governor haley barbour is now missing after he did not appear in court. attorney general for that state, jim hood, calls this missing convict a dangerous threat to the community and he s offering a reward. i ll talk with the attorney general live. plus, newt gingrich often takes aim at what he refers to as the elite media. well, will he now pick a fight with conservative columnist and radio show hosts who are, according to politico, ready to drop a bomb on newt s candidacy? ann coulter is now telling conservatives a vote for gingrich is a vote for obama. plus, we are following big, breaking news from the pentagon. defense secretary leon panetta is getting ready to announce major military budget cuts. we ll have the details for that on you. newt gingrich has had what some people view as a rough 24 hours as he tries to win over florida s crucial hispanic voting bloc. his campaign took down a spanish radio ad that described mitt romney as being anti-immigrant. that was under pressur
candidates in the race. thanks very much. that does it for us for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. my colleague, tamron hall has a look at what s next. we re following breaking news from the pentagon. major military budget cuts. jack jacobs will join me with his analysis. newt gingrich takes aim as what he refers to as the elite media. will he strike back at ann and others? we ll have the latest. one of convicted murders pardoned by haley barber is missing after he did not show up in court. jim hood is calling this man a danger to the community. a little bird told me about a band.
5,000 miles to get to the nome harbor. it was escorted by the only coast guard cutter in the fleet. due tokes team cold and wind last week it was slowed to a crawl. they were supposed to have the delivery done last week. because of the conditions they weren t able to get to nome until saturday. now if all goes well they will have the oil to the people later today. martha: wow, what a story. imagine how cold it is out there for those folks working on that. thank you very much, dan springer. bill: the line of the day, no place like nome. martha: no place like nome. thank you, dan springer. bill: new reports from the u.s. navy that it s in danger of losing one or more of its crucial aircraft carriers. the reason, the pending military budget cuts in washington. right now the navy operating with eleven active flat tops. they have five other ships along with a submarine. the ships carey more than 80 aircraft, 7500 sailors call it home. cutting one of those groups may
the prime minister s home. demonstrators are demanding that he step down. fifa s president says he never meant to imply that racism isn t a problem in football. earlier seth blater said players who think they ve been abused during a game should shake hands with their opponent and move on. blater released a statement saying he is committed to fighting racism. president obama and australian prime minister gallard discussed troops. he announced a deployment of 2,200 marines to australia. i m zain verjee. world business today starts now. good morning. from cnn london, i m nina del santos. and from cnn hong kong i m andrew stevens. top stories this thursday, november 17. china on his mind. the u.s. president outlines the new u.s. push into asia. the cleanup is under way in asia as factories get back to business as usual. yes, the camera does lie. benetton is creating controversy already with its new unhate campaign. it s already been forced to pull one of its images.
cain doesn t have the foreign policy chops on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning, everybody. it s tuesday, november 15th. ali velshi off today. i m christine romans along with carol costello on american morning. welcome back, carol. thanks. i had a great few days off, but it s going to be back. good morning to you. breaking news to tell you about right at the top. overnight police in new york city moved in and cleared out the occupy wall street protesters from zuccotti park, the birthplace ever the occupy movement. the evictions came overnight. police ripping down tents, signs and cleaning up. a number of protesters were arrested for refusing to get out. poppy harlow now downtown. we re hearing the park is back open. so have police allowed the protesters to go back, like they said they would? reporter: so far, no. so far we ve still got police as far as we can tell surrounding the park, but it is all cleaned out. we made it in