this. good morning and happy friday. it is november 4th. this is your manhatt a.m. wake- call, i m carol costello. one of the women accusing the republican presidential candidate of sexual harassment may issue a statement later today. her lawyer says she would rebut cain s denials of any sexual advances when the woman worked for cain at the national restaurant association in the late 90s. she s one of three women who have accused cain of inappropriate behavior. cain repeatedly denied the allegations but has acknowledged at least one severance payment was made to an accuser. in a radio interview with sean hannity, mccain vowed to press ahead with his campaign. i can assure you this, sean, this will not deter me. this businessman will not be deterred in his drive to basically feel what i m supposed to be doing, which is to win this nomination and win the presidency. politico.com first broke the story on sunday and since then cain has given conflicting accounts on the al
i m don lemon live in tampa, florida, for monday night s cnn gop tea party debate. a preview ahead but we start first with the 10th anniversary of 9/11. it s been a long day of deep emotions and quiet memories. america pauses to remember the attacks of 9/11 exactly ten years ago. the site of the 9/11 memorial opened today. fountains occupy the space where the twin towers once stood. cnn s poppy harlow has been there. i want to know what the reaction is now that the memorial is open. is there some degree of comfort? reporter: i think there is, don, from all the people that i talk to today, those that lost their children, those that lost fathers, brothers, mothers, aunts and uncles. for a lot of them this was cathartic in a sense and this was closure and also rebirth for some of them. it was the first time this morning they were able to walk into the gates, the memorial with each and every one of the names of those who lost their life at 9/11 at the twin towers etched in ston
i m don lemon live in tampa, florida, for monday night s cnn gop tea party debate. a preview ahead but we start first with the 10th anniversary of 9/11. it s been a long day of deep emotions and quiet memories. america pauses to remember the attacks of 9/11 exactly ten years ago. the site of the 9/11 memorial opened today. fountains occupy the space where the twin towers once stood. cnn s poppy harlow has been there. i want to foe what the reaction is now that the memorial is open. is there some degree of comfort? reporter: i think there is, don, from all the people that i talk to today, those that lost their children, those that lost fathers, brothers, mothers, aunts and uncles. for a lot of them this was cathartic in a sense and this was closure and also rebirth for some of them. it was the first time this morning they were able to walk into the gates, the memorial with each and every one of the names of those who lost their life at 9/11 at the twin towers etched in stone
crushed student uprising in the 1907s. bigger demonstrations in the 80s and 90s. there were fears expressed today, that in the very end if it came down to it, he might use something like chemical weapons or bombs against his own people. we haven t seen that happen at this point. he has describing by some as in hiding. his words have not sounded like something coming from a person in any position of strength any longer. when he called first, it was saturday night. and the tone was accusetory and something we have heard from the regime over and over again as the uprising was going on. he called the rebels rats and filthy people. he blamed nato over and over again for destroying his country. and interestingly, he said, at one point, this is the end. so apparently he is seeing this coming but saying that nato doesn t know how to end it.
historic moment in libya. earlier today the rebels with very little resistance from pro-gadhafi forces were able to move into tripoli and there is euphoria on the streets in tripoli and benghazi, in villages all across the country. this latest manifestation of the arab spring. i ve been talking to raghida, a middle east expert. and you have to wonder, raghida, i mean, there are many immediate problems ahead for how this is all going to play out in libya. but it has to make the folks in syria a little bit nervous right new. they must be very nervous in syria because that downfall of moammar gadhafi, one thing in expecting and watching, is it going to happen, is it not? it s been almost a stumbling block in the arab spring. so now it s clear that the end of moammar gadhafi regime, i m pretty certain that folks in yemen and syria the situation because in saudi arabia virtually under house arrest, so