tiny, like a puncture in a bicycle tire. sometimes you have trouble finding where it is. neurologists say many things can cause the like, including a spinal tap. they suggest you consult a specialist. i am going to get paranoid, and every time i get a runny nose. my brain s leaking. comforting it looks just look snot. well put. very delicate. what i am known for. little before breakfast hour. hopefully no one is grossed out. the story already did it. i didn t do anything. all right. here s a look at the weather. speaking of different things. let s talk about something else severe storms across the nation s middle. tornadoes, hail and winds near 70 miles per hour. rain up and down the east coast. some areas could get up to an inch. showers in the far west. temperatures across much of the west will be cooler than yesterday. 70 in salt lake city. fargo, low to mid 80s. the southeast.
and good morning. this is your a.m. wake-up call for wednesday, november 23rd, from the time warner center in new york. i m carol costello. here are this morning s top stories. i don t want a law that says after we lose a major american city, we re sure going to come and find you. i want a law that says you try to take out an american city, we re going to stop you. newt gingrich challenging ron paul over the patriot act. the new co-front-runner still getting high marks in his first debate with a bull s-eye on his back. we ll have more of the highlights ahead. it s going to be a necessme one. delays on one of the busiest travel days of the year. the east coast being soaked. and avalanche warnings in the pacific northwest. uc-davis trying to make good after police were caught on tape pepper spraying peaceful occupy protesters, now promising to pay medical bills and drop charges against students who were arrested. how would a president handle a nuclear iran or an uns
this is your a.m. wakeup call. . good morning to you, it is tuesday, november 22nd. i m carol costello. here are this morning s top stories. republican candidates gathering in the shadow of the white house tonight for the big cnn national security debate. it s the first test for newt gingrich as the front-runner. a new poll shows he leads mitt romney by 4%. giving up a lot of the blame, not much shame is the congressional super committee calls it quits. lawmakers announcing they cannot reach a deal to cut at least $1.2 trillion worth of deficit now even more painful cuts loom. part of a major highway between memphis and dallas reopened after an intense down pour washed it away yesterday. 88,000 cars and trucks sat on a 30-mile detour and more rain is on the way this morning. so let s check in with jackie gerris in atlanta. good morning. good morning, carol. yeah, flooding is going to continue to be a big problem across the mid south this morning. the rain continues to
christine is busy preparing a thanksgiving feast for thursday. it s a full week. and ali is preparing to eat one. that s right. so they re off today. i m carol costello along with alina cho. welcome to american morning. first, new details in a plot to plant pipe bombs in and around new york city. 27-year-old jose pimentel, arraigned and made bail an hour ago. a muslim convert to plotted to bomb nypd pa control car, post office and returning u.s. troops and he was doing much more than just talking about it. our deb feyerick is here to tell us more and it appears this lone wolf was acting alone. reporter: absolutely and under surveillance about two years. jose pimentel, 27 years old, preparing as many as three pipe bombs. had he built and executed them properly he could have killed upwards of a dozen people. before arrested the nypd bomb experts built and detonate add similar device. you see it on the screen. they showed it last night. the device was detonated ins
i am the luckiest person in the world. my family is safe. now i need to check on my neighbors. michelle s home burned in the steiner ranch community northwest of austin. today we are reminded not all fire victims were lucky and we may not know all the dead. the biggest fire has killed at least two people, and two others, a mother and toddler died elsewhere in the state on sunday. today a 100-member search team from texas task force one plans to fan out southeast of austin where authorities fear not everybody fled when the flames approached. take a look here. this is an interactive map you can link to from the website of the texas forest service. it has burned more than 33,000 acres and is 30% contained. this time yesterday it was zero percent contained. and then another fire torched 75 homes and threatens many more. my colleague is watching the battle, and many don t know whether their homes burned or not and may now be getting some answers? reporter: yeah, authorities