i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first, he had nothing to say. then he couldn t remember. after that he recalled a few details and then more. in a flurry of interviews and public appearances over the past two days the republican front runner herman cain insisted he never sexually harassed anyone when he headed the national restaurant association in the 1990s. each time he seems to say something a bit different n. the latest, an extensive interview with hln, cain said he s being deliberately targeted but that his campaign won t be sidetracked. we have extensive coverage of the important political story beginning with brian todd. wolf, we have spoken to former colleagues of herman cain s at the restaurant association, asked him what he was like when he headed the group. we re taking a look at what cain said after the allegations surfaced and what he s saying now. on monday, herman cain said this about allegations of sexual harassment against him. i am unawa
unexpected, no question about it. but this has to be startling. i have to say that things don t shock me. i was shocked by this. reporter: did your heart skip a beat? could you what happened? i don t know. i think i called home and said, i m coming home. i m stopping my errands for saturday and first i thought that she should come get me, my wife should come get me, and i said, no, the car s drivable, but no back window. reporter: you were out here for about 36 hours or so without power. finally the power s back up. we take for granted so much what it s like to have electricity. what s it like to camp out in your house for 36 hours without it? first, let me give credit to meta, they worked tirelessly in this neighborhood with the tree people cutting it down. you know, you put up with it. we read by flashlight. it got cold, but the bed was the warmest place in town. you know, the thing is, we re such an information-based society, no tv, no internet, no phone. could
also american permanent presence in the country in the year ahead. another attack in the south of the country in kandahar where two were killed by a man wearing an afghan army uniform we understand from an army commander down there. in fact, he may have been trained by the two nato personnel he killed. we hear they possibly were australian but they re not confirming that. nick paton walsh, thank you so much from kabul. here in the u.s. from the mid-atlantic it to new england, a rare october surprise. a powerful snowstorm could paralyze parts of the region this halloween weekend. preparations for the storm are already in full swing. among the big concerns, power outages and travel delays, and it s already, by the way, snowing in parts of new york, massachusetts and other states across the region. some areas are expecting more than a foot of snow. pretty hard to believe, and we re not even at halloween yet. alexand andra steel. that s monday and days away. surprise. i tak
he s thinking, okay, are you kidding me? executive vice president and i m erin burnett. managing editor of cnn worldwide. out front on a friday night. that is his day job. but in his spare time he wrote a the most shaky republican race since 1964. new book called my long trip six different candidates have home: a family memoir, led in the national polls so far chronicling his life growing up this year. in a biracial family. it s amazing to think about it. and mark, it s a really great but there is a big reason for read. it. the tea party. it reads like a novel. a cnn poll shows that the we were just talking about it. but how it all started was, as republican party is literally you write in the book, you woke split down the middle. up a saturday morning after thanksgiving and said i m going half of them support the tea to write a book. yeah. well, my dad had passed away party or are active members. exactly a year to the day before that. well, 49, 51, some call that and y
police fired tear gas canisters. it s not clear if that s what caused his wound. olson s injury prompted occupy wall street protesters in new york to rally in his support the movement continues to show life around the world. occupy protesters in pakistan marched on the world bank s offices in islamabad chanting down with capitalism. a deal made in europe is putting money in your pocket this morning. stocks jumped at the open after european leaders agreed on a plan to end their debt crisis. the dow jones up right now. we are looking at about 240 is the latest there. the deal hammered out in brussels aims to stabilize european banks and the european bailout fund. the u.s. economy picked up speed during the third quarter. more good news. the government says gdp grew 2.5% between july and september. so that s almost double second quarter growth. gdp it s a broad gauge of goods and services that are produced by american workers. a grim revelation from the wife of the man behind