the u.s. embassy is trying to step in to get their story. we ll hear from the mother of one of the students. a big day for one lucky bird. president obama preparing to pardon the turkey for thanksgiving honoring a white house tradition early this wednesday morning, october 23rd, house tradition early this wednesday morning, october 23rd, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good morning. i m chris wragge. little murky out there as we are just one day away from thanksgiving. little people worried about that. i m erica hill. that is where we begin. we want to talk about thanksgiving day get away which is a wet and miserable one for those leaving and traveling on thanksgiving, just miserable all around the country. a ripple effect that doesn t help, too. storms in much of the country. snow in northern new england and in the pacific northwest. correspondent cynthia bowers has the very latest. good morning. good morning. behind me you see a few of the projected 1.7 million a
we will hear from the mother of one of the students. and it is a big day for one lucky bird. president obama preparing to pardon a turkey for thanksgiving, honoring a white house tradition early this wednesday morning, november 23rd, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good morning. i m chris wragge. a little murky out there as we are just one day away from thanksgiving. yes, we are. a lot of people worried about your travel. i m erica hill. that is where we begin this morning. yes. of course, we want to talk about thanksgiving get-away which is a wet and miserable one today for people leaving and, of course, those traveling on thanksgiving. it will be miserable all around the country. a ripple effect that doesn t help. storms in much of the country and snow in new england and pacific northwest. cynthia bowers is at chicago o hare s international airport with the very latest. good morning. reporter: good morning. behind me, you see just a few of the projected 1.7 mil
what a lot going on in washington, or not going on as the case may be. the 12-member bipartisan super committee had months to make a deal. but they couldn t agree on how to cut more than $1 trillion in the federal deficit. some people calling this an epic failure. first, nancy cordes is on capitol hill with more. good morning, nancy. reporter: good morning, jeff and erica. it all ended with a one-page statement released from the members of the super committee last night after the markets closed. they said simply that they were disappointed that they could not reach a bipartisan agreement. a last-ditch effort to negotiate was unsuccessful. having failed to even come close to meeting its mandate of identifying $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts. democratic senator and committee member john kerry called it a tragedy for the country. with the 12 of you locked in a room for months couldn t reach a deal, what hope is there that congress as a whole the caccel an issue that is s
backlash. we ll tell you why this tuesday morning, november 22nd, 2011. captioning funded by cbs and good morning. i m erica hill from a rather foggy new york city this morning. yeah. good morning, everyone. i m jeff glor. what a lot going on in washington, or not going on as the case may be. the 12-member bipartisan super committee had months to make a deal. but they couldn t agree on how to cut more than $1 trillion in the federal deficit. some people calling this an epic failure. first, nancy cordes is on capitol hill with more. good morning, nancy. reporter: good morning, jeff and erica. it all ended with a one-page statement released from the members of the super committee last night after the markets closed. they said simply that they were disappointed that they could not reach a bipartisan agreement. a last-ditch effort to negotiate was unsuccessful. having failed to even come close to meeting its mandate of identifying $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts. democr
captioning funded by cbs and good morning, i m erica hill from a rather foggy new york city this morning. yeah. good morning, everyone. i m jeff glor, chris wragge is off this morning. boy, what a lot going on in washington or not going on as the case may be. we begin with the budget cutting collapse on capitol hill. the 12-member bipartisan supercommittee had months to make a deal, but they couldn t agree on how to cut more than a trillion dollars from the federal budget deficit. some people calling this an epic failure. first nancy cordes on capitol hill with more. good morning, nancy. good morning, jeff and erica. it all ended with one-page statement released from the leaders of the supercommittee last night after the markets closed. they said simply that they were disappointed they could not reach a bipartisan agreement. a last-ditch effort to resuscitate negotiations was unsuccessful. so, the supercommittee disbanded, having failed to even come close to meeting