by cbs we can confirm, in fact, this is tuesday. i m chris wragge. i m erica hill. nice have you back. congratulations on your triathlon. which we ll have more on coming up later in the show. talk about the story of the day this morning. that is where we begin this morning. amanda knox returning to the u.s. after four years in prison. got on a plane in rome and due to be home tonight after an italian appeals court ordered her to be freed. 48 hours correspondent peter van sant is with us in italy. good morning. this local headline says it all. while in great britain, there s another headline. foxy knoxy free to make millions. while the knox family is leaving the entire media circus behind. these ilmages of amanda knox leaving prisson the first pictures of the 24-year-old american a free woman. the other inmates cheered her name. while her family arrived like tourists amanda was summarypared the look of the check-in desk. today s joy is a dramatic contrast from last n
his death. we ll tell you how his ground breaking research nearly kept him alive in order to see it. and hank williams jr. is sidelined after he compares obama to hitler. it s tuesday morning, october obama to hitler. it s tuesday morning, october 4th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good morning. welcome to the the early show. i m just trying to get you close to friday. thank you so much. we ll have more coming up later in the show. talk about the story of the day this morning. and that is where we begin this morning. amanda knox returning to the u.s. after nearly four years in prison. she s due to be home by tonight after an italian appeals court threw out her murder conviction. peter is in perugia, italy, with the latest this morning. good morning. good morning. this local headline in a perugia newspaper says it all. while in great britain there s another headline, foxy knoxy free to make millions. well, the knox family is leaving the entire media circus beh
for medicine three days after his death. we ll tell you how his ground breaking research nearly kept him alive in order to see it. and hank williams jr. is sidelined after he compares obama to hitler. it s tuesday morning, october 4th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good morning. welcome to the the early show. i m just trying to get you close to friday. thank you so much. we ll have more coming up later in the show. talk about the story of the day this morning. and that is where we begin this morning. amanda knox returning to the u.s. after nearly four years in prison. she s due to be home by tonight after an italian appeals court threw out her murder conviction. peter is in perugia, italy, with the latest this morning. good morning. good morning. this local headline in a perugia newspaper says it all. while in great britain there s another headline foxy knoxy free to make millions. well, the knox family is leaving the entire media circus behind. these images
i m erica hill. a good portion of the country up a little late last night watching baseball and that s because you couldn t turn away from this. talk about an end to the season. the red sox lose in the ninth inning. going in 3-2 and then fall out of the playoffs with a loss in that ninth. same thing extra for the extra inning for the braves. both teams were essentially alive for the playoffs after those representing collapses, though. the cardinals head into the playoffs, instead. much more on baseball s wild night coming up and more on the reason why your colleagues there may need a little stay awake. nice of you to wear black for the folks of red sox nation. i did go to school in boston even though i was raised a yankee fan. first thing this morning the latest on the home grown terror suspect caught in a operation. bob has the very latest on this story. bob, good morning. good morning chris. the latest example of the home grown threat. a 26-year-old massachusetts
beneath the fog. good morning. i m chris wragge. we begin with the race for the white house. the man stealing the limelight is a governor who insists he s not a candidate. despite his denials, governor chris christie s supporters are more pumped up every day. bill whitaker reports snrk it had all the markings of a campaign swing. governor chris christie hit three states in four days with a speech last night at the ronald reagan library in southern california. an all but required stop for republicans with national ambitions. what happened to state senator obama? when did he become one of the dividers he spoke so eloquently of in 2004? there is, of course, a different choice. reporter: he s made a big name for himself with his bold brand of conservative politics and his brash style. here he is as hurricane irene bore down on new jersey. get the hell off the beach in asbury park and get out. reporter: he says he s raising money for the gop but he s raising conservative h