millions of dollars by the u.s. government but many of those victims say they have to the seen a penny what does the government say about that? and certainly something to cheer about. they barely made the playoffs, now the st. louis cardinals are the world series champions. we will show you the celebrations. we begin this morning with cities throughout the northeast getting ready for a major snowstorm. it s happening before halloween. let s take a look at new york now. the city is preparing for up to a foot of snow, and they aren t alone. snow is expected from baltimore up to boston. and take a look at the radar, here s what it looks like now. one of the biggest problems, potential power outages. heavy snow could leave about a million people without electricity. the trees, still plenty of leaves on them. you have forecasters saying heavy, wet snow, high winds, those are all the perfect ingredients for potentially a large problem with the electric grid. all right. let
first shook. we re live in turkey with the latest. and i m carol costello. president obama about to unveil a new plan to help young americans go to college without going broke. details on the president s proposal on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com all right. good morning, everybody. it is wednesday, october 26th, and welcome to american morning this morning. buying car? so sorry for carter evans. i m going to find out what the number one car was. we have commercial breaks here. e-mail. paper. any tough questions for me? write them down before you ask them to me on tv. how s that? what s the meaning of life? we ll get to that one. a busy morning for you. up first, new clashes overnight between police in oakland, california, and occupy wall street protester. police in riot gear using tear gas on the crowds in oakland s city hall plaza. look at pictures. fascinating. some protesters throwing paint at the cop. dozens arrested despite
police firing tear gas to try to discourage occupy oakland. the police say they cracked down after the protesters threw paint and rocks at them. at the same time this was going on, atlanta police moved in on the wall street protesters camped in a downtown park. there were more than 100 arrests last night combined in both oakland and atlanta. and rescuers pulled two more people out of collapsed buildings in eastern turkey today. the number of people killed in sunday s powerful earthquake has climbed now to 461. turkey is asking for tents and prefabricated homes of prefab homes, the ones essentially built elsewhere and bring them in and construct them on site. police say that people are homeless and spending the nights outdoors and freezing temperatures there now. and people are jamming the square in the heart of damascus today to show support for syrian president bashar al assad, and the rally comes as the arab league ministers visit damascus. they want to mediate talks be