morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning it is friday, october 14th. welcome to "american morning." it's a good morning on many levels. >> the tigers won. >> that's what i was going to say. the rangers are one game away from clinching it, and i kept think, well that means the tigers could still win. >> did you see the sixth ining? crazy. a single, a double, a triple and home run in one inning. i don't think that's ever happened in baseball before. the double kareemed off third base. the only reason it turned into a double and that was the turning point. >> there's a spring in her step. wouldn't you say? >> this week, did you watch more baseball or sleep more? >> definitely watched more baseball. >> i haven't slept all week. i'm a little slap happy now. things getting ugly, perhaps. staging a sit-in nearly four weeks and are being ordered to vacate at 7:00 eastern. the city wants to clean the park. that's what they say. mayor blockberg says they want to clean the park quadrant by quadrant and let them back in. the protesters believe this is to clear them out, to evict them. demonstrators made it clear they don't plan to leave. bloomberg and his team made it clear this is just a temporary park cleaning. so, who's right? >> reporter: oh, who's right and who's wrong depends on who you talk to, of course. at this hour, this crowd has itself psyched up, chanting and chanting more than an hour. normally at this point when we've been down here, everyone is fast asleep. nothing like this. they're saying if they have to lock arm and sit down, they're not leaving this park. here's what led to this point. these protesters may be accusing new york of trashing the american economy, but that's not the kind of trashing that's provoking the latest clash. [ chanting ] the privately owned now publicly occupied stage for the protest is filling up with garbage. >> "try to keep it as clean as we can. on the weekends it's flooded with everyone from the world. >> reporter: promising a clean sweep friday telling protesters to move out until the place gets a makeover. >> people will have to remove all of their belongs and leave the park a section at a time. after it's clean, they'll be able to come bakucome back, but won't be able to bring back the gear, the sleeping bags. >> protesters weren't buying it. >> it's clear it's more or less an evekz. >> reporter: but some local businesses have had itky the mess. >> they came in to ask me where i could dispose of their bags with their waste, excrement i don't know how you want to call it, but i said this is not the place or business for that and i don't know how to handle it. >> take a broom a dust pan. >> reporter: activists from occupy wall street took the streets to clean up the trash threatening to distract from their message. >> the focus of it is economics. >> reporter: protesters say they've used $3,000 on their own money on the cleanup bringing in trash cans, mops and brooms, preparing for a cleanup or a possible confrontation. and at this hour, there are more and more people arriving on the scene. they plan to swell their ranks so when the police start arriving to assist the park's owner in the cleanup that's supposed to start in about an hour's time, these people say they're prepared to sit down and make them leave chanting things like "this is what democracy is all about." for example, reaction from, tweets this morning, from a lot of supporters including russell simmons, of course, a business entrepreneur, hip-hop mowing 8 saying this is what democracy is about. these young people, mainly young activists, they should not have to leave this park. in fact, he's offered to pay for the entire cost of a cleanup if the city will just reconsider. >> we can hear the chanting. we can hear the loud noises behind you. keep us posted. if things get more heated we'll, of course, come back to you. we'll visit you a lot throughout the course of the morning. new developments in the plot of iran to assassinate a saudi ambassador in the united states. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations has had face-to-face talks with the iranians. state department officials say rice met with hoped mohammed khazaee. he finds it hard to imagine arbabsiar would be able to kill anyone. >> come into our morning and look like he'd been hung over. he did strike me as the kind that would go out there and want to murder hundreds of innocent people, he didn't. that takes a callous person and he never struck me as that. >> arbabsiar's former business partner and friend said the suspect always stuck him as a happy person who loved america. and solyndra, the bankrupt clean energy company, that ceo resigned. court documents so brian harrison stepped down last week. harrison, you remember, refused to testify in front of congress last month. today there's another hearing looking into whether the department of energy broke the law when it agreed to restructure solyndra's debt back in february. house democrats are taking their outrage over bank fees straight to the justice department asking the attorney general to investigate whether the big banks are illegally working together, colluding to charge customers these new monthly fees. some contend that would violate antitrust laws. coming up at 7:45 eastern we'll talk to the young woman leading a petition against the new $5 a month debit card. and north carolina congressman brad miller about a piece of legislation making it easier to switch your banks. governor perry may be looking for new life for his presidential contain making his first energy speech. promises 1 tony -1.2 million jobs. we'll talk to him at 7:15. he'll be our guest here in "american morning." he'll talk about herman cain's surge and his plan to get his mojo. >> rick perry making the rounds, doesn't normally do that. >> he had that terrible debate and virtually disappeared and maybe trying to -- >> herman cain does a lot of tv appearances. >> he's everywhere. >> anytime be in asking him he shows up. and the new iphone goes on sale in about two hours here on the east coast. apple sold 1 million of the iphones in the first 24 hours the device was available for pre-order. and the national league championship series all tied up at two games apiece. the milwaukee brewers beating the cardinals in st. louis to even out by a final score 4-. the brew crew did it with a rally capped off by ryan. the big go-ahead hit. amazing. game five tonight in st. louis. the detroit tigers staying alive for me. a 7-5 win over the rangers. a lucky bounce, the top of the shop we talked about it, two more runs by dellman young who hit two home runs last night. he's hurt. got an oblique injury. imagine swinging the bat with that, but he came through as did cabrera and as did martinez, also hurt. >> nothing bad to say about ka braer b ka br cabrera. >> should have been a sports report. what was i thinking? >> true. ahead on "american morning," just hanging out. a base jumper stuck dangling in a tree. thought twice about ever coming down, because the cops weren't too happy about it. >> bet not. and taking on the recession. excessive bargain hunting and finding a job. is reality tv becoming a little too realistic. and how this may be part of your everyday life, drones. could happen sooner than you think. it's nine minutes past the hour. 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[ playing "here comes the bride" ] >> for some that fairy tale wedding is just getting a job. i had a great conversation about what we're calling recession tv. can you koch that discussion on "your bottom line" at 9:30 a.m. eastern. i don't know if finding a job is as entertaining and they're trying to make it. >> depressing. >> repoing a car is wildly depressing and they're making it exciting. >> "the repo guy," sounds like you're out in the wild west, except you're lassoing a car. >> if they can find shows like showing your skills, trying to get a job, maybe entertaining. now that it seeped into even reality tv, money has always been there, not having money being in reality tv -- >> nice to have something in the middle, because i don't like watching the other shows, either. >> do you do -- >> i have to admit it, i do. check in with rob marciano who has his own kind of reality. >> yeah. it's not pretty. i can tell thaw. good morning. it's friday, guys. and for a lot of people the reality is that we've got a couple days off. if you don't, sorry. but the northeast will see not the best of weather for this friday, and it will last through tomorrow. we don't have much in the way of rain from new york to philly. some is heading up into the upstate new york area, parts of western mass. the back side of this, a storm gathering strength. we saw a tremendous amount of rain with this across parts of virginia. a couple reports of tornadoes in virginia and the newport news area up through just north of richmond as well. ooh, some of the video. wasn't able to see it earlier. seeing it for the first time as well. there you see some of the damage. likely a tornado touching down there. all right. the back side of this is going to have some wind with it. gusts to 65 miles an hour potenti potentially. high wind watches poach posted east of the great lakes. some will get it, the bigger cities, over the next couple of days. that coupled with rainfall slows down travel today. thunderstorms in the new york metros. overnight delays expected especially in laguardia and boston, philly, chicago. pick then as far as the major cities are concerned. you'll have your problems. although, the detroit game yesterday, they managed to get it in without any sort of rain delay. impressive, nonetheless. all right. the dry weather continues across the midsection of the country and in the desert southwest and socal continues their stretch of very warm weather. 91 in las vegas. 71 in new york city, debuting the iphone 4s, parties in battery park. good times. >> wish you could be there. >> i'll be there on monday. >> awesome. >> my cousin rudy's getting married tomorrow. >> very good. >> congratulations to cousin rudy. >> yeah. >> see you in a bit, rob. now's your chance to "talk back" on one of the big stories of the day. today's question, should companies require interviews with minority job candidates? the black community is hurting. 16.7% unemployment and many in the african-american community say president obama is trying, but not hard enough. robert johnson, ceo of the black entertainment television and an influential guy in the world of politic. listen. >> and i think the president and congress both sides, i'm not picking on one or the other, they need to go the extra mile to increase opportunities for african-americans. >> johnson's idea, going the extra mile? expand the nfl rooney rule tloupt the business world for executive level jobs. that's the rule requiring nfl owners to interview at least one african-american candidate when there's a vacancy in a coaching or gm position. i hear you. that smacks of discrimination. not so, says johnson. it would be strictly voluntary. >> there's no mandate to hire anybody. it's called what i call, best practice enhanced commitment to diversity inclusion. >> especially, he says, with so many white candidates vying for the same jobs. as for how the rooney rule has changed the nfl? there are now eight african-american head coaches. before there were only two, and five black general managers. before that, only one. the rooney rule, though, is mandatory for nfl owners. the "talk back" question of the day, should companies require interviews for minority job candidates? facebook pain com/"american morning." we'll read your comments later on in the hour. an air show in china. more of this incredible video of what happened to the pilot when we come back. 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"minding your business" now, u.s. stock futures up ahead of the meeting of the financial ministers in paris today. tech shares pushed the nasdaq higher. more bad news overnight about the stability of the euro zone. ratings agency standard & poor's cut spain's long-term credit rating by one notch from aa to aa minus and putting banks on notice for potential down grade including morgan stanley, bank of america and as well as several big banks in europe. good news out of europe. slovakia became the seventh and final country to improve expansion of the critical bailout for the region meaning the eu will now have more flexibility and power to bail out any european banks or european governments that get into trouble. you could be seeing fewer gap stores soon. the company plans to shut down 21% of its stores in north america over the next two years. about 700 locations. the combination of the lasting effects on people's shopping habits and the rise of online shopping made the past few year as struggle for gap. mortgage sales are up. 4.12%. this week, according to freddie mac, you might want to consider refinancing your mortgage while the rates are this low. 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