0 down overnight in the heartland. more tornadoes on the way today. wildfires, dust storms in the west, and after snow, just days ago, this. a massive east coast heat wave that starts today. we re tracking all of this this morning. nightmare in mexico. the american mom of seven jailed in mexico accused of smuggling drugs. she faces her accusers in court today. she could get ten years in prison. ten years. her family is fighting for her freedom. they join us live this morning. plus miracle baby. the video that shocked the world. a newborn rescued from a sewer pipe. this morning we have new pictures of the young boy, and new details on just how he ended up there to begin with. and it s bieber versus the pro bowler. the angry confrontation between the pop star and this ex-nfl star. it reportedly involves a ferrari, a high speed chase, and one fleeing from the other. can you guess who? all my favorite things. good morning, i m christine romans. and i m john berman. it is wedn
the top of the world on everest, why not just jump off too? good morning. how about this to start off your wednesday. good news on the economy and not just some, but a lot from the housing market to consumer confidence in auto sales. new reports led to a surge on wall street, but economists say the recovery still has a long way to go. nbc s tracie potts is in washington with all the latest on this. good morning. reporter: isn t it good to hear some good news for now? and that s what we got on wall street. take a look at what happened to the dow. at one point it soared 200 points, ending up 106, the nasdaq up 28. the s&p up 10, all of this after the conference board reported that consumer confidence is up at a five-year high. people feeling more confident about the economy overall and more confident about jobs. we also got some good news on the housing front. and this was the third straight month of gains when it came to housing last month, house prices, home prices made t
good morning. if you are flying back east you might want to peck delays. but our weather? delays at sfo 75 minutes, philadelphia, a lot of delays will develop along the east coast because of that nor easter. back at home, marine layer is back when you step out, cloudy, mild, 50s, drizzle to be had no real organized areas of wet weather showing up on live doppler. temperatures in the low to mid 50s now. visibility okay. we could have traffic problems because of the wet drizzle. good morning. we have traffic problems in the milpitas area this accident just happened in that westbound direction of 237, a traffic spotter is really coming through for us this morning, telling bus this accident. west telling us about this accident. westbound, traffic beginning to slow through the area. thank you for that information. also getting information about 10 minutes ago saying all the cars are off to the right. you will see some slow traffic approaching the scene. on to the rest of the
and other belongs were stolen. in between the attacks, the victim was able to call the partner who asked that we not show his face or reveal his name. yes, he was telling me he was mugged and i was trying to ascertain where he was. he could not tell me because he was dazed. at that point, i heard someone come up and said turn around, i m with the police. he said i know you re not with the police and a scuffle ensued and then, you know, i heard the phone hit the ground. reporter: the police report has a yes next to hate crime with a comment homophobic slurs. the victim remains hospitalized with a missing tooth and broken jaw. it s amazing me that the people will do that type of thing for no good reason. and, you know, they haven t even used the phone or ipad since then. the police are trying to track that type of thing. we don t know what the point of it was other than just, you know, anti a bias crime. reporter: police hope that surveillance footage will help investi
have the to write those plays. so did he or didn t he? that is the question early this saturday morning, october 29th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs welcome to the early show. weather will be bad later. i m russ mitchell. i m rebecca jarvis. russ, congratulations. you and your cards. the st. louis cardinals are the new world champs. we will also talk about the bad weather. lonnie says 12 states could be affected by this. a suicide bomber attacked a nato convoy in southern afghanistan this morning. american troops have been killed. cbs news correspondent mandy clark is in kabul with the very latest. mandy, good morning. good morning. reporter: the attack happened around 11:00 in the morning as it was traveling u.s. convoy was traveling near the afghan parliament. a car bomb struck the side of an armored bus that was carrying u.s. troops and it burst into flames. cbs news has been told six americans were killed and six others were injured. the nato forces h