proposals going forward now as alan simpson talked about the banana in the gorilla cage and whether they ll start to use it to their effect? it will be interesting to hear what they have to say. if senator conrad was bold enough to go on the record and vote for some of the things, i think now, chris, can you hear us. yeah, i can, i m sorry. no worries. tell us about the meeting last night. we heard there was a huddle at the vice-president s house that involved steny hoyer, pete ralph. what were they trying to come up with? it s interesting, on the one hand the president is trying to negotiate with the republicans and trying to negotiate with the democrats who were the leadership in congress because they don t want to see him simply step back and accept a temporary extension of all the tax cuts for a couple, two, three years. so what he s trying it get in return, the president and in this case, the vice-president, is that the republicans will
under direction rather from the state department to be on guard against potential terror attacks there. the government s warning comes after uncovering what it characterizes as terror plots beyond the planning stages and already under way. nbc s tracie potts has the details for us from washington. tracie, good morning. reporter: lynn, good morning. but no specific information against europe and that s why this is a travel alert and not the more serious travel warning. what we do know, intelligence officials believe, that eight germans and two british brothers are hiding out somewhere near the pakistan/afghan border believed to be planning an attack in europe similar to what we saw in 2008 in mumbai, india, those coordinated shootings and bombings there and believe osama bin laden himself may be involved in the planning of this. over the weekend, the pakistan ambassador here in the united states said that the cia and pakistani officials are sharing intelligence and that is p
coming up this morning, with rahm emmanuel stepping down, it will be pete rouse as the interim chief of staff for the obama administration. so who is he and why was he picked for the most powerful advisory role at the white house. also ahead, he is one of hollywood s most talented leading men. edward norton is now starring in a new movie called stone and we ll find out more about that. you rob her smash hit, i don t want to wait which is the theme song for the dawson s creek series. paula cole has a new album out and she will perform for us live in the 9:00 hour. we ve got a lot coming up. let s get start wade started with a look at the forecast. it won t be a pretty day today. we have precipitation out there. we ll continue to see it today. lots of clouds around, cool conditions and rather breezy too. it will be a real fall-like day, folks. let s take a look at what is going on. we ll start with hd radar. can you see we have light to moderate rainfall across muc
experience working on the hill, having worked in the white house before made him a formidable person to deal with. shannon: a plus or a minus for the white house now that rahm is walking away? probably a mixed bag. as far as the mid term elections go i don t think it will have all that much of an impact because the message for each party has really already been set. you know, rahm was known in washington or is known as a bit of a bomb thrower and someone who encouraged the president to take advantage of economic crisis in order to move the country more to the left. so i think if a more bipartisan tone can emerge from a post rahm white house post mid term election white house i think that is probably good for everybody. shannon: kirsten, do you think that is possible? is that how this is going to play out with pete ralph now at least in the interim in that spot? i m not sure what is going to happen but i want to address
department issued a travel alert. warning of a potential terrorist attack by al-qaeda and others. steve centanni is following all the latest developments in washington. he has the latest. hi, steve. reporter: hi, shannon. state department travel warnings even for countries in europe are fairly common. this one is unusual because it s so sweeping and covers all of europe. now the state department says al-qaeda and its affiliates continue to plan terror attacks. the warning says u.s. citizens are reminded of the potential for terrorists to attack public transportation system and other tourist infrastructure. they attacked subway and rail system and aviation and maritime services. and from the white house this morning, statement saying the president has been following the threat information on a daily basis. and was informed on this travel alert throughout. from the day we became aware of the latest plot, the president made it clear we need to do everything possible to disrupt