. hey, good morning. you awake yet? i think i'm waking up, too. i'm natasha curry in for robin meade. she's on assignment today. murder charges in the beating death of a high school student, and police say one of the suspects is giving them some chilling details about what happened. also, oscar-winning director roman polanski is sitting in jail facing two extremes. he could be sent to the u.s. to face charges or he could be set free. new details in the case today. the pope delivered a big speech, but don't ask anybody about what he said. they were focused on something itsy and bitsy. our top story. one of the suspects accused of killing a chicago honors student has admitted to jumping on the boy's head while he was lying on the ground. that's from the state attorney. four teenagers have now been charged with first-degree murder in the gruesome death. one of them is a juvenile. 16-year-old darrion albert was beaten to death after being hit over the head. here's his picture, and his mother said he was headed for college. >> he was a good boy. >> he had no problems. >> not a gang banger? >> no. >> we're not saying this is a gang-related incident. right now it appears you had a young man making attempts to go home. >> he was trying to help out his friend. he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. >> we're going to warn you you may find this video disturbing here. police say they're looking for three more suspects involved in this attack that was caught on a cell phone. increased controls were set up in the neighborhood and there were 290 shootings in chicago schools last year. 34 kids were killed. a suspect in a 9/11 anniversary bomb plot heads to federal court later today. najibullah zazi heads to court saying he conspired to use weapons of destruction. he was caught on video buying beauty products that could be used to make home mbombs. they were allegedly headed for the new york city area. they're hoping to bring the olympics to the windy city in 2016. here's rafer. >> yeah, they're sending in the big guns to try to make the windy city the first choice. they got an olympic send-off at chicago o'hare last night. they have just likely arrived in copenhagen. jackie joyner-kersey will join the president. they said with the president and the first lady going, they're likely to get the games. >> i think they're high impact, i think their presentation will be very personal given they know and love chicago so well, and i think they'll talk about the olympic spirit and the olympic movement and why we think chicago would be the perfect place to host the olympic games. >> they'll make that call on friday in the morning about 11:00 a.m. eastern. we'll have more sports in about ten minutes. >> so why not chicago? >> why not? so roman polanski's lawyer filed a motion for the director's release from the swiss prison. the oscar winner was arrested on friday for a 1997 sex crime. back then polanski pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl but fled to france before sentencing. french and polish officials are urging switzerland to let him free on bail. otherwise, he could spend months in jail fighting extradition to the u.s. the secret service is trying to figure out who put a poll on facebook asking if president obama should be killed. the positive responses were yes, no, maybe, and yes if he cuts my health care. the secret service took it down yesterday along with a third-party application that lets people create polls. the obama poll was made available to everyone on facebook. the aclu is starting a plan to put up cameras all around sacramento. the group says it would be an invasion of privacy and there is no proof they would stop or lower crime. a lot of people around the city, however, support the idea. >> if there's a camera in front of them, they might not be doing the bad things they're doing out here. one isn't going to do the trick. if people are getting bust oed camera, it would probably help. >> the cameras would be paid for by a $16 million grant by home security. the decision will be made tonight. us airways, sully guided his plane into the hudson river, and that was after losing both engines to bird strikes. all 155 people on board survived. so definitely a hero there. a security specialist for john travolta testified that he told his boss about an alleged demand for $25 million days after travolta's son died. two people, including a paramedic, are accused of threatening to release a document that travolta signed unless he paid up. the document was kind of like a liability form if the family refused to send jett travolta to the hospital in the bahamas after his seizure. travolta is expected to testify again. yesterday we told you about a georgia man whose car was swallowed up by a sinkhole. it turns out he was victimized not once, but twice. someone actually broke into his car while it was still in this hole. recent rain that pounded georgia probably caused the ground to buckle here. >> i said, where is the car? and he said, in the hole. and i felt like my breath was taken away because just the thought his car had been swallowed by the ground and he got out of it was a mamazing to. >> the victim was also told it was his responsibility to get the car out. it's been in that sinkhole for three days. >> how do you get it out? how many tow trucks does it take to get it out? will they get it out? the great lakes region has something going on here. bob, what's the latest on that? >> i'm watching the showers come in on lake ontario and erie, too. you see that sweep going on through picking up heavy rain now. just east of buffalo, getting into the finger lakes as well. yesterday we had some rough weather go through the buffalo area. that was ahead of a cold front. even the coast guard reported 59-mile-per-hour wind gusts. you see massive trees down. those are big, beautiful houses, too. they had wind gusting to 60 miles per hour. today about 35-mile-per-hour wind gusts. syracuse, you can see that rain coming from the north, heavy rain from lake ontario. that will slide down the throughway, so a tough commute no matter how you slice it. a cold front has passed through gainesville, so it's going to be cooler and dryer for you today, but if you live south of here, basically in miami, temperatures in the low 90s and it will feel humid as well. decent rain, we're getting it in the southern part of texas, right around san antonio, houston, too. austin some heavy rain also. it will last into the afternoon. look at the sunrise in new york city. just captured this on the tower cam. look at that. it is nice. much cooler today than it was yesterday. mid to upper 60s the high, and it's going to be dry. so enjoy that. >> yes. enjoying it for sure. thanks, bob. so the government is still trying to help the housing market, but this time we hear it's got a billion-dollar plan for local agencies. find out if it could help you. you thought fried oreos and twinkies were an overindulgence. find out about this burger between two donuts. . hey, what are you doing tonight? we have an exciting addition to our prime timeline line-up for . the joy behar show at 9:00 p.m. make sure you tune in. they said they are vehicle rolled over a land mine on the island of joho. that island is the home of militant groups, some in al qaeda. 12-year-old keara hess is pregnant and due to have her baby any day now. keara, her sister and father were last seen on thursday. people are worried keara may not be getting the medical care she needs. >> they're going to have to surface sometime. they're going to need food. keara will be going into labor. they'll obviously need baby supplies. we hope we'll find them and they'll be hopefully okay. >> the father does have legal custody of the girls, but there may be legal issues with her pregnancy and they don't know if hess knows that. last week mass gunmen flew a stolen helicopter to a cash depot in sweden, then they used explosives to bust inside and steal an unknown amount of cash. police have not yet filed charges against the suspects. sarah palin finished her memoir just four months after signing the book deal. it's going to be called "going rogue in american life." the title is from a comment from someone who complained she wasn't following the protocol. the white house may take another step to housing in the white house. who will benefit from this money? >> it could help middle class get reasonable terms on a mortgage because it would fund state housing agencies. basically, those agencies, they usually help a lot of people, but they've been frozen by the credit crunch that's affected so many of us and businesses, they just couldn't lend any more. one take-away from this story is more help for families. the other take-away is even though the government is starting its exit plan on some of these big emergency programs, it is still too afraid that the housing market's in trouble, that it's remaining there and trying to provide aid and propping it up there. cnn and hln want to make sure you have the news wherever you are. they are bringing you the c cnn app. it has weather, traffic, news. it's at cnn/iphone or you can just go to the istore. >> pretty cool. can we download your bio on there? >> i imagine you could. you can get your travel from there or bob. >> if you are traveling out toward atlanta, the weather is finally going to be just fine. no wind, really. sunrise coming up. it's a nice, cool day. cold front down to the south. temperatures topping out in the mid-70s today with no wind. so safely traveling if you go to atlanta. shouldn't have to worry about it. here's how it goes around the great lakes. here's ontario, here's michigan, you can see ohio and pa. rain is going to be there for the entire day, wind as well. gusty conditions when you get to areas like new york city, chicago, las vegas. thunderstorms near the houston metro area as well. 30-minute to one-hour delays. we'll have more on that in just a bit. twitter is causing trouble for a lot of football players, and now coaches are banning it altogether. we're sharing your messages about whether that's fair. i'm rafer weigel with sports. after spending $1.2 billion on a new stadium, the cowboys did something they've not done unth year. they won. they beat carolina 21-7, and they did it with their defense, which has been a little uncharacteristic for them recently. the team was actually booed going into the locker room at half time 7-0. it's another edition of this day in twitter. texas tech coach mike leach banned his entire team from the social networking site after a player criticized him on it. that's not smart. don't twitter something you wouldn't say to your boss's face. then rich ryan benched a player after he tweetd a complaint about playing time. what do you think about these twitters? do they have the right to ban them or is it a free for all? teresa e mailed, players should take their gripes to the coaches, not to the world. it might actually do something to positively change their situation and it won't make a laughing stock of the entire team! now let's close it out on a bitter sweet story. the los angeles angels finished out the season and paid tribute to a player. after they beat texas, they went out and capped his number 34. as the champaign wshachampagne they cheered and the tears flowed. but the angels win the west once again. tom delay danced with a foot injury last night, but he made it through the tango on "dancing with the stars." delay and his partner tied for last place with kathy ireland and her partner. other stars who danced last night include kelly osborne and donny osmond. we could see the key flight to health care today whether to include insurance. they will discuss the public option, and a lot of democrats want it but a lot of modern democrats doane. so far no republicans support it expe expect. watch for it today in your "morning express" planner. education secretary arnie duncan, newt gingrich will be in philly to talk about president obama's health care reform. at noon a court martial is expected to begin for a marine sergeant for killing a detainee back in 1984. at 2:45, norman hsu will be sentenced for violating contract laws. he is expected of staeealing millions in a ponzi scheme. certainly not a scientific poll, but t-shirt shops are seeing a slow-down, especially since january's inauguration. one vendor who sold jack in the boxes with the president's face on a puppet has 3,000 of them sitting in a warehouse. however, other vendors in washington say there is enough business from tourists to keep sales up. people are lining up for a new gut-busting treat at the big e festival in massachusetts right now, and the crazy burger is a bacon cheese burger with a glazed donut as the bun. check it out. it's 1500 caloriescalories. >> one day you just throw caution to the wind and try it. >> we're going to split one and see how it goes. >>s big e is known for its calorie bombs, of course. they also sell fried cheese curds, fried twing hekies and f oreos. the pope made a speech but it was the spider who ended up with 15 minutes of fame. four teens have now been charged with first-degree murder in a gruesome beating death of a 16-year-old chicago boy. one suspect has admitted to jumping on the boy's head while he was lying on the ground. witnesses say the 16-year-old darrion albert was a by-stander at a street brawl and was hit over the head with a heavy board. roman polanski's lawyer says his client is in a fighting mood after his arrest for a 1977 sex crime. he filed a motion to try to get polanski out on bail, and he's planning to fight his extradition from switzerland to the u.s. he admitted to having sex with a 13-year-old girl but fled to france before sentencing. welcome back. i'm natasha curry in for robin meade today. she's on assignment. iran is trying to round up international supports for penalties on companies that do business in the country, especially in energy and financial communications industries. those penalties would kick in if iran refuses to come clean with what it's doing with its nuclear program. >> this is an important day and an important week for the iranians. they have decisions to make. they have one of two paths that they can take. they can continue the path that they've been on or it can make a decision to step away from its nuclear weapons program. >> and iran has just admitted it is operating a second nuclear facility to enrich uranium. that came just before international inspectors were about to disclose the existence of that operation, and iran continues its defiance this week, testing missiles capable of hitting israel. they are accused of holding up six banks in a single week in three states. heather brown is accused of telling bank tellers she had a bomb but investigators never found any explosives. brown is on probation for a 2006 robbery. it's extremely rare for women to rob banks. you probably don't want to take a look at your 401(k). jennifer westhoven, a lot of really bad things followed that day. >> financially speaking, if you remember this day last year, it didn't just affect people with 401(k)s, it affected everyone because it hit their confidence. a 777-point plunge. people were just nauseated by the time the closing bell rang. a lot of fear that the financial world was near collapse, we might be headed for another great depression, and basically this great drop came right after the house rejected the government's bailout plan, the plan to do something about that. they did pass that later on, but all those fears driving the dow sharply to 6500 by march. since the financial system, maybe the economy hasn't recovered but the financial system has stabilized, and that's what has allowed the dow to come back from that 6500 level up to not quite 10,000, but we're getting closer to it. natasha, back to you. >> does that mean basically the people who lost all that money could be getting it back by now? >> if they didn't sell out of fear. a lot of people went way down and said, i got to get out of here, i got to keep my money. they wouldn't have gotten as much as of the rebound. candidates vying for the late ted kennedy senate seat has less than four months of campaigning. that means raising millions of dollars and collecting thousands of signatures to get on the ballot. last week, the massachusetts governor appointed paul kirk as a temporary replacement until january's special election. at least 23 people have been killed in vietnam by a typhoon. it made landfall today with winds up to 90 miles per hour. take a look at these pictures, take a look at all that flooding. more than 150,000 people had to be evacuated, including children here. disaster officials are warning that rivers are rising and homes are flooded, and some areas are being threatened by mudslides. if you're a kite flyer, today could be a good day for you. that's a good way to look at all of this. bob van dillen says it's going to be a windy one. hey, bob. >> unless you're ben franklin, you don't want to do it because you're going to get the thunderstorms, too, with that wind. that's going to be in places like the great lakes. here's the way it looks. big low pressure area. look at the clouds swirling around there in chicago, cleveland, too. winds right now you're looking at southwest gusts of 39 miles per hour with steady rain. that's the way it looks in cleveland. it's a tough go for you early this morning, and you'll see basically windy conditions all afternoon with scattered showers and thunderstorms on and off the rest of the day. the heavy stuff is still up to the north and to the east. you can see that one squall line racing to rochester, into syracuse. it's going to get into utica and event alley fan out across new york state. probably into pennsylvania as well. more rain, and this is all good. san antonio, austin, houston, that's the end of that cold front that pushed into the deep south yesterday. still hung up in place in san antonio, texas. back side of that low, it draws in the cool air coming down out of canada. freeze warnings for the morning. all the areas you see shaded in purple, light shaded blue, frost advisories. about 30 in fargo, 40 in duluth. pictures in the pittsburgh area. remember we were following thunderstorms there. caused a little bit of damage there yesterday, not too bad. we saw wind gusts to 40 miles per hour. that's about it. what really got the wind boost was boston yesterday. >> hang onto your hat. thanks, bob. today's viral video, a bulldog puppy here. look at this. this little guy just cannot get up. he's rocking back and forth. momming help me. one of those videos that really catches on. 1.8 million people just feel for this little guy. we dug it up for you on youtube. don't you want to help him up? come on, put the camera down. it's never a good time when the people working on your plane are knee deep in water. look at this. what happened on this flight after an ireporter shot this video. can you believe these pictures? of course, the crew was taken off of it before all this happened, though. the ministry says the boat was acting suspiciously in an area known for drug trafficking. wow. the agency that guarantees the safety of your bank deposits is taking an unusual step to make sure it can make good on that promise. our money expert jennifer westhoven is here, and jen, should we be worried about the fdic running short on cash? >> they're saying absolutely not. they're going to make sure that doesn't happen, but imagine if the irs said to you, we would like three years of your taxes now. could you just pay them in advance? that's one way of looking at what may be happening today. because the government is not going to let the fdic fail, they're looking at options to save it, a