so now the voting continues with rio, madrid, and tokyo. you know, it was, as you say, the president and the first lady there and the president flying over to make the case and chicago made its closing arguments this morning. the word we got talking to people in copenhagen was that the chicago team walked out sort of deflated. they were a little, they felt some of the steam go out of it, while the rio team was very energized when they left the room. but you can imagine, this plaza here outside chicago city hall which had people jammed in here, all sorts of energy, a lot of loud music, now very deflated. people streaming out already leaving this party ending much, much earlier than they had hoped for. so came as quite a surprise. there was some feeling over the summer that the momentum was building in chicago's favor and especially when the president announced he was going over. there were all sorts of high hopes but now they have just been crushed and the feeling, one of really dejection here in daley plaza. >> john, think what is so stunni

chicago is up against a real, tokyo, and madrid. the president and first lady are on their way back after making pitches in copenhagen a little bit earlier. we will have live announcements here as it happens. jon: just minutes from now, we expect to hear from the manhattan district attorney discussing the indictment of a connecticut man who attempted to extort $2 million from david letterman, a plot that letterman announced last night on his show himself. the newly-married father of a 6- year-old said that he has been blackmailed for having sex with some of the women who worked with him. jamie colby is live in the new york newsroom. tell us a little more about what letterman had to say. >> the audience clearly did not know whether or not it was a joke or a serious plot. i can tell you as a new york attorney that it sounds like the manhattan d.a. will come out, read the charges, they have someone in custody, and they have a very strong case, from what we are hearing. let me tell you about last night. the audience came and prepared fo

these cities, tokyo, rio de janeiro, madrid. they're fantastic cities. >> reporter: brazil's president lula da silva brought soccer star pele to woo the voters. but chicago does have glamour of its own. >> hi, everybody. it really is a campaign. not even of sorts, it is. i don't think people are as mean and ugly. >> reporter: most of the campaigning is happening behind the scenes. the first lady is meeting one-on-one in this hotel with ioc members. there are more than 100 members. and she's reaching out to every single one. there's nothing like making the pitch in person. >> it will be an athlete's paradise. >> reporter: this contest is going down to the wire. many of the ioc members are power players themselves. even the prospect of meeting president obama on friday leaves some of them unfazed. so, you're not impressed by the president? >> never. never. >> reporter: this is a crowd accustomed by being schmoozed by european royalty, and dream team royalty alike. in the shadow of all this glitz, there's another lobbying effort, a

chicago, tokyo, rio and madrid. find out which city wins. >> the creepy stuff was that i have had sex with women who work for me on this show. now, my response to that is, yes, i have. >> the audience didn't quite now how to respond when david letterman admitted to having affairs with women who work with him. he came clean after a man allegedly tried to blackmail him for 2 million bucks. that man who works for cbs' "48 hours" was arrested yesterday. >>> police in chicago are investigating the beating of another teenager. a witness told police the 14-year-old was chased down by three other teenagers wednesday night. he's now in critical condition. this come a week after a 16-year-old was beaten to death in the city. >>> welcome back. i'm natasha curry in for robin meade. she'll be back on monday. >> it's a city that works. in its first world's fair more than a century ago to world cup we hosted '90s. we know how to put on big events. >> today i can dream and i am dreaming of an olympic and paralympic games in chicago

tokyo's nikkei average slumped almost 247 points today. hong kong's hang seng was down, sharply in late trading. in london, the ftse opened lower. wall street starts the day with the dow jones industrial average industrial at 9509, after plunging 203 points. the nasdaq index dropped almost 65 points. >>> the labor department releases its monthly unemployment report. analysts expect that about 175,000 more jobs disappeared last month. and that the unemployment rate rose to 9.8%. although the economy is growing again, employers are still finding ways to do the same work with fewer people >>> home sales rose in august, for the seventh-straight month. first-time buyers are driving the trend, rushing to take advantage of a tax credit program that expires in november. that also sparked a rise in construction in august. the biggest jump in nearly 16 years. >>> it looks like michael vick will not be paid to endorse nike. the company announced yesterday that there was no deal with the philadelphia quarterback. just two days ago, one of vick's reps

countries on four continents bid for the games and it was rio that beat off challenges from madrid, tokyo, and chicago. even a personal intervention by two obamas was not enough to sswing it for their home town. >> tonight, i have the honor to announce that the games of the 331st olympiad are awarded to rio de janeiro. [applause] >> the joy of finding out that four years of hard work had ended in success. they had defeated the world's most powerful man. the president that touched down just an hour before the chicago presentation. his challenge was to persuade the olympic movement that he was leader of a new america, one that had changed, one that would listen. one that would welcome the world to chicago. >> i hope the olympics come to chicago. >> it is the city that the obama family calls home. on the first lady's emotional ap h had threatened to steal the show. >> my dad was my hero and when i think about what did these games can mean to people all over the world, i think about people like my dad. people who faced seemingly insurmountable challenges but never let go. >> if barack obama w

tokyo stocks settled with a bill setoff today. the nikkei 225 plummeted almost 2.5% and hit a two-month closing low. the sell-off was triggered by the continuous strengthening of the yen moving in the 89 range against the dollar and the sell-off in the west. the exchange rate was expected to be around 90 to 95 yen a dollar. the approximated president of together together said the kurnlt change keep them in an extremely difficult position. >> electronic stocks which had contributed to the ramally were sold by investors seeking to lock in profits. sony fell 5% in both toshiba and tokyo electrons over 4%. meanwhile, mitsubishi heavy industries rose 3% after it was reported that their aircraft had received the first overseas order for its new small passenger jet. that's all, back to you, chloe. >> thank you very much, kakhi. >>> still to come, price prices have plummeted in the oouts. are we live from a recovery? i'm robert shapiro. over a million people have discovered how easy it is to use legalzoom for important legal documents. so

tokyo has also been eliminated. >> tokyo has been eliminated. >> this is a below to the u.s. a below to chicago. darrin, phil, what was chicago counting on, really, in terms of revenue, in terms of what could it have done for the economy to have the olympics there? >> in terms of an economic impact, trish, chicago of banking somewhere in the neighborhood of $4.6 to $4.7. some of that coming in terms of infrastructure projects. the rest come during that two week period of the olympics themselves. to put it into perspective why the olympics are the grand enchilad whampb it comes to the type of the event you want, it's worth 14 super bowls. that's one estimate we received from a consulting firm. it's the one event that can you look to at your city and say here's a huge economic pop. chicago won't get that. >> if i can say one thing -- let me say one thing on the cities that are left. rio de janeiro, madrid. i mean people just never thought madrid was in this. of course they have the former president of the ioc from 1980 to 2001. he just made an emotional plea. if this is about p

we have this report from tokyo -- has killed people and injured others. >> the typhoon crashed into the main islands, bringing high winds and heavy rain. streets were flooded. several thousand people abandoned their homes for drier ground. some had to be evacuated by boat in the wind was strong enough to blow over trucks, and across -- evacuated by boat, and the wind was strong enough to blow over trucks. trees fell onto houses, and sections were torn from walls and roofs. several deaths were reported as well as dozens of injuries. north of tokyo, what people described as tornado-like winds twisted and electrical poles -- twisted electrical poles. >> it was like an earthquake without the shaking. >> as well as the damage, there was d of flights were canceled. train services were canceled. the-began to blow itself out as it moved towards the northeast -- the typhoon and began to blow itself out -- the typhoon began to blow itself out. >> triple in production at an oil field in the south, $20 billion -- tripling production. >> the latest headlines for you from "bbc world news." another de

will it be chicago, madrid, rio or tokyo? chicago native first lady michelle obama and oprah winfrey are just a few of the heavy hitters already in copenhagen with the biggest of big names headed there today to lend their support to the u.s. bid. for more on that, nbc's kristen dal again reports live from chicago. good morning, kristen. >> reporter: hey there, good morning christina. talk about a dream team. chicago is pulling out all the stops to try to win the olympics in 2016. as you mentioned first lady michelle obama already over in copenhagen. she's been there about a day, shaking hands, meeting with people. she is joined by the queen of talk, oprah winfrey, along with a host of olympians over there, including names like nadia comen neech, nastia liukin, michael johnson, trying to tell the international olympic committee why chicago could win the games. the big gun gets there tonight, president obama is actually going to be there making a personal pitch. he'll only be on the ground about four hours but a lot of experts

tokyo finished lobbying about 40 minutes ago. madrid will be the last to go before the committee breaks for a vote behind closed doors later this morning. the winner won't be announced until this afternoon. we'll keep you posted. >>> new this morning, a jaw-dropping admission from "late night's" host david letterman. he says he was the target of a $2 million extortion plot and he admitted having sex with female employees in the past. in a somewhat bizarre explanation to his audience, letterman said a man threatened to write a screenplay exposing those relationships. >> would it be embarrassing if it were made public? perhaps it would. perhaps it would, especially for the women. but that's a decision for them to make, if they want to come public and talk about the relationships. if i want to go public and talk about the relationships. but what you don't want is a guy saying, i know you had sex with women so i would like $2 million or i'm going to make trouble for you. >> letterman went to the authorities, and the man was arrested

tokyo is also out. now just two cities remain in the race. that is rio de janeiro and also madr madrid. we have live pictures from madrid right now, where they're still holding on to hope there. they're waiting to hear the results. members of the international olympic committee voted earlier today in denmark. you see the smile there is. still holding on. chicago's loss is especially surprising since the city's bid got a last-minute push today from a very high-profile rs resident. we're talking about president obama. he made a quick trip to copenhagen, denmark, to lobby for his hometown. he said that his town not only represents the american dream, but also the olympic spirit. >> to host athletes from every corner of the globe is a high honor and a great responsibility and america is ready and eager to assume that sacred trust. >> ioc members cast their votes by a secret ballot. and while most people didn't necessarily think chicago was a definite, a shoo-in to get the games, the city was not expecting to be knocked out in the first round. ali

madrid, tokyo, rio de janeiro and chicago are all vying to host the games. with a final decision just hours away, world leaders are making those last ditch appeals, well aware that reputation and economic incentive are on the line. nbc's jim maseta is in copenhagen where president obama is lobbying on behalf of his hometown. jim? >> reporter: hi, dan. well, it's crunch time for the 2016 olympic games. who is going to get it? and in terms of chicago's bid, it sent in its two biggest hitters today to make a personal appeal. i'm talking about president barack obama himself, the first u.s. president ever to enter into this kind of fray, and his wife, the first lady, michelle obama. it really was a yin yang approach and presentation. michelle obama really at times almost in tears, appealing emotional emotionally two of the ioc members saying how she remembers watching nadeo comenici. barack obama meanwhile appealing more to the head that america is a multiethnic society. that the state department and the white house and every organ of the united states would supp

tokyo commuters were stranded in the rush hour. >> the typhoon crashed into japan's main island, bringing high winds and heavy rain. rivers were swollen by a torrential downpour, flooding streets. several thousand people abandoned their homes for drier ground. some had to be evacuated by boat. the wind was strong enough to blow over trucks on theirsides on the highways and across central japan in the country's industrial heartland, companies including toyota suspended production. trees fell onto houses. the storm tore sections from walls and roofs. several deaths were reported, as well as many injuries. north of tokyo what local pele describe as tornado-like winds twisted electrical poles and battered homes. >> there was a huge sound. it was like an earthquake. >> as well as the damage, there was disruption. hundreds of flights were canceled. train services were suspended. but after scourings a path across japan the typhoon began to blow itself out as it moved toward the northeast. >> we are goingo have a full business report in about 25 minutes. but you can give us an idea what is in you

should we be keeping an eye on madrid and tokyo as well? >> you know, not so much tokyo. i think everybody expects tokyo to go out in the first round, and i think frankly, each the japanese expect tokyo to go out in the first round. madrid is an entirely separate story. the former president of the ioc just from spain, of course, he remains a figure of considerable, and i mean considerable influence within the ioc, and it would be a huge mistake to write them off. >> you've written something recently. i want to read it. you said "it will come down to this -- the united states of america is reaching out to the world. is the rest of the world ready to reach back?" so, you see this as something much bigger than the city of chicago. this is an american bid. >> it's totally an american bid, matt. when you've got not just the mayor of chicago, but the government of the state of illinois, and more importantly, the federal government reaching to and through the president of the united states, who is emotionally involved, personally involved, professionally involved, you've got rea

over chicago, madrid, and tokyo. rio will become the first south american city to host. >>> spent nearly $50 million and sent an a-list team including president obama, mayor richard daly and oprah winfrey to denmark this week to help make the pitch. chicago, the first city voted out among the four finalists. some residents were pleased by this result having picketed against hosting the games saying that money that would have been spent on the games should go to other pressing needs in the city. >>> let's go to baseball. rockies and dodgers in the final weekend of this regular season. troy tulowitzki of colorado, the two-run home run. the rockies closing the gap, just a game behind the dodgers, national league west, ramirez strikes out for the fourth time in the game. >>> make sure you cleared that old cell phone before you give it away. a man bought 25 old phones from the university of missouri athletic department for $190 and planned to sell the parts for $1,000. when he discovered all text messages and contact info

in tokyo, the nikkei was down 246 points. might be a good time to buy a home or refinance the one you already have as well as rates on 0-year fixed rate mortgages dropped below 5% for the first time in four months. the national association of realtors reports the number of signed sales contracts went up though for the seventh straight month. >> the centers for disease control and prevention says the swine flu vaccine is in the mail. doses should start arriving sometime next week. maryland and the district are two of the first places to receive it. fox 5's roz plater has more on who is at the top of the list for vaccinations. >> reporter: the first round of the h1n1 swine flu vaccine is on its way and who is being urged to get it? medical workers, the very young, patients with an underlying medical conditn and pregnant women who there are now new concerns about. the cdc says 100 pregnant women have had to be hospitalized in intensive care with the swine flu and 28 have died. >> these are really upsetting umbers, i know. and i

. >> the windy city is competing against rio, madrid and tokyo. got that star power working, don't they? >> sure do. >> you got oprah. come on now. >> i wonder if tokyo has their oprah there as well. >> we're off to a pretty nice start out there. the moon is beautiful. nice crisp morning. >> very fall-like. temperatures in the 50s and in the 40s in parts of the viewing area. very cool start to the day. it will be a very nice day today as well. here we go. current temperatures around the region. 52degrees right now in washington. 48 in baltimore. 45 at dulles airport. frederick at 46 degrees and fredericksburg is at 47 degrees so a very cool start to the day. across the country, let me show you the temperatures. i want to show you this for a couple of reasons. first of all, much of this area here in the northeast up towards michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, there are freeze wantings and frost advisories in effect for much of this area for this morning because of the cold temperatures. check out detroit. 39degrees there right now as you go across countr

tokyo has organized. japan. why doesn't brazil have the right to organize for the first time the olympic games? and south america for the first time. >> and winning this bid will be another vote of confidence for brazil. joining us now to discuss how rio 2016 will benefit the country is ed cuzna, emerging markets investment analyst with van eck global. is this good news for brazil? oftentimes we've seen countries get crushed by the debt they take on to build all the infrastructure. >> yeah, i think overall it's definitely good news for brazil. last week you had moody's upgrade brazil to investment grade. it's just another in a series of good moves and positive wins behind the investment theme for brazil. >> they can afford it? >> they can afford it. i mean, they do have strong natural resources. a lot of reserves in oil and gas. also in iron ore. they do have the reserves that will be able to take out loans to investment. >> now, what about the investment implications? because we've seen brazil do phenomenally w

they beat out madrid, spain, and tokyo. joining us right now, dick ebersol, nbc's long time chairman of nbc sports and olympics and he joins us today to work out what this all means, dick, and we've been trying to make sense of this from a political standpoint, a financial standpoint. in your view what does it for rio to get the 2016 games. >> it's not just rio, it's all of south america. the single biggest reason they won here today in their very passionate layout of their plan, each city was allowed about 45 minutes, this he went third after the united states and tokyo, and they just did the most unbelievable job at four different times during their 45 minutes of laying out just -- clearly laying out that the olympics had been in europe 30 times and new york america 12 times, ish shasia, 8 or 9, and australia i think twice. and they showed all of south america on that same map with no olympics ever. the ioc loves to do big things when they went to korea, when they went to mexico, and when they went to china. i think today

officials are now hearing from the other contenders, how are you de janeiro, tokyo, and madrid. >> a stern warning to iran. the country has two weeks to let inspectors into it recently revealed nuclear plant or face more pressure. more talks are scheduled for later this month. >> elizabeth smart said she was raped repeatedly each day after she was abducted from her bedroom seven years ago. she is testifying for the first time about the 2002 kidnapping as part of a hearing to determine if for alleged abductor is competent to stand trial. >>> the swine flu vaccine is expected to reach the public next week >> the first doses will be in the form of a nasal spray. pregnant women will receive an injection. >> through late august, we can report that about 100 women in the united states have required intensive care unit hospitalizations for h1n1 flu. >> 28 pregnant woman in the u.s. have died from the swine flu. health care workers also top the priority list for getting the vaccine. >>> your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. >> we want to check in with steve rudin. >> not so bad

why tokyo? well, in the theory of what happened that the chicagoans now possess as they fly back here, they believe that they were snookered by the head of the the international olympic committee, mr. rogue gi, who from the beginning wanted to have the olympics for the first time in south america and who then convinced the africans on the first ballot to vote for tokyo because in his mind it had the best technical bid from all these criteria that they apparently use, it was the strongest. vote for them. they won't ultimately make it. we know you want the u.s. they'll still be in by the second round. when he did that and when, supposedly, they followed his urgings, chicago was seemingly snookered. >> jim, can i take from your answer, there, that it really made no difference whether the president went or not? that this was over before air force one left american soil? >> i think all along, i personally thought in talking to some folks, it's not as if i talked to a ton of ioc members, that rio was

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tokyo and madrid were knocked out leaving rio de janeiro the big winner. thousands of people celebrated at city's copa cabana beach yesterday. >>> the man who reportedly tried to extort money from david letterman has pleaded not guilty. joe halderman had an appearance in court, released on $200,000 bail. he reportedly demanded $2 million to keep quiet about david letterman's affairs with coworkers. he admitted on thursday to having sex with female staffers on a show. his production company says he didn't violate their harassment policy. >> cnn has learned that he is deep in debt despite having a six-figure salary. he was paying close to $7,000 a month in alimony and child support. he is 51 years old and a long-time employee of cbs. they have his salary at more than $200,000 a year. >>> president obama is trying to make the case that health care reform will be good for job growth. the nation's unemployment rate stands at a whopping 9.8%. that's the highest it has been since 1983. in his weekly radio address, the president said an overhaul of the country's h

margaret connolly joins us from tokyo with the latest. >> reporter: good morning. rescue workers have had a day on the ground to search the rubble for survivors after a tsunami swept the samoan islands killed over a hundred people. villages wiped out, homes destroyed. families search for loved ones. over a hundred people are dead and more are feared missing. the waves from this quake, as shown in this animation from the u.s. geological survey, reached as far as here in japan from the west coast of the united states. on the samoan islands, for many survivors it came down to being in the right place at the right time. as neal karlinsky reports. >> reporter: this man's father was washed away in his car but he escaped between waves. >> lucky the window was up. >> reporter: so they were floating in their car like it was a boat. >> yeah. >> reporter: foreign aid is on the way as residents figure out who to piece their lives back to the. >> there are boats on dry land and cars in the harbor. something like this on a small, isolated island will have repercussions well beyo

chicago, tokyo, madrid and rio. this means that the games will be there for the first time in that continent rio beating madrid in the final round of voting. chicago learned at the outset that it was out of the running. here's what that looked like today. about an hour and a half ago. >> the city of chicago having obtained the least number of votes will not participate in the next round. >> chicago area residents gathered downtown in daley plaza were stunned by the news that their city was the first one eliminated. it got the fewest votes. many assumed chicago would make it past the first round. chicago was eliminated in spite of a personal appeal by the ioc to bring the 2016 games to his adopted hometown. he called chicago a diverse city that could easily host the world. >>> on his way back from his trip to copenhagen, the president met with general stanley mcchrystal for 25 minutes. the top u.s. commander in afghanistan had been in london. he flew over to copenhagen to meet with the commander in chief. today's cha

chicago faces stiff competition from tokyo, rio and madrid. bookkeepers are giving chicago the edge on rio. the announcement comes tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. eastern, so, tonight, we ask you, who is going to win? tell us what you think by clicking on the "nightline" page at abcnews.com, or on the "nightline" twitter page. and, of course, stay with abcnews.com tomorrow throughout the day for the big olympic announcement. >>> and tomorrow night, we return to our series on the ten commandments with number ten. thou shs shall not covet with the true confessions of a shop-a-holic. >> i mean, this -- this is so me! in case it's cold, you wear this. i love the red. i really -- that. what? i already paid for this. i just haven't picked it up. >> this woman wants it all, and we follow her as she tries to break her addiction to materialism. that is tomorrow. >>> that's our report for tonight. jimmy kimmel is up next. i'm cynthia mcfadden. for terry moran and martin bashir, all of us at abc news, for terry moran and martin bashir, all of us at abc news, good

tokyo wasn't going to get it. they just had an asian city. when we elect these charismatic outsiders, they're going to make mistakes. that's the price we pay in our country for voting for guys like this. now this is a good one to learn from. there's no way obama can mistake this for anything but a big fat public fiasco. makes him look bad, makes him look weak. now he's going to start finding out what kind of a president he is. >> steve hayward, as i said in my little editorial, both symbolically and operationally, everything the president does, regarding foreign policy is very, very important. symbolism and actual operations. now, i don't think anybody knew this better than ronald reagan. you are a reagan biographer. reagan had the los angeles games in 1984, but he never made any rushes over there. what parallels or what contrasts can you draw, steve. >> the los angeles olympics were selected before he became president. but i think obama's weakness is across the board. he has shown he can be rolled domestically and in foreign policy repeatedl

chicago is competing against rio de janeiro, tokyo and madrid. now the windy city is a slight favorite i guess to win the ioc vote tomorrow. we don't know for sure. there will be three or four ballots. they eliminate a city each time they vote. >>> chicago has spent $100 billion on the bid. people say it is worth it. others say it not. they say the games would stimulate the economy. the city could make money since it has much of the infrastructure in place. two part question, should chicago host the games during this period in our economic history? rand do you think the president shld travel to denmark to make this pitch personally? let's go to the phones. say hi first to amy in san diego. what do you think? >> caller: i think we should go to chicago. absolutely. it will show off the united states, one, it will give jobs in the entertainment, hospitality, security and construction industry. this will start now and take years. giving a boost to jobs which will help our economy. >> you think it is a catalyst for future growth? >> absolutely. >> kei

he knew tokyo was expected to go out early, madrid next. they thought, hey, let's not embarrass them in the first round. you are supposed to vote for the bid you think is best. if that's happening, it doesn't make sense they have fewer votes in the second round. >> i see what you are saying. what about rio. are you surprised they got the bid? what did they put in the bid that chicago did not? >> i'm not surprised they got the bid. they spread it around the world. you are talking an emerging economy. a continent that has soccer. it's not year-round filled with sports like us. this, the way they did in beijing elevates from a sporting event to a world event. can rio handle it. the first games in south america. >> we were trying to be simplistic in figuring out what rio had yesterday as we were all speculating. the fact they brought the map that showed all the red dots around the world where the olympics were held, totally blank for the continent of south america. was that a visual where people said a-ha? >> it went well. they showed they coul

the competition with madrid, rio, and tokyo is stiff. what are the odds the windy city wins? >> there's only one city in town at the moment, that's chicago to win the olympics. >> reporter: betmakers in written britain had chicago ahead by a hair, 5-6. when president obama announced he would make the case in person the odds skyrocketed 8-15. in vegas, chicago is still the favorite but rio de janeiro is close behind. why? >> south american country's never had it before. >> reporter: in brazil where a carnival celebration is being planned if rio wins, people are bettg that the international olympic committee will give their country the chance to host the games. this rio resident says, "this is my home so i'm betting on rio. it's a huge event which could bring a lot of benefits for our country." each city has a chance to convince the ioc why they should be chosen. for the president, arriving the day of the vote when his rivals have been in copenhagen for days, carries political risk. so does increasing another city's chance of winning if mr. obama didn't make the trip. ioc membe

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hoping to await good news and in a stunning turn, the windy city was knocked out in the first round and tokyo was next. madrid has been a surprising success in reaching the final round after the president made an appeal asking for the committee's vote. they said at 89 years old, the president is nearing his time. >> and reporting live, the winning bid will be announced at 12:50. >>> swine flu fears are growing and maryland will get the first doses of the h1n1 vaccine tuesday and it could be longer until your shot is available. and we're live at union memorial hospital. and we have more on the emergency plans underway. >> hi, sally and everyone. >> reporter: marylanders are scrambling to get ready for the h1n1 and some worry it may not be quick enough. >> reporter: as maryland prepares for the potential h1n1 out break, this group warrants there may not be enough hospital beds to go around. >> if the virus spreads so quickly, you know, and the hospitals are overcome, what do you do then, that's the question. >> reporter: facilities are checking resources daily to keep track of what's available.

just moments ago, the ioc eliminated chicago and tokyo, leaving madrid and rio as finalists for the olympics did this after the president and first lady made passionate pleas for their hometown. a south american country has never hosted the games, making rio the favre -- favorite. >> the search continues for someone who broke into a west baltimore home and raped a woman. jennifer franciotti has the story. >> the alleged attack happened that september 29. detectives say he forced his way into the woman's home on franklin street around 2:20 in the morning. >> struck her in the head with a bat and sexually assaulted her at knifepoint. >> detectives characterize the suspect as ruthless. they say the victim's children were in the house at the time of the rape. >> that was wrong for him to do that when her kids were in there. she probably was in shock. i hope that the police captain and taken to jail, where he needs to be. -- the police catch him and taken to jail, where he needs to be . >> jennifer franciotti, wbal-tv 11 news. >> all baltimore city police officer is recovering at a shock trauma a

. >>> chicago, madrid, rio and tokyo. in just a couple of hours, we'll find out which one of these cities will host the 2016 olympic games. it is chicago that president obama and first lady michell obama are hoping to put on the map. >> this morning, they are in denmark bbying to make their adopted hometown the host city for the 2016 summer olympic games. right now, rio is giving its presenting a to the international olympic committee. the obamas made their case earlier this morning with heartfelt speeches to the ioc. >> it is a bustling metropolis with the warmth of a small town where the world already comes together every day to live and work and reach for a drink. >> i'm asking to you choose chicago. i'm asking to you choose america. >> the challenging cities have been making their cases to the ioc for more than a year. many members said they wouldn't make a final decision until these final presenting as. >>> the labor department is set to release the latest unemployment numbers this morning. unemployment rate is expec

its biggest challenge may come from rio de janeiro but madrid and tokyo also have strong bids. chicago put together a glitzy marketing campaign, bu the real selling point could be the president. >> that's better than having the senior public servant saying my country is behind this bid. i think it can only help and certainly can't hurt. >> reporter: but the chicago bid does have its problems. outbreaks of violence have dominated recent headlines and there's also considerable public resistance within chicago. but the president is putting his clout behind his adopted hometown and that may be enough. the voting process itself is complicated and it can be quite suspenseful. theoc goes through many as three rounds of voting before one city win the majority. in washington, doug luzader, fox news. >> find out who gets chosen by heading to my faulk d.c..com. we will stream the announcement live at 1:30. coming up in a few minutes, the chairman or former chairman of the d.c. olympic committee will join us in studio to talk more about the selection process and what goes into it exactly.

. >>> taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei dipped 57 points, but in hong kong the hang seng gained 53 points. >>> investors abroad sent markets lower today on concerns that friday's jump in u.s. jobless rates could spell bad news ahead. that rising u.s. unemployment rate had asian investors worried that cost cutting will continue to be the theme when a fresh round of earnings roll in during the week. alan greenspan put in his two cents sunday, predicting the jobless rate will surpass 10% and most likely stay there for some time. bank of america will reportedly be ready to nam an emergencies replace the in case ken lewis, who announced he is stepping down next week is forced out of the front office by the end of the year. keep an eye on shares of prudential. it hinted sunday it may be set to sell its investment and fund management businesses in south korea. a deal like that could bring in as much as $850 million. alcoa will will kick off third quarter earnings the this week. looking for companies to post solid revenues based on increased sales as opposed to

as are leaning towards tokyo, and not much left to vote for tokyo in the first round. the hope was to get past the first rounds of the delegates could then look at the technical strength of chicago relative to the other cities, and that just did not happen. >> after president obama and the first lady and oprah winfrey all turned out, it is quite surprising, isn't it? >> they gave it a great effort. in my opinion, it was the best bid of the four cities, but it is an unusual voting system, to just take all four cities and eliminate the first city. it has happened surprisingly to other cities where they were considered very strong, and suddenly, they get kicked out in the first round. alisyn: other people have said on a positive note that sometimes the city that hosts the olympics send out to actually lose some money. in some ways, did chicago possibly dodge a bullet? >> i think it would be a very successful games financially. looking at the success of recent games, those games turned in real profits, and i think the same thing could have and what had happened in chicago.

tokyo slipped by with 22, but lost to madrid and rio in the second round with rio finally prevailing in the third. sources familiar with the olympic committee told cbs news chicago focused too much on celebrity at the expense of what the city has to offer. rio made its strongest argument pay, that it was time for the olympic games to come to south america. >> some days you win; some days you don't. it wasn't our day to win. >> reporter: while he may be euphoric now, dasilva is the one who's going to have to deliver. these games come with a hefty price tag, including infrastructure, about $15 billion. the country's central bankers say the economy is strong, the money is in the bank and they're ready to write the checks. katie? >> couric: sheila macvicar in copenhagen tonight. thank you so much. meanwhile, in chicago they were ready to throw a party. national correspondent dean reynolds is there. dean, it's the city of big shoulders and tonight long faces. >> that's right, katie. in chicago today there was plenty of shock and a lot of awe-- aw nuts. 10,000 hopeful chicagoans crowded in

chicago, madrid, rio de janeiro, d tokyo have been battling it out, each is passing -- eh dispatcng superstars to penhagen to pihn their behalf. most of the action has been away from public view. >> we can all see thofficial news conferences but what is going onehind t scenes? soone whonows is amy rosewater, editor of the u.s. olympiweb site. the amnt of travelingust be intense. >> it absolutely is. as a five-ng circus rig n with all of these cities and bod members tryingo wheel anddeal and get these last boats so that they can ge their citynd olympic games. >> it is not against any re. itsed to be, but it has changed. >> it has. afr the salt lake city scandal where there is briby going o they are no longer allowed to vit those cits, so inste, the stars are coming to them. no there's thisarade of peop who are coming. obama is ing to come. the esident of brazil is going to make it. then it comes a gam in a diffent sort of way. >> do you think it was wise for barack obama to decide to be there personally tonight? >> i think i is. i thinkttakes the splight off of t domestic issues and the interna

tokyo and madrid were also knocked out. rio de janeiro, the big winner. thousands of people celebrated at the city's copa cabana beach yesterday. the man who reportedly tried to extort money from david letterman has pleaded not guilty. joe halderman had a court hearing in new york yesterday. he is facing larceny charges that could land him in jail for up to 15 years. after the hearing halderman was released on $200,000 bail. he reportedly demanded $2 million to keep quiet about david letterman's affairs with co-workers. letterman admitted on thursday to having sex with female staffers on his show. his production company says he didn't violate their harassment policy. >>> cnn has learned the extortion suspect joe halderman is deep in debt despite having a six figure salary as a producer for the cbs show "48 hours." he was playing close to $7,000 a month month in ail moany and child from a 2003 divorce. he is 51 years old and a long-time employee of cbs. a recent contract put his salary at more than $200,000 a year. >>> president obama is trying to make the

chicago faces stiff competition from tokyo, rio and madrid.

the windy city by the way competing against tokyo, rio day gentleman fire row and ma -- rio day de janeiro and madrid. >>> a frustrating fee on the rise. where it's costing you more to withdraw from the atm. >>> a toy with a troubled past. what about this doll that has parents protesting the toy maker. the news edge at 11:00 will be right back.  >>> parents in a maryland community are keeping a close eye on their kids after a frightening attempted abduction. three children were playing outside a laurel apartment when two strangers rolled up. it's what they did next that has both parents and police aharmed. fox 5's paul wagner picks up the story. >> reporter: just before 7:00 last night in this parking lot, two latino men were asking small children to come up to their truck. >> the fear that we have is not knowing what their intent was. the fact that h followed the 7- year-old female to her residence, stopped, put on the four-way flashers and did not leave the area until the mother came outside, that's kind of troublesome and we need to find out exactly what they were up

who thought they would be celebrating a victory learned chicago came in last, behind rio, madrid and tokyo. >> for it to be over that quickly, that stunningly fast, it's heart breaking. >> i'm surprised and disappointed. >> it was going to be work and construction and jobs. >> i don't feel good about it. >> reporter: president obama faced backlash to make a last minute trip to koben haggen was in air when he got word of the loss. >> one of the things that's most valuable about sports is you can play a great game and still not win. >> reporter: the presentation of the $4.8 billion had been given high marks. some long-time olympic observers say it may not have been over merits, but between the u.s. and international olympic committees. >> chicago is collateral damage. the fight is between the international olympic committee and the united states committee. they are in disputes over money. >> reporter: unlike rio de janeiro where thousands celebrated today, public support was tepid. a recent poll found less than half of chicagoans were in favor of their city hosting the games. >> whether you

the competing with tokyo, real visionary, madrid. is this a trip the president of made? >> he cannot even decide on afghanistan. he's got iran, unemployment, all of this stuff. look, what exactly was the eat indelible legacies that the atlanta olympics left? code gives a damn? >> this idea that he is wasting time -- in fact when he was in copenhagen he met with the general mcchrystal. it was actually easier in europe than the united states. >> less than half an hour? is that a serious meeting? >> i bet it was a serious meeting. i bet it was a serious meeting. >> whether he went for naught in the long haul will not matter as much. the real thing about the olympics that strikes me is they can be a fickle gift. the olympics were a disaster for president carter, as we all know. and the atlanta bombing that took place during the olympics there were a disaster for some mothers. you never know what you're going to get. >> 1984 olympics were golden for ronald reagan. remember that. this kind of the aura of his reelection. a morning in america. the salt lake city olympics, mitt r