brooke?n we talk black friday? >> let's talk black friday. >> can you believe it? we're hearing walmart opening 8:00 thanksgiving night. eat your turkey, go shopping. >> that's right. >> why? to cash in. >> they're the trend setter. walmart opening 8:00 p.m. thanksgiving day and the second year in a row they're doing this. opening on thanksgiving night. opening two hours earlier this year and the company, brooke, just responding to customer feedba feedback. the shoppers, they went to have the turkey and go shopping and then at bed at a reasonable hour all apparently in the same day and national retail federation agrees. 80% of shoppers they say they'll start shopping before december this year. get this. 12% started the christmas shopping before september which means they're probably in the flip flops and bathing suits and for the influx of people coming in, retailers have to be ready. christmas shopping is huge for them. it's a critical time for year for them. even if it begins when we're swi

i'm brooke baldwin.ant to get to the jobs number that came out today and the big one that comes out tomorrow. plus, how both president obama and mitt romney are spending the final days on the campaign trail. but first, this. >>> day three of the recovery in the northeast. sandy has now been absorbed by another weather system but redefined what waterfront really means in new jersey and new york. look at this with me. sandy created a new inlet in new jersey cutting the barrier island in to two. our affiliate news 12 new jersey spoke with the homeowner not of the house on the island but of the home that was next door. >> there's nothing -- i mean, right now there's -- it's just water where the house would be. there's not even sand where the house was. there's waves where the house was. since there's nothing for us to go back to to sift through, whether it's three days or three weeks, you know, all we would be looking at would be a sand pile. >> sand pile. since this video was taken, crews built up a road so

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brooke?e are on, what is this? thursday today and this was last thursday. was this kept quiet? >> reporter: yeah. it was. and the pentagon says the reason is it was a classified mission and they say they're not in the business of talking about it until, frankly, cnn reported it and they started getting questions from reporters about it. you know, look. the iranians know what they did and not a big secret from them. were they trying to shoot it down? how much do the iranians want to cause over those vital oil shipping lanes in the gulf right now, brooke? >> barbara starr, thank you very much, at the pentagon for us. >>> now president obama gets four more years in the white house. is it gridlock or does he have a new strategy perhaps for working with the divisive congress? we'll go live to the white house for that. [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso. i just served my mother-in-law your chicken noodle soup but she loved it so much... i told her it was homemade. everyone tells a little white lie now

this is brooke.jor difference is the fact that hamas has really emerged as quite an influence, awakening this new voice post arab spring. plo kind of sidelines because of what we see in the past couple of days. my question to you, and in asking you, i want you to listen to some sound. this is the leader of hamas speaking to our own christiane amanpour this past wednesday about a possible two-state solution. take a listen. >> you say that you would expect a two-state solution, but that you will not recognize israel's right to exist. >> i accept a state of the 1967. how can i accept israel? they have occupied my land. i need recognition, not the israelis. this is a reverse question. >> what do you think? possible two-state solution in the nearish future? >> look, you have on the palestinian side, a strong actor, hamas, the leader of which we just heard a quote from. he was basically saying the two-state solution is not impossible. you have on the israeli side a prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, who h

i'm brooke baldwin. i'm in atlanta at cnn world headquarters joined by jim acosta, live on the tarmac in cleveland, ohio. jim acosta we are emphasizing the importance of ohio. tell me who's there today. >> reporter: that's right. we just got off the romney campaign plane, we've been covering the romney campaign for a good portion of the year and a half now. and it's all come down to election day. he's here in the state of ohio linked up with paul ryan. you can see the romney campaign plane behind me. over my left shoulder is the ryan campaign plane. way off in the distance, vice president joe biden's plane looming on the horizon. so a picture telling a thousand words here about the battle ground state of ohio. we can report that mitt romney and paul ryan visiting a victory center, a call center for the campaign, get out the vote, make calls to supporters, to people at home making sure they get to the poll. that's the act test there. we've been told by the romney campaign they're not doing a heck of a lot

brooke? >> kyung lah, thank you so much. >>> watch cnn all day long tomorrow, keep it on cnn for election day. our special coverage begins tomorrow night, 6:00 eastern. i will be anchoring a special newsroom at noon tomorrow with joe johns in washington. and as we are on the eve of election day, some areas, the voting trouble has already begun, like these lines, seven-hour wait times. now the lawyers are stepping in. ali velshi is all over it. [ male announcer ] this is sheldon, whose long dy setting up the news starts with arthritis pain and a choice. take tylenol or take aleve, the #1 recommended pain reliever by orthopedic doctors. just two aleve can keep pain away all day. back to the news. >>> let's talk about florida. florida, again, looking at a close race, and possibly a very, very ugly legal battle. democrats lawyering up over governor rick scott's refusal to extend early voting hours. the aim of voting is to make it easier for people to cast their ballots, but look at this. >> let u

brooke?told him i would take my family around the world on a trip. nevertheless -- >> a few times. >> a few times. you represented this guy who said sorry, office co-workers, i bought my winning ticket, therefore money's mine. >> pretty amazing. what happened was he was the designated representative to get the ticket. they won second place. when they won, he said, wait a second, but i fwhaut wbought th winning ticket with my money, you had nothing to do with it. by the time they came to me, they talked about the case it was two weeks and spent half the money. >> he spent half the money. >> half the money in two weeks. immediately what i did was i moved to -- it is called the preliminary injunction. you freeze the account. and thank goodness the judge agreed that the account should be frozen pending the outcome of the case, because guess what, there would have been no money left over. got to bended where they didn't go after him, not for what was spent, but what was left in the account. the th

brook, maryland are connecting on the next big thing. they're working on a project where social media and education collide. he's found a way to take the fear out of raising your hand

brooke stoddard, world war ii started about six months prior to your book. what was happening in europe in june 1940? >> the war had started in september 1939, peter, and germany had overrun poland. hitler's idea at this point was to invade france and knock britain out of the war thereby. with the intent later on to invade the soviet union. he hated communism. this is one thing that was really part of his agenda. he was actually going to invade france in the wintertime, in november-december. he had to put that off because -- >> of 1939? >> 1939. because of the invasion plans fell into the hands of the french and the british, so we put off the invasion until may and he came up with a new plan. the old plan actually have been similar to world war i. it was going to come through belgium along the channel coast, and down into paris. buddy had to completely rearrange that andy came up with the idea -- one of his generals -- to think through belgium but send the majority of his armored power through the ardennes forest further south and come further behind any fre

so brooke mcsweeney called the police. >> reporter: he punched a hole in this wall? brooke says her son is an addict hooked not on drugs or alcohol but internet games. how did you decide it is an addiction and not just a bad habit or something that

i don't know about you, brooke.e would not be my neighbor for much longer. >> that's serious love for psy right there, suzanne malveaux. thank you for that. that is officially stuck in my head for the rest of i tthe day. >>> the united states senate is just about to convene post election lame duck session and talk about lame, if the senate doesn't act here, if the house doesn't act, if the president doesn't act, in unison, your taxes are going up come january 1st to help raise revenue to pay down the national debt. stay with me here for a moment because we'll show you exactly, you know, how much your taxes will be rising. but here's the thing. it doesn't have to happen, this predetermined jump in income taxes and the new parlor game on capitol hill is to pick the next republican, follow me here who is willing to break a no tax pledge made to a very powerful lobbyist, in order to cut a deal with the democrats to focus the pain of new taxes on the wealthy. see this picture? see these three guys. here is yet another re

brooke i don't think it is fair to make this about race. guy said it is not about race. >> i was just joking. i think it is fair to joke about it. i retract my statement. >> that's the affect of the ban. >> i don't know. i didn't look at the racial and ethnic break down of the obama voters in arizona. >> i did. and she is right. >> i don't think you did, bill. >> pretty sure it did. >> you did say it sounds like a small town. i believe it is 4200 with 736 obama voters. >> not enough to carry the place. but significant amount of a small town. and you notice i am looking at the camera. >> very weird. >> the readers are thankful for that. the viewers. >> all of the readers are thankful. >> i have been out of magazine for six years, longer actually. >> the left does this all the time. you brought up the boycott of chick-fil-a and papa john. they say it is okay to boycott a business, but not a business owner to boycott customers. >> i think liberals think it is okay to have boycotts when they say it is okay to have boycotts. >> that's more accur

brooke?alison kosik, we'll keep a look at the numbers there and check back in with you throughout the next few hours. john king, i want to begin with you, in the election itself, i don't know if you slept a wink last night, if much of the nation probably went to bed watching you, through everything last night, what was the biggest surprise in your opinion? >> the biggest surprise, brooke, over to the magic wall and take a look. the biggest surprise is we'll talk more about this in the hour ahead, we're waiting to see who gets florida's 29 electoral votes. a lot of the talk heading into the election is we were waiting on the morning after, it would be in ohio. it went for the president. another surprise for me, if you look at this map and go back to 2008, i'll switch maps in a minute, these are the two take aways for mitt romney. a closer look in terms of the popular vote. from an electoral college perspective, the president getting 303 now. if he gets these 29, he cracks 330. that doesn't wan

. >> good morning, i'm brooke baldwin. it is bright and early, 5:00 in the morning for you on the east coast. >> this is "cnn breaking news." >> and we begin with breaking news out of the conflict zone, an attack at the u.s. embassy in tel aviv in israel. details just coming in, but an israeli police spokesman says a security guard at the embassy was attacked with an ax. the attacker reportedly also had a knife on him. we know the attacker has been arrested. when we get more information, we will bring that to you. of course, this is all happening as israel and hamas at the tipping point of all-out war. the israelis carrying out 80 air strikes overnight with hamas fighters launching 95 rockets into israel. 38 more palestinians killed, bringing the death toll since last week to 111. cnn has confirmed secretary of state hillary clinton is heading to israel in the air at this very moment. tomorrow she will meet with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. she'll also visit egypt and the west bank city of ramallah. and while the two

cnn newsroom continues with brooke baldwin. >> i'm brooke baldwin. happy friday. here we go. our nation is speeding to toward steep tax hikes and budget cuts known as the fiscal cliff. now the election is over, it's time for washington to get in gear. do something about it. this fiscal cliff business could affect just about every single one of us, and you can bet there's plenty going on behind the scenes. this past hour we heard from the president in the east room of the white house basically announcing he's inviting leaders from both houses of congress and from both political parties to meet with him at the white house next friday. just a couple of minutes ago, we heard the president say he's open to compromise and open to new ideas, but there's one point the president is sticking to -- higher taxes for people making higher incomes. take a listen. >> i refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. i'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me, making over $250,000 aren't a asked to pay a dime more

. >> not to disagree with my friend david brooks, the hamiltonian who believes in centralized power, one of the few conservative powers -- >> and your friend thomas jefferson -- >> who believed in democracy and the virtue of the people. so nothing personal in this at all. i think it's just very, very hard to exercise and i agree with tom to present a coherent narrative in a culture where every is their own dun did, their own anchorman, their own narrator. >> rose: david brooks or tom friedman, in washington, back to the idea of presidential leadership. remember -- i remember when jimmy carter and there was all this conversation about one man couldn't hold the job and along came ronald reagan and said, yes, in fact, he can hold this job and provide a vision aren't these qualities that are still viable for presidential leadership. >> i guess i would say the sign of a failing president is someone who talks about the limitationlimitation of the powe office. (laughter). >> rose: or david suggests it's a marketing problem and not a content problem. go ahead. >> i woulday it's not knowing h

brooke? home to atlanta where you are, friend. >> open arms, no problem, smooth sailing. if you are going to chicago, milwaukee, detroit today, we have issues. st. louis as well. fog is happening now and it will continue to happen the next several hours. dense fog advisories out for the lower half of michigan, northern parts of illinois and wisconsin. that will be enough to cause ground stops later on in the day in chicago and st. louis. right now we don't have any but i expect in the next hour or two they will start to rack up. san francisco, low clouds and rain with a storm out there. we have been talking about the storm in seattle and portland that continues to hammer the area. here's the radar. starting to turn with snow levels a little bit. even flashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder. certainly a rare event for the i-5 corridor but they are getting everything with more flash flood watches in effect with the rivers continuing to rise, although the rain will diminish with the cold air

i'm brooke baldwin. four weeks, three republican senators have been slamming susan rice and the obama administration. why? all over their response to the attack in benghazi. well, today both sides came face to face. you are about to hear what happened inside that meeting and why those senators are not satisfied today. but, first, the urgent situation that has everyone's attention, members of the house, they're officially back to work as of right now, this hour. senators returned to washington yesterday. so everyone finally on the job after their week long thanksgiving break. that gives congress and the president, count it with me, 35 days to avoid the dreaded fiscal cliff, the huge package of tax hikes and spending cuts set to take effect january 1 if congress and the president do not cut a deal. we're told they have been talking behind the scenes and president obama has already hosted congressional leaders for a post election sit-down. but the president is also launching a new pr effort, a campaign, som

brooks. any other member of the public that would like to speak? seeing none public comment is closed. i guess one question they want to make sure that we answer is in terms of agenda items for the joint meeting, can you give us a little more information what that will look like so that we have a better sense of what it is that we're going to try to accomplish? >> barbara hale, assistant general manager for power. what i am proposing and ms. miller and i have not yet had an opportunity to discuss this more fully. i understand the commission secretaries have talked and it's a to do on our list just to talk further. what we would like to propose is to address the time line for providing service, and to give you a flavor of some of the key steps, key activities that have to occur for us to be able to go forward, and to discuss the scope, geographic scope and size of the program and customer base we would be proposing to offer service to in the first phase, both through preenrollment program and the opt out portion of the program so it's those two prim

i'm alina cho. >> i'm brooke baldwin.t this hour between israel and hamas. >> hamas, which the u.s. considers a terrorist group, controls gaza. remember, palestinian national authority, the much more moderate group favored by the u.s. controls the west bank. but the palestinian authority was largely sidelined in this conflict and hamas appears to have strengthened its in negotiations. palestinian national authority spokesman, miss oaday, thank you for joining us. the cease fire has been in place about 18 1/2 hours. in a few hours at the 24-hour mark, the border crossings into gaza will reopen. and the negotiations will continue. i'm curious from your standpoint, what are you looking for as we look ahead? >> first of all, thank you for having me. the number one priority for the palestinian government and the palestinian leadership is that the assault has stopped. the killing has stopped and whoa don't have to mourn the loss of any more of our children. over 30 of them have been killed over the past eight years of -- eight

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cocoauthor of "that used to be us, how america fell behind in the world it e invented" and david brooks of the "new york times," he is the author of "the social animal." joining me in new york, tom brokaw, a special correspondent for nbc news and the author of "the time of our lives" a conversation about america. and jon meacham, the executive editor of random house and the author of the forthcoming book "thomas jefferson, the art of power." finally joining us, amy gutman, president of the university of pennsylvania and chair of the president's commission on bioethics and the coauthor of "the spirit of compromise" why governing demands it and campaigning undermines it. i'm pleased to have each of them here for this conversation. we obviously don't know who the new president is and we come forward with the premise that whoever it is, these are the issues and the choices and the challenges that face him. i'll start with you. what is it this new president has to understand about america at this moment? >> well, i think this new president is going to have to govern and governing in a polari

cross-talk the mali crisis i'm joined by brooke spector in johannesburg he's an associate editor of the daily maverick and a retired american diplomat in london we have i have johnson he is a director at viewpoint africa and an award winning journalist and in geneva we cross to alexander both arrive there he is a professor and director of the international relations department at webster university all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. i'm going to you first i mean madam secretary clinton is in algeria trying to drum up support for an intervention into mali. is in the africa these africans do it on their own are they really need western help and i'll talk about american drones later go ahead. yeah clearly ms clinton going to. express this as a concerned concern for the world that the rebels who have now been supported by al qaeda in many different capacities are taking a stronghold in that country and it's not to say that the africans cannot do it on their own well clearly with their limitations echo us which clearly has to take a str

he's a good friend of rebecca brooks.ed months after he stood down balls of the phone hacking scandal and -- he's right in the center of it. he will be in charge of cleaning up a scandal of which he is at the center of. >> eliot: it makes you think the wild, crazy conspiracy theories you see in bad novels are true. there over the atlantic in london where you have rebecca brooks the vortex. whogd who could have thought this up. reminiscent of the famous line from the godfather the moment i think i'm getting out they drag me back out. the heat

we posted the story of brook burke on facebook for the station. while you sent well wishes, you told us your stories about surges and life afterwards for thyroid surgery. joining us is dr. paul. thank you for joining us. we got questions for you about. this a cancer diagnosis, tough to hear k tell us about thyroid in terms of treatment. is it easily treatable. >> 95% of thyroid cancer ends with great results. this is a cancer that is treatable. usually surgery, with radioactive iodine, a pill that you swallow is the usual treatment. some patients need further treatments after that. >> talk about detection. breast cancer, there is a mammogram and we know the other tests. what about thyroid cancer to find it? >> people will palpate a no jill nodule. that's on most of the patients. we look at the nodule and biopsy it. >> how do people notice symptoms, are there warning signs? >> looking in the mirror you can see if there is a lump in your neck. most of the time you can't feel. if it gets big and aggressive, it can affect the voice, swallowing and bre

brooke burke charvet's surprising diagnose. the mother of four's new health battle. >>> always nice to see that we are well-protected here in times square. good morning, everyone. robin is on the mend. elizabeth vargas is back. and, boy, so much anger building up here in the northeast. tens of thousands, now, day 11 without power. the utility companies are under fire for that. and gas is still so hard to find for so many who need it. >> 77% of fuel stations, gas stations, in new york city, are closed. have run dry. it's being called an unprecedented gas crisis in the city. >>> also, we have gabby giffords' story. she came face-to-face with the man who shot her in court yesterday. her husband said he may have put a bullet in her head. but he can't dent her spirit. we're going to hear from astronaut mark kelly about his former congresswoman wife. >>> the big announcement for walmart that is shaking up holiday shopping. black friday, starting earlier than ever. it's now moving to thursday, on thanksgiving. don't blame the messenge

joining me are tom brocaw, ally gutmann, david brooks and jon meacham. >> they have to taker it out of column a and say some seizure are right and some of the issues on education and inequity are right and i'm going to take it out of both sides and that will just confuse everybody. but more people in the country between the tweeting and blogging would say interesting. >> rose: america and its future, the america moment when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications >> right here at home. >> that future is out there waiting for us. >> rose: a politician thinks of the next election, a statesman of the next gentlemen of the jury race said the theologian james clerk and you can't govern in poetry or pros. we want to raise this question. where is america 2012, 236 years after its birth and where is it going, the challenge of the next administration to both immediate and deep. no great country sustained its position without a strong economic foundation. the new president and new congress must deal with a fiscal cliff. partisan grid lock has present us from making hard decision

eric brooks, san francisco green party and our city. i wasn't going to speak on this item until commissioner avalos said the great words that he said. i have worked on a lot of campaigns over the last decade with a lot of progressive groups, and definitely in our top three goals of every group i ever worked with is a municipal bank, so i would say absolutely and i think if you look back at the history of cleanpower sf it took lafco to make sure that moved forward i think it would take lafco to go forward with a municipal bank and it's a regional bank and opportunities with other cities, and especially with regard to the ability of a municipal bank to do nonprofit and non interest loans for home ownership, for shall public profits, improving public housing, solving the housing program that we have in the city, low income and housing. it's. >> >> huge and a miewm bank could take us light years and i will second and third what commissioner avalos said. thank you. >> thank you. any other member of the public that would like to speak on item