Live blog from the set of 'Anderson Live'

Good morning! I'm today's guest blogger on the set of TV's Anderson Live with Anderson Cooper this morning. The show has just begun from its studios in Midtown New York. Yvette Nicole Brown is co-host.

Update at 9:54 a.m. ET:

Fourth graders from Harlem's Democracy Prep have the studio clapping to their election-related song - Vote for Somebody - encouraging people to vote, to the tune of Call Me Maybe.

The video of the song on YouTube has drawn more than 125,000 hits in six days, Cooper says.

Update at 9:44 a.m. ET:

In response to a question from the audience, Cooper is saying his life has not changed much since coming out publicly earlier this year. He does add, though, that as a reporter he did not want his sexual orientation to affect his ability to get his job done, particularly with reporting in some place where gender identity might be an issue.

"If people have preconceived notions about you, it's harder to just blend in," he says. "I never wanted that to be an issue."

Update at 9:34 a.m. ET:

Jonathan and Beth Hankins, a couple from Klamath Falls, Ore., tells co-hosts Anderson Cooper and Yvette Nicole Brown that they bought an "as-is" foreclosure home, only to suffer various health problems and learn from a neighbor that their home was once a methamphetamine lab.

The standard home inspection does not include methamphetamine, the husband says. The couple began suffering bloody noses and sinus headaches after buying the home and discovered red phosphorus — one of the byproducts of methamphetamine — in their silverware drawer, they say.

"It had good bones, who knew that the bones were going to kill us?" the husband says.

Cooper announces Ikea wants to give the couple $14,000 toward home improvements.

Update at 9:26 a.m. ET

A former Boy Scout who alleges he was abused by a Scout leader between the ages of 12 and 14 broke up during discussion of the release of more than 14,000 pages of documents related to the abuse of scouts between 1965 and 1985.

"Secrecy is the demon," he says, encouraging abuse victims to speak out.

"Once you do that, that's where the liberation starts," he says.

Update at 9:18 a.m. ET

Cooper is asking his co-host, actress Yvette Nicole Brown of TV's Community, when her well-received sitcom about a study group at a community college, will be back on the air. Brown says she has no idea.

It's been a "wonderful ride," Brown says.

Update at 9:12 a.m. ET

Anderson Cooper and co-host Yvette Nicole Brown, actress from TV's Community, made faces as they tasted "creepy baby treets" made to look like real babies.

"It's marzipan, basically," Cooper says.