sharon bialek here this morning with her skoir. guilty of the charge of involuntary manslaughter. a jury decides the fate of invi conrad murray. what s next. it s a roar. oh, my god. and way too close for comfort. storm chasers catching amazing video of a tornado on the ground in oklahoma on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. it is tuesday, november 8. welcome to american morning. first, shocking accusations against herman cain. this morning the washington examiner is raising stories. a fifth woman said he asked to be set up on a dinner date with another woman after a speech he gave. this after accuser number four came forward and didn t hold back. her name is sharon bialek. she s a single mother from chicago who worked for the national res straugs association back in the 1990s. she was laid off and met with herman cain to ask for help finding another position. with glory yad aia allred by he giving a detailed account of
the dark. our congressional correspondent kate bolduan is on capitol hill looking into the story. kate, what s going only here? this was not supposed to be like this. reporter: hey there, wolf. i m standing out front as people are passing by. behind me is this nondescript room. this is where the super committee will meet again this evening behind closed doors which has some government watchers, since this committee has such a huge job before them, some government watchers are calling this approach troubling. good morning. reporter: the so-called super committee began its work with a promise of transparency. i believe the american people deserve to have full access to committee business the way they do with every committee here in congress. there will be ample opportunities for the public to have their opinions heard. reporter: but with just seven weeks before their thanksgiving deadline, the committee has met in public only three times. the 12 members meeting more
jury, she rambled around, this time, short, declarative sentences saying i did not kill, i did not rape, it was really very effective, she was emotional, though, she stopped as she started to cry several times, her family as well, there, holding hands and crying, but a very effective speech today. now, her co-defendant, her former boyfriend, also on trial, somewhat less effective. you could tell that rafaela is terrified, talking about how tough it is to live in prison, they have both been in prison, amanda and rafaela, now for nearly four years, rafaela talking about being in a tiny cell, 2-meters by 3-meters, for some 20 hours a day, and what effect that has had on him. now, the family of the victim, meredith kircher, have arrived, they have been quiet up until now, only speaking out a couple of times, but today, they d. they will be here for the verdict, they said they re not happy about the media
i think that means that there will be a media onslaught of attack. but that s nothing new. that s something that goes with the territory. it doesn t matter who the candidate is. whether they re male or female. there will be attacks that come. and that s simply what we have to be prepared to deal with. and i m prepared. is she prepared? nbc s political analyst charlie cook. editor of the cook political report joins me now. she had a pretty good rollout just sort of the dynamic and now her organizers are saying in new hampshire today they expect perhaps 150 people excluding the media and she had more than 200 at a backyard event. head counting is of course a political art. that said, michele bachmann has some fire here. she is someone with some formidable skills.
filming this right now. seriously, the ceiling, look. oh, my god. oh, my god. these guys made it out alive but four people were killed. we will show you just how bad the damage was. shelling heard from a roof top. street fighting breaks out in the airport in yemen s capital. flights canceled and there is new concerns of a coming civil war. google says hundreds of personal g mail accounts have been hacked. they blame a giant fishing operation based in china. the sputtering u.s. economy and the creeping fear that things are only going to get worse, that grim outlook sent wall street sliding. the dow plunged near 280 points. that is the biggest one-day drop since last summer. nasdaq also saw its value evaporate by more than 2%. its 66-point slide was the worst one-day loss in four months. ali, this is kind of a snowball effect of bad economic news, right? yeah. we ought to be careful not to get too far into it. that s what used to happen where you start to think it i