have been killed since saturday. almost 2,000 others and dozens of others hurt. three american college students are being held for allegedly throwing molotov cocktails. within the past hour the supreme court military leadership accepted the resignation of the cabinet and promised to speed up elections and other reforms, we ll get more details minutes from now. president obama heard a few years today, some occupy demonstrators chanted, tried to drown him out as he took the stage to push his jobs bill. this happened about a half hour ago. take a listen. [ shouting ] it s okay, this all right. listen, i m going to be talking about a whole range of things today and i appreciate you guys making your point. let me go ahead and make mine, all right and i ll listen to you, you listen to me, all right? today romney launched a new ad criticizing obama s record on the economy. the supercommittee may have missed its deadline but president obama says congress can and should keep trying
all right. first, though, big news today. the trial of the accused underwear bomber begins this morning with earnest with opens statements at the federal courthouse in droit. umar farouk abdulmutallab is charged with trying to blow up a flight on christmas day 2009 with a bomb hidden in his underwear. the defendant is acting as his own attorney. cnn s deb feyerick in live in detroit, where you were the night this all developed and christmas day 2009. deb, what is the situation? reporter: well, ali, christine and carol, we can tell you that he is facing eight charges today. it carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. the charges against him, attempted murder, attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and also conspiracy toy commit terrorism. the nigerian grat witt student turned accused suits bomber is acteding as his own attorney and umar farouk abdulmutallab shown he is defind. during jury selection he invoked his meant, jihad mentor, recently killed in an air