it is sunday, november 20th, i'm ted rowlands. this is the "cnn newsroom". fredricka whitfield is off today. we begin this hour in egypt. that's where today's public demonstrations around cairo's tahrir square were the most violent in days. at least four people died today, either crushed by the crowd or hit with objects thrown between riot police and demonstrators. the protesters are aiming their anger at egypt's military leaders. i spoke to cnn's senior international correspondent ben wedeman in cairo a short time ago. >> reporter: this is a manifestation of this growing frustration and anger against the supreme council for the armed forces. that's the group that took over from hosni mubarak when he resigned on the 11th of february. the feeling is that they're not moving quickly enough to civilian rule, that they may harbor ambitions to hold on to power for the foreseeable

future. another element is that these clashes began yesterday when the police were trying to clear a fairly small number of people out of tahrir square. they used fairly excessive force yesterday. one man was killed in cairo. more than a thousand wounded. and this is really sparked more outrage because, of course, egyptians overthrew hosni mubarak's regime because they felt the police had too much power, was too brutal, arbitrarily tortured and detained people and so this is really a reaction to that. they don't want to see the same sort of regime coming back and staying yet again. >> other stories we're following this hour, this is the man poised to be spain's next prime minister, mario rahoi leads the party. a short time ago, his socialist opponent conceded today's national election. spain is the third country this

month to change governments largely because of europe's economic crisis. a massive crowd today in damascus, syria, thousands of people loyal to president bashir al assad angry at the arab league, their intention to send international observers into syria. also this weekend, at least 24 people were killed in street clashes around country. syria's president blames the general instability and what he calls mistakes in the street for the hundreds, perhaps thousands of deaths in his country this year. >> talk about the policy of the government, we don't have any policy to be harsh, because all our policy is based on the support of the public in syria. it cannot be against the public. when you have instability, you may have some problems, you may have some mistakes.

>> the arab league is giving syria a deadline to allow observers in to verify measures taken to stop the bloodshed. syria's president accuses the arab league of setting the stage for outside military intervention. update on the capture of moammar gadhafi's son. officials in libya's new government insist that saif will be tried in libya. that's despite his indictment by the international criminal court that requires him to appear in the hague. meanwhile, another former top libyan official, the one-time intelligence chief, was captured in libya today. back in this country, tragedy struck the philadelphia marathon today. two runners reportedly both men collapsed and died, either at or near the finish line. race officials confirm that the two athletes did die, but haven't yet released their names. police cleared a new occupy oakland camp this morning. protesters set it up yesterday

after being discouraged from camping elsewhere. no arrests or injuries were reported in the early morning raid. in new york, occupy wall street is taking its protests to mayor bloomberg's neck of the woods, beginning this afternoon and lasting for a full 24 hours. protesters plan to demonstrate outside the mayor's upper east side townhouse. at uc davis, the chancellor is under fire and two police officers are on leave after police pepper sprayed a group of sitting protesters. we'll have the live report with the police chief at uc davis at 10 after the hour. turning to politics, the big story on the sunday morning talk shows was the deficit cutting super committee. can it find a way to make a deal? if not, what happens next? here are some of the highlights. >> how does this end? does it end at midnight? do you put out a press release? do you vote on the separate plans? do you have a final meeting to

go, we can't do it? how do you end this? >> if there is a republican who gets up today and says i can't let the country see a failure out of this committee, and comes to us and says i'm willing to say that there is revenue on the table, i will work all night long to get that put together and we can have a committee vote on it. >> there is still an opportunity, there is a plan on the table that would at least take us halfway to our goal, which is -- it is on the shelf, it is scored, it is ready to go. if the democrats agree to that, we could still get something done. if they come back with a counterproposal, we would work on it. >> so simple question, is this thing dead? >> nobody wants to give up hope. reality is to some extent starting to overtake hope. there were 12 good people who invested a lot in this trying to find common ground to achieve the goal of this committee. >> what about the potential of another downgrade of america's debt? >> there is going to be $1.2

trillion in savings whether the committee agrees on a method of doing it or it happens automatically. this shouldn't foster a downgrade or run on the market or anything like that. >> there is a real threat that not only will there be a downgrade, but the market on monday will look again at washington and say you guys can't get the job done. >> and all indications are that the super committee, which had a deadline technically for wednesday of this week, but had to come up with new legislation by tomorrow is not going to come up with anything. in fact, we're told that there are discussions now revolving on how they will break their news of failure rather than unveiling anything productive. police pepper sprayed protesters at uc davis. now the school's chancellor is being pressured to step down. how the campus is reacting. plus, we'll talk to the police chief about that pepper spray outburst. first, actor isaiah washington was fired for making an offensive remark on the set

of "gray's anatomy." but has it been an easy move for him to move on? >> do you ever watch the show? >> i peek in. i'm not go to lie to you. >> what happens when you -- >> i see her with that owen guy. i'd be liking to you if i say i don't peek in. i just adore me some sandra oh. >> did you ever tune in and say, i wish i was still there? >> cnn's fredricka whitfield face to face with actor isaiah washington. that's coming up. stay with us.

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trillion dollars out of the deficit. instead, panel members are talking about how to announce their failure to reach one. our kate bolduan is on capitol hill. when is this panel expected, kate, to, guess, admit defeat? >> reporter: that's the question that everyone is asking at this moment. and i'll tell you, it has been very interesting to watch this develop over the last really day or so, ted, because things -- the committee is on the brink of failure if not worse as talks have all but fallen apart. while publicly members say they will still work right up to the deadline. i think the shift in tone is very noteworthy and is evidence of where things are headed. no longer do you hear that many of the committee members talking about pushing for agreement and where can we agree and now the talks seem to be very much who should be to blame if and when the committee fails. just listen to two pieces of -- two sound bites, one from republican senator jon kyl,

member of the committee, as well as democratic senator patty murray, the democratic co-chair of the committee. listen here. >> nothing new came out of this from the democratic side, the same thing, raise taxes, pass the president's jobs bill, no entitlement reform. on the republican side, you had the one true breakthrough. and that was this new concept of tax reform, which could generate revenue from the upper brackets for deficit reduction. >> the truth is, at this point today, democrats have made some really tough decisions. and come to some pretty tough choices that were willing to put on the line on entitlements, on spending cuts. but only if the republicans are willing to cross the line on the bush tax cuts and be willing to say revenues have to be a part of this solution. >> so you hear it right there, both sides really kind of trying to position themselves now to blame the other for why this has all fall an part. both sides saying the other is inflexible.

democrats saying the republicans are inflexible on revenue and tax increases. now it is really how and when is this all going to fall apart and when is really the formal announcement is what many people are asking. some of the discussions seems to be many think an announcement will come tomorrow, but as we always caution, they are still -- they still have time if they would pull off a hail mary pass, if you will, but it seems highly unlikely at this point, ted. >> kate bolduan monitoring things on capitol hill. not good news for people that thought something was actually going to be accomplished this time around. i guess not. thanks, kate. more than 100,000 children in new york may be without a ride to school on monday. live from new york after a quick break. here is your question for the day.

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more than 150,000 kids may have a hard time getting to school tomorrow. school bus drivers in new york are warning that they could go

on strike at any moment. union wants more job security for its drivers. our inez praia is in new york. the door is still open. what does this mean? will the kids have a ride to school tomorrow, yes or no, do you think? were the we're in wait and see mode, ted. i talked to both sides today. the mayor's office was told last week a strike is imminent, but weren't told when. the union says that a strike is likely, but there are no immediate plans for one. now, they're upset because the city put out a bid for bus services for pre-k students with special needs without guaranteeing the jobs would go to the local union workers. the union put out a statement saying that when it comes to schoolchildren, the mayor should be more concerned about safety not just cutting costs. now, mayor bloomberg says a strike would be illegal and he predicted that if one were to occur, it would create a lot of

chaos, ted. >> contingency plan if the drivers do go on strike? >> yeah, that's right. they sent out a letter to all the parents on friday. the parents see this letter with the details about what would happen and one of the things is that the city would provide about 300,000 metro cards. those are the cards that get you around the new york city subway system here and also the public buses. so the kids would be able to use these cards to get to and from school. they also want be docked if they were to go late to school or if they wouldn't go to school at all. but mayor bloomberg is really urging parents to try and find alternate ways for the kids to get to school if a strike were to occur. take a listen. >> we know this is a very difficult situation for all of us and we understand that it may be very upsetting to our students and our families. every parent or guardian must evaluate the needs of his or her child in terms of making the best arrangements to transport the child to school.

>> reporter: now, you can imagine that for a lot of parents this is a real headache they don't need. if a strike were to occur, they would then have to figure out how to get their kids to and from school. >> obviously a potential mess tomorrow in new york. thanks, inez for us in new york city. pepper spray is not scaring away uc davis protesters. >> take responsibility. take responsibility. take responsibility. >> they were back at it overnight at the davis campus of the university of california. they pitched tents on campus to protest rising tuition costs and they returned a day after this happened. this is the video that has now gone viral, shows a police officer pepper spraying a group of sitting protesters at point

blank range. the school promises to investigate the pepper spraying. it is also prompting calls for the chancellor of uc davis to resign, which she says she will not do. >> we always hope that students will follow the appropriate policies. policies exist to allow 60,000 people to use this campus effectively and safely. i don't believe that it is appropriate for me to resign at this point. really, i do not think that i have violated the policies of the institution. as a matter of fact, i have personally worked very hard to make this campus a safe campus for all. >> a central question in all of this, why did the police pepper spray a group of demonstrating students who look to be just simply sitting around in a protest. to help us find answers, we have the chief of u.s. california davis police on the phone.

the university chancellor has called the incident unacceptable. two of your officers have been placed on indefinite administrative leave. what can you tell us about what you're doing to investigate this and how -- how can either you or how do they justify what what we saw? >> the officers, you're correct, they've been placed on administrative leave effective today. this came after the event due to our ability to review and have conversation and we believe that this is the right thing to do at this time. this administrative leave will stay in effect until the independent investigation is completed. hopefully that won't take too long. and then we'll go from there. >> now, initially you said your officers had been threatened in a news conference yesterday. you said, quoting here, the students had encircled the officers, they needed to exit,

they were looking to leave, but were unable to get out. why the change from where you were yesterday to what now putting these guys on leave? >> well, as i said, you know it 24 hours later, we have had discussion and reviews and time to contact these officers as well. and, again, i say this is just the right thing to do at this time. and, again, this investigation, i hope, will come to a conclusion sooner than later. >> i would like to listen to part of the exchange between your officers and the protesters. hang on. take a listen to? >> move it or you're going to get it in the face. move! move! >> from what we can see and hear on the video, does it fall within reasonable police action, move or you're going to get pepper sprayed in your face? >> i'm afraid -- i'm sorry, i can't comment on the actual event and/or the behavior of the officers due to it becoming an

internal investigation. i'm sorry, i can't comment on that anymore. >> short term, are you doing anything to make sure as these occupy movements continue that something like this doesn't happen in the short term here while you're investigating? >> we're going to continue to do our job on campus, keep the campus and community safe. and the officers will be given their due process. >> okay. chief annette spicuzza, we appreciate your time. the headline here, if you've seen that video, the folks at uc davis and the police department say they are investigating and those two officers have been put on administrative leave. congress' approval rating is at 9%. and all time low. but throwing the bums out, as they say, can be tricky. the practice of gerrymandering made it harder for incumbents to lose their seats. drew griffin explains.

>> reporter: been asked to report on gerrymandering. what do you think about gerrymandering? >> i think gerrymandering is a great guy. >> reporter: these are people lined up to see the liberty bell. what do you think about gerrymandering? >> i don't really know him. >> reporter: how about you? >> i never heard of him. >> reporter: it is actually the way politicians draw up congressional districts. >> oh. >> reporter: into weird looking shapes so they can protect their own seats? okay. in chicago, squeezed between two freeways, this narrow strip is needed to connect two halves of a gerrymandered district to keep it contiguous as is required. this is the way congress gets around the contiguous rule, because there is obviously nobody living here. unless they're homeless people, i guess. anybody here? any congressional voters out there? this is illinois' fourth

district. stand it on end, and what does it look like? >> earmuffs? >> reporter: luis gutierrez has been the congressman here for almost 20 years. >> one part. another part, and you stay protected, stay together. >> reporter: it was drawn to give hispanics a seat in congress. >> shouldn't the congress of the united states be a reflection of the city of chicago? >> reporter: gutierrez ticks off what he says is an irish district, a polish district, a jewish district, three black districts. this is the map for those chicago districts. all held by democrats with irregular lines. odd connecting points. back in the earmuff strip -- >> here comes a tractor. he's leaving the seven, he's in the fourth congressional district right now, he's going through the fourth congressional district, and he has entered the fifth congressional district. in his spannic district,

gutierrez is usually re-elected with 75% of the vote or more. for other democrats around him, it can be as high as 85%. consider this, in the last decade, 78% of all of the seats in the house did not change party hands, not even once. that's nearly four out of five congressmen in safe seats year after year after year. a result of district lines drawn to protect incumbents in both parties. >> in general elections, it is almost rigged. >> all right. our thanks to drew griffin. does your vote for a congressional candidate really matter? might depend where you live. is your neighborhood jury-rigged? cnn presents tonight 8:00 eastern. a multimillion dollar virtual payout, how online poker rooms are failing to pay those who win big. officials even calling it a ponzi scheme. but first, with unemployment hovering at stubbornly high levels, a lot of people are

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welcome back. i'm ted rowlands in for

fredricka whitfield. as we get close to the bottom of the hour, here are some of the top stories we're following. officials in libya's new government insist that saif al-islam gadhafi will be tried in libya, despite his indictment by the international criminal court that requires him to appear in the hague. he is the former libyan leader's second oldest son, he was tracked down and captured yesterday in libya's southern desert. tragedy in philadelphia today. two men collapsed and died while running the marathon. wtvi reports the men, one 21, the other 40, apparently had heart attacks. word is they were near the finish line when they collapsed. a new contract for major league baseball all but signed. sources say labor negotiators shook hands on the deal. now they're putting it in writing. the new five-year deal reportedly raises the minimum salary for players to around half million dollars a year. a french investment company agreed to buy a major online poker playing site.

but there is a couple of pressing issues to be dealt with first. u.s. justice department calls full tilt poker a ponzi scheme and the company owes players in the united states hundreds of millions of dollars. cnn money's poppy harlow has more. >> reporter: how much money did you make playing poker online? >> about $300,000. >> reporter: in how long? >> three or four years. >> reporter: in the online poker world, shawn busy was known as jordan kicks. >> on april 15th, i was playing poker like any other day, and all of a sudden we just couldn't play anymore. money was frozen. >> reporter: it became known as black friday. when the justice department seized full tilt poker's operations and froze player accounts, alleging the company was operating a global ponzi scheme. >> i think this is unchartered territory for the first time player moneys have been seized. >> reporter: the doj says full tilt owed some $390 million to players around the world, including roughly 150 million to

u.s. players. but had only $60 million in its coffers. and it alleges members of the company board and other owners were paid more than $440 million over a four-year period. full tilt fired back saying it is in no way a ponzi scheme, and says it is committed to paying players back. out 60 grand, though, shawn busy is not convinced. >> a lot of people feel bee trayed, i guess, this was the site where they made their income, they had the relationship with the people there, they trusted them, and, you know, they basically stole from us. >> reporter: just this week, the french investment group reached an agreement to acquire full tilt poker and says it will reimburse players outside the u.s. but for american players, like shawn, they'll have to apply to the doj to get their money back. full tilt's current owners have not yet accepted the deal. >> i try not to get my hopes up. i consider that money lost and if i get it back, it will be a

nice bonus. >> reporter: i think the general feeling is, okay, well, people can't play the games that they like online anymore. for you, it was a lot more than that. this was your livelihood. >> this was my job, yeah. i feel like my job has been taken away from me right now. this is my source of income for the past four years. >> reporter: shawn is not alone. according to h2 gambling capital, about 8% of u.s. online poker players or about 35,000 people in this country, made a living off the game. now many of them have moved abroad where online poker is alive and well. what did you use your winnings for? >> everything. my car, rent, tuition now, all my bills, computer, everything i use, everything i own pretty much i bought in the past few years has been through poker winnings. this was my office basically. i would sit here, you know, i bought a nice desk. >> reporter: what was your best day ever? >> playing online in 2009 i got

second place for $163,000 in one tournament. >> reporter: ethan ruby says he used his full tilt winnings to start a college fund for his kids and buy a hot tub. he doesn't think he'll ever see the $13,000 he had in his account when it was frozen. brian turned to online poker after losing his job in the mortgage industry. he's now out 28 grand. >> poker has been an american past time for however many years. >> reporter: an american past time? >> sure. everyone loves to play poker. >> reporter: and some are even gambling with their losses. offering to sell their full tilt account balances for a discount, to willing buyers who think the money will come through. eventually. in new york, poppy harlow, cnn money. >> wow. those are the winners that -- just imagine all the folks that lost the money they gave them. thanks, poppy. appreciate it. well, an offensive comment gets actor isaiah washington

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it is 37 minutes after the hour. i'm ted rowlands in for fredricka whitfield who is off this weekend. before she left, she talked to actor isaiah washington in her one on one face to face segment. take a look. >> four years after actor isaiah washington was checked out of the hit television show "grey's anatomy," he's been far from sedentary. he produced two movies, a documentary and he's written a book. in "a man from another land", his book, washington talks about the offensive remark in 2007 that got him fired. he opens up face to face with me about regret and renewal. >> i'm very good at what i do. >> do you mind kind of taking me back to that moment of when things started to unravel between you and "grey's anatomy". >> i talk about it in the book. there is really difficult for me to continue to comment on it. i spoke candidly about it with larry king on cnn. >> i don't care what patrick is doing. he finally comes in, ready to

go, which is always patrick, always ready to go and up. and i said, you know, it was odd because everyone has been waiting, you're late. i mentioned it to him. i said, well, if you were here, you know, 20 minutes ago, you would have been able to shoot the scene and been on your way by now. he said, i'm not late. i'm never late. i'm, like, wait a minute, standing here waiting on you. here for 20 minutes. he says, whatever, whatever. blows me off. >> you did use the f word, but instead of using the f word -- >> i used the b word a lot, i used a lot of words. >> instead of using the f word in particular about someone's sexual orientation, in your way it was being used as a sign of weakness. >> for me. >> is how you interpreted -- >> for me. the other guy who got on the show again, made it all about him, he wasn't even on the set. wasn't even around. >> it was never about you calling t.r. knight the f word

in reference to his sexual orientation. >> never. it is about the people who had agendas. it is about the people who were insecure. it is about people listening with filtered ears. it was about people who wanted to hear what they wanted to hear. >> a lot of words that took place here, and you said you and patrick dempsey, you know, you shook hands, so to speak, over it later. >> it has been documented. "people" magazine heavily documented it. >> but then ultimately this would be the demise of you in "grey's anatomy". >> ten years after i played a gay character. >> a gay black republican. >> i know i've seen everything. >> according to my observation, you haven't seen much. >> a lot of people got hurt. a lot of innocent fans, a lot of people still pining for dr. burk to go back. >> whose fault is that? >> i don't know. you have to look into that. everyone has to look into that. i've been invited back. i was invited back. chandra wilson called me. >> and you didn't take them up on the offer?

>> of course. >> you're not on the show anymore. and in large part, you're not able to get the kind of work that you feel at this point of your career you should be getting. >> i couldn't get that kind of work before "grey's anatomy," with the recession and the wga strike, that's a good one. but that's not it. no one is working. when is the last movie you've seen will smith in? cuba gooding? it is just no there? >> you think that's mostly because of the economy and less because of what happened to you? >> yeah, i work all the time. >> and you're parting with "grey's anatomy". >> i work all the time. i just got done with law & order. dick wolf pretty much wanted me to be in the show. >> you feel like you've recovered, you are back to that point in your career where you were? >> i don't think about it. i became an actor to change the

world, to change the perception of what i thought was a negative for an african-american man. >> you don't write of regret, of any regrets as it pertains to the episode that helped end your relationship with "grey's anatomy." i would love you to read what you were feeling and experiencing around that time. >> what do you have here? >> you write about what you were feeling. >> i was sleeping less than four hours a night, filled with an indescribable level of anxiety. all i could do was operate as a human being. one minute at a time. i pararayed constantly, in betw glaad meetings and writing and rewriting letters of apology, psas and media insanity, i was forced to pay thousands of dollars for, quote, crisis management. end of quote. i was in big trouble. i was now considered a moter.

you have this towering black man monster attacking this little -- cowering little human being because of his sexual orientation. and that just is not true. >> do you ever watch the show? >> i peek in. i'm not going to lie to you. i love sandra oh. >> sandra oh -- >> see her with that owen guy, oh, man. >> that was your counterpart. >> yeah. >> your love interest on the show. >> i peek in. i just adore me some sandra oh. i can't believe i told you that. >> do you ever -- >> you got me out there. my pr is going to kill me. you're talking too much. >> do you ever tune in and say, i wish i was still there? >> no. >> you moved on. >> oh, yeah. four years. >> eisaiah washington is keepin busy. this weekend he's in florida discussing his new book "a man from another land" and you see hill on the big screen soon. he says in the movies "the suspect" and "area q".

>> that was fredricka whitfield's face to face with actor isaiah washington. more of that interview next weekend on "cnn newsroom". the gop candidates gearing up for tuesday's debate are campaigning blocks away from where they hope to work. the white house. more in our political look ahead. ♪ [ male announcer ] we're not employers or employees. not white collar or blue collar or no collars. we are business in america. and every day we awake to the same challenges.

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while campaigning in new hampshire, mitt romney picked up an important endorsement, senator kelly ayotte is throwing her support behind the former massachusetts governor. take a listen. >> we are honored to be here today to enthusiastically endorse mitt romney for president of the united states of america. >> this is as the next republican presidential debate is just two days away. for that, let's turn to cnn deputy political director paul steinhauser who has a look ahead at this week in politics. >> reporter: hey, ted. tomorrow newt gingrich heads to new hampshire to unveil what the former house speaker says is a plan to reform social security.

the next day, all the major republican presidential candidates will be a few blocks from the place they hope to move into, the white house. on tuesday night, they face off at a cnn national security debate at constitution hall, just down the street from the white house. cnn's teaming up with the heritage foundation and american enterprise institute to put on the debate. on wednesday, the front-runner in the race, mitt romney, returns to iowa, the former massachusetts governor hasn't spent much time in the state that votes first in the caucus and primary calendar, but he's still tied for the top spot in the latest polls. ted? >> and for the latest political news, you know where to go, cnnpolitics.com. another reminder, tuesday night at 8:00, cnn hosts the presidential debate, focusing on national security and the economy. that's at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. well, "cnn newsroom" with don lemon coming up in a few minutes. don is here to tell us about

what's ahead. >> good to see you. you've been everywhere, l.a., chicago, all over. now in atlanta. >> beautiful atlanta, yes. >> how are you enjoying being here in this giant studio with -- >> nice digs. >> you like it? we'll be talking -- coming up at 6:00, a lot about what is happening at penn state as we have been doing on the network and really all over. we'll be talking with cycling superstar greg lamont. he has his own personal story. he talks to me about his deepest, darkest secret. take a listen. >> he would sleep in my room as a guest and stay over probably every couple of weeks, come visit and at one point, you know, he -- while i was asleep, sexually abused me and it was something that was really confusing, really confusing. >> have you ever confronted -- have you ever confronted him? >> i couldn't figure out where

he was, and, of course, i hired an investigator and three minutes later he gave me the address and my wife called to find out where he was, you know, at working, and literally, it had been in the news and what we found out that he had just left -- moved to italy. that's the last thing i heard. . that's the last thing i heard. >> that is just the beginning of greg lamont's story. she working to help victims and is urging people -- victims of sexual abuse to contact a group called one in six. he also talks about lance armstrong. >> he has been outspokeen about lance armstrong, too. up next how toward view the debt crisis. an american institution treading water as it bleeds money. we will look at the bottom line when we come back. no. i already called it. [ dad ] nobody's playing anything until after we get our homework done. thank you. hello? test drive's not over yet. [ male announcer ] it's practically yours. [ louder ] hello?

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following. it's been a weekend of deadly protests in egypt's capital. the egyptian held ministry says at least six people have been killed and 1100 others hurt. protesters are angry over a proposal and a new constitution that will shield the country's military from public oversight. in britain, evidence is

growing that the phone and e-mail hacking continued at the news at the world long after it was thought to have ended. the new defunct tabloid was owned by rupert murdoch's news international. police believe the hacking continued until 2009. as recently as last week, news international maintained the hacking ceased in 2006. tiger woods helped to punch the president's cup. the competition in australia pits top american golfers with counterparts around the world outside of europe. the u.s. retained the cup after beating the internationals 19-15. woods scored the winning point for the united states team. for a number of countries, reining in the debt is a top priority. let's get a financial update beginning with felicia taylor in new york. >> reporter: concerns about

europe's debt crisis slammed last week. until now stocks had been up six of the last seven weeks and oil topped $100 a barrel for the first time since july. the u.s. postal service, however, continues to bleed money. the usps reported $5.1 billion loss. the agency is saddled with high retiree health care cost and declining mail volumes. poppy harlow as a look at what is coming up in business news. poppy? >> thank you so much. there's a lot on the business calendar even though it is a short trading week. trading will end early on friday and close on thursday. wall street is hoping to hear the congressional debt committee reached a deal. they have until wednesday to find a way to slash the massive u.s. debt by $1.2 trillion, otherwise automatic spending cuts will kick in 2013. on friday, or for some retailers late on thanksgiving,

the official holiday shopping season begins. the national retail federation expect s more than 150 million americans will shop over the black friday weekend. we will keep an eye on it for you on cnn money. ted, back to you. >> thank you. remember to check out cnn money.com for the latest financial news. >> well, as the thanksgiving week gets underway, there's a threat of severe flooding in parts of the country. jacqui jeras is here tracking it for us. who's in danger here? who's going to get their thanksgiving ruined? >> well, hopefully not ruined. you have to the just be smart about it, right? >> i guess. >> today is the start of three days of lousy weather for a lot of people across the south and as well as to the east. we have a severe threat at this hour across texas in to a sliver of oklahoma and arkansas. large hail and damaging winds will be the primary concern. let me show you what is going on. we have a stalled out frontal

system across the southern plains in to the ohio valley. this isn't going to move a lot. we will see these waves or impulses along the front triggering severe thunderstorms and this will be off and on the next couple of days. when you get thunderstorms over the same areas, we are talking three to five inches. flood watches in the area as well. we are tracking things across the west. a live picture of los angeles. a weak storm off the coast of california means an ugly day and pounding on the roadways. >> rain in l.a. a tragedy. they don't know what to do. >> it is not an everyday thing? that does it for me. cnn continues at the top of the hour with don lemon.

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