good morning. it is thursday, september 15th. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." i'm carol costello. get ready for the president response to president obama's jobs bill. he and the rest of congress have had a few days to leaf through the jobs plan, the obama jobs plan. so now we'll just have to wait and see whether boehner picks a fight over the plan or offers an olive branch. president obama is already taking indirect swipes at congressional republican. listen to what he told the congressional hispanic caucus last night. >> if we're being honest, we know the real problem isn't the members of congress in this room. it's the members of congress that put party before country because they believe the only way to resolve our differences is to wait 14 months until the next election. i have news for them. the american people don't have the luxury of waiting 14 months. >> 14 months from now as in november 2012. probably a topic that dominated dinner conversation between two republican powerhouses. rick perry and donald trump shared a meal in new york city last night. before the big dinner, trump defended perry for signing an executive order requiring an hpv vaccine for school girls in texas. here's what he told our wolf blitzer. >> i'm not sure he would have done it again. i think he sort of indicated that. he also said he believes in saving lives. that's a pretty poignant statement pep believes very strongly in saving lives. and that was the way it was given to him and a lot of people agree with him, some people don't. >> trump also said he would consider running as a third party candidate if the economy sours and if, quote, republicans choose the wrong candidate. 28,000 public school students in tacoma, washington, have been told to show up for class this morning. but there's no guarantee their teachers will there be. they've been on strike since tuesday. a judge has ordered the teachers to get back to work. some teachers say that won't keep them off the picket line today. the final word from the federal government on last year's oil spill in the gulf and there's plenty of blame to go around, a 00-page report says bp, halliburton and transocean share responsibility for the disaster that killed 11 workers, spilled 200 million gallons of oil and took months to control. it says all of them violated government safety regulations. bp agrees with the report's conclusion but halliburton, a bp contractor, still points the finger at the oil company. and transocean says this drilling crew is not to blame. natalee holloway's father says he wants a court to declare his daughter dead. he wants closure for his family. it could be months before the court makes a final decision on natalee's case. her murder remains unsolved. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg forced to evacuate a plane at dulles just outside of washington, d.c. the 78-year-old reportedly slid down the emergency chute just like everybody else. a supreme court spokesperson says she's just fine, no serious injuries were reported. passengers on board the flight bound for san francisco say the evacuations started after somebody reported a fire on board. united airlines is investigating. fire crews now making progress in battling wildfires across the country. the comanche fire in california almost fully contained after scorching 26,000 acres. in minnesota, 100,000 acres have burn. cooler temperatures and calmer winds helped firefighters yesterday. now let's head to atlanta and rob marciano. >> cooler weather. >> we're talking much cooler weather, right? >> yes. we're going to see temperatures that will be very october-like here in the next couple days. some folks are feeling that. we start with texas because this off yoisly, any sort of cool weather will help what they've been enduring. today's high temperature will be 83 in dallas. that alone will help things. 96 expected in austin. maybe a little rain. winds are light, dew points up. a little bit of rain, trying to get into the northern part of texas. we are at least increasing the humidity as well. we'll see downpours over the fire lines but we take any bit of improving weather we can get. rain along the front that will bring the cool weather, rolling up the ohio river in through across the allegheny and up across the appalachians into the adirondacks. this will bring rainfall into the major metropolitan areas as we go through time and that will probably spawn a few travel delays, including new york metros, boston, d.c., atlanta and maybe some showers expected in denver where temperatures there, along the mountain tops, cold enough to support some snow. we'll highlight some of the high temperatures later in the hour. some folks may want to break out a fashionable fall jacket. carol, back over to you. >> i can't believe it's that cool already. we're not ready. you know, we just got word of an earthquake in southeast -- is it southeast cuba? >> i saw one pop up, yes. a 6.0. i didn't have time to read the depth and the exact location but yes, 6.0 magnitude quake somewhere near cuba. we'll get back to you on that. >> you'll check it out and you'll get back to us. southeast cuba, 6.0 magnitude, no word of damages or injuries as of yet. rob marciano will be checking that out when he gets more information on that, we'll pass it along to you. thank you, rob. as we told you yesterday right here on "a.m. wake-up call" new york's ninth district elected a republican to take over for anthony weiner. comedian jon stewart tries to explain this one. >> a local story. a special congressional election. it was held yesterday in new york's 9th district. a predominantly jewish and asian area of brooklyn and queensland. i'm sorry, i'm being told that's footage from the movie "district nine." do we have images of the actual ninth district in brooklyn and queens? thank you. that's much better. the former holder of that congressional seat was democrat anthony whiner. whoever the democrats ran are going to say that seat. >> this is one of the bluest districts in the nation. the number of democrats outnumber republicans 3-1. hasn't sent a republican to washington since 1923. >> 1923, 88 years. the last time the 9th district had a republican congressman, charlie rangel hadn't even started his 15th congressional term yet. the most popular friends website in the world ready to take your conversation to the next level. first, the quote of the day, you know what she was? 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>> you've got that right. we have to talk about the violence in mexico. it's taken a new turn and it has to do with social media. tell us about this. >> yes. this is this crazy gruesome discovery in the mexican border city of nuevo loredo. a man and woman were found hanging from a pedestrian bridge showing signs of having been brutally tortured. a sign left near the bodies said this is going to happen to all of those posting funny things on the internet. pay attention, i'm about to get you. it listed two blogs by name, the latter of which is a website that deals with news related to drug violence in mexico. in a statement to cnn, the blog said its site is not in favor or against any criminal group. they only inform as things happen. the bodies remain unidentified and they were apparently no witnesses. carle? >> just awful. monita rajpal, live in london. thank you. a heart-stopping scene in california. an elderly driver crashes her car through a bike stop, narrowly missing customers. see it for yourself. that's coming up. it's 25 past the hour. good morning to you. it is thursday, september 15th. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." good morning. i'm carol costello joining you live from new york. it is just about half past the hour. want to update you now on this earthquake in southeast cuba. 6.0 magnitude. apparently it was offshore. we know of no damage to the mainland and there are no tsunami warnings. it seems like the damage has been limited to out in the ocean where there's nothing but rob will have much more for you on this when we hit the weather segment of our program. let's catch you up on some of the wildfires raging across the country. in minnesota, cooler temperatures, calmer winds and a bit of rain helped firefighters there yesterday. still, 100,000 acres have burned covering the region in a smoky haze. >> this fire actually started way over there in the west. and then it headed through this area where we are. you see all the smoldering areas right here and then it headed east. take a look right there in the distance, five or six miles away, you see the hazy sky and smoke. that's where the fire is right now. >> in texas at least 35 new fires started in the past couple of days, burn something 10,000 acres. since labor day, more than 1,900 homes have been destroyed. the bastrop fire near austin is 07% contained. the s.a.t. scores are in for 2011 for the graduating class. they're not so great. scores on every measure, reading and writing and math fell. 43% of those taking the exam met the s.a.t. readiness benchmark. a california father who allegedly threw his 7-year-old son from a tour boat is now charged with felony child abuse. sloan briles says he and his son were joking around last month when he says the boy jumped into the water. authorities say briles had been drinking and threw his son overboard after an argument with his girlfriend. he faces up to six years in prison if convicted. white house party crasher, mckale salahi ran off with neil shawn, the guitarist for the band journey. the warren county, virginia sheriff's office says salahi is just fine and is where she wants to be. >> mr. salahi advised that she was sorry that the sheriff's office had to be involved. >> salahi's husband reported her missing on tuesday. the couple gained notoriety when they crashed a white house state dinner back in 2009. we have some pretty amazing pictures to show you this morning. check out what happened inside this california bicycle shop. police say an elderly woman -- oh! you can see she drove her car at full speed through the front door and narrowly missed several customers. watch it again. oh! amazingly, no one was seriously hurt. police believe the driver may have confused the brake for the gas up. know what i'm saying. new technology can be tough, fiddling around with new gadgets, not quite knowing what you're doing. we feel for bruce andest est ee huffman. >> look at that monkey. >> did it capture? i put it on capture. ♪ hello my darling ♪ hello my baby >> this goes on for a full three minutes. the couple's granddaughter took the video and posted it on youtube. a clip called webcam 101 for seniors. it has more than 1.5 million views so far. >> when i was 8 years old my uncle paid me 5 cents if i'd make a monkey face. >> never knew it would make you famous. >> he'll be amazed at what's going on right here, right now. >> seems the huffmans are good sports about their accidental fame. stocks ended the last session slightly higher. will the rally hold today? that's coming up in 60 seconds. it's 33 minutes past the hour. try the number one! 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"men's health" is out with a new report on the most educated cities in america. the report is based on graduation rates and census numbers for school enrollments as well as college level. is it "a," san diego, "b," burlington, vermont or "c," madison, wisconsin? we'll have the answer in two minutes. stick around. 37 minutes past. it is 39 minutes past the hour. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." back to our get smart question. which city is the most educated in the united states, is it san diego, burlington, vermont or madison, wisconsin in the answer is madison, wisconsin. here's the rest of the top five. number two is plano, texas, number three is raleigh, north carolina, number four is burlington, vermont and number five is seattle, washington. and the least educated city on the list, miami, florida. let's bring in cnn's political reporter, shannon travis. he's live with us from des moines, iowa. good morning, shannon. >> good morning, carol. excuse me. pardon me for that. >> it's okay. >> it's getting nasty between congresswoman michele bachmann and texas governor rick perry. this is the latest between the two of them. there he is on comments that michele bachmann have said. this is about the 2007 decision and the hpv virus. they sparred over that. on tuesday, michele bachmann went on the "today" show, carol and said she heard from a woman who said her daughter took that vaccine and suffered from mental retardation afterwards. that's when perry pounced health experts and they said it's just not possible. who also pounced? michele bachmann's former chief of staff, ron kerry. take a listen to this. >> sometimes i'm afraid she reads maybe 80% or 90% and leaves out or forgets the 10% or 20% that can change the outcome. her impulsive nature and the fact that she doesn't digest information as much as she should leads to impulsive statements that are just enough off the mark that it makes her into a provocative, controversial figure. >> for as long as i've been covering michele bachmann's campaign, they normally stick to their guns. they're doing the same right now. they are standing by the criticism of perry. in a statement to cnn, they said, governor perry auz board his power of the executive order to in imposing mandatory vaccines on 12-year-old girls and engaged in crony capitalism with donors in sealing the deal. that's the truth. they did not directly address the gaffe where she linked the vaccine to mental retardation. one last important note, you heard in that statement she accused the governor of crony capitalism. she brought this up in the debate and she's been pushing this since. at the time of perry's executive order in 2007, his former chief of staff was a top lobbyist for the drugmaker of that hpv vaccine and that drugmaker donated money to perry's campaign back then. but, of course, governor perry vehemently denies that he acted out of any political reasons at all. carol? >> the thing is for michele bachmann because she made that statement, that the hpv vaccination causes mental retardation which is clearly not true, that's all people are hearing. add that to the fact that her former campaign manager is saying she raedz 80% to 90% but doesn't digest the last 10% or 20% of it and sometimes she says things that maybe aren't really true and she says things that are too provocative, that's really damaging to her campaign? >> it is damaging. if these were isolated comments, isolated mistakes, isolated gaffes, that would be one thing. when you string them together and they come few and far between, let's be honest here, they can be potentially damaging. now in fairness, she didn't say that it does, that the hpv vaccine causes mental retardation. she said she heard from a woman that said this happened to her daughter. for a sitting member of congress to basically recite what she heard from an unnamed person and not check into it herself or not even see, is this possible, the doctors, do they say this is possible? can be potentially damaging. these aren't isolated gaffes. there have been others that her political opponents probably would like to string together and show this is not uncommon for the congresswoman. >> she's fallen like a stone in the polls. maybe they won't have to do that. it will be interesting to see the next poll out. shannon travis, many thanks to you. the colorado rockies catcher is out for the next 100 games. eliizer alfonzo is out after testing positive. he learned his lesson in 2008 and hasn't taken the drugs since. the 32-year-old venezuelan native plans to fight the suspension. los angeles has been chosen to host the special politics summer game. 7,000 athletes from 107 nations will compete there in 2015. eunice kennedy shriver founded the special olympics in 1968. her daughter and board member, maria shriver was at the announcement. the summer games were last here in the united states in 1999. and the new england patriots are doing some damage control this morning. it's all over a comment from star quarterback tom brady. he told reporters as fans prepare for sunday's home onner against the san diego chargers, they should -- listen. >> yes, they're drinking early. get nice and rowdy. it's a 4:15 game, they'll have a lot of time to get lubed up, come out here and cheer for their home team. >> a patriots spokeswoman says brady meant stay hydrated, drink a lot of water and drink responsibly. right. fireball, ufo, satellite, what was this mysterious light shooting across the sky last night? 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[ male announcer ] progresso. 40 soups 100 calories or less. good morning to you. it is thursday, september 15th. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." good morning. i'm carol costello joining you liver from new york. 48 minutes past the hour. get ready for the republican response to president obama's jobs bill. house speaker john boehner will give a lunchtime jobs speech at the economic club in washington, d.c. he and the rest of congress have had a few days to leaf through the 200-page jobs plan. now we'll have to wait and see whether boehner picks a fight over the plan or offers an olive branch. president obama is taking indirect swipes at congressional republicans. listen to what he told the congressional hispanic caucus. >> if we're being honest, we know the problem isn't the members of congress in this room. it's the member of congress who put party before country because they believe the only way to resolve our differences is to wait 14 months until the next election. i've got news for them. the american people don't have the luxury of waiting 14 months. >> 14 months from now as in november of 2012 probably a topic that dominated dinner conversation between two republican powerhouses, rick perry and donald trump shared a meal in new york last night. before the big dinner, trump defended perry for signing an executive order requiring an hpv vaccine for school girls in texas. meares what he told wolf blitzer. >> i'm not sure he would have done it again. i think he sort of indicated that. he also said he believes in saving lives. that's a pretty poignant statement. he believes very strongly in saving lives. that's the way it was given to him and a lot of people agree with him, some people don. >> the trump also said he would consider running as a third party candidate if the economy sours and if, quote, republicans choose the wrong candidate. 28,000 public school students in tacoma, washington, have been told to show up for class this morning but there's no guarantee their teachers will there be. teachers have been on strike since tuesday over staffing policies, pay cuts and class size. now a judge ordered them to get back to work. but some teachers say that won't keep them off the picket line today. the final record from the federal government on last year's oil spill in the gulf and there is plenty of blame to go around, a new 200-page report on the deep water horizon swale says bp, halliburton and transocean share responsibility for the disaster that killed 11 workers, spilled 200 million gallons of oil and took months to control. it says all of them violated government safety regulations. bp agrees with the report's conclusion but halliburton, a bp contractor, still points the finger at the oil company. and transocean says its drilling crew is not to blame. fire crews are making progress in battling wildfires across the country. the comanche fire in california almost fully contained after scorching 26,000 acres. and in minnesota, 100,000 acres have burned but cooler temperatures and calmer winds helped firefighters yesterday. let's head to atlanta and check in with rob marciano. it's going to get cold there, actually, in the middle part of the country t. is. we won't be showing this graphic which has been popular for the past summer, check it out, temperatures yesterday, 100 degrees again in places across texas, both north and south texas, even northern louisiana. 102 in shreveport. houston has hit 10046 times, dallas has hit it 70 times. unbelievable heat there. look at the temperatures cooling off to a chilly 96 degrees in austin. it will be associated with a cool front sliding across the area over the next few days. calmer winds and higher humidity, even rain across parts of north texas. we'll take it. the northern part of the front goes across the northeast. that will spawn showers and thunderstorms later on in the day and could cause travel delays out of the new york metros, atlanta or d.c. showers expected in denver. chilly across the northern tier. records falling in international falls getting below freezing last night and this morning. tomorrow, a freeze threat. this is well before when it should be happening by the way. all right. just to warm you up because that looks like a very cold map. there were numerous reports of fireballs flying across the sky last night. across arizona, across southern nevada, even across southern california, carol. ufos, they weren't quite sure what it was. was it a satellite falling through the atmosphere? scientists are saying it was a meteorite, a shooting star if you will, it was reported and seen by thousands of people in that part of the world. last night i saw a movie which took aliens that were coming to us in meteorites and asteroids, they plunged in the pacific ocean, came up and attacked los angeles. riveting stuff. maybe that had something to do with it. >> but that's not what that was. >> no. nor will you probably see that movie nominated for any awards. >> i don't think so. rob marciano, many thanks to you. >> see you. u.p.s. unveils a new plan to put a stop to the sorry we missed you notes. details on the other side of the break. first, our word of the day, it's turmeric. find out what it means and its connection to cancer, right after the break. it's about six minutes to the top of the hour. ♪ okay, so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. that's yours. lower cholesterol. lower cholesterol. i'm yummy. lower cholesterol. i got that wrong didn't i? 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