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good morning. happy thanksgiving. this is the day you ve been waiting for. carol costello, thursday, november 24th. ali and christina have the day off. so glad you re with us. i have all of the fattening stuff laid out for me already here. it s already here. they ordered in thanksgiving dinner for us at 3:00 a.m. the turkey is crusty now. still edible. the stuffing is quite good actually. first up this morning, one thing we re very thankful for, our brave men and women in the military serving here and overseas. we have about 20,000 troops in iraq right now but the forces are flooding out as a december deadline for withdrawal approaches. thousan thousands sent to kuwait waiting to be reassigned or sent back home. happy thanksgiving, martin. reporter: good morning, carol. happy thanksgiving to you. it is a happy thanksgiving especially for those soldiers gathered here at camp virginia. let me tell you why. we re located about 20 kilometers south of the border with ....
New numbers today suggesting just how jarring the debt crisis has become. with dow skidding an wall street now bracing for what could be grim new unemployment figures friday, president obama s team is grasping for answers. there is no silver bullet. i not heard one proposed by anyone in washington or beyond. not exactly the gift the president was expecting for his 50th birthday. at a glitzy chicago rundraiser he fell back on a familiar refrain that fires up his base. blaming the bush administration. we knew the road ahead was going to be difficult, that the climb was going to be steep. i to admit i didn t know how steep the climb was going to be. reporter: the white house s new centralgy is expand finger pointing to hang the slowing recovery on other factors: the tsunami in japan, the arab springsteining oil prices, uncertainty of the debt debate. ....
New numbers today suggesting just how jarring the debt crisis has become. with dow skidding an wall street now bracing for what could be grim new unemployment figures friday, president obama s team is grasping for answers. there is no silver bullet. i not heard one proposed by anyone in washington or beyond. not exactly the gift the president was expecting for his 50th birthday. at a glitzy chicago rundraiser he fell back on a familiar refrain that fires up his base. blaming the bush administration. we knew the road ahead was going to be difficult, that the climb was going to be steep. i to admit i didn t know how steep the climb was going to be. reporter: the white house s new centralgy is expand finger pointing to hang the slowing recovery on other factors: the tsunami in japan, the arab springsteining oil prices, uncertainty of the debt debate. ....
an affair and pay his mistress. edwards attorney says known was not a campaign donation but a gift from two edwards supporters. joe johns is following the latest developments and he joins us by phone from near raleigh, north carolina. joe, you ve been following the twists and turns how this unfolded. what do we know about the specific counts against edwards now? reporter: the indictment, as i looking through it, has a lot of the information we expected to be in there, essentially, illegal campaign contributions, a number of counts on that. there s a conspiracy count and the other thing is the thing we ve been looking for forever since we really heard about this case, a false statements count. that is essentially, that edwards was able to falsify wilfully conceal, cover up and otherwise keep information out of the public eye about contributions that he received from at least two individuals we ve talked about again and again. that would be a woman named bunny melon, a ....
And the training behind it. we re also learning a flaw in the no-fly list nearly let is suspect fly away. plus, a city under water facing a long, long recovery. floodwaters receding across nashville and other parts of central tennessee this morning. rescue officials are worried it means they could find more victims. president obama has given the okay to pour federal disaster money into the area. what was left behind, though? we re live in nashville with the latest just ahead. and all eyes are on wall street this morning after the markets got hammered yesterday. the debt crisis in greece and word that spain might need a bailout sent the dow skidding to its lowest level in a month. tensions in greece boiling over on the streets of athens. witnesses say police fired tear gas and striking protesters were angry about the government s redecision to reduce salaries and impose higher taxes on alcohol and cigarettes. of course the a.m. fix blog is up and running this morning. join the liv ....