free after being accused of throwing fire bombs during recent violent protests in cairo. we are monitoring their moves. also this morning, an american journalist, we ll get back to our jason carroll there in just a second. the other story i need to tell you about, also in egypt. someone you have seen on our air here at cnn a number of times. an american journalist who has appeared here with us says she was blindfolded, beaten and sexually assaulted by egyptian police. she is now free and speaking out. we will be live in cairo in just a minute. but, back home, here on this thanksgiving, our jason carroll, as you saw just a moment ago, he is monitoring things with us in new york. the macy s thanksgiving day parade about to kick off. i think we just heard our bonnie schneider report that, in fact, the weather will cooperate. so, is that the case? jason, you hearing me all right? happy thanksgiving to you. happy thanksgiving to you. can you see, can you see that sun shining on
to shut down the stock exchange. they also plan to take over the subways, the brooklyn bridge, and even the doorstep of city hall. there s a heavy police presence right there out in the streets, as a you can see. more than 50 people have already been arrested. it s a very fluid situation. tensions running high. meanwhile, on the west coast, as you see, more protests and potential problems. you re looking at live pictures there out of l.a. that is where protesters plan to bring traffic to a halt downtown by occupying a major intersection. we got new information today on the child molestation case against jerry sandusky, coach paterno s right-hand man at penn state. the new york times details a series of incidents over a 12-year period that taken together suggest that university officials knew about sandusky s behavior but kept quiet. also, campus and city police are telling cnn they have no record that mike mcqueary filed a report on sandusky back in 2002. you may recall h
unexpected, no question about it. but this has to be startling. i have to say that things don t shock me. i was shocked by this. reporter: did your heart skip a beat? could you what happened? i don t know. i think i called home and said, i m coming home. i m stopping my errands for saturday and first i thought that she should come get me, my wife should come get me, and i said, no, the car s drivable, but no back window. reporter: you were out here for about 36 hours or so without power. finally the power s back up. we take for granted so much what it s like to have electricity. what s it like to camp out in your house for 36 hours without it? first, let me give credit to meta, they worked tirelessly in this neighborhood with the tree people cutting it down. you know, you put up with it. we read by flashlight. it got cold, but the bed was the warmest place in town. you know, the thing is, we re such an information-based society, no tv, no internet, no phone. could
reporter roulette. tell me what happened 20 years ago on sunday? i can t tell you what happened yesterday. the perfect storm happened 20 years ago. the storm, yes. the movie, hurricane in iraq we don t have a hurricane this time but we have a significant weather event. for new york city. let me show you what is going to happen here. i m talking about all of the western suburbs just to the west of the city. part of an i-95 10 to 20 miles west of there. zero inches of snow to 15 or 20 right along. along the water, it s going to snow a lot in new york city. it s just not going to stick. there s going to be slop. there s going to be a raindrop and snowflake that comes down at the same time. you don t get accumulation with that. what you do get with that, patterson, up into northern bour ban county, snow on the leaves are going to make it break. all of the power lines are going to come down. 15 inch ts of snow. rapidly, though, as you get past the delaware water gap. t
the dow finished up thursday, 340 points. this could be the best october in a quarter century. the economy is growing. the gross national product for the third quarter was nearly double the figure from april to june and that s thanks to consumer spending and more business investment. alison kosik will join us in about half an hour for the opening bell, but right now let s talk to global editor at large with reuters. good morning. so, what a difference a day makes. the dow futures are already down this morning and we ve learned that whirlpool is cutting 5,000 jobs in north america and europe. it looks like that big rally from yesterday was not the real turn around we were hoping for. well, i think the rally yesterday was really mostly about europe. and i think the big question that the markets are asking is not so much is everyone going to be fantastic. is there going to be a huge economic rebound in the u.s. and in the world. the question is, is there going to be another di