good morning, america, on this monday, september 28th. breaking news. an international tug of war over oscar winning director roman polanski, arrested 31 years after fleeing the u.s. on a sex charge. france and poland ask hillary clinton to release him and exclusively his attorney speaks to us. also, breaking overnight iran rattling sabers firing off its longest range missile. an intelligence expert tells us what the u.s. should do next. medical mix-up. dozens of parents find out their hospital mislabeled or lost the embryos being stored. and simon cowell about to become the highest paid television performer turns his critical eye on himself, his failure, losing money and for the first time the lessons of the long way back. and here we are on a monday. good morning, america. i'm diane. with robin. 76 years old, roman polanski. true international incident. the french cultural minister called it absolutely horrifying. >> international chess game this morning. we have discovered that the oscar-winning director such as "the pianist" and "chinatown" was taken into custody in switzerland over the weekend. faces extradition to the u.s. for having sex with a minor in 1977. there's been an outstanding warrant for his arrest for more than three decades. many developments this morning and our nick watt is in zurich with the latest. good morning, nick. >> reporter: good morning, robin. well, this morning the french and polish foreign ministers have written to hillary clinton asking for clemency when polanski walked foo a police trap here at zurich airport he sparked an international rage. a french minister said there is a scary america that is just showing its face. roman polanski has been on the run since 1978 avoiding countries that might extradite him. he hasn't set foot on u.s. soil in 31 years. he won an oscar for "the pianist" in 2003. ♪ and had harrison ford collect it for him. >> roman polanski. >> reporter: in 1977 polanski pled guilty to having sex with a minor. he was accused of drugging and raining a 13-year-old. he says he didn't know her age. polanski spent 42 days in the california jail being psychologically evaluated then he fled to france. >> he wouldn't surrender himself. he pled this jurisdiction to avoid sentencing. he fled the jurisdiction. so it took this long because he was a fugitive. well, now he's no longer a fugitive. >> reporter: now he's in a swiss jail awaiting an extradition hearing. diane sawyer interviewed him in 1994. >> i think at that time i had a hard time to persuade myself that it was wrong. because i don't think anybody was hurt. >> you don't? >> at that time i said. later on i realized, you know, it's just, you know, i was too close to the forest to see the trees. >> reporter: polanski learned his trade in poland and earned global acclaim with his first hollywood feature "rosemary's baby" released in 1968. >> we have to make a baby. >> reporter: the following year his actress wife sharon tate and their unborn son were murdered by followers of charles manson. "chinatown" followed in 1974. and then three years later the rape of 13-year-old samantha geimer during a photo shoot. >> he changed me to change and change in front of him and stuff. it didn't feel right. i didn't at that time have the like self-confidence to tell my mother and everyone, no, i'm not going to go. >> reporter: geimer now in her 40s says she has forgiven polanski and does not want him jailed. >> you know, if he could, i'm sure he'd go back and he wouldn't do it again. >> reporter: the swiss say they might grant bail and actually awaiting for an official extradition request from the u.s. he has hired lawyers to fight had his corner. he doesn't want to be cuffed and put on a plane to l.a. robin? >> we'll talk to one of those attorneys. i spoke via phone with his attorney irbe it pomema just moments ago. sir, have you seen or talked to mr. polanski? can you give us an idea of his state of mind right now? >> yes, i talked with mr. polanski. he is in very good shape. he was shocked by this but, you know, he wants to struggle and i think that we -- it could be possible for us to obtain his freedom. >> you're going to fight, of course, for his -- fight his extradition. what is your position on this? >> yes, i think that i'm very shocked by the demand of tra tradition because you know this case has been a very long time, 32 years and during this time mr. polanski traveled a lot around the world. he was -- he had both a house in switzerland and couldn't imagine he would be arrested in switzerland. >> do you have any idea why u.s. authorities waited this long to act? >> we have no exact idea. we're working on the file, and we will see, but i think that it will be possible for the swiss judge to tell the right and to make mr. polanski free as soon as possible. not at the time we can't comment on what the judge can do but could obtain a decision that would be fair and if he was released he could have some conditions but first we have to make the request and to struggle to obtain his freedom, okay. >> how do you feel about how u.s. authorities, especially in los angeles, are handling this case right now? >> i don't understand really -- don't really understand the positions of the united states authorities and i hope that this position could change in the future, you know. it's a real question for us, but i think that it's not finished and the position of mr. polanski could -- the position of the u.s. authorities could change. >> and we thank the lawyer and from an international incident with roman polanski we now turn to an international standoff with iran. after a week of condemnations at the united nations iran answering with a battery of missile tests this morning. firing its 1,200-mile range missile one that can easily reach israel and comes, of course, after the disclosure of a secret nuclear enrichment site. abc senior foreign affairs correspondent martha raddatz following this hourly. martha? >> reporter: even after being caught red-handed iran is clearly not backing down under world pressure. in fact, they are turning up the heat. iran is continuing its dangerous provocation. testing both short and long-range missiles sunday and today, yom kippur, the holiest of jewish holidays. israel is outraged calling iran "the most serious threat today to the peace of the world and its security." all this as a once hidden and highly suspicious iranian facility has come to light. >> the islamic republic of iran has been building a covert enrichment facility near qom for several years. >> reporter: on cnn's "larry king." president ahmadinejad denied the project had anything to do with nuclear weapons. >> translator: how can he possibly accuse us of secretly engaging in an activity that did not take place? >> reporter: representatives from the united states, russia, china, britain, france and germany are to meet in geneva with iranian officials on october 1st and will demand immediate access for international nuclear inspectors to the qom facility. >> words are not enough. they're going to have to come and demonstrate clearly to the international community what they're up to. >> reporter: on "this week" with george stephanopoulos, the obama administration was talking tough pointing to serious consequences if iran does not comply. >> that their security will be diminished by trying to get nuclear weapons rather than enhanced. >> reporter: while world leaders have pointed to severe sanctions should iran not comply with demands, the president said earlier that iran is feeling the pressure. >> iran is on notice. they are going to have to come clean and they are going to have to make a choice. >> reporter: a choice that the administration and its allies want to come very soon. diane? >> but, martha, let's look at the extreme option for a moment which is military action. you're talking about qom which is this holy shrine for islam so to strike anything near that would be a tinderbox at the very least. are there military options? >> reporter: there certainly are military option, diane. the u.s. is currently working on a bomb, a bunker-busting bomb. it's called a massive ordnance penetrator. a 15-ton bomb. it is not like the one you see. the thing you see right there is a bomb that's a conventional bomb. it hits the fast. what this massive ordnance penetrator would do is go very deep into the earth, about 60 yards down and that bomb is almost finished, although as you say, diane, it's not an option the u.s. wants to take. >> okay, martha, our thanks to you. we'll turn now to former cia officer, robert bayer, also the author of a new become about iran called "the devil we know." bob, thanks for coming in. any chance of the military option? >> i doubt it. the chief of staff mullen has said it's the last option simply because iran could retaliate closing the strait of hormuz and could wreak havoc in iraq. it would have to be very serious. >> we did hear the defense secretary say he thought that if the iranians don't comply in this round, extreme sanctions would take effect and have an effect. just want to run through for everybody what they would be. if the europeans get on board with the united states, there would be sanctions on cars, machinery, chemicals. if the russians get on board, that's harder, sanctions on weapons, 70% of which come from russia and then if the chinese get on board hardest of all 40% of the refined gasoline even though iran has oil, they don't have refinement capacity and turn to china for that. do you think this would really stop them from developing a nuclear weapon? >> i don't think so, not this regime. ahmadinejad and the islamic revolutionary guard corps which runs the country are very bloody-minded and would look at this as a challenge that they're ready to meet. i mean, they have stated over and over again they will not submit to crippling sanctions. they will retaliate. they have a deterrence doctrine which is looking at saudi arabia as i said and the rest of the gulf. i just don't think they'll sit down for this and if they do submit to complete inspections, it will be a humiliation for the regime and i'm not sure it would survive it. >> so what does the u.s. do? >> we're in a tough spot. look, we can move on energy equipment going into iran. we can go after some banks, but that's only marginal. i think we're going to see a step-up of this conflict or this confrontation going into this fall, and we could at some point enter the logic of war and have to bomb. >> the military option, the worst option of all. but let me ask you one question, because we know that this nuclear site that caused so much consternation over recent days is monitored, is entirely on a revolutionary guard base. now, what does that say to you that this is in the hands of the revolutionary guard? >> well, we've known about a parallel nuclear program for many years. in fact, when i was in the cia, we used to monitor it. the revolutionary guard wants its own bomb event whalley. i'm not saying now but sometime in the future. what we're seeing is if the revolutionary guard has this bomb, it's? the hands of the hard-liners rather than simply the state of iran. which makes it much more dangerous and that's the reason for the reaction of the obama administration. >> all right. bob, thanks again this morning, again, no way to overestimate the situation and how dangerous it is right now. thanks so much to you. turning to chris cuomo with the other headlines. >> good morning, diane, robin, and good morning, everybody. president obama is under growing pressure to revise his afghanistan war strategy. he meets tomorrow with defense secretary robert gates and his top military advisers. top afghanistan commander general stanley mcchrystal has formally requested a troop surge warning his mission rivengs failure without it but there is growing concern it may come at too high a cot. if the philippines the death toll is climbing after the worst flooding in 40 years. more than 140 bodies have been recovered so far. a relentless storm dumped a month's worth of rain in just 12 hours. turning to the economy now, we're expecting to learn this week that the national unemployment rate has edged closer to 10%. figures already show the middle class and the young are being hardest hit. the jobless rate among workers under age 24 has hit 52%. it's the highest in three generations. and layoffs among traditional white collar workers like middle managers are up 56%. some sad news. pulitzer prize winning columnist who paved the way for a generation of conservative pundits has died. william safire wrote for president nixon, nattering nay bombs of and pussyfooters. he died of pancreatic cancer, 79 years of age. a major drug bust. the british navy fired on this ship and seized more than 200 bales of cocaine. street value, 3$380 million. michael vick returned to the football field sunday for his first game since serving prison time for dogfighting. gained only seven yards in 11 plays and was thinking of his late grandmother and how she would be proud of him. finally an incredible crash. rookie nascar driver joey logano hit the wall, flipped his car at least seven times before coming to a hard landing. after all this, he walked away. was he hurt? nope. was he sore? nope. but he said no roller coaster in the world could offer such a wild ride. it's the news at 7:15. what you're watching there is a statement of the safety that nascar has built into those vehicles. to go through that and walk away. imagine if he was in anything less. >> when you see that, how airborne he is and how many times that he flipped, but you're right, the safety measures that have been taken in recent years. thanks, chris. i'm just happy the sans are 3-0. the new orleans saints, 3-0. >> so are the jets. so are the gentlemens. >> what about your team? >> that would be, what, the cold air team. well, we'll start with that and there's plenty of cold air that begins to move into the country over the next couple of days. we'll take a three-day spell and watch it swing in really. look at chicagoland dropping in the next 24 hours and stays in the 50s, cleveland does about the same thing. even in boston and new york over the next couple of days we'll see the numbers drop by at least 10 degrees. now, the one thing you need to know as this low moves into new york state and pennsylvania it will kick off scattered strong thunderstorms that will be today into tonight. probably new york city area by later on tonight and the big heat, los angeles about 78 degrees isle cooer but look at vegas at 101. phoenix at 10, tucson, 102. all kind of shoved into the southwest. reno and sacramento are still in the 80s. yep, it's still warm in the western coast there. seattle at about 62 degrees. that cold air does unlock and also help swing drier air and deep south after such a heavy week of rain last week finally gets a good at of sunshine and in a lot of locations including atlanta. comi coming up in the next half hour with these cooler temperatures in the great lakes and new england also come some big winds today and tonight. we'll talk about that. robin? >> all right, sam. what began as one woman's revolt could spark a national revolution. after bank of america raised a california woman's interest rates on her credit card, she unleashed her anger online. her video went viral and now her bank is responding and other disgruntled customers are taking notice. dan harris has more. >> there comes a time when we must make a stand and my time is now. >> reporter: after anne says bank of america jacked up her credit card rates and refused to lower them. >> 30% apr. i could get a better rate from a loan shark. >> reporter: she took her case to youtube. >> i'm staging a debtors' revolt right here right now and thereby refuse to pay you one more red cent on your 30% credit card account. >> reporter: the video went viral with more than 300,000 views. and then came this triumphant encore video in which she announced a bank of america executive had called her to cut a deal. >> mr. crawford tried to get me to agree to 16.99% on the account and i said, no. >> reporter: she says she bargained him down to 12.99%. in a statement bank of america seemed to confirm her story saying "based on additional information we received from her about her situation, we reached a mutually agreeable resolution." >> just because my personal account situation has apparently been resolved, which is a small victory for this debtors revolt movement but we still have a war to fight. >> reporter: she is now launching a new website and promising a continued crusade against the big banks. for "good morning america," dan harris, abc news, new york. >> not taking it anymore. how many times has mellody hobson told us about picking up the phone, something like that doesn't happen, she decided to go viral. >> well, coming up an american college student accused of murdering her roommate in italy. after two years in jail, countless witnesses called to trial. it is almost over. what is the evidence saying at this point? 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