immigration. we ll show you the old clip making new headlines. wolf blitzer is off. i m joe johns. you re in the situation room. we begin with breaking news. american students caught up in the bloody cairo protest are finally on their way out of a nightmare experience in egypt. let s go straight to cnn s senior international correspondent, ben wedeman in cairo. earlier today we heard the three american students would be released on saturday. now we re hearing it s already happened. why? what we understand is that yesterday the prosecutors ordered their release but it took for today to get released. they have been released and they are on their way to the airport. they were attending the american university in cairo and according to the egyptian police, they were involved in attacks on security forces during the demonstrations. of course, their lawyers and their parents deny that they could have done that sort of thing and clearly the fact that the egyptians who shadly s
flaring and deadly political upheaval. we re learning more about who these young men are and why their families are so frightened. i m wolf blitzer ayou re in th situation room. we re coming to you from washington s historic constitution hall, the scene of tonight s cnn republican presidential debate in which we ll focus on national security and foreign policy. in just under four hours, the candidates will walk on stage. it s been ten days since their last face-off an in that time, there have been some dramatic changes in the race. newt gingrich is now at the front of the pack according to our new poll. in this statistical dead heat with mitt romney. and while his new top tier status puts gingrich in the spotlight, romney is always getting a lot of attention for his first television campaign commercial. an ad that s misleading at best. democrats are calling it quote, dishonest. and deceitful. cnn s joe johns is working the story for us. what is this all about? this is a
defended a controversial $535 million government loan to a california solar panel company that eventually went belly up. the solyndra drama continues. reporter: continues, and will for some time. the president when asked about that, jonathan silver, the man who has been heading up the loan program, which, of course, is the controversial part of this program, because of a guaranteed loan that was given to that solar panel company that president obama visited, and that went belly up in august, that s really what all of this stems around. well, he has resigned, and to listen to the department of energy we re hearing from secretary steven chu, he s saying jonathan silver, the man who testified before congress about this controversy recently. he was already leaving, had been told in july before news broke of solyndra filing for bankruptcy that he would be going into the private sector. so you re hearing from sort of the executive branch this was already going to happen, but you
well, today we bring you the realtive story of one man versus one really big bank. james noble from charlottesville, virginia, was tired of being nickelled and dimed. probably familiar, and then the interest rate on his credit card nearly tripled tote lidge 600. good money for bank of america and its shareholders. none of it was his fault. no default or late fees, just a good way to make money at the bank. just jack this guy. what s he going to do? you know how it is. meanwhile, when he tried to contact the bank about the errors costing him money, no one would listen. can t steal the money if you have to give it back, right, so rather than letting the bank get away with taking his money, this man took bank of america to small claims court, god bless him. not only that, he won.
your top stories right now. five major airlines promise they won t charge you for carry-on bags, this according to senator chuck schumer of new york. schumer says he personally got commitments from american, delta, jetblue, united and us airways. the senator says americans are sick of being nickelled and dimed. everyone cares about this. you know, life is difficult these days. it gets more and more complicated and more and more difficult. let s keep a couple things the way they were. senator chuck schumer will be our guest at 10:00 p.m. tonight. we ll talk to him about that. you know, this comes after spirit airlines became the first company right here in the u.s. to charge for carry-ons. spirit charges 45 bucks to store a bag overhead. but its tickets are often cheaper. iceland s volcano keeps erupting but we could see some relief for air travelers. several test flights with no passengers on board took place across the region today with no problems. and the e.u. says up to 50% o