major blackberry service outage. we re finding out more about what went wrong. good morning to you. it is thursday, october 13th. this is your am wake-up call. the treasury department has slapped new sanctions against iran s force. the government describes a money trail starting within that iranian organization. but former homeland security secretary tom ridge says think bigger. it s a monstrous ly buffet. they are working unilaterally independent of the ayatollah himself. clearly that, is a force under the control of the hierarchy of the mullahs within iran. so i just can t imagine that anybody s been authorized to operate independently of that leadership. senator joe leberman tells cnn a military response should be considering saying this behavior by iran cannot go unresponded to. the president as kmapder in chief, our allies and the you saudis including the target here have a lot of options that are both owe ververt and covert. in my opinion, there has to be a respon
category 1 storm headed way up into canada there. it s going to be with us in this country for the next couple of days at least 10 people are dead, countless folks without power on the eastern seaboard. untold damage. and fema will be holding a new briefing this morning at 11:30 eastern time. there is a fema-related headline in the hill today and it says that the hurricane is set to bleed fema, costing a lot of money. and it will inflame the budget scrap in congress. we want to get your thoughts on any federal spending that s happening or will happen on irene. how should bit paid for? here are the numbers to call. if you are a republican democrats. and independents. federal spending on irene. how should it be paid for? here ts headline. the problem with this, he writes there s a lot more here. we ll get to that in a couple of moments plus your calls. at a time like this pictures and video tell so much of the story. this is the front page of the richmond times dispatch this mo