while you were out last night? another dead satellite falling out of the sky, this one, we're told, the size of a minivan. we think it's crashed back to earth. we just don't know where. also, we're going to be heading to ft. bliss this morning where everybody is celebrating. you can imagine why. their loved ones are coming home from iraq for good in a few weeks. a special good morning to the men and women watching us on the american forces network all around the world, thank you for what you do. we are going to start with herman cain this morning, under fire from his republican rivals. this time for recent comments he made about abortion. and what a platform they had to take shots at him last night. a major gathering of christian conservatives in iowa. shannon travis is in des moines. >> reporter: a big night here in des moines, iowa. the iowa faith and freedom coalition, a gathering of 1,000 iowans, many of them christian evangelicals. six presidential candidates came to court their vote. rick perry, michele bachmann, rick santorum, ron paul, newt gingrich and herman cain. herman cain was on the hot seat because of comments he made to our very own piers morgan earlier this week. he was talking about the issue of abortion. he made very clear, unequivocally, he's pro-life, but asked about what about in cases of rape or incest and his answer was interpreted by some people by leaving some room he would not support the overturning of roe v. wade. well, herman cain tried to drive a stake in any doubt that he isn't pro-life. >> i will not sign any legislation that in any way allows the government to be involved in it. i would strengthen all of our current laws that prevent abortion. i believe that abortion should be clearly stated and illegal across this country. and i would work to defund planned parenthood and would appoint judges to enforce the constitution. and i would make sure we didn't allow any bureaucrats to get in the way in order to protect the life of the unborn. >> reporter: herman cain hopes that that puts this controversy to rest, but not so fast. rick perry, the texas governor took to the stage and said herman cain needs to explain himself further. and michele bachmann, after her speech, she spoke to reporters and listen to her comparison between herman cain and president obama. >> i think it is very important that our candidate for the presidency is a pro-life candidate. we're a pro-life party. and the president of the united states says he is per se against abortion, but doesn't believe that the government should be involved. and that is the statement that mr. cain made and that's very disturbing for a lot of people. and it is very important that our candidate for president can clearly articulate that they're pro-life and they believe life deserves protection. >> reporter: these christian evangelicals gathered here tonight will be very important in the iowa caucuses and in the general election. shannon travis, cnn, des moines. well, four minutes past the hour now. we'll stick with politics and it appears that the crisis has been averted. you won't have to put off christmas shopping in order to vote in a presidential primary. that is because nevada has now flinched. they have backed down and moved their caucus into february. officials in nevada, you may remember, had come under pressure from the republican national committee when they decided to move their caucus up to january 14th. some republican presidential candidates say because of that move, they would actually boycott the january contest and new hampshire threatened to move its primary to december. here is how the nevada gop chairwoman described the controversy when i talked to her after tuesday's republican debate. listen to what she told me then. >> i'm still in communications with our governor, the rnc and the state executive board, but as of right now, we're on the 14th. >> okay. >> as of now. >> as of now, but that is different from the answer you gave me a few days ago when you said absolutely not on the table. >> uh-huh. >> it is on the table at least now moving the caucuses? >> i don't set the table at home. as of now, that's where we're at. >> well, the table has been cleared, it appears so here's where we are. february 4th, nevada is now going to have the caucuses on that day. so they'll go after iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, as well as florida. we'll check in once again with amy tarkanian, the gop chairwoman in nevada. she'll join us at 8:45 eastern time talking about this caucus change. why they decided to do it and the pressure they may have been under to move. also this morning, voters in louisiana gave bobby jindal a big vote of confidence. he easily won re-election with around 66% of the vote. the republican incumbent beat nine challengers. his next closest opponent finished with less than 20% of the vote. the war in iraq is officially coming to an end. president obama announced that all u.s. troops would be home for the holidays, bringing an end to the nearly nine-year war. listen to the secretary of state hillary clinton. >> i join the president in thanking all those who served so bravely in iraq, and particularly noting the thousands who lost their lives to bring this day to fruition. but even as our troops come home, the united states' commitment to iraq's future as a secure, stable democratic nation remains as strong as ever. >> right now, there is still around 39,000 u.s. service members in iraq. some of them there for third, a fourth tour. martin savidge is at ft. bliss in texas where he had a chance to talk with the family members of some of these troops. >> reporter: they are coming home. those are probably about the best words that any military base can hear and certainly here at ft. bliss, texas, well, it's no different. rumors have been circulating for a while, but it wasn't until president obama made the announcement that it was official, which means, now, that the 3500 or so members of the 1st armored division that have been serving in iraq will now be headed home no later than december 31st. i was speaking with denise young. she got the news with other military spouses friday. >> everybody is yelling and screaming and clapping and crying. and, yeah, it is very emotional. >> reporter: her husband john, it is his second deployment and denise says this good-bye was harder than the first. >> it's always a worry. anytime he's gone, whether at a training exercise, especially obviously when he's in iraq because you don't know the situation they're going into. >> reporter: for brooke, it's her first deployment. well, actually for her husband tyron. he's a logistics officer. she's thrilled he's coming back and thinks that it is time everyone comes back from iraq. >> it's been too long. definitely too long. a lot of his guys have been deployed four times over there area this is his first one but i think it is time, definitely. >> reporter: morgan can't wait to see her husband leonardo. can apparently their nearly 2-year-old, elio. when you heard the news about your husband's deployment being shorter than you thought it was going to be. >> we were ecstatic, very happy. >> reporter: thank you very much. >> we're happy, excited, ready for him to come home. >> reporter: by the way, denise never really felt far from her husband. she took one of his old uniforms and made it into a purse. you could say he never left her side. where did you get the idea? >> i had seen, you know, i just -- i'm a purse -- i love purses and so i said, let me cut this up and see what i can make. >> reporter: while the families here prepare to celebrate, everyone also realizes that the iraq war had a cost. and it was a high one. at least 52 soldiers from ft. bliss died in iraq. and then on top of that, there are another 5,000 soldiers from here that are serving currently in afghanistan. for them, and their families, their worries and that war are far from over. martin savidge, cnn, ft. bliss, texas. also news we're just getting in this morning. the autopsy on former libyan dictator moammar gadhafi has been completed. our dan rivers is joining me now. he is in the capital of tripoli and, dan, no real surprises here about the autopsy results. >> yeah, that's right. we haven't got the full results of the autopsy, but what we're told by the chief pathologist, he told us that the autopsy on moammar gadhafi, his son and the defense minister has been completed. gadhafi, he said, was killed by gunshot wound to the head, but we have no detail about whether that was a gunshot wound that was inflicted at close range or whether that was, as the ntc is suggesting, from cross fire. the detailed report will be handed to the attorney general's office here. and we then may get some more detail about exactly what they think happened. we thought it was performed at misrata hospital. and that officials from the prosecution's office, hospital officials were present, but no independent international officials were present during the autopsy, which is what the u.n. and other bodies were pressuring for. and we're now told the body will be returned to the same place where i saw them yesterday, which is essentially a market outside of misrata where the public has been turning out to look at the body of moammar gadhafi. >> you're talking about how the public has been viewing the body, but what about the family? do you know of any plans for the family to get the body of gadhafi? >> well, we certainly heard reports that the family had asked for the bob body to be ha over but there is no clarity on whether that will happen or whether, as has been suggested earlier, that they would just bury gadhafi's body in secret somewhere. i think they're slightly kind of stuck as to what to do because on the one hand, they don't want to sort of shrine to gadhafi be created at his grave, but on the other hand, they don't want to appear too callous and too insensitive to his tribe, the al gadhafi tribe, which, you know, potentially is going to be hugely alienated and angered if his body is not handed over. so they're in a difficult spot. and, you know, at the moment, all we know is that the body is going back on public display, completely contrary to tradition here that dictates the body is buried as soon as 24 hours after the death. that time frame has come and gone. and we have no clarity on what they're going to do next. >> dan rivers for us in tripoli. we'll check in with you again. thanks so much. this autopsy comes as libyans are celebrating freedom from the former dictator. look and listen. >> libya's transitional government expected to officially declare itself liberated. ceremony set to begin in just a few hours. comes after 42 years of iron-fist rule by colonel gadhafi. h his corpse has been on display. we don't know where or when he'll be buried. he was killed thursday after being captured by rebel fighters near his hometown of sirte. we'll go live back to tripoli and benghazi later this hour for the national liberation day. that's coming up in about 20 minutes from now. another note for you from the continent there, the african continent, u.s. officials warning americans in kenya of a possible terrorist attack there. and they're urging americans to delay any plans to travel to kenya. the threat apparently comes from the al qaeda-linked group al shabab. it follows a recent decision by kenya's government to send troops into neighboring somalia to search for al shabab members. islamic militants are expected in a string of kidnappings. and al shabab has been on the list of state terrorism organizations. we're at 14 minutes past the hour. it is big nfl sunday. the chicago bears, tampa bay buccaneers have a game today. but it won't be in chicago. won't be in tampa bay. it's in london. the nfl trying to sell nfl football to the brits. is that a tough sale, though? also this morning, we're once again bobbing and weaving and looking for space junk falling out of the sky. it could be in the backyard now. take a peek. another busted, broken satellite. they believe it is on the ground, though, right? >> they do think it possibly made landfall. landfall. sounds like a hurricane. between 9:45 and 10:15 eastern, perhaps landing in the indian ocean. let's see exactly -- we'll talk about that coming up in a few minutes. speaking of the ocean, the caribbean sea, a big storm we're following out there. not a named storm yet, but a disturbance that could be named within the next 48 hours or so. more on that coming up in a few moments. 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[ male announcer ] introducing the reinvented 2012 toyota camry. it's ready. are you? ♪ 16 minutes past the hour. reynolds, it's okay. >> are you sure? >> it's okay. right before we went on the air, they told reynolds, step back. >> i hear it all the time at home. i'm used to it. it is not a big deal, trust me. >> here we go. a few weeks ago, we were talking about one satellite falling out of the sky. now a second one. this one is smaller but still pretty big. >> 2.7 toned, launched in 1986. it was a german satellite, but the u.s. and the brits helped out. they launched it. it was up there for a decade or so but it was an x-ray telescope designed to help us understand the origins of the universe. >> okay. >> did so for about ten years or so. then we got to about '89 or so, the germans said, hey, something is not working that well at all. they left it up there. it has been up there for over a decade, spinning around, uselessly, spinning around and around. it fell out of orbit and possibly did so between the numbers 9:45 and 10:15 eastern time. if you happen to look out and see something flying through the sky, bits and pieces of it, well, yeah, could possibly be part of the satellite. >> where do they think it is going to come down? >> they're thinking perhaps the indian ocean. when this thing -- they go back through the atmosphere, it is very hostile environment, this thing breaks up in a multitude of pieces. some could be smaller than your coffee cup, some could be smaller than that but some could be several hundred pounds. >> you give me the number. for whatever reason, i get nervous when i hear there is a satellite falling out of the sky. you say, there's 1 in a 1 billion chance you'll get hurt. >> we need a satellite umbrella. there was some large hail that fell in parts of oklahoma just yesterday. one of the reasons why is because of an area of low pressure that was drifting through parts of oklahoma. we have video for you. there you see it right there. you got hailstones. the next to it, little element of america's favorite pass time. a little comparison there. they have hail sales, automobiles that are damaged by hailstones and you can get a good deal if you don't mind a car that is all dimpled and stuff. let's talk about more of that hail and possibly more hail we might see this morning. maybe some small stuff. this area of low pressure this is cruising its way from oklahoma, back to portions of arkansas and louisiana. and where we have this thing setting up, got the area of low pressure right about -- come on, let's get this thing working. here we go. the low setting up right here. a lot of wind popping up here. if you're in shreveport to baton rouge, get ready, you have the combination of the wind and the rain. the big weathermaker, right here, easy to see, this area of low pressure, morning showers can be expected that wi. that will eventually move into arkansas, alabama, parts of the florida panhandle. cool and dry in the northeast. to the west, very sunny. i'll tell you something else we'll be seeing out there, a little marine layer that should last through midmorning before dissipating. 73 in albuquerque. 83 your high in dallas. 77 in kansas city. 62 in minneapolis. 85 in houston. and 78 in new orleans, back out along the eastern seaboard. 66 in washington, new york, with 60. very quickly as you wrap things up, the tropical outlook, you're watching this area of disturbed weather east of central america. right now, national hurricane center giving this about a 70% chance of further development. we'll keep a sharp eye on it for you. t.j., that's the latest. >> reynolds, thank you, kind sir. 19 minutes past the hour now. hundreds of people paid their final respects saturday to one of indycar's most talented and most popular drivers. dan wheldon. he was killed in that horrific crash at the indy 300 in las vegas last sunday. a funeral was held for him at the first presbyterian church in st. petersburg, friday. his fellow indycar drivers were all pallbearers. indycar is holding a public service today to celebrate his life. he was a two-time indianapolis 500 winner. he was 33 years old. we turn now to the world series where some are describing it as one of the greatest performances in world series history. it came from mr. albert pujols of the st. louis cardinals. they have now taken a 2-1 lead over the texas rangers. but listen to the night he had. three home runs. you're hearing me right. three home runs, brought in six runs, five hits altogether, only babe ruth and reggie jackson ever hit that many homers in a world series game. also big game today for the nfl. the game is not happening in chicago or in tampa bay. the two teams that are participating. it is actually happening in london. they are heading over because this is the fifth regular season game that has been held over in london since 2007. this is part of the nfl's drive to export the game to other countries. the nfl commissioner says having teams play overseas periodically will help grow the fan base. we're at 21 minutes past the hour now. a 5-year-old missing child, missing almost two weeks now, and some, including her family, are openly questioning why the case has not gotten more national attention. part of my conversation with the missing child's grandmother is just ahead. stay with us. 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