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
joining us on the phone heather cobbler with the colorado police. if you can, tell us exactly how they were spotted and how they were taken into custody. well, good morning, first of all. these three suspects were taken into custody after what was about a 20-mile high-speed pursuit. initially this morning a witness said they spotted somebody that matched the description of who we were looking for, and troopers in the area tried to initiate contact on i-25 south of pueblo. it was then they fled and crashed. the three of them were considered armed and dangerous. any word on injuries or a shoot-out? during the pursuit, there were shots fired at law enforcement from the suspects. no law enforcement was injured. were any of the suspects injured? i don t know, we are checking on that. right now we have medical personnel on scene, and at least one party is being transported to a medical facility. heather, do you know if any weapons were recovered in their vehicle, and
republicans already sniping about a democratic choice for the congressional super committee. democrats have named senators patty murray, max baucus, and john kerry to the debt panel. and republicans are complaining that murray shouldn t get a seat because she s too political. she s in charge of fund raising for democratic senate candidates. and 12 lawmakers are supposed to be named to the committee by tuesday. they re there to pinpoint $1.5 trillion in spending cuts by late november. 10,000 extra police officers kept a lid on the violence in london last night. but rioting and looting spread to birmingham, manchester, and liverpool. police will have all tools available to stop what he says are the thugs as he put it. a cnn ireporter describes the scene. you can hear at least ten of them. sounds like i m in beirut or some i don t know, some middle eastern conflict. and i have never witnessed this in the uk. i could have never imagined this. this looks like the gaza stri