overnight, leaders at the eu crises talk save, they have a deal to save the continent. how are stocks reacting and why isn't britain on board? occupy boston, on borrowed time. ignoring a midnight deadline and hoping to avoid what we've witnessed in other cities. new surveillance video showing dominique strauss kan, the hotel maid who accused him of rape and the security guards doing a victory dance. this is your "am: wakeup call."

and good morning. this is your "am: wakeup call." from the time warner center in new york i'm carol costello. here are top stories. reopening old wounds, a vigil at virginia tech university after another deadly shooting on campus. we're learning an officer and another person were shot by the same gun. the senate has voted down both republican and democratic compromise proposals to extend the payroll tax break into next year. you could lose $1,000 in take home pay if they don't agree on a deal. iran showing off what it claims is the top secret u.s. drone that went down within its borders. even though the u.s. admitted it lost an aircraft some experts are saying the one they're showing is phony. let's get a check of today's weather. rob marciano is in atlanta. so it's friday. >> it is friday. >> expecting great weather everywhere. >> not to get everybody robbed on the way home, today is

payday. >> that is fantastic. >> i was reminded of that all morning. good morning. hope it's your payday and friday. a lot of people work the weekends. we have cold air to start this friday morning. check it out across the country, 9 degrees in minneapolis, 25 chicago, 36 in new york city. finally, you know, we were topsy turvy there for a while, now it's back to normal. but it is definitely december and we are feeling the pinch as it stands right now. fairly quiet, though. little clipper system moving across the midwest. little bit of light snow from chicago. they had a slow start to winter there, now they're getting it. cleveland slight snow and that will be lake effect enhanced. 50 in new york, 58 in atlanta. if you're taking your payday money and getting on a flight we'll go over the flight delays in 15 minutes. >> that's what i'm doing. i'm taking my payday money and getting on a plane. >> you go. >> thank you, rob. first big news out of the european crisis summit, eu

leaders agreed on a deal to try to resolve the continent's debt crisis, one that threatened the world's economy. under the new deal the european central bank will manage bailout funds and eu leaders have decided to add 200 billion euros to the international monetary fund which has assisted in the bailouts of struggling european economies like greece. britain and three other companies, though, refuse to back the deal. the french president nicolas sarkozy who helped broker the deal, talked about why. >> translator: in order to accept a reform of 27 member treaty, david cameron requested something which we all considered was unacceptable, namely, that there be a protocol written into the treaty which enabled the u.k. to opt out of a certain number of rules applying to financial services. we were not able to accept that because we consider quite the contrary, that a very large or

substantial amount of the problems we're facing around the world are the result of lack of regulation of financial services and, therefore, we cannot have a waiver for the united kingdom. >> so, will this win back the confidence of panicky markets? u.s. futures they're trading slightly higher this morning. new information on the virginia tech shooting. police confirming that both people were killed by the same gun in an apparent murder/suicide. students holding a vigil late last night after a gunman shot and killed a police officer and then apparently turned the gun on himself. police say they have dash cam video from the police cruiser that shows the gunman and he appears to be the same person they found dead on the road. this all happening nearly five years after the deadliest campus shooting in u.s. history and changes made after the tragedy were put to the test yesterday. the school locking down campus and using a high-tech alert system to warn students and faculty members to stay indoors.

virginia tech police have identified the murdered officer as deriek crouse, 39 years old, married with five children and step children. a tax hike is looming for millions of american families in 2012. the senate voted down both republican and democratic compromise proposals to exit tend the payroll tax break into next year. it's now setting up a showdown between president obama and congress. the president saying he won't go on holiday break and neither will congress if this isn't settled. and we're keeping an eye on occupy camp in boston. a midnight deadline came and went for wall street protesters to clear out, but police have not moved in yet like they have in dozens of other cities from new york to los angeles and most recently in san francisco. former penn state football coach jerry sandusky free on $250,000 bail this morning after spending a night in jail. police arrested him wednesday on ten additional charges of molesting children after two new accusers came forward. one of them told the grand jury

that sandusky's wife ignored his screams for help while sandusky raped him in the basement. well now dottie sandusky has released a statement denying that saying, as the mother of six children i have been devastated by these accusations and also angry about these false accusations that such a terrible incident ever occurred in my home. she went on to say, i continue to believe in jerry's innocence and all the good things he has done. a republican congresswoman says heads should roll as attorney general eric holder testifies about the botched fast and furious gun-running program. congressman jim sessen brenner grilling the attorney general again over what he knew about the operation and when he knew it. >> what are you going to do to clean up this mess? >> well, first let me make something very clear, and in response to an assertion that you made or hinted at, nobody in the justice department has lied. >> why was the letter withdrawn?

>> the letter was withdrawn because of information in there that was inaccurate. the justice department letter of february -- >> okay. tell me what's the difference between lying and misleading congress? in this context? >> well, if you want to have this legal conversation, it all has to do with your state of mind and whether or not you had the requisite intent to come up with something that can be considered perjury or a lie. >> the operation allowed illegally bought guns to get into the hands of mexican drug cartel or gun cartels rather. two of the guns i should say were found at the scene of a murdered u.s. border patrol agent. iran showing off what it claims is a top-secret stealthy looking u.s. drone that went down within its boarders. u.s. officials are admitting they lost a plane like it but officials inside the pentagon aren't saying whether it is the drone that ended up on iranian state television. did iran pull a bait and switch? our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence has the latest.

>> reporter: new video on iranian tv shows what iran says is a u.s. drone that crashed within its borders. but by putting it out on state tv for all to see, iran has sparked a "csi" type investigation into its prized capture. within the pentagon, uncertainty. >> we haven't recovered the drone that we believe is missing. >> reporter: one u.s. official says they can't be 100% certain it's real, but it would be hard to fake. a second official says, flat out, the drone was not designed to survive a crash like that intact from high altitude. >> you can almost see it here, see some dents along the leading edge, and probably the undersurface, you know, might well be pretty banged up. >> reporter: analysts disagree too. bill sweetman thinks it's real. the drone wasn't shot down and could have glided to earth in what sweetman calls a falling leaf descent. >> and so, you know, you would

see in that case fairly limited damage. >> reporter: global security.org analyst john pike calls what iran showed off nothing more than a parade float. he says, the wings here droop down, whereas in most pictures of the sentinel, the wings are positioned higher for better stability. the bigger question, what was the drone doing when it crashed? a u.s. official says it was a cia mission, strictly to search for them in afghanistan. they point out it's a staelts drone designed to penetrate areas with defenses. it's hard to believe the drone was strictly operating over afghanistan which has none. >> so it could have been used in iran, it could have been deliberately used in iran, it's very likely, in fact, that it was a reconnaissance platform of choice to do precisely that. >> reporter: a u.s. official says satellite footage shows the drone's wreckage to be a pile of

rubble, so, iran does have what's left of the drone, but in what condition is the issue? chris lawrence, cnn, the pentagon. it's a sound bite that may end up in a future campaign ad. president obama responding to gop critics that he's appeasing in his foreign policy. listen. >> ask osama bin laden and the 22 out of 30 top al qaeda leaders who have been taken off the field whether i engage in appeasement. >> the president also defended his efforts to block iran from developing a nuclear weapon saying his administration has imposed the toughest sanctions on iran ever. he's placed all his chips on winning the iowa caucus. republican candidate rick santorum is picking up a big endorsement in the state, iowa secretary of state matt schultz is expected to back santorum today. he's considered a rising star in the republican party.

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just about 15 minutes past the hour. here's what we're following this morning. ballistic tests are back in the deadly shooting at virginia tech. both people shot by the same gun. last night students gathered for a candlelight vigil. another vigil will be held today. this after a police officer was

shot and killed during a routine stravg stop. his dash cam video captures the gunman who appears to be the same man who appears to be shot dead nearby. a murder conviction tossed out over a tweet. the arkansas skurts security granted a death row inmate a retrial after a juror was caught tweeting during the trial and according to martinez's defense attorneys, another juror was sleeping. martinez was convicted of robbing and shooting a teenager last year. i simply do not know where the money is or why the accounts have not been reconciled today. >> i don't know. that's the former head of mf global jon corzine testifying before congress saying he doesn't know what happened to more than $1 billion in missing customer funds. it's the former new jersey's first public response since the failure of mf global. lawmakers are trying to figure out what led to the firm's collapse. in sports the indy car series will not return to the las vegas motor speedway next

year. that's where driver dan wheldon died in a 15-car crash in october. officials are still investigating that accident. in the meantime the series is unveiling a new car this season and wants to complete testing before putting it on the track. let's head to the weather center and check in with rob marciano. okay. what's the best place to travel to in the country today? >> you know, there aren't too many bad places to travel to, how does that sound? fairly tranquil weather compared to what we've seen the last couple weeks. a chilly start and the highlight is the midwest or the lower great lakes more specifically, where the snow is falling at this hour. but shouldn't be terrible as far as accumulations are concerned. for the most part it's light, fairly dry system, but it will aggravate the great lakes a little bit and great lake-effect snow. chicago, traveling through that city, cleveland and detroit, those are the cities that will see light snow showers throughout the day and may slow things down in general, it should stay below an hour as far as what the weather-related delays are concerned. there's your alberta clipper, white front that's moving across

the great lakes and that's about it. we'll take that after what we've endured the past two weeks. temperatures, it's december. so right around where we should be this time of year, maybe a little chillier than average in chicago. 29 degrees. 16. bring the scarf and the hat, wool hat, if you're traveling to minneapolis. it is winter after all. back to you. >> that's true. there's a lot of options out there because, you know, it's christmas shopping season. there are a lot of options for hat, scarves and gloves out there. >> that's right. you know. i'm sure you look cute -- >> i might buy some. >> get you some. deliberate air strike. that's what two pakistani lawmakers are calling the nato attack that killed 24 of their troops last month. they say no other explanation makes any sense, but the united states still insists it was an accident. so let's bring in zain verjee live in london. any way to definitively determine who's right? >> no, not really. it's pakistan's word against the u.s. now what's happened is, is that

this is just serving to add fuel to the fire and just ratchet up the tension that already exists between the two countries. these two lawmakers went to the senior briefing by a pakistani military official and they then came out and said that nato forces knew that these were pakistani checkpoints. they went on to say all these checkpoints are very clearly marked so there was no way that nato wouldn't know that these are pakistani checkpoints and one of them said it was a deliberate attack, it was a planned attack. so relations very strained over this, but the u.s. keeps insisting it wasn't a deliberate attack, it was an accident and expresses its regret. carol? >> on another topic, the surveillance video that has surfaced of the former imf boss, dominique strauss-kahn and the woman accused of raping him, this video surfaced and it's kind of shocking. >> yeah. i mean, have you seen it? it's a little bit weird and we don't know exactly, you know,

which side it will support, but let me show you the video and show you what it has here. you have scenes of dominique strauss-kahn in the lobby checking out of the hotel, but what you're looking at right now is a basement video of two hotel employees kind of dancing around and high-fiving each other and celebrating, who knows why. that was weirdpp and dominique strauss-kahn as you see him checking out, he looks pretty relaxed, doesn't look nervous at all, he leaves the sofitel hotel, gets into his car. what is also on this video is diallo, his accuser, in one instance she seemed subdued and then in the next instance, she seems kind of enraged a little bit and pushes around a security officer. so who knows what all of this means. dominique strauss-kahn's lawyers are saying this supports the idea that a conspiracy because why would these guys be celebrating in the basement? diallo's lawyer says that this supports the fact that she was

really disturbed after this incident. i think it raises more questions than answers. >> so the guys who were celebrates in the basement, did they know her? were they friends of hers? >> it's not really clear. here they are. i mean you can see they do a little jig and they're believed to be hotel staff. we just don't really know. but we know that this was caught on camera and that this happened immediately after the 911 call was placed as well. i think it's the timing that makes that little dance there look suspect. >> wow. and there's a civil case out there, right? >> yes. >> yeah. i'm sure they're going to use that as a bit of evidence. it's interesting. strange case. zain verjee, live in london, thanks so much. developing overnight, european leaders strike a new deal in the hopes of solving the euro debt crisis. some countries are refusing to back the plan. a significant drop in numbers when talking about household wealth. we'll take a look at what's causing this decline. it's 20 minutes past the hour.

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lower. euro zone leaders have struck that deal to fix europe's debt crisis, a new intergovernmental treaty but not all of the european union were on board. britain and hungary refused to back the changes. let's bring in christine romans. how big of a wrench does that throw into this deal? >> you know, the europeans who are part of the deal are saying 23 out of 27 is good enough for them right now and, you know, the german chancellor and the french president they are saying we are forging ahead on having a tighter fiscal union of these countries. i mean, carol, you look at this has been a relationship 50 years in the making for these countries, 60 years in the making since world war ii where they were torn apart and now they're -- they've been trying to slowly come back together. 17 of these countries that share the same currency. another bunch of country interests that don't share the currency but are in the european economic zone, among them britain, which wants to have a carve out so its own banking system, its own financial services, the city of london,

can be protected as david cameron says, the prime minister, that others in france and elsewhere are saying, well, the point is, we're supposed to be being a little more common instead of having uncommon exceptions for different countries. that's where sort of the friction comes there. but for now, at least, there's optimism that saying that they'll be closer together in how they do their budgets, country by country, is what investors want to hear. >> okay. as far as the finances in our own country, let's talk about personal finances. you know, household income it's dropped again. tell us about it. >> took a big hit in the third quarter, carol. on average this means a family's worth fell in the third quarter by about $7,800. most of that has to do with stock in their retirement funds. it was a very bad quarter for the s&p, down 14% in that quarter. that was when we had the downgrade, the s&p downgrade. that was a really big hit for american families. there was also some housing loss there as well in the third quarter, but here's the bright

note. because that third kwaurquarter the worse for your family's household net worth since the battle days of 2008, that was the worse since the great depression. not very happy milestones we keep hitting. since that downgrade, stocks are up 4.6%. the housing market, while very weak, it is stabilizing and we've had some small signs of hiring, so i suspect that in the fourth quarter, your household net worth is slowly, carefully climbing higher again, carol. >> that slow word is what bothers people. >> slow is better than no. that's what we take for good news these days. >> you're right about that. christine romans, thank you. we're learning new details about the deadly shooting at virginia tech's campus. iran is showing off what it claims is a u.s. stealth drone that went down on its side of the border. it's 26 minutes past the hour.

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what did jerry sandusky's wife know? dottie sandusky now responding after an accuser says his screams for help from the basement were ignored. this is your "am: wakeup call." good morning to you. this is your "am: wakeup call" for friday, happy friday. it's december 9th. from the time warner center in new york, i'm carol costello. reopening old wounds of vigil held at virginia tech university after another deadly shooting on campus. a police officer and the aparent gunman killed in what now appears to be a murder/suicide.

police now confirming both people were killed by the same gun. the senate has voted down both republican and democratic compromise proposals to extend the payroll tax break into next year. that means you could lose 1,000 bucks in take-home pay if they can't agree on a deal by the new year. iran showing off what it claims is the top secret u.s. drone that went down within its borders, even though the u.s. admitted it lost a drone, some experts are saying this drone is phony. let's head to atlanta to get a check on today's weather. rob marciano is in the house. any travel delays we should worry about this morning? >> i think if you're going through chicago or detroit, two big hubs across the country, they may be problem spots. good morning, carol. we are looking at snow across the great lakes. you know, chicago, has gotten off to a slow start as far as snow is concerned and they're getting a little bit. some light accumulation there on some of the spots. up through detroit, a little bit pulse of heavier precip heading through there. cleveland as well. now east of the great lakes, we'll get some windy conditions

and great lakes are warm, so lake-effect snow machine will be cranked up. this has had a slow start to the season as well, but 68 inches just south of buffalo, up towards watertown, maybe 8 to 12 inches of snowfall. your highlighted delays, cleveland, chicago, detroit and philadelphia maybe because of the morning wind. all things are calm on the east coast after the excitement yesterday with the rain and the big cities and the snow just north and west of new york city. a chilly start to your day, definitely december, but could be worse. i'll tell you that. carol, back up to you. >> yes, it could. you're right about that. thank you, rob. new information this morning on the virginia tech shooting. police confirming that both people were killed by the same gun in an apparent murder/suicide. students holding a vigil late last night after a gunman shot and killed a police officer and then apparently turned the gun on himself. police say they have dash cam video from the police cruiser that shows the gunman and he appears to be the same person they found dead down the road.

this all happening nearly five years after the deadliest campus shooting in u.s. history. changes made after the tragedy were put to the test yesterday. the school locking down campus and using a high-tech alert system to warn students and faculty members to stay indoors. virginia tech police have now identified the murdered officer as deriek crouse, he's 39 years old, married, with five children and stepchildren. a big tax hike is looming for millions of american families in 2012. the senate has voted down both republican and democratic compromise proposals to extend the payroll tax break into next year. it's now setting up a showdown between president obama and congress. the president saying he won't go on holiday break and neither will congress if this isn't settled. and we're keeping an eye on occupy, the occupy camp in boston. a midnight deadline came and went last night for occupy protesters to clear out. but police have not moved in yet, like they have in dozens of other cities from new york to

los angeles and most recently san francisco. former penn state football coach jerry sandusky free on $250,000 bail this morning after spending a night in jail. police arrested him wednesday on ten additional charges of molesting children after two new accusers came forward. one of them told the grand jury that sandusky's wife ignored his screams for help while sandusky raped him in the basement. well now dottie sandusky has released a statement denying that, saying as the mother of six children, i have been devastated by these accusations. i am also angry about these false accusations that such a terrible incident ever occurred in my home. she went on to say, i continue to believe in jerry's innocence and all the good things he has done. a republican congressman saying heads should roll as attorney general eric holder testifies about the botched fast and furious gun-running program. congressman jim sensenbrenner grilling the attorney general again over what he knew about the operation and when he knew it.

>> what are you going to do to clean up this mess? >> well, first, let me make something very clear and in response to an assertion that you made or hinted at, nobody in the justice department has lied. >> why was the letter withdrawn? >> the letter was withdrawn because the information in there that was inaccurate. the justice department letter of february -- >> okay. well tell me what's the difference between lying and misleading congress? in this context? >> well, if you want to have this legal conversation, it all has to do with your state of mind and whether or not you had the requisite intent to come up with something that can be considered perjury or a lie. >> the operation allowed illegally bought guns to get into the hands of mexican drug gangs -- mexican gangs i should say. the guns were found at the scene of a murdered u.s. patrol agent. iran showing off what it claims is a top-secret stealth. it looks like a u.s. drone that

went down missing within its borders, but u.s. officials are admitting they lost a plane just like it, a drone just like it, but officials inside the pentagon are not saying whether it is the drone that ended up on iranian state television, so did iran pull a bait and switch? our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence has the latest. >> reporter: new video on iranian tv shows what iran says is a u.s. drone that crashed within its borders. but by putting it out on state tv for all to see, iran has sparked a "csi" type investigation into its prized capture. within the pentagon, uncertainty. >> we haven't recovered the drone that we believe is missing. >> reporter: one u.s. official says they can't be 100% certain it's real, but it would be hard to fake. a second official says flat out, the drone was not designed to survive a crash like that intact from high altitude. >> you can almost see it here,

you can see some dents along the leading edge and probably the undersurface might well be pretty banged up. >> reporter: analysts disagree too. bill sweetman thinks it's real. the drone wasn't shot down and could have glided to earth in what sweetman calls a falling leaf descent. >> and so, you know, you would see in that case, fairly limited damage. >> reporter: global security.org analyst john pike calls what iran showed off nothing more than a parade float. he says the wings here droop down, whereas in most pictures of the sentinel, the wings are positioned higher for better stability. the bigger question, what was the drone doing when it crashed? a u.s. official says it was a cia mission strictly to search for insurgents in afghanistan near the border. but several sources point out the sentinel is a stealth drone designed to penetrate areas with air defenses. they say it's hard to believe the drone was strictly operating

over afghanistan, which has none. >> so it could have been used in iran. it could have been deliberately used in iran and it's very likely, in fact, that it was a reconnaissance platform of choice to do precisely that. >> reporter: a u.s. official says satellite footage shows the drone's wreckage to be a pile of rubble. so iran does have what's left of the drone, but in what condition is the issue. chris lawrence, cnn, the pentagon. republican presidential candidates are getting ready for their first debate since herman cain suspended his campaign. they're going to meet up tomorrow in iowa. yahoo! news political reporter chris moody joins me from washington. good morning, chris. >> good morning. thank you for having me. >> oh, we're glad you're here this morning. so, you've said to expect a shift in the power structure. explain? >> right. it's a whole new ball game for the debate tomorrow night. newt gingrich is rising nationally and he's especially

rising in iowa. he's leading in the state, far ahead of mitt romney. so you can expect newt to be standing, perhaps, next to mitt romney up there. the question is, will mitt romney attack him to his face? his people have been spending all week going after newt gingrich but is he going to go after him tomorrow night on the debate stage? also look to see if newt gingrich hits back. gingrich has kept kind of quiet about attacking him, but expect the media tomorrow night to try to, you know, push them and get them to fight each other. it's going to be a question of will they bite that hook. >> well, if mitt romney does decide to attack newt and take him head on in this debate, newt has a tendency to put his foot in his mouth sometimes and say things, perhaps, he shouldn't say. >> you know -- >> so -- go ahead. >> it's funny you say that. i spoke to mr. gingrich a couple weeks ago and asked him what has he learned about himself in this debate, and he said i'm impressed with myself, how much i've restrained myself from attacking my opponents.

he has this tendency to want to go after people and he has to constantly tell himself, no, no, don't do that. these are fellow republican. at some point he may not be able to resist the temptation and that may be tomorrow night. >> we'll see. this isn't the big donald trump moderated debate that doesn't take place until december 27th and it's going to be sparsely populated at least by debaters. >> that's right. we only have two candidates that have said they want to come, rick santorum and newt gingrich. all of the other ones have declined. some of them in more grand fashion. ron paul said it was beneath the presidency to go to a debate like that and jon huntsman, the first to decline, said he looks forward to watching it with a bowl of popcorn at his house. it's going to be a lot of fun to see. it's going to be a circus, it's going to be entertaining, but might just be two people up there on stage. >> yeah. it will be newt gingrich and rick santorum. >> that's right. >> that's it. okay. so you've written this story that i found interesting about two people who would love to participate in the trump debate,

share, please. >> there's a couple candidates, you know, who don't get as much air time as the other ones and they really want it. you remember gary johnson, who made the dog poop joke at the debate in orlando and former governor buddy romer. these guys have been traveling the country campaigning, running for president. a lot of people have never heard of them, and they're saying let us join in if you're not going to have anybody up on stage, just ask us, we'll show up. >> we'll see if donald trump will extend the invitation, but somehow i doubt it. you never know. >> you never know, not with donald trump and not with politics these days, anything can happen. >> it's been an interesting primary season, that's for sure. chris moody, thank you so much for joining us this morning. it's 41 minutes past the hour. let's get a check of what's coming up at the top of the hour on "american morning." christine romans joins us. good morning, christine. >> good morning, carol. coming up in 20 minutes on "am" what does a eurozone deal mean

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it is 45 minutes past the hourp. here's what we're following this morning. ballistic tests are back in the deadly shooting at virginia tech. both people shot by the same gun. last night students gathered for a candlelight vigil. another one will be held today. this after a police officer was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop. his dash cam video captures the gunman who appears to be the same man who was later found dead nearby. they're high powered,

armored and fully loaded. the texas department of public safety rolled out its latest weapons to combat drug dealers and smugglers. it's a fleet of patrol boats armed with four machine gun tourettes. the boats will patrol the rio grande and the international lakes. i simply do not know where the money is or why the accounts have not been reconciled today. >> that's the former head of mf global, jon corzine, testifying before congress saying he doesn't know what happened to more than $1 billion in missing customer funds. it's the former new jersey's governor first public response since the failure of mf global. lawmakers are trying to figure out what led to the firm's rapid collapse. in sports if you want the best you have to pay big. the los angeles angels struck a deal with free agent first baseman albert pujolss. get this, $254 million for a ten-year contract. it's the second highest baseball

salary in history right behind a-rod. rob, it just hurts me that pujols is leaving st. louis. >> it's tough, you know, but money talks. i thought he was going to florida, actually. i guess -- >> they offered him a big salary. st. louis offered him $200 million for ten years. i wasn't even that -- after a while, what does it matter? >> i guess, you know, you take your skills out to manhattan beach what is he wanted to do. >> i don't know. it's just sad. >> listen, good luck to him. >> i'm going to expound one more thing. st. louis went to the world series. what more could albert pujols want? >> money and glitz and glamour and southern california. i don't know. i can't speak for the guy. you know, it's america and he went for the big bucks. st. louis, though, is an american franchise and they will carry on with mr. pujols. all right. temperatures today, chilly not

only st. louis but across much of the country. 9 degrees in minneapolis, 25 in chicago, 36 degrees in new york city. just some light snow showers from chicago back through cleveland, up through upstate new york. some lake effect today. that is about it. the storm that rolled through yesterday with rains and snow is off to sea, so pretty tranquil conditions, including look at that big sunny sky there in southern california. how can you resist that, carol? i don't blame albert, one bit. good luck to him. >> i do. there's such a thing as loyalty. >> yeah. that's so last century, carol. >> i know. >> so last century. >> you're a yankees fan. what would you understand about players being loyal? >> we're paying rodriguez's salary, the ten-year salary we can't get rid of. >> i know. you're stuck with it now, baby. thank you, rob. >> see ya. it's called a dignity strike and it could be the latest protest in jar. syrian activists may pack the streets blocking roadways and urging small businesses to shut down this week. this after the syrian's

president says he feels no guilt about his uprising crackdown. let's bring in zain verjee live in london. at times in this interview with the syrian president he seemed sort of delusional. >> he said crackdown? what crackdown? i haven't ordered any crackdown. he went on to insist he doesn't feel guilty about it because he's not responsible for it and, in fact, he said i'm the president and i deal with policy, i don't command the security forces. they're not responsible, what their actions are for him in terms of the president's office. but this dignity strike idea is something that's really gaining momentum in syria, on-line, on facebook. it's supposed to occur in different stages. the idea is basically civil disobedience. get out on the streets, block roads, close businesses, tell kids not to go to schools, things like that. and what activists are now hoping is that by using this new tactic, that they can put even more pressure on the regime and go that kind of strategy, rather than violent protests.

>> wow. okay. let's talk about something much happier. the royal christmas card. >> i don't know if that looks a lot happier. take a look at their faces here. they're not looking very cheery. >> oh, no. >> carol, what's with prince charles and camilla here? take a look at this picture. this, you can see them on the balcony at buckingham palace right after the royal wedding actually, and, you know, prince charles is holding up camilla's granddaughter. remember the moody bridesmaid the one sulking in all the pictures? that's her. charles is sort of looking away in the distance and camilla is sort of standing there on the balcony. >> that's their christmas card? >> what do you think? >> that's on their christmas card? >> it's the christmas card, yeah. it says, "wishing you a very happy christmas and new year." this is -- so yes, no, thumb's up, thumb's down? >> it's just confounding. why would you choose that

picture? of all the pictures out there of them, why would you choose that one? >> i know. last year they had a much nicer one, they were looking happy, they were skiing, they were looking cool. it was a very nice picture. this one seems weird, especially to have a grouchy bridesmaid in there. i don't know. >> thank you. that made me laugh this morning, and i needed that. when we come back, your entertainment headlines. a judge refuses to throw out a lawsuit involving the singing super star beyonce. it's 51 minutes past the hour. this is your "am: wakeup call." . nyquil:what? tissue box (whispering): he said nasal congestion... nyquil: i heard him. anncr vo: tylenol cold multi-symptom nighttime relieves nasal congestion... nyquil cold & flu doesn't. forty years ago, he wasn't worried about retirement. he'd yet to hear of mutual funds, iras, or annuities. back then, he had something more important to do. he wasn't focused on his future but fortunately, somebody else was.

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will "american idol" host ryan seacrest replace matt lauer on the "today" show? i'm joined by "us weekly" senior editor brad jacobs. a lot of speculation about this, but i wasn't aware that matt lauer was actually leaving? >> well, matt's contract is up december of next year, and, you know, there's been a lot of noise about him being tired of waking up at 3:00 a.m. after all these years. of course there's been so much shuffling on that show already, you know, with katy couric leaving, replaced by meredith vieira and meredith leaving and being replaced by ann, so they really want to have somebody strong next to ann curry.

apparently this meeting happened between ryan seacrest and executives on tuesday and there has been mixed reaction to it, for sure. >> in the world of journalism, i've been talking to some of my colleagues, we're not so happy about it. i mean ryan seacrest? the "today" show, from the first half hour, it is a news show and then it goes off into la-la land. but ryan seacrest is not a journalist by any stretch of the imagination and i guess that tells us the direction the "today" show is going in? >> well, he is a host and he is an interviewer and he's extremely popular. you know, these morning news programs in the fragmented media universe that we're in, the morning news programs still bring in millions and millions of dollars and the "today" show is the top-rated one of all and ryan seacrest is, according to some standards, is actually more popular than matt lauer. remember, if america were to become under attack or something very serious were to happen it

wouldn't be ryan seacrest alone there. he would have ann curry next to him, a stable of other journalists within nbc who could also handle it. but for the lion's share of that show, it is interviews, cooking, fashions, celebrity stuff that is very familiar, that ryan's very familiar with. >> yeah. that's why so many people watch cnn. i'm happy about that. whatever. let's talk about beyonce and the lawsuit against beyonce. what's it about? >> this is interesting. you know, celebrities get sued all the time and a lot of these things get thrown out. beyonce wanted this to be thrown out of court, but it wasn't. a judge ruled that kite move forward. she was involved with a company that they were producing a video game called super star beyonce that was going to be about her dance moves and they filed a suit against her saying that she double crossed them, those were their words, double crossed them, and [ inaudible ] lose

millions of dollars and have to lay off 70 people the week before christmas last year so a judge has ruled, looking at all the documents, that it can move forward and that possibly beyonce would be liable in this situation. >> all right. bradley jacobs, senior editor of "us weekly" thank you for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you, carol. >> that's it for this friday edition. thank you. that's it for this friday edition of "am: wakeup call." "american morning" continues with lots and lots of hard news, that's right after a break. you have a great day. still get? neutrogena® t/gel shampoo defeats dandruff after just one use. t/gel shampoo. it works. neutrogena®. ♪ my hair is gone ♪ cheap cologne ♪ motor home ♪ i'm the rocket man! [ both ] ♪ rocket man ♪ burning out his fuse up here alone ♪ burning out his fuse up here alone? ahh. [ male announcer ] crystal clear fender premium audio.

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