free 66 hours after the ground first shook. we re live in turkey with the latest. and i m carol costello. president obama about to unveil a new plan to help young americans go to college without going broke. details on the president s proposal on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com all right. good morning, everybody. it is wednesday, october 26th, and welcome to american morning this morning. buying car? so sorry for carter evans. i m going to find out what the number one car was. we have commercial breaks here. e-mail. paper. any tough questions for me? write them down before you ask them to me on tv. how s that? what s the meaning of life? we ll get to that one. a busy morning for you. up first, new clashes overnight between police in oakland, california, and occupy wall street protester. police in riot gear using tear gas on the crowds in oakland s city hall plaza. look at pictures. fascinating. some protesters throwing paint at t
first shook. we re live in turkey with the latest. and i m carol costello. president obama about to unveil a new plan to help young americans go to college without going broke. details on the president s proposal on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com all right. good morning, everybody. it is wednesday, october 26th, and welcome to american morning this morning. buying car? so sorry for carter evans. i m going to find out what the number one car was. we have commercial breaks here. e-mail. paper. any tough questions for me? write them down before you ask them to me on tv. how s that? what s the meaning of life? we ll get to that one. a busy morning for you. up first, new clashes overnight between police in oakland, california, and occupy wall street protester. police in riot gear using tear gas on the crowds in oakland s city hall plaza. look at pictures. fascinating. some protesters throwing paint at the cop. dozens arrested despite
companions. another one, reportedly another american al qaeda propagandist. he has been linked to several of the highest profile terrorists or terror sp suspects of the de including the christmas day underwear bomber. the accused ft. hood attacker, u.s. major anadal hasan and three 9/11 hijackers and faisal shahzad. the death of awlaki is a major blow to al qaeda s most active operational affiliate. awlaki was the leader of external operations for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. in that role he took the lead in planning and directing efforts to murder innocent americans. reporter: for more on awlaki, the al qaeda off shoot he represented and where we go from here, i want to bring in cnn s international correspondent nic robertson. nic, this was a huge development. why was awlaki such a threat and a priority for the snus. he was an intellectual. he was smart. he was well educated. he knew how to sort of manipulate his audience and the one thing that he had that al
the accused ft. hood attacker, u.s. major anadal hasan and three 9/11 hijackers and faisal shahzad. the death of awlaki is a major blow to al qaeda s most active operational affiliate. awlaki was the leader of external operations for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. in that role he took the lead in planning and directing efforts to murder innocent americans. reporter: for more on awlaki, the al qaeda off shoot he represented and where we go from here, i want to bring in cnn s international correspondent nic robertson. nic, this was a huge development. why was awlaki such a threat and a priority for the snus. he was an intellectual. he was smart. he was well educated. he knew how to sort of manipulate his audience and the one thing that he had that al qaeda really wanted was a way to communicate the potential recruits in the west. he spoke english and he spoke it with a charisma and a meaning that drew in radicals or potential radicals towards al qaeda. and really that
asked he said that there is some cream in michael s room, or house i believe room, that he wouldn t want the world to know about, and he requested that i or someone give him a right back to the house to get it so the world you know wouldn t know about the cream. reporter: during cross-examination the defense team asked michael amir williams, you re telling us this story now, how come at the time when you were interviewed by the police department on a number of occasions you never brought this up before? how come all of a sudden this is coming up now trying to call into question that testimony. we also heard part of his testimony about michael jackson s children, all three of them being near the room or in the room when michael jackson was there lifeless and how one was bald up crying and another one was basically yelling out his father s name. that may be a set up, jon, for the oldest child to come testify in the courtroom e. is on the witness list that. could happen.