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Cain Denies Accusations; Protests Targets Iowa Caucuses; Europe's Youth Jobless Crisis; Breaking up a Spy Ring; H.S. Coach Beaten in Georgia; Stocks Set to Sell Off; Stock Markets Plunge on Opening Bell; Kim Kardashian Files for Divorce; Nearly 40 Percent of Country Unsure about Occupy Wall Street Movement; Moving Slow in the Fast Lane; Murray May Testify about MJ's Death; Rivers: Fumbled Snap Dooms Chargers; Cain: I was Falsely Accused

Aired November 01, 2011 - 09:00   ET

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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, guys. Boy, I think of all the times I've harassed Carol Costello, and I am still friends with her. It's absolutely remarkable.

(LAUGHTER)

PHILLIPS: Have a great morning, guys.

COSTELLO: It's a good thing I got that cash settlement from CNN.

PHILLIPS: You know -- no, no, you and I made an agreement, we'll move on.

All right, you're going to hear a lot more about Herman Cain today and those sexual harassment allegations. We're talking about the way that he's handling all of this and he's stoking the fire rather than putting it out.

Listen to how Cain's explanation actually seemed to change from interview to interview.

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HERMAN CAIN (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: If the Restaurant Association did a settlement, I am not -- I wasn't even aware of it and I hope it wasn't for much because nothing happened.

I am unaware of any sort of settlement. I hope it wasn't for much because I didn't do anything. But the fact of the matter is, I'm not aware of a settlement that came out of that accusation.

I was aware that an agreement was reached. The word settlement versus the word agreement, you know, I am not sure what they called it.

Here's the one incident that I recall as the day has gone on. She was in my office one day and I made a gesture saying -- and I was standing close to her and I made a gesture, you have the same height as my wife. And brought my hand -- didn't touch her -- up to my chin and said, you're the same height as my wife because my wife comes up to my chin. My wife of 43 years.

And that was put in there as something that made her uncomfortable as part of the sexual harassment charge.

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PHILLIPS: Well, CNN deputy political director Paul Steinhauser has been watching all the interviews, as well.

So, Paul, it seems that Cain sort of failed damage control 101 by talking all day and changing his story. So, does all of this show the inexperience of his advisers, his staff, or just that this is a guy that goes off script?

PAUL STEINHAUSER, CNN DEPUTY POLITICAL DIRECTOR: I think it's a little bit of both. And you're absolutely right, the story as you just played with those sound bites evolved during the day.

The Cain campaign and the candidates themselves are saying that, listen, there is a difference between an agreement and a settlement. And you heard that in one of the sound bites there with PBS with Judy Woodruff.

But yes, to your point, Kyra. Listen, Herman Cain was basically an afterthought in the battle for the Republican nomination about two months ago. Since then he's dramatically risen in the polls and that's brought more scrutiny towards him. We're seeing that with the story. But at the same time he went from having basically a very small campaign to now trying to build one up.

And yes, I think to a degree, they just weren't ready for this story, even though politico reached out to him about 11 days ago. And they weren't able to reach out to it successfully. It seems so far. Maybe the other campaigns with bigger staff and more experienced staff would do better but if it was a tough day for Herman Cain, no doubt about it

And one of the reasons is that storyline. What are we talking about this morning? We're talking about how he changed his story from the beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday, Kyra.

PHILLIPS: All right. So, what do you think? Is this going to die down or is it going to get worse? I mean, he -- you know one of the final interviews last night, he was asked the question, do you think more people are going to come forward and he said absolutely not.

STEINHAUSER: You know, well, I don't think the story is going to die down yet. Listen, an hour from now Herman Cain is on our sister network, HLN. So again we will be asking Herman Cain about the discrepancy in his story. He'll be doing other interviews as well. He's a little -- he's out of the camera a little bit later today and tomorrow, but no, this story will not die down for a couple of days and, again, it depends on his answers whether the media and voters are satisfied with his answers -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: All right. Paul Steinhauser, out of DC, thanks so much.

Well, it's not just Herman Cain that we're talking about this morning. We're also talking about Rick Perry going off script and it's gone viral. See it for for yourself.

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GOV. RICK PERRY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: This is such a cool state. I mean, come on, live free or die. You know, you got to love that, right? I mean, everybody's got a little slogan, right? Mine is cut balance and grow. Get that. That little plan that I just shared with you doesn't force the Granite state to expand your tax footprint. You know what I mean.

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PHILLIPS: All right. Bizarre or not. We're going to ask our political buzz panel next hour.

And we're going to have your next political update in just about an hour. For all the latest political news, you can always go to our Web site also, CNNPolitics.com.

"Occupy Wall Street" protesters in Nashville probably don't have to worry about going to jail today. A federal judge has ordered law officers to stop arresting demonstrators for now. The governor ordered a curfew last week. Protesters were told that they needed permits to stay downtown. There'll be another hearing in three weeks.

No such break in Portland, though. Federal police started arresting protesters just a little while ago when they didn't leave a park. They had a 10:00 p.m. curfew.

Well, the occupy movement has big plans for the Iowa caucuses on January 3rd. They're the first in the nation and could set or change the tone of the GOP presidential race. Some candidates are there today trying to woo the voters.

CNN's Shannon Travis is also there.

So, Shannon, do they actually plan to disrupt the actual voting during the caucus?

SHANNON TRAVIS, CNN POLITICAL PRODUCER: Yes, they're not planning on disrupting the voting. They are planning on, quote, "shutting down the offices of the presidential candidates." So Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, even President Obama, Kyra, may want to be careful. Keep a watchful eye out.

These "Occupy Des Moines" activists have put out a call to "Occupy Wall Street" group nationwide to descend here on Iowa the week before the caucuses. The proposed dates are December 27th through the 3rd. The 3rd is obviously the date of the caucus. They're calling it the first in the nation caucus occupation, the first in the nation caucus occupation, and the idea again is to amass thousands upon thousands if they can "Occupy Wall Street" protesters from the nation and even perhaps the globe. They put out this global call as well to come here.

One thing I pressed them yesterday. Is this a publicity stunt, they acknowledged that obviously all of the national media will already be here covering the caucuses. They know that we will be here and that they'll have our attention. So they acknowledge that this is part of an attempt to get more publicity for their cause. But they're also saying, you know what, the candidates don't do it, why should we -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Well, is it a done deal? I mean is this definitely going to happen?

TRAVIS: Yes, I mean, at this point, it's a call. It's a call out to all the groups nationwide. And again beyond for them to descend upon Iowa. It's unclear whether it will happen or not. But they have put out this call. I mean, it's probably likely that a lot of groups outside of Des Moines will come into Iowa for this -- for this major event, again, to get more attention.

I've talked with some Republican critics of this plan and they're telling me, you know what, this just means a lot of overtime for the Des Moines Police Department -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Shannon Travis, we'll be watching it.

Well, there's one thing that we definitely know. Young people are the driving force behind the "Occupy" movement. Unemployed, fed up and it's the same across the globe.

Zain Verjee joining us now from London.

So, Zain, what are the headlines saying about it?

ZAIN VERJEE, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Good morning, Kyra.

Youth unemployment is grabbing the headlines today just ahead of the G-20 summit. Let's take a look at the "Herald" in South Africa. The headline, :"Jobless youth are a ticking time bomb." It goes on to say, "The Greek crisis, the American governments, bailout of banks and the onset of a double-dip recession all point to a crisis in capitalism and a need for a global rethink on how business is done.

Let's take a look at the "South China Morning Post." "Act now on the global jobs crisis or risk a lost decade." As a guest editorial written by the director general of the International Labor Organization, and it says with the slowdown in the global economy, we're on the edge of global jobs recession that could last a whole decade. And if we ignore the widespread aspiration for a fair chance at a decent job, the social and political consequences could be catastrophic."

And then a guest editorial finally, Kyra, by the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and the "International Herald Tribune." This headline, "The clock is ticking." It says, "Together women and young people make up more than two-thirds of the global population in every sense, they are the world's next emerging economy. We must listen to them" -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Zain Verjee out of London. Zain, thanks.

Well, it could be a cold war spy movie. A red headed femme fetal shopping bags filled with cash and dead drops. Well, it's not a movie, it's a video from the breakup of that Russian spy ring last year.

CNN's foreign affairs correspondent Jill Dougherty has more.

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JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN FOREIGN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Just in time for Halloween, the FBI releases a treasure-trove of videos, photos and heavily edited documents from Operation: Ghost Stories. A coincidence, the FBI says, but it's an undercover peek at how a Russian spy ring collected and passed on information, how the FBI trailed them and finally cracked the operation.

In one video from January 2010, Anna Chapman, the red headed bombshell who later went on to fame in Moscow as a TV host, sits in a New York coffee shop wearing designer sunglasses, unknowingly talking with an undercover FBI agent about problems with her laptop that she uses to communicate with Russian officials.

"You are ready for the next step, OK," he asks. "OK," she says. "This is not laptop to laptop. This is person to person," the agent says.

In another video, the classic spy technique, a brush pass, as another spy trades off a bag full of cash with a Russian official as they pass in a train station.

The FBI was forced to release the material recorded over the decade the FBI had the 10 Russians under surveillance as part of a Freedom of Information Act request and it looks just like a spy movie. Including one Russian digging up a package of money from what in spy lingo is called a dead drop.

This spy ring is over, but the FBI says it's not the end of the story.

FRANK FIGLUZZI, FBI: The U.S. remains the target of most of the world's spying. And again, as long as we have policy information, technology and research that the rest of the world wants and as long as foreign intel services want to gain a strategic advantage against us, we'll continue to be the target of that kind of spying.

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PHILLIPS: Jill, joining us live.

So, Jill, were there -- was there anything revealed there that shouldn't have been revealed by showing that video?

DOUGHERTY: I don't think so, Kyra. You know, the FBI did have, as I said, the Freedom of Information Act request, but when they released it, especially if you look at the documents, they are redacted. There's a lot of stuff that's not included. But you'd have to say that, you know, looking at those videos, they are -- they are really interesting in terms of just the spy craft. How it's done. Some of them were a little antiquated.

You know, like passing in the -- in the subway or whatever at the train. But there are other things that the FBI told us that were more cutting edge, including Miss Chapman's use of the computer, using wireless communication, communicating with a computer that was outside in a van circling around.

So there's some interesting things. I mean, it's really kind of a compendium of some ways that this is done in the real world.

PHILLIPS: Wow. Interesting stuff. Didn't look real slick there, too, Jill. You got to -- you know, it looked a little obvious as we were watching it there. Thinking it'd be a little tricky. But, all right, Jill, thanks.

Well, high school football coaches severely beaten by members of the opposing team.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I said all this looked like corn flakes.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Corn flakes. What do you mean?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That it was like if you get crushed up corn flakes. That's what all this bone looked like.

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PHILLIPS: After the break, why social media is being blamed for the violence.

Plus, we know we'll let some of you down, that's what JetBlue is telling passengers stuck on a plane for more than seven hours. We'll have that story just ahead.

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PHILLIPS: Checking stories "Cross Country" now.

Halloween night in New Orleans. Two people died, at least 10 others were hurt in separate shootings including one on Bourbon Street. Police are still searching for the suspects.

In Connecticut, people are still trying to recover from that freak October snowstorm. More than 250 people spent the night in the shelter and thousands of others are still without power.

And JetBlue is now apologizing for that snowstorm that stranded a number of passengers in Hartford, Connecticut. More than 100 of them were left onboard a JetBlue flight for more than seven hours. No food, water or functioning bathrooms.

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ROB MARUSTER, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, JETBLUE: And we know we let some of you down over the course of this weekend and for that, we are truly sorry.

Going forward, we plan to fully participate with the Department of Transportation and cooperating with their investigation into the events over the weekend. And we're also going to conduct an internal evaluation so that we can learn from this event, because at the end of the day, you deserve better and we expect better from our crew members and our operation.

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PHILLIPS: JetBlue faces nearly $3 million in potential fines now.

High school football is king in rural Georgia, but recently, a coach was severely beaten by members of an opposing team and a lot of people are saying that online trash talk is to blame.

David Mattingly reports.

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DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): After 30 years coaching high school football, David Daniel says it was the one hit he didn't see coming.

COACH DAVID DANIEL, WARREN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL: They said all of this looked like corn flakes.

MATTINGLY (on camera): Corn flakes. What do you mean?

DANIEL: It was like, if you crush up corn flakes, that's what all this bone looked like.

MATTINGLY (voice-over): Five hours of surgery and five metal plates to replace shattered bone. Daniel was struck in the face with a helmet when he tried to break up a brawl between his players and another team.

DANIEL: It just makes no sense. I don't understand it.

MATTINGLY: Coach Daniel is a victim, some say, of trash talking, fueled by social media and text messages. But what's particularly hard for people here to accept is where this happened -- small town rural Georgia.

Daniel's Warren County Screaming Devils were playing against perennial rivals the Hancock County Bulldogs. Footage from the press box that night shows the game itself was peaceful. There are no pictures to show what happened after the game.

CAROLE JEAN CAREY, SUPERINTENDENT, WARREN COUNTY SCHOOLS: We saw this sea of people and it was just like moving like waves and then all of a sudden we saw a helmet go up.

MATTINGLY: Superintendent Carol Jean Carey was there when her coach was struck outside the locker room. She has demanded a state investigation.

CAREY: There was a talk on Facebook before this game or some going back and forth on Facebook, maybe some text messages before.

MATTINGLY: Text messages including this one, allegedly from a Hancock volunteer assistant coach who had coached at Warren county the year before, apparently taunting Warren County players. Hancock administrators say that text was actually sent after the brawl.

But the school's head coach is also among those blaming social media for fanning the flames.

COACH ZACHERY HARRIS, HANCOCK COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL: Facebook kind of keeps everything going. You know, if I don't see you, we have no confrontation, but now, Facebook puts everybody together all the time.

MATTINGLY: Searching players' pages on Facebook, we could find no evidence of trash talking.

But school safety consultant Ken Trump says it's becoming a problem for all schools.

KEN TRUMP, SCHOOL SAFETY CONSULTANT: Social media is increasing the communication speed to the point where rumors and threats that used to spread in hours and days is now spreading within minutes and seconds. And it's escalating very quickly and the violence could escalate along with it.

MATTINGLY: Coach David Daniel says he wasn't aware of any problems before the fight that left him permanently injured and he refuses to say anything negative of the kids involved in the violence.

DANIEL: I'm just not like that. Everybody wants me to be hateful and I can't do that. I can't do that.

MATTINGLY: His emotional and physical injuries still obvious. Two weeks after the brawl, I watched Coach Daniel return to the field for the first time.

(on camera): Take a look at this guy. Constantly on the go, on the move on the sideline. One thing he can't do, however, is raise his voice. He says if he yells, it causes a lot of pain.

(voice-over): Quietly, he complains of severe headaches. More surgery may be needed. And while a criminal investigation continues, no one at this small town school is sure how to stop the violence from happening again.

David Mattingly, CNN, Warrington, Georgia.

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PHILLIPS: Straight ahead: airlines charged billions of dollars every year in fees, but did you know hotels are doing the same thing? We've got the details.

Plus, born with legs, left withered by polio, but possessing a rock hard determination. Story of inspiration right after the break.

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PHILLIPS: Well, 34-year-old Kenyan man has lived with polio for 24 years and begging by the side of the road is how he survived, until now.

Zain Verjee, I know this touches your heart even more so because you're from Kenya.

ZAIN VERJEE, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: I know. You walk around the streets of Nairobi and you see so many people begging and many of them are affected by polio and that's the only way that they can survive. So this is a really inspiring story. This guy, Sylvester Barasa, had polio since he was young kid. He's now 34 and he has joined a dancing troop.

It's pretty amazing. This troop is called Pamoja, which in Swahili means "together."

And, you know, from a real tough life in a shanty town, you see this guy getting up on stage like this and putting on a performance with able bodied people as well as disabled people, and it's something that is so inspiring to Kenyans, as well as to people around the world. Culturally, too, in a lot of African societies, any kind of disability is seen as a real stigma. So, people are really treated very badly and you don't have places that are friendly to anyone who has a disability in terms of even being able to get around in a city.

So, he's joined this troop. There are about 13 dancers in total. And it's really something that has touched people's hearts.

Kyra, I will teach you a little bit of Swahili, (SPEAKING SWAHILI) is what a lot of people is saying about this ground, which means very good.

And you can call him Charlie Paw (ph), which means cool guy, which is another nickname.

PHILLIPS: Charlie Paw, I like that.

And, you know, you grew up in Kenya. Is dance and life theater -- is it popular and does this troop travel internationally? Do we know? Or is this sort of he's inspiring folks there locally where he lives?

VERJEE: Well, this troop specifically was actually set up by a Canadian group partnering with locals. So, they have local performances mainly. I haven't heard of them traveling internationally although they hope to do so. But Kenyan dance and arts and music and theater and performance is really something that does exist in Kenya.

I grew up going to the national theater, which was opposite the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi and there are always fantastic performances. And they would range from very tribal and very cultural performances, that is very rich in African culture and also to many Western type of performances put on by Africans.

So, plays and theater are a big deal, but this is a way to really put the issue of disability on the map and an African country that shows it can done. (SPEAKING SWAHILI).

PHILLIPS: Very inspirational. I'll learn that word next. Thanks, Zain.

We're used to the airlines nickel and diming us. Now, hotels are doing the same thing.

Alison Kosik, say it isn't so.

ALISON KOSIK, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: You know what, somehow, Kyra, we knew this was coming. And guess what? You know, we could wind up paying fees for just about everything when you stay at a hotel.

If you want to make a local call, even if you want housekeeping, and if you want to use the swimming pool and even the gym, of all things. You thought the gym was the untouchable place.

You know what? Some are even charging as much as $2 for the safe in your room.

And how about this? Three dollars and fifty cents just to hold your bag for a few hours. Here's the kicker: some fees may already be added to your bill without you even knowing it.

Now, the hotel industry is blaming a drop in revenue because there aren't as many travelers these days. But, I'll tell you what? These hotels are raking it in. There's an NYU studies that says hotel fees could hit a record high of $1.8 billion this year -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Not surprising.

Well, European markets selling off this morning. We have been watching this. Wall Street expected to do the same. We're just a couple minutes away from the opening bell.

KOSIK: Right. It is expected to be quite brutal open. This is after Greece threw the world a curveball, especially.

The prime minister of Greece is calling for a public vote on the European debt deal that everybody was so excited about last week that the markets rallied on last week because now the fear is that Greece, that the Greek people won't pass it because it includes very unpopular austerity measures. It's why you've seen these protesters out there in Greece day after day.

Analysts say this could wind up knocking the wheels off the bus of this European rescue plan. I'll have the numbers coming up, soon -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: All right. It sounds good. Thanks so much, Alison.

As you heard Alison, stocks are set to tumble at the open and we are just about 2 1/2 minutes away from the opening bell. We will watch it and bring it to you live.

Also, we're going in depth on "Occupy Wall Street." CNN actually spent 24 hours embedded with the protesters in Manhattan. You'll see and hear exactly what we did, coming up.

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PHILLIPS: OK, 9:30. The opening bell ringing on Wall Street. There you go. As we've been talking about, a very difficult day. Christine Romans joining us out of New York, Alison Kosik at New York Stock exchange. Christine, let's go ahead and explain what is happening in Greece and why we're watching the numbers so closely this morning.

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: The prime minister of Greece said he wanted an national referendum on the EU bailout deal, and that adds another little layer, a very big layer of uncertainty to Europe getting its problems in order. We know what the Greek people think about austerity. We've seen it in the streets over and over and over again. So there are those that are very concerned that this puts a real wrench in that whole deal.

And you look at all the European stocks down very sharply, also banking stocks are down very, very heavily because a couple of the big European banks announcing more job cuts and saying that this is not as great as they'd like, all of that feeding into this feeling that a very good month last month, the S&P was up like 10 percent. Very good month, people are taking their money off the table, Kyra.

PHILLIPS: All right, Alison, we're already seeing the effects of this on European markets.

KOSIK: Exactly. We're watching European markets. They're down anywhere from three percent to five percent. Asian markets also down two percent. So of course, what you see is the U.S. markets. They're following in those footsteps. The Dow down now 244 points.

We're seeing the VIX and that is the fear index. It measures the volatility and the fear of investors. That is popping. That is up 22 percent. That's a big jump just in the first few seconds of the trade. We're seeing financial shares. They are taking the biggest hit because the biggest worry here is what is the exposure that these banks carry to Greece. And not just Greece, but if Greece goes under, it could take all these other countries down with it, too, Germany, Italy, the list goes on.

So you see that creeping back into the market after we all thought this was a done deal. We all rallied talking about the markets, actually. The markets rally last week on this European debt deal and now it looks like the uncertainty is back on the table, right in the middle. Kyra?

PHILLIPS: And Christine, looking at the numbers now, Dow industrials down 253 points and we've only, markets have only been open two-and-a-half minutes.

ROMANS: Some people say this was inevitable, quite frankly, because after the European debt deal was reached, we all said this was the first step and a lot of execution that has to go with it. Greece saying it wants to have a referendum and let its people decide whether it will accept that deal. That certainly is, you know, it just, it makes the inevitability of the deal that much further away.

You had a big rally, don't forget, in stocks in October. For the S&P, it was the best month since 1991. So, it shows you that people think, OK, the best case scenario has been price to the stock market. We will not get the best case scenario. That's what the news flow looks like today. Today we'll sell stocks.

PHILLIPS: Ladies, we'll keep talking throughout the morning and watch those numbers for everybody live here on CNN. Thanks so much.

We're also going in depth on Occupy Wall Street. And there's good reason for a closer look. A recent CNN/ORC poll shows about four in 10 Americans still aren't sure about the movement. This is where CNN.com's Jarrett Bellini comes in. He spent 24 hours embedded with the movement in its birthplace, Manhattan's Zuccotti Park. Here' you go.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I will be here until I die. I don't know how long some other people are going to be here.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mike check!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's falling apart. See the apple floating over there.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You guys need towels?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, thank you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So, I'm charging my batteries by pedaling this stationary bike, and we're taking the deep cycle marine batteries all around the park wherever we need power.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I hate capitalism. That's why I eat a Burger King burger. They criticize the Cuban revolution, saying revolution eats its own children. The revolution can eat its own children, I can eat Burger King.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What do we do? Why are we here? What are we going to do? Maybe it's to help people out. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's all volunteer here. See a need, fill it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're going to eat now. It's dinnertime.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mike check!

CROWD: Mike check!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hi, everybody.

CROWD: Hi, everybody!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Welcome to general assembly.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The general assembly has been going on since 7:00 and it's currently 11:40 now. It will probably continue until midnight as usual.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good morning. It's about 8:30, Zuccotti Park, lower Manhattan. And I just woke up and had a little breakfast and I'm ready to occupy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If they shut it down today, what would I do? I would pack up my stuff and go to my girl's parents' house for a minute and look for work and live life all over, again, you know.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's going to be a good day today. Always a good day. Trying to make the best out of it.

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PHILLIPS: Jared with us now. You know, so much talk about a lack of a unified message. Did you hear one?

JARRETT BELLINI, CNN.COM CORRESPONDENT: You know, I didn't really hear a unified message. If anything, more of a lack of unification. The only thing they're unified about is that the occupation is important and that they're staying here. Beyond that, everybody seems to have their own pet topic that they're into. And there was a discussion at the general assembly on Sunday night where they discussed maybe creating a unified message, but nothing really came out of that.

PHILLIPS: So, do you get the feeling they'll stay there all winter?

BELLINI: Well, I do. They say they are, anyway. If anything, the storm gave them a little bit of confidence. Now, it was one storm and it can get a lot worse, but they said it gave them some confidence. And beyond that I'm not sure where else a lot of them would go. Some of them, they seem to have a vagabond lifestyle, and I almost think if it wasn't here, it would be there, and here has hot food.

PHILLIPS: Jared, thanks to your reporting. In the next hour, same thing, different city. This time it's CNN's Patrick Oppmann spending 24 hours with Occupy Seattle. We'll see how similar or different the two camps are.

Also ahead, Kim Kardashian calling it quits after two months of marriage. Her husband says not so fast. "Showbiz Headlines" are next.

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PHILLIPS: We're watching the markets for you. Not looking so good today. Dow industrials down 265 points. We're all looking toward what's going to happen as we've been reporting on this rejection of a bailout deal sending Greece crashing out of the euro. We already see it impacting the world markets and our markets right here at home. Christine Romans, Alison Kosik watching it all for us. We'll be talking about it all morning.

Looks like there's not a happy ending to the fairy tale wedding of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries. Millions of dollars and two months later it looks like the marriage is over. "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT" host A.J. Hammer has all the details for us.

Oh, boy, Kim Kardashian filing for divorce. What is going on here? I still can't believe all the millions of dollars that went into that wedding, A.J.

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A.J. HAMMER, HOST, "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT": Kyra, apparently marrying someone you only known for a few months in a massive televised ceremony not the smartest thing to do. Kim Kardashian did file for divorce yesterday, just 72 days after a self-described fairy tale wedding to Kris Humphries.

Kim is citing irreconcilable differences. The early reports are that Kris actually wanted to move home to Minnesota after he finished up with his NBA career. That apparently wasn't in Kim's plan. The larger issue seems to be they didn't know each other all that well so things like that weren't sorted out before they walked down the aisle.

But, of course, Kyra, there were the ratings and the sponsors to think of, right? I mean, come on.

PHILLIPS: Oh, boy. Speaking of money, right, it all comes down to the bottom line. OK, now, from divorce to, you know, hey, some exciting news. Jessica Simpson is pregnant.

HAMMER: Yes, this is very exciting for Jessica Simpson. She has finally acknowledged something that basically we all kind of knew. She's pregnant. Look at this photo. Can we put up the photo of Jessica Simpson in her Halloween costume, if we have that? She put it up with the caption, "Yes, it's true. I am going to be a mummy." Nice little Halloween twist to it.

This would be the first child for Simpson. She is engaged to former football player Eric Johnson. As to why she waiting so long what was acknowledging what was so obvious, the reports are that she was trying to shop around the first photo of her baby bump and an exclusive announcement, she wanted to sell that to the tabloids. Apparently nobody willing to meet her price. I don't know what that price was, but, you know, all part of the territory these days.

PHILLIPS: Oh, boy, how can you put a price on that? Just a beautiful thing to talk about having a baby.

All right another singer canceling a concert due to an illness. This time Rihanna had some pretty disappointed fans.

HAMMER: This looks to be a pretty minor deal, but Rihanna was forced to cancel a concert in Sweden. She has got the flu. She actually tweeted an apology to all of her Swedish fans and she attached a photo of her arm with an IV in it. Hope her fans aren't scared by that. She needs her fluid. She's resting up and hopefully will be well before too long. Not a big deal, but Rihanna feeling very badly having to miss out on a few shows, Kyra.

PHILLIPS: A.J., back by popular demand with more "SHOWBIZ" headlines. It's elimination night on "Dancing with the Stars," and A.J., we're hoping our Nancy Grace won't be going anywhere.

HAMMER: Yes. That's exactly right. Gosh, I'm pulling for her. It's a tough week as it gets closer and closer to the end. We'll talk about that next hour.

PHILLIPS: Sounds good. See you soon.

Well, it's enough to make the most patient, well, most patient people mad, driving in the fast lane, moving slow. Elsie Granderson has a message for all those slow pokes out there. That's coming up.

And the corn field made famous by the movie, "Field of Dreams" has been sold. We'll tell you who bought it, right after the break.

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PHILLIPS: All right, checking stories cross country now.

In Arizona a guilty verdict in the murder trial of the so-called "Baseline Killer". Mark Goudeau was convicted of killing nine people. He's killing spree terrorized Phoenix during the summer of 2006.

And last night in Florida, a small plane carrying a Nascar team owner made a crash landing at Key West International Airport. Rick Hendrick, his wife Linda and two pilots were on board. The plane rolled up the runway after the pilot reported no brakes. No one was seriously injured.

And the Iowa corn field made famous in the 1989 movie "Field of Dreams" has been sold. A Chicago couple bought the land, they plan to develop it as a baseball and softball complex.

All right, now, I know that all of you out there are totally going to relate to this. We signal, we never turn, we turn but we don't signal; we rub our neck and we talk on the phone. Wow, we're annoying when we drive, aren't we?

L.Z. Granderson sure thinks so, but those things really don't compare to what drives him crazy. So, L.Z., speed us through your op- ed on CNN.com.

L.Z. GRANDERSON, CNN.COM CONTRIBUTOR: I don't think there's anything worse than a slow driver in the fast lane. I just think it just takes driving to a whole new level of frustration when you've got a person doing 55 in the 65 in the far left. I just don't know what's worse.

PHILLIPS: So -- so why don't we follow the rules?

GRANDERSON: You know what, I think because we're selfish, actually. I think we were just kind of -- some of us who get over there and we just kind of think, well, we're going fast enough? And we think because we're going fast enough for us, we're going fast enough for everybody else. And we think that if we let them pass us somehow they're one-upping us and we get kind of competitive and we refuse to move over. And it's like, come on, move over. There is a lot of people in this country. Get your butt out of the way.

PHILLIPS: So do we need to amend the Constitution? Do we need a right to hurry?

GRANDERSON: Yes, in fact I believe Herman Cain is going to make that one of his next missions that he speaks about --

PHILLIPS: Don't harass me, L.Z.

GRANDERSON: -- demanding the right for people to be able to pass in the left lane.

PHILLIPS: All right. Are you --

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GRANDERSON: I won't. I won't. But if I did I promise to forget later.

PHILLIPS: Ok now, finally, you actually say that these folks that get in the fast lane and they don't go fast, they're impacting our economy and we can't take it right now in these hard times.

GRANDERSON: Absolutely. I mean think about it, you're cut off five minutes because you're behind a slow person. That's five minutes you could be using in a McDonald's, that's five minutes you could be using out at a Starbucks. That's affecting our economy.

Not to mention the fact that when you're doing over 60 miles an hour, the Department of Transportation tells us we burn more gas. So now we're affecting the oil industry. We're job killing basically when we drive slow.

PHILLIPS: Note to self, don't ever drive in front of L.Z. Granderson. GRANDERSON: I'm joking.

PHILLIPS: Yes, I know when you're joking.

You can read L.Z.'s piece on CNN.com/opinion. If you like join the conversation, leave him a comment, oh, he'll love it.

Well, the NBA fines a team owner $500,000 for talking about the lockout. We've got sports in nine minutes.

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PHILLIPS: Dr. Conrad Murray has an important decision to make this morning. Will he take the stand to try and defend himself against charges that is responsible for the death of Michael Jackson?

Ted Rowlands has the latest for us from Los Angeles.

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TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: When court resumes, we'll find out one way or another whether Conrad Murray takes the stand in his own defense. At the conclusion of court yesterday the judge, this is after he jury left the room, asked Murray point blank, are you going to testify and Murray replied that he hadn't made up his mind yet.

So the judge said, in essence, you better hurry up and gave him until 8:0 a.m. Pacific time, to decide whether or not he will take the stand.

On Monday there were some fireworks in the courtroom with lead prosecutor David Walgren attacking the defense star witness Dr. Paul White on cross examination. Walgreen tried to dismantle the theory that Michael Jackson killed himself with an injection of Propofol.

He also attacked White in that he asked him about standard of care issues. Specifically at one point he talked about Michael Jackson being found unresponsive yet Dr. Conrad Murray waiting 20 minutes to call 911.

DAVID BENJAMIN, PROSECUTOR: There is no justification for what Conrad Murray did in failing to call 911, is there?

DR. PAUL WHITE, ANESTHESIOLOGIST: I -- as I said earlier, I think he should have called 911 sooner. I do not, however, think it would have made any difference in the outcome of this case.

ROWLANDS: Dr. Paul White is expected back on the stand when court resumes. We're expecting one more witness for the defense after White is finished. That is assuming that Dr. Conrad Murray doesn't take the stand in his own defense.

Ted Rowlands, CNN, Los Angeles.

(END VIDEO CLIP) PHILLIPS: And as closing arguments draw closer, be sure to check out our sister network, HLN, your place for expert coverage of Dr. Conrad Murray on trial.

Well here's some stories making news later today.

A nine-foot statue of former President Ronald Reagan is being unveiled at Reagan National Airport in Washington at 11:15 Eastern.

And President Obama greets the crew of the space shuttle "Atlantis" in the Oval Office at 12:20 eastern.

And the congressional panel charged with reducing the nation's debt holds a hearing at 1:30 Eastern Time on Capitol Hill.

We're following a lot of developments for you in the next hour of the CNN NEWSROOM. Let's start off first with deputy political director, Paul Steinhauser -- Paul.

PAUL STEINHAUSER, CNN DEPUTY POLITICAL DIRECTOR: Kyra good morning. All eyes are on Herman Cain this morning as he pushes back against allegations of sexual harassment. Details on what he's saying at the top of the hour.

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: And I'm Christine Romans in New York where we're watching a 250-point slide for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Why? It's all about Greece. Yes Greece and that EU bailout deal. I'll tell why at the top of the hour.

JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN FOREIGN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: And I'm Jill Dougherty at the State Department, spies and counter-spies all caught on the FBI videotape. I'll have a peek this hour.

PHILLIPS: All right. Guys, thanks so much. Also coming up next hour, what the costumes reveal. We're going to talk to the "New York Times" op-ed columnist whose story about a foreclosure firm allegedly wearing insensitive Halloween costumes and how they're getting a lot of attention.

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