my interview with alma powell on what they re trying to do to turn that around. an estimated 160,000 students are too afraid to go to school every day. why? and let s fix it. but first, paying the bank to use your own money. by now, you have heard that bank of america wants to charge a $5 fee to use a debit card. it is a trend. citibank moved to end free checking and chase in some states will be charging similar purchase fees. consumers as you might already know are not very happy about it. greg mcbride is an analyst at bankrate.com and legal ger at fortune. people are so mad and we all know that free checking is dwindling. that s down from 76% two years ago. the answer if you hate the fees is community banks, credit unions, not for profit by the way and stays to stay with the bank and avoid the fees but maybe only if you have money, investment accounts, maybe a mortgage. how do you avoid the bank fees? well, i think that s the main point, christine. we are not hostage to t
anarchists have infiltrated this peaceful demonstration. they came to rome today with the sole purpose of butting heads with the police and that s what they are doing now. the area is thick with smoke and tear gas. molotov cocktails, explosions are echoing on the cobblestones of the city. it is really quite a tense situation. a lot of the protesters have gone home. a lot of an ar i don t think the night is over yet. there have been confirmation of two serious injuries. one man lost half his hand in a car explosion and a police officer has been seriously injured. but i ve seen dozens of people that are in need of some sort of medical care, whether stitches or some tear from the demonstration demonstrations and explosions in the streets. it sounds like there s two different groups here, peaceful demonstrators who are trying to make a statement about the economic situation there in italy. but then they were kind of upstaged by the anarchists. now i wonder if those who organi
tonight, sean penn on his work on the frontline of disaster and the situation only wall street. and you won t believe who the police dragged off to jail in the protests. not the usual suspects. this is piers morgan tonight. pretty dramatic day for the occupied wall street protests. marches and the rest across the country and some rough arrests. thousands on the streets and police from new york to san diego struggling to coral demonstrators. new york, more than a dozen arrest and more arrested in denver and san diego, all this after protesters declared victory on wall street. and bloomberg, pulled back on the threat to move them out of the area they re occupying. we ll talk to two arrest prod testers later in the show. sean penn, many say his greatest role is that of activist. welcome. thank you. when you say what s happening on occupy wall street protests, do these resonate with you? is that the fury you ve felt about issues over the years? it resonates a great
morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning it is friday, october 14th. welcome to american morning. it s a good morning on many levels. the tigers won. that s what i was going to say. the rangers are one game away from clinching it, and i kept think, well that means the tigers could still win. did you see the sixth ining? crazy. a single, a double, a triple and home run in one inning. i don t think that s ever happened in baseball before. the double kareemed off third base. the only reason it turned into a double and that was the turning point. there s a spring in her step. wouldn t you say? this week, did you watch more baseball or sleep more? definitely watched more baseball. i haven t slept all week. i m a little slap happy now. things getting ugly, perhaps. staging a sit-in nearly four weeks and are being ordered to vacate at 7:00 eastern. the city wants to clean the park. that s what they say. mayor blockberg says they want to clean th
sanitation. police say they arrested 14 protesters today who blocked traffic and turned over trash cans. texas governor rick perry is unveiling his national energy plan in suburban pittsburgh right now. live pictures. he says president perry will expand drilling on federal lands and get rid of clean air rules and other, quote, activist regulations. perry says getting bureaucracy out of the way will mean 1 million or more new jobs. perry has stumbled in the polls. his wife came to his defense. it s been a rough time. we ve been brutalized, eaten up and chewed up in the press, to where i mean, we re being brutalized by our opponents and our party. so much of that is, i think they look at him because of his faith. anita perry went on to say, we didn t have to do this. she says we are running to save our children and the soul of the country. end quote. presidential candidate herman cain is on a roll in more ways than one. he s kicking off a bus tour across tennessee nex