and good morning. this is your am: wakeup call. from the time warner center in new york i m carol costello. here are top stories. reopening old wounds, a vigil at virginia tech university after another deadly shooting on campus. we re learning an officer and another person were shot by the same gun. the senate has voted down both republican and democratic compromise proposals to extend the payroll tax break into next year. you could lose $1,000 in take home pay if they don t agree on a deal. iran showing off what it claims is the top secret u.s. drone that went down within its borders. even though the u.s. admitted it lost an aircraft some experts are saying the one they re showing is phony. let s get a check of today s weather. rob marciano is in atlanta. so it s friday. it is friday. expecting great weather everywhere. not to get everybody robbed on the way home, today is payday. that is fantastic. i was reminded of that all morning. good morning. hope i
word agreement you know, i m not sure what they called it. and yes, that was some sort of settlement or termination and i don t even know what the contents of that was. well, he came out this morning that cain had a pretty good recognition of the settlement from the outset. she was making huge claims about sexual harassment. i do recall she was asking for a lrnlg sum of money. i don t remember what the sum of money was. as the review of this moved forward, that sum of money negotiated my attorney and negotiated with her attorney got less and less and less because her attorney started to figure out, she didn t have a valid claim. she couldn t find people to corroborate these things she was making and so as it got smaller and smaller and smaller it turned out to be from my perspective, which is why i didn t go back and ask to see it, more of a separation agreement rather than some sort of legal settlement. so is this a political pothole, a brick wall or wind fall? we ll l
happy, happy, happy friday! my favorite day. i know. besides saturday and sunday. it s october 28th. welcome to american morning. christine has the morning off. that game you know, i was so sad, because the yankees were out so early, but, boy, these guy, the rangers and cardinals have really kept this going. good. good baseball. up first, bernie madoff victims are saying don t buy this scam. saying they re having trouble finding sympathy after madoff s wife madoff said he s happier in prison and his wife told 60 minutes the couple tried to kill themselves. the story from our susan candiotti. i think anything that comes out of their mouths is self-serving and are lying. reporter: richard and cynthia friedman lost their life saving to bernie madoff, so did eileen kent s parents. when they heard ruth madoff talk about a failed suicide attempt in a new 60 minutes interview. i don t know whose idea it was, but we decided to kill ourselves, because it was it
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good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m andrew stevens. and good morning from london. i m felicia taylor. it was a long time coming, but european leaders filly got there. shortly before 4:00 a.m. in brussels the announcement we d all been waiting for. european leaders struck a deal on the eurozone debt crisis. here are the key points. the agreement includes a compromise with private investors. holders of greek bonds have greed take a 50% write down on the value of those assets. also the effective strength of the bailout fund will be boosted to about a trillion euros. but european banks will be told to brace for further turmoil. the banks zill to increase their capital reserves to 9% to protect themselves against potential losses following those write downs or defaults that possibly could occur further down the line. at a press conference in the early hours of the morning in brussels, the european council president emphasized the need for tighter fiscal discipline within th