i think discussions always continue, but the fact that you have these republicans coming out now and saying get this open, and i think you ve seen the effects of this. we ve seen we just had a hearing in judiciary. 70% of our civilian employees in intelligence are now furloughed. the head of the intelligence said, well, we d put them back if we saw an imminent threat. and so then we hear about nih, 72% of their employees. and i was thinking about the fact that they re now deciding to fund certain agencies in the government. it s like a game of whack-a-mole. well, someone got mad about this, so we ll fund that department. oh, there s an antitrust suit that s come up. maybe we ll fund a few antitrust lawyers. this is not how you fund the greatest nation in the world, this is not how you fund the united states of america, this democracy that s been the basis for so many democracies around the world. and so i think they re coming to their senses. i don t think it s going to happen tomorr
and good morning to you. it is tuesday, december 13th. i feel like it s a homecoming. a long time since the three of us have been together. good to see you. as usual a busy, busy news morning. breaking news now. four soldiers are dead after two army choppers went down during a training exercise. it happened a joint base lewis-mcchord in washington state. crash investigators are trying to find out what went wrong right now. pliv on the pholive on the phon crash site. what do we know? i m watching the lights of the recovery teams that have been looking throughout the night to go in the grim task of recovering those bodies of the four aviators that lost their lives. still don t know what went wrong. at about 11:00 p.m. eastern last nim, sometime after 11:00 p.m. two helicopters crashed killing everybody aboard both helicopters. these are small observation helicopters, ali. the eyes and ears of what s on the ground. flying maneuvers over a training area when this crash to
breaking news for you this morning, the eviction of new york s zuccotti park now under way. police are moving in. the mayor saying the people in the tents have got to go for now. a medical break through, reviving a part of your heart that s dead. a stem cell treatment that has the potential to extend or save the lives of millions. and target target. tens of thousands of employees upset they will have to miss thanksgiving so christmas can start early for shoppers. this is your a.m. wake-up call. good morning to you. this is your a.m. wake-up call for tuesday, november 15th from the time warner center in new york, i m carol costello. here are this morning s top stories. breaking news to tell you about, wall street protesters told to pick up their tenths and leave. the new york police department moving in to kick them out overnight as cities across the country begin to say the camps are too dangerous and too disgusting. we will take you live to lower manhattan to zuccott
sexually attracted. i enjoy young people. i love to be around them. but, no, i m not sexually attracted to young boys. cnn s jason carroll is at penn state. so, jason, what kind of reaction is this interview getting this morning? not a good one. in terms of what students are saying this morning and a few last night that this interview actually made sandusky look worse. it s not like some of these students after the allegations had a high opinion of him after the allegations came out. but, clearly, from what we re hearing at least so far, kyra, after that interview, those who thought he was guilty before, their minds have not been changed and some others who were sort of dipping in and out of the story who happened to catch the interviews now say whatever they felt about him before, they now feel even worse. kyra? well, jason, you know, sandusky also addressed one of the key questions of this scandal. what exactly did joe paterno know and when did he know it? listen to
cain doesn t have the foreign policy chops on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning, everybody. it s tuesday, november 15th. ali velshi off today. i m christine romans along with carol costello on american morning. welcome back, carol. thanks. i had a great few days off, but it s going to be back. good morning to you. breaking news to tell you about right at the top. overnight police in new york city moved in and cleared out the occupy wall street protesters from zuccotti park, the birthplace ever the occupy movement. the evictions came overnight. police ripping down tents, signs and cleaning up. a number of protesters were arrested for refusing to get out. poppy harlow now downtown. we re hearing the park is back open. so have police allowed the protesters to go back, like they said they would? reporter: so far, no. so far we ve still got police as far as we can tell surrounding the park, but it is all cleaned out. we made it in