morning pressing the candidate. shark attack. cape cod on alert this morning. a man bitten on both legs just 75 feet from shore. onlookers say a large dorsal fin broke the surface just before. plus this. the drought is spreading across the midwest. there is no rain in the forecast, and it is hot. just how bad will the corn crop be? farmers won t know until they harvest the corn. but what is certain, food prices are rising for you. cnn newsroom starts right now. and good morning. thank you for joining us. it carol costello. we begin with a teenaged chinese supergirl who at age 16 swam at such an incredible speed some suspect she cheated. she won gold in the 400 meter. she swam the last 50 meters or 164 feet faster than american ryan lochte s time in the men s competition. amazing feat, considering according to the bbc that she is 5 6 and 141 pounds, and lochte is 6 1 and 194 pounds. john leonard, the director of the world s swimming coaches calls the win disturbing a
everyone. i m erin burnette. is the president hiding up to 200 layoffs. assistant labor secretary jane oates posted this update. now, it was quietly posted to the labor department s website just yesterday. as we reported 46 days ago the law called the warn act calls for employers to announce layoffs of employees 60 days before hand. we re talking about ones like the ones related to the defense industry thanks to the 2 hnt $1 trillion in sequestration cuts. since they take effect on january 2nd, here s a calendar. layoff announcement that the depence contractors would go out november 3rd. as you can see, that s three days before the presidential election. obviously those are not headlines barack obama wants. enter the labor department. here s the letter. the warn act notice to employees of federal contractors including defense industry is not required 60 days in advance of january 2nd 2013 and would be inappropriate. yes, the administration is reinterpreting the law on the sly
thought i knew you and your legendary career, 30 years at abc and all of the books you ve written, but you are a swimmer and you re an historian and anthropologist, this book talks about swimming, why we love it through costumes, through history. you yourself swam the that s t. i won my age group. i decided since i was writing a book about swimming, and it s about my passion for swimming. it s the zen of swimming and i decided, andrea, like a good journalist, as you might have done, i ought to do one of these big swims to see what the big drive is for people. i was a lazy lap swimmer. i loved being in the water. and i trained and i worked out and i did it and i swam in this big international race last year
apparently they have cases at the luxor. how concerned should people that want to visit las vegas. it is not contagious. you will not very ped it to me. the problem it gets into the water system. it is a kind of bacteria that is very hardy. lives at many different temperatures, like body temperatures. it has a tail and swims. stays in the water. even though luxor trying to eradicated going through 400 rooms using chlorine to kill it that can hide through the pipes. we have 25,000 cases. the problem it creeps up on you. you feel fatigued headaches, muscle aches and dry you cough. don t know what it is. it becomes pneumonia and 30% of the cases die from this. martha: we saw one out of these three people died. who is most at risk? is there anything you can do to protect yourself? if you do have the signs how do you know they might be this? early diagnosis is key. we have antibiotics to treat
at least for the moment. stocks bounced back in early trading today, after monday s 634-point plunge. right now, dow blue chips are up by 201 points. investors are psyched over today s fed meeting, and there s speculation it might announce a new stimulus. to boost the economy. president obama sits down with treasury secretary timothy geithner. that s happening this afternoon. they re going to size out the new market turmoil that is fearing that is fully feeding fear of double-dip recession. the president is promising to help a special congressional commission find a long-term fix for the finances. i intend to present my own recommendations over the coming weeks, on how we should proceed. and that committee will have this administration s full cooperation. and i assure you, we will stay on it until we get the job done. so, congress has to appoint the commission by next tuesday. that is just a week from today. the six democrats, and six republicans will have until novem