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Obama Flies to India, Looking to Boost U.S. Economy; Tomas Sweeps Through Haiti; Eat Your Heart Out, Superman; Daylight Savings Time Problem for iPhone; Guy Fawkes Day and Festival of Diwali Split Weekend
Aired November 06, 2010 - 06:00 ET
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T.J. HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning.
You are seeing just some of the reaction in Oakland after the sentence was announced for a white police officer convicted of killing an unarmed black man. Protesters called the sentence a slap in the face, but police say their anger doesn't justify this.
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CHIEF ANTHONY BATTS, OAKLAND POLICE: You do not have a right to tear this city up. There's a lot of pain here already. And to rip it up - I just don't think that's fair.
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HOLMES: You're going to be hearing more from the police chief and we're going to explain that prison sentence that has protesters and the victim's family outraged.
Also, trick-or-treaters - they go to the door, they knock, sometimes they get the choice of - you want M&M's or do you want Snickers? Well, some kids got the choice of ribbed or regular. We'll explain why one house was handing out condoms.
Good morning, folks. That's how we're going to start your Saturday morning. From the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia, this November the 6th - good morning to you all. I'm T.J. Holmes. Thank you for being right here with us.
Also coming up for you over the next 90 minutes - of course, it's daylight-saving time tomorrow. Need to remember to set those clocks. Now, a lot of people - you're going to be setting them back, of course. That means you gain an hour. But some iPhone users could still wake up late. We'll explain this latest glitch that you need to hear about with your alarm system with that iPhone that could have you late.
Also, who needs a cape if you've got one of these? Where is that picture? You can't really make him out there well. It's a little dark. But we got a guy who's got a jet pack, and he's been flying around. He's one of the first to do this. We'll explain who this guy is and show you what he did. Also, Bristol Palin - she's going some 'splainin to do. She needs a real good excuse. Maybe she does have one. We'll tell you why Sarah Palin's daughter is apologizing to her mother on TV.
But first, let's turn to the president. President Obama - he's on an American job hunt right now in Asia. The president landed just a few hours ago in Mumbai. That's India's financial center. It is his first stop on a 10-day trip to Asia. Along for the ride with the president: Executives from some of America's biggest corporations. They are hoping to help spur economic partnerships with India.
Also, take a look at this - they are greeting the president in a major way there in India. Billboards going up to greet him. Everybody trying to get in on the action and hoping to possibly do business with America, especially since India's emerging economy makes it a powerful trading partner.
Our White House correspondent Dan Lothian also along for the trip with the president. He is there for us, joining us now live.
Dan, always good to see you. And like I said, the president is on a job hunt right now.
DAN LOTHIAN, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: That's right. What a huge job hunt, huh? It's not just trying to get one job, but trying to create thousands and thousands of jobs in the U.S.
And, of course, all of this is framed around the suspicion in the U.S. that so many U.S. jobs are coming here to India, to call centers, outsourcing of the jobs. And what the president is trying to show is that this is a story that's much bigger than that, that this is a growing opportunity here, and an economy that's booming - expected to grow about 8 percent a year for the next several years. And so this is a place where American companies can come, set up, do businesses. That American goods can be bought by people here and India, and that, the president believes, as he wrote in an op-ed piece today in "The New York Times," will eventually create jobs in the U.S.
So the president here will be making a very hard sell. And again, the - the bottom line here from the administration is that it - this is a two-way street. It's not just a place that, as Americans see it, that takes American jobs, but a place that jobs can be created as well, T.J.
HOLMES: And Dan, for our viewers here, we're used to seeing our leaders go off to summits and meetings and photo-ops, and not getting a whole lot for it. But the president does believe he'll be able to - to having something concrete to tell the American people and literally bring back with him.
LOTHIAN: That's right. Some private deals.
I mean, he has along with him some 200 business leaders from Boeing and other big companies - GE as well here, expecting the announcement of the billions of dollars for new C-17s and other private investments as well. So yes, the president - these were all things that were in the works already and probably would have happened had the president not come here at all. But it's something for the president to say, 'Listen, this is what we're doing in terms of creating new business here in India for American companies' - T.J.
HOLMES: All right. Our Dan Lothian for us. Dan, we're going to be checking in with you throughout the morning today. Thank you so much. We'll check in with you soon.
Meanwhile, let's turn back to politics here in the U.S. Of course, after Election Day, midterms on Tuesday, losing the House of Representatives to Republicans. Of course, that means that Nancy Pelosi is going to lose the job of House speaker. But she wants to stay in the leadership, announcing that she will, in fact, run for the minority leader's job. Officially, the White House says it's not going to be getting involved in or commenting on leadership elections in the House.
Pelosi says she wants the job so she can help protect health-care reform, Wall Street reform, Social Security and Medicare. Meanwhile, people are starting to line up and take sides, both for and against her. Some have made it clear that they will not support her as House minority leader.
With me to talk about the competition here for a moment - MSNBC has suspended its biggest star, Keith Olbermann. You're seeing him there. He is their primetime anchor - has been suspended now indefinitely without pay. Why? The company says he violated its ethics policy.
You see, he donated money to three Democrats running for office. In each case - it's a Senate race and two House races - Olbermann contributed the maximum amount, $2,400. The network policy requires that employees get permission first to avoid any possible conflict of interest.
Want to turn to weather now. And it seems that Haiti just cannot catch a break right now. Of course, there was the massive earthquake at the beginning of the year. Then a cholera outbreak recently. And now, Tomas. Just about a half an hour ago, Tomas was actually downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm. Rain tapering off in Haiti, still could be the threat of mudslides there though.
Haiti still recovering, of course. Back in January, that 7.0 magnitude quake killed some 250,000 people. A million people or so are still believed to be living in those tent cities. Conditions in those camps led to that cholera outbreak I mentioned, which has killed at least 450 people. Another 7,000 have been hospitalized. So once again, Haiti dealing with disaster.
Turns to our Reynolds Wolf now. Tomas - where is this thing?
REYNOLDS WOLF, AMS METEOROLOGIST: It is now moving away from Haiti.
HOLMES: OK.
WOLF: That's the good news.
The bad news is that when - you know, you mentioned mudslides. The issue that we often have with mudslides is that even the heavy rainfall may be gone - you can have a clear day and still have mudslides or even an avalanche. What happens, you have those hillsides that are completely barren of vegetation and you're - no root systems to really anchor the soil. So what happens, the ground is completely saturated with moisture. And then, of course, gravity takes its toll and part of the hills just kind of slide down. That's where you have all these problems.
Let's show you where the center of the circulation is right now. You see all this purple that's popping up on the map - a few reds. That indicates your coldest cloud tops. That's where your greatest precipitation as - happens to be. Your center of circulation, right about here. We're going to just put an area of low pressure on top of it.
The good news, that it - this area of low pressure is going to be pulling away. And as it moved into cooler water, and at the same time an area with very strong upper-level winds, it should begin to weaken. That's actually what the National Hurricane Center is indicating.
And as the storm pulls its way away, Tomas will be losing a little bit of speed. You have the Turks and Caicos - this area, your Bahamas here, of course Cuba, and back into Haiti. Port-au-Prince certainly - it should be a better day for you today, anyone that, again, has relatives in that part of the world knows that weather conditions will be improving.
But still, what we may see there, the true damage may be days away before we really, truly get a handle on what exactly can be expected.
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HOLMES: Now, I want to tell you - or show you a picture of a picture. The world's attention is on this particular picture because it may be the first ever taken of a human being. Those details coming up.
But first, I got a quiz for you. Try to work that brain this early in the morning. "Forbes" put out a lot of lists lately. And they have this one as well, of the most powerful people. Who is at the top? Is it, A, the U.S. President Barack Obama; is it the pope; or is C, Hu Jintao, the president of the People's Republic of China?
That answer after the break. It's nine minutes past the hour on this CNN SATURDAY MORNING.
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HOLMES: All right. Eleven minutes past the hour.
Before the break, we asked you, who is at the "Forbes" world's- most-powerful list? Is it the president of the United States; is it the pope; or is the president of the People's Republic of China?
The answer is C, Hu Jintao. He is the leader of more than 1.3 billion people, one-fifth of the world's population there. Pope Benedict is No. 5. But last year, No. 1 was President Obama. He has slipped to No. 2.
To see the full list, you can go to forbes.com.
Bring in Josh Levs now. We showed you a - a picture of a picture just a moment ago. Supposed to be, maybe, possibly, it could be - OK, is it or not? Is that - is that a person or not?
JOSH LEVS, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Well, here's the thing - I mean, you all - the picture's behind us, but we have video. Let's go right to it.
So here's the thing: It is - it is believed to be the first ever photo of a person. And it's getting tons of attention right away. This is from this famous photograph pioneer Louis Daguerre, taken all the way back in 1838. And what you're seeing here is a view of a street in Paris, Boulevard du Temple. Well, when you zoom way in - OK, see that figure right there? It appears to be the shape of a person. And it's getting attention largely because of a lot of articles in recent days from our partners at Tme.com, and this blog called the Hockenberg Goomba (ph).
And the way photos were taken back then, they could pretty much only take picture of stuff that stood still, like buildings, because it was such a slow process. If a person walked through a scene, they wouldn't end up in the picture. Maybe there would be a blurry figure.
But this shows what seems to be the clear image of a person. And it seems that this - the photographer may have actually caught the person. And people who study this say that it's possible this guy was standing there for a long time - maybe he was having his boots shined, maybe he had some other reason to stand there, or maybe he was asked to stay there.
People who are familiar with this daguerreotypes, many of the earliest photos, say it's striking because of that. So what's been going on ever since then is that people are having these theories. Was it staged? Who is this person? And it's kind of amazing, because it could be just this random person who was out one day and just luck of history, ended up making history.
And you could think about what's happening right now. You're sitting there, you're looking at your TV, right? Maybe you're watching us in HD. And you can think about how incredibly far we've come since all the way back in 1838, when that photo right there was taken. And that's why we got so many people talking about.
I've posted a link for you up at my Facebook and Twitter pages, at joshlevsCNN. And what's happened ever since then is that even more and more people are weighing in on this. Bloggers are going wild over this photo. Some people studied the photo once upon a time, but only now we're starting to realize that this is probably the oldest picture ever of a person in the world.
And I'll tell you, if anybody out there has more information as they're doing this historical research, we're going to get it. Because hundreds of people weighing in at our sites.
So T.J., in the end, we can't' see much about that person. But it does tell you something that out of nowhere, this one random guy, on the street in Paris in 1838, quite possibly made history as the first person ever in a photo. Not bad for him, huh?
HOLMES: Is - is his leg up? Is that what that's supposed to be?
LEVS: Yes, and that's why they're thinking that he might have been having his boots shined. The only way that he could have shown in the photo was that if he stood still for a long time. It took minutes and minutes and minutes to get one shot. That's why they pretty much - the earliest photos are - are - you know, everything that - that stood still - a tree, a building.
But if he was having his boots shined or had some other reason to be standing there still for a long time, that would have worked for these early daguerreotypes, to, in the end, capture this photo of this guy. And from there, it went all the way up to us, right now.
HOLMES: All right. All right. Josh, we appreciate you this morning.
LEVS: You got it.
HOLMES: We want to turn to some newer pictures now of Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol. She has caused her mom a - a little trouble over the past couple of years, you might say. Well, she's once again having to apologize to her mom, Sarah Palin. What could she have done this time?
It's 15 minutes past the hour.
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HOLMES: Well, at 18 minutes past the hour, I want to take a look at some of the stories making headlines.
Mexican military officials say a major drug-cartel leader and four of his henchmen died in a gun battle with Mexican naval troops Friday in a border town of Matamoras. Three members of the Mexican navy were also killed in that clash.
Because of this violence, two American universities nearby canceled classes and scaled back weekend events.
Turn to Indonesia now, where the death toll rises as Mount Merapi, the volcano there, continues to erupt. Hot ash is being thrown upon nearby villages. As many as 76 people died yesterday. Less than a dozen of those have been identified because they're so badly burned. In all, 120 people have been killed since this volcano resumed erupting 12 days ago. The Indonesian military is helping the thousands trying to escape from this spewing volcano.
Also, in the entertainment world this morning, actress Jill Clayburgh's 21-year battle with leukemia has ended, her husband telling "The New York Times" the 66-year-old actress died at home last night. Clayburgh may be best-known for her Oscar-nominated role in the 1978 movie "An Unmarried Woman." Recently though, she did have parts on TV's "Ally McBeal," "Law & Order" and "Nip/Tuck."
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HOLMES: Well, good morning, New York City. And welcome to this CNN SATURDAY MORNING. No matter if you're on the East Coast - maybe out on the West Coast in California, just getting home.
Wherever you may be, glad you're right here with us this morning.
Want to get you caught up on some - some news that kind of made headlines in the entertainment world this week.
You know, Sarah Palin has been out and about like you wouldn't believe. She played a huge role, of course, these midterm election. And there is her daughter there, who wasn't involved at all, it seems. She says she was too busy with "Dancing With the Stars" to vote. She tells "Inside Edition" that she just didn't send in her absentee ballots to Alaska. And she says she's sorry.
Let me take you back now some five-plus years. You remember after Hurricane Katrina? This was one of the most uncomfortable moments we saw on television afterwards, and it came from Kanye West.
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KANYE WEST, RAPPER: I hate the way they portray us in the media. We see a black family, it says they're looting. George Bush doesn't care about black people.
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HOLMES: Yes, you remember that moment.
Well, the former President George Bush, he took it to heart. In his upcoming memoir, "Decision Points," President Bush's comments were actually - quote - "the all-time low" of his presidency.
Meanwhile, Kanye West, recently, in a radio interview, actually stepped back from those comments, and says it's probably something he shouldn't have done. He said he was too quick, like so many people, to play the race card.
Well, the FX Network is reported to be creating a TV pilot in which the main character is a Mexican illegal immigrant. The show is also going to feature undocumented workers in Los Angeles - from maids to cops to professors. Some people angry with the network. The drama's writer actually felt compelled to respond to this outrage, and his note on Deadline Hollywood's website. You could check that out.
Also, still in the entertainment world, Charlie Sheen is the highest-paid man on television. His CBS comedy "Two and a Half Men" is hilarious, first of all. It's also a huge hit. But is the bad-boy act starting to wear thin for Charlie Sheen? He's been in and out of the news pretty much his whole career. Made headlines again recently. He spent time in a New York hospital after he thrashed (ph) a hotel room.
Well, Hollywood's bad boy continues to stay in character. How long before America loses patience with him? "FALLEN STAR: THE CHARLIE SHEEN STORY," tonight, 10:00 Eastern; tomorrow night, 10:30 Eastern, right here on CNN.
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HOLMES: Well, we are coming up on the bottom of the hour. A beautiful shot of downtown Atlanta, Georgia, the home of CNN world headquarters, where we are this morning.
Wherever you may be, glad you're right here with us. I'm T.J. Holmes. Thanks for being here.
Give you a look at some of the stories we are keeping a close eye on this morning.
Still keeping a close eye on Tomas. This storm now has been downgraded from a hurricane. It is a tropical storm. It's moved a little further away from Haiti. But the impact still being felt there. Haiti, of course, which has dealt this year with that huge earthquake at the beginning of the year, also a recent cholera outbreak - now dealing with this storm. The threat now to parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic are mudslides. So still, still, still another situation that Haiti just can't seem to get past.
These are some of the pictures here of the flooding that's taking place there. For the most part, the storm didn't hit Port-au-Prince, where so many people are still in those tent cities after the earthquake. But still, some of the outskirts and other parts of Haiti, are going to be feeling the effects of this storm.
Also, a scuffle in Los Angeles. Take a look at this. This was after a judge's ruling. And also in Oakland, complaint from the city's police chief. He says unruly marchers were tearing up the city. This was all after a judge's decision to sentence a police officer convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Police say they'll arrest as many protesters as can be identified. Possibly 150 people arrested already.
Oakland Transit Officer Johannes Mehserle - he shot and killed an unarmed black man on a train platform last year. Protesters didn't like the fact the transit officer was credited for time served and could be out of jail in seven months. Oakland's top officer said that's no reason for violence.
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BATTS: You have a right to protest. You have a right to have freedom of speech. You have a right to voice your opinion and your dis - your discontent. You do not have a right to tear this city up.
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HOLMES: Well, also, the former president - he's on a bit of a book tour right now. His memoirs are going to be coming out next week. "Decision Points" is the name of it, and one part that's been released a lot of people are talking about is that he takes responsibility for OK'ing waterboards. You know, one of these enhanced interrogation techniques that simulates drowning. He said when he was asked by the CIA if they should go ahead and do it to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he said damn right.
He was talking to Oprah Winfrey there, and he did take responsibility and says the choice between security and values was real.
Also, the current president, as we've been telling you this morning, he is on a 10-day Asian trip. It started today. He got there a few hours ago, to Mumbai, India. The president's goal is to expand export markets, meaning jobs for America, also trying to increase security cooperation.
He got to Mumbai just about three hours ago. He spoke at the Taj Palace Hotel. That was one of the main focus of that terrorist attack back in 2008.
Later this hour, the president is going to attend an entrepreneurial session at the Oberio Hotel. It's also in Mumbai, also where some of the violence took place during that terrorist attack in '08.
He's then going to travel to Jakarta, Indonesia Tuesday. He of course lived in Indonesia briefly as a child. Among his stops there, the third largest mosque in the world.
The president also going to be traveling on from there to Seoul, South Korea for the G-20 Summit. While there, he'll take part in trade talks with China's president. He'll wrap up the trip in Japan, the site of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit or APEC, as it's called.
Before heading overseas, though, the president recorded his first weekly address since this week's historic midterm elections. The president said this about the Bush tax cuts, and I'm quoting here, he says, "At a time when we are going to ask folks across the board to make such difficult sacrifices, I don't see how we can afford to borrow an additional $700 billion from other countries to make all the Bush tax cuts permanent, even for the wealthiest two percent of Americans. We'd be digging ourselves into an even deeper fiscal hole and passing the burden on to our children." Well also, in the Republican address this morning, a Republican newcomer, a face you saw a lot, a name you heard a lot, and now senator-elect from Florida, Marco Rubio.
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SENATOR-ELECT MARCO RUBIO (R), FLORIDA: The challenges are too great, too generational in scope for us to be merely opponents of bad policies. Instead, we will put forward bold ideas and have the courage to fight for them.
This means preventing a massive tax increase scheduled to hit every American taxpayer at the end of the year. It means repealing and replacing the disastrous health care bill. It means simplifying our tax code, and tackling a debt that is pushing us to the brink of our own grease-like (ph) day of reckoning.
For many of us coming to Washington for the first time, and others returning to serve, it's a long way from home. A long way from the people whose eyes we looked into at town halls, at diners or round tables, and promised that this time it would be different. That if you elected Republicans to office, again, we would not squander the chance you gave us. And we must not.
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HOLMES: All right. Both Rubio and the president touched on the huge Republican victories in this week's midterm elections.
Well, as you know, and we will remind you here throughout the morning and throughout the day, daylight savings time. You're going to get an extra hour sleep. You need to set those clocks.
But, iPhone users, you may be in for a little surprise here. You wouldn't be getting that wake-up alarm on time. But there is a solution to the problem. We'll explain it to you.
First up, we've got another quiz to try to rack your brain this early in the morning. "Forbes Magazine", as we told you, out with its list of most powerful people. Well, which woman ranks the highest on that list?
Is it our current Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton? Is it Melinda Gates, wife of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates? Or is it Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany? The answer, after the break.
It's 34 minutes past the hour.
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HOLMES: Thirty-five minutes past the hour now.
Before the break, we asked you which woman ranks the highest on "Forbes'" most powerful people list. Is it Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State; Melinda Gates; or is it Angela Merkel? The answer, Reynolds, is the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel. She ranked sixth, simply the most powerful woman on the planet. That's her. As chancellor, she ruled Europe's largest economy.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, is 20th on that list. If you want to see the complete list, you can go to Forbes.com.
And we all, at some point or another - didn't we, Reynolds? - as kids, especially as little boys, wish you could fly.
WOLF: I know I do.
HOLMES: A lot of kids dress up as Superman, right?
WOLF: Yes. Some of us still do. Not - not me, personally, but, I mean, there - there are those. There are those.
HOLMES: This guy needs no cape.
Let's show this video of this man. Where is he? I think this is a - this is a Swiss adventurer.
WOLF: My gosh.
HOLMES: Look at this thing. The guy - you're seeing it, folks - he jumps from a hot air balloon, some 7,800 feet above Switzerland, and he goes for a ride. He tapes this whole thing. What he has here is this propelled wing that he's attached to, and he flies. The man literally flies.
WOLF: That is unreal. That - that's not Superman. That's Buzz Lightyear.
HOLMES: Yes.
WOLF: That's pretty incredible.
HOLMES: That's exactly what that is.
WOLF: Falling gracefully.
HOLMES: And the man is still alive to tell about it. You see there, he was able to parachuted down safely. He flew for about 20 minutes.
Now, I'm sure they had emergency crews on standby, because last November he tried to do something similar to this, Reynolds, and it didn't go so well. He was trying to actually fly from Morocco to Spain.
WOLF: Wow.
HOLMES: That's - that's a little - a little bit of a hike.
WOLF: Somewhat of a distance. HOLMES: And it didn't work, and he had to be rescued. But, this time, it worked out.
WOLF: Very nice. Amazing thing.
HOLMES: Who are these folks that are - that - you can call them adventurers?
WOLF: They're interesting people. They're the type that you want to have at a cocktail party, you know? You - maybe you want to keep them, you know, limited to maybe two martinis, but still, great conversationalists, nonetheless.
You know, what's amazing? I think the thing we're waiting for is the ability to step outside, push a button on a wristwatch, and - boom! Wings, you know, pop out of our jacket, and then we're able to fly. Not this climbing up on top of a platform and then basically setting small explosives off on our back and hurling ourselves into the, you know, into space.
HOLMES: What it? George Jetson. He had his little ship that went into his briefcase.
WOLF: That is right.
HOLMES: Is that right?
WOLF: Something similar to that.
HOLMES: Waiting on that day. It probably wouldn't be tomorrow, but tomorrow will be a good day for a lot of folks? You get an extra hour.
WOLF: You know, it really will be. You know, it's hard to believe, you know, if you happen to have an iPhone, you're not alone. There are so many people that use these things. I mean, we use them for entertainment. We use them for communication. We also use them as an alarm clock.
HOLMES: Yes.
WOLF: But there's a little bit of a glitch with this, and to give you a better explanation, that glitch could really keep a lot of people sleeping an extra hour - or two or three.
Basically, the glitch is simply this. The alarm is not going to reset for a lot of people, and the reason why, well, it's not going to set for daylight saving time is because there happens to be a little bit of a problem when you - when you set the alarm.
HOLMES: But it's a recurring alarm. If you set it to just - it's a recurring, daily alarm. That's the one you need to be worried about.
WOLF: Exactly. You don't need to strip the program completely from your phone - HOLMES: No.
WOLF: -- and then reload it. What you need to do is cancel that alarm and go in and manually reset it one time.
HOLMES: Exactly.
WOLF: And then life should be perfect. Everything's great. It's lollipops moonbeam for everyone.
But if you're relying on this thing to wake you up Monday morning, you might be using the phone part of this and saying, guess what I forgot to do? So, yes, it's - it's very possible.
HOLMES: Just a reminder there, folks. We're certainly going to keep reminding you of that throughout the morning. It's very simple and -
WOLF: Very easy.
HOLMES: -- after tomorrow, you're not going to have a problem with anything. But you just need to know it ahead of time.
WOLF: There you go.
HOLMES: We get an extra hour. We'll be here on time, no matter what.
WOLF: Oh, yes. Oh, by the way, just to give you an idea about the fix, here it is, up for you up on the screen, folks. These are the five simple steps. We're going to run through this very quickly.
Here's what you got to do. First, as we mentioned, you have to open the clock. That's the first thing you got to do. Open that application.
Then, next, you click on the alarm icon at the bottom of the screen, and then you click on the plus sign. You see the icon? It's on the upper - now, the top right of the corner. Of course you're not (ph), because you're playing at your iPhone, you were looking at it yourself (ph).
Next you have to - you have to create the alarm, and make sure you have the repeat option set to never. As in never, ever. Finally, select the appropriate time and sound and click save.
It's really simpler than it -
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HOLMES: Yes. It's very simple.
WOLF: Otherwise, you know, have some kind of a back up. You know, a cat sometimes works well. You know, that kind of thing.
HOLMES: Really, we appreciate you. We'll be checking in with you plenty throughout the morning.
Meanwhile, we are going to turn to London. London lighting up with bonfires and fireworks. Playing with fire in England this weekend, with some very dazzling results. Our Nadia Bilchik. She is taking an American look at two very old British and Indian traditions, sharing the spotlight this weekend.
It's 40 minutes past the hour.
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HOLMES: All right. Forty-two minutes past the hour now.
We've been telling you, President Obama visiting India right now. The country is in the middle of a huge Hindu festival. You know this one? Diwali?
But half way around the world, in England, there's a huge population of Indians there as well, the same festival going head-to- head with one of the most symbolic annual celebrations in English history that you probably have never heard of. Well, that's why we have our Nadia Bilchik here, our editorial producer.
This is fascinating, and I got so many questions here. But let's just - which one do you want to start with?
NADIA BILCHIK, CNN EDITORIAL PRODUCER: Well, let's start with who Guy Fawkes -
HOLMES: Guy Fawkes Day.
BILCHIK: -- was. So Guy Fawkes - F-A-W-K-E-S - or Guy Fawkes, was somebody who in 1605 tried to blow up the British parliament under King James the 1st. And he was protesting the fact that King James the 1st, he felt, was not very good to Roman Catholics. And what he was going to do was put a whole lot of gun powder underneath the parliament, and he was going to be the one to light it.
HOLMES: OK. And he got caught -
BILCHIK: And he got caught.
HOLMES: -- the plan was foiled.
BILCHIK: Right.
HOLMES: But still, that day has become a - a huge celebration.
BILCHIK: Yes. Celebration. Yes.
He got caught. He was hanged. And every year, on November 5, which was yesterday, people all over the world who had some British ,heritage or certainly in England, celebrate Guy Fawkes Day, and they do it by lighting bonfires. They call it Bonfire Day, and they'll have these huge bonfires.
Some even make dummies of Guy Fawkes, walk around with him in wheelbarrows, ask for a penny a time, and then burn him.
HOLMES: (INAUDIBLE) day.
But let's go to explain Diwali as well, but - and then we'll - I want to get into why people are upset that the two fell on the same day.
BILCHIK: Well, Diwali or Divali is - actually comes after the name - deeper, deeper meaning of lights, and avali (ph) being row. So it is the Festival of Lights.
And in the Ramayana, which is the grand Hindu epic, you have a story of Rama and Sita. And, very simply put, Rama and Sita get banished for 14 years. Sita, the wife of Prince Rama, gets kidnapped. She gets rescued, and they get returned to their home with a row of lights to light the way.
So it is a grand celebration where Hindus all over the world - and it can be a three to five day Festival of Diwali, and they celebrate by having lights in their homes. They have rangoli, which are beautiful Hindu patterns, in the front of their homes, made with colored chalks. Grand celebration.
HOLMES: OK. Now, how often or does it ever - what - what happened to have these two end up falling on the same day this time around?
BILCHIK: It's very unusual --
HOLMES: Yes.
BILCHIK: --that it happens on the same time. Now, remember, Diwali is - can be a three to five day celebration, depending on your communities. So Guy Fawkes is always November 5th, but Diwali only happens depending on the Hindu calendar. So, very unusually, this year it fell on the same day.
So, for - if you are a British Hindu, I suppose you would be having a Diwali celebration and maybe going to a bonfire where you'll be roasting potatoes and marshmallows.
HOLMES: Well, then, in the video we're seeing here, where is this - this is from? Where is this video from that we are looking at here?
BILCHIK: Well, this would be -
HOLMES: In England, OK. So that's in England.
BILCHIK: OK. So it's in England and this is a bonfire, a beautiful bonfire to celebrate Guy Fawkes. And all over the world anybody who said - now in South Africa, for example, I remember celebrating Guy Fawkes with beautiful, wonderful - what do you call these things that you have that light up the sky?
HOLMES: The fireworks? Oh, yes. BILCHIK: That's the word.
HOLMES: We just adore our Nadia, don't we?
BILCHIK: Amazing display of fireworks. So you have Diwali which is the Festival of Lights, fireworks.
Someone was telling me last night, in fact, our own Josh Levs went to a beautiful Diwali celebration right here in Atlanta. He said the fireworks were spectacular. And they will be also in honor of the Hindu goddess, Lakshmi, who is the goddess of wealth and prosperity. And the Hindu culture is so beautiful, because it's - really, it's about living your life. It's such a peaceful religion.
And Josh was saying at the end of his celebration, there was a prayer for peace in the world. And if one looks at Hinduism, it really is a very embracing religion.
HOLMES: Well, we appreciate - again, Guy Fawkes Day and Diwali is something that people don't just roll off their tongues and that they're aware of here and do.
BILCHIK: And we say to all our Hindu viewers today, we say "Diwali Mubarak Ho", which means a Very Happy Diwali.
HOLMES: What she said. Nadia, we appreciate you, as always.
We are getting close to a quarter to the top of the hour now. Some video we're going to be showing you and explaining as well. Two men in two different corners and collectively weigh about - well, that's 220 pounds. Why in the world are horse jockeys going at it? We'll explain. Stick around.
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HOLMES: To the top of the hour. I don't know where you've been if you don't know who that is and you don't know that song. That's Lady Gaga.
She is such a big deal now, they're actually teaching courses on Lady Gaga. We're talking about USC now, a professor is going to teach a class about Lady Gaga. It's not just about -
Come on Reynolds.
WOLF: You've got to be kidding me.
JOSH LEVS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What are they teaching?
HOLMES: Come on.
WOLF: People are paying for that? Well, you've got to be kidding me?
HOLMES: You're not just studying her, but there is a sociology of fame, as they say. LEVS: Iconography.
HOLMES: That makes a little more sense of it. Because this woman is a power house, the fame, what she's been able to build around her and her brand is something remarkable. So that's what they're paying.
LEVS: Huh. I always wonder if people create this (INAUDIBLE) is because they secretly just want to meet the superstar because they have, you know, some fascination of their own. But, hey, if kids are going to learn, take the class.
WOLF: Still (INAUDIBLE), what - what have we come to? My - when my grandmother passed away, we found a - a very quick story. We found a report card from when she went to school in Brooklyn, New York back in the 1920s in a public school, she took Greek. She took Latin. That was the course that was offered.
We've gone from that in public schools to Lady Gaga? Do - do we see an issue here?
HOLMES: Again, it's not just studying her music or anything, it's the sociology and everything that comes with fame of marketing, promotion, the business aspect.
LEVS: If it gets people to study at all instead of doing other things, you know, more power to you.
HOLMES: You have to appeal to them, right? You cannot just -
LEVS: Yes.
HOLMES: OK. Clearly -
LEVS: Whatever it takes to get them in class.
WOLF: You are not going to sell me on it, (INAUDIBLE).
LEVS: You don't have to take it.
HOLMES: All right.
Reynolds you'll be interested more so in this one and either one of you - well, I shouldn't speak for you to say whether or not you like horseracing. But this took place after a race.
LEVS: Oh, yes.
HOLMES: You might be more interested in this. This - the Breeders Cup kicked off yesterday. Now, the main race will be today when everybody is keeping their eye out on Zenyatta, the 19-and-oh horse, and see if she can finish her career undefeated.
But this was yesterday. In one of the earlier races, you'll recognize that guy. That is Calvin Borel. Even if you don't know horserace and you'll know probably his face and his name because he has won I think the past three or three out of four Kentucky derbies.
LEVS: He's in the cover of "Sports Illustrated" last year. He's a superstar.
HOLMES: Oh, look at that face. OK. The reason he's hot is because the other rider, he feels, cut him and other riders off during the race. So afterwards, neither one of these guys won the race but at the winners circle, they go after each other. And he - they can't calm him down, as you can see.
The funniest part, to me, is that one of them is 5'1", 110 pounds, the other is 5'4", 115 pounds.
LEVS: Well, they're jockeys. I mean, this is what you get with jockeys.
HOLMES: That is a - just to see two little guys trying to go at it like that. Well, they're kind of funny.
WOLF: Well, you're racing along at 40 miles an hour with an animal that weighs several thousand pounds, a fall could mean death.
HOLMES: That's right.
WOLF: I mean, it's a very scary thing. And this is - this is their livelihood, you know? And, I mean, (INAUDIBLE) fashion, I mean, you don't -
HOLMES: You just don't see this -
WOLF: You don't see it.
HOLMES: -- in this sport.
LEVS: And we should mention, Borel has apologized. He said, "I apologize to all the people for losing my cool. It shouldn't have happened." The authorities are saying that they're working it out with each other. But, yes, this was - I used to go to races every year in Saratoga and there was nothing like this.
WOLF: But, T.J., you got a point, man. I mean, if you were to clear people away, just have these two spar it out, yes, I'd watch. Yes, I'd spend money and watch that. Absolutely.
HOLMES: It's - I'm just - always a big boxing fan and you always - the tale of the tape, the size of the guys, and to see two guys collectively weighing 226 pounds going at it is a little funny to me.
All right. We're going to move on to the big story. Oprah, how much bigger can she get? Well, there you go. Oprah's got her own plane now. I'm not talking about the G5, (INAUDIBLE) end. We are talking about United Airlines has now unveiled a new 757 plane and they have painted the tail - not just the tail -
LEVS: Is that paint?
HOLMES: -- from nose to tail.
LEVS: They're like laying (ph) it on top.
HOLMES: Are you seeing it? You have it here, "The Oprah Winfrey Show", of course, the 25th and final season of the show. This woman is a big deal and it can't get any bigger than this. A big promotional thing, but a nice, little, fond farewell plane.
LEVS: You know, people associate Oprah with freebies if you ride on the plane, do you get a free ticket around the world? A free plane?
HOLMES: You did. One person is going to get a free ticket, actually. Everybody wouldn't, but everybody gets some kind of a commemorative blanket or something.
LEVS: A blanket.
WOLF: You know, if you want to do business class, forget Lady Gaga. You do an Oprah Winfrey. I'm telling you. That is a lady who knows business.
HOLMES: You have to take it back to that. (INAUDIBLE).
WOLF: I have to go full circle. That's me (ph). I'm a weather guy. Got to go full circle.
LEVS: You're still working on that.
HOLMES: Please don't include the Gaga story again in any of these this morning.
LEVS: Only not if he's here.
HOLMES: All right.
Fifty-four minutes past the hour. A quick break for us here. We'll be right back.
WOLF: Oprah rules, man.
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