this is your a.m. wakeup call. . good morning to you, it is tuesday, november 22nd. i m carol costello. here are this morning s top stories. republican candidates gathering in the shadow of the white house tonight for the big cnn national security debate. it s the first test for newt gingrich as the front-runner. a new poll shows he leads mitt romney by 4%. giving up a lot of the blame, not much shame is the congressional super committee calls it quits. lawmakers announcing they cannot reach a deal to cut at least $1.2 trillion worth of deficit now even more painful cuts loom. part of a major highway between memphis and dallas reopened after an intense down pour washed it away yesterday. 88,000 cars and trucks sat on a 30-mile detour and more rain is on the way this morning. so let s check in with jackie gerris in atlanta. good morning. good morning, carol. yeah, flooding is going to continue to be a big problem across the mid south this morning. the rain continues to
stoically, saying very little to reporters. not long ago he spoke about the man convicted of brutalizing his family. i m not surprised is at all. i thought from the beginning that he was a lying sociopathic personality. and probably at this moment doesn t think he s guilty of anything. he s convinced himself of that i suspect. you will hear more from dr. petit and debra feyerick who was right there in the courtroom. but first, herman cain has gone from underdog to possible top dog. the latest nbc wall street journal poll shows cain with support from 27% of republican voters. mitt romney is four points behind him. ranked third is rick perry with 16% saying they would vote for him. today, as you may have seen in the last hour on cnn, cain sat down with erin burnett for an interview that covered several topics. we begin on the alleged plot to kill the saudi ambassador to the united states. watch. i happen to believe in a this attempted assassination, that iran has its fi
family. not surprised at all. i thought from the beginning that he was a lying soesh soes pathic personality and at this moment probably doesn t think he is guilty of anything. he s convinced himself of that i suspect. you will hear more from dr. petit and debra fair rit in the courtroom. herman cain has gone from under dog to possible top the dog. the latest nbc wall street journal poll shows cain with support from 27% of republican voters. mitt romney is four points behind him. ranked third is rick perry with 16% saying they would vote for him. in the last hour, cain sat down with erin burnett for an interview that covered several topics. we begin on the alleged plot to kill the saudi ambassador to the united states. watch. i believe this attempted assassination that iran has its fingerprints all over, based upon the reports we ve seen was because this president is perceived as weak. mr. cain, we d love to see those reports. no have we seen in any information abou
here is the current u.s. debt ceiling. it 14i$14.3 trillion. we hit it in may. if they don t comeup with a dee. they have a scheduled meeting in about five hours. listen to how far republicans, other republicans and democrats are. this is from anderson cooper 360 late last night. first majority whip steny hoyer. even within their own party, it is deeply divided party, divided against their leadership, angry at their leadership, and a party that has divided itself, has difficulty working with the president and with us and that s unfortunate and the country is the poorer for it. i don t buy this notion of e default. to me that s a false choice. default means you can t service your debt, you can t pay off your debt, anderson, and there s plenty of government revenues to do that. one of the things that s been harmful in this debate is there s been this obsession with august 2nd, august 2nd. we need to get this right. we need a balanced budget amendment. if it takes us a few
couple uncoupled. we look behind the breakup of maria shriver and arnold schwarzenegger. the road to nowhere. the mississippi s rising water levels turned river side communities into ghost towns as thousands are forced to get out. and meet a real hamburger fan with an appetite for big macs that is undiminished after 39 years. to heal the past, queen elizabeth s visit to ireland moves into what could be the most significant day with a visit to the site of a british massacre. hours from now all of ireland will be watching as the queen visits a stadium where in 1920 british troops opened fire on a crowd watching a football match. 14 people were killed. it was a key moment for the irish independence struggle and came to be known as bloody sunday. for many, the sight of a british monarch walking on to the pitch will be a deeply symbolic moment. mr. cameron is due to talk business and politics with irish prime minister. on such a big day, the queen might light some dutch courage.