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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 pled ....
christian. i m straight. all right. as i hand this over to my friend, alina cho, the landscaper comment, he wouldn t apologize for that either. he says he apologizes for none of it. whoever put that statement out, that was not from him. so no apology. we ll have it up on cnn.com for folks. i saw it. interesting few minutes. i m going to go watch you now. thank you, t.j. see you again tomorrow. see you soon. and thank you for joining us. i m alina cho. our top story this hour, here we go again. exactly a week after hurricane irene, millions of people living in the gulf coast are now awaiting the arrival of tropical storm lee. the storm is dumping heavy rain in louisiana and mississippi right now. it will make landfall later today. a state of emergency is in place for both states and some parts could get up to 20 inches of rain. several inches have already fallen in new orleans and the timing could not be worse. the area is still trying to recover from hurrica ....
Now the feds are investigating. forget long lines and lost bags. for many airline travelers, the biggest headache is the young and the restless, the whiners and the screamers, the seat-kickers and the tantrum throwers. there s a growing push for kid-free flights. passengers are venting their frustration on facebook. in fact, one writes, this is an idea long overdue. i ask for this when being seated. in restaurants now, because parents have no control over their kids. one poll shows nearly 50% of flyers would like a section reserved for families. let s bring in matt daimler, founder of seatguru.com, and also with us, brandon masada, the executive director for airline passenger rights. great to see you today. brandon, when we re talking about what your rights are, do you have the right to request to sit away from a screaming baby? well, in today s air travel ....
Locations on those bulkheads, so seatguru will show you the seats that are farther we from those bassinet bulkhead locations. so that s one chance you have to have avoiding an area where children are most likely to be. i believe qantas settled a 2009 lawsuit. a woman says a screaming child on her flight caused her to lose some of her hearing. and then there are the complaints about, for instance, overweight passengers. you ve got people who are calling for special designated rolls rows for tall, heavy, or disabled passengers. i don t know, brandon, do you think that s a good idea? we re actually one of the organizations that is calling for that change. the bottom line is, it s not the size of the person s butt that we should be discussing, but rather the size of the seat that that person s butt is sitting in. the average male since 1960 weighs 25 pounds more. the average female since 1960 weighs 24 pounds more, yet the seats in coach class have either decreased or stayed the same ....