bags, it hovered over protesters who tailed over the parade. some folks booed while others were just standing by in amazement. not the prettiest thing, but certainly makes a statement. it sure does, a big statement. i love this next one. what you want baby i got it . who is that? aretha. that lovely lady on the arm of her sweetheart apparently is engaged. she lost 85 pounds apparently in the last year because of a health scare and says she s a brand new woman getting engaged to her forever friend, willy william wilkerson. do you know the dress designer? she s talking about donna koran, val teen know and vera wang. the best part. she s 69 years old. i love her. she says i m not pregnant, not a
2012. we were getting you up to speed on the bizarre fires. look at this man with the ponytail. he s been arrested. this is the worst string of fires in that city since the riots of 92. get this. there may be annism grags beef allegedly involved with this arrest. lots more to tell yu about that. that s coming up. he looked like he was kind of smirking in that video. a man accused of killing a park ranger is found dead fats down in a waterfall. apparently the exposure to all the cold there. the mountain is shut down as the rangers regroup and mourn the loss of one of their own. we don t worry so much that the sniper is out there. they ve shut down the search. they pretty much figure they ve got the guy. also, did you feel it this morning when you woke up or did you have to shovel it? it has been a serious cold day in the midwest. it s basically slamming us this weather. it s actually moving into the east as well. a couple feet of snow in some places in the great lak
league. wait until you hear who he called and maybe you ll think the call was worth it. also, you know, they make an app for just about everything out there. so many apps to keep up with, but we got one for you this morning that you might really want, an app that actually earns you money. welcome back to this cnn saturday morning october 22nd, 8:00 a.m. here in atlanta, georgia, 7:00 a.m. in fayetteville, arkansas, 5:00 a.m. for you folks in las vegas, wherever you may be, i m glad you re here. i m t.j. holmes. let s start at the top of the hour with the news that we got from the president, the war in iraq has a date to be over. the end of one of the most controversial wars in u.s. history comes after almost nine years. you ll remember the shock and awe, you ll remember the surge, this all started in march of 2003. the department of defense estimates they spent more than $700 billion just on operation iraqi freedom and operation new dawn in iraq and 4,400 u.s. ser
off in front of a clothing shop at a athens suburb. it happened after closing time so nobody hurt. police say a suspect intended to destroy one store. they say its owner was having problems repay ago loan shark. china, emergency workers rescuing a woman who had fallen into a well more than 30 feet deep. villagers in an eastern province reportedly heard her shouting and went to help. when they couldn t get her out, they called the pros. the rescuers sending a fireman down to grab her. no word on any injuries. new zealand. the filipino captain of a tanker that spilled hundreds of tons of oil off the northern coast now feyess criminal charges. the incident said to be the country s worst ever environmental disaster at sea. brutal weather and rough waters reportedly breaking apart that vessel since it hit a reef last week. philippines, a dress designer taking his love for superman to a serious level. we re told that for more than a decade the man has undergone a
secretaries, people we both know, and they ve said roughly the same things. they re on honeymoon and incredibly, no photographs or anything. what do you think of the way they re controlling the media coverage of them and their marriage? because this is unprecedented. you and i both had access to various royal palaces ov a considerable amount of time. these people, we can t get near them. the only thing they have to watch out is the pirates. the government will give you safe passage within the islands, out outside. you re absolutely right. they ve controlled the news agenda down the line from the announcement of the engagement to the dress designer to the other details. all goes back to the fact that prince william is deeply suspicious of the media, because of what happened to his mother, and also because of his inexperience, his own phones were tapped by british tabloid. so what he s done has built trusted people around him and