he s a fascinating guy. all right. thanks very much, kyra. all right. let s get you up to speed for this thursday, november 3rd. investors on wall street are watching what s happening in europe and we re keeping a close watch on the markets and your money. stocks open higher after a decision by the european central bank to cut interest rates right now dow is up 94 points, but every little cent counts at the g-20 summit in france. president obama met with french president nicolas sarkozy to discuss the european debt crisis. i think it s no surprise that we ve spent most of our conversation focused on strengthening the global economic recovery so that we are creating jobs for our people and stabilizing the financial markets around the world. the most important aspect of our task over the next two days is to resolve the financial crisis here in europe. the big part of the debt crisis is the drama playing out in greece. prime minister george papandreou called an emergency
cain for leaking the story is speaking out. plus, lawmakers documents of the bankrupt solar energy company that got a half a billion dollar loan from the obama administration. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com while herman cain scrambles to try to get in front of the growing controversy, he s raking in lots of campaign contributions. cain s campaign now tells cnn they ve raised an astonishing $1.2 million since sunday evening when news of the accusations first broke. meantime, cain may face new embarrassment and more pressure if one of his accusers is allowed to come forward with a statement. brian todd has been reporting. what are you learning today? going to get to that in a moment, but what we may hear, there are indications that cain s alleged behavior may have cost the national restaurant association up to $80,000. politico reports one of the woman received a payout of about $45,000 as part of her settlement. earlier this week,
president obama arriving in france for the g-20. the big story is greece, gamble with the global economy, and how could it cost the membership in the eu on this american morning. good morning to you. it is thursday, november 3. welcome to american morning. ali velshi is in stormy france. bad weather there. we will be talking to him in a few minutes about the g-20 minutes. stormy weather and stormy politics. up first, the scandal dogging herman cain s presidential campaign. growing larger this morning. associated press reporting that there is a third woman who accused cain of you wanted sexual advances when she worked for the national restaurant association. reports says she considered filing a complaint bunt didn t. cain for his part trying to stay on message. here he is facing reporters at an event in northern virginia. will he me say one thing. i m here with the doctors and that s what i m going to talk about. don t even bother asking me all the other questions th
president obama joins european leaders all working to deal with the crisis threatening the eurozone and, of course t global economy. for the first time we re hearing from the young woman who posted a video online of her father beating her. why did she do it seven years after the fact? good morning. it is thursday, november 3rd. this is your a.m. wake-up call. it s 5:00 eastern time. breaking news out of oakland, california. major developments in the occupy wall street protests. parts of the city look like a war zone right now. police fired teargas in an effort to remove several hundred occupy protesters who said they ignored orders to disperse. we have no information on possible injuries. the protesters were the remnants of thousands who yesterday carried through a threat to shut down the city in the port of oakland, the nation s fifth busiest port. mayor time operations had been effectively shut down. the port will reopen as soon as it s safe to do so. most downtown street
developing right now, in less than an hour, a judge in london set to decide whether wikileaks founder julian assange will be extradited to sweden. an incredible emergency landing caught on camera. pilots forced to land a 767 packed with passengers on its belly. get your morning coffee. and pitch in to create jobs. that s what starbucks is hoping millions of americans will do next time they stop in one of its stores. and good morning to you. it is wednesday, november 2nd. this is your a.m. wake-up call. i m carol costello joining us live from new york this morning. thanks for being here. if you re just waking up today, new claims that he s not telling the entire truth about sexual harassment allegations made against him. one of the two women who accused cain of inappropriate behavior says she wants to speak out about the scandal that s overshadowed cain s campaign. the alleged incident occurred when he was chief executive of the national restaurant association in the 90