occupying center stage, then let him sit at home that day. let him watch it on tv! all right. bill donahue from the catholic league today joining us from washington, d.c. thank you very much. thank you. all right. still ahead on the rundown, we re keeping an eye on hurricane irene about to hammer the east coast and new york city bracing for a direct hit as a category 1 or some say a category 2. is this town ready for such a storm? we ll talk about it. and billionaire warren buffet swooping in to save one of america s biggest banks but stuart varney says he s hardly a hero. details on a very telling phone call coming up. who knew that stuart could run the crane camera? and when qaddafi fled, he left something behind, the pictures that reveal his secret crush on that woman, condaleeza rice. happy birthday to macaulay culkin. guess how old he is today. he is 31.