on small businesses and the middle class won t grow the economy. the white house says its plan would trim $3 trillion from the deficit over the next decade. fellow democrats for months on this issue and others have complained the president is too quick to compromise with republicans. well, today that same president delivered this warning. i will not support i will not support any plan that puts all the burden for closing our deficit on ordinary americans. and i will veto any bill that changes benefits for those who rely on medicare, but does not raise serious revenues by asking the wealthiest americans or biggest corporations to pay their fair share. the rich, very rich politics of this debate in just a moment. first, though, let s take a closer look at what the president proposed today. the president, of course, trying to influence that super committee, as i said. here s the main proposal from the president. he wants to have a mandatory spending cuts, $580 billion ov
you see that young man in the photo there. 12 years old, getting to hang out with the likes of tom hanks, and for good reason. he was inspired by the hbo series band of brothers, and he decided he wanted to raise money for a world war ii hero. you won t believe how much this 12-year-old has been able to collect. from the cnn center in atlanta, georgia, this is your cnn sunday morning. thank you for being with us. as always, we like to say good morning to all of our forces watching us on the american forces network. thank you for all you do. let s start with a picture from the air race crash in nevada. could give investigators information about exactly what happened. see this? this is something, it appears, breaking off the tail of that plane that crashed. this was just after the plane veered out of control and crashed into the crowd. federal investigators are checking this out. a component has been recovered in the area where that was observed, but i think it s critic
remember that? whatever happened to that anyway? many of us can t even read our own handwriting anymore. are we signing off on penmanship? tracy smith will be looking into that in our sunday morning cover story. i m going to sit right down and write myself a letter reporter: how is your handwriting? chances are it s not as good as theirs. does our legibility get better as we get older? no. what happens is you tend to peak around fourth grade. reporter: a primer on penmanship and whether it matters anymore later on sunday morning. osgood: if a just-released blues album happens to be rockin the house, the man you have to thank is dr. house or rather hugh laurie who plays dr. house in the popular tv series. he s a man of many talents and this morning our martha teichner will be paying him a house call. reporter: how did hugh laurie, british comedian, turn into a cranky american tv doctor? excellent diagnosis. the opportunity to reinvent myself the way i have,
even though he seems to understand that mr. obama is in deep trouble. in fact, carter believes the president is facing the same dilemma he did. are. decided to run against me some of the more liberal democrats didn t want to see me have successes. i experienced a little bit of what president obama experiences every day. that is almost total reluctance on the part of any republican in the house or senate to give him any support that would bring credit to his administration. so he has difficult, almost insurmountable problem in dealing with economies. bill: that is true. there are some republicans who simply are are not going to cooperate with president obama because they want him out of there. out of the white house with any cost. what jimmy carter and barack obama do not understand. it s no longer about congress. it s no longer about pundits like me, not about entity. the presidential election in 2012 is about the folks, period. many americans feel insecured, dependent on
people have got to be injured. thank god, it looked like it was coming right at us. greta: a lot of viewers are unfamiliar with the national championship air races can you tell us what that is? it is an amazing event. nascar in the air if you will. we ve got different classes of planes, jets to propeller planes and they fly up to 400 miles an hour, maybe 500 feet off the ground they have a course that goes around the airport. every year it is usually good. sometimes we have crashes here and there. never on this horrific scale. yesterday the thunderbirds were out, we watched that. it was great. i m thinking as a parent thank god we weren t out there today. looking at video and everything going on. greta: the pilot jimmy lee he has died as a result of this crash which is obvious from looking at this tape, one might suspect that. in terms of the casualties so far we are hearing 12 dead. a number of people we expect it going to grow higher in watching this plane, did you he