Barack Obama's Note to God, Published
ANNOUNCER: Live in the CNN NEWSROOM, Heidi Collins.</s>COLLINS: Good morning once again, everybody. 9:30 now, Eastern Time, getting ready for the opening bell to ring -- New York Stock Exchange. As we wait for that, obviously, Friday -- I'm sure you probably remember -- things were to the positive. We're trying to remember only the positive closes, right? Up 21.41 -- there's your opening bell. Not expecting a lot to happen today. It's getting ready for sort of a tepid start. That's sort of a term we've been saying a lot here. Latest readings on home prices, economic growth in labor sector due out this week but nothing major today. Good news on gas prices, though, as I'm sure you're aware, down, just a bit, again. Meanwhile, another story we are following closely here today. A deadly attack inside a Tennessee church. We are watching for a news conference now scheduled for the top of the hour, 10:00 a.m. Eastern. The scene of the attack, a Unitarian Church in Knoxville. Families were gathered around as children were getting ready to perform the play "Annie." Then, what sounded like firecrackers. Churchgoers soon discovered to their horror, it was, in fact, gunshots. Two people killed. Seven others wounded. As the gunman stopped to reload, church members grabbed him. 58- year-old Jim Adkisson, you see him there, is now in custody. But police say they have no motive. At least, one witness said Adkisson was shouting hateful things as he opened fire. Police are hoping home videos of the children's play might provide some answers about the shooting. We are going to have live coverage of the news conference scheduled to get under way in about 30 minutes from now. Two people missing in Southern New Mexico this morning. They were swept away by floodwaters. The remnants of Hurricane Dolly dumped up to 9 inches of rain in Ruidoso, since Friday. Up to 500 people forced to evacuate from their hopes and from a nearby campground. Dozens of homes were damaged. The head of emergency management said 25 people were rescued. Most of them were in vehicles trapped in deep water. Want to get over to Rob Marciano now standing by. He's been watching all this flooding going on in New Mexico. Hi there, Rob.</s>ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Hey. Yes, let's -- we're going to get to that in just a second, Heidi.</s>COLLINS: OK.</s>MARCIANO: This just came off the wire. So, I don't mean to switch up the order. But we've got a tornado warning out for parts of southwest of North Dakota. So, we want to let the folks know who live in this area -- this Holiday, Dodge, Marshall Counties, or those are the towns that are affected by this. This is in Dunn County. And you can see this, the purple there, that certainly is a hail core that's rolling east and south-easterly at about 56 miles an hour. So, this thing is moving along. And the areas that are in the path of this would be Holiday, Dodge, and Marshall. Those are the towns within Dunn County. And that one looks like it's holding together pretty well. Even a little bit of a hook there, just south of the hail core. So, that looks pretty nasty. This watch box, by the way, in effect until noon o'clock -- until noon local time. And I'm just checking to make sure this is just a radar-indicated tornado moving east-southeast at 56 miles an hour. But it looks pretty darn strong on the radar. So, if you live in Dunn County, be aware and take cover now. All right. A little bit farther down to the south, we've got showers and thunderstorms that are firing east of Kansas City towards St. Louis and Columbia, Missouri. These are your run-of-the-mill thunderstorms, running into some very hot and humid air. Kind of getting instigated a little bit by what's left of Dolly. We showed you some of the flooding there in New Mexico. We also have iReports. Some video there from New Mexico. From Phillip Genest there, thanks from Ruidoso. The Rio Ruidoso over flooding its banks. Six inches of rainfall. There you see it. He says he normally sleeps to those kind of ocean sound machines like you can -- throws out the water sounds and make you sleep real nice. Well, he said he woke up to it and it was a real deal. So, a bit of a nightmare for those folks but rainfall will not be as intense today for you. But the heat will be building in places like Dallas, 105. 98 degrees in Kansas City. 90 in Denver. 105 in Phoenix. Can we get a live shot of Albuquerque. Let's check out Albuquerque. After all the rains yesterday, that looks a little bit nicer. KOAT. Thanks for that shot. You're in the 60s. You will get up into the mid-90s before the day is done. And, again, Dunn County in North Dakota with this storm, Heidi, rolling quite rapidly to the east-southeast at 56 miles an hour. And that will probably hold together into these other surrounding counties and we'll keep an eye on that, keep you posted, and see if we get any reports of this tornado being on the ground. Heidi?</s>COLLINS: OK. Yes. Keep us posted if we need to come back to you. And in fact, I want to let everybody know, we are going to talk with that gentleman who sent in that iReport, coming up here in about an hour and a half or so. Philip is going to get live with us. So, thank you, Rob.</s>MARCIANO: All right.</s>COLLINS: When the weather does become the news, remember to send us your iReports. Just go to ireport.com or type ireport@cnn.com into your cell phone. As always, please stay safe if you choose to shoot some of the stuff for us. Barack Obama's note to God, left in Jerusalem's Western Wall, now a big flap over its publication in a newspaper there. Here's CNN's Paula Hancocks.</s>PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A pre-dawn visit by Barack Obama to Jerusalem's Western Wall, Judaism's holiest sight. A public event, with media in tow, but the prayer he wrote and placed in cracks at the wall was meant to be private. An Israeli newspaper has published what it claims is Obama's prayer saying a Jewish seminary student took it from the wall after the U.S. presidential candidate left.</s>JONATHAN ROSENBLUM, ORTHODOX AM EHAD THINK TANK: Anybody who goes to the Western Wall and places a note there does so under the assumption that that's a private communication between him and God, and therefore, once he has that presumption of confidentiality, there are rabbinic decrees against reading anybody else's private communications.</s>HANCOCKS: CNN is not reporting the contexts of the private note. The Obama camp says, "We haven't confirmed or denied that it's his." An aide adding that when Obama was told of it, he, quote, "wasn't angry so much as bewildered, kind of shrugged and shook his head." The senior rabbi at the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinowitz, says the incident is sack religious. He says, "Notes, which are placed in the Western Wall, are between the person and his maker. Heaven forbid that one should read them or use them in any way." (on camera): Up to seven million people visited the Western Wall last year, both tourists and locals who pray here regularly. That translates into millions of prayers placed in between the stones of this wall. Tradition has it that any request placed between these holy stones will be granted. (voice-over): The late Pope John Paul II placed a prayer at the Western Wall while visiting Jerusalem in 2000. But he requested his words be made public. The Western, or Wailing Wall, is a relic of the second temple destroyed by the Romans 2,000 years ago. Prayers left here are considered sacred, and are cleared away twice a year to be buried in a cemetery, none of them meant to be read, or published. Paula Hancocks, CNN, Jerusalem.</s>COLLINS: Lots of talk and debate about this story. So, we want to hear from you on it. Should the media publish the contents of Obama's note? Tell us what you think. E-mail us at cnnnewsroom@cnn.com. We will read some of your responses coming up next hour. Female bombers on the attack. Dozens are dead and hundreds wounded in Iraq today. But, first, couples merging their lives and finances. Here's Christine Romans.</s>CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Mix love and money, and you may have a recipe for disaster.</s>CARMEM WONG ULRICH, AUTHOR, "GENERATION DEBT": It may seem that we're very alike when we get together and fall in love, but the truth is, a lot of people and individuals are very different when it comes to how they use their money, how they approach their money, and what their priorities are.</s>ROMANS: To keep the peace, couple should have a plan.</s>ULRICH: Every couple has a different way of approaching it. But my best advice is -- have a joint account to take care of your household bills and your finances, but also your financial goals that you have for the future. Outside of that, have your own personal account.</s>ROMANS: But there isn't a "one size fits all" approach.</s>ULRICH: Crunch the numbers on what you're going to be jointly responsible for. Make sure you go through each of your bills, the both of you.</s>ROMANS: Even though you're equal partners in your relationship, it doesn't always translate to your finances.</s>ULRICH: So what you want to do is proportion it out -- 80/20, 30/70. Figure out how much each of you make, and then how much you're going to contribute to your household expenses.</s>ROMANS: Christine Romans, CNN, New York.