sanjay gupta m.d. starts right now. happy halloween, everybody. welcome to the program. i m dr. sanjay gupta. the candy of our childhood. why do we still crave it every year at halloween? have you been dipping in already? we also have serious business to get to you ve seen the pink ribbons all over this month, we want to clear up misconceptions about breast cancer. first a number, this one. $1.90. that s the cost per drink of excessive drinking in the country. it adds up to about $223.5 billion burden to the u.s. government and individuals. about $746 per person. just about three quarters of those costs of excessive drinking were due to lost workplace productivity. 11% of it from health care expenses. 9% from law enforcement and other criminal justice costs. 6% for motor vehicle or crash costs for impaired driving. excessive drinking was defined as binge or heavy drinking or any drinking by pregnant or underaged youth. alcoholism is not an easy thing to deal with, either by
stark contrast to his visit last week with secretary hillary clinton. argentine president christina fernandez has won a landslide re-election with one of the widest victory margins in the country. and lady liberty is going high tech for her 125th birthday. five torch cams will go online friday, allowing viewers to see various angles of the statue as well as new york harbor all in realtime. and now here s your first look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 11,808 after spiking 267 points on friday. the s&p climbed 22 points. the nasdaq rose 38. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo the nikkei jumped 165 points while in hong kong the hang seng zoomed 746. trader also start off the week in limbo as european leaders made some debt crisis on sunday
we ll be going live to las vegas to catch up with jim in just a second. all right, meanwhile, let s go to senior political editor mark preston, also in vegas while we re waiting to hear from our jim acosta. mark, we have just been talking about these new polls that were released a few moments ago as we are preparing for the presidential debate tonight. okay. this is live television, folks. it s like a juggling act when you have about three live shots to get to in las vegas. jim acosta, are you in place? there we go. we got you. this is a, this is of no fault of my own, kyra. i promise you. did you have a late night in vegas, jim? listen, what happens in vegas, kyra. that s all i have to say. no. the lovely carol costello, carol had to move off and mark preston and i had to move in. this is live tv. we have to roll with the punches here. we got a little debate tonight, what do you think, kyra? yes, we do. we have been talking about, you know, just who, i guess the
mismi misunderstandings and misquotes. clayton: and, he had meeting with him, and he would parrot back what he thought he said and he said, that is not what i said. dave: and dana perino is not trusting of what he says. alisyn: an politico makes a good point, it is a self-inflicted wound from the white house, because they agreed to sit down for 746 hours of interviews with high-level officials including the president, who gave a 60-minute interview. why? why? i mean, why don t you have other things to do in the white house, rather than that. dave: there is a recording of that portion of the interview. but, should be an interesting book, anyway. coming up, the white house botched plans to invest your money in solar panels. costing you, the taxpayers, millions of dollars. but, will it cost the president at the polls? we report, you decide. alisyn: plus, forget the traditional face-to-face break-up. turns out there is a more
newsroom. i m don lemon in tampa, florida, tonight where preemgss are under way for monday s cnn tea party republican debate. we begin with the tenth anniversary of 9/11. security is extra high tonight as final preparations are made for sunday s dedication of the 9/11 memorial site at ground zero. a massive police presence rolled into lower manhattan just a short time ago as part of a security sweep. a hunt is on right now for three stolen truck including two that belong to a company that worked at ground zero. we ll take you live to the site in a few minutes, but first leroy homer. earlier today the 40 people who died board united airlines flight 939 were remembered at a ceremony in shanksville, pennsylvania. george bush who was president when the attacks happened and former president bill clinton were among the dignitaries to speak at today s dedication. the site features a long marble wall with the names of the flight 93 passengers and crew. they are credited with f