[national anthem] [national anthem] rachel: good morning, everybody. it s 6:00 here in new york city, i m so happy to be sitting next to my friends will and pete this morning. yesterday i brought in three bananas so we could start to be hell think, andstair healthy, and they re still there. [laughter] pete: yeah, look at that. rachel: all three. pete: i haven t eaten a banana many in ten years. will: i ate one four minutes ago. rachel: good for you. pete: they re still good though rachel: no, i m going to attack those bananas. will: i have contended and introduced a massive debate on the office floor around jesse watters prime time, and i think bananas are the number one fruit. i think they are easy, portable, thank you, dave, a lot of i appeal, not messy. i would rank bananas one. rachel: i think they are just like the egg, the perfect egg is the perfect to protein, that s the perfect fruit. will: i defy you, pete, to come up with a fruit that beats the banan
london as police struggle to take back control of their streets. now americans are being urged to use caution when traveling around the city. good morning again. i m carol costello. three members of the congressional super committee have been chosen. nine more to go. there are 12. they will have 90 days to come up with $1.5 trillion in spending cuts. the selections and reaction to them on this american morning. all right. good morning, it is wednesday august 10th. ali is off today after working i think 15 or 16 straight days covering the markets and all that. more on the markets and the economy in just a moment. you seem a little short today. i know. i have a high chair. i think so. i like that. you re taller than i am, carol. good morning. i m carol costello. actually we have to talk about this first, london is burning a fourth night of looting and violence in the streets, parts of london resemble a war zone with burned out buildings and destruction. 16,000