facebook.com/americanmorning. facebook.com/americanmorning. read your comments later this hour. >>> a lawmaker that did come back but not in this country, in the u.k., david cameron speaking in london about the riots across the uk. let's listen to him. >> arrest the criminals not picked up last night but were picked up on close d-circuit television cameras. picture py picture they are being identify and arrested and will not let phony concerns of rights get in the way of the publication and arrest of these individuals. sentences are being passed, courts sat through the night last night and will do again tonight. it is for the courts to sentence, but i would expect anyone convicted of violent disorder will be sent to prison. we needed a fight back and a fight back is under way. we have seen the worst of britain, but i also believe we've seen some of the best of britain. the million people who signed up on facebook to support the police. communities coming together in the cleanup operations. but there is absolutely no room for complacency and mu

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facebook.com/americanmorning. i will read your comments. >> leo mccarthy-like. >> hasn't -- >> don't you think? >> pentagon has been working with movies since world war ii, you know, on continuity. >> peter king makes stuff up all the time. peter king, when had says just -- because he says something was wrong doesn't mean it is. peter king needs to get into the habit of putting the evidence out in front and then talking about it as opposed to saying did washington release secret information? just because peter king woke up in the morningis and and thinks it happened does not mean it happened. i like peter king he has been very helpful. >> usually it is -- it is the government trying to make sure that it has control over what's going on with something going on. i think even the "hunt for red october" they had to scrub interiors of the movie set to make sure nothing that looked like classified information could go out on the air. you think about all those kinds of movies the government is involved. >> if you are lis

facebook.com/americanmorning. facebook.com/americanmorning. we'll read your comments later this hour. >> that should take my mind off all the discussion about the stock market. bring it on, i want to hear. >> coming up ahead on "american morning," more on the growing unrest we were talking about in britain. there have been more riots in london, fires, it's now spreading to other major cities. prime minister david cameron has addressed the media. we're going back to london for some interpretation of that just ahead. >>> the town turns off the water when the people need its most. people hot and really bothered by the move. it's 13 minutes after the hour. [ female announcer ] what if your natural beauty could be flawless too? discover aveeno positively radiant tinted moisturizers with scientifically proven soy complex and natural minerals. give you sheer coverage instantly, then go on to even skin tone in four weeks. aveeno tinted moisturizers. then go on to even skin tone in four weeks. there's another way litter box dust:e purina tidy cats. tid

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.÷ facebook.com/americanmorning and thanks as always for your comments. >> we haven't heard the ideathat somebody is going to find him and release him. >> yeah, i don't think that's going to happen. >> or elect him. >> he maybe escapes to another country. >> this is the thing, the rebels have done a good job but they have been disorganized and this is what happens. this is a topic they must be thinking very seriously about. >> there's an international hunt for him now. >> and it's a hunt that our good friend and colleague kyra phillips is following right now. >>> good morning. a lot of nervous people up and down the east coast right now. hurricane irene is battering the bahamas right now as we speak and the storm is only expected to strengthen. the forecast track still curving up the east coast all the way to canada. this is a huge storm, folks. just check out the view from the international space station. we're all over irene, where it is, where it's going. we've got jim spellman riding out the storm in the bahamas. john zarrella is in wrightsville beach, north carolina, and jacqui

if you want to continue the conversation it's facebook.com/americanmorning. thanks for your comments. >> that's going to do it for us. another guy who shares my appear tut for good friends is my friend t.j. holmes. "cnn newsroom" starts right now with him. >> did christine suggest the cookie monster was gay? >> no! >> did i hear that right? >> i said he is a blue fairy monster. who cares! >> that was news. don't know if we should break out the banner. thank you, guys. it's 9:00 a.m. on the east coast and 6:00 a.m. on the west coast. wherever you may be, we are glad you're here. i'm t.j. holmes in today for kyra phillips. we are minutes away. minutes away from that bell ringing once again on wall street. the markets reopen today, what kind of a day will it be? another wild ride? well, some won't mind if it's wild in the right direction. though, we have seen a historic week of volatility. >>> also huge changes at the u.s. postal service. administrators there are asking congressional approval to lay off 120,000 people. you heard me right. >>> also across in grea

facebook.com/americanmorning. thank you as always. >>> cnn newsroom with kyra starts right now. >>> 9:00 am on the east coast. 6:00 am out west. thanks for joining us. watching wall street and how it reacts to the painful downgrade of u.s. debt. we'll see how investors around the world are viewing it. grieving family members praise the loved ones killed in the nation's single deadliest incident in the afghan war. 30 americans are killed in the helicopter crash. 22 of them elite navy s.e.a.l.s. >>> in syria, brutal crackdown on protesters, more than 60 people are killed in the latest military operation, which got under way yesterday. >>> folks, we are about to witness history. this hour, wall street opens with the u.s. wearing the black eye of a downgraded credit rating. the prospect would have been unthinkable, even laughable, just six months ago. while congress bickered, the world watched and economists sneered and now it's time for all of us to pay. we're going to go from wall street to the white house and follo