and a reminder tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. is our debate. i ll be back tomorrow at the same time, but for now, jim costa is next. nice to see you in person. this doesn t happen very often, but nice to see you. i m jim aacosta. let s get you up to speed on this november 21st. after months of talks the congressional supercommittee is expected to announce today it simply cannot agree on a debt reduction package. everybody is pointing fingers on what caused the mess. we ll explain that on capitol hill in about ten minutes. speaking of the supercommittee, already markets are reacting badly to fears that the debt committee won t reach a deal. u.s. stocks opened sharply lower today. right now the dow is down over 300 points. this follows last week s losses on wall street, the worse in two months. former fbi director, louis freeh, will lead the internal investigation into the penn state scandal. jerry sandusky is charged with molesting eight boys, some on campus. freeh pledged a
engines! road rage. nascar crowd boos the first lady before the last race of the season. this is your am: wake up call. and good morning to you. it is monday, november 21st from the time warner center in new york, i m carol costello. an accused terrorist behind bars in new york city this morning. 27-year-old jose was a u.s. citizen who was taken into custody on saturday and arraigned late last night. he s accused of building homemade bombs and plotting to plant them in police cars and they say he planned to target u.s. troops arriving home from iraq and afghanistan. the supercommittee ending up like all the other mere mortal committees announcing they failed and the trigger about to go off to an automatic across the board budget cuts. 20 people killed as protesters returned to cairo s tahrir square and things take an ugly square just one week from elections. let s head to atlanta and get a check of today s weather. meteorologist bonnie schneider is in. good morn