Morning Express with Robin Meade

Happy Halloween! I couldn't get my hubby to go out this weekend in costume. (It probably stems from the time I had him dress as santa claus on halloween. Meaning he had to be hot and itchy all evening in a fake beard and belly. I make note, this happens to fellas while we women cavort in something creative and cute. Haaa!) Back to the present day: the restaurants were overflowing with people, kids and adults alike, dressing in character just because Halloween was coming! Fun to see.
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You ready?
On the show today:
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A freak October snowstorm has millions of people without power and heat.
Check out the places in the northeast where there will be no costume parade at school....because there will be no school!
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Oh these poor people:
The first snow of the season left passengers on a JetBlue flight stranded for more than seven hours on the tarmac.
Think about that:
no food, no water and eventually no bathrooms.
****this you gotta hear:
Check out the pilot’s increasingly desperate dispatches for help!
At one point he even offers to weld his own tow bar!
You betcha you'll hear from the passengers on our show.
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Hip hip....hooray!
Some of the nation’s biggest banks are backing off charging you for using your debit card.
(I'm wondering if credit will go to you...they wouldn’t do it if you complained loudly enough. So, is it "good job, we the people!"?)
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In what some say was a beautiful eulogy, Steve Jobs’ sister reveals his final words.
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We could know as early as today if Dr. Conrad Murray will tell his side of the story to the courtroom.
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Would you know what milestone some baby born today is going to help our world population reach?
Is it 7 million?
700 million?
7 billion
Or 17 billion people?
Check it out.
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Here's to you and your young people getting time (and good weather) to enjoy Halloween:)

Happy HEROween!!! Interested in a (not so) SPOOOOOOOKY trip to LA to watch our sister network CNN name the 2011 CNN Hero of the Year? Of course BOO are... it's a GOULISH show (not really, it's very uplifting)! Visit CNNHeroes.com to enter the SPOOKstakes!

So I text my brother in the Northeast on Friday morning: “be prepared, big snow for you Sat. power outages big time” He texts back “whatever, science boy. It’s October” or something like that. Well, you know the rest of the story.

Happy Halloween everybody. The weather will cooperate for the almost all the kids tonight, but naturally there are exceptions. Florida has a good shot of tropical moisture zooming over the state this morning producing heavy shots of rain. This will slide northward all day and start getting to the Carolina’s coast and lower VA too. A cold front over the MW this morning will connect with this, transfer its energy off the NC coast, and turn into another nor’easter. Good news this time around is that it will be 500 miles farther East than the weekend storm, so most of the rain will be off shore. It’s also a little warmer so snow isn’t even a problem.

Players are calling last night’s Game 6 the best World Series game ever! The Cardinals were down to the final strike of their season… not once, but twice!! The Rangers had the champagne chilling in the clubhouse, ready for a bubbly celebration… But there would be no toasting for Texas because a local St. Louis hero came through to win the game for the Cardinals!

David Freese grew up going to Cardinals games as a kid, dreaming about having a night like last night, but it started out like a nightmare him.

Morning Confession: I ironed part of my shirt with my hair flat-iron this morning.
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On the show today:
What’s changed at the “Occupy” protests? Police and the demonstrators are suddenly butting heads.
There were more confrontations overnight after weeks of mostly peaceful rallies.
Check out the developments from both coasts and points between.
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A bunch of tiny kids, ages 5 and younger, were left for hours at a pumpkin patch over a bus dispute!
Get real people!
Tune in to see what kind of explanation the furious parents are hearing. Ya.
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Oh no, did he think this would work?
The TSA comes down on the dude who put "get your freak on girl" note in a female passenger’s bag.
Uh-huh.
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Another quake rattles Turkey. Right now, no reports of damage or injuries. We’ll keep an eye on this.
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Bring on the experts…
It’s going to be a big day in the trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor. That's after the defense paraded out former patients of Dr. Conrad Murray who LOVED his care.
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Have you ever lost weight and then gained it back? It might not be your fault. Check out how your own body may be sabotaging your goals!
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Snakes found in toilet. Need I say more.
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Check ya at showtime!