in chief and a medal of honor recipient. a crippled cruise ship. it limps into san diego harbor. we re greeting passengers at the dock. you heard about stopped-up toilets, cold spam, cold pop-tarts. how bad did it really get? let s find out. i come from canada where we ve had cigarettes like that for years. shocking images to scare young people from cigarettes once and for all. the conversation i was just having with my young friend christine romans. this country s deficit can bring to line the comment about the weather. not since the 90s has washington done anything big and bold to get rid of our long-term debt until maybe now. a bipartisan commission that president obama tasked with doing what politicians won t has done just that. weeks ahead of schedule it was supposed to be released december 1st it has gone public with a plan that it says would splash deficits by almost 4 trillion, with a t, dollars over the next decade. here s what the plan is going to look like
meanwhile, the voters have made it clear, this last election, the government upset with government spending and wanting it to stop. the question then this morning and every morning, okay, what wow then cut? well, a bipartisan commission is out this morning with their list. it s not pretty. look, everybody knows you can cut the deficit and cut the debt. here s some of the proposals that touch you and every american that come from the bipartisan commission. first, gradually raising the retirement age from 67 to 69. you remember the protests in france that were spurred by the idea of raising the retirement age two years from 60 to 62. we re talking about raising it to 69. on taxes, eliminating or scaling back some of the most popular writeoffs, including the mortgage interest deduction. tax increases would be offset by replacing the current tax rates with just three of them, 8%, 14% and 23%. it s all pretty tough medicine for the american economy. and it came with a dire warni
sacrificed in the nation s military. there will be a full day of remembrances at arlington national cemetery in virginia. vice president biden will lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns. pentagon says all evidence now points to an aircraft leaving this mysterious streak across the sky in southern california on monday. many people have speculated that it was a rocket launch of some kind. the pentagon has denied that from the very beginning. and just about six hours from now, a hazy view right now, but that ship the crippled cruise ship carnival splendor due to arrive in san diego right now. an electrical fire left 4,500 on board without air conditioning or hot showers. president obama is in south korea on this veterans day and remembering the so-called forgotten war. the president praised members of the audience who fought in the korean conflict and u.s. troops who stand guard today at the border. he reminded americans to honor those that protect their freedom aroun
troops in a combat role has made the place more dangerous? reporter: well, candy, there s a lot of mixed feelings in iraq about the u.s. troop drawdown, about the timing of it. the u.s. military s presence on the streets, at least even if it was a presence whereby which they were standing behind iraqi security forces in greater numbers, did largely act as a deterrent. there are iraqis who feel that the timing of this drawdown, perhaps not taking place at the best of times, because at the end of the day we do have this political vacuum after inconclusive elections in march, and already recent intelligence, there have been signs showing that al qaeda is beginning to re-emerge in some areas, that the iranian-backed shia militias are making a comeback. so there is a lot of concern about this lack of u.s. military oversight. arwa damon, thank you so much. out of baghdad today. up next, soldiers claim he a soldier claims he s no hero, despite evidence to the
sunday sound you didn t hear. christine o donnell, the tea party-backed candidate who triumphed in delaware last tuesday, had a rough week defending various actions and statements from her past. she was scheduled on two sunday talk shows, national showcases for any candidate. but saturday morning, o donnell canceled her campaign, explaining she had scheduling conflicts. that s today s sound of sunday. up next, a soldier claims he s no hero, despite evidence to the contrary. in this job, i am only mediocre. i m average. this was a situation that we were put into and by no means did i do anything that anyone else wouldn t have done in that situation.