. >> i am alison seymour it was a great weekened. tony perkens with details for this monday morning. >> hey, good morning everybody how about if we extend it for today and part of tomorrow as well at least one more day in of the very very nice weather temperatures into the 70s, and a good amount of sunshine let's look what is going on out there. around the region, washington 57 degrees we have some cool air out to the west, winchester 48 degrees, dulles airport, 50 degrees, also the east, a little better, 50 degrees at the naval air station in delaware. >>> here is a look at sentinel satellite radar we have clouds over us, high, thin variety, they are filtering the sun or will filter sunshine. and we will see a pleasant day today, that rainfall that you see down there to the south does not impact us today but overnight tuesday into wednesday it starts to move in and then wednesday should be a wet and rainy day for today, warm, sun with some clouds, look for a high today into the upper 70s, yet again. another nice day across the regio

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a look at the weekend coming up in a couple minutes alison back to you. >>> the world is remembering apple cofounder steve jobs this mornling he died yesterday -- morning he died yesterday he was one of the most influential people in the technology world. >>> he left in the 80s and founded next and bought and revolutionized pixar in 1994 he came back to a struggling apple as ceo to launch in 2003 he was diagnosed with cancer apple has not released the cause of death but his health problems have not been a secret. >>> the company says the 56- year-old died peacefully surrounded by family fans and business leaders around the world are mourning his death. >> reporter: he was not just a cofounder of apple he was the company's inspirational and creative leader he was a ceo with a fan base after all not something you see every day. that was because he was behind so many ground breaking gadgets things like iphone people say have revolutionized their lives the president weighing in seeing the world has lost a visionary. >>> he was a man of great perspective he had a future he had a vision fo

alison over to you. >>> thanks. this sunday national chapter, area chapter of national parkinsons, foundation is launching moving day a fun filled walk to raise awareness about parkinsons, the executive director of the capitol area chapter joins us to talk about this inaugural event. >> thank you for having us here. >> it sounds like a fun event for a serious cause tell us what we can expect. >>> we are all about raising awareness with this walk, the partnership with national parkinson foundation and our local chapter, the parkinson foundation national capitol area is meant to raise some money for our programs locally and nationally but more importantly, of all of the diseases parkinson is very unknown, very lacking, so this is a big program for us here in washington. >>> unknown and lacking but effects so many people. it is pretty widespread can you talk about numbers nationally and here in our area. >> absolutely across the united states, 1.5 million people with parkinsons, here locally we support the 30,000 peopl

. >>> you got it alison clouds moving in eventually we will get rain not so much today but as we get into the night time hours, particularly tomorrow looks like a wet one around here. hd radar, there you go, not showing cloud cover but clouds will be lowering and thickening throughout the day here so we will be mostly cloudy through much of the day that rain shower activity off to the south and southwest will start to move in, i think first parts of the area, to see it off to the south and west maybe a few light showers this afternoon and then the rain will become steadier during the overnight, we will have a good steady rain across the washington area. >>> temperatures comfortable, regan national, 63 degrees, regan national, 63 at the naval air station, 59 ocean city and 52 hagerstown cooler today yesterday low 80s today 10 degrees cooler might need a jacket out there, with the cloud cover and temperatures only upper 60s and low 70s. 73 washington and 73 in la plata. more details on the forecast, look ahead to middle and end of the week coming up. >>> thanks. >>> our top story this

alison. >>> thank you so much. well, president barack obama heads back out on the road tomorrow he will travel to dallas to attend two fundraisingluncheons head to st. louis the raise money for his re-election and promote his jobs plan he has mounted a steady campaign of his jobs proposal since submitting it three weeks ago but the democratic controlled senate has not considered it yet. >>> president obama thanked the gay and lesbian community for creating a country where everyone feels equal. >>> the president took a shot at an incident during one of the gop presidential debates where a question from a gay soldier was booed by the crowd. >> we don't believe in the smallness that says it is okay for a stage full of political leaders, one of whom could end up being president of the united states, being silent when an american soldier is booed. [ applause ] >> we don't believe in that. we don't believe in standing silent when that happens, we don't believe in them being silent. you want to be commander and chief, you

>> thank you, alison. those leaders are gathering in brussels a and the objective is to beef up the currency, the euro, and to address the debt crisis as we talked about. zain verjee is in london to look at the headlines behind the proposed bailout. what are they saying, zain? >> well, kyra, it is crunchf time for the european leaders, and they need to deliver. let's look at the headlines. the advertisers say this, high stakes poker game in brussels. it says one thing is clear that the potential failure of the european economy as a whole stems from the inevitable failure of the weakest links which is a failure of politics. and the "guardian" says time to unleash financial power or face single currency backup. and they say that the leaders have done everything to prevent a problem. in this words make or break talks are much overused, but it is something that has to happen. and it is fashionable to compare greece and the swamped cds swamped euro crisis to the lehman brothers meltdown. given the true scale of

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. >> i am alison seymour welcome on this monday morning october 17th. >>> all right well, dispointment with the game yesterday but not dispointment with the day yesterday. >> man, the weather was fantastic yesterday, you know i suspect a lot of us after the game had to get outside and walk around and decome press perfect weather for that today we will have a nice day as well. bus stop forecast, partly sunny skies this morning cool temperatures ranging from mid- and upper 50s to low 60s sunrise officially occurs, 18 minutes from now. temperatures across the region, 60s here, 61 degrees washington 60 baltimore, 61 fredericks burg to the west 50, 59 dulles airport, 55 winchester, forecast today, clouds hanging around this morning, give way to mostly sunny skies later, temperatures in the 70s. 70 german town, 74 in fredericks burg, 73 in the nations capitol that is a look at what is happening with the weather now back to you steve and alison. >> we have a traffic alert before we get to julie wright for drivers in maryland. >> an accident forced closure of lanes alan town road in suit land.

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. >> i am alison seymour. weather and traffic first we are doing something special, once again, mentoring monday we do this from time to time. today, again, mentoring monday, (202)895-3307 to help make a difference in a young person's life. >>> we will connect you with one of our 12 local organizations kind enough to come in and help out this morning, again we will take those calls throughout the morning the number at the bottom of the screen (202)895- 3307. only takes a minute or two to get started and a little bit of time out of the week to make a huge impact on a young person's life. >>> just about a minute after the hour gorgeous weekened couldn't have asked for better weather tony perkens if you don't give me a great day i won't be so upset. >>> today will be a fine day not a bad day won't be the prettiest day still a nice one let's look at what is going on we will start with a look at current temperatures 50 degrees in washington 40s elsewhere, 43 fredericks burg, hagerstown maryland 48, and baltimore ma

beck was not particularly good they took nine sacks, as alison said. have you seen ferris bowlers day off. nine times? ferris wasn't sick nine times he was playing hooky. red skins played hooky when you can't score at all, bills statistically, that was not a good defense coming in on paper a very lacklustre effort, slash performance and again, you don't want to use the word quit that is the worst inditement you can say of a professional athlete if this was maximum effort that could be even worse they got to get this corrected at last from an effort point of view for the rest of the season you can live with losses but can't live with lack of effort. >> go back and look at tape when they entered the stadium, didn't look like -- >> yeah, maybe it was toronto you know north of the boarder the exchange rate who knows. >> exchange rate. >> we will blame it on the canadians. >> all right dave we got trouble ahead. now san francisco. >> they are pretty good. >> thank you. >>> more than 20,000 people, they never gave up they braved the chilly weather for the 36

. >>> alison the hunt is still on for the person who killed a man near howard university, 20-year- old keenan lee was gunned down in front of howard university hospital saturday night just hours after home coming events wrapped up at the school. the university sent out e-mail and text notifications to community members warning them to be on alert police say the victim was not a student and was not affiliated with the hospital. >>> to turkey, rescuers are in a race against time to find survivors trapped after yesterday's devastating earthquake. aid groups set up kitchens to help those who slept out overnight. the official death toll has just been raised to 270 people, it is expected to go even higher. >>> history is made in libya, the new leaders officially announced its liberation yesterday days after the death of moammar gadhafi, crowds celebrated in benghazis victory square they played the country's old national anthem the one used before gadhafi took control the national transitional council is working on election for a constitutional congress. >>> and they are counting ballots in t

more details and the forecast look ahead to the weekend alison in a couple minutes back to you. >> sounds good. our top story protestors gathered in new york and other cities across the u.s. to demand an end to the financial system, now a similar protest planned for dc. >> there is a call for college students to join the cause. our own stacy cohen is live in northwest with more good morning. >>> good morning we have an awful lot of protesting to talk about now we are a town accustomed to protest here we go again this times the the occupy wall street movement the reason i am here at the washington hilton is because there are a series of meetings going on here, take back the american dream is the theme. with a variety of speakers and having a live video feed of the occupy wall street movement. now if you want to know how dissatisfied people are, look at this washington post, abc news poll this is a representation of all americans not just this protest group. they are giving congress 3% strongly approved, 20% somewhat disprove, not good numbers for politicians here on capitol hill protests y

>> and then, alison, what is it about mcdonalds? we are hearing that they are launching an in-store tv show? >> sure. they are launching their own set of network. the idea here is to make mcdon nad's more of an experience. you know, they've got the fancy coffee and playground. now they have mcdon nald's tv. they are rolling out this idea in hundreds of restaurants in california. there will be snippets of tv shows. mickey d knows that it has a captive audience. you're taking a page out of the book that you're seeing in the ads while you're getting gas. you have the tv always on and in gas stations you can turn away. at mcdonalds if you don't want to be bombarded by the tv, there are also going to be areas known as quiet zone. >> a quiet zone at mcdonald's. interesting. we'll look for them at a california mcdonald's near you. alison, thank you. >>> take a look at this monster that rolled over west texas yesterday. that is more than a mile high dust storm. people say it went from light to dark. lifetime texans say that they have never

. >> i am alison seymour. not a lot of people can say they changed the way we do things. he is one of those people. >>> what a pretty job today and yesterday i think it will be a carbon copy. >> pretty close i don't think we will quite get to the temperatures we got to can yesterday but still a pleasant day good morning let's take a look at hd radar no precipitation to show you but there is a back door cold front that will lower temperatures by just a little bit yesterday we got up to the mid-70s today low 70s. pleasant day current temperatures around the region, 54 degrees in the district dulles 51, fredericks burg virginia, 54 degrees and baltimore maryland, 50 degrees. here is your planner for the day mostly sunny quiet, calm, mild and pleasant look for a high around 71 degrees, middle of this afternoon. >>> more on weather coming up in a bit now to julie wright for an update on traffic. >>> all right accident activity cleared off the bw parkway, delays from the belt way headed up towards 198. sky fox checking out that ride and again, headed for college park and around

alison, thanks. we've got about six minutes to go. >>> well, new polls show that rick perry is falling further behind and he might skip out on some of the debates. we're going to find out if that's a good idea. >>> also, you need to hear what donald trump told our piers morgan about perry. that's all ahead. >>> an amish community under attack. their alleged crimes? dragging people out of their homes and chopping off their sacred hair. [ female announcer ] introducing onstar fmv. the new way to add the safety of onstar to your car. [ computer ] onstar. we're looking for city hall. i'm sending directions to your car. turn right on hill street. go north for 2 miles. ♪ this is onstar. i got a signal there's been a crash. do you need help? yes, please. i've got your gps location. i'm sending help. ♪ [ female announcer ] for a limited time, get an onstar fmv mirror for only $199 after $100 off. ♪ all right >>> checking top stories now. stocks are set to jump with wall street just about to open. a new

. >>> alison the hunt is still on for two men who held up a restaurant and customers in maryland. it happened just before 9:00 p.m. sunday night at friendlies in glen bernie the two masked men ordered everyone to the floor and robbed them they took money from the restaurant's register when one customer resisted he was stabbed. >> i have a 1-year-old we get ice cream all the time. >> they lucky i wasn't in there it would have been like iraq like some serious stuff going on to where so they wouldn't have took over nothing with me with no knife. >>> okay. the customer stabbed is expected to survive detectives hope to talk to some witnesses who left the restaurant before officers arrived. >>> a college student from gaithersburg charged with drunk driving and killing a classmate in vermont. on -- vermont. on saturday night he was at a party with dozens of students from norwitch university he left the party with 18-year-old renee robins from michigan driving home, his car crashed into a tree, robins was killed. he left the crash scene but was later arrested. >> thieves are stealing copp

. >> alison i am curious to hear your critique of john beck's post game attire. >> john beck? >> even rex. >> i have been hard on him. >> yes. >> rexy you got your sexy back. >> not with the game but the shirt >> i liked it very much. >> did you like the trucker hat >> i didn't understand the look but he is making a definite statement not sure what he is saying but i like the fact he is making the statement. >> i think he did look good. >> here is what i think i thought we would run the ball more,. >> oh, tony your serious sports talk. >> we ran the ball 14 times that was troubling but kyle shanahan has an offence he believes in he is going to say if you can't do and run this offence i am not going the dumb it down for you i will give some body else the chance i think that is is what he is doing i am not saying it is right. >> you want to win the square p hole but he is saying this is my offence i am going to get some body that can do the job. >> very good. >> going out to the park wish me luck. >> great atmosphere out there got to get past it and move on. >> world series set,

alison. >>> maureen thank you so much. >>> time 21 minutes after 7. more deaths linked to the listeria outbreak. health officials expect more in the coming weeks. >> our nations financial woes creating a stir on capitol hill as president barack obama continues to push hard for his jobs bill. more on this. >>> challenge for the nations youth today 4 h hosting its annual science day. more from chevy chase coming up later on  the best place for a vacation is mississippi. you mean louisiana. florida's where folk's want to be. alabama's got you all beat. no matter which state you choose, everyone agrees the gulf is vacation at it's best. mississippi outdoors, louisiana seafood, florida beaches, alabama shoreline. so come on down to mississippi, louisiana, florida, alabama. the gulf is the world's goodtime headquarters. and we are 100% open for business. >>> the death toll in the outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe has risen to 18. two additional deaths in colorado and one in kansas have been confirmed since last week. health officials

bottom line alison check the tags. go out there, check your tags make sure they are up-to-date. >> thanks steve. 8:12 a.m., coming up next weather guys back with a look at our wet wednesday forecast julie is keeping an eye on how the rain is impacting your ride this morning. >> then, half of all marriages ends in divorce it is nice to get advice from those in a successful marriage that is the idea behind the book secret lives of wives, more than 200 women were interviewed what it takes to live happily ever after the author joins us with more on what she discovered stay with us, 8:12 a.m. i'm a curious seeker. i am a chemistry aficionado. diphenhydramine. magnesium hydroxide. atheletes foot. yes. i'm a people pleaser. if elected, i promise flu shots for all. i am a walking medical dictionary. congratulations virginia. inflamed uvula. i'm virginia. i'm a target pharmacist and i'm here to answer your questions. >>> time for a little bonus. >>> i am looking at cuteness time tonnen perkens we need -- tony perkens we need cu

. >>> all right, alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange. keeping track of all the fees in the banking industry. bank of america upset a whole lot of customers last week with a $5 debit card fee. well, now, another bank is upping the fees. alison, who is it this time? >> oh, yes. so, this time it's citigroup. citigroup will begin charging for checking accounts. get this, if you have an easy checking account with citigroup, they'll charge you $15 a months if you don't carry a $6,000 balance in your combined accounts. right now easy checking is free, so, yes, they will nab you for that. now, if you have an upgraded mid-level checking account, they will charge you if you don't carry a $15,000 balance. they say get used to this because more of these big banks announcing more and more of these fees because the reality is the regulatory environment is changing right now. it's getting tougher on the banks, but some senate democrats are telling consumers, you know what, if you don't like these fees and you think they're too high, just switch banks a

beth good morning. >> exactly alison, you know when you've got a newborn you don't want to thing about that last 10, 15 pounds your schedule is out of what can everything centers around the baby you are not sleeping but an obgyn says she tells her new moms the sooner they can concentrate on getting baby weight off the better. >> getting down nice and low,. >> on a beautiful crisp fall morning. >> forward. >> dozens of new moms are moving one step closer to prebaby bodies. >>> everybody you know has those last 5 or 10 or 20 pounds some are breast feeding some are not. >> step step. >> kyle pointer teaches stroller strides kid friendly challenging work out class to help new mothers get back in shape. >> good job. >> forming a community with other months. >> missy has two kids. >> sadie 4.5 and cooper 2. >> her baby weight. >> still working on it after almost 5 years. >> same for ann carter. >> a lot harder than i expected i think it is the mcdonald's i ate during the pregnancy it is hard you see so many celebrities bounce back like that you assume you will be the same way. >>> if you are

. >>> next, alison kosik live at the new york stock exchange. alison, lots of furious bank customers vowing to divorce bank of america last week. i got myriad tweets over this one, over the $5 a month debit card fees. now we're hearing that the bank, alison, will probably make money from all of this. how is that? >> exactly. you know, yeah, we may be the ones who are all out raged about this, but it may be bank of america that's the last one laughing because the reality is that bank of america could wind p up being the one to make lots of money if customers switch over to using credit cards instead of debit cards. you know, we're all threatening to leave bank of america, but the reality is, analysts say it's really a pain in the butt to go ahead and change banks. many people aren't going to bother because you have to change your direct deposit, automatic payments, get new checks. it's a big hassle. what analysts say is people will all just switch to credit cards. so if you wind up carrying a balance from month to month, you'll pay finance charge

we will bring you the updates on air and online head to myfoxdc.com for that steve alison. >> thank you lauren. >>> we are continuing to get more and more information coming down from various sources reuters we are just getting a report claiming gadhafi was shot and killed during that incident this morning. still unconfirmed by other media outlets that is what reuters is reporting they were one of the first to report he was captured the u.s. state department not confirming in their words, any report on the capture or killing of moammar gadhafi this morning. we will wait to get more information. >>> all right closer to home. a disturbing discovery prince georges county overnight emergency responders were called out to the scene of a burning car when they put the fire out they found a body inside, 2900 block, cowichan road. >>> stacy what is the latest on the bus shooting. >> reporter: they have had the scene up here since midnight they wanted to wait until daylight to get a better look at the evidence. now we have full sun, detectives just arrived on the scene they are walking around nea

alison starling, abc 7 news. >>> she will go all the way. coming up next, this maryland want is fighting to become a facebook sensation at the age of 102. how you could help her. >> enjoying a day off from school >>> d.c. students had the day off from school today, but some sot bill spent quality time with their teachers. >> anacostia high school teachers made rare home visits today and they invited sam ford all along. >> they alerted no one. they just showed up. anacostia teachers and the school principal took field trips to their students' homes. the staff development day meant discussing teaching spreadsheet and also all 120 faculty and staff hitting the streets for unannounced visits. the idea of the school principal. >> for too long we have sat back. we decided instead of waiting for them, we will engage them. >> we followed his group, the visiting students, past the police to jump out squad. first stop, anthony smallwood. the school principal says he is chronically late for school and wants to meet his parents. >> if you are not coming

>> all right, alison, little bit of good news there. now, let's look at the other side of wall street. the side with all the protesters. occupy wall street entering its fourth week now and the movement is growing. our carol costello shows us how it's spilling into main street. >> reporter: it started out as a joke. >> how are they not like the tea party? a all right, some of them smoke and have pants made out of pot. so, call them the thc party. >> reporter: now, it has swell under to a nationwide movement, mostly peaceful, but certainly po'd. >> we got sold out. >> reporter: and ready to eat the rich. >> this is like a performance art piece. the corporate zombie march. >> i see the money hanging out there. >> this is the breakfast. >> reporter: from 1,000 protesters on wall street, it has gained momentum and spread to tens of thousands of people from new york to los angeles and dozens of cities in between. even across borders and oceans. the people are angry that they're running second place to profs. >> we want jobs. we want jobs and

take a sneak peek at the weekend, alison back upstairs to you guys. >>> terror alert this morning set off by an assassination plot, target, saudi arabia's ambassador to the united states the plan was to kill him in a bombing in his favorite restaurant in the district. the suspect said he didn't care if by standers died the name of the restaurant was not mentioned in the inditement. >> but we hear it is popular with congressman on capitol hill because of this there is a new terror alert issued for the united states. >> lauren demarco live outside the saudi embassy. >> reporter: good morning americans worldwide are asked to be on the lookout for for or activity right now also -- terror activity right now. obama administration saying they are not planning terror action in iran but they are looking to further isolate the country. the ambassador was targeted in the terror plot iran is strongly denying the accusations calling them quote an evil american plot but u.s. attorney general, eric holder says one of the two men charged in the case a naturalized u.s. citizen, tried to meet with memb

alison burns is live in washington, d.c. where a hearing this morning has been dominated by a fight over the release of documents related to that company. alison? >> reporter: that's right. democrats are calling this a rigged process. democrats are using the hearing this morning to blast republicans for failing to release documents they say will explain critical information -- critical information about how the department of energy issued this money. democrats want documents released that explain why the department of energy made the decision to do this. >> i don't understand why it shouldn't be part of the record. it's a kye document. it explains the explanation for the subordination for tax payer debt. >>> on the hot seat today, department of treasury officials explaining why they raised red flags about how the department of energy was managing solyndra's loan. >> is it fair to say that based on objections raised before the loan was granted after the loan was granted that the treasury had grave concerns about this loan. is

alison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you, alison. >>> the republican chairman of the house committee says president obama's recent bus trips to promote his jobs plan and criticize republicans is not helpful. >> instead of working together where we agree, the president has opted for divisive rhetoric in the broken politics of the past. he's going from town to town, impugning the motives of republicans. >> that's representative paul ryan. president obama has made several trips around the country recently, including a swing out west this week, a stop in san francisco on tuesday. he's been pushing his jobs bill and other plans. he's issuing through an executive order because he says republicans just block everything he proposes. >>> as we mentioned earlier, a 3.6 quake hit near berkeley just about an hour and a half ago and an even larger quake rattled lake tahoe. the 4.7 shaker hit shortly after 11:30 last night. eric rucker is live in truckee. was there any damage, eric? >> reporter: you know, we've been here since 1:30 this morning and we have yet to see any. you are getting the typic

alison burns reports, thousands of the jobs are on the line here. alison? >> reporter: defense contractors in california and across the country are on pins and needles these days. now a new report from the aerospace industry association projects california would take the biggest hit, with 125,000 and more than $7 billion in earning lost over the next few years, if defense cuts on the table here go through. now, democrats and republicans on that special congressional committee looking for ways to cut the deficit are still far apart and if there's no deal in the next few weeks, automatic, across the-the-board cuts kick in including more than $500 trillion. the "contra costa times" reports more than $4 billion is pumped into the bay area each year from defense contractors with more than 900 local companies selling their republic ducts to the military. the -- selling their products to the military. the aerospace industry predicts more than a million jobs bo be lost nation -- would be lost nationwide. >>> in our economy watch, a new consumer spending report has

alison kosic live tonight. thanks. more perspective now. mark zandy is the chief analyst for moody's analytics. mark, i want to begin with you. a lot of americans even now, some are still saying why does this brouhaha, this dysfunction in europe affect me? help them understand it. >> well, europe is our largest trading partner. a lot of companies have big ex-poesh tours what goes on in europe and our banks do as well. they do a lot of business with european banks. if europe is struggling, if the european economy is in recession it's going to have a ripple effect on us through trade, through the stock market, through the banking system. you know, we are literally tethered at the hip with europe. i think our economy could digest a mild european recession, but it could not digest a severe recession. it would drag us down, too. >> david, as we watched this play out we know and alison just mentioned there is dysfunction here in washington about the super committee. the u.s. deficit reduction plan. we'll get to that in a moment. we just saw the p

. >> i am alison seymour. it is funny how kingly we forget cold weather. >>> what we can expect the rest of the day. >> it will be a cool day. cool temperatures again today and some rain showers out there. look at hd radar. you can see rain off to our west and rainfall east near annapolis and savena park. >>> here is a look at big picture satellite radar shows you we have plenty of cloud cover mostly cloudy skies again today an area of low pressure off to the nothing further and that is helping the north and that is helping keep the moisture in towards us. -- north and the helping to keep the moisture in towards us. showers here and there throughout the course of the day highs 50s. a little warmer than yesterday, but still 50s look for a high of 55 degrees arlington, 56 chantilly, 56 buoy, that is a look at what is happening with weather now more on the traffic with julie wright. >> all right tony back to work on monday morning. accident activity to report the crew in sky fox checking out that drive, eastbound

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for now we're live, alison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. >> all right, alison. thank you. >>> 716. new emails have been released as part of the solyndra investigation. they show the white house was barned -- warned about their financial stability long before they filed bankruptcy. it shows that e-mails he -- one of them came from silicon valley investor, steve westly. he said if it was too late to cancel the visit there, the president should be -- should be very clear about this. >>> a $500 million program to create 80,000 green jobs appears to be foundering. the labor department program was designed to take workers and put them in green jobs. about 10% of the participants have found a job and the inspector general says -- the obama administration says the numbers are low due to a lag time in setting up the program. it's expecting job placements to go up over the next few months. >>> 7:18. the supreme court is now in session for its new term. justices will hear a privacy case that could have consequences on a case here in the prayer. -- on the -- in the bay area. justices will deci

i'm alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. the senate is set to vote on president obama's multibillion dollar jobs act. they've been pressing congress to pass the bill for weeks, stating the economy is weaker than at the beginning of the year. many observers say the full proposal will not pass. the u.s. federal reserve's latest stimulus move dubbed operation twist will be laid out in detail on tuesday when the fed relesions the minutes from its most recent policy meeting in september. retail sales figures for last month are due. figures last week indicate that retailers posted a decent back-to-school shopping season. the report will give insight into consumer spending as we approach the all-important holiday shopping season. also coming up, we get readings on consumer spending, sentiment, trade balance on import and export prices. in washington, the house will vote on deals to renew funding for workers who lost their jobs to outsourcing. the senate will also vote on trade deals with south korea, colombia and panama. the deals

. >>> well, alison folks definitely heard the call for volunteers up to 1500 people are expected to possibly look for robbie woods junior today he wandered away from his family out on a walk, in hanover county sunday a news briefing on details of today's search is being held right now this is a live picture from kings dominion parking lot hanover county virginia, you can see officials briefing folks those are people showing up behind lining up to volunteer for this search we understand they are saying they can handle up to 1200 volunteers they do not have that number now so they are requesting people to come forward and help in this search, but they are also making it known they need folks that have experience in some sort of search and rescue operation, that they do need help it will be a 2-mile radius area they are going to search today, hundreds of people showed up to search yesterday they have canvassed the woods around that park search dogs are help being the effort it is an 80-acre park not fenced in officials are concerned wood, the little boy could have wandered off the property. now

alis alison, what can we expect today? >> today europe remains in focus, kyra. the issues in europe reaching ahead. more talk of a recession and greece is getting closer to running out of money. sometimes all about sentiment. why we're seeing stock futures in this country here higher because as things get worse, there is this optimism. there's this growing belief that something will get done. today we're expecting to hear more details about a plan to recapitalize european banks and basically getting their balance sheets in better order. kind of a safety net if greece will default. it sparked a small rally in europe. that is spreading once again a u.s. sail. an iraelian american man is in custody. a member of iran's revolutionary guard. this morning u.s. diplomats are calling on allies around the world to get tougher on iran. some say that sanctions are not enough. peter king calls the plot an act of war and says the u.s. should not dismiss the idea of military action. vice president joe biden even said this morning, "nothing has been taken off the table." >>> th

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. >> reporter: good morning again tony and alison we discussed this yesterday the potential for this jury selection process to be lengthy it has proven to be so. now of course on trial is 29- year-old brittany norwood charged with killing her coworker jana murray in a rage after murray allegedly found she had been shoplifting, now, yesterday they went through 150 members of the jury pool, over 80% of them admitted to having heard about this case, the case of course was widely covered in both local and national media. 50 or the of the the jury pool --% of the jury pool said they had already decided if she was guilty or not guilty. both sides are anxious to get this done as they want to get to opening statements aside from jury selection there was a motion brought forward yesterday it is my understanding that will be addressed first thing this morning it has to do with graphic photos of the crime scene. it goes to how murray was murdered, a murder involving a hammer, a knife, and even a clothing rack from the store. the defense attorney is arguing those pictures are too prejudicial and

alison kosik joining us now. alison, critics say it ignores the americans who really need the help the most. let's talk about that first and then talk about how this plan, the administration hopes will help the housing market. >> okay, you got it, kyra. this was announced yesterday and now, of course, everybody had a chance to sit on it and look it over and now the critics are coming out of the wood work. what the critics are saying is that this plan doesn't help people who have fallen behind on their mortgage payments because you have to be up to date on your mortgage to qualify for this new plan. also, it doesn't help people who are already in the foreclosure process and, i'll tell you what, there are a lot of those. moody's says 3.5 million people in foreclosure or seriously delinquent and those people are most in danger of losing their homes, but the thing is, they do not qualify for this program, kyra. >> okay. alison kosik, we'll talk more about this through the next couple of hours. stay with us, in just a