ins priebus and dominique dawes and ryan beatty. starting point begins right now. our starting poirnt this morning, america s new golden girl is gabby douglas making history last night. 16 years old, first african-american to women the all-around gold medal. amanda davies, it was so z exciting to watch her. just perfection, out did herself each and every time. how was the feeling while everyone was watching her? reporter: it was incredible. it was probably written in the stars, did you know if you rearrange the letters of gabby douglas s sir name, what does it spell, but usa gold. and this really is where the next chapter of her life begins. she is now up in the a list of superstars as the morning after, night before, media commitments have started. she s been retweeting the incredible tweets these had from people like oprah nicki minaj and michael phelps. she finished with that fantastic floor performance with that techno music. it became like club gabby. we can still ge
then robert zoelik will step down as head of the world bank. his exit interview here on gps. next, we go to israel which has anointed a king. what in the world does it mean? and, finally, the curious case of the guy who has come to be known as american french fry brother. a cultural lost in translation all the way from china. you won t want to miss it. first, here s my take. everyone is looking at europe these days as economic and political protests mount across the continent. the downward spiral in europe has produced a great debate over the virtues of austerity. the idea that government with large budget deficits must reduce these deficits mainly by cutting spending. if they don t get their budgets in order, they won t be able to borrow money and will face a fiscal nightmare of ever rising interest rates. the problem is that as governments have cut spending in very depressed economies, it has caused growth to slow even further. do you see government workers who have
roberts? despite the fact i won t push for a change in state laws. how should gay journalists approach this issue? time magazine runs a cover shot of a mother breast-feeding her 3-year-old son. i do understand why time chose this picture. you know, because it s going to be such a it did create such a media craze to get the dialogue. was it nothing more than a cheap stunt? a torrent of leak as the administration foils an al qaeda plot to take down an airplane? has that compromised national security? plus, tom brokaw rips the white house correspondents dinner. i didn t want to sound like a kraenky old uncle at the thanksgiving table, but dow feel strongly that it s gag gone way too far. well, he is right. isn t he? i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. are you comfortable with same-sex marriage now some. i look look, i am vice president of the united states of america. the president sets the policy. i am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men
congressman peter king in new york is chairman of the homeland security committee. he s been briefed on the plot and joins us on the phone. what are the latest you can tell us? i got briefed by secretary napolitano and john brennan. basically it s a nonmetallic deaf vits, intended to be put on an american-bound airline. it never made to it the airline. it s right now as you said being tested and analyzed by the fbi. obviously a concern would be that being unmetallic as to whether or not this could evade security in our airport. that s a real concern. also, this is an ongoing operation. this particular part of it occurred sometime last month, sometimes in april. but it s not over as far as the operation itself which is why you re seeing very few details being given out. obviously and the questions, use your judgment as to what you can say or whether say, is it known who made this bomb? bomb makers tend to have a certain signature. there are certain bomb makers particularly
everyone, it s 10:00 here on the east coast. they have foiled a terrorist plot to blow up an airliner, they re not saying where, oar when it happened. here s what we know, according to the fbi an improvised explosive device was seized and fbi officials are investigating it. it s a nonmetallic explosive similar to the one the underwear bomber used in his failed attempt in 2009. similar but not the same. the plot has the hallmarks of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. and president obama was briefed about the threat in april. chairman of the homeland security committee has been detaild briefed on the details and joins us on the phone. i ve just discussed this. it s a nonmetallic device that was intended to be put on an american bound airline. it never made it to the airline, it s right now, as you said, being tested and analyzed by the fbi. a concern would be that being nonmetallic as to whether or not this would affect the security in our airports. this is an ongoing operati