meeting with his wife last night. it was the first since the apgz allegations came up of a 13-year affair. the other live event we re keeping an eye on, you saw on the right side of your screen just a moment ago, romney just having a rally in new hampshire. but he s also expected to answer reporters questions. we re expecting that at any minute now and we will take you back there live. but a lot going on on the political front. a lot going on all over the country and the world. we ll bring it all to you from the cnn center in atlanta. this is your cnn saturday morning. i m t.j. holmes. we want to head back out to our shannon traffic advice standing by at the campaign headquarters at this event for the opening of this campaign headquarters. spoe supposed to start here in under an hour from now. we ve been talking about in this morning. is there any way someone makes a big announcement that he s dropping out on the same day that he s opening his campaign headquarters? that jus
the region are calling snowtober. right now 2 million people are without power. four states have declared emergencies new york, new jersey, connecticut and massachusetts. officials predicted the downed trees were going to be a major problem and they were right. take a look. the storm is being blamed for three deaths so far. a man in pennsylvania was killed when a snow-covered tree fell into his house. two others died in connecticut and massachusetts. people in connecticut have lost power there. they re being told it will be a while before it comes back. the governor says they ve been waiting for road conditions to improve before sending out repair crews. we re covering all angles of the major storm. chad meyers is on the ground in pennsylvania where there are massive power outages and our alexandra steele is in the severe weather center with more on the snowstorm and what travelers can expect today. let s start in pennsylvania. socked by the snow. our chad meyers is in
significant reduction in the american standard of living. their words, not mine. but when you break it down, the reality gets even more troubling. during the recession, the average income slipped by about 3%. but after the recession when the economy was supposed to be picking up, take a look. the average income dropped by nearly 7%, down to $49,909. incomes fell more after the recession ended than they did during the actual recession. as the senate begins debating president obama s jobs bill, perhaps this explains why so many people are angry. and also explains, in part, why occupy wall street has become a nationwide movement in its fourth week. the protests have now spread far beyond wall street to more than two dozen cities. like it or not, it is a voice the president, lawmakers and the gop presidential candidates can no longer ignore. i don t know where it s going to go but they need to go away, because in my opinion, they re focusing on the wrong thing. seems to me t
for a horrific crime she didn t commit. her roommate was brute ale murdered in an apartment they shared in perugia. tonight amanda and her boyfriend rafael sollecito are free. she s preparing to fly home to the united states to rebuild her shattered life. for the latest, let s go to matthew chance in perugia. you ve been out there the whole time. you were in court today. dramatic scenes. were you expecting that? you ve been following this very closely for years. reporter: yeah, well, i wasn t quite expecting the level of emotion that i witnessed in the court today. it really was tense. you had both the knox family and the kercher family sitting in the same course. the kerchers very much wanted for amanda knox to stay in prison. they wanted the conviction to be upheld. obviously, the knoxes wanted the opposite. when it went the knoxes way, there were whoops and chants. and powerful tension. amanda was just so overcome with emotion. she could barely walk she was crying so mu
american student amanda knox walked free from an italian prison after serving four years for a horrific crime she didn t commit. her roommate was brute ale murdered in an apartment they shared in perugia. tonight amanda and her boyfriend rafael sollecito are free. she s preparing to fly home to the united states to rebuild her shattered life. for the latest, let s go to matthew chance in perugia. you ve been out there the whole time. you were in court today. dramatic scenes. were you expecting that? you ve been following this very closely for years. reporter: yeah, well, i wasn t quite expecting the level of emotion that i witnessed in the court today. it really was tense. you had both the knox family and the kercher family sitting in the same course. the kerchers very much wanted for amanda knox to stay in prison. they wanted the conviction to be upheld. obviously, the knoxes wanted the opposite. when it went the knoxes way, there were whoops and chants. and powerful tens