[Brooke Baldwin, Cnn Anchor:] And with that, here we go, top of the hour. Want to welcome to the men and the women watching us right now on American Forces Network all around the world. We're going to hit you fast this hour. So let's go. First here, scary weather situation in all of the Southeast today. You have tornado warnings. Watches have been scattered across Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, spawning huge backups at the nation's busiest airports. And even if you're not in the path of these storms, folks this could impact you. Why? This is part of the same storm system that hit the Midwest yesterday with those 10 10 confirmed tornadoes.
[Justin Schroeder, Resident Of Indiana:] All of a sudden, the wind kicked up.
[Baldwin:] Obviously, we're all over this story here at CNN, as is Chad Myers. He will have an update for you out here momentarily, some of those trouble spots out there. Meantime, next, a Virginia man under arrest for an alleged attempted terror plot, the FBI coming out today and saying the plan involved attacks targeting Metro stations in the D.C. area, four of them. The suspect is a naturalized citizen named Farooque Ahmed. He was born in Pakistan. And he's accused of plotting to assist people he believed were affiliated with al Qaeda. And if he's convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 50 years in prison. Next, French authorities taking very, very seriously the new warning allegedly from the head al Qaeda. A male voice on this audiotape broadcast on Al-Jazeera TV claims to be this man, Osama bin Laden. The man threatens to kill French troops if they don't get out of Afghanistan, withdraw. France has more than 370 troops currently stationed there. CNN has not been able to confirm if in fact that voice is bin Laden's. Next, flags are half-staff across Argentina today, the country mourning the loss of Argentina's former President Nestor Kirchner. He died today of an apparent heart attack. He served as president from 2003 until 2007. He is the husband of the Argentina's current president, Cristina Fernandez. The 60-years-old Kirchner was expected to run for president again in 2011, when his wife's term ends. Next, a former TV celebrity chef pleads no contest in that murder plot against his wife, murder-for-hire plot. California prosecutors say Juan-Carlos Cruz tried to hire homeless men to kill his wife. The homeless men then alerted police. Police then set up this whole sting operation, videotaped Cruz plotting with these homeless guys. The 48-year-old Cruz faces up to nine years in prison when he's sentenced in December. Next, New Jersey's Governor Chris Christie officially pulling the plug on that multibillion-dollar tunnel project. After what he is calling a careful review, Christie says the project would be too big a burden to taxpayers in his state. The Trans Hudson ARC project, which stands for Access to the Region's Core, an acronym, would have created a tunnel connecting New Jersey and New York City. It would have been the nation's largest infrastructure project and could have created 6,000 jobs. Next, former first lady Laura Bush describing life beyond the White House. She told audiences there at the women's conference in Long Beach, California, that the former president is adjusting and that she doesn't cut him any slack if he doesn't pick up his socks or those wet towels. You know we want to move those off of the floor. She also showed off a memento from her days at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
[Laura Bush, Former First Lady:] And as for me, it's come to this. This is the Laura Bush bobblehead doll.
[Bush:] I got this from a friend of mine who found it in the gift shop of the Constitutional Center in Philadelphia a few weeks after the election. It was on the clearance shelf.
[Baldwin:] Oh, the clearance shelf. Now to a developing story here out of Washington. Pentagon correspondent Chris Lawrence joining me now with some story involving problems at a site where U.S. nuclear missiles are controlled. Chris, what can you tell me?
[Chris Lawrence, Cnn Pentagon Correspondent:] Yes, Brooke, this is Warren Air Force Base. It's out there in Wyoming. And basically what happened was, There was a problem on Saturday that disrupted communication to about 50 nuclear missiles. To put that in some perspective, this Air Force base has about 450. So you're talking roughly a little over 10 percent of the nuclear stockpile there had some problems for over an hour now, we're told. Here's what happened, basically. A computer at one of the launch control centers continuously tried to keep talking to the missiles out in the silos when it wasn't supposed to. The Air Force put it to us sort of like think of five people with a walkie-talkie, except one guy keeps his hand on the button, which doesn't allow any of the other four to communicate. That's what happened. Once the Air Force was able to isolate that one launch control center with that computer, the other four were able to kick in and take control. We're told that the president never lost the capacity to order a launch, if he had to do it. But we're also told this is a problem that cropped up about 12 years ago at a couple of other nuclear sites. So, it's something that the engineers are on site now, they're looking at. When you're talking about this kind of weapon, even a small problem has to be thoroughly, thoroughly investigated, Brooke.
[Baldwin:] Absolutely. Chris Lawrence, thank you for bringing that to our attention. Chris, thank you. Meantime, take a look at this.
[Unidentified Female:] Nine million voters vote on a machine just like this.
[Unidentified Male:] Yes.
[Unidentified Female:] And yet you programmed it to play Pac-Man?
[Unidentified Male:] That's right.
[Baldwin:] You heard her right, Pac-Man. Are hackers hijacking your vote? You need to hear this. This most definitely affects next week's midterm elections. That's ahead. Also, urgent warnings here as monster storms sweep across several states. We're going to tell you where they are, where they're going, and what they're leaving behind. Stay there.