and good morning, this is your a.m. wake-up call for monday, november 28th from the time warner center in new york city, i m christine romanss, here are the morning s top stories. the syracuse child sex abuse. the university fired bernie fine. fired him after a new phone conversation surfaced between allegedly the accuser and fine s wife. that conversation revealing that mrs. fine was worried about the sex abuse allegations and also that she had a sexual relationship with the accuser, as well. keeping our eye on occupy wall street, protesters in los angeles facing a deadline to clear out of camp. just two hours ago but many refusing to budge. wreck the malls. black friday was a blockbuster. early numbers are in. this holiday shopping season could be a huge boost for the retailers. according to the national retail federation, total spending hit a record $52 billion. that s up 16% from last year. besides the door busters, wow, online sales exploded too. where are people g
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amendment no sooner than october 1st and by the end of the year and there are a lot of people out there who say this is something we ve been waiting for so stand by for that. in the meantime, will there be enough votes given all this stuff and what are the deal breakers as well? doug mcelway it live at the russell rotunda with more. fill us in. a lot of this depends on how it shapes up as the morning progresses, we ll be able to gauge as the morning progresses, the house set to meet at 10:00 this morning for the morning business and the first votes of the day scheduled for noon. by that time, we should have a much clearer picture of how much support and how much opposition is inherent in this deal that was worked out last night. there are potentially two very large problems for either party in this thing. you guys have hit at it. it deals largely with this congressional committee, the 12 member commission that s been set up as of next december to impose the second round of cuts $1.
london. for instance charles and camilla were also there for a time before they returned to clarence house. thank you very much, indeed. much more from anna, of course, throughout the day. we will also be joined by our royal current here, sarah hughes and we have the royal commentator alice and former royal press secretary. good morning to you. more from you later. quick reaction, how excited are you on that scale of once in a million? very, very. we can t wait and we are waiting to see that dress as well as everybody. i m waiting to see the frock as well. in the past wedding dresses have been all puffed up. this one i think will be very stylish and probably pencil thin. i had a sneak preview and t is looking sensational. i can imagine that. we will talk a lot about that as the morning progresses. go straightaway now to
evacuated. jackie joins us with the latest. are they still hoping it s a rescue operation for those missing individuals? reporter: the flames have gone out and the recovery mode has begun. we have been watching as backhoes and heavy equipment has been going into where the fire happened overnight. as you said, one person is dead. five people are still missing. officials believe that the death toll will rise as the morning progresses. the explosion happened at about 10:45 last night. at first, it flattened two homes but then damaged eight homes in total during the evening. now hundreds of people were evacuated, including that senior center that you mentioned. there were some concerns that there might be a second explosion. fire officials were unsure if the gas that caused the initial explosion came from outside on the street or if it came from