going over six and eight foot fences. it covered a lot of ground. police found the animal hiding under a trailer before grabbing it. the mountain lion will be relocated. look at that. those are your headlines. now let s turn to maria molina on the first official day of fall. we welcome it. good to see you this morning. for the first day of fall we are going to be dealing with showers and thunderstorms. that s going to be across portions of the southeastern united states and especially across the state of florida. you re really going to need umbrellas later today. early this morning we re already seeing showers and storms across parts of new mexico, colorado and those will persist throughout the afternoon hours. those current temperatures across parts of the great lakes, the midwest and into the northeast really already feeling like fall. you re in the 50 s this morning. cleveland in the 40 s. in chicago and minneapolis. take a look at the afternoon high temperatures. this is comi
reactions. the most seem more willing to wear the sign than go to jail. and we have some viewer response to that. is that true, we have viewer response? linda said this punishment looks too easy. i say make them do public work and not something menial. cause he s smile. german writes, shame and public humiliation is a powerful motivator. this may be more effective than jail. wow. so many people wouldn t show up for their court dates, they wouldn t pay the fine. he didn t want to put them in jail. so this seemed to him like a better solution. one woman who has never been punished cause she s never done anything wrong, maria molina who is outside. and she says it s fall. 10:00 o clock tonight, start raking. it will kick off at 10:29 p.m but because it s the start of fall, i have some fall trivia for you. are you ready? we have a nice trivia question coming up for you guys.
ron smith wrote the book pay for play examining challenges of reform in college sports. he s skeptical of board members public comments they knew nothing. even if they knew they wouldn t say anything about protecting something that s very valuable to penn state which is the football program actually when it becomes known they are ruining it. they win this one for joe s staff. despite the football s team win saturday the first without joe paterno as head coach since 1965, sales of penn state paraphernalia have plummeteded. down an estimated 40% compared to the same period last year. and there s new anquish for one of jerry sandusky s alleged victims. the first young man to come forward identified as victim number one now 17 years old reportedly had to leave his high school in the middle of his senior year. his counselor said he was victimized again this time by angry classmates who bullied the boy blaming him for paterno s firing. the counselor says officials at
deadline that was looming this weekend. that means the federal emergency management agency, for one, won t run out of money that is desperately needed by victims of resent disasters. that made us wonder how the folks in vermont are recovering after that terrible flood from hurricane irene. so we asked wyatt andrews to bring us up to date. reporter: in central vermont, the leaves are exploding with fall color like always. businesses are ready for fall tourists, like always. you call them leaf peepers? we call them leaf peepers. reporter: but waitress cora curtis has one question. you re like, gosh, where are they? reporter: most years in vermont, leaf-viewing tourism is a $330 million industry. route 100 in rochester is supposed to be packed with cars by now and there are supposed to be lines for cora s tables at the rochester cafe. instead, she s bracing for a 25% loss in yearly income. it s our biggest, busiest
vermont s economy. of the $1.4 billion tourists spend here each year, state officials say that nearly one-fourth comes from the four weeks from late september through mid-october. it is so important that after irene ravaged the state, officials formed a special public/private task force and made reopening washed out roads a priority. since the storm hit, we have been working from daylight to dark, seven days a week. reporter: officials say more than 90% of state roads closed by the storm are open again. but in places like this, where the white river has completely washed away this two-lane highway, route 107, recovery is going to take a lot longer than that. nearly 200 local streets and roads are still unusable. that can hurt even businesses not damaged by the storm. in menden, vermont, a major highway was badly damaged, but traffic was flowing again in less than three weeks.