but first, an early holiday gift from president obama to military families all over the country. the president announced this week that all u.s. combat troops will leave iraq by the end of the year. welcome news at places like ft. bliss in texas where our marty savidge is will speaking with families reaction to the president s decision. it has to be bittersweet. reporter: there s always that. that is a concern for any military town. those that are coming home and those that continue to serve. we re at ft. bliss army base outside of el paso, texas. there s an air show going on, if you hear noise going on around me, don t be alarmed. bliss is exactly what they re feeling today. 3,500 families, to be exact, here in this country. they re the ones that have been told that their loved ones serving in iraq will now be coming home, according to the president, by the end of the year. many of them only deployed in july and august. and the families anticipated that they wouldn t see
the occupy movement has gone global. what began as a public demonstration in a small park in lower manhattan today spread to cities around the world. you see it there on your screen. it was a worldwide display of sympathy and solidarity with the protesters of occupy wall street. there was tokyo and japan, london in to uk, rome, sidney, hong kong, indonesia to name a few. most were peaceful. though some arrests were reported. rome, however, stands out as the exception today. thousands of peaceful demonstrators suddenly scattered as anarchists began lobbying cocktails. now, numerous fires broke out. you can see riot police there on your screen responding. and a fire broke out in a government building, as well. protesters broke out shop windows, riot police moved in with water cannons and tear gas. and let s go to newsweek reporter barbie nango. did they take advantage of the protest, this occupy movement to create havoc? is that what happened today? reporter: that s absolut
he s been in court every day. he spoke of the man convicted for brutalizing his family. i m not surprised at all. i thought from the beginning that he was a lying sociopathic personality. he probably doesn t think he s guilty of anything. he s convinced himself of that, i suspect. you ll hear more from him in the courtroom coming up on 360. first, we are keeping them honest on the campaign trail. we touched last night, the latest wall street journal poll cain has report of 27% of republican voters. romney, 23% and ranked third, rick perry. today, cain sat down with erin burnett keeping him honest, cain said questionable things. we begin with his comments to kill the saudi ambassador to the united states. watch. i happen to believe this attempted assassination that iran has their fingerprints all over based on the reports we have seen is because this president is perceived as weak. mr. cain, we would love to see those reports. nowhere have we seen the suspected plo
malveaux. the u.s. says opening korean markets to american automakers and farmers will create 280,000 jobs. more next hour when president obama and lee hold a news conference at the white house and you ll see it live here on cn this. in libya today, the battle for sirte has come down to a few streets. [ gunfire ] sirte is among the last towns to keep fighting for muammar gadhafi, the former libyan ruler. it s his tribal home and fiercely loyal. it will declare them liberated once it declares all of sirte. our dan rivers is there. reporter: like the troops we re with, we try to stay out of the line of fire. sometimes the bullets come out of nowhere. comfortably close, even battle hardened soldiers flinch sometimes. libyan fighters claim they have captured one of gadhafi s sons in sirte. that has not been confirmed. such reports have been wrong in the past. and freed american hikers shane bower and josh fattal will meet with secretary of state hillary clinton this a
i imagine much of it will be self-serving. but the important thing is that that timeline may also be his death knell. yesterday in the trial, much has been made obviously the defense s contention is that michael jackson essentially killed himself. he o.d.ed and he killed himself. yesterday we found out that of the bottles in the room, his fingerprints weren t found on any of the drug bottles. well, they need another expert. they need to get an expert for the defense to be able to say the fingerprints are just not necessarily found everywhere and that s pretty lame, pretty thin. you contend this will be the battle of the experts. no question about it. that s all they ve got. do you think we ll hear from dr. murray? not if i were representing him. there is no way i would put him on the witness stand. why? well because he has said so many contradictory things. he s been portrayed as someone who lies to get himself out of trouble. and you always know let me tell you. when