thank you for joining, us live, at town hall in new york city for this very special addition of why is this happening? he is incisive, he is big hearted, he is very, very smart. and, admit it, he is taller than you expected. please give a warm welcome to my friend, a beloved colleague, msnbc s, chris hayes. [applause] thank you! oh, stop. stop it. [applause] how are you? good? thank you. thank you, thank you, thank you. sit down, sit down. thank you, that is extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. it s a hard 20 seconds for me. thank you for cutting it short. it is amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city. i have family here. tonight, we will talk about democracy. that word, we have probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years that i had in all of my time as a journalist. even that, as a topic, seems we are. we all know, america is a democracy. there is a certain history you are taught that, i think, is part of american, ci
after a deadly nato air strike. now the country s prime minister has a warning for the united states. good morning to you. this is your a.m. wake-up call for tuesday, november 29th. i m carol costello. here are your morning top stories. a new twist in the herman cain saga, a third woman has come forward claiming she had a 13-year-long affair with the gop presidential hopeful. atlanta business woman ginger white says the affair ended only eight months ago. cain denies any sexual relationship. general motors in damage control. the auto giant is reaching out to every owner of the chevy volt and assuring them the car is safe. the volt is under federal investigation after the batteries caught fire during crash tests. winter is coming a little early in the south. it s wet and snowy in parts of tennessee. winter storm warnings are in effect until later today. forecasters predict some areas could see up to four inches of snow. one of those forecasters is jacqui jeras in atla
president obama arriving in france for the g-20. the big story is greece, gamble with the global economy, and how could it cost the membership in the eu on this american morning. good morning to you. it is thursday, november 3. welcome to american morning. ali velshi is in stormy france. bad weather there. we will be talking to him in a few minutes about the g-20 minutes. stormy weather and stormy politics. up first, the scandal dogging herman cain s presidential campaign. growing larger this morning. associated press reporting that there is a third woman who accused cain of you wanted sexual advances when she worked for the national restaurant association. reports says she considered filing a complaint bunt didn t. cain for his part trying to stay on message. here he is facing reporters at an event in northern virginia. will he me say one thing. i m here with the doctors and that s what i m going to talk about. don t even bother asking me all the other questions th
outfront tonight, whoa, whoa, whoa. the markets soared, the dow up 339 points. nasdaq and s&p up more than 3%. and there were two big reasons why. one, america defied skeptics with american consumers spending money. the u.s. economy grew 2.5% in the third quarter. twice as fast as the prior quarter. look at it compared to earlier this year. 2.5% isn t great overall. but it is a lot better than a lot of doomsayers expected. the other big news was europe. they made a deal to bail out greece. that deal also, not that great. but after 14 summits, any deal was enough to juice the markets and that it did. october now on track to be the best october for the overall markets since january of 1974. to put that in perspective, that was the year blazing saddles came out. we must do something about this immediately! immediately! immediately! i didn t get a harrumf out of that guy. apparently a movie a lot of guys like. it was before cnn or i were born. stocks are up. gdp europea
godfather s ceo. he leads in key swing and must win florida. cain beat romney 34-28. this comes on the heels of a national poll yesterday that put cain in the lead. cnn s poll s a poll show that cain is behind romney. 23 to 20. whatever the case, it s no question that herman cain s popularity is surging. the national poll has you at number one. now poll has you leading in south carolina and florida. what s your family thinking and why do you think this happened that you surged to the top? my family, they are not surprised because they mow me because of my business career because i have always done some challenging things. this happened for two reasons, first it was evident with the straw poll. it demonstrates the voice of the people is more important than the voice of the media, with all due respect. because for a while, as you know, some people in the media tried to paint this as a two-man, governor on governor race. the second key message is more powerful than money. i ha