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
surfers and kayakers can t get a whale of a surprise off this california coast and it s all caught on tape. we will tell you all about the close encounter early this friday morning, november 4th, 2011. good morning. welcome back to the early show on a friday morning. it s november 4th. i m chris wragge. looks like nighttime out there still in new york city. i m rebecca jarvis. erica hill is on assignment this morning. how about that whale picture? incredible stuff. when you see that kind of thing, you think, what would it be like to be nearby? these people are so close when they are looking at it. i love the water but if that happened when i was there, it would scare the bejesus out of me. ebegin with the los angeles jury. who is responsible for michael jackson s death? a negligent doctor or the singer himself? on thursday, attorneys gave emotional closing arguments in the trial and now the fate of dr. murray is in the hands of the jury. cbs news correspondent
president obama is pledging u.s. help for turkey in the wake of that country s devastating earthquake. today s magnitude 7.2 quake hit the far eastern part of the country near the border with iran. more than 100 people are confirmed dead thus far, and authorities fear the death toll in the remote region could reach 1,000. mark phillips has more. reporter: the ground shook for 30 seconds. the quake registered 7.2 on the scale, strong enough to cause serious damage. it was felt over an area of hundreds of square miles. and it was shallow enough, about 15 miles below the surface, to cause maximum casualties and panic among local residents. the quake was centered in a poor remote part of eastern turkey near the border with iran, an area prone to frequent earthquake activity. we didn t know what to do, this man said. it was terrible. the main population center in the area is a city of closely packed apartment buildings, many built without modern anti- earthquake reinforcements.
good evening, everyone. libya s interim leaders are moving to put the war-torn country back together. a declaration of liberation is expected tomorrow. today, acting prime minister resigned clearing the way for an interim government and elections. elizabeth palmer is in tripoli with the latest. reporter: in announcing his resignation, he set an ambitious deadline for elections. the first election should be within a period of eight months, maximum. reporter: before jabril left office he went to a shopping center in the city of misrat aalong with thousands of other libyans, to see colonel qaddafi qaddafi s corpse, on puc display for the second day in a row. most of the spectators had no sympathy. he killed my brother, my cousin. he raped my friends. he burned my family s house. reporter: cell phone video shows once captured, there was no mercy for qaddafi. he tried to talk to his captors saying, this is forbidden in islam. one of them replied, shut up, you dog.