from this hospital, eventually he'll be transferred back to his home where he'll continue to get checked in on by those medics. that's our show. this is the place for the answers to all of your medical questions. i'm dr. sanjay gupta. more news on cnn starts right now. hello, everybody, from the cnn center in atlanta. this is cnn sunday morning. it's september 13th, 8:00 a.m. here in the east. 5:00 a.m. pacific. boy, it's early out there. it's early. what can i tell you. good morning, everybody. i'm betty nguyen. >> and i'm t.j. holmes. it's grandparents day. happy grandparent days to all the grandparents out there. it's been kind of ugly at the u.s. open with the rain. >> weather wise, but things turned a little ugly on the court. >> a really ugly incident involving the biggest u.s. tennis star, serena williams. we'll explain to you how she lost the match and lost her cool. >> pointing fer ining fingers, all that good stuff. and talking about this, hurricane ike, one year ago today. how the city is recovering. also, there's a prayer service this morning. some block parties so people can reunite, get to know each other again, because they were just devastated down there in galveston. some 7 feet of water. it was the third worse hurricane in u.s. history when it came to damage. i'm going to revisit the city and talk to the mayor. also, a year ago, the financial hemorrhaging started. yep, tomorrow president obama will claim the bleeding has stopped. but he's also going to call for more reforms during a speech on wall street. and tonight on "60 minutes," the president says he's not interested in passing a bill that does not work. and yesterday he took his message on the road with hour elaine quijano along for the ride. >> reporter: president obama was back in campaign mode at a rally here in minneapolis, pitching health care reform to an enthusiastic crowd of about 15,000 cheering supporters. now, the president had a new twist on his health care argument. he cited a new treasury report that estimates over the next ten years, about half of all americans under 65 will lose their health coverage at some point. but the president's speech here mostly reiterated what he told a joint session of congress on wednesday, including blasting critics who argued the president shouldn't rush reform. >> we are closer to reform than we've ever been before. but this is the hard part. this is when the special interests and the insurance companies and the folks who think there is a good way to bring obama down, this is when they're going to fight with everything they've got. this is when they'll spread all kinds of wild rumors, designed to scare and intimidate people. that's why i need your help. >> reporter: but outside the hall, signs that the president still has some convincing to do, protesters echoed some of the concerns voiced by republicans and even some fiscally conservative democrats. the biggest sticking point, how exactly to pay for the president's $900 billion plan. elaine quijano, cnn, minneapolis. >> as we mentioned, president obama will make his speech on the financial crisis tomorrow. then on tuesday, the president will speak to the afl-cio's annual convention that's happening in pittsburgh. the afl-cio, the largest confederation of unions in this country. and on wednesday, something people are waiting to see. in the senate finance committee, the chairman, max baucus, will release his own version of the health care bill. it drops the public option. and many people are saying this may be the best and last chance at a bipartisan health care reform bill. >> well, president obama drew thousands of people at his minneapolis rally, but opponents of his plan were not to be outdone in washington. let's give you a little look at the national mall yesterday outside the u.s. capitol. you can see right there, tens of thousands of protesters marching, chanting, waving signs. they are upset over the democrats' health care efforts, but some on hand say, it's not about political parties. >> we are american first. we are not republicans, we are republicans, democrats, independents who finally decided, enough is enough. >> well, this was the last stop for the tea party express, which is a series of protests across the nation over government spending. different story in orlando where the rally was for president obama's health care reform initiative. the health insurance reform now bus tour stopped at the central florida fairgrounds yesterday and hundreds of supporters turned out. the tour is being sponsored by the democratic national committee. it heads off to tampa next and its final stop is las vegas on thursday. an autopsy will be performed this morning on christopher kelly, that's a close aide and fund-raiser for former illinois governor rod blagojevich. kelly was found dead yesterday. he was facing federal corruption charges. kelly was supposed to report to federal prison on friday to serve a three-year term for pleading guilty to tax fraud charges. well, the positive effect a little publicity can have on fund-raising. listen to this, south carolina congressman joe wilson's outburst during the president's speech last wednesday not only put his congressional race next year against democratic opponent rob miller in the spotlight, it's also filling up their respective war chests. both candidates have reported taking in about $1 million in the few days since that you burst. let's take you back to turkey now, where they are seeing some of the worst flooding they have seen in some 80 years. we've been showing these pictures for the past several days. just a mess there. people having to be rescued. 32, at least, we know of have died in the flooding. and still know that nine are still missing. there have been mass evacuations. and it might not be over just yet, because there might be some more rain, some sporadic storms, they're calling them, that could drop some more rain, but this is some of the worst flooding they have seen there in about 80 years. also, in brazil now, some flooding problems there. they've been seeing this. kind of a similar scene to what you just saw there in turkey. they haven't seen this for almost a week there. severe weather there, tornadoes, some landslides. a lot of people have been displaced, thousands, we know of. the numbers here, five dead and 120 injuries that we know of. thousands, literally, thousands are in government shelters right now and a lot more people, you know, it's just a mess, people trying to wait for word of relatives and things like that. >> and some villages are just cut off because of the floodwaters so it's hard for people to get in. let's bring it back home and get to reynolds wolf in the severe weather center. because we've been talking about flooding right here in the good old u.s. of a.. >> and sometimes we refer to flash flooding. what i'm talking about is, when you mention flash flooding, the flash has to do with the speed of the rainfall. let's say you go outside and pour a glass of water on the ground, it's going to absorb. and when you have very heavy rainfall that falls at a quick rate, the ground can only absorb so much and the rest is runoff. and the runoff goes into streets and creek beds and rivers and causes the water to rise quickly, flash flooding. heavy rainfall forming in denton over towards dallas. temperatures in this hour in these locations mainly into the 60s and 70s. south of dallas, 69 degrees. over towards waco, temperatures mainly into the 70s. the rain is expected to continue. the reason why it's going to continue is due to this area of low pressure. it's going to continue to pull that moisture in from the gulf of mexico and that combined with your daytime heating is going to give you more rainfall. so from dallas southward to about austin and san antonio is going to be your best chance of seeing some rainfall. that will be an issue as we make our way into monday. still relatively dry for the northeastern seaboard. we have a live shot for you in central park right now. that shows the conditions are looking okay. into the afternoon, maybe a raindrop or two. should be fairly nice for you in gotham city. meanwhile, back to the weather map. nice and cool for parts of the corn bethel and into the rockies. might see a few showers west of denver. still hot and dry in the desert southwest with high temperatures going up to 100 degrees in phoenix, 97 in las vegas, 61 in san francisco out by peer 39. seattle with 78, 5 in billings. back in the southeast, warmer conditions. certainly not hot, but warmer, atlanta with 83 degrees, 86 in tampa, miami with 88. again, the rainfall totals we were talking about over towards north of austin, the bell/williamson area, over a foot of rainfall. could see more of that as we make our way into wednesday and tuesday. stay dry in texas. back to you guys. >> all right. thank you, reynolds. we appreciate it. and talk about staying dry in texas, how about cool in new york? cool, under pressure, under fire. if you haven't seen it, we'll show it to you now and let it speak for itself. serena williams at the end of her semi final match at the u.s. open last night. take a look at how this went down. >> and that -- [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ] i didn't say i was going to kill you! are you serious?! are you serious?! i didn't say that. >> yeah, when your defense begins, "i didn't say i would kill you," don't know if this is going well. we have to put this in some perspective, what we're seeing here. >> let's do that. >> let's start with what was called -- there's a line judge that called a foot fault. which essentially means she had her foot on the line when she served. this is a call you hardly ever, ever see and you certainly don't see it in match point or close to match point at the u.s. open semi final. there's the judge there walking off. serena was upset, obviously, because she was close to losing the match. she was then penalized for going off the way she did. >> yeah, that conduct. >> the conduct cost her one point. >> which -- >> one point is all her opponent needed to win. >> cost her the game. >> and you saw what happened, the finger pointing, the cursing, you heard all the bleeps. at one point she said, i'm going to take this ball and shove it down your -- blank -- throat. and it was a bad call, it was not a double fault, her foot did not go over the line, yet it was called that way and then the rest ensued. so what do you think about all this? justified? i don't know how you can say that, but we want to hear your opinion today. there are things that set us off every now and then. there's a time or place, not really sure that's the way you go about it, but let us know. you can reach us at facebook and twitter and all these other sites. we'll be reading some of your replies on the air. >> in our next hour, you'll also hear from serena williams herself in her own words. she had that post-match news 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(announcer) the exact same brands sold in pet specialty stores. at walmart's unbeatable price. save money. live better. walmart. well, it has been a bloody weekend in afghanistan. five american service members were killed in two separate roads bombings and one of the attacks in western afghanistan was followed by a taliban ambush. earlier this morning, i spoke with atia abaawy, who is in kabul. >> in western afghanistan, where we saw those three u.s. soldiers killed, first their convoy hit a roadside bomb. and when they came to assess what exactly occurred, that's when they engaged the taliban. the taliban attacking from three different sides. also in the end, the taliban launching mortars killing civilians as well, including a 14-year-old teenage girl in the area. although it was a very bad day for u.s. soldiers yesterday, five u.s. soldiers killed, it was also a very bad day when it came to militants as well. dozens killed, not just in western afghanistan. we saw many deaths during that attack, but we also saw it in eastern afghanistan in wardoch province in northern afghanistan, kunduz. in the end, yesterday, 11 more militants killed up in kunduz. >> and what are you hearing on adding more troops? >> reporter: it's a very mixed reaction, depending on who you speak with. when you speak to commanders on the ground, that's tell you what they need at the moment, not just to deal with the iedst, but also to help with through civilian effort they're working on to build infrastructure. because the civilians are going to need the protection when they come to the country to actually help build. because the taliban and the militants and the insurgency will attack them to show that progress can't be made. so they're going to need that security. and when you speak to the afghan people, it also, again, depends on who you talk to. some will tell you that they do need the security, but then those who have actually experienced death within the family, within their neighbors, within their villages, they'll tell you that they don't want extra forces in the country. but at the same time, they'll tell you they don't necessarily want the americans to leave either. they want the help in building an infrastructure. this is a country where time stopped in 1979 and only then, you only saw infrastructure isn't the cities of afghanistan. so, obviously, afghanistan is very -- left very far behind. they want the help to improve, want the building, want help with their farming, baa at the same time, they are tired of war after 30 years. >> well, the deaths of american troops, just the latest in a very tough summer for u.s. and afghanistan. josh levs here to show us how -- you can track the war, really, online. this is a war that when we started, it was all about iraq, but now here we are, it's all about afghanistan. >> we're back and the summer has been incredibly tough. we have this site, cnn.com/afghanistan. right here we show you who these people are, the american casualties. we give you their names, background, where they're from, what they did in the war. some cases we have photos. you can learn a lot more about that. check this out from icasualties.org. each year of the war, look, we're still in september. we're already at 200, which is more than we've had any year in the past. weave still got more time this year. reminds you how tough this is. we trace you through splof the k key developments in the war. one of the key developments we've been seeing this year in 2009 is in this video. take a look. they've been exploding these poppy fields all over. opium production in afghanistan has gotten huge since the war began. huger and huger each year, it's incredible. but this year, there's actually some success in what you're seeing right now. the officials are saying, including the u.n., that this has helped get rid of some of the poppy, some of the opium production, which could lead more farmers to building other crops, growing other crops, which could ultimately help afghanistan in many ways and help the fight there. before we go, i want to show you some nice shots here from kabul. because we are still talking about a country with a lot of people who live there and there are some really beautiful photos from afghanistan to help you learn more about the people there and what they're dealing with. all of it right there at the address you can see on your screen, cnn.com/afghanistan. t.j., betty? >> josh, thanks so much for nap. we'll be back with our morning's top stories in just a second, including new developments in the search for that missing yale student. she was supposed to get married. her wedding was scheduled for today. she's been missing now since last tuesday. still don't know what happened to her. also this, president obama's prepping for a major speech on monday that takes stock of wall street and the overall economy. we'll get a preview with "state of the union's" john king. investigators are poring over potential evidence collected from a lab where missing yale student anne le was last seen. surveillance video shows the 24-year-old entering a building, but it's not clear if she ever left that build. officials say there's no indication she was on the run, trying to get away. le was supposed to get married today. >> a heartbreaking story there. and an autopsy will be performed today on christopher kelly. kelly was a close aide and fund-raiser for illinois governor rod blagojevich. he was found dead yesterday. kelly was indeed facing federal corruption charges and he was supposed to report to federal prison friday to serve a three-year term for pleading guilty to tax fraud charges. well, a spokesman for israel's president shimon peres is blaming a hectic work schedule for his collapse. peres fainted on stage after delivering a speech in teleaviva. he was taken to the hospital where he was kept overnight for observation, but was released this morning. coming up, "state of the union" with our guy, john king. we're teeing this up for him. we're just filling the time. everybody's waiting to see john. >> there he is. >> and there's a lot to talk about. because the president, we've been talking about health care, we've seen all the town halls, we're seeing the protests, the tea parties, the what not, but he's focusing a little bit this week, talking to wall street, specifically. >> he is. and it will be interesting to watch, because there are some in the administration, even though the unemployment rate went up to 9.7%, they're beginning to be more optimistic in the obama white house and i was told by a top official this week, they actually expect the economy will start adding jobs again late this year, by the end of the fourth quarter. very interesting to hear the president's tone on wall street. how optimistic is he about the prospects for recovery and how much does he lecture wall street? 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