philippines. 436 people dead, hundreds missing. the storm dumped as much as eight inches of rain in 24 hours. a journalist told us the focus is now on search and rescue. reporter: the storm is supposed to exit this evening but it s not longer the storm itself but its aftermath. we re turning to aid and rescue workers looking for the hundreds missing. they are trying to supply drinking water. they re asking for volunteers to try to get food and clothes. friday night the floodwaters rose alarmingly fast reaching roof level while residents were sleeping. the government estimates some 100,000 people have been displaced by that storm. and a second day of hearings for the army private accused of being behind the biggest intelligence leak in u.s. histories. a technical glitch delayed an army investigator s attempt to testify by phone from hawaii. bradley manning is accused of providing classified government documents to wikileaks, which, then made them public. supporters for m
love. vladimir putin is suggesting john mccain is nuts. mccain responds on twitter saying, dear vlad, was is something that i said? on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com and good morning to you. it is friday, december 16th. nine days left before christmas. can you believe it? have you finished your shopping? i have two gifts bought. and that means no. good morning, everybody. i am alina cho. welcome to american morning. the last critical debate before the iowa caucus, the front-runner, newt gingrich playing defense on his conservative values and electability. mitt romney stood by his business background playing it safe and texas governor rick perry realizing it may be the fourth down threw this hail mary pass. there are a lot of folk whose said tim tebow wasn t going to be a good nfl quarterback. that looked print good. am i ready for the next level? let me tell you i hope i am the tim tebow of the iowa caucuses. best line of the night.
once it was hijacked? and the federal government fails us time and time again. let s go, outfront. i m erin burnett. countdown to shutdown. 28 hours to go. feel like deja vu? me too. i feel like bill murray in the ground hog day. put your hand in mine the government is due to shut down tomorrow. then put your little hand in mine we re now less than 30 hours away from the government shutting down. only this isn t ground hog day. this is our reality. this is the eighth time this year that the united states of america has been flirting with a shutdown. remember august when the misguided debt ceiling debacle costed the entire country the top credit rating in the world? these shutdowns aren t about politics, they re about money. democrats and republicans never passed the full budget. this time the government will run out of money tomorrow at midnight unless a bill is passed. what s strange about this shutdown is democrats and republicans have mostly agree
reiterated his pledge saying, please, republicans should all be nice. here s mr. gingrich, in his own words. i only have one opponent, that s barack obama. i have a number of friends running and one opponent. and i m going to run this campaign on a positive basis because i believe the people of iowa are smart enough that they can see the difference between somebody trying to help the country and somebody who simply is running a negative campaign. can he stay positive is the big question because speaker gingrich make no mistake, is feeling the heat. let s bring in cnn s jim acosta. here in iowa tracking the republican candidates, jim, that is the big question. the speaker s the front-runner. he says let s be nice. describe to our viewers the kind of heat he s getting. reporter: well, you know, it s almost impossible to figure out a direction where he s not being attacked from right now. keep in mind he s has three other candidates in this field attack him with either web
this country when he said to the troops here, welcome home. he repeated that several times. the cheer went up in the crowd and there was so many people walking away today with big smiles on their faces, a sense of the satisfaction of the war that has been done in iraq. they are also satisfied that the the troops wanted to hear a commitment from the president that the country will continue to stand by them for their needs as their year goes on, whatever problems that they have from their service in iraq. the president and first lady both saying very strongly that the country will stand by them the way that the troops have stood up for the country. brooke? i m sure they are thrilled to be home in time for the holidays as the president had promised but they have to be. some of these men and women have to have some concerns and what are they, david? well, the concerns would be long-term problems like posttraumatic stress, depression. they also have to transition, if they are