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well, hey, there, everybody. from the cnn center in atlanta, georgia, this is your cnn saturday morning for this september 3rd. hope you re getting off to a good holiday weekend. i m t.j. holmes. and this has been a slow, but strong tropical storm that is making a mess for people on this holiday weekend. now, six years after hurricane katrina, new orleans directly in the path of this storm. we re live with you. and the title of a new book making a lot of controversy. it s called is marriage for white people? and it suggests that interracial dating may be the answer for black women. you ll be hearing from the author. also if there s something anti-mexican about what i said, then i apologize for the anti-mexicanness of it. comedian katt williams goes on what some are calling a racial rant. but he says he won t apologize for defending his country, even though someone put out a statement on his behalf saying he apologized. we ll work through all of that this morning.
it s important to say they are not saying there is a specific threat, but what they are saying is there is a continued threat. certainly from al qaeda and affiliate organizations, and it notes that briefly al qaeda and the terrorists groups have linked their attacks to significant dates, and of course 9/11, there couldn t be anymore specific or significant dates than that. you know, i was just talking with a friend that said is this something that we should really, really be worried about. the state department issues these, randy, on a regular basis. in fact, this supplements another caution that was issued. it s the responsibility of the state department to warn americans who are abroad about this. that said, it is, of course, 9/11, very significant and the state department is saying there s a continuing threat out there. but it s not a travel alert for those here at home, it s for those who are traveling abroad or residing abroad? yes, that s what the state department d
even falls, with forecasters predicting potentially catastrophic flooding. i m al wli velshi. raging floodwaters from hurricane irene washed him away, but a new jersey man lived and now telling us how he survived mother nature s wrath. in just a few hours the government s new jobs report. will it be welcome news for you, your job, and the recovery? we ll break it down on this american morning. good morning, everyone. it is friday, september 2nd. jobs day, september 2nd. welcome to american morning. it s our super bowl, carol. it is. we re going to stick jobs news in between weather news. weather and jobs. that s right. it continues. weather reports, weather issues it continue to dominate our news. getting uneasy in the big easy this morning. we re taking a look at what s causing all of the stress. it s a tropical depression that is forming in the gulf of mexico. and new orleans could be in for a very rough weekend. flooding in new orleans. never want to have
today with different messages. a few hour agos al rai tv broadcast the message, claiming his father and closest followers are hiding in tripoli s suburbs and their morale is high, listen. translator: the leadership is fine, the leader is fine, and we are fighting and we re drinking tea and coffee and we are sitting with our families. saif gadhafi had a message for people he called his brethren in tripoli and across libya. trnti translator: we are saying to everyone, everyone has to move from now. to attack all this gangsters of the rats. the people he s calling rats are the rebels who drove the gadhafis from power. just a few hours before that fire and brimstone message, another of gadhafi s sons contacted cnn s senior international correspondent nic robertson, he joins us from tripoli, a city by the way dangerously close to running out of water. nic, first, what was the message from the other gadhafi son? reporter: this was a completely opposite message to saif s m