murray. he's charged with involuntary manslaughter in the pop star's death. the entire jackson family will have front row seats. don lemon is there. don, let's talk about what exactly happens today and who we might see testify. >> hey, kyra, you may know as much about this and the players as i do. this is your old stomping grounds and some of the same people may be here. you know, this is the set up. that's what's going to happen today. the jury is going to get instructions from the judge and this is a set up. this is where the prosecution and defense say, here's what happened. this is why dr. conrad murray is guilty because he did this and then the defense will say, well, this is why he's not guilty because michael jackson did this and they're going to say that michael jackson really took the lethal dose himself. he either ingested it by drinking it or gave himself a shot or put the iv into his arm and gave himself a higher dose. that's what's going to happen today. that's a set up and that will happen and then later the first witness, kyra. >> tell us about the makeup of the jury. what exactly we know. i was looking at some of the details this morning. lay it out for us. >> okay. so, kyra, here we go. we have in the jury, first seven men in the jury, always 12. seven men and then five women in the jury. and it's interesting because everyone has been talking about the racial makeup of the jury and people are like, oh, my gosh. only one african-american and they're saying that because dr. conrad murray is african-american but the person he is charged with in his death is also african american. they don't believe race is involved. one is african-american, but they don't believe that race really is a factor here because both people are of the same race. both people are african-american. what i find more interesting about this, kyra, they have picked some people in this case, the jurors, who are really, i think, smart and successful people. in one instance you have someone who has worked, kyra, works in workers compensation. you have another person who is a professor and then you have another person who runs a company. a technology associate director and product management. so, you have some smart people who can take their jury instructions and can separate the difference between being a michael jackson fan and exactly what the prosecution and defense are saying and how they have to abide by the judge's constructions here. so, i think they've picked a pretty interesting jury. >> we'll be following the opening statements right along with you. don lemon live out of los angeles, don, thanks so much. be sure to check out our sister network, hln, for in-depth coverage. your place for coverage throughout the day. all right, let's talk politics now. with only days to spare, the senate has seemingly avoided a government shutdown by passing a short-term spending bill. lawmakers were able to stop bickering and strike a compromise on a potential deal breaker, giving fema badly needed money for relief. the measure that received strong bipartisan support now goes to the house. kate baldwin is on the hill. kate, talk to us about this break through and what went into it to make it happen. >> it seems like it was a little bit of a combination of this looming deadline and also, possibly, some good luck if you will. the break through came yesterday afternoon when fema announced it would actually have enough money in its very much defleeted disaster relief fund to make it through the end of the week, which it had previously said they didn't think they could make it through the end of the week. the end of the week is the end of the fiscal year. with fema saying they could make it through without any additional money, that eliminated the major issue that was holding up agreement all along. whether or not the additional money that fema was looking for and congress wanted to give them to make it through this fiscal year whether or not that should be paid for and that was the major sticking point. so, with that off the table, kyra, the table moved pretty quickly last night to approve a short-term spending measure. the measure would keep the government running through november 18th and also give fema additional money for the coming fiscal year, you know, 2012 of some $2.65 billion. so, they wrapped it up pretty quickly once that issue was resolved. >> what happens from here, kate? >> all eyes then turn back to the house. the house still needs to sign off on this measure because it's different than what the house passed last week. the house is out this week. presumably with the major issue eliminated off the table. that was a sticking point in the house, as well. this fema funding being paid for or not. they could move quickly to pass this measure. what could also happen because they could do it quickly, kind of with the legislative maneuver. people are getting a sense of what could happen the senate passed a one-week spending extension to bridge the gap between now and when the house returns. so they could move on that and deal with the full short-term spending bill when they return early next week. kyra? >> kate baldwin on the hill for us, thanks. new jersey governor chris christie says he will not run for president, but he does have a big speech tonight. paul steinhauser, any chance of a big announcement? >> i will not say no until he gives the speech tonight at 9:00. don't count on it. a lot of people have been begging, begging chris christie to run for the white house for the republican nomination, especially in the last couple days when it seemed maybe rick perry the texas governor is faltering a little bit. perry said no all along. tonight, 9:00 eastern he gives a speak at the reagan presidential library. quite a setting, huh? i spoke to one of his advisors yesterday and she said, no, don't expect any announcements on him running for president or changing his mind. the title of the speech, real american exceptionalism and it is going to be a good speech. he has become a rock star because of his tough talk against democrats and his tough action trying to cut the budget in new jersey, kyra. >> rick perry slipping a bit, but still the frontrunner, right? >> we are all talking about the uneven performance in the last debate and saw the straw poll results this weekend, for him, not so good. this is over the weekend cnn orc poll. rick perry still ahead of mitt romney. still in first place. so, what's the deal here? right, kyra? he's having all these troubles. you watch this stuff, you and me and the activists watch this stuff closely and most americans we poll are not that glued in yet for the race for the white house. maybe it's not registering yet. that same poll continues to show that mitt romney does better against barack obama in a political matchup. kyra? >> your next political update in about an hour. for all the political news go to our website 24/7. cnnpolitics.com. in libya the new government says it will not return the lockerbie bomber to prison. megrahi was convicted of the pan am bombing. scotland saying he had more than two months to live. most of the victims were americans and lawmakers joined families demanding that almegrahi be imprisoned. what is the argument against it? >> libya says it hasn't received any official requests to return mu grau hae but regardless it says it would not happen anyway. his view is that this was a man who was tried, convicted, served time and has been released under scottish law following due process all the way, they say. essentially, he has been prosecuted once. they do not believe it is appropriate for a man to be prosecuted twice for the same crime. that's on issue. it is a blanket, case closed, they say. they will help investigators by providing new documents, access if anything is requested and they believe it could lead to the conviction of new people in this case, kyra. >> you know, phil, all of us here saw al mugrahi. now that gadhafi has been forced out. any insight to how staged that moment was? if the libyan people actually supported this terrorist. >> it's difficult to say. he is certainly someone who has a very high profile in this country. you can almost call him a celebrity. anecdotall anecdotal anecdotally, i would suggest not every libyan would be absolutely thrilled at his return or the actions that he is convicted of having taken a part in or that sort of thing. a very much pro-united states feeling. we have seen it absolutely everywhere we go. we feel it. they are very grateful to the role of the united states and other western powers at play and helping bring about the end of the gadhafi regime. so i would suggest that, no, i don't think that would be the feeling on the streets. not every libyan would worship this man as a hero. i think they do see him as a declined, sad figure now. you might recall that we saw him, cnn saw him about a month ago. he looked very unwell at that time. we had brief access to him. he appeared to be essentially comatose. very much near death. we have not been able to receive any updates since then. but he's not a well man and he's not a popular man here either, i would argue. >> phil black for us out of tripoli, thanks. after almost four years in an italian prison, amanda knox's bid for freedom is at a crucial point. her defense team giving closing arguments today in knox's appeal. zain verjee checking out some of the national headlines. zain, what are they saying? >> both sides have come out punching. what happened is the prosecution has painted amanda knox as someone who is a promiscuous, loose woman called into extreme experiences referring to the alleged sex game that they say went wrong. they also called this satanic, two-faced and what they did in court was show photos of the victim, meredith kercher and stab wounds and pretty gruesome painting of amanda knox. the defense team is saying the life of two kids, this is how they put it, are at stake. the other person being an ex-boyfriend. and they're also depending on a lot of dna evidence that has been called into question. here's what the headlines are saying for a couple of papers. "the daily telegraph" in australia says this. killer or fall guy the question whether two innocent people were jailed by shoddy investigations or a couple natural born killers who will get off on a technicality. the scotsman says court turns into theater as knox appeals her conviction. it goes on to read, "the former university of washington student has been cast by prosecutors as a cunning young woman with a penchant for extreme sex games and by her supporters as a naive victim of bumbling italian police and unreliable forensic evidence." will she get off or won't she? she gets to address the court one more time before the verdict. kyra? >> we'll follow up, zain, thanks. a topic getting more talk, should the u.s. military allow women to serve in combat? one u.s. ally is breaking down that barrier. what it means for the u.s. post-it wars in france. what is behind this paper battle in about ten minutes. these nasal allergies are spoiling our picnic. i know what works differently than many other allergy medications. omnaris. omnaris, to the nose. did you know nasal symptoms like congestion can be caused by allergic inflammation? omnaris relieves your symptoms by fighting inflammation. side effects may include headache, nose bleed, and sore throat. got allergy symptoms out of my way. now life's a picnic. 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[ female announcer ] only from aveeno. all right, let's get to your "showbiz headlines." the millionaire matchmaker is dishing out apologies. manage to offend gay men by saying their capable of and most women by dumbing it down to land a guy. the huge battle between charlie sheen and his old bosses on "two and a half men" over. he sued the show's creator and he'll get 25 million bucks in show profits. week two of "dancing with the stars" and a couple missteps during the quick step. hln host nancy grace well, accidentally flashed the audience, toonks to a little wardrobe malfunction. the judges gave her high marks, though. meanwhile, chazz bony struggled with two bum knees the judge's noticed. they got the lowest score of the night. most of us use notepads for notes, but in france folks are using post-its in an art battle. zain verjee, fill us. >> there is a war going on in paris and it involves weapons of glass obstruction. let me explain what's going on here. let me explain, kyra. okay, so, what's happening is in all of these offices around paris, you know, the high-rise buildings, people are putting tiny post-it notes in such a way that it's creating something incredibly artistic and what's happened is the office building across the block or across the street that sees it kind of retaliates with their even better artistic version that can be created out of post-its. look at those pictures. hard to des have something like that across sometimes seven to eight floors. like military precision. you know, you need to plan and to be able to organize something like that because it's hard, kyra. and i can prove it to you, although i'm quite talented. i did come up with my own post-it. this is a z. >> and that would, of course, be for zain, you lost your zany mind. you're sleeping. >> it could also be an n. >> and that would stand for? this is nonsense. >> a nut. >> a nut, there you go. >> maybe something like that. but you know what, the bosses of all these companies are having different reactions. some of them are saying, well, this is really good. this is for team building because everyone gets together and plans it and what they're going to do and other bosses are like, this is a total waste of time. you cannot do this, get back to work. that's hard to do that, kyra. should we do that at cnn center in atlanta. >> i think we have plenty of other things on our plate. it's a hard time, it's a tough economy. we might get in trouble for wasting all the post-its. >> the people that produce the post-its are doing pretty well, aren't they? >> they're making all that extra money and getting free publicity. zain, you're so artistic, thank you, my friend. coming up, middle class families feeling the pinch of our sour economy, but where you live may actually determine how much you lost. we'll explain. he was there at the birth of napster, he helped facebook bewhich the world's most pow powerful social network. what's next for sean parker. checking top stories now. opening statements in the trial of michael jackson's doctor. senate republicans and democrats have worked out a compromise to keep the federal government from partially shutting down. the fema funding agreement still needs house approval before the end of the week. and fighters for libya's new leaders say they now control the port in the city of sirte. those fighters have been in fierce clashes with gadhafi loyalists. well, across the country, middle class families are feeling the sting of the great recession in the typical american household saw 1.1% of its income just evaporate and where you live may determine how much you lost. christine romans, who are the biggest winners and losers? >> some places did a little bit better than others. to say overall blanket statement middle class incomes fell. middle class financial well being is down from the great recession is not true if you look at a few places. one of them, north dakota. you saw household median income rise 11.2%. washington, d.c., up 12%. any place where you had commoditi commodities, federal government spending, those are places where money continued to flow even during the great recession. but you saw those other places like florida and like nevada where median income, families in the middle class lost ground during the great recession. one big reason there, the housing bubble. wherever there was a housing bubble, housing pain. you saw that spread over the past three years. so, in general, over the past ten years, middle class incomes are flat to lower, that's a painful place to be overall. you want to be a country that's moving forward, but that just shows you where you had energy, commodities,ing a ing ing agr spending, those places did better. >> you have new information on home prices today, right? >> this is prom s&p k. schiller. home prices climbed, climbed for the fourth month in a row. that shows you home prices creeping slightly higher. they are still year over year down 1.4%. if you took the middle level of all these big housing markets, you would actually have home prices down 4%. think about where you live and think about what your house was worse last year, it is probably down 4% right now. this is far from a sustained recovery. david blitzer. but a couple places that are doing well, detroit prices are up. minneapolis, prices are up. washington, d.c., again, that same story of federal government spending, prices are up. weakness continues in las vegas and phoenix, housing bubble there still hurting. kyra? >> got it. christine romans, thanks. not too early to start thinking about the holidays, especially if you're looking for a job. alison kosik, all right, some positive news about hiring during the holidays. >> oh, yeah. the job's market is definitely long overdue for some good news. macy's says it's hiring 78,000 holiday workers this year, kyra. most are going to be part-time jobs. you're going to have to be able to work holidays, weekends or overnights. the 78,000 is up 4% from last year. macy's says its sales are rising, despite the slowing economy. plus, toys "r" us said last week it will hire 40,000 tempworkers this year, but that is the same amount it hired last year. both places are holding out the prospect that some jobs could lead to some full-time year-round positions. that is really a good sign of confidence. we did see macy's shares pop 6% on this good job's news. kyra sph. >> speaking of confidence. we're about two minutes in after the opening bell. we're in positive territory. that's a good thing. >> and the bulls continue moving forward. the dow up now 2 points. this followed the surge from yesterday. all about europe. this time positive news. we got news that there is a new plan to help european debt wipe off their books. don't charge forward completely just yet, though. a lot of investors are still nervous about the commitment level from officials in this debt plan for greece. so, keep in mind, this is a headline driven market. we also have some, as you heard, good news on the home front and housing prices that are keeping the rally going as we speak. kyra sph. >> thanks. my next guest says the government is so broken because it's our fault, the voters. even though i'm a great driver and he's... not so much. well, for a driver like you, i would recommend our new snapshot discount. this little baby keeps track of your great driving habits, so you can save money. amazing! it's like an extra bonus savings. hah-hah! he's my ride home. how much can a snapshot discount save you? 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>> we can start with picking up a book, books are good. not necessarily see everything off of television like right now or the internet from bloggers or who know what site but just reading and picking up sound newspapers and books and educating ourselves. i know, it's time consuming. i know we have a lot to do. politics can be frustrating and boring. but we do not live in a vacuum. if you're an american citizen, the response now, especially now, educate yourselves on the topics and who we're voting for and not going along with the simplest ideas or this notion of who you feel good about. >> point well made. now that you told everyone not to listen to you and me and rather pick up a newspaper, again, that's what we do every day, too, l.z. it all makes sense. we try to have the whole picture. you can read l.z.'s latest piece at cnn.com/opinion. if you like, join the conversation and leave a comment for him. he loves the back and forth. he changed the involvement with napster and facebook. what is next for sean parker? >> by bringing network effects and the power of social to the music business, you know, we will create the dominance music platform in the world. >> cnn's exclusive interview with parker coming up. dog stopped traffic in portland and mesmerized viewers who watched it all unfold live. we'll tell you about the wild adventure next. well this morning in the nation's capital, engineers will actually repel down the sides of the washington monument to assess the damage to the outside of the from last month's earthquake. it comes as we're getting a first look at pretty dramatic video from inside the observation decks and 500 feet up, by the way, at the time the quake hit. you can actually see the monument shaking. you see some of the debris falling and you also see tourists running for the stairs. now, earlier on cnn "american morning" national park spokesperson talked about the park ranger in the video you see there. >> what it shows is that one of our rangers, nicky williams, you see her in the park ranger hat as i'm wearing is, she's helping visitors. obviously, they are well aware that something is happening. something dangerous is happening. she had the presence of mind, she had the composure to make certain that she got people down to the 490 foot level and started walking down the stairs. she showed a lot of courage, in fact, by coming back up to the 500 foot level to collect the last remaining visitors and to ensure their safety and put their safety ahead of her own in order to get everybody out safely. >> now, check this out. we actually have a live picture of you for the washington monument. you can see one of the cracks there that the engineers will be checking out. they'll be repelling down the side of the monument. we're keeping an eye on that for you. keep you updated. stories making news across country now. domnaek strauss-kahn wants the civil case from his maid accuser tossed out. he's the former head of the imf. the fbi is joining the investigation of vandalism of a key rail line in washington state. service between portland and seattle was shut down for several hours yesterday when the crew noticed the tracks were tampered with. a closer intersection revealed other vandalism along a 60-mile track. this dog on the run snarled traffic in portland, oregon. it captivated viewers who saw it all live unfolding on tv. the little dog actually got loose on i-84 during the evening commute and for 15 minutes, just ran in and out of traffic before it was caught and returned to his owner here. from the hacker to internet trailblazer to social media architect. dan simon spoke exclusively with sean parker, one of the people controlling how we live and lis ten on the internet. >> reporter: snoop dogg performing at a private party for silicone valley's young elite. included the killers and the band james addiction. an event that had incredibly had been planned only two days earlier by sean parker. he decided at the last minute to throw a party to coincide with the big facebook conference in san francisco and bring attention to his latest internet adventure, but more on that in a moment. how much fun are you having? >> putting this event together in the last 48 hours was incredibly fun and incredibly stressful. >> reporter: to many parker is best known as the guy played by justin timberlake in the movie "the social network." he was the vice president to facebook and partner to mark zuckerberg. >> drop the the, just facebook. >> reporter: parker was a legend as the co-founder of napster. the music piracy site who shifted how consumers get their music from store bought cd tooz the internet. he talked about he and another sean, sean fanning went from being hackers to internet trailblazers. >> fanning and i immediately realized that we had an interest in more than just computers and software and hacking and security. that we actually had an interest in doing something with a broader cultural importance. one of those ideas was napster. >> reporter: 11 years later, parker has returned to his music roots as one of the largest investors in spotafy. users can listen and share music with their facebook friends in realtime. >> it's my belief that by bringing network effects and the power of social to the music business, you know, we will create the dominance music platform in the world. >> reporter: a bold statement in a business category now dominated by apple. but parker's intuition has served him well. and though he says being rich isn't as glamorous as it seems, it certainly wasn't evident on this night. dan simon, cnn, san francisco. well, baseball's wildcard races are coming down to the wire. a tie in the american league, one game difference in the national league and we have the highlights in sports, eight minutes away. alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. a big tumble in commodity prices. gold, oil and other metals falling. >> you said it. not looking at today per se, but i'm looking at pretty big drops. i want to show you gold, gold has been all the rage lately. but look how it performed over the last month. down 7%, more than $300 an ounce. at the lowest level since july, but not just gold. you're seeing this happen to commodities across the board. oil, oil prices down 5% over the past month and we've seen that translate at the gas pump, so, that's good news for americans and consumers. silver and copper copper down 1. that's because all of this is because of the fears of the global economy slowing down. copper is used in manufacturing, which is considered a good economic barometer. the fed said that the worst is not over. china and europe sounded their own alarm bells. that's putting a lot of weight on these commodities. oil prices back up almost 4%. gold also up almost 4%. you're seeing this kind of play as the market surges. i'm talking about equity stocks. the dow is up 222 points. >> all right. still looking good. we'll talk more in the next hour. let's fast forward for stories making news. the trial begins for michael jackson's doctor, conrad murray. new numbers are released for the same-sex households. and then president obama visits a high school in denver to pitch his america's dream act. let's go to don lemon in southern cal. don? >> reporter: two years after michael jackson's death, the doctor implicated goes on trial. will we know what happened in the last minutes of his life? i'll talk about that at the top of the hour. >> i'm christine romance in new york. it's your biggest debt, your biggest payment. it's your house. bad news if you live in minneapolis. where the prices of homes are going up at the top of the hour. and i'm kate bouldan on capitol hill. the senate has reached bipartisan support and now all of the focus turns to the house. also, next hour, very special guests in the studio with me today, martin sheen and emilio . an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement available only with liberty mutual auto insurance, if your car's totaled, we give you the money for a car one model year newer. to learn more, visit us today. responsibility. what's your policy? 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>> it is. the material girl. montero is mc hammer. >> can't touch this. thanks. >> all right. when it comes to tv, news bloopers can be a case of weather permitting. jeanne moos reports on when weather cameras run amuck. >> reporter: sometimes the pesky weather graphics escape from the weather segment. >> a loading ramp fell off of a flatbed trailer -- i'm sorry. >> reporter: and shine where the sun isn't supposed to, giving anchors doing serious news the giggles. >> we're trying to figure this out. a jeep stopped at the crosswalk -- >> reporter: who cares if the bloopers are two years old. the anchors don't work there anymore. >> it's a serious story, folks. >> reporter: once ellen degeneres played the clip on her segment and ellen came out of her own dodging the graphics. >> dr. drew is on the show. >> reporter: the weather graphics gone amuck went viral. >> josh foster was hit by a vehicle at 9:33 monday morning. >> reporter: but even more aggressive than the weather graphics are the robotic cameras. the robo cams, you really have to watch your back. excuse me. you never know where they will go. >> the heavy rains across -- >> reporter: especially in the old days. >> the bluejays -- >> whoa. >> reporter: push the button the wrong way. down boy down. up, up, up. >> next thing you know -- >> it's part of the florida constitution and like it or not -- >> reporter: like it or not, the floor manager is stuck on camera. >> you have top find a way to make it work. take a look. >> reporter: on danish tv, the camera attacked. >> australian radiation service -- this camera -- >> reporter: but if you really want to see a camera, don't let this fool you. this really happened on new england cable tv. >> danger. >> it's going to hit us. >> reporter: anchors away. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. and it's the top of the hour. first up, the world will be watching as michael jackson's death trial begins in los angeles and all eyes are on dr. conrad murray. he's charged with involuntary manslaughter in the pop superstar's death. the entire jackson family will have front row seats as opening statements begin this week. cnn's don lemon is there. don, let's talk about who the players are in the case this morning. >> reporter: before we talk about the players, it's starting already. when you and i talked, it wasn't this busy. this is the first sign of it, no punt intended, fair trial for dr. murray. folks on the other side of the block, you can see them over my shoulder. one person had on a t-shirt that said dr. death. and so it goes just one group that came all the way from houston, they say, to support dr. murray. now to the players that you asked me about. the players, of course, michael jackson, even though he's no longer with us, he's going to loom large in the courtroom and dr. murray, he is michael jackson's doctor who was there at the last moment and here's an interesting thing and it should be counted here and he has won more cases than most. he's a former district attorney. he lost one felony trial and has gotten something acquitted and involved in propofol death in a wrongful death suit that was and on the team was mark geragos. he knows michael jackson intimately. and conrad murray has been together a very smart team of attorneys to represent him. it's going to be interesting what will happen. >> we'll watch it with you the entire way. don, thanks so much. in just about ten minutes, we're going to talk about the defense and prosecution's strategies with our senior legal analyst, jeffrey toobin. well, this morning, the consumer confidence index was released just a few minutes ago. christine romans, what do you think? what's the outlook? >> it didn't get worse. 45.4 is the number in september versus 45.2 in august. and basically what it tells us, when you take all of the fear and optimism of the american consumer and boil it all down, you've got a number that wasn't very much different in september than it was in august. you've got housing prices, you've got disgusting concern about what is happening in washington. you've got job problems, all of these things. stock market volatility and all of these things boiling together to give us a view of how people are feeling about things. and anecdotally, talking to recruiters and hiring managers, they have been saying over the last six weeks or so that they have seen kind of a stacis in the job market. 45.4 is not necessarily a great number. it hasn't gotten worse. but you want to see a number that is higher than that to show you that people are feeling more optimistic about the economy. that's where we are. the stock market has not really moved or lost much gains on it. it shows you the stock market is not troubled too much by this number, kyra. >> how about the mortgage rates? is it time to refinance? >> the answer is yes, yes, yes. i've gotten feedback from people saying, i'm trying. i'm trying. either i'm under water or can't get through on the phone because they are so busy on the phone. mortgage rates have been the flight to safety, and all of this uncertainty in the world has pushed money into the treasury market and it has driven down mortgage rates. mortgage rates just around 4% for a 30-year loan. if you're refinancing into a 15-year loan. people have been getting 3.3%. that 15-year is a popular refinancing tool. think of it this way. if you have a mortgage, which is what roughly all outstanding mortgage rates have an interest rate at. if you were to refinance a $200,000 mortgage, you would say about $1700 a year. that's real money and minute that can go into your pocket and into the economy. a colleague here just finished her refinancing. it was like a part-time job to do it but she's saving hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. also, if you can buy a home right now, prices are the lowest since the middle '90s. and you have to have a big down payment, kyra, a big down payment, very, very stellar credit and then you can get these very, very low interest rates. housing four months in a row now of house prices climbing. down 4% from a year ago but showing creeping higher over the past few months. some of these home prices. so, again, if you've got the money, great. stellar credit. and if you need to live in the house you're going to buy, it might not be a bad time. >> got it. thanks, christine. let's talk politics now. with only days to spare, the state has avoided a government shutdown. lawmakers were able to stop the bickering and giving fema badly needed money for disaster relief. the measure, which received strong bipartisan support, goes to the house. kate bouldan is on capitol hill. let's talk about the break through. >> reporter: it came yesterday afternoon when fema announced, contrary to what earlier estimates had been, that it was going to be able to stretch its money in its much depleted disaster relief fund and the end of the week is the end of the fiscal year. so that really just eliminated the major sticking point that was holding up agreement. this was republicans wanted the short-term additional funding for fema for the rest of the fiscal year to be paid for by cutting spending elsewhere. democrats did not want that. with fema's announcement, the major issue was simply taken off the table and the senate with a pret pretty good bipartisan majority will give fema additional money of $2.65 billion. kyra? >> what exactly happens from here, kate? >> reporter: this needs to go back to the house. the house needs to have its say. but i have heard from house majority leader that the house is expected to voight on a one-week extension. they will do that quickly with a legislative maneuver on thursday. it will bridge the gap between now and when the house returns early next week because they are out right now and then they can take up the full measure of the funding bill to take them through november 18th, kyra. >> okay. kate bouldan, thanks. after almost four years in an italian prison, she will find out if she will go free. her murder conviction appeal wrapping up today. zane has been covering this. >> both sides have been coming out. the prosecution has painted her as siatanic. they say that she does drugs and described her as two-faced and diabolic. they showed bloody pictures of her roommate. the defense came out and said that amanda knox and her ex-boyfriend, that they are just two kids and they are just victims of this whole situation. if you look at headlines, the daily telegraph, it says "killer or handy guy." and whether there were shoddy investigation or natural born killers will get off on a technicality. the skots man headline, court turns into theater as knox overturns the conviction. and described as a cunning young women for extreme sex cams and a naive victim of bumbling italian police. that's what this whole thing is hinging on. she may walk in a few days because the defense has put together a very strong argument saying that the evidence -- the dna evidence used in the conviction was a mess and never should have been allowed. >> zain, thanks. a controversial bake sale. and there is good news about your paycheck. at bayer, we're re-inventing aspirin for pain relief. with new extra-strength bayer advanced aspirin. it has microparticles, enters the bloodstream faster and rushes relief to the site of pain. it's clinically proven to relieve pain twice as fast. new bayer advanced aspirin. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. at our kearl project in canada, we'll be able to produce these oil sands with the same emissions as many other oils and that's a huge breakthrough. that's good for our country's energy security and our economy. live pictures from the washington monument. these are engineers looking for damage from the earthquake, you know, after it happened. engineers noticed a few cracks. we've been talking about that. they shut down the monument and now they are finally getting a chance to assess the damage. we'll let you know how it all turns out and when you'll be able to get back in there. other stories making news across the country, a controversial bake sale at uc berkeley. campus republicans are pricing it according to race. it's all to protest a bill that would allow race, ethnicity and gender to be considered at admission. and a stage collapse at the state fair is joining a lawsuit. they will try to get equal treatment for gay and lesbian survivors. administrators would say they are dangerous when mixed with alcohol. school says it needs more time to study the issue and then will hear from students. here we go. america's next big trial. dr. conrad murray. jeffrey toobin is here. prosecutors say that murray gave jackson the fatal dose. the question is, how do you prove it? >> well, the prosecution is going to do what the prosecution does, which is keep it simple. these were the drugs that he was administering, these are the drugs in his system, this is the cause of death, end of story. they want to just keep it narrow to the drugs that were found in michael jackson's system and say that this was incompetent and worse, reckless treatment of michael jackson and thus dr. murray would be guilty of involuntary manslaughter. >> now, defense attorneys are going to try to show that michael jackson gave the drug to himself. how do they make that case? >> well, i think that the defense has a real shot in this trial because, you know, unfoirt unfortunately, michael jackson lived in an environment where he had a lot of drugs at his disposal. he relied on them. he got them apparently from a variety of different sources. there may have been false prescriptions used, phony names. this may have been enabled by other people in his circle. again, as usual in a case -- in any sort of criminal case, the defense has got to say, look, this was a lot more complicated. there were more people involved here. and, in the more controversial aspect of the defense, the defense is going to say michael jackson himself was responsible for his own treatment, not dr. murray. >> well, and if you look at these court documents that were filed, witnesses, the defense team plans to call in, jeffrey, we're reading his makeup artist, former head of security, his nanny, we're all talking about michael jackson. even his dermatologist. we could learn -- what do you think? possibly bombshells about his personal life? >> absolutely. because what the defense wants to do is prove that michael jackson's relationship with drugs, including drugs that could have killed him, did not begin and end with conrad murray. they are going to say, look, this is a guy who had a long history of drug use and drug abuse and their witnesses are going to try to show that. you can be sure that the prosecution is going to say, this is all irrelevant unless they can prove that the drugs in his system were administered by any of these witnesses, the prosecution is going to argue that it's irrelevant. >> i know you'll be watching closely. we'll be talking a lot more. jeffrey, thanks. >> okay. all right. alexandri alexandrite -- alison kosik is talking about your money. >> that's right. cnn analyzed census data. the big trend is that if you work around the capital, we saw the biggest increase in d.c. with income surging 12%. also pay in maryland and virginia, that was up, too. but keep in mind, that may not last if government spending is cut. over other places where it was cut, the agriculture state for demands of props there, a rebound on wall street. that lifted income in new york and new jersey. but keep in mind as well, most of these gains are small, less than 5%. but once again in this kind of economy, every little bit helps. don't you think? >> absolutely. you know what else helps? seeing that rally on wall street. >> oh, yes. day two of it. you said it. the dow is up 208 points right now. investors believe that the latest proposal to end the debt crisis in greece and europe will happen and greece will avoid a default. we're seeing all components being led by financials. anywhere from 2 po 5%. there was a big worry that financials, that banks would have big exposure if europe imploded with the debt crisis. so you're seeing investors buy back those bank shares, kyra. >> all right. alison kosik, thanks so much. the first president of facebook, what changed every industry. what is next for sean parker? plus, what do nancy grace and janet jackson have in common? two words. wardrobe malfunction. we have that in headlines coming up. when an investment lacks discipline, it's never this obvious. introducing investment discipline etfs from russell. visit russelletfs.com r a prospectus, containing the investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses and other information. read and consider it carefully before investing. i know what works differently than many other allergy medications. omnaris. omnaris, to the nose! did you know nasal symptoms like congestion can be caused by allergic inflammation? 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>> yeah, i'm thinking they might not be partying over this news. the new jersey governor vetoed a tax credit on monday that would have had residents paying for the production costs of mtv's "jersey shore." here's what he said. as chief executive i'm duty-bound to ensure that the taxpayers are not footing a $420,000 bill for a project that does nothing more than perpetuate misconceptions about the state and its citizens. the show has come under fire and perpetuating negative stereotypes of italian americans. this will not be the end of snooki. mtv says it will have no impact on the show. >> there's a lot of people that follow that cast of characters, shall we say. let's go from the reality show to the reality star. a millionaire apologizing for harsh comments that she made? >> yeah. this is patty. she was just on bravo's "watch what happens live" and she was asked about long distance relationships and she said in the gay world there are always going to be open relationships and that there is no, as she put it, curbing the gay. that wasn't all she had to apologize for. she also said that jewish men lie. and after that had to tweet an apology which was not really an apology. she said, gay men heart variety customary and commitment is hard when there's so much variety. so stanger sent out another tweet and said she supports gay men and did not mean to offend anyone. it sounds to me like she may be doing damage control here. >> uh-huh. >> thinking about her image more than anything else. we'll have to see if it has a negative impact on her show. open mouth, insert foot. >> big foot. thanks, a.j. coming up, a father-son road trip like no other. emil emilio and martin sheen talk. is there room on stage for another candidate or will christie be the answer for so many republican's prays? 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robert? >> okay. you know, not only is rick perry leading the pack initially, but four years ago rudy giuliani and fred thompson were leading the republican polls and prayers. but they didn't win the nomination because nominees are not won by prayers and polls. this could be a little different however. when you listen to the republican candidates and the republican -- >> will? >> chris christie is not republicanism prepackaged from costco and sold one size fits all. christie says it's not a crime to be in this country without documentation. lou dobbs said he should resign from that kind of comment. on the flip side, it's hard to get more fiscally conservative than christie. he has talked about entitlement reform. he has an ability to shoot straight without being partisan and it would make me really happy. >> all right. pa tisha? >> i would tell christie do not take the bait. they wanted jon huntsman to run, pi they wanted rick perry to run, he's not conservative enough. and chris christie would not be perfect enough for these activists. his climate change is a significant problem for him. he says it's real and manmade. that's a nonstarter for a lot of these activists. would tell chris christie to stay in office. he's not there long enough. stay in office. do not run. just stay where you are. >> all right. second question. facebook filing paperwork now to create its own political action committee. what do you think? will it impact the race? will? >> this is a group of employees pulling their money together to have a louder voice. i tell you what i wish. i wish that companies did not feel the need to have tax. i wish we had a tax innovation where companies didn't feel the need to have a pact in washington. i wish they said, it's a cute little entity far off the coast and we'll stick to what we do best and that's making money. >> all right. robert? >> i wish in the new redesign for facebook they invented the dislike button to go with that. it's incredibly ironic to resort to old-style politics. but if we want to reform the tax code, the first step is reforming our campaign finance code so we don't need political action committees. i don't fault facebook. i fault the political finance system. >> patricia? >> i would love it if facebook stayed the small company that it was but facebook is a $100 billion company, 750 million users and congress is intensely interested and worried about what facebook is up to. they are worried about a facebook monopoly. they would be crazy not to have a pact and not getting involved in these races. i know will doesn't seem to like it but it's absolutely crazy for take a listen. >> what is it about your candidacy that they so easily dismiss and are they right when they say that ron paul is not an electable figure? >> i've been elected quite a few times already so i prove that i can be elected. we're 10, 14%. we very our own version of explosion in this country. >> all right. robert, define explosion. >> well, we had a michele bachmann in the straw ballot and now the ron paul explosion. all three in common. they are about as genuine and credible as donald trump's comb over. ultimately they are going to fizzle. >> i'd like to ask a question for jon stewart. here's how ron paul can poll so well and at the same time be dismissed. ron paul is exactly right on about 80% of his positions. he knows about free markets and constitutionalism. he sounds great. but the other 20% he's absolutely -- it's unacceptable. the problem is that it's different for everybody. for me it's the fed and people can't get over that last 20%. >> patricia? >> there has been an explosion for ron paul. they love this man and would lay down on train tracks but he's too honest to be in politics. it's just a good venue for him. but he's extremely consistent and that's never going to win an election for him. >> you know, we're going to do buzzer beater and plus five seconds. >> it's usually robert. >> oh, the blame goes to robert. >> but i love it. give me five for seconds of robert. >> all right, guys, we'll talk again. thanks. coming up, very special guests coming up here live in the studio. martin sheen and emilio he is steve vez and father-son conflict at its core. they're cute. 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>> absolutely. this came just days after a very young footballer in the ea was also killed in a car crash. that was a 20-year-old who played in the second division of the united arabs. he was on his way back from the funeral of nooby. it does point to rather alarming statistics when it comes to traveling along the roads in this part of the world. world health organization reported that uae was the most dangerous place to drive in the world. so very dangerous place to drive on the roads, but that doesn't make these tragedies any less important. >> don riddle, thanks so much. well, straight ahead. we're pretty excited about our next guests. live with us right here in the studio, emilio estevez and the star of his new movie, martin sheen. they will show us the way coming up. well, the death of a child is every parent's worse fear and you never know where that nightmare might take you. >> hello? >> are you the father of daniel avery? >> it's a very personal journey and -- >> no. >> tom, your son. i'm so sorry. i had no idea. >> my son was almost 40. >> yeah, but he will always be your baby. >> a tragic end to a son's wonder lust is the start of this father's journey. that's "the heart of the way" which follows the pilgrimage route through spain. emilio estevez directed the movie but gave his father, martin sheen, the starring role. that was kind of nice of you, emilio. what the heck, he's such a rookie. >> i figured it was time. a break for the old guy. >> i have a question for you, emilio. this is not your typical hollywood film. you really feel god in this movie. and when you went to studio reps, what was their reaction? >> you should see their eyes glazed over. what is this? i don't understand what this film is all about? and i said, really, it's about the heart and it's really about faith and family and community and humanity. and all of the things that hollywood doesn't really seem to be interested in. >> it's interesting, martin, the character is really this kind of old, grumpy kind of -- >> not that old. >> that's true. okay. a young, crusty -- >> aarp card, of course. >> that's right. but that's not you. as we can see right now in this interview, you are known to be a very gregarious, loving, friendly individual. in this film -- it's supposed to be serious. it really is serious, i promise you. >> there is an endless supply of laughs. >> you have to. you're dealing with the death of your son in this movie. >> yeah. >> so i'm curious, for martin, not for tom the character. did you extract anything from that? >> well, you know, every artist has a pool of resources to conjure up the necessary emotions for any part and when you get the role it's kind of like being given a license to go to those private places. and to bring private pain public. that's what all artists do. so emilio constructed the script and rained me in so that i didn't overdue it at any one particular time. it had to go on for 40 days, you know. but, you know, it's the story of loss and healing and redemption. and usually father-son stories, the son overtakes the father and in this case it becomes the reverse and the father becomes the real father that he was never able to do to his son in life. >> let's take a look at another clip. >> okay. >> you said you were on family business? >> i am. >> you have all of the equipment for the walk just like the others. >> yeah. >> my son. >> i promise you we were going to get back to the film begin, but i have to be honest with you, when i saw that clip, when i saw a couple of the other clips and then the overall film, i thought about charlie. here you guys were making this film. >> right. >> about a son's death a. brother's death, charlie's life was playing out worldwide. he was challenging his own death. did you find it ironic that here you were making this powerful film and in real lifeboat of you were thinking, wow, could i real a son for real? could i lose a brother for real? emilio? >> well, you know, life is so very precious and we live under our -- our lives have been under a spotlight for so very long. he's gone through a tremendous amount of pressure and stress and he's come out the other side. we saw him on friday night. he showed up at the aarp screening in los angeles. and he looks great and he was in great spirits. and i think he's come -- i think he's really come around and he's certainly embraced by the family. we've never left anybody, any member of our family out there to hang. and we've always embraced each other. >> dad, what do you think? kind of ironic as you're working on this film and then here we were in real life watching what was happening to charlie? >> well, sure. as emilio said, he's made a tremendous turn in his life and he's become far more aware of his behavior and, you know, we adore him. we've never, ever stopped loving him. on the contrary. when he needed it, we loved him more. so any parent would do that. >> that brings us back to the film. as you say, as he's changes his life around, in the film there's a spiritual awakening. i guess you could say that happened. we know where you stand. you've talked about your faith and your work within the catholic faith. you're still not sure, emilio? >> my mother calls me a work in progress. >> did the film change that? >> well, this was a film that was spiritual and enlightening on every level. yeah, there were moments during the production where i had to step back and say, this is not coincidence. there is -- there is a divine moment here happening and i need to pay attention to it. >> you know, all of us are seeking trans sen dents, whether we're conscious of it or not. so all of our lives we're trying -- if we're living honest lives, it's an effort to unite a work of the to the flesh. and the physical journey itself, you pack all of the things that you think you're going to need and go on a long and arduous journey. you cannot share your burden with anyone. you have to carry everything that you've packed but along the way you get rid of a lot of it because you realize you don't need it and then something very special begins to happen. you begin the transendence inside and let go of the things that you've packed inside your heart. your resentiments and anger and guilt and all things human and while none of us can have anyone carry our burdens, we have to carry them but we cannot carry them without community and comes to fruition, the absolute human condition that we all share. it's called extended family or community. we cannot live without each other. >> a great message and emilio, you did a great job. dad, you didn't so bad either. 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