And so now what . What are they doing between right this second and election day . In a nutshell, its an allout sprint. President barack obama and president ial nominee mitt romney are crisscrossing the country. Theyre meeting with potential voters, going on tv shows, posing for pictures and campaigning in front of crowds. There will be a lot of that, especially in swing states where its uncertain which candidate is likely to win. The campaigns are buying up ad space so youll see more commercials on more channels and their running mates are doing all they can to get supporters to vote. At this point, its anyones guess who will win the election. A cnn political reporter say americans will wake up on election day not knowing who their next president will be. It makes the campaigning the president s do between now and election day even more significant. Our next story takes us to italy. Some people in the scientific world are stunned about a court case that just wrapped up there. Six scientistes and a Government Official had been convicted on charges. This goes back to an earthquake. The court ruled that these scientists didnt do enough to warn people that there was an earthquake risk. The trial focused on a meeting that happened one week before the quake. City residents had raised concerns about recent seismic activity. At this meeting, the scientists determined that it was unlikely that a major quake would hit. Unlikely, but not impossible. When that major quake did hit, more than 300 people were killed. Earthquake officials around the world say its impossible to predict earthquakes accurately. But another expert says the case wasnt about predictions, it was about communication and the failure to get information out. Back in the u. S. , the food and drug administration, the fda, says its looking into reports of a possible connection between Energy Drinks and five deaths. The parents of 14yearolds are suing monster beverage, which makes monster Energy Drinks. Parents say their daughter died from heart problems after drinking Monster Energy on two consecutive days. Monster says the drink thats 480 milligrams of caffeine. Thats equal to three cups of coffee and its more than five times the caffeine teenagerses should have in a day. The fda says it hasnt found any direct links between the energy drink and the teens death. Monster says its saddened by the teens death, but is not taking any responsibility. Todays shout out going to mr. Tolans history class in miles school. What is this . A mammal, republic tile, fish or amphibian . Youve got three seconds. Go. What youre looking at is a mammal. Specifically, its a beluga whale, sometimes called a white whale. Belugas are sometimes called canaries of the sea because they make this high pitched chirping sound. Scientists are saying, though, thats not the only sound these whales can make. That sounded like a persons voice but muffled, right . That was a beluga. What clued researchers in was when a diver thought someone was giving him under water directions, telling him to get out of the tank. It turns out he was hearing the whale. Our next story today is about pirates. Not the movies. Those are kind of fun. Were talking about the pirates involved in some of the dangerous attacks weve reported on in recent years. According to new information, there are fewer of those attacks this year. The International Maritime says piracy is at its lowest levels since 2008. There have been 233 actual and attempted pirate attacks around the world. During the same time frame last yeek, there were 352. The leader of the group says its good news, but he added that the waters where these attacks happen are still dangerous and that there still needs to be a naval presence there. On this day in history in 18611, the first transcontinental telegram was sent from one side of the u. S. To the other. In 1940, part of the fair labor standards act went into effect. It set the standard workweek for American Workers at 40 hours. And in 1992, the Toronto Blue Jays won the world series. It was the first time that a Canadian Team won the baseball championship. Something else happened on this day in history, and it makes october 24th an annual event. Its United Nations day. Because on this day in 1945, the International Organization was born. Theed idea for the u. N. Came out of world war ii. Representatives from 50 cups got together to create a charter for the group. It says the u. N. s goals are to maintain International Peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations and Work Together to solve global problems. On october 24th, 1945, a majority of the countries ratified that charter and the United Nations officially came into existence. This is alexandria horseman. Shes using her laptop to attend schools with hill help from her friends. Alexandria was told she would have to miss up to three months because of medical problems shes dealing with. One of her friends came up with this idea to carry alexandria using her laptop from class to class. Shes not stipg school, shes skyping school. Shes Getting Better than doctors predicted. Alexandria could be back in class in person this week. Here is a word to the wise for you. Telekany sis. Its the ability to mistake things move with just using your mind. Researchers are using telekenesis to help those who struggling day, for example, someone would is paralyzed. If you have someone who cant communicate, you can completely change their quality of life by helping them communicate. The next was to drive a wheelchair with brain signals. I am the creator and the director of the georgia tech spring lab, which is a Research Group that is devoted to researching and understanding what kinds of control we can have from brain signals alone. We were one of the very first labs to control a wheelchair with brain signals and weve used a variety of different mechanisms so that we might have boxes flashing at different speeds and we can tell by brain signal processing that if youre watching this box flashing at ten times a second or this one at 15 times a second, all you have to do is Pay Attention to the one you want. Document to turn right . You Pay Attention to the one on the right and we can see which one youre looking at by the osing lagzs in the brain. Youre looking at the one thats flashing ten times a second and we can turn a wheelchair. Our most recent wheelchair, one of my master students, michael boys, who is a wheelchair user himself reserve engineered his own wheelchair to be driven by the visual inter face. And he actually drove it around the building quite a bit. So that was exciting. 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[ vibrating continues ] our giant store and your little phone. Thats progressive mobile. Hello and thank you for watching. Im a. J. Hammer with two big showbiz countdowns tonight including the top stories today breaking about love and heartbreak. Brand new revelations today about which of taylor swifts exes she may really be singing about on her album. And kanye west may be about to put a ring on it. Are he and Kim Kardashian about to get engaged, really . Which story will be number one . Well, the big reveal is coming up. Well begin with our first top story of the night. It is todays top three showbiz news breaker. Kicking it off at number 3, id like to you take a look at this. The overweight College Student who has become an overnight celebrity after posting this picture of herself on her tumbler page, as you see, wearing a bikini with the message, this is my body. If you dont like it, thats your problem, deal with it. Her name is shelly boonshot, and on the today show, she explained why she did it. The way i saw it was that every single day, im bombarded, especially living in new york city, with images of naked women or half naked women and they all look the same. They all have had same kind of body type. Somehow thats okay, but god forbid we put someone like me who is a size 12 on the billboard. Right on. Now stella is steering this, applau applause. A huge round of applause from coast to coast. As of late today, more than 80,000 people had shared her photo from her tumbler page. It had been viewed more than 2. 5 million times on her facebook. That is amazing. I am to bring in hugh sherrad. Also host on b103 radio in atlanta, entertainment host holland reed. Guys, when most women in college are trying to hide their imperfections, you have stella here who actually had this brave moment. She flaunted her flaws. Egypt, how great is it that she nearly took it all off, posted this picture and basically told people, bring it on . Were always taught as women that unless we look like this that were imperfect. So for this woman to get out, and she looks average size of most women that i see on a day to day basis, so i say to the women, go for it. Let the world know youre comfortable in your own skin. Let me point out something. I said a moment ago she revealed her flaws. I meant to say her perceived flaws, and i think thats an important distinction in here. In that same interview this morning on the today show, stella told host savannah gu guthrie that she was just fed up and thats why she did it. There is no way to avoid the bullying i took as a child and a teen. It took years of selfsearching to understand that. This isnt right. We dont have the authority to judge other peoples beauty, and we dont have the authority to make assumptions about other Peoples Health based on the way they look, and i finally came to a place where i was really happy with the way i look. I had found on tumbler there is a huge body positive, body acceptance movement, and i wanted to give a message to the bullies that had tormented me and show them that it didnt work. When is everybody going to get that . So holland, obviously were sitting here and cheering stella on for what she did, but i am guessing, i am sure, unfortunately, there is still going to be a lot of haters out there. I do hope her bravery makes a difference, but do you think it will . I dont think it will. I learned a new word this week, its called ballsery. And shes got it. I give her kudos. But when it comes down to it, people are still going to point and say thats wrong, its fat. I will never put a picture of myself up without photoshopping. She gets all my applause and all my praise. Unfortunately, we live in a society where we look at thinner is better, thinner is healthier, even though thats not true, there is such thing as skinny fat. But she did it, she did it for the reasons why she did it and that is why she deserve tess praise shes getting. I believe every little bit does help chip away at it all, lets just hope we go down the right path. Stella certainly shocked everyone with what she did. Robert pattonen tonight shocking us with what he just said. This is number 2 on countdown of showbiz tonight newsbreakers. Hes kicking off the promotional tour of breaking dawn 2. They asked him what really tugs at his heart and makes him cry. You would think he would say when he was cheated on by Longtime Love kirsten stewart. Or even the fact that jersey shore went away. But no, its this. Do you know how much we love you . We love you so much. 0n nfn well, tonight it looks like disney has got a whopper of a controversy on its hands over its very first latina princess. Her name is sophia. She will be seen on the Disney Channel and also disney jr. While some people are cheering sofia for a milestone, there is such a cultural likeness in the movie that you wont even be able to tell shes latino. With me tonight in new york, Fernando Garcia editor of elle magazine. I want to take a look at what everybody is going to see. Its our first look. Lets take a look. Sofia the first, once upon a princess. Once upon a time welcome to the family. I trust you will make your new sister feel welcome. An ordinary girl became a princess. All hail princess sofia. Sofia. Sofia. Hi okay. So shes cute. And im watching that for you here for the first time and im thinking, a cute, not overtly latino. What do you think . Did they get it right . She doesnt look latina like everyone expected. Maybe they wanted someone with dark skin, darker eyes, dark hair. Shes the opposite, actually. Blue eyes, too light skin. A lot of people are disappointed because she doesnt look latina like they wanted. Thats where the outrage is coming from, because disney basically didnt press that sofia is latina, but they did tell showbiz tonight this very statement, the range of characters in sophia the first and the actors who play them are a reflection of disneys commitment to diverse, multicultural and inclusive story telling. We saw others that broke the mold like pocahontas, mulan. Do you think there is more they should have done with sofia . Definitely. I think they should have promoted this a little bit more, and not to confuse the people, in the beginning they said the first latina princess, and then they came out saying she wasnt 100 latina, so i think they could have promoted this a little better for the latina audience to watch the premier on december 18. Do you think theyre backpedalling, getting cold feet about it . Thats what i think. I think a lot of people complained about it and before that, they said she was latina, and when people complained, they said she actually wasnt, that her mother was from spain. Right. So it was totally different from the first hint they gave us saying she was latina. Thanks so much for your take on that. A bit more backpedalling today. The National HispanicMedia Coalition says she met with top disney executives who ted them that the producer of the movie actually misspoke when he said sophia was latina. We have another showbiz countdown coming up. The stories about celebrity love and heartbreak. And no one does hollywood heartbreak like taylor swift. This time im telling you, im telling you tonight the revelations about who those breakup songs are really about. And kanye and Chris Kardashian might be engaged. Whats the number one story on our love and heartbreak . Plus, get ready for a heros return. Showbiz tonight with your first look at ironman 3. We are never, ever, ever getting back we are never, ever, ever getting back together right now the showbiz countdown, love and heartbreak. Taylor swift reveals her brand new breakup song today. Is it about Jake Gyllenhall . And will kim and kanye get engaged . The big hit that kims friend, ryan seacredit dropped today. Which story will top our stories of love and heartbreak tonight . Showbiz tonight continues right now. Welcome back to showbiz tonight, and thank you for watching. We are here to count down the top three newsmakers who brought us love and heartbreak today. Who better to kick this one in high gear than the queen of love and heartbreak, taylor swift. Even good morning, america host george stefanopolous can attest to that. I know youre not going to name the man this is about, but i read somewhere you said it was designed to drive the ex crazy. When was that . I may have said that once on a bad day, but i think for me, music is my way of understanding what im feeling. Coming in at number 3 on the countdown, taylor swift just debuted her brand new breakup song on Good Morning America this morning. We are never, ever, ever getting back together we are never, ever, ever getting back together with me now from atlanta, egypt giraud, she is host of hgtvs property virgins. I love that show. And from hollywood, brian saffi. He is the hit of growing shade. Red just debuted, and with all of her albums, this comes with what taylor is thinking about in her songs. Vulture. Com did a deep analysis, a scientific analysis of each track. And they claim that taylors smash hit we are never, ever, ever getting back together is a direct hit at ex jake gyllenhaal. Egypt, does that make sense to you . Im sure all her exboyfriends, their Blood Pressure goes through the roof every time she drops a new album. But you have to expect shes going to right about her experiences. If youre going to date pandoras box, dont be surprised if something jumps out at you. I just wish i could write a song and make 2 million on my ex relationships. The thing is, she plays it close to the vest, she doesnt spill a whole lot, but it keeps us talking about it. A rule vulture. Com, and they vulture. Com. And they think it was her pent boyfriend written all over it. He says, i will tell you how taylor swift literally followed conor to his familys compound and then bought a home there. Also this slope is treacherous could be about the beach path. Cape cod is a little rocky. I think that might be a little literal forte lore swift. Should Connor Kennedy consider this a warning . Treat taylor with tenor care or else . Connor, run, do not walk. Her songs are so thinly veiled, they might as well be like friends episodes titles, like the one about joe jonas, the one about conor kennedy. I just wish she was a little more interesting, like if katie holmes could be taylor swift, it could learn more about s