rough going if you re driving through this for your thanksgiving holiday. almost 13 inches of snow stacking up at a pace of almost an inch per hour. and mark your calendar for a royal wedding. prince william and kate middleton will get married april 29th at westminster abbey. it is one of the most anticipated events of 2011 and the day will be declared a british national holiday. and this just in this morning. good news. good new that is we all want to here about the economy. it grew faster than we thought in the third quarter. our carter evans will be joining us live from the new york stock exchange to talk about the significance of that growth in just a second. but developing right now out of korea this morning, the north has launched military strikes against the south near a disputed border in the yellow sea. the north reportedly bombarded a south korean island with dozens, maybe hundreds of artillery rounds killing at least two soldiers and injuring many more. that
belligerent actions, north korea, attack a heavily populated south korean island, setting fire there, civilians have been fleeing. we re getting amazing pictures and photographs of all of this. so far we know two south korean marines are dead, countless wounded, the south unleashing fire retaliation. it s not clear if the south hit anything in the north and the north then warning this is just the beginning. jennifer griffin makes sense of it live at the pentagon, how serious is this jennifer? good morning. reporter: good morning bill. well, it s being taken very seriously at the pentagon, we re told the shelling began at 2:00 a.m. local time, it lasted for about 90 minutes, we re told about 200 artillery shells were fired, it was even between the two sides but north korea fired the first artillery shells on to that island. this is the most serious escalation between the north and south koreans since back in march, remember the north koreans sank that south korean ship, ki
version of the events then. first, though, mcdonald s, not loving health care, that s the big question following reports that the fast-food chain is thinking about dropping coverage for its employees, and now the white house is stepping in and we re wondering why is that. good morning, i m bill hemmer, welcome to america s newsroom . good morning, martha, did the afternoon yesterday take care of you? martha: yes, thank you g. to be back, good morning, everybody, i m martha maccallum, thank you for being with us today. here s the issue, the guard en arches is denying those reports that they are considering not providing coverage. bill: the white house is saying the story is flat out wrong. stuart varney, the story is in the wall street journal, owned by our parent company, by the way. what is the story? the wall street journal has gotten ahold of a letter from mcdonald s to the feds and that letter says, and i quote, now it would be economically prohibitive for our ca
tackle the big stuff on voters minds right now, mainly spending and health care. bill: herry some of the highlights, a move to permanently stop all job killing tax hikes, repeal or scale back health care reform, and a cut on federal spending. shannon bream is live in sterling, virginia, just outside washington, which was a big swing area in 2008 with voters. what will republicans say this morning? shannon, good morning there. reporter: good morning, bill. they re going to roll out this pledge with america and whenty do that this morning we re going to hear more about what you talked about, a lot of folks saying what are you going to do, they re talking about what they re going to undo. we re getting a look at the first formal pledge here by jay gibson, our producer. here s a first look at what they re going to say but it s as much about undoing things as much as doing things, getting rid t health care bill, repealing tax hikes and basically getting government out of busin
type from career dhs officers are likely. well, that criticism is here. and it is coming from these seven senators, writing to janet napolitano this week saying the proof is on the paper. trace galler, live in our west coast newsroom. it is like a game of cat and mouse at this point, trace, with these republican lawmakers trying to figure out if dhs, janet napolitano, john morton and ice are in fact preparing to grant amnesty to thousands of illegals, piece by piece, as an end around congress, or aren t they? reporter: and quite frankly, meg i think, the reason these senators are now sending out this fifth letter in four-months is because they re not getting the answers they want to their question. in fact they re getting a lot of the same answers that we have been getting over the past three or four-months, the pat answers from dhs, when is one, the dhs is not engaged in a took bor back door amnesty program, the second talk is imtkpwraeubgs services like ice have in fact