united nations got up and walked out right in the middle of a security council meeting. good morning to you. it is wednesday, october 5th. this is your a.m. wake-up call. i m carol kos tecostello live fw york this morning. it s a brand-new day in every sense of the word for amanda knox. she ll be waking up at home for the first time in four years. she returned with her family yesterday, just one day after an italian appeals court overturned her murder conviction in the death of her british roommate, meredith kercher. knox held back tears speaking to reporters thanking her parents and her friends for their support during her time in prison. what s important for me to say is just thank you to everyone who has believed in me, who has defended me, who has supported my family. i just want my family is the most important thing to me right now, and i just want to go be with them. so thank you for being there for me. italian prosecutors say they ll appeal the knox ruling to i
murray s team says jackson gave himself the fatal dose. yesterday jurors heard jackson slurring his words in an audio recording made just weeks before he died. he was talking about his upcoming shows in london. when people leave my show, i want them to say, i ve never seen nothing like this in my life. murray faces up to four years in prison and the loss of his medical license if he is convicted. iran is planning to send navy ships near the atlantic coast of the united states, at least that s what a commander has told iran s state-run news agency. why, you ask? that commander says iran will do it because the u.s. does the same thing near the marine border. the u.s. defense department has not commented on this. american ships have been deployed to the persian gulf in the past. it looks like 41 years of good fortune have run out for a fugitive. george wright is a convicted killer who escaped from a new jersey prison in 1970 and later hijacked a plane to algeria. he mana
that answer may why people say they can do this at home. if it goes out of hand, it goes away quickly. the problem, there s nobody there to resuscitate you and nobody could bring you back. that was pretty quick. you gave some of the medication. he s gone from being completely awake to asleep. he s not breathing. i m breathing for him. murray could face four years in prison if found guilty. let s look at the world market. things looking better in asia. all the major markets have made gains this morning. european markets have gotten off to a decent start. u.s. futures are also looking positive. confidence and plans for resolving debt crisis pushed u.s. stocks higher yesterday much the dow surged 272 point or 2.5%. the s&p 500 added 27 points and the nasdaq rose 33. protesters will be back on wall street again today for an 11th straight day. they claimed the big financial firms are greedy, corrupt and have hijacked democracy. michael moore, the filmmaker, spoke to the pr
no one cared that he was gay. a legal network for them estimates 14,000 were booted from the military because of don t ask, don t tell. authorities could decide whether a condemned man lives or dies. troy davis was convicted of murder in 1989. if the state does not intervene he will be put to death at 7:00 p.m. eastern. davis supporters say he is innocent and the officer s family says justice is overdue. both sides spoke before the parole board. no time is easy when you have to go before the pardons and parole board but feel like we got to say what we needed to say. they heard the truth which is the most important part. and i believe that they will probably favor in our favor. i would be petrified but troy, troy has an understanding of this is bigger than him. this is about a judicial system that may possibly need to change and get better so that this doesn t really happen. the board could commute his death sentence to life without parole or could deny clemency and
it is september 14th. this is your a.m. wake-up call. i m carol costello joining you live this morning from new york. thanks for waking up with us. nearly one in six americans are now living in poverty. that s according to a new report from the census bureau. it s a gut check on where we stand in the wake of the recession. here are the raw numbers from the government. 46.2 million lived in poverty in 2010. that s over 15% of the population, the highest level since 1993. for a family of four, the poverty line is just over $22,000 a year. some advocates for the poor say that bar is way too low, but the conservative heritage foundation is pushing back again. if you qualify as being in poverty today, then you re really in deep poverty because that number is so low. that s based on an outdated formula from the 60s. i think that these numbers are designed to exaggerate the extent of poverty in the united states in order to build a larger welfare state, and it does make it mo