the hispanic vote and he would say to the republican party, you d better find a way to reach out to the hispanic population you may find yourself on the ad sheet of history. rick: michael reagan of the reagan group, always good to talk to you, enjoy your thanksgiving holiday. you too, happy thanksgiving. julie: stream weather alert on getaway day, one of the busiest travel days of the year, in fact, and fast moving storm bringing a mix of rain and snow to the eastern seaboard, the pacific northwest, also getting pounded by a completely different storm, and all of this, creating some travel headaches for folks on the move right before the thanksgiving holiday. steve brown is live at the center of it all. one of the biggest airports in the nation, chicago s o hare international airport. hey steve, how does it look there? actually, it looks good here, and i m sad to report that you re probably sitting in the center of the worst of the travel dilemmas that people will have this holiday
now, that s what we d do if we were a serious country. gop candidates trying to show they have the foreign policy chops to be commander in chief. we ll have all of the highlights just ahead. american students arrested in egypt facing more interrogation today. they re families now speaking as cairo erupts for a fifth day. and tailspin. incredible video of the chopper crash and the more amazing pictures of the pilot walking away from it on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com and good morning to you. happy pre-thanksgiving day. i can smell the turkey now. can t you? so can i. can t wait. food, football, family. three fs what could be better? and then food coma. sleeping afterwards. at least you fall asleep and aren t suffering through the feeling of you re going to croak. anyway, ali and christine are off, obviously. i m carol costello along side alina cho. last night s republican debate. disagreeing on just about everything. the best
let s get you up to speed on this tuesday, november 22nd. a million man sit-in is taking place on tahrir square as violence erupts around it. security forces are using tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters armed with rocks and molitov cocktails. you re looking at live pictures right now of tahrir square. 24 have been killed, many injured. they have a new demand, this time aimed at egypt s military leader. we have a crowd here angry, young, furious at the loss of life here over the course of the past three days, demanding that the supreme council step down. mr. ivan watson, national security takes center stage at the presidential debate tonight. the stage is set just a few blocks from the white house. wolf blitzer will nar rate. a new cnn poll shows the former house speaker leading the republican pack for the first time with 24%. mitt romney follows with her man cain in third place. the cnn national security debate with the republican presidential candidates. that
decision in the sexual assault case against him. prosecutors say the maid accusing him of sexual assault lied, but her attorney is speaking out in her defense. we have the late details for you. also, up to 12,000 prisoners nationwide are now eligible for reduced sentences, after a federal decision to reform crack cocaine sentencing laws. those penalties were 100 times more harsh for people convicted of crack crimes than those convicted of powder cocaine crimes. why the disparity? jesse jackson will join me live. and arianna huffington coming up next, but first, which political story will be making headlines in the next 24 hours? msnbc contributor chris cillizza joins us on this getaway day. hey, chris, all the candidates hitting the trail, and some actually going to the same place at the same time. that s right. amherst, new hampshire, is the place to be. there s a july fourth parade,
ahead of the minds that would destroy us. bill: well, a day now before the busiest travel day of the year. we re going to hear a lot more on this story tomorrow. every year we talk about the big getaway day, on the wednesday before thanksgiving so, that will be front and center tomorrow. we ll see how it all goes. if they re going to push for this opt out of some of the major airports like knock and chicago, in l.a., you get the major backups and delays. we ll see whether that happens tomorrow. march pharpbd or singled out for that treatment and how quickly they want to move through, of course it s a big concern, a big travel day and a concern that anybody might try to pull off. it s going to be a rocky one we suspect and in the meantime, the controversy over the islamic center and the mosque to be built near ground zero is taking a new turn this morning. the backers of that project have applied for a federal grant from the same pool of money set aside to build lower manhattan followin