states. this one in new york is a regional branch of it. officials say the suspect was planning to set off an explosion there with what he thought was a 1,000 pound bomb. now, it wasn't real. the false explosives came from an under cover agent. quazi nafis came from bangladesh. but prosecutors say his real goal was to set off the attack. there are a lot of ways to pay for college. scholarship, financial savings, working through it. another option is student loans. now, those have to be repaid. today's college seniors are graduating with more student loan debt than has to be paid than ever before. this report says two-thirds of the class of 20111 had student loan debt and the average borrower owed nearly $27,000. part of this dependant what school you go to. the low end of the average debt per graduate was $3,000. the high end, more than $55,000. a couple exclamations were offered for the debt increase. one is rising tuition prices. the other is the tough job market for college graduates looking for work. >> what's the word? the amount by which spending exceeds income. deficit. that's the word. right now, the u.s. government is running a deficit, has been for years. it's a topic that comes up a lot in politics and, as you might expect, it's come up a lot in this year's presidential campaign. in fact, during this week's debate between barack obama and mitt romney, the word "deficit" came up nearly 20 times. both candidates have plans to deal with it. >> both candidates have made it a cornerstone of this election to talk about the deficit, the difference between how many money our government is spending and how much it is taking in in taxes. this is the deficit right now, $1 is trillion, $90 billion. if we all wanted to pay it off, every man, woman and child in the country has to pay $3,500. yet each candidate says i can reduce the deficit. they all say we're going to have to contain the spending of the government. control it. we're going to have to rewrite the tax code and we have to get the economy moving again because that's going to produce money and revenue .really solve the problem. but beyond that, they don't agree on much. let's look at the romney plan first. if this were to represent everything he wants to spend money on web knows he's not going to get it because he has a deficit. how is he going to deal with that deficit? he says he's going to do it with tax cuts. tax cuts initially are going to make the deficit worse. so he needs to off set them. he says he's going to do that by looking at deductiones and loophol loopholes. says he won't go after things like the mortgage detection or the health care deduction, things that middle class people rely on. economists say if you grab up all the other detections that you might put on wealthier people and you put them all back into this pile, it's not going to be enough. you're going to end up eventually having to tax the middle class or watching the deficit just get bigger. at least based on the plan as they know it rye now. barack obama, he has a different version of the same song. he has all the things he wants to pay for. he also will not have all the money he needs for it. he's going to have a deficit, too. he says you can deal with it by taxing the wealthy. this is a popular plan, but it has a fundamental flaw. there aren't that many wealthy people in the country. if you define wealthy people as people who make more than $250,000 every year. you would have to tax this person at a much higher rate than the white house is talking about to solve this problem, and even then you probably wouldn't get enough money to really make up the deficit. the simple truth is, both of these plans are woefully short on important details to tell us if they would really reduce the deficit. all right. discussing politics with your friends, that can be kind of tricky, especially if you don't agree on every issue. it could lead to some arguments, it could lead to some hurt feelings, but doing it online? that could lead to some down right unfriendliness. karen takes a look at how this year's presidential election is affecting some people's friends and followers on social media. while the candidates have squared off here and here and here, another intense debate has flaed out here. >> when you don't get a chance to watch the debates, you can go on facebook and figure out exactly what happened. >> we go back and forth. their statuses and mine. we do that a lot. >> social media traffic during the major political events has exploded during the 2012 campaign season and so can emotions. as facebook and twitter feeds get jammed with more political statements than ever. >> they're sometimes entertaining. i usually ignore them most of the time. >> sometimes it's too much to ignore. a survey from the pugh research center earlier this year found roughly one in five social media users has cut someone off for a political post that went too far. >> he got personal. i said, no, no, you're out. you're out. >> but for every post that makes you want to hit delete, think about this. kelly, assistant professor at hofstra university says not having any debate among connections may not be good, either. >> it's like an echo chain. you're usually following people, they're already a friend. it's harder to -- alternate voice. >> users updates can fom friends or others during electoral events or until the overload stop on november 6th. >> this brings up an interesting question. would you unfriend someone for making political statements you didn't agree with? would you hide their posts or just ignore it? we're asking on our blog, if you head to cnn.com, tell us what you think, but only if you use your first name, no initials. >> if you've ever been on a plane and over the ocean, the captain might draw your attention to it. a mistaken was on a 14-hour flight from australia when the captain dropped down from 37,000 feet to 5,000 feet. then he asked people to look out the window and see if they could find something, this yacht. officials asked the air canada flight if it could help out and the people on board did. passengers and crews spotted him. authorities eventually arrived to pick up the sailor. total time from when he sent off the signal to when he was spotted by the plane, 25 minutes. today's shout out goes to mrs. raider's social studies classes in warren hill in washington, new jersey. the u.s. presidential election is extra additionally held on what day of the week? here we go. is it monday, tuesday, wednesday, or saturday? you've got three seconds. go. the presidential election is held on a tuesday following the first monday in november. that's your answer and that's your shout out. tuesday is also when new video games are released. the new halo comes out on tuesday, november 6th. that date, the day of the u.s. presidential election. this was the kind of line that formed when halo 3 game out in 2007. people going to stores for midnight re-lee parties. some folks are wondering if this year's release could impact the lekdz. one point of view says people who are motivated to vote are going to vote. another person said people might skip voting to dive into the game. what do you say? finally, that old cliche about being sent to bed without your dinner, i think this is the exact opposite. these twins are so totally tuckered out, they slip into sleep as they slurp up spaghetti. the one on the right keeps chewing even as he nods f.