all want now to get this out of the way and i have a feeling that cbo will come in faster and i have a feeling this will be done by christmas. i think that you just sense from all the different factions they want this to end. a.b. stodard, my thanks to you. wolf blitzer standing by in the situation room. happening now, president obama tells the nobel committee he can wage war and promote peace. the commander in chief accepts his prize and addresses the controversy surrounding him. five muslim behind bars in afghan afte afghanistan now. we have new information coming into the situation room on the suspects and their possible links to extremists. our white house correspondent snags a rare interview with a power couple. we are not talking about the obamas. we are talking about the smiths. will and jada. the hollywood stars are funny, engaging and rubbing elbows with global movers and shakers. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. president obama stood be
tampa. how big? the gator? yeah. probably size 12, 12 1/2, pretty decent-size bag. 10-footer. 10-foot gator found at a home. they took care of it. they took pictures too. nobody hurt. the gator was caught but not sure of its fate now because they deal with this a lot in florida. sometimes they have to trap the alligators and then release them at other times unfortunately they have to put them out. it was a handsome reptile. that was excellent. this was good. all right, i m heidi collins. also rob marciano. cnn newsroom continues now with brooke baldwin. hi, brooke. hi, heidi. yes, it is thursday, the 10th of december. we are watching a number of stories here in the cnn newsroom. first up here, five americans from northern virginia, washington, d.c. area turning up in pakistan. now authorities want to know if they re tourists or terrorists. and the president receiving the nobel peace prize. he defends his duties as a war-time president. and children who have
careful to what you are eating, do you change your diet? reporter: nasa has never had as many satellites measuring the data, but some of the satellites are reaching their life span, and without additional funding, nasa is worried that they won t be replaced. jik acosta. coming up at 3:00 p.m., rick sanchez is tackling health care reform. it is a bad group and a group known to be a bad group. why would men from virginia leave the u.s. to meet with that group? terrorism? against who? and they left a good-bye video. i have seen the video, and i was disturbed by the content of it. it. we are drilling down. captions by vitac www.vitac.com circumstanp circumstance c ceremonceremonyp ceremonce deep gratitude. a and great humility. t roman polanski has sexually abused a little girl and never done time for it. today, his lawyers are in a l.a. courtroom trying to keep their client in a swiss shall lay. chalet. and we are on it during your national conversation, as we
ac 360 starts right now. anderson? larry, thanks very much. tonight, the five young americans under arrest in pakistan, suspected of plotting terrorism. now, we have been tracking these cases for more than a year and the truth is the trend is unmistakable. this country has a real problem on its hands. more and more americans plotting terror here and abroad. has the u.s. become a breeding ground for would-be terrorists? we are going to show you the evidence tonight and what can be done to reverse the trend. also, health care and raw politics. a deal is within reach but may hinge on one what democrat decides to do. we re talking about senator ben nelson. will he really block a deal that the rest of his party really seems to support? we will ask him that tonight. first up, the arrest of five young muslim americans in pakistan and the fear that they are part of a larger and growing trend, american muslims becoming radicalized and taking up jihad here at home or overseas.
all part of a youth group based in fairfax county. this is a mosque linked to the islamic circle of america, sitting there in the valley of fairfax. when the person was reported missing, they say the fbi showed him a picture of the group connected to the mosque. one of the students i did not recognize from the photos that they showed me. but you know of him as a result of his work at the howard university where i formally served as a muslim chaplain. reporter: they say that others have spoken with some of the students, four of them with u.s. passports. one of the five is idtified as ramy zamzam, a dental student at howard university. as a dental student there at howard university, a senior about to graduate, having his whole future ahead of him, you have no indications that this is a situation that would end the way this story looks like it is going to end. reporter: an attorney for the families released a statement today reading in part, the families have been workin