go. fascating watching. liz, as always, thank you. >> thank you. >> eric: that does it for us on this sunday morning. i'm eric shawn. >> jamie: great to have you with us. have a wonderful day. news continues in washington now. >> eric: take care. >> time is running out for the congressional super committee. with members still deadlocked, the panel looked like it's on the brink of failure, the deadline for the committee to come up with a pran to slice more than a trillion dollars off the deficit is wednesday. but under committee rules, any plan would have to be unveiled tomorrow. i'm shannon bream live in washington. molly henneberg has all the details. hi, molly. >> shannon, the timing is getting tricky for the super committee. here's why. they have to vote on any deal by the last tick of the clock wednesday night. but before they can vote, two things have to happen. number one, they have to get the proposal to the congressional budget committee or cbo with enough time for the number crunchers there to estimate the deal's effect on the deficit and

then number two, the super committee by law has to have 48 hours to go over the cbo's calculations. that means that the super committee has to get its proposals to the cbo by tonight or tomorrow morning depending who you ask on capitol hill in order to get it back by monday night and get the 48-hour clock ticking. all that is moot, though, if they can't reach a deal in the first place. based on what lawmakers say this morning, they don't seem very close. >> if we're not able to reach that, then we at least thought maybe there could be a coalescence around the savings we had pretty much agreed to earlier which amounted to over $640 billion but even there, democrats were not willing to cut a dollar without raising taxes. >> we are not a tax cut committee. are a deficit reduction committee. and the extension of the bush tax cuts is a huge tax cut for the wealthy at the expense of the average person in this country. we think that's wrong.

if they will take that off the table, we could have a $1.2 trillion agreement by tomorrow morning. >> talks continue through the weekend. neither side wants to be seen as walking away from the negotiations or giving up too soon. shannon? >> molly hennenberg with the very latest. thank you, molly. republican senator of idaho is no stranger to budget negotiations. as a member of the bipartisan gang of six, he is urging members of the deadlocked super committee to go big on their plans to reduce the deficit. senator is kind enough to join us in studio today. thanks for coming in. >> good to be with you, shannon. >> so you're urging go big. something more in the neighborhood of $4 trillion in cuts. but it sounds like this group has almost given up getting to the bare minimum of cuts. what do you think is going to happen? >> it appears from what we're seeing there will not be an agreement in time. that does not mean that the debt ceiling agreement will not be met. in other words, there is a

sequestration that will generate savings. that will be really messy. >> what do you make of the talk on capitol hill that they want to go around what you've agreed to as far as cuts, average american thought that's motivation for getting to bigger cuts and to better agreement if you can just go around it, what was the point of having it at all? >> well, first of all, i don't think congress will be able to go around it. there may be an ability to adjust it meaning fine tune the impact of the sequestration. one way or another, the amount will be achieved. >> there are a lot of groups that are working behind the scenes or in a parallel fashion in case the super committee doesn't get it done, to do something else. tell me what's going on with the gang of six. do every a plan waiting in the wings? >> as you know, we were able to put together a bipartisan plan. it was a big plan, $4 trillion. that's not a number we picked out of the air. you have to hit at least $4 trillion in order to keep

america's head above water rather than going under so regardless of how this deal works out. we've got to continue working and we're building that. we now have about 45 senators and over 100 house members who have agreed to the target of $4 trillion and ready to make the compromises necessary to get there. but we've just got to keep working and frankly, america is coming together to recognize that congress needs to put aside the partisanship and move forward. we don't have time for gridlock any longer. >> ok, if the super committee doesn't get it done by wednesday, how quickly could the gang of six plan be put into legislative forum or offered up in some way it could be available to lawmakers to consider and maybe even vote on. >> the gang of six plan is very close to a position where it could be put together. frankly, there are a number of other proposals that could be put together as well like the bowles-simpson commission report or others. it's not that we don't have the understanding of what to do and how to do it. we could put the plans together. it's building the bipartisan

consensus in order to move forward. >> there are a couple of sticking points. let's talk first about what senator kerry had to say there, one of your colleagues. he said basically it's all about republicans not being willing to give up tax cuts for the wealthiest top earners. fact or fiction? >> well, you know, i have to disagree with senator kerry on that one. republicans did put forward tax revenue increase proposals with regard to the super committee. and they did focus them on the highest income brackets. the battle that senator kerry seemed to be mentioning there is whether to keep the bush tax policies in place. but remember that the bowles-simpson commission, the gang of six and frankly every group that's analyzed this have said we need to reform our tax code and the kind of dynamic tax reform would basically eliminate the bush tax cuts and frankly, all sorts of other parts of the tax code in place -- and replace it with a very powerful, new dynamic code and that's the battle that we're facing. >> so you're saying republicans are offering a form of increased

revenues, maybe just not in the format or the way that democrats want because something that charles krauthammer pointed out earlier in the week, last week and said it's as if they won't take yes for an answer because you are offering revenue increases but it's not in a way they want to see it done. >> yeah, that's exactly right. what the republicans are proposing, like i say, as has been proposed by the commissions and others that have analyzed it is so reform the tax code and in the process of reforming it, generate that additional revenue that the democrats are demanding and generate it from the higher income categories but do so in a way that makes our tax code much more simple, lowers the -- broadens the base and lowers the rates and then actually generates a powerful growth in revenue for the entire country. >> all right. senator, thank you very much for your time. we'll see how this plays out this weekend, whether the gang of six is back in business. >> thank you. >> thanks. we want to know what you think at home. here is your twitter question for today, who will you blame if the super committee fails to reach a deal on the deficit? tweet us your thoughts at

shannon bream or at anhqdc, we'll read some of your responses later. >> in just six weeks, iowans will make their pick for a republican challenger to president obama. iowa's outcome is crucial because it will shape the contest heading into new hampshire and then across the country. most of the candidates attended a religious forum in des moines last night but not mitt romney. peter doocy is live on that story. a lot of people criticizing romney saying it's a bad move to on his part. >> all the major players except for governor romney and governor huntsman got together in iowa last night for the thanksgiving family forum where really, nothing was off-limits to candidates. they laughed and they cried. here's some chatter about a very famous gaffe and occupy wall street. >> we don't need to cut education. we need those things taken care of at the state level. >> and the energy department, too. >> go get a job right after you take a bath.

>> governor mitt romney wasn't even in the hawkeye state. he was all the way up in new hampshire but he says he hasn't forgotten about iowa and he still thinks he's going to do pretty well there. >> i said from the very beginning that we intend to play in iowa, that i want to do very well there. it will come no surprise to you in the business world and political world we tend not to reveal our strategy to our competitors so wul wait and see what we do. >> i mentioned huntsman was missing last night as well. he was on the new york set on "saturday night live" poking fun at his low poll numbers and talking about how much he adores new hampshire, the state where he has spent by far the most time campaigning. shannon? >> have some fun with it. thank you. >> thank you. >> faith clearly important to many of the g.o.p. candidates. in fact, several of them got choked up talking about it last night. >> walking out of that

surgeon's office after he had just told us, stage 4 -- >> take your time. >> i said i wasn't going to do this. it's as bad as it gets. i will never forget before my wife and i were about to get in the car, i said, i can do this! she said, we can do this. >> amen! >> i decided that the best thing i could do was to treat her differently and not love her like i did because it wouldn't hurt as much if i lost her. >> this is a very close friend. he spent six years with the shunt in the back of his head. he today has a good heart, a good brain and is good at

baseball and football. you say all right? do i want some bureaucracy deciding that on a percentage basis, this is not worth the investment or do i want a country that cares about every life of that depth? that is what next year is all about. >> i feel like dr. phil. >> more occupy protests arrests this weekend. about a dozen occupy d.c. protesters were arrested here in washington last night. they tried to take over a vacant school building downtown, several of them were arrested for unlawful entry and could face up to a year in jail. and over on the west coast, six more arrests were made at occupy san francisco's illegal encampment in the city's financial district. police wearing protective sanitary jump suits took down about a dozen tents in a half-hour raid. we've shown you video of a police officer coating u.c. davis students with pepper spray. now the university chancellor is calling for an investigation into the situation.

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>> shannon: thousands of angry protesters in cairo are demanding a date for power to be turned over to their newly elected government.

in violent clashes in egypt, they threw rocks at riot police and officers shot tear gas and fired rubber bullets into the crowd. elections are scheduled in about two weeks. >> shannon: rebel forces holding muammar qaddafi's son want him tried in libya and say they will not let him go until a court system is set up in their country. he was captured in the southern libya desert by rebels. he was his father's heir apparent. some international voices are calling on libya's transitional government to turn him over to the interpret -- international criminal court in the netherlands. worries have sparked fresh concerns over the possibility that israel may be considering a military strike in an effort to stop iran's ability to develop a functional nuclear weapon. leon panetta warned his israeli counterpart against that action saying it could lead to

worldwide consequences whalid ferris joins us with his thoughts on this. welcome today. let's start with iran. how worried are you about the reports? how close are they to actually having a nuclear weapon? >> actually, the united states and many other countries including in the region have had reports more advanced than the international reports. this one is to confront, basically, whatever consensus worldwide now is that the iranians not just have the program but have the intention of producing the bomb. that's what will concern me. >> you know, the iaea issued a resolution in response to this. and the iranian leaders are saying that won't stop us, the u.s. and other groups have to understand when it comes to sanctions and resolutions they're not going to stop us. that's what we're talking about again, more resolutions and more sanctions. why do we continue down this path? >> the problem is what the iranian regime wants and not what we want. in the sense that the way they read it from tehran it today, we

are telling them by action, not by words that we will withdraw from iraq so their west flank will be open. we'll withdraw from afghanistan in less than a year. their eastern battlefield is now open. and we are not putting actually resolutions other than economic in the sense that we are not calling for neither measures against them or most importantly we're not even supporting the popular movement against the regime. all that is an encouragement action to the regime. >> shannon: at the same time, our defense secretary is warning twice about a military strike and what could happen if you take that action. they have maintained that we have the right to self-defense. >> the israelis know what the secretary is talking about. meaning they're not going to have a pre-emptive strike. if they do anything, it's based on intelligence that they received and that equation, i think, washington will understand that strike but so far, the united states and its

allies can do more than just allowing the israelis to strike against the iranian regime. >> shannon: let's talk about how allied we are against some other world powers. the national security advisor to the white house said over the weekend there have been questions about russia and china, whether they would support us because they have worked against or said they wouldn't support certain sanctions against iran. he now says that the u.s., russia and china are all together when it comes to the idea of preventing iran from having nuclear weapons. it's not clear if they're on board, though. so where do we go with -- i mean, big powers like that. >> yes, as long as things are not changing inside iran, every time we're going to go to the security council in new york we'll have russians and chinese telling us let's talk more about the iranians and they're gaining type. let's look at what happened in libya, for example, the russians and iranians and the chinese were against us until there wasn't a prize in libya. what's the answer? if there isn't something in iran that we would support, the positions of russians and chinese will change on the security council. >> shannon: not only was he

captured yesterday in the desert, we're getting reports today crossing the wires, spokesman for the interim government there saying they've captured qaddafi's spy chief. what do you make of that? >> that's very important because he has so much information. he's the last pillar of the regime. he basically conducted all the activities, most the activities on behalf of the regime. if he's captured and he was with him two days ago it means that really the regime has no more, you know, anybody to continue any action in the future. >> shannon: all right, always great to have your insights. thanks for coming in. >> thank you for having me. >> shannon: how close is iran to building a nuclear bomb? that's the question. tune in tonight for a fox news special. iran's nuclear secrets hosted by bill hemmer. you'll see exclusive documents, photos and proof that iran is a whole lot closer than most americans would like. hollywood promise kept to our military. actress mila kunais said they would attend the ball with the sergeant, check it out, she did.

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>> shannon: the clock is ticking on the congressional super committee and one of the co-chairs is calling it a missed opportunity. standing by with the top stories, hi, peter. >> members of the panel have until tomorrow to agree on the outline of the deal to cut the deficit.

republican co-chair says while nobody quite wants to give up "reality is starting to take over." if the panel fails to produce a plan, it will trigger across-the-board cuts. several of the g.o.p. presidential candidates opened up about their religious beliefs at a forum in iowa last night. two candidates took a pass, frontrunner mitt romney in new hampshire and john huntsman who is trailing the pack. romney was in new hampshire campaigning and huntsman appeared on "saturday night live." past my bedtime. at this hour, egyptian army troops and police are using tear gas and rubber bullets to evict several thousands protesters from cairo's square. they are demanding that the military quickly announce a date to the handover of power to the civilian government and later today, michelle obama will get to utter the most famous words in racing. gentlemen, start your engines. the first lady and jill biden, the vice president's wife are the grand marshall of the sprint car finale in florida.

those are the top stories right now. shannon, back to you. >> shannon: thank you very much. now a fair and balanced debate of what happened next with the super committee and who is blame for all of this. republican congressman joins us live from phoenix and democratic representative now with us live from california. gentlemen, welcome to you both. >> hello, david. how are we doing in phoenix? >> shannon: all right. >> it's going to be 75 today. >> shannon: i don't want to break up the love fest because it's nice to see some kindness between the two of you. let's start with a statistic. this is from the latest fox news poll on how people think you're doing in congress. approve, 12%. disapprove 80% and people are furious about the fact that it appears we're going to come up to another deadline and not have a solution. congressman, how do you explain what's going on? >> well, i think you need to start back a little bit. during the debt crisis in the summer, a decision was made to actually cut $1.2 trillion out

of the future budget. and the super committee was set up to try to figure out if more should be done or how to rebalance that $1.2 trillion. so no matter what happens there's a cut, a deficit reduction of $1.2 trillion. now on our side, we wanted to do big, bold and balanced. that is try to go and use the super committee to solve this problem going forward with the $4 trillion package of cuts and taxes. that's not going to happen. so going forward, yes, the deficit is being dealt with. across-the-board cuts are going to be very difficult but we have one year until next january to solve this problem. next january, 2013. so it's not the end of the world. >> shannon: i want to bring in congressman sweirat today, one of the main problems is fact that the republicans will not give up the bush tax cuts that benefit the highest earners in this country. we've got a poll that came out at the end of last week, and

they asked voters how they would feel about making cuts and raising taxes. 67% of the voters say they were ok with raising taxes or getting rid of some of the tax breaks for those who are the highest income earners. is it true that republicans won't give that up and why not? >> well, for a couple of reasons. first, i want to meet that 12% that thinks we're doing a good job. and then i need to explain to them. look, the reality of it is my understanding is you take a look at what pat toomey put in writing and put on the table and said we're willing to do these things that are going to raise taxes on those upper income individuals. but he put it in writing. and my understanding is the left side of the super committee has given some great political rhetoric but hasn't done the same discipline in putting it down on paper. >> shannon: all right. while this is being hashed out, let me just talk to you about

the issue of blame. people are angry, it seems, with both sides but in that poll that we mentioned, there's also more blame it looks like going to the g.o.p. the numbers there, if this doesn't work out, who do you blame? congressional republicans get the most blame with 39%. democrats in congress get blamed 27%. both get blamed 23%. i want to ask you both to react to that. congressman, you first. >> well, first of all, let's understand that the deficit is being dealt with by both democrats and republicans. there's over $2 trillion of deficit reduction that's already been put in place but i think americans more than anything else want jobs. they want to get jobs. they want to get a job proposal out of congress and they want to go back to work. ultimately, the really only way to deal with this deficit long term is to get people back to work. now, the blame -- why play the blame game when what we have to do is come together and figure out a solution, the proposal that senator toomey put on the

table actually reduces the taxes from 35% to 28% for the super wealthy and the rest of his package increases the burden on the low and middle income class so they're going to have to pay more out of pocket, not necessarily in taxes but for medicare, child support and other kinds of activitys that are essential if you're going to go to work. so what we really need is a balanced package and i'm really pleased that the republicans are coming forward accepting some tax increases. that's a major stepand a major concession on the part of republicans. on our side, we want to protect social security and we want to make sure that the medicare benefits are not reduced. there's a lot of changes that can go on in medicare that would save vast amounts of money without doing anything to the benefit package or to eligibility. so there's things that can be done. and we will have time to work on it because tomorrow, if they don't get a deal, the world doesn't come to an end. what does happen is a major cut of $1.2 trillion beginning in

january 1st. >> shannon: to be fair and balanced, i want to give you a chance to reply here. how encouraged are you to hear that entitlements are on the table, at least to some extent. >> two parts there, i'm agreeing and disagreeing with my friend from california. ok, jobs, economic expansion, absolutely necessary. you can never cut enough to get this government back on a sound, fiscal setting but you don't raise taxes at the same time you're trying to grow the economy. but the reality of it is and this is the toughest thing for us to explain is your government is very quickly becoming a health insurer with the shrinking army. the explosion on the mandatory spending side substantially because of the baby boom is a reality we're all going to have to figure out how to deal with. >> shannon: and it will not be an easy solution to find. gentlemen, thank you both for your time today and happy thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving. bye-bye.

>> shannon: wisconsin governor scott walker is facing a new clash with labor unions and this time he's fighting for his job. tens of thousands of people turned up at the state capital this weekend demanding a recall of the republican governor. he's only been in an office for a year but facing heat for his successful push earlier this year to limit the collective bargaining power of public unions. >> i think it shows where people in wisconsin stand and , you know, a lot of people are like well, it's not the 100,000 that we had back in february. but the reality is while everybody is here, there's people all over the state in every city and town in this state collecting signatures above and beyond what we've gotten here. >> shannon: organizers say they're confident they'll get the 540,000 signatures they need to trigger the recall vote. well, playground kissing controversy has some people shake being their heads. a girl kissed a boy during recess and now the sheriff's office is investigating. a teacher at orange river

elementary told a principal that during p.e., two 12-year-old girls were talking about which boy they likedetter. one of them kissed the boy she had been talking about. the school reported it as a possible sex crime. >> they went ahead and took a report and documented this because we don't know at this point whether or not there is a bigger picture that somebody needs to be looking at. >> shannon: sheriff's office says the girl could be charged with simple battery but the boy apparently didn't mind being kissed and is not pressing charges. well, it may just have the 12 toughest jobs in america right now. the super committee just hours away from a deadline to post its deficit reduction plan with two of those members told chris wallace about the actual chances of reaching a deal and what happens if they fail and it was a giant oops on a very big stage. g.o.p. hopeful rick perry's debate stumbled and his wife who has been by his side the entire time. >> after he struggled to remember the agencies that he would like to eliminate, what was the conversation you had

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about finding a solution. >> it's very interesting. you were talking about the first guy, the republican co-chair of the super committee and i noticed, too, a lot of talk about past tense as if it were over. he wouldn't -- you know, as they -- in "e.r." or something, they call the death. he wasn't call the death time but it really does seem very, very bleak and unless they could come up with maybe a partial deal in the next 24 hours, it looks like they're going to come up with nothing. now, they're already saying, you know, we still get the $1.2 trillion because we have the triggers and they get the automatic cuts. i think the idea that these guys and one woman had three months. that we're going to be spending $44 trillion over the next decade. we have $15 trillion debt and they couldn't come up with $1 trillion in cuts because of the political differences is really a statement of how broken this town is and i think that there's going to be a negative reaction

financially and a very negative reaction politically. >> shannon: and speaking of the financial reaction, you had mark zandi on today, a respected economist and he's worked for republicans and democrats in providing them relevant information. you asked him today about what can happen with the markets and with a possible credit downgrade. >> interesting because he said the markets have kind of factored in failure on the part of the super committee and he doesn't think if they announce tomorrow or wednesday we failed, particularly given the fact there's still the trillion dollars in automatic cuts, he doesn't think there's going to be a big negative. where he does think there will be is because there have been some thought that the super committee would deal with are we going to extend unemployment benefits? are we going to extend the payroll tax cut? and if you don't do that, then the economy loses a lot of stimulus at the end of the year when both of those expire and he thinks that could have a very negative impact in terms of a downgrading of the credit rating, he doesn't think that's going to happen. we'll see.

s&p did not so much for financial reasons but political reasons because of the dysfunction in this town and that, of course, if this fails or when it fails, that will only be -- that sense will only be enhanced. >> shannon: you had a little bit of a feisty panel, a little bit of uprise be that you were able to quell. what people don't want to miss is the power play where they get you to dance. >> i'll never live that down, will we? >> shannon: we enjoyed it. thanks, chris. >> happy thanksgiving. >> shannon: you can catch chris' full interviews after our show "fox news sunday" airs at 2:00 and 6:00 eastern here on fox news. it's just in time for the holidays. a baby doll being sold at toys r us is causing quite a stir. get this, some parents think it swears. we'll let you hear for yourself and be the judge. and from gift giving to holiday travel, casey stegall is live at lax with how airlines are cashing in big at your expense. >> hey, shannon. fees, fees and more fees.

how much money are those airlines making from all of them? we'll tell you coming up next in a live report here on america's news headquarters.

>> shannon: if you're flying this holiday season, it's going to cost you even more to take along your bags.

airlines are continuing to add baggage fees yet again that could make this the most expensive holiday travel season yet. casey stegall is live from lax with more. hello, casey. >> hey, shannon. good to see you. all right, bottom line here, if you want to save money traveling this holiday season, pack light according to the experts because we've got brand new numbers in from the bureau of transportation statistics that show just how much money we are shelling out just to check our baggage with the airlines. and americans shelling out about $3.4 billion just last year on those fees and they are expected to be even higher for 2011. the reason -- well according to the air transportation association which represents all of the carriers, on average, air fares alone are no longer enough to cover the cost of flying. so it says the fees are necessary to keep planes in the sky but not all the airlines see it that way.

bags still free on southwest. >> fees make customers unhappy. we're about carrying people who want to fly with a great value and making their experience pleasantry and getting nickel and dimed. in fact, it's not just nickel and dimed, it is $120 round trip to check two bags on other carriers doesn't make people happy. >> now, southwest says its business model allows for that but the discount carrier has, however, joined the ranks of the others offering what the department of transportation calls a la carte pricing fees for things like better seats, getting through the security lines faster and even for pillows and blankets and when you add all of those to the baggage fees, listen -- >> they are making money. they're finding ways to do it. and even though they say that their air fares haven't gone up, they forget to tell you they weren't charging all these fees and the fees are going up like

mad and they keep adding fees so the airlines are finding ways to make a profit. >> now, the air transport association wants to remind people that the general operating cost of an airline these days has more than doubled between 2000 and 2010 and during that time frame, the industry as a whole reported a loss of some $60 billion. shannon? >> shannon: that's a lot of zeros. all right, casey. thank you very much. >> it is. >> shannon: shoppers, start your engines! the holiday shopping season is upon us and a new poll by "consumer reports" shows shoppers will spend 19 hours out hunting for the perfect gifts this season. that's actually four hours more than last year. 1 in 4 americans plans to hit the stores on black friday, the day after thanksgiving and here now to help out everyone to map out their black friday shopping strategy is sue perry with shop smart "consumer reports" sister publication. thanks for being here today.

your tip is before you head out, do your homework before black friday. >> that's right. there's these black friday sites and what they do is collect all the ads that the stores release and all your information on doorbusters, go on to the black friday specific sites. bfads.net is one. blackfriday.info is another. and the fourth site that i really like is called blackfriday.adeal.com. they work pretty much the same. they collect all the information that the stores release on what their doorbusters are going to be and the times these things go on sale. some of the site will tell you if they have limited quantities that will be available and they will also tell you when something is out of stock. so all of that work is done for you. so to get on these and get on them now because now you can figure out, they're already telling you what the door busters are going to be. >> shannon: i love your next idea which is shop on line. because i got to tell you, i get a little intimidated by the

whole feisty crowd situation on black friday. some people love it. it's part of the game for them. if you want to shop on line, you may still be able to get these great deals. >> absolutely. some of the same deals that the stores offer will be on the store's web site as well. last year, wal-mart offered the same deals on line as they did in store. this year, toys r us has actually two black friday specials going on. the in-store promotions are going to start on thanksgiving night and on line, it's going to start on black friday itself. so it pays to get on line first. see if what you're looking for is there and, you know, you can -- you don't have to brave the crowds, absolutely. >> shannon: i want to ask you about something -- >> some of the web sites offer exclusive deals just for on-line shopping. so don't think that you're just getting what the stores are offering. you might even get better deals and exclusive deals by shopping on line, too. >> shannon: all right, very quickly, i want to ask you about something you mentioned, a q.r. code. what's that?

>> a q.r. code stands for quick response and you see these all over newspapers, magazine ads, even on packaging itself. they look like bar codes on steroids. those little square things with a lot of black print and what they are embedded in there is a lot of product -- extra product information on something. but it can also lead you to great mobile deals so make sure that your cell phone, your smartphone is equipped with a q.r. reader app and that will lead you to some of the mobile deals that you're going to be finding and we also found in our survey that 19% of consumers are going to be shopping with their smartphones and that is not information lost on the retailers because they're going to actually be sending out more mobile exclusive deals to you and texting you and some of them are going to be timed exactly to black friday when people at peak hours, when people are in the stores standing in line being very frustrated. >> shannon: all right, we got to go. thank you very much for your tips. great to see you. >> great to see you. >> shannon: all right, a

potentially foul mouthed doll has some parents in an uproar this holiday season. the doll is one of the you and me interactive play and giggle triplet dolls sold exclusively at toys r us. >> shannon: all right, if you didn't catch that, some think the doll utters a phrase that sounds like a whole lot like witch but with a b. a spokesman from toys r us say it's ridiculous. what you're hearing is baby babble. texas gofer in rick perry has turned some heads for using the s words, socialism in attacks against president obama. >> obama's socialist policies are bankrupting america. we must stop him now. >> shannon: does his wife agree? keep it here from my one on one with anita perry. i habe a cohd.

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>> shannon: the obama administration is threatening to veto a major defense bill because of language that would place terror suspects into military custody. some say that threat is a dramatic escalation in the battle between the white house and congress over the future of the war on terror. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has more for the story. >> the veto threat comes after five months of negotiations over the custody and questioning of detainees. >> the administration policy has been a complete failure. >> on the senate floor the obama administration was hided for promising to close gitmo

and failing or promising to try the suspects in a federal court and failing. >> if today we capture zwahiri the leader of al-qaeda what would we do with him. >> the requirement does not include u.s. citizens but would cover al-qaeda terrorists arrested on u.s. soil. >> is america part of the battlefield? you better believe it is part of the battlefield. >> the administration could use a national security waiver to send some cases to the fbi and ultimately criminal courts. concessions were made to the white house. >> they want flexibility. that is exactly what we provide in this amendment. >> yet the white house called the detainee language "unwise and unwarranted restrictions to combat terrorism." key democrats agreed. >> i view the detention provisions of this bill as really pernacious as an attack

on the executive power of the president. >> the bill codifies indefinite defense but prohibits gitmo detainees from being brought to the u.s. mainland using defense department funds. in washington, catherine herridge, fox news. >> shannon: gop presidential hopeful mitt romney is set to pick up an important endorsement in the state that holds the nation's first primary. new hampshire senator kelly ayotte will be the first member of the congressional delegation to endorse a presidential contender. the gop presidential race is heating up. several one-time frontrunners have lost momentum. i will talk with the wife of one of those men coming up, anita per arery. i'm shannon bream. hour number two of america's news headquartering live from the nation's capital starts right now. the congressional supercommittee has just hours to post a debt reduction deal to make its deadline.

committee members back at work this sunday on capitol hill but there seems to be more pessimism than promise that they will actually reach an agreement. >> in order to have a vote on wednesday that is in compliance with the law the supercommittee would have to get the agreed upon deal to the congressional budget office or cbo by tonight or tomorrow so that the number crunchers there can do the math and estimate the effects of the deal on the deficit and get it back to the supercommittee by late monday. then those lawmakers would have the 48 hours required by law to go over it before they vote on wednesday. as the clock ticks down, one democratic senator not on the supercommittee is asking president obama to get involved. >> well, if it doesn't work then no one has done enough on it and he is the leader of this great country and we want him to step forward. >> meanwhile, members of the supercommittee are still talking to each other, working on last minute compromise but as the republican co--chair said reality is starting to

overtake hope. >> talks have taken place over the weekend. they will continue to take place. but the reality is we need to come to an agreement. we have to get it drafted and it has to be estimated by the congressional budget office by the end of monday. >> i think we are deep into the fourth quarter but there is still time on the clock. i don't think any of us wants to let the time run out without trying everything possible to get there. >> if the supercommittee fails then the law says a set of automatic spending cuts goes into effect in 2013. about $1 trillion in cuts and almost half of that is cuts to defense spending. shannon? >> shannon: that is raising a lot of concerns. thank you very much. the supercommittee wednesday deadline is fast approaching. i caught up with republican senator mike lee from utah to talk to the supreme court decision this week to take up the legal fight over the president's healthcare law. thank you very much for making time for us today.

one of the things, of course, just all over washington that we are waiting for is to find out what happens to the supercommittee if they can reach a deal before thanksgiving. you will be meeting with a tea party group that says they can save $9.7 trillion and do it without raising taxes. what are your hopes that something like that can be accomplished? >> i think we have to get to that point if we want to balance our budget. freedom works and other groups have given us proposals and advice on how to do that. >> shannon: do you have hope that the committee will get something done by the wednesday deadline? >> i have hopes that we will do it and hopes that we will find anything to allow us to make the cuts that we need to make. i have been a pessimist about the supercommittee. it is not a recipe for success when you try to consolidate into a 12 person committee and have them meet behind closed doors. if they can come up with cuts i'm happy to examine them. >> shannon: there has been talk about congress trying to revamp

that and go around it to remove the trigger. what do you think happens next if we get to wednesday without a solution? >> it is difficult to predict in part because if they come up with a partial solution that could partial lay offset what their obligation it. until we see that, it is hard to say what the next step is. there is also the option of passing a balance the budget amendment which would satisfy the obligation for this next traunch of debt limit authority. and the house is voting on that today. i think the senate will be voting on it within a few weeks. >> shannon: i have seen bipartisan support for the idea. what do you think about the prospect of getting democratic votes on a balanced budget amendment. >> i think it is strong. i have writ and book about this, the freedom agenda. this is something that democrats and republicans support, even liberals and conservatives support. 75% of all americans think we need to do this and restrict on a constitutional basis congress' authority to borrow because it has been abused.

>> shannon: we heard that the supreme court is going to take up some of the legal challenges to the president's healthcare law. you believe that congress went way beyond its powers as enumber rated in the commerce laws. do you think the justices ultimately, at least five of them will fall to your way of thinking? >> i certainly think they should and my hunch although it is difficult and dangerous to predict what the supreme court might do, i think they will. i think they have to. let's think about the fact that possibility that they might hold that it is valid, that it is constitutional. there really is no limit on congress' power at that point. no reason why congress at that point couldn't say if we can tell you that you have to buy a specific kind of health insurance we can also tell you how many servings of green leafy vegetables to eat a day. we have to remember, shannon, that our country became a country, we revolted against our mother country not the just because we wanted to get rid of the mor monarchy.

we were not well suited as americans and still are not to a large distant sovereign national government because that results in tyranny. whether the governmen the goven question is headed by a king on one hand or a president on the other hand. >> shannon: giving five and a half hours to oral arguements for a number of different issues stemming from the healthcare law. a lot of calls to have it televised. never happened before. where would you fall on that issue? >> i defer to the justices on that. they have to make their decision on whatever basis i think it is sound. i think it is interesting this is a five and a half hour oral argument injuries the fact they are willing to do that this is unprecedented. when i worked at the court i never saw something go over an hour. suggests they might be willing to open the court to cameras in this instance. they will make that decision i'm sure. >> shannon: thank you for your time. we appreciate it. >> shannon: we taped that interview minutes before senator lee was set to launch a meeting of the tea party debt

committee. however, lee says the senate rulesommittee controlled by democrats kicked out the hundreds who had shown up because the meeting had been touted as a hearing and that would have broken senate rules. here is video of how it all played out. >> it is not hearing. a hearing is an official function in which you are conducting a legislative investigation. we are going to have a panel discussion. and with all due respect i think that is for me to decide whether this is a hearing and not for you. >> what we have to discuss is that we need not have any threats of interference by any senate staff member. >> shannon: lee led the group off senate property to hold the meeting at a nearby private building. still a dispute about whether or not that was considered a hearing. the house gop says it won the battle for campaign cash in the month of october. the national republican

congressional committee hauled in more than $4.5 million for the month compared to nearly $4.2 million for the democratic comial campaign committee. for the year, though, democrats have outraised republicans so far by more than $3 million. in just six weeks iowans make their pick. this could shape the contest heading into new hampshire and beyond. most attended last night but not mitt romney. peter doocy is fielding eiraq >> they got together in iowa for the thanksgiving family forum where really nothing was off limits. the candidates laughed, the candidates cried. a little bit of chatter about a famous gaffe and also occupy wall street. >> we don't need the department of education. we need those things taken care of at the state level. >> and the energy department,

too. >> get a job right after you take a bath. >> governor mitt romney wasn't even in the hawkeye state. he was all the way up in new hampshire but says that he hasn't foregotten about iowa and thinks he will still do well, there. >> i said from the very begining that we intend to play in iowa. that i want to do very well there. and it will come as no surprise to you that in the business world and in the political world that we tend not to reveal our strategy to our competitors and so you will wait and see what we do. >> governor john huntsman was missing last night as well doing something totally different. he was on the new york set of saturday night live poking fun at his low poll numbers and talked about how much he endorsed new hampshire the state where he by far spent most of his time campaigning. newt gingrich is taking a head on approach to the controversies from his past. he has come under fire for everything from alleged extramarital affairs to the millions he earned as a

consultant to fannie mae. he told reporters at harvard he is ready for the scrutiny. >> do you think the skeletons are out because you have been in the public eye for so long who knows because you found all sorts of stuff i never would have thought was interesting. >> shannon: he launched a page on his website that reads "see an attack that is not answered let us know here." another candidate who had to field his share of attacks, texas governor rick perry is turning his attention on taking down washington. among his ideas this week, a part-time congress. i sat down with his wife anita to find out what drives them both in the midst of a tough campaign. >> both you and the governor have said he wasn't really excited about the idea of running for president but you felt in your heart it was something he should consider. you encouraged him. you have admitted since then this has been a really difficult process. knowing what you know now, do you think you still would encourage him to run? >> absolutely. it was the right choice for us to make. we have several people, i mean

many people were encouraging him to run. we discussed it as a family and our children are all in and, you know, our really close friends are all in. i think it was absolutely think it was the right decision and we would do it again because we believe in america. >> shannon: and you said that you feel like you are fighting for the soul of this country. what do you mean by that? >> we really do. we feel like we are at a dropping off point the abyss and we don't like the direction that our country he is going and i think that we need to get backing to our founding fathers and a the principles that our country was built upon. as a woman i have to tell you one of the reasons why i really wanted him to get into this race. i'm concerned about the safety of our country and the safety of my children and grandchildren and i don't want to always have that worry and truly i believe rick perry is the man that can keep us safe. >> part of this whole process that you have had to live through as a family is the debate process which has been

arduous for every candidate. how tough has it been to watch our husband struggle in these debates and how do you encourage him afterwards? >> i think he has done well. yes, he made a couple of little blunders. i can't stand the debates. i'm so nervous as his wife. but i think he has really done very well and when can articulate that message as he has been doing very well the last three weeks i think the american people will get to know him. >> shannon: after he struggled through the number of agencies he would like to eliminate what was the conversation you had with him after the debate? >> just one of those moments in time where you are human and i just tell him i loved him. i said oh, it is a word. i had no idea how big it would be. i told him i loved him because i wanted him to o do this and i believe h number. >> shannon: got to be hard as a spouse to -- i believe in him. >> shannon: got to be hard questioning his positions and where he stands.

other spouses on the trail have had other challenges. calista gingrich, h her personal life with newt. gloria cain allegations against her husband. >> our spouses are truly giving back to this country and so many people don't get to see this through our eyes. i would just have to say enjoy it. as much as you can. don't look at the polls. don't read the negative media. it is not going to help you get through the day. >> shannon: i was in a place where people are very vocal about their a faith, it is something that is important to you and the governor as well. what role does it play for you? >> faith is very important to us. i think that is how we get through the day is we rely on our faith. >> shannon: it is something you all have been very public about. it is not a secret but you say that you fear your husband has been brutalized because of his faith. what do you mean by that? >> i think part of it is we knew we would o be scrutinized. i wasn't quite so sure about the national media attention

but i learned a lot of lessons along the way and there is a camera on me most of the time now so i'm much more guarded than i would have been. >> shannon: you are a nurse. you grew up the daughter of a physician. do you think there is a need for healthcare reform in this country and how do you think that the president's healthcare law is getting it right or wrong? is there any merit to what he is trying to do? >> i grew up in this and saw how the community respected and loved my father because he was a one on one person really a bedside physician. i want every american to have that same opportunity to have the choice that they want to have that physician that they want. that is another reason i really encouraged rick to get into this race. i don't like socialized medicine and that is the path we are going. >> shannon: you mentioned the word socialism and that scares a lot of people when that comes up. do you think this president is socialist, some of his policies are socialist? how would you characterize him? >> i truly do. my father in 1970 said the

moment we take the dollar from the federal government they will tell us how to start practicing medicine. i have seen it as a nurse in a hospital in administration i have certainly seen that how we practice medicine by a book and how the diagnoses are related and how you are paid by that. and i don't think that is right. i think truly you know we need to be paying for the very best that we can get. so it to me, yes, it is socialized medicine. people can call it what they want to, nationalized healthcare, but that is what it ness my opinion. >> shannon: on this journey have you had a chance to build friendships with some of the other spouses who are really probably the only people who know exactly what you are going through at this point? >> i have. mary kay huntsman and i were friends through the republican governor's association. we were friends then and better friends now and we will be friends after this. and carries lac calista gingrie got ton know her better on the

trail. i know all of the spouses except one. i met karen santorum the other night. what a beautiful woman. there is some. i saw cindy mccain the night before last and she said how are you and i gave her a big hug and said only you know. >> shannon: with that, thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> tomorrow on special report texas governor rick perry sits down with bret baier and the all-star panel in the center seat. nevada fire officials say twice as many homes were destroyed in a weekend wildfire as originally thought. some of the homeowners getting their first look at what they lost. 32 homes in and near reno were burned but crews did fight to save more than 4,000 other homes from going up in flames. be even residents who lost their homes say they are thankful it wasn't worse. >> they were yelling get out. get out, the fire is coming. i just want to thank them from the bottom of my heart whoever

they he are because they probably saved our lives. >> and down the hill and it was just like a fire tornado. >> i thought for sure this whole neighborhood was gone to be honest with you. never seen anything like it. >> the fire is now 80% contained. >> shannon: the threat of another downgrade to u.s. credit if the supercommittee doesn't come through with a deficit deal. what would it mean for you and your pocketbooks? and allen west joins to us talk about another possible supercommittee side effect. big cuts to the national defense spending. what would it mean? coming up next. sweetie i think you need a little extra fiber in your diet. carol. fiber makes me sad. oh common. and how can you talk to me about fiber

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>> shannon: new warnings if the supercommittee fails to reach a deficit reduction deal america could face another credit down grade. bring in senior business correspondent and anchor of bulls and bears brenda buttner. >> not just the supercommittee that could get a thumbs down if it fails, so, too, could the nation's credit rating and that would be less than super for us as americans. downgraded debt for the first time in history for much less. back in august when it said that difficult political

decisions in d.c. were enough to call for the political decision to do so. many analysts believe the failure to do is deal with almost certainly trigger at least one of the ratings agencies to take our debt from double a plus to double a. insidey's placed the u.s. on negative credit watch. perhaps the supercommittee is exactly what it is watching. the last agency still has the top rating for the u.s. but with some concerns. remember the impact of the first and only other downgrade ever? stocks sank around the world. here in the u.s., the largest one day selloff since the credit crisis in 2008 with the dow down 600 points in one day. it wasn't the only casualty. consumer confidence also sharply declined. you would expect that a lower credit rating would send interest rates sky high. it didn't. the feds buying binge at a time of economic uncertainty sent rates way down and guess what, stocks went up later. yes, bottom line, a down grade

means our credit is riskier just as if your credit rating fell 100 points, say, you would be viewed as a riskier borrower with. the big difference you don't have a money printing machine like the fed does and you can't buy your own debt like the fed has shown it will do. a downgrade if the supercommittee is less than super, probably what will happen, if his tore arery is any guide, the markets are expecting it and the fed may stand at the ready to help the economy from falling more and interest rates from jumping. back to you, shannon. >> shannon: thank you very much and happy thanksgiving to you. >> to youngster you, too. >> 36 students named prestigious rhodes scholars. they will be given a full scholarship to study at oxford university injuries the scholars ecelebritied from 830 applicants.

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>> shannon: thousands of angry protesters in cairo are demanding a day for poured concreter to be turned over to the newly elected government. a second day of violent clashes in egypt, protesters threw rocks at riot police and officers shot tear gas and fired rubber bullets into the crowd. the military has been ruling since hosni mubarak was ousted in february. elections are scheduled in two weeks. the clock is ticking on the congressional supercommittee and one of the cochairs is calling this a missed opportunity. the bottom of the hour and molly henneberg is standing by with the top stories.

>> the republican cochair says that while nobody wants to give up, "reality is starting to take over." if the panel fails to produce a plan it will trigger across-the-board cuts. several of the gop presidential candidates open od up about religious beliefs at a forum on faith in iowa last night. two candidates took a pass, frontrunner mitt romney in new hampshire and jon huntsman who is trailing the back. romney was in new hampshire campaigning and huntsman appeared on saturday night live. egyptian army troops and police are using tear gas and rubber bullets to evict several protesters from the tahrir square. and michelle obama will get to utter the most famous words in racing today, gentlemen, start your engines. the first lady and jill biden are the grand marshalls at the nascar sprint cup finale in

florida. those are some of our top stories right now. i guess some of the military families will be honored guests at the nascar race with the first lady and second ladys. >> and the crowd goes wild and acknowledges those are the true heros of the day. >> absolutely. >> shannon: thanks. if the supercommittee fails to agree on a deal automatic cuts will be triggered and it could mean major cutbacks in the pentagon budget. joining us to talk about that possibility, republican congressman allen west who served for more than 20 years in the u.s. army. thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me, shannon and happy thanksgiving to you. >> shannon: and to you and your family and loved ones as well. talk about the fact that the pentagon is already facing some $450 billion in cuts. if we get to th the sequestratn issue, how concerned are you? >> i'm very concerned. as a matter of fact, you are talking about another 5 to $600 billion over the next be ten years of cuts.

as a matter of fact, in personnel you are talking about an army that will go from 549,000 to 425. a marine corps from 202,000 to about 145. the lowest level that the marine corps has been in quite some time. when you look at our combat formations, maneuver battalions and the army go from 100 down to 60 or 70. the fighter aircraft in the air force goes from 1,990 to 1500. look at enabled war vessels go going from 288 to 238. when you look at trouble spots all over the world now is not the time for to us do this to the military which is what we heard secretary of defense, general joint chiefs and all of the service chiefs testify before the house armed services committee and say that these cuts will be unacceptable. >> you mentioned secretary panetta and others that tried to point out the danger of going down this path.

representative wrote a letter to the co--chairs of the supercommit key saying if see kiss expectation were to occur the impact -- sequestration were to occur the impact would be immediate, dire and in some cases irar irrevocable. saying unfortunately while large cuts are being imposed the threat to national security would not be reduced. and all of this discussion takes me back to navy admiral mike mullen when was the chair of the joint chiefs of staff who said that our national debt is the biggest threat to our national security. why can't those on capitol hill get it together with that in mind? >> well, i think that those on capitol hill should have had the experiences that i have 22 years being in the united states military and living through the times when we saw the incredible cuts to the defense budget on the clinton administration when we didn't have enough spare parts, gasoline or even ammunition to go out and properly train. i remember being the executive

officer of a battalion and having to budget for toilet paper in barracks. when i went to iraq in 2003 we didn't even have doors on the humvees to include mine. i think that if we had people that had been on this 21st century battlefield in iraq and afghanistan maybe they would do their job. unfortunately, you do have people on the other side of the aisle who think let the sequestration kick in because they think that the military families and our veterans should be the bill payers for the fiscal irresponsibility in washington, d.c. >> shannon: thank you for your time he and your service to the military as well. >> the fbi and homeland security reportedly looking into whether foreign attackers hackl inside and damaged a u.s. water plant. the plant located in springfield illinois experienced problems with a pump moater that eventually burned out. if confirmed this could be the first known cyber attack that

actually caused physical damage to a u.s. facility. this is a fox news alert. two university of california davis police officers involved in this pepper spraying incident you see he here are now on administrative leave. those were protesters who say they identify with the occupy wall street movement being sprayed by officers. the chancellor says she is aggressively investigating the incident but some say that is not enough and they are calling for her to now resign. after almost two weeks police in washington state are widening their search for two-year-old sky. they reportedly have new information that led them to search a heavily wooded park and released new photos that are raising questions about the boy's mother who is reportedly no longer talking to police. laura ingle is following the story from new york with the latest. >> investigators continue to be frustrated with the mother of the missing boy. her original story about the day her two-year-old son vanished has begin to fall apart and she has refused a lie detector test or further

interviews about the case. now, we have some new photos of two-year-old sky metawala looking more like he would today. they have just been released by the police in hopes that the more recent shots will spur more tips. here is where is gets interesting. the pictures his mother gave to police to circulate to help find her missing child show a younger boy and a more glamorous looking blonde. they were on her facebook. strikingly different from surveillance video taken recently showing the woman with much darker hair wearing a gray sweatshirt and looking a bit dissheveled. police tell us these photos are more accurate of how she looked the day of the disappearance. nearly 1200 tip its poured in since november 6 the day she told police she left sky alone in her car on the side of the road after she says h her vehicle ran out of gas. she says she took her four-year-old daughter with her in search of fuel and when they returned her son was gone.

police later discovered the car had plenty of gas and wonder why she has not cooperated. >> i have to resist the temptation to put a label on julia in regard to a person of interest or a suspect or anything else but i can tell you that my statement stands about her store arery falling apart. >> and the search continues this weekend. if you have any information you are urged to call the bellevue police tipline which you will see here at the bottom of the screen and we will keep you updated when we get more information. >> shannon: thank you very much. lawmakers took action this week in direct response to penn state's child sex abuse scandal. robert menendez introduced the child abuse reporting act that would make it a law that would make it a felony if incidents are witnessed but not reported to authorities. thank you for your time today. welcome. >> good to be with you. >> shannon: tell me what you hope to change by what you are

offering. >> well, as we saw the outrage that we all collectively have as relates to what happened at penn state. time to turn the national outrage into a national action. we rehe viewed across the country what is the law and there is a patchwork of laws. in clearist consistent theme. our legislation would say if you see he something you say something that that every person would have a responsibility to report an act of child abuse. two, they would have to report it to police and the child protective services of that state. and three, the failure to report which is what really instigates someone to meet their responsibility if they can't meet their responsibility moreally then they will have a legal responsibility is that the failure to report to the police and child protective services would potentially give you a one year in prison penalty. >> shannon: as you researched this and looked into putting this together were you surprised as i was and a lot o of folks that i talked to that

there aren't these kind of penalties for someone who would witness something like a child being molested and not call police. instigated.hat we intimate some states don't have the responsibility to report beyond that your superior. only 18 states have a direct responsibility to report to law enforcement or child protective services out of the 50 states of the nation. we want to make it crystal clear across the country. we want to protect our children and the way we do that is to make every individual responsible if they see an act of child abuse they are going to have to report it to the police and child protective services and there is a consequences not to do it and the way we get states to ultimately pass these laws is if they fail to pass such laws then they will not have access to a $1.5 billion social service block grant and we think that that will make states in addition to what i believe is the moral responsibility of each of those states to make sure that our

children are protected to act. >> shannon: and while i have got you i have to ask your impression with what is playing out with the supercommittee. the deadline wednesday and report that's committee may be done, dead locked beyond repair at this point? >> well, that would be unfortunate. some of us have been advocates of not only hitting the $1.2 trillion mark but to actually have a much bigger $4 trillion mark and we believe that making ultimately decisions that are balanced that include spending cuts entitlement changes and revenue to that larger tune would put the path on to greater economic recovery, create confidence and help build our economy so i'm still hoping that at least they will hit the $1.2 trillion cut. if not, we have the sequestration cuts and it never makes sense to cut across the board instead of to cut intelligently and to find revenue intelligently. >> shannon: sir, we thank you for your time. we will follow your legislative

efforts on preventing child abuse, atgeting folks to report it and what plays out with the supercommittee this week. thank you. >> shannon: a new investigation into actress natalie woods mysterious death. her sister makes a surprise call to judge jeanine. what she is saying about the case. airlines are stuffing their pockets with backag baggage fe. yout until you hear how muchif they are making off of you. opes recommend most for arthritis pain, think again. and take aleve. it's the one doctors recommend most for arthritis pain... two pills can last all day. ♪ try smart balance buttery sead. 's heart-healthier than butter. with omega-3s. 64% less saturated fat. andlinically proven to help support healthy cholesterol. ♪ put a little love in your heart ♪

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the captain is telling the truth and hopes the investigation will provide some answers. >> i would like the actual facts, the truthful facts to come out no matter how difficult they are because quite honestly, i think the pain that has been caused is so intensive that there isn't much more that you can do to any one. you know, i'm sorry if this hurts the children but it is a fact of our lives, all of our lives. it is coloring our lives. >> shannon: lane that wood says while she doesn't believe that her sister simply fell off the boat she also doesn't believe the death was deliberate. hundreds of thousands of americans are packing their bags this week for thanksgiving trips and the bags are adding up to a hefty profit for airlines. they raked in hundreds of millions of dollars over baggage fees the last year. casey stegall with more news on how much it is going to cost you. hi, casey. >> good to see you.

ready for this? last year, travelers spent $3.4 billion just to check their baggage. that is five times higher than what we were paying just three years guy. all of that information is according to the u.s. bureau of transportation statistics and the travel experts say that the charge is now how the struggling airlines are beefing up their woul bottom line and y are not going away any time soon because the $3.4 billion figure is last year's number and it is predicted to be a whole lot higher in 2011. >> i don't blame them for wanting to do that because they are trying to make a profit but the backage fees and cancellation fees in the last quarter that was just reported by the department of transportation racked up $1.5 billion in fees. and that doesn't count all of the other fees like get on the plane early fees or pillows and blankets fees.

>> now, we reached out to the air transport association, a trade group that represents all of the carriers. interestingly, a spokesperson declined to speak with us on camera about all of those fees. but did supply us with a report that outlines the reasoning behind them. it shows with the rising price of fuel and other factors airfare alone is no longer enough to keep the airlines out of the red. the organization also says that the general operating costs of an airline has more than doubled from 2000 to 2010 at a time when the industry was reporting losses of some $60 billion. so, if you are going to be headed to places like lax or any other airport and flying coming up for thanksgiving or christmas, new year's, whatever, make sure you pack lightly or you will be paying big, shannon. >> shannon: that's always a problem for me, casey. i don't know about you. thank you so much. >> i do, too. >> shannon: so what if you are

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>> shannon: congressional supercommittee is expected to admit failure tomorrow. the deadline was wednesday but senior aides and congressional aides say that is not likely to happen. if you flan save money by driving this thanksgiving you may want to factor this in. according to triple-a the average national price of a gallon of gas $3.40, up from just $2.87 last year. you may feel the economic impact at the table, too. according to the american farm bureau the cost of the average thanksgiving meal expected to be up 13% this year to $49 up from last year's $43. of course thanksgiving is a time for all of our favorite foods and in dull against. indulgences. trying to stay healthy during the holidays is a heftia task. joining us is kurt reid, other than of transformation training and fitness. thanks for coming back. >> the average thanksgiving

meal the estimate is 3500 calories and if you started with the halloween candy you may already be in a bad pattern. >> the study shows 6 to 15-pounds between halloween and new year's day. quite an increase. but the main thing with thanksgiving is remembering that it is a day. it is not a two-day event, a weekend event. what we really get in trouble with is when we return it into a week-long thing. interesting a good meal for breakfast is good. it will take away the hunger pains before you get to the meal. maybe if you can squeeze in an exercise routine. drink a couple of glasses of water before the actual meal starts. when the meal does begin, stick to that first helping of a lot of vegetables, the turkey is certainly fine. you know, certainly it is thanksgiving day so enjoy yourself but really the main point is don't turn if t. into a two meal, three meal week long event. >> or two month event. >> you say it is important to plan ahead. kind of have boundaries for

yourself and think about how you will handle the whole two month period. >> we get so busy that we don't have time to plan. we need make of focus of really taking a step back. plan your meals and plan when the parties are and start to think if i have a party on friday night i can't just go nuts on wednesday and thursday. i need to plan my meals up to that so i can go to the party and enjoy myself a little more. >> shannon: you mentioned water and said concentrate on uping that and maybe not so much on the alcohol which is everywhere during the holidays. >> water does a couple of things. keeps you hydrated. no calories and makes you feel fuller. the alcohol is obviously much higher in calories and has other side effects as well but the calorie content is so much higher than water. >> shannon: if you feel super busy what is the least amount of time you can work out that is worth it. >> 10 to 15 minutes. put together some body weight circuits at your house. too many benefit -- but there

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appearance on the update. >> i would like to start with something you never get to hear at the debates. governor huntsman, the first question is for you. [ laughter ] >> isn't it through nationally you are currently polling in the low single digits? >> it is true. but only a few months ago i was polling at margin of error. so to have any digit at all is a pretty big deal. >> shannon: well, governor huntsman poked fun at how much time he has been spending in new hampshire. he recently focused primarily in the granite state, the first primary. governor mark dayton held a reception for ted the turkey who could be one of two birds sent to the white house for a pardon from president obama. but ted did not want to leave that to chance and tried to make it break for it in sedative. instead. didn't get too far. he was put back in his pen and kept calm by appropriately the minnesota agricultural

commissioner. a christmas tradition getting a high tech upgrade. the red kettles now accept credit cards. they will be equipped with credit card readers plugged into iphones or android devices. the announcement was made in san francisco. we would love to hear from you at home and today we asked you who will you blame if the supercommittee fails? hundreds of you weighed in. here is a samplele. doug says president obama deserves the blame tore requiring others to balance his budget. and jeremy says i think the gop missed their opportunity when they allowed the supercommittee a berth at all. should have held strong. the majority of the results that we got, though, you are mad at everyone in washington. both parties,ing congress, the white house, all of them. we understand your frustration. that is it for now. i'm shannon bream. thanks for watching. be sure toast to stay tuned