gray. kind of balding. the hair is spars. >> like 80. >> he is like 80. i guess. maybe 75. the guy on the left, he is young. and that's what they did is they made them old and then young again and not just the outer appearance but the inside, too. the hearts were old and then young. the brains shrunk down, neurons died and then reborn and the brains bigger again. they were infertile older and then fertile again so it's really pretty amazing. >> let's talk about how they did it. >> a short science lesson for my friend kyra. very short one. i promise. you will do fine. >> i struggled in the classes. >> it has to do with telameres, the caps on the ends of the chromosomes and what happens is take a look at this. see the nice red caps? big. you can see them. big and obvious. that's a young chromosome. now, look what happens as we age. those caps start to fray and you just have these little sort of nubs on there. and that's not good. when you get the little ends like that, it tells the body to start aging so they made them grow back again and to do that they had to monkey around with the dna. >> the question is, of course, how long could this take to work into humans? how do you do it on humans? obviously there's risks involved, too. >> you can't do this on humans messing around with the dna. you can ask the doctor what you could do with humans. you can talk to him about that. >> okay. so there's much more research yet to be done, correct? >> i'm not booking a plane trip to boston. if i was a mouse, i would be but i'm not so i'm here in atlanta. >> i'm glad. it's a talker nonetheless. before you go, breaking news out today. we have heard about drunk driving, you know, texting and driving. now drugged driving. someone would say there's a no-brainer. things you shouldn't do behind the wheel. >> the number's so interesting about this. they found that people who drive and are involved in a fatal accident, they looked to see if they had drugs in the system and one out of three of them. that is a high number for some of them an illegal drug, for some of them it was a prescribed drug or over the counter drugs. we talked to the drug czar about this and here's what he had to say. >> i was very shocked by the number. it is a very high number. clearly getting the message out to the public about doing drugs and getting behind the wheel is critical. >> there is a caveat here. the caveat is that just because they had a drug in the system didn't mean that that drug, you know, impaired the ability to drive. maybe it was an anti-depressant. doesn't mean that the ability to drive was impaired but the first study of its kind and a place to start saying, hey, if you take a xanax should you be driving? 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>> we wondered how many people would get busted for shopping at work. >> i don't know who did but i think a lot of people shopped yesterday, that's for sure. >> good for our economy. let's look at it in a positive light. >> it is. good news of taxpayer money for the bailout. the government spent $700 billion to keep companies like general motors and aig in business. many watchdogs howled that it was a waste of cash. now, nonpartisan congressional budget office says that most of that money has already been repaid. taxpayers are waiting on about $25 billion. that's less than 4% of the total bailout costs. 6:30 a.m. on the west coast. 9:30 in washington, d.c. where one of our hot stories will happen in about an hour. president obama meeting with congressional leaders of both parties, big issue, whether to extend the bush-era tax cuts before they expire in a month. one of every three drivers in fatal crashes tests positive for drugs. that's a new government study released today. illegal drugs and also prescription and over the counter medicines were included in that study, by the way. and drama shaking up the art world. 271 works by the legendary pablo picasso that no one has seen before. a retired electrician has them. he said they were gifts. the family says they were stolen. they're worth about $80 million. also this morning, we are closely monitoring the latest revelations of wikileaks making washington squirm right now by revealing secret diplomatic messages of embassies around the world. here's the latest examples of private messages now made very public. one of the most interesting insights comes out of china. it appears that beijing is losing patience with its long-time ally north korea. senior figures in china describe north korea as behaving as a potentialed child and a u.s. dip lo mat says china is rattled by the regime's nuclear missile test and the envoy quoted as saying the activity is a threat to the whole world's security. joining us now is a journalist who's been sifting through all of those documents, i don't know how he does that. andy larin, do you take a break or working 24/7? >> a little bit of a break every now and then. thanks. it is a lot of work. >> i can just imagine. that's the best part of this job is when you get to discover things like this. as you have been going through, two things stood out to you. first, let's talk iran. what grabbed your attention going through the documents with regard to iran, andy? >> well, may not surprise many of your viewers that iran is a big issue, but reading these cables, you just get a sense of just how large an issue this looms for our diplomats around the world. not just those in the middle east, but also, those all around the world who might be trying to, for instance, clamp down on nations delivering goods to iran that might help it become a nuclear state or help it develop long-range missiles. and also, its neighbors. incredibly rattled with the developments of what's going on inside iran. >> so, as you were sifting through then, you definitely saw examples that -- i guess, it's more concern would you say within conversations about our national security? >> concerns about what's going on in iran to a large degree. particularly the -- its ability to get missiles, countries such as saudi arabia bending over backwards, for instance, to try to convince china not to allow certain shipments to go to iran. and to also prevent technology flowing to iran that could help it become a greater military threat. >> now, andy, do you -- you know, a lot of critics have been saying, look, personal conversations that shouldn't be revealed and more embarrassing than anything else and a conversation of kim jong-il being flabby, you know, so do you think as a journalist it's important that we learn about these discussions or do you think that there is a sense of privacy that should remain private? >> this is without a doubt an incredibly difficult decision that we've had to make at the times. and it's one that's not being made lightly or easily. we've been going through this material and we've been very careful to try to not release anything that would damage national security and not just our reporters, working with colleagues, we have reporters with years of experience covering military, national security and diplomatic affairs for years. they have been going through this and also we've had reporters sitting down with the white house to review the cables that we would be publishing and to make sure that we don't publish anything that would endanger americans or put our nation at risk. >> let me ask you a question. "the new york times" wrote an article, it caught a lot of our attention. we're talking about it this morning, andy. i want to ask you about it. you published an article about manning the suspected source that's been leaking all of these documents. and it talks about the fact that he is openly gay and he talks about his -- the treatment toward him in the military. do you think that wikileaks is not happy about that article and that it taints wikileaks' motives with regard to the release of these documents and how they're getting them? >> you know, i think that's one of those issues that you might be better off asking the folks at wikileaks about or, you know, or bradley manning if, you know, you're able to interview him. we did not get these particular set of documents from wikileaks, by the way. >> how did you get them? there's reports throughout from the -- >> that's correct. >> okay. so you did receive them from the guardian. >> yeah. >> and what made you -- what made "the new york times" comfortable with getting those documents from "the guardian"? >> sure. well, keep in mind that we had had a working relationship with "the guardian" this summer going into the fall looking at the documents from the iraq and afghanistan wars. so this is part of an outgrowth of that cooperative effort. >> well, will be interesting to follow your work, andy. and as you continue to sift through. how much more do you have to go, by the way? >> it's not over yet. and the times itself will be publishing a series of stories in the coming days and weeks ahead. >> we'll be following it. thanks, andy. >> thank you. >> you bet. next hour, we're going to get insbigt the young army private believed to have leaked the uncle sam secrets and find out if the problems of don't ask, don't tell might have driven him to do it. >> pulitzer prize winning author kidnapped by the taliban in pakistan. he has a story to tell and so does his wife that fought to free him back to the u.s. the couple wrote a book together "a rope and a prayer." and this morning john roberts had a chance to look at both stories. the book reads like fiction but it really happened. and, the title, you hit on both of the subject matters. the prayer part, it was interesting what he had to say. >> okay. let me set it up for you. november 10th, 2008. david rode was captured by the taliban to interview a taliban leader south of kabul. he was very careful not to travel into dangerous areas. he was married for two months but he was captured by the taliban. held for seven months and even the negotiations and potential ransom payments were being talked about the prayer part comes in, he learned even though he was skeptical of religion, learned the power of religion. gave him strength. he struggled to remember the lord's prayer but he came up with it. this is the prayer part. >> well, i saw religion at the best and the worst. religious extremism, you know, led to the kidnapping. they were fundamentalists and that was a religion at its worst and then i did find sort of saying a prayer every day helped me center myself and keep going. i'm still skeptical of organized religion. i covered the war in bosnia. terrible things done in the name of religion and helped me i found through this captivity. >> first part of the title and then the second part, the rope leading to the interesting escape. >> it does. again, there were all of the negotiations being undertaken by tikt whom he worked for. his wife was also trying to get contractors to negotiate his release. people on the ground there trying to do it, as well. there was a point we saw a rifle lying on the ground and thought about picking it up and shooting the captors before they shot him and thought better of it. in the end, he and his -- they had a plan to simply keep the captors up late playing a game and fell asleep, dropped a rope over the wall and dropped down to freedom. here's what he told me about that. >> the taliban felt so comfortable in the place we were taking in pakistan. this is where al qaeda and osama bin laden thought to be. it was .3 of a mile from the pakistani military. it is a taliban mini state. when they were asleep, we went over the wall, used this rope i found and made it to the base and then a moderate pakistani army captain let us inside and apologized to what had happened to us. >> we should add that his wife, of course, had a lot to say about this whole ordeal and she made it very clear, his job as an international correspondent is over. >> well, and here's the thing because his wife is a very strong woman and i know something about having a strong woman in the relationship and he was afraid to tell her what he was going to do and left her a note. left her a note saying, i'm leaving. i have to interview a guy. she was very angry about that. she went to see mom in maine. and told her about it and mom said, okay. you just took wedding vows. two months ago. >> he's leaving you a note. >> time to live up to the vows. >> yes. >> i know. but she said, you took wedding vows. live up to the vows. you can get angry later. right now, do all you can to win the release. >> as we well know, you want to get in good graces with the mother-in-law and new wife. thank you, john. >> yes. got to make sure you don't upset those strong women because the repercussions -- oh. >> brutal. yes, they are. it's a good read. thank you, john. former gop congressman and current msnbc correspondent joe scar borough has cot thoughts. 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put your foot in it. we don't have a lot of time but i want to get to some great sound from last night. derrick anderson is the quarterback for the cardinals. they're playing a miserable game at home. shellacked. booties spanked, right? losing 27-6. that's right, kyra. spanked. derek anderson is the quarterback for the cardinals. he's laughing on the sidelines as they're getting spanked, right. a reporter in the post game news conference called derek anderson on it. take a look and a listen. >> i'm not laughing about it. you think this is fun? i take this [ bleep ] serious. i put my heart and soul into this [ bleep ] every single week. every single week i put my heart and soul into this. i study my [ bleep ] off. nothing's funny to me. i don't want to go out and get embarrassed on monday night football in front of every. goose and i were talking. >> what was the context? >> i'm done. >> we have to be done. i have comments but i have to hold them because we have to get to another intrepid reporter doing sis job. 5-year-old joey, junior chicago blackhawks reporter, adorable. let's roll it. >> how much money to you get from the tooth fairy? >> well, she was really good to me. she left me a dollar for every tooth. so i got $7. >> what did you buy? >> i bought a pack of gum. >> so he can chew it with his one tooth. >> he got his teeth knocked out. >> all seven of them. >> this kid is great. you have to watch this online. he goes further. he says, who is the biggest turkey on the team and he names every player. it's awesome. >> joey has a future. ♪ tell me something good >> rufus and chaka "tell me something good." >> you're good. too good to be true. >> i'm back to show prep. meanwhile, it's 10:00 a.m. on the east coast, 9:00 a.m. out west. in wisconsin, police trying to figure out why a 15-year-old boy walked into this high school classroom and took 23 classmates and a teacher hostage. he eventually shot himself, those injuries set not to be life threatening. no one else was hurt. as the u.s. and south korea continue military exercises, there is an effort to ease tensions in north korea. government ministers from the u.s., japan and south korea meeting in washington to discuss those hostilities. former teen idol david cassidy failing roadside sobriety test in florida. the one-time star of partridge family failed a breath alizer test. ed balance of power and the bottom line of your taxes, both playing out this hour he white house. in 30 minutes, president obama will meet with congressional leaders of both parties weeks before republicans seize control of the house. the big issue, whether to extend the bush era tax cuts, and the big challenge, trying to ease relations in the slurpee summit. >> i have been using an analogy. imagine them driving a car into the ditch, and duval and me and kerry and mark and frank, we have all put our boots on. we went down into the ditch, and we started pushing that car out of the ditch. and it was hot down there and muddy. and we kept on pushing, and every once in a while, we'd look up, and the republicans were standing up there, fanning themselves, sipping on a slurpee and we would ask, are you going to help, and they said, no, that's all right, but y'all should push harder. >> are the republicans ready to sit down and cooperate, compromise, have some slurpees with the president? >> yeah, i think they are. you know, look, i think that the president said that he wants to do that. i know that the republican leadership in the house and the senate said from the very beginning that's something they wanted to do when talking about health care and talking about finance reform, so i fully expect that when the new leadership emerges in january, they're going to be more than willing to come down to the white house, sit at the table, have a few slurpees. >> ed henry, who grew up loving slurpees as well. who's going and what's on the agenda? >> reporter: you're going to have house and senate democratic leaders, john boehner, mitch mcconnell. they will be here in full force because this is really their first chance after the election to try to pick up the pieces and figure out what they're going to do in the lame duck session and in january, are they going to be able to come together on a range of issues. let's look at what's on the agenda. we have tax cuts. those bush tax cuts are going to be expiring on december 31st. the big question is -- do you extend them for those in the middle class only or do you also extend the tax cuts for the rich? there's expected to be some sort of deal where the rich get at least a short-term extension of a year or two. don't ask, don't tell, the president pushing an overturn on that ban of homosexuals serving openly in the military. also, the jobless benefits. by christmas, millions of americans going to have their benefits run out. and the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty. the president has been pushing hard to try and get that through. the republicans have been resisting so far. mitch mcconnell was on the floor a while ago giving us a little preview of what we might see coming down here. >> we've heard a lot of chatter here in washington lately about the negotiations that are expected to take place on the looming tax hike in the weeks ahead, how to prevent it. how about we start with this? the beginning and end of any negotiation shouldn't be what's good for any political party. it should be what's good for the economy and for the american people. and if we leave the politics aside, and if we look at the facts, the answer here is simple. no tax hikes on anybody. no tax hikes on anybody period. >> reporter: so you can see that the republicans before this meeting trying to stake out very tough ground and saying, look, extend the current tax rates for everybody. because if you do not extend them for the rich, it's essentially a tax hike. the president wants to final middle ground there. i'm standing right now in what they call the stakeout location. this is where we expect the republicans leaders and democrat leaders will come out when he return from the we have wing. we learned that the president is going to come out and address reporters about 12:20 eastern time, something new to the schedule. you can see, some of the business will happen in the meeting, but the real business is probably going to happen afterwards when both sides try to come out and spin what really happened behind closed doors and moving forward what they want to see in the tax cut negotiations and other dealings they have. >> ed henry at the white house, thank you very much. right now, the pentagon unveiling its long-awaited study on don't ask, don't tell. the 17-year ban on openly gay trooping serving in the military. hundreds of thousands of our warriors were surveyed on what they think about a possible repeal. today we get the answers, answers that could eventually change of future of our military policy. chris, advanced copies of the survey were released on capitol hill. any early clues about what it says and what we're going to learn? >> reporter: yeah. we were told by a source earlier that basically this report is going to say that the majority of troops do not have a problem serving with openly gay troops. that most of the people who were surveyed in this report, most of the troops either felt it was going to be a positive change, mixed results or have no effect at all. it was evenly a minority that felt that it was going to have a vast neglect effect. i have spoken with troops in iraq and afghanistan about this, really informally, and some have told me, hey, we had gay troops in our unit. everybody knew it. we never had a problem with it. others thought, you know, they wouldn't be comfortable. you know, knowing and not knowing, there's a big difference there. there's a split at the top as well. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, mike mullen came out publicly saying he wants don't ask, don't tell repealed, while the kmaund dant of the marine corps says now in the mill of two wars is not the time. i spoke with someone in a group that sports troops, military readiness sort of support group, who said she feels it is not really about reforming the military. she thinks this whole push on don't ask, don't tell is really about paying off some political favors. >> if you take a microscope to that report, you will not find one word about how repealing the law would benefit the military, not one word, because there is no benefit to the armed forces. his is a political promise made by the president to lgbt activist groups. >> reporter: so obviously she's saying even if there is no harm to repealing dnt diplomat, it doesn't do anything to actually improve the fitness or readiness of the force. of course, people on the other side will say some gay troops have been forced to lie, really, about who they are, and that sort of goes against the code of the military which values honesty and integrity. >> well, what does this report mean to lawmakers who actually have to cast a yes or no vote on the repeal? >> reporter: well, some of the more liberal senators are going to vote to repeal it regardless. the report is inconsequential. the more conservative members on the other side, like john mccain, he's probably not going to vote to repeal dnt diplomat no matter what's in the report. the folks in the middle, the conservative democrats, like mike pryor, moderate democrats like susan collins. they're going to take a look at the report, and some of them have made up their mind and need the political cover. others will take a look and see what the report says before casting their vote. >> got it. chris lawrence, we'll be watching it closely. hearing the dripping sound? it's getting faster and louder. it's a latest leak from wikileaks, revealing secret diplomatic messages from u.s. embassies now from around the world. here is some of the latest revelations. china appears to be losing patience with its long-time ally north korea. senior figures in beijing say they are behaving like a spoiled child and one u.s. diplomat says china is rattled by north korea's nuclear missile test and that it's a threat to the whole world's security. before wikileaks exposed these secret diplomatic messages, it unleashed a similar flood of leaks from the iraq and afghanistan war logs. wikileaks founder says a major u.s. bank will face a similar treatment. julian assange says early next year he will publicize tens of thousands of internal documents that expose the seedy underside of big business, and as you might guess, he won't identify the bank. now, assessing the storm damage this morning after a difficult night in pars of the south. a storm in louisiana has destroyed one home and damaged two others. no one was seriously hurt. in mississippi, a city courthouse was damaged. in mississippi, six people were hospitalized after a possible tornado struck there. now, the threat of tornadoes remains this morning from mobile, alabama, to atlanta. jacqui jeras is watching it for us. >> it's been real rough going since late yesterday afternoon. we have at least ten reports of tornado touch jouddowns. the threat is ongoing well into the afternoon hours. we have one watch getting shaved off from the new orleans area up towards parts of alabama, and now atlanta down into mobile is under the threat of a tornado. we want to talk about yazoo city, you saw some of the pictures. this is the second time yazoo city has been hit by a tornado. we have the agency deputy director with the mississippi emergency management. leigh, what are people waking up to? >> this is a different path, farther north and hit more of the downtown business area. we think we have about 20 businesses and a few homes that were damaged. >> how extensive is the damage? is it just rooftops or major damage? >> we do have some major damage reported. right now there are about seven teams in that area out doing assessments to get a better handle on it because we know power is out in about 30% of that area. we need sunlight and daylight to see the damage. we expect this morning, by noon, to know statewide how bad the damage is. >> that's what makes it so damaging this time of year is that it does come at nighttime when people are sleeping. it was about 8:00. what about injuries? >> in other counties, we have 11 injuries in monroe county. six injuries in another county. there were fortunately no deaths. >> we heard reports early this morning, perhaps, of a possible tornado near lauerle. do you know anything about that? >> i'm not sure. the weather teams are going out today to see what happened. a lot could be straight-line winds. to reiterate to people that this time of year, it may not be a tornado but it can be straight-line winds that can cause the same type of damage. >> thank you so much. lea crager, thank you. the threat is going on. it was so devastating for yazoo. an ef-4 tornado that devastated the area earlier this year. >> video of david cassidy's dui arrest is released, and we'll tell you what they told police coming up in showbiz. join the jaguar platinum celebration ! come celebrate exciting cars that are stunning to look at, exhilarating to drive and worry free to own. celebrate this holiday season with the gift of platinum. jaguar platinum coverage: five years or 50,000 miles of complimentary scheduled maintenance, and no cost replacement of wear and tear items. visit your jaguar dealer during the platinum celebration for a $599 lease offer on the 2011 xf. yeah. aww...that oj needs alka-seltzer plus. fast powder packs are a taste-free fizz-free way to transform your drink into a powerful cold fighter! there's a cold front moving in, but relief is on the way. you don't decide when vegetables reach the peak of perfection. the vegetables do. at green giant, we pick vegetables only when they're perfect. then freeze them fast so they're are as nutritious as fresh. 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>> yes, he did, just after the highway patrol pulled david cassidy over under suspicion of drunk driving, the trooper asked if he has any problems with his eyes. you heard him say he has had a wandering eye since a child and his right eye still wanders when he gets tired. after he performs and fails a field sobriety test, he is arrested. he said he was on prescription medication, and this morning, tmz is reporting that his lawyers were in court and officially pled not guilty to the dui charge on his behalf and they will be back in court in january and we will have to see how the wandering eye defense plays out. >> i hope he gets it together. thanks a lot. if you want information on everything breaking in the entertainment world, a.j. has it every night, showbiz tonight 5:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. on hln. we've saved people a lot of money on car insurance. feels nice going into the holidays. ohhhh.... will you marry me? oooh, helzberg diamonds. yeah, well he must have saved some money with geico. reminds me of the gecko mating call. really? 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>> he was born in a small town in oklahoma and he felt he was a little bit different. according to his friends and some other people we have talked to and in his own writings, he have openly gay and grew up with a very, very firm sense of what he felt was justice and was quite opinionated beyond his years, often talked about politics openly and very brashly even with younger classmates. >> interesting. you also delved into this facebook page and there were a lot of revelations from that as well. >> he was affiliated with a lot of left wing political organizations, everything that sort of supported equal rights for gays, and he was certainly for repealing the don't ask, don't tell policy. according to his facebook page. >> and you also -- it was interesting the instant messages and communications that you delved more into as well with this gentleman lemeaux. >> let's set up mao adrian lemeaux is, an inform mass hacker based out of california. he is beloved and legendary in hacking circles. bradley manning heard about him and reached out to him in instant message chats that lasted over a period of days in which, and i'm quoting manning, saying, i can't believe what i'm confessing to you, and he goes on to say in these instant chats that he has these classified cables and reams of other confidential intel he plans on sharing with wikileaks. >> wow. it gets personal, too. this one instant message allegedly sent to lemesax, my family is nonsupportive, losing my career options. don't have much more than laptops and books and a hell of a story. now, you know, obviously, we have to be careful about what we're saying here, but it's interesting when you look into this background. he felt isolated. he's openly gay. he's talked about repealing don't ask, don't tell and now she's the suspected guy that's leaking all of this information about military correspondence and correspondence with embassies and talking about this war. it's an interesting and fascinating connection. >> it is, and you're right. we do have to be careful. i don't know, no one really knows for sure what motivated bradley manning, if, indeed, he is behind his massive document dump to wikileaks. but, we can say that he, by his own word says at one point to lemeaux, i'm self-medicating like crazy. he says that he is feeling pressure. that he doesn't seem to fit in, and, again, you can tell through the instant message chats with lemeaux, that he feels a kindred spirit with him and needing someone to talk with. >> anything before we let you go, because you have written so many of these articles, does one thing stand out to you, or something that sort of surprised you, shocked you or wanted to to write mob about it or intrigued you about this young man? >> i would certainly like to speak with this family. we were not able to do that. bradley manning's father was a member of the military. i would like to know what exactly motivated him to join the military, join the army in the first place. we should say that he worked as an intelligence analyst for sometime based out of baghdad and in the instant messages, he explained that he was pretending to listen to lady ga ga's song "telephone" as he was downloading the documents. that's shocking. how could someone breach that kind of security without some bells going off? everyone's curious about that. >> interesting. lady ga ga has been outspoken of don't ask, don't tell and in support of gay troops. ashley, you have done an amazing job. i engourch everything to go and look at your articles. 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>> that's correct, kyra. it's a pleasure to be with you this morning. what this study teaches us is that there's a point of return, that even very aged tissues retain a remarkable capacity to regenerate themselves, to rejuvenate themselves. if you remove the underlying cause of aging, one of the major causes of aging is accumulating it dna damage as might occur, for example, from free radicals, and they go on to damage your dna, particularly the tips of the chromosomes, these structures knowns a telomeres. we injured mice to turn an enzyme on and off that would repair the damage that's caused at the ends of the chromosomes, and in the off state, when the repair enzyme was inactive, we found that these animals aged prematurely. they had a shortened life span. they had shrunken brains, impaired cognition, they were infertile and had gray hair as you showed in your lead. when we flipped the switch back on, we were expecting, perhaps, a slowing of the aging process or stabilization. we witnessed a dramatic reversal in the signs and symptoms of aging. the brains grew in sides. their cognitivable was restored. their coat hairs were restored to a healthy sheen, and the animals became fertile again. again, it teaches us that there's this remarkable capacity that even aged tissues have to be restored if you remove the underlying cause. >> doctor, reality check, we can't ditch the oil of olay. it could be dangerous. let's address that, and the fact that it's not just something that could be parlayed right into human study yet. let's have a reality check. >> yes. well, thank you for making that point. i think it's fair to say that there's a great deal of research that needs to be done to understand how can we exploit this new knowledge to improve human health. telomeres, these ends of chromosomes, in fact, when they become eroded and damaged, in fact, can cause cancer. so the activation of this enzyme earlier in life may, in fact, prevent the development of cancer. however, in later stages of life, if you have an established malignancy, an oh ccult cancer, it could enable those cancers to take flight. we need to understand where we can pick our fights with respect to this particular enzyme, but i would also haste ton add that aging itself is the end result of many factors. one of which is these tips of chromosomes, but there are other factors that act collectively. they act as co-conspirators, to compromise the health of the cell. so one would really need to understand how to control all of those different processes to really have a significant and meaningful impact on a human condition, and, in fact, ultimately extend life span. however, this particular enzyme and the tips of your chromosomes, these telomeres, do play a very important role in a healthy ageing in humans. there's very good evidence epidemiological evidence to show that if you have shorter more damaged telomeres beyond the age of 60, you're at increased risk for alzheimer's, cancer, diabetes, heart disease. so if we turn this enzyme back on in a safe way, if we learn how to do that, we would be in a position to really impact on the human condition. >> well, it's fascinating and promising research. i know this is just the beginning, but it's pretty incredible what you all do there at harvard medical schooling. >> doctor, thank you so much for skyping in. it's an interesting talker. appreciate your time so much. >> my pleasure. >> lots of questions over a jaw dropping collection of art from picasso. previously unknown but found in a retired elected trigs's garage. more on that in a minute. and aleve was proven to work better on pain than tylenol 8 hour. so why am i still thinking about this? 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>> well, nobody really knows. it's sort of their word against his and his wife's. they say it was absolutely a gift for a job well done. he was basically fixing burglar alarms around houses that picasso used to own, and they're his legitimately. people are saying, why are you coming out with this now? they're saying, we're getting on and may pass on soon and we want to get our estate in order so our kids don't have a headache. >> are you going to try to get a little piece of the picasso, zain? >> of course, kyra. i'm trying to muscle my way in there. c'mon now. i think the most interesting thing here is that picasso was a pretty generous guy. he did give away a lot of his paintings, but one thing that was striking is that he also didn't like to pay for anything. so, say, he went to a restaurant or a bar or anything. he didn't pay with money, but he said, give me a napkin, i'll sketch something out or a little piece of paper and i'll draw you a picasso, and people took the picasso and not the cash. there are a lot of people who have really cool drawings by picasso. one thing, too, kyra, is that the french police took all of the 271 art works and put them in a secret vault on the outskirs of paris. i can't get my hans on it and neither can you. >> i can imagine being handed a napkin with a piece of picasso. that's the best tip every. >> don't blow your nose in it. >> exactly. no red lipstick. well, taxpayers getting a big break. the financial cost for the financial bailout, about 25 billion. choose one of three premium seafood-and-steak combinations... all under $20. get succulent lobster... paired with our eight-ounce wood-grilled sirloin... tender snow crab legs and sirloin... or new chardonnay grilled shrimp and sirloin... all with salad and unlimited cheddar bay biscuits. three new surf and turf combinations... all under $20. only for a limited time, and only at red lobster. is a powerful force. set it in motion... and it goes out into the world like fuel for the economy. one opportunity leading to another... and another. we all have a hand in it. because opportunity can start anywhere, and go everywhere. let's keep it moving. ♪ no surprise here. a couple new polls showing a split between what the public wants from its politicians and what it expects from them. paul steinhauser has more. >> earlier this hour, you talked to ed henry about the summit getting under way between the president and top republicans and democrats in congress. do americans think there is going to be compromise here between the president and republicans? you just alluded to it. a brand new poll shows that more than 7 in 10 say, yeah, we want to see it, want both sides to try to compromise and get things done for the country. own lay minority of 25% say they should stick to their guns. but will there be compromise. the next poll and graphic from the same poll, yeah, 64% say, probably not going to happen. not very optimistic. that's what americans are thinking. they want to see compromise but don't think it's going to happen. before the break, you were alluding to the find cost of t.a.r.p. asset relief program, the wall street bailouts, the $700 billion bailout started under president bush and continued under barack obama, bailing out major banks, insurance and investment houses and big auto companies as well. the final price tag, the congressional budget office now estimating the final cost to taxpayers is $25 billion. the price tag gets lower and lower and lower. one last thing to talk about, and i will ask floyd are our cameraman to zoom in. we have seen a lot of sarah palin, and we know she may run for the white house. what about mitt romney, flirting again with a run for the white house. tomorrow night, he'll be on late night television joining jay leno on the tonight show. >> we'll be watching. thank you very much, paul. your next political update in an hour. a reminder, go to our website cnnpolitics.com. let me tell you about a very important phone call i made. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn't cover everything. in fact, it only pays up to 80% of your part b expenses. if you're already on or eligible for medicare, call now to find out how an aarp... medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company, helps cover some of the medical expenses... not paid by medicare part b. that can save you from paying up to thousands of dollars... out of your own pocket. these are the only medicare supplement insurance plans... exclusively endorsed by aarp. when you call now, you'll get this free information kit... with all you need to enroll. put their trust in aarp medicare supplement insurance. plus you'll get this free guide to understanding medicare. the prices are competitive. i can keep my own doctor. and i don't need a referral to see a specialist. call now to get a free information kit. plus you'll get this free guide to understanding medicare. and the advantages don't end there. choose from a range of medicare supplement plans... that are all competitively priced. we have a plan for almost everyone, so you can find one that fits your needs and budget. with all medicare supplement plans, there are virtually no claim forms to fill out. plus you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicare. and best of all, these plans are... the only medicare supplement plans endorsed by aarp. when they told me these plans were endorsed by aarp... i had only one thing to say... sign me up. call the number on your screen now... and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan. you'll get this free information kit... and guide to understanding medicare, to help you choose the plan that's right for you. as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicare, get help paying for what medicare doesn't... and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. >> we honor the men and women in uniform who have given their lives in iraq and afghanistan for all of us. we call it home and away. today we are lifting up lance correspondent raymond johnson from georgia. he was killed in afghanistan on october 13th of this year. his big sister wrote into us and says i hope that raymond is remembered for his sincere love. people. i want him to be remembered for wanting the world to be a better place be even willing to risk his life to make it so. raymond's twin brother is also in the service. he was allowed to escort his brother's body back to georgia. if you have a loved one you would like us to honor, go to cnn.com/homeandaway, type in the name in the search field, send us your thoughts and pictures, and we promise to keep the memory of your hero alive. 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