>> thank you. >> alexi murdoch, thank you. by the way, you can catch all my "music monday" interviews, go to the blog. i'd love to hear who you're listening to, feedback on our artists and hope you join me each and every monday. top. hour. let's roll on. watch this. welcome back. i'm brooke baldwin. couple of stories we're watching at the top of the hour. very soon, the super committee may announce its progress or lack thereof. also the markets tank because of it. a link possibly between iran and weapons in libya. and a landslide wreaks havoc in the u.s. kate bolduan following last-minute action along members of the super committee on debt reduction. we know the deadline, kate, is technically wednesday though

they're acting as though it's today. is there any news in the last 50 or so minutes since we last spoke? >> reporter: since we last spoke, that impromptu meeting you and i were talking about between a bipartisan group of members of the super committee, that has broken p up. as members were leaving, senator max baucuss, facing a mass of reporters, the only way to describe it, he actually mentioned that there's possibly a new tax idea being floated possibly by senator john kerry. as you and i talked, this meeting was described by one aide earlier as kind of a hail mary pass to see if they could pull anything off in this 11th hour. unclear what the details are of this tax idea, but i will tell you that it does seem that it possibly could be a long shot as one gop leadership aide has already speaking to my colleague deidre walsh on this tax idea said, at the 11th hour senator kerry offered a new gimmick, in this person's word, to get to

the democrats' same trillion dollar tax hike. there's no indication that any other super committee democrats support it. clearly that's coming with a heavy dose of republican spin on that one. but i will say that it's very interesting that they're trying to discuss a new idea at this 11th hour. i think we have a little bit of sound from senator max baucus as he was leaving this meeting. let's take a listen. >> we're working as hard as we can. >> well done. >> reporter: so they're working as hard as they can, brooke, but all signs at this moment still point to the inevitable outcome you and i have been discussing, it seems that this committee is heading toward failure and we could be getting a formal announcement of that in the next few hours. barring some unforeseen breakthrough that clearly they're trying to pull off, that seems to be where this is headed at this moment.

>> kate bolduan on the hill watching this news and possible tax idea, we'll see if that goes anywhere. thank you. next on reporter roulette, the predictions were ominous about how investors would react to the super committee's problems on u.s. debt issues. cnn's alison kosik live at the new york stock exchange. i've been watching the dow over the last 60 minutes, and it was down 300-plus. >> that's right. 342 points to be exact. but it has recovered a bit, the dow only down about 286 points. still no doubt about it'ses an ugly day for stocks. you can pin the blame right on the dysfunction happening in washington, lawmaker hes unable to hash out a deal apparently. what's interesting is that the market had actually low expectations for what the super committee would wind up coming up with, but it looks like investors were holding out some of that hope that a bipartisan compromise could be reached. so their hopes apparently dashed, at least at this point, because now the big worry is that the u.s. credit rating could be headed for another

downgrade. who could forget in august standard & poor's, one of the top credit rating agencies, fired a big warning shot that, you know what? a downgrade could happen again if the super committee doesn't come up with a deal. so, yeah, the warning bell was sounded and we are down to, as kate said, kind of the 11th hour here. it's putting investors on edge to say the least. >> 56 more minutes of the tra trading day. thank you, alison. next on reporter roulette, let's go to jill dougherty at the state department. jill, we're hearing about possible new sanctions on iran? what are you learning about that? >> right. it's continuing to ratchet up. in a couple of hours, actually an hour and a half, we're expecting to hear from secretary clinton and from secretary geithner of the treasury about new sanctions against iran. this time thwhat they're doing accusing raub and iran central bank of money laundering. once they do that, it's going to

be a warning to a lot of different countries who deal with iran that they better watch out. also, brooke, this is following just another step by britain today, a very strok step, in which they're cutting off any type of working with any of the banks in iran, including the central bank. brooke? >> what is this, jill, also this link between iran and weapons in libya? what can you it tell me about that? >> well, they're also accused of providing some type of canisters for chemical weapons. this is just one more thing, brooke, you'd have to say added to the list right now. you've got the nuclear program. you have that plot against the saudi ambassador. everything that seems to be loaded into the ammunition against iran is being trotted out right now, and the most serious thing right now is what the u.s. and the world community are going to be doing about really turning up the heat economically. >> want to push people to your

reporting, go to cnn.com/security cleesarance. next, on reporter roulette, chunks of a highway in southern california are gone, this massive landslide, san pedro, california, just into the pacific. >> right down by white point state park. >> there it is. >> this has been cracking for months. the road is closed, no cars were not on in. they knew this was going to event live fall in. but the rain from this weekend, in some spots santa barbara to almost l.a., one to two inches of rain, well, that was the final straw. >> wow. >> so the rain came in from the north, in fact, right from san francisco through bakersfield and down to l.a. one more time, that crack in the cement right there, you can see the rain there for hours and hours and hours. but when you get those imajz, you think to yourself, when you were a kid, everybody was telling you california was going to fall into the ocean. we didn't think one small piece

at a time. that is such a scenic roadway, too. i've been on the road. they think they may have to change the route of the scenic highway because they don't see any way to fix that gash in the earth, brooke. >> that is stunning. that's all just because of the little bit of rain over the weekend, finally the catalyst. >> that was the crack that broke the camel's back, the straw. that was it. >> unreal. chad myers, thank you. that's reporter roulette for this monday. now this. i prayed at that moment, please, please let her live. >> three presidential candidates break down into tears during this emotional conversation. we're going to play those moments for you. plus, three days of bloodshed as bullets fly, tear gas rains down in egypt. just a short time ago, a bombshell. cnn is live in the midst of the chaos. also -- >> let's hope we find her and

bring her home. >> it's tough for you. >> it's tough. >> a mother goes missing the same day she appears on an episode of "the people's court." i'll tell you what police found 24 hours after she disappeared. and we're watching wall street as the markets tank as alison kosik was pointing out, america waits to hear whether the super committee failed. we are told an announcement is coming very soonl. stay with us. accept it.

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response to three days of bloody clashes between protestors and security forces, certainly reminiscent of the initial uprising months ago. so far at least 22 people have died, 1700 others have been wounded. let's go to cairo, cnn's ivan watson. ivan, as you've been watching the crowds behind you there, have you seen -- had what kind of reaction have you seen now that the cabinet has submitted its resignation? >> reporter: well, we did see some fireworks a while back and some cheering. that may have been in part a response to that announced resignation. but the crowd there calling for the resignation of the civilian government, which i think many egyptians felt was basically a puppet to the ruling military council here, which has basically run the show for the past nine months since hosni mubarak stepped down. the crowd there, they're angry, baying for blood after at least 22 of their colleagues were killed in these clashes.

they're calling on the ruling military council to step down. when you step away from the energy and the adrenaline in here, with wounded people being ferried out pretty much every minute from the front lines where there are clashes going on with the police, the political parties that are supposed toiam elections just seven days from now, they're not calling on the military council to resign. they say they wanted to step aside. they want true civilian rule, but they don't want a power vacuum immediately. they want some kind of transition process. >> ivan, you talk about the gun battles. you mentioned 22 deaths. has the military at all been apologetic for using force? >> reporter: not so much. and it does seem like it's at the forefront the riot police, the interior ministry, engaged in the battles. and there are some signs actually from some eyewitnesss that it's the demonstrators themselves that are trying to

attack the headquarters of the riot police. it's not exactly a one-sided battle at this point. but it does seem clear that what triggered this saturday morning was a very small number of demonstrators here, perhaps less than 200, and the security forces came in and evicted them using force, set fires to their tents, may have killed somebody there. that's what triggered this crisis that has already taken down a government and may do irreparable harm to egypt's economy, which is already suffering since the first revolution some ten months ago. >> as you mention, the election there in egypt seven days away. ivan watson, thank you so much, in cairo. back here home, pretty stunning piece of video of campus police, university of california davis, these police officers pepper-spraying college students in a nonviolent protest. it has gone viral on the internet. here it is.

this was uc davis, on campus friday, this is where officers -- you see this one guy with his can of pepper spray spraying just about a dozen demonstrators associated with the occupy wall street movement, spraying them at point-blank range. today the campus police chief was placed on administrative leave, this is after two police officers were placed on leave just yesterday. senior sophia kameron was one of the protestors. she spoke to me, said she could feel the effects of being pepper sprayed. here's what she told me. >> after they sprayed us it felt like we were being showered in the liquid. it got all over our hands, bodies, our clothes were soaked. we were just burning. even hours later when we removed our clothes to shower, it was burning all over again. >> a petition being signed on calling on the resignation of the chancellor of uc davis. it's known as the prison ward where some of the most dangerous, out-of-control

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want to bring in the host of "jks usa," john king himself, working his sources to find out what is going on today with regard it to the super committee. we know technically the deadline is this upcoming wednesday, but we knew it had to be scored and get to the cbo by today. that's why we're talk ago lot about this. what's the latest news you have? i mean, are we still assuming it's going to fail? >> hash tag fail, is that what

we're going to call today? i think this is super fail. this committee has been in business for about three months now, charged with a pretty important task, $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction over ten years. remember at the beginning a lot of people said, go bigger, $4 trillion, six democrats, six republicans, never mind. the fundamental disagreement at the beginning is there at the end, the republicans say no to any proposal that includes higher tax revenue, the democrats reluctant to talk about big numbers when it comes to cutting domestic programs, especially medicare and social security. so, brooke, unless there is a miracle and there's not one in sight, in the next few hours they will concede they've failed. automatic spending cuts will kick in, but not until 2013. we're now going to have again barring a big miracle a political debate. this will become a central issue in campaign 2012. >> so according to our own reporting, we know some of the members of this super committee were meeting in a room on

capitol hill and apparently senator baucus has been facing the cameras and it was senator kerry who brought up some sort of tax idea. that's all i know, tax idea. i mean, why are they even talking about this? is this just more theater? >> well, in a way it would be nice if they'd meet publicly and talk at least until they ran out of time. they last met publicly november 1st. we haven't been able to see much of this. then they've been meeting in groups, democrats amongst them sfdz, republicans amongst themselv themselves. then they meet together. the tax idea is that most democrats want to let the bush tax cuts expire. remember president obama spain kpained on that in 2008, then agreed to extend them. most democrats want them to expire, which means taxes on wealthier americans would go up. there are proposals you would let those tax cuts stay in place and in the meantime do structural tax reform, that rates would go down for everybody under that scenario but the holoopholes would disappear and washington in theory would get more money.

they've been unable to get to the consensus, the six and six have to come to a consensus or at least one democrat would go with the republicans and one republican go it with the democrats, this is washington doing what it does best, brooke, which is to say it's broken. >> but, john, you mentioned the last time the six and six met, november 1, i just checked my calendar, it is november 21 today. that was 20 days ago. i mean, shouldn't that make the american people mad? >> well, the process can make the american people mad. again, some lawmakers, former speaker pelosi was one of them, vern buchanan, a republican lawmaker on the ways and means committee, they said at the beginning, have all these hearings in public, let the cameras in so we can have a public conversation about what you would have to do to get real deficit reduction. that would be pretty good for the country most think. however, a lot of the members of the committee said, look, there's no way we can cut these difficult deals unless we have a lot of private meetings. of this to be honest has been done at the staff members.

their staffs go back and forth. the processes is collapsing. congressional approval rating are somewhere in the ballpark of 8%, 10%, people he are disgusted with washington. now the democrats, people also have partisan reactions, the democrats will blame republicans, republicans will blame democrats. look, the system, what we have in place right now, is pretty broken. it is almost impossible to do anything big in washington right now, brooke. and we have a pretty evenly divided congress. we have a very close, competitive presidential election coming up. we'll debate these things through next november. we'll see how they try to tinker in the meantime. >> hash tag super fail, you say. john king, see you 6:00 tonight. thank you. he is a chef who pushes the envelope, mixi ining flavored a textures to reinvent what we eat. for three years, this chef grew up hungry and homeless. >> we serve an edible menu here, we have almost since day one, and that's because serving

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this just in to cnn. we are hearing now that reports indicate that several spies working for the cia in lebanon have been captured, and u.s. officials fear some of them may now be dead, possibly, possibly executed. cnn's brian todd working the story for us out of washington. brian, what do we know so far? >> brooke, cnn is told that the group hezbollah was able to identify some cia agents in lebanon leading to their capture. these are not americans we're told but foreign assets. a u.s. official would not discuss the details, say how many agents were affected. but in a speech in june, hezbollah leader says his group uncovered three spies, including two recruited by cia officers based at the u.s. embassy in beirut. at the time the u.s. embassy dismissed that as quote empty accusations. the official we spoke to today would not say what effect the capture had on cia operations in beirut. he said reports that the ia

station had shut down as a result of this are nonsense. we also spoke with bob bair, a former cia officer who worked in beirut and he said it's standard operating procedure when you lose multiple assets to shut down a station temporarily at least and assess what went wrong. just getting word now of what happened probably over the late spring, early summer in lebanon. >> let me ask you this, what would hezbollah likely do to agents it captured? >> you said at the beginning there's a fear they might have been executed. that say tangible concern right now. we spoke to matthew levitt, an expert on hezbollah. he said in some cases when hezbollah catches spies, it puts them in prison, maybe later rehabilitates them. at the time hassan announced this, he said he knew some of them personally, knew their families. that may lead to speculation that they were imprisoned and e

reha built bill tated. but there's a chance they could have been executed as well. >> brine todd, thank you. now to this. actor hugh grant takes the stand and accuses a tabloid of illegally hacking his cell phone's voice mails. this this is the first time the "mail on sunday" has been named in the scandal. >> i cannot for the life of me think of any conceivable source for this story in the "mail on sunday" except those voice messages on my mobile telephone. what i'd love to hear what the sunday mail's explanation for that was, what their source was, if it wasn't phone hacking. >> that story, falsely accused hugh grant of having a flirty relationship with a movie executive. he did later win the lawsuit against "the mail." the british court hearing, this is all part of that investigation that could be widespread unethical media practices. you remember "news of the world" shut down in july following revelations of an alleged phone hacking scandal.

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he has been in congress since jimmy carter was president. now michigan democrat is denying allegations he sexually abused his cousin. he says the claims are from 50

years ago from a relative who has a history of mental problems. >> i said, i've got to tell you, you have no idea what i've been through because of what you did to me. and he said, patrick, every year i make a general confession, and he said, that's the first thing on my list every year. >> the "washington times" newspaper caught up with kill dee asking about the allegations and the impact on his legacy since he's retiring at the end of this term. >> reporter: give me your response to these allegations. >> there's no shred of truth to them. i hope i've left a good legacy. i served 36 years in the congress. >> kildee's office has provided a letter that kildee claims is from the cousin signed "all my

love". new details on jared loughner's life behind bars. and a mom disappears. "the arizona republic" dug up information, took a look at court documents and let me run down some of what "the arizona republic" learned. there are cameras that watch his had every move. every 15 minutes a guard checks on what he's doing, logs it in a color-coded chart. blue means he's in bed, green up and awake and red he's pacing the floor of his 8 by 10 foot cell in this mega federal medical facility in springfield, missouri. and his main therapist, sunny, says he's getting a better grip on reality. one sign that he has now agreed to watch the safeway shooting footage with her. and he said, quote, i'll draw you a picture of it so you'll understand it. what do you make of that? >> it's remarkable, isn't it,

brooke? it's pretty extraordinary. what i make of it is that the psychologist in this case has been tasked to return his mental competency so that he can stand trial for the 49 charges that he's accused of in relation to that tucson shooting. so we're hearing a lot about thebathe back-and-forth of his mental state. we know in 2008 he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and at that time he was sort of forced these antipsychotic medical occasions. well, the ninth circuit, u.s. circuit court of appeals, ordered those meds be stopped. and we hear that he really spiralled downwardsful he was doing things like pacing 14 hours a day 0 in his cell. he stayed awake for about 50 hours. he was flinging species about the bed and cell. the prison team determined outside of the court order that they were going to resume his medication, even though that's sort of now the topic of another legal battle. but my understanding is that we're seeing some clarity with

jared loughner now. we're seeing him sort of return to some normalcy, and that's what this psychologist i think is describing. >> they talk a lot about the schizophrenia and the dugs and the pacing. i guess there was a lot of red on his chart for a number of months and the therapist also says that loughner now understands he's murdered people. now understands that. it's unreal to try to wrap my head around not wrapping one's headed around that. does that make sense? >> it really is. i mean, it's very much of a story of paranoid schizophrenia. it's a story of mental illness. and i think people have a lot of trouble with that, especially when we look at gabrielle giffords and her story and her recovery and the fact that so many people, including a young child, died in this shooting. and so people may not have an understanding of it. i don't think they'll have much sympathy for him. but the issue is whether or not he will be restored to competency so he can stand trial for these crimes. i mean, you know, we're talking

about death and mayhem, and i think many of us hope that he will be able to stand trial for these charges and perhaps be kept away from the general public for the rest of had his life. >> yes. we're also learning i guess his parents did actually take him to a psychologist back in 2006, something we hadn't heard before. i want to move on to the next case, a florida mother of three, michelle parker, she disappears after an episode of "the people's court." family members think she was carjacked. they're begging for her return. here is her mother. >> this isn't a wallet. this isn't just a purse. this is my baby girl. we need to find her and we need help. we need help from everybody in this community. >> so one odd issue about this case, sunny, is that she disappeared just after a sometimes angry appearance on "the people's court" with her ex-fiance, the father of her 3-year-old twins. i guess they were fighting over some engagement ring.

does that change at all how police approach the case? >> well, certainly the police did investigate this because, you're right, the disappearance occurred right after this was aired. and certainly many of her friends and acquaintances have said that this was a violent relationship, that he was very abusive towards her. but my understanding now is that they've ruled that out. they don't believe that he is a suspect in her disappearance, and, in fact, may have nothing to do with it, and this may just be a sheer coincidence. >> okay. we'll follow it and see if she does turn up. hopefully safe and sound. sunny hof yny hostin, thanks so coming up, this is the week of thanksgiving, you know what happens afterwards, black friday. i have show and tell for you. you basically upload this app on your iphone, check this out, hit scan, grab a bar code, and by scanning a bar code on almost anything, as i've discovered through my day to day, you can

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of this florida best buy for days. >> we set up tent and our game plan is to stay here until about thursday, thursday afternoon. >> that's some serious shopping. in case you cannot spend the next couple of days camped out in front of a big box store, maybe it's time to do your black friday shopping a little smarter. then we talk to tech reporter katy linen dahl. i just called out katy on twitter for being a geek girl, but i think i'm in good company here. >> yes! >> some of what you're about to show me. talk to me about these apps. i just uploaded shop savvy for the first time today. totally cool. >> yeah. totally cool. what's really interesting is, according to a study, 45% of users are actually going to use your smartphone come black friday to do price compariskpa . the bar code scanning app, there's three i love to make those price comparisons.

the find red laser and shop savvy. they work pretty easily. you just scan that bar code on any product and it uses your cell gps to show you if there's another store in your range to find it cheaper. it will tell you places online to find a better bargain. i was at best buy this weekend picking up a bleu ray player for a friend, i scanned it, made sure all the electronics stores around me didn't have a better deal. turn to the bar scanning apps. another i love is catalog by the find. this is an app made specifically for tablet users. what it does is compiles 70 of the top retailers, their catalogs and also their circulars so you can flip through with easy access. it has all the back-catalogs but now you don't have to go through your newspapers to sort through the circulars when it comes to black friday deals. and the last app i want to show you is brand new. this actually just launched.

it's called savvy.com. it deals with price adjustments. last year $20 billion were missed out by consumer because of price adjustments they missed out during holiday. savvy.com allows you to scan a receipt, and if an item goes on sale, it will actually send you a push notification, which is really nice. it's an app and a web site. plan to download this in a few days. it's still buggy. but pretty awesome when it takes off the scare. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. wait, if i buy something and i figure out it's gone on sale, i get a little ding or something on my phone, and i can go back and get the deal? is that what i'm hearing? >> yes. it pulls 41 of the top retail hers and if something on your receipt goes on sale, it's actually going to alert you. if if you don't have an app, you can use the desktop version. i think this is a phenomenal way for us to stop getting that scare. here's the deal, black friday is moving into thanksgiving, then cyber monday. when is the best time to purchase something? you're scared about it going on sale. now there's an app for that. >> incredible. you'll have to tweet me the

names of these apps. i have a feeling people want to know how they can get the best deal. kati katie, always a pleasure. thank you so much. katie's web site, talk nerdy to me. love it. i said, i can do this. she said, we can do this. >> amen. >> herman cain breaks down into tears during this event with his fellow republicans, but he wasn't the only candidate to get emotional. you're going to see these candid moments and what drove these grown men to tears. plus, the man who will be asking those candidates the good tough questions tomorrow night will join me live, wolf blitzer with a preview of cnn's debate, next.

it got emotional saturday night at a campaign forum in iowa. three of the six republicans sitting there at that table got teary. they welled up when prodded to bear their souls about a particular life challenge. newt gingrich, see him there, he choked up when he spoke of a friend's son battling a serious illness. herman cain gives gingrich a pat on the back. it was cain who had set the mood from the start speaking of his own battle with cancer. >> cancer. i will never forget walking out of -- >> i will come back to you because i want to hear this story. >> cain did oblige by the way and spoke about the support he got from his wife gloria.

now i want you to listen to rick santor santorum, speaking of how he coped very early on with having a special needs child. santorum says the child has had numerous brushes with death. listen to that. >> i decided that the best thing i could do decided that the spe thing i could do was it treat her differently. and not love her like i did because it wouldn't hurt as much if i lost her. i remember holding that finger, looking at her. and realizing, what i had done. i did exactly what i had said that i had fought against at the partial birth abortion. i had seen her as a less of a

person because of her disability. >> that again was republican presidential candidate rick santorum. i should add mitt romney did not attend the forum and santorum later suggested that romney might have been uncomfortable there. romney, as you know, ras a mormon. the romney campaign has not yet responded. now, my friend, wolf blitzer, is not in "the situation room." i know be you say, wherever wolf blitzer is, is where the situation room is. you just moved it down to constitution hall. >> just a few blocks. not that far from our cnn washington bureau. for all purposes, you are still, brooke, in "the situation room." >> that's what i thought. >> ready for the show. it'll be an important show here. we have a lot of news happening today. it is breaking over the course of the next hour or two. there is a formal acknowledgement that that so-called super committee, not

all that super. there is a lot happening on the ground in egypt route now. we are going to cairo. susan wright, u.s. ambassador, just left. she has a lot on her mind, a lot of political news, important international news. the economy, it is all happening. and we will be covering it all in the situation room. we will do a lot of work ahead to the debate, big debate, tomorrow night at constitution hall in washington. brooke? >> big topic, you mentioned, super committee. do you have -- did i hear you have norquist on the show? >> yes. arguably one of the most powerful guys in washington. a lot of republicans, handful of democrats, but mostly republicans, saying no new taxes. one of the reasons the super committee deal may be off, and it looks like it is, is because the republicans didn't want to

increase taxes. democrats wanted to increase taxes, especially on the wealthy and big corporations. that didn't happen and apparently they are -- i guess they're just starting all over again. we will see what happens. lots of new stuff, lots to digest and grover norquist will be here live in the situation room at constitution hall. he is coming over here. >> all right. good deal. wolf blitzer thank you again. wolf is there at constitution hall. that is the home of tomorrow night's gop presidential debate. tomorrow night, only here on cnn. up next, michelle obama booed. >> they were doing something good. >> okay, so why did we just show you chad myers? >> the former nascar reporter. he weighed in earlier. here is the thing. forget the politics, what makes this moment more controversial involves the people standing next to her. joe johns has the political pop next.

the new came out at yesterday's nascar race. not for joe johns but for the first lady. joe, why? >> you know, brooke, it is one of those moments that tells you how polarized we are. the first lady and wife of vice president, joe biden, and they

are there with military. there is supposed to be thousands of active duty military and their families there. if you have been to nascar race, and i have, you know it is chaotic in the stand. hard it hear anything. but why don't we roll the tape and you can listen and tell me if you heard any booing. i'm pretty sure i did. >> and now, please welcome our grand marshalls. sergeant andrew berry and family. first lady of the united states, michelle obama, and jill biden, as they deliver the first words in motor sports. >> gentlemen, start your engines. >> yeah, you can hear it. >> yeah, like seriously? i assume it was booing and that the booing was directed toward the grand marshalls, mrs. obama and mrs. biden. a third grand marshall, andrew berry, severely injured, surviving two bullets and eight

bomb blasts in iraq and afghanistan, the last ied that left him too injured to continue working in the military. he is blind in his right eye, deaf, suffers skis urs due to brain jer and post traumatic syndrome. his leg was crushed and he wears a brace now. >> sergeant berry, we salute him, thank him for his service. we thought that was important enough to get that into the story, not that there were boos for the first ladiesy. second story, michele bachmann, in new york today meeting with a certain donald trump. >> yeah. the donald. fourth meeting with the donald. it is going to happen at trump tower new york. the meeting, we're hearing, from the press secretary, it is supposed to last for about an hour. the last time they met was something like october 13 in new york. and bachmann has been very busy, not doing so great in the polls

right now. but she is also supposed to appear on nbc's late night with jimmy fallon. and she's got a book out there as well that she is pushing right now. she has a lot going on, even though she is not in the top tier of the candidates, as we speak. it looks like she is still a little optimistic. >> she there, isn't she joe johns? should be interesting fallon episode to watch. let's look at tomorrow's news today. the president heading to manchester in new hampshire to talk about the american jobs act. his bill to try to boost the economy, and all of the men who would like the president's job, they are set to debate tomorrow. topics include national security and foreign policy. cnn, heritage foundation and american enterprise institute or hosting this washington event, as we mentioned, wolf blitzer, about to see in your second live from constitution hall.