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
Choice to take over here at d.o.d. not only because of his recent experience of the cia, but as omb director, he s well prepared to take on congress during the upcoming budget wars that are going to explode here shortly. over panetta s tenure, obviously the cia had high profile captures or kills in terms of al qaeda operatives. so panetta obviously was reluctant to leave in a post. let me ask you about general david petraeus who will now replace panetta if confirmed at cia. what s the feeling, what are you hearing about that particular choice? obviously a loss in this terms of the battlefield, but the white house having thrown petraeus into this position in the wake of the stanley mcchrystal debacle, obviously kind of owed petraeus one and has decided that cia is the best place for him to land. i m reluctant, and i ve said this before, when he did take