17, and they have just schooled the boys at the first google science fair. wait until you hear what inventions got them to the top. we begin with the debt ceiling. while washington continues to try to figure out how to pay its bills, you might be as well. john is with smartcredit.com and car men wong ullrich the author of the real cost of living. carmen, a fantastic opportunity while everybody is talking about the debt limit and people keep using analogies to the american family and credit card limits, a good time to take stock of your life and how it compares to what s going on in washington. what s your view on this? i think there s a big difference between the two. so the comparison doesn t really ring true with me because we can t do things like raise taxes. only thing we can do is get job number three and four. it s important to, of course, look at your own budget and own debt levels. in terms of the government s situation, it s very, very different. i don t think th
oil prices take a dive. a sign, perhaps, that you re fed up with prices at the pump and those high gas prices are hurting the economy. it may start to trickle down on this american morning. good friday morning. it is may 6th. busy one, indeed. welcome to american morning. we re watching the river, the mississippi today, new concerns for a lot of people living along the flood plains. and new details from that cache of intelligence from the bin laden compound we re watching. giving up some information. they knew it was going to happen. we have new information on it today. a threat pulled right from osama bin laden s files. the homeland security department issued an alert about rail security in the united states. a law enforcement source says al qaeda was plotting to attack trains. one possible date mentioned, 9/11/2011. jeanne meserve will have more in a moment. there are incredible new details on operation neptune spear. we now know that was the name given th
this is one trend that is not going away. i would say, carmen, that the last time we hit $3.50 and $4 and $4.11 was a boost to electric car sales. the first time theford f-150 truck dropped from the best selling vehicle to toyota. people are definitely there s so many american models you can get with great fuel efficiency and hybrid bridss, a lot more to choose from. thank you. coming up, back inside the compound where bin laden spent his last moments and where a highly-precision team of american special forces ended his life. how the navy mission really went down. also, with the bin laden dead announcement, what does it mean for 2012? did the president, perhaps, seal his victory? we want to know what you think, e-mail us, facebook page, or tweet us. comments later in the show. 26 minutes after the hour. thing under the gas cap, thing. do you even have a name?
repeat it for the rest of the day because we have so much news. i wondered yesterday, could we have more? we do. every hour there are new developments as we continue to get 24 hours, 36 hours on from the killing of osama bin laden. we have former secretary of state condoleezza rice, former secretary donald rumsfeld, interviewing a navy seal who will explain how the operation went down. we ll take you inside the compound and show you what it looks like. critical developments this morning in the aftermath of osama bin laden s death. u.s. officials say intelligence officers are now examining computer equipment and documents that were seized from bin laden s mansion. including pcs, thumb drives and electronic equipment. officials say the cache they removed was larger than they expected and if there s information about al qaeda it s being examined right now but u.s. intelligence officers at a secret location in afghanistan. we re getting new details this morning about th
now the workers are coming in. it s a historic day in lower manhattan. here s what we know now about the secret mission that took out the world s most notorious terrorist, osama bin laden. the al qaeda commander was shot in the head during a fire fight with american forces early sunday morning. one of bin laden s sons and two of his couriers were killed and a woman described as a human shield. the operation was carried out with the cooperation of pakistani officials. osama bin laden was not found in a cave, on a mountain in that region between pakistan and afghanistan. instead, he met his end in a million dollar mansion in a compound in abbottabad, pakistan. this is about 60 miles north of islamabad. officials believe this, indeed, was a compound built to house bin laden. the cia had been monitoring this location for months. what you re looking at it is video from geo news in pakistan showing the compound engulfed in flames after u.s. helicopters and about two dozen navy