on charges that they had thrown homemade bomb into a crowd gathered in tahrir square. the boys were given physical exams, then taken to a police station to get their exit visas. joy sweeney was ecstatic when i talked to her just a few minutes ago. listen. i am absolutely ecstatic, we are so grateful he is going to be released. we still haven t gotten confirmation from him that he is out of there and everything s done, but we have official confirmation from the consulate general, roberto powers, that he is released. [laughter] so i just can t tell you how jubilant we are. reporter: sweeney said she expects to see her son home soon, probably tomorrow. jon? jon: what about the other families? any word from them? reporter: yeah. i also talked with the father of 21-year-old luke gates, bill was very emotional as he described his family s reaction. we re just ecstatic, we re
good morning. happy thanksgiving. this is the day you ve been waiting for. carol costello, thursday, november 24th. ali and christina have the day off. so glad you re with us. i have all of the fattening stuff laid out for me already here. it s already here. they ordered in thanksgiving dinner for us at 3:00 a.m. the turkey is crusty now. still edible. the stuffing is quite good actually. first up this morning, one thing we re very thankful for, our brave men and women in the military serving here and overseas. we have about 20,000 troops in iraq right now but the forces are flooding out as a december deadline for withdrawal approaches. thousan thousands sent to kuwait waiting to be reassigned or sent back home. happy thanksgiving, martin. reporter: good morning, carol. happy thanksgiving to you. it is a happy thanksgiving especially for those soldiers gathered here at camp virginia. let me tell you why. we re located about 20 kilometers south of the border with iraq.
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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
seven-point lead over former massachusetts governor, mitt romney. and among tea party supporters in the hawkeye state, gingrich is now the runaway favorite. now the question did gingrich put all of that at risk last night when he walked into the wiquick sand of republican politics. how to treat millions of illegal immigrants. i m prepared to take the heat for saying, let s be humane and enforcing the law without giving them citizenship but by finding a way to create legality so that they are not separated from their families. not a new position. here s gingrich this week in new hampshire explaining his position in more detail. if you ve been here 20 or 30 years, you ve been paying your taxes, you ve been obeying the law, belong to a local church, you re married, three kids, two grandkids, a program which would allow you to pay penalty, allow you to be legal but not a citizen. to become a citizen you have to join at the end of the line the people who are not currently