kiran?ey are pro-life, what change would you propose to protect the lives of of estimated 180,000 people? please answer without discussing fault or obamacare. >> where are the jobs they promise fd we gave them a majority in the house? this is a calling to put up or shut up! >> and we have sristau 80 on twitter, how will each candidate return the proper funding for education on a federal level to each state. >> interesting. jobs, education, health care. we'll have the first major debate of the election live for you tonight. i'm sure all of those issues will be touched beginning at 8:00 pm eastern here on cnn. kiran, back to you. >>> speaking of education, how about the summer brain drain? the summer slide. k kids actually needing to come back to school in the fall and relearn two months worth that they lost over the summer. steve perry joins us, cnn education contributor, with easy and affordable ways to prevent the brain drain. [ male announcer ] the inspiration for its shape was an archer d

kiran?> there is a brand new entry this morning in the republican presidential race. jon huntsman, former utah governor and former ambassador to china in the obama administration, is set to launch his campaign this morning. if you're thinking, jon who? you are certainly not alone. when asked their opinion of huntsman in a cnn/opinion research corporation pool, 76% of americans said they were unsure of who jon huntsman is. jim acosta is covering jon huntsman's announcement at liberty state park. he joins us live there. jon huntsman has a long road. >> he does, carol. that is -- and you raised at good point with that poll. that is a big question for jon huntsman. after all, we were covering him in new hampshire about a month ago when he was starting to explore this presidential run and, you know, he's had a month to get his name out there, to start talking about this eventual campaign and he still mired in sort of the single digits in the polls. he's hoping to change all of that later this mor

i'm kiran chetry. a twist in the casey anthony murder trial. prosecutors are suddenly focusing on a woman who also lost a young child and spent time in jail with the defendant. they're still waiting to hear how she might have impacted the case on this "american morning." >>> welcome to "american morning." i'm still getting -- >> your makeup kit. >> this is my face in this bag. >> i hear you. called the magic shop around here in the morning. >> we love that, don't we? we do. good morning. it's wednesday, june 22nd. ali and christine are off. i'm carol costello. >> a big day, decision day, on the way forward in afghanistan. the president will deliver a prime time speech tonight, and in it he's expected to announce his plans to withdraw 30,000 u.s. troops by the end of 2012. >> this comes as more leaders are pleading with the president to take money from there and spend it here to fix the crumbling economy. sources say the time frame may be too tight for commanders on the ground. barbara starr is here wit

>> we had a lot of foster children over the years, kiran. is we had as many as four foster children at a time and then our five biological. the greatest number we had were nine children. and it was a wonderful experience i think for us, for them, and we're so grateful that we could do it. they're really great kids. i encourage people to become foster parents and consider becoming foster parents. >> it was great to talk to you this morning, congresswoman michele bachmann. from manchester, new hampshire, officially kicking off your campaign yesterday, thanks for your time this morning. >> thanks. we'll do it again soon. >> want to jump back to the live pictures? greece. telling you about that earlier. 48-hour strike going on. general strike in greece. the parliament is trying to work out a five-year budget and a deal so that it can qualify for another european union bailout. this is going to mean more painful concessions from everyday working people in greece and they are hot. they are angry about it. we were seeing some flames earlier. you ca

kiran? >> all right.dwin this morning, we'll check in with you later, thanks so much. >>> congressman weiner admitted sending dirty pictures to six women over social media and lying about it and even acknowledged one woman by name, meagan broussard. she claims she received this shirtless photo of congressman weiner which was posted by conservative blogger andrew breitbart. broussard told abc news more about this on-line relationship. >> he was eager to hear about if i wanted him. or thought he was attractive. or that sort of thing. >> how much of it was sex talk? >> he would attempt all the time. >> broussard is a 26-year-old single mother from texas and says on-line -- she started this on-line chatting after she commented on a facebook video of weiner giving a speech saying on facebook that weiner and the speech was hot? a lot of people wondering what he's going to do now. not just that he's a congressman and outspoken congressman from new york, he wanted to become the mayor of new york. he's a man who w

. >>> and i'm kiran chetry. the president now weighing in on the anthony weiner sexting scandal and offering some advice. the new york congressman may not be able to ignore on this "american morning." >>> welcome to "american morning." it is tuesday, june 14th. good to be back, good to have you back from the debate. >> late night. >> wiping our eyes this morning. not a ton of fireworks actually, but we will get through what some of the candidates said and how people that were watching felt they rated. >> that's right. >> up first, jobs, health care, blasting president obama, seven gop presidential contenders faced off last night in the first major debate of the presidential race. it went pretty easy on the front runner, mitt romney, but focused on their fire on the man they're hoping to beat in 2012. jessica yellen has the highlights. >> reporter: at the first major debate of the primary season. >> say hello to your seven candidates. >> reporter: there were seven different voices but one common message. >> this

kiran? >> all right. jim spellman, thanks. >>> this morning there is growing pressure on anthony weiner, the congressman, to step down. more women are now coming out and they're talking about some of the racy pictures and on-line chats that they engaged in with the congressman. some claim that they were sent on the people's time. republican house majority leader eric cantor is saying it is time for weiner to quit and weiner is not finding a lot of support from fellow democrats either. >> i think it is up to congressman weiner and his constituents to make that decision. i don't condone his activity. i think he should resignp. >> whether you thought congressman weiner should resign? >> i'm not here to defend weiner. >> what do you think he should do? >> that's all i'm going to say. >> what advice would you give him if he asked you? >> call somebody else. >> still, anthony weiner says he's here to stay. we caught up with him yesterday at the front door of his apartment. >> he's entitled to his viewpoint. car

. >>> i'm kiran chetry. there's a showdown brewing this morning between the president and the speaker of the house. the issue is the u.s. military operation in libya. speaker john boehner sending a letter to the white house warning president obama he may be breaking the law. >>> i'm ali velshi. ignoring the pleas of the gop, new jersey governor chris christie puts speculation to rest once and for all, he will not run for president, we'll tell you why on this "american morning." >>> and welcome to "american morning." it is wednesday, june 15th. i'm christine romans. good morning, you guys. >> good morning. >> nice to see you. >> an awful lot of news. we begin with breaking news, another deep fracture in the relationship between the united states and pakistan. pakistan's top military spy agency has arrested five informants who helped the cia locate osama bin laden. among those taken into custody a major who reportedly wrote down license plate numbers of people who visited bin laden's compound and then turned t

i'm kiran chetry. we're expecting to hear the leaders of germany and france outline a rescue package for greece, but is it enough to calm the jitters weighing down markets across the globe on this "american morning"? >>> good morning. welcome to "american morning." it is friday, let me say that again, it is friday, june 17th. >> we're happy it's friday and we're happy, as you called it aptly, a political side show is over but we have new details on how it went down. disgraced new york congressman anthony weiner is out, three weeks after an internet sexting scandal turned his life into a capitol hill side show. here's a look. >> i had hoped to be able to continue the work that the citizens of my district elected me to do. the distraction that i have created has made that impossible. so today, i am announcing my resignation from congress. >> and this morning we're getting a look at how it all went down. new york lawmaker steve israel said weiner called him while at a congressional picnic at the white hou

christine, ali, kiran?opments, thanks so much. >>> jail time was the reason why a possible plea bargain for john edwards collapsed. the talks broke down when prosecutors insisted that he serve six months. edwards wanted the deal to have a minimal impact on his children. the former north carolina senator and presidential candidate has pleaded not guilty to using campaign funds to hide an extramarital affair. >>> in orlando, week three in the casey anthony murder trial. the young mother is charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter, caylee. so far, testimony has revealed a web of lies told by casey, but prosecutors still must link the defendant to physical evidence in her daughter's death. well, this weekend, an fbi forensic expert testified about a 9-inch-strand of hair found in the trunk of casey's car. >> what i was looking for were any hairs that exhibited characteristics of apparent decomposition, and then that hair, i compared to hair recovered from the hair brush, which is identified as well belongin

we are live in athens with the very latest. >> i'm kiran chetry.y famous hotel, the target of a terror attack. ten people killed. the taliban claiming responsibility. eight attackers also killed. most in a four-hour standoff with nato police and with afghan troops, as well as nato troops. >> i'm ali velshi. a southwest airlines pilot apologizing for a bash fest nen flight attendants calling them an endless stream of gays and grannies and grandes. the conversation they weren't supposed to hear in the cockpit but they did on this "american morning." >>> good morning, it's wednesday, june 29th. i can't wait to hear from the apology from the southwest airlines pilot. i don't know if it will undo what did he but there you go. >>> we start, first, with the situation growing more tense on the streets of annualenthens. the government is trying to save that country's economy and protect the global recovery as well. so on one side, you have protesters and, on the other, riot police, who have been firing tear gas to keep the thousands of demonstrators back. >

. >>> i'm kiran chetry. it took about 30 hours for a new photo of congressman anthony weiner to surface on the web. even his allies on capitol hill are bailing on this "american morning." >>> welcome to "american morning." good morning, everybody. it's thursday, june 9th. >> we're talking about the 30 hours, andrew breitbart who broke the story said he had this photo on our air. >> an explicit photo. >> that he was choosing not to release publicly for the sake of weiner's family, yet it's out. >> 30 hours is all it took for it to be sweeping across the internet. a lot of people opening up their facebook and getting links to it and the like. >>> the united states reportedly ramping up air strikes against al qaeda in yemen. "the new york times" is reporting that the obama administration is waging a covert war on military targets using fighter jets as well as armed drones. barbara starr is live at the pentagon this morning. a huge power vacuum in yemen right now. a double-edged sword for the white house. >> rep

kiran, you're right. the fact of the matter is, when you have these aides decide that they can no longer work for newt gingrich, for a couple of reasons, they say that they don't think he was committed to fund-raising and they don't think he was committed to doing the very hard work that's needed, kiran, to be out there in the campaign trail, especially in a state like iowa. he wasn't expected back in that early proving ground until july. the staff then decided after trying to get him to try to revigor, try to get back into his campaign, they decided that he wasn't going to do it. keeren. >> >> he's saying he's going to continue. how does this happen? does he have to scramble to get new people? >> no question about that. he has to scramble and figure out how to put his campaign staff together. as you said he will be at the cnn debate on monday night. so we should see him there. he'll also restart his campaign on sunday evening. on sunday evening he will be out in los angeles for an event for the republica

kept growing chances but which of them one after another ten minutes from time kiran might have broken the deadlock but was heather seed by bitches love in style young russian blood was reinforced by turbans consensual who also appeared on the pitch of the red bull stadium in the second half both did their best to make an impact on the score shit but the game was destined to be good all this you seeking a choice. we were highly motivated to go into the match due to facing cameroon and arrow we played well where execution could have been better especially for myself and the goal of overall however i think we've got some valuable experience out of this match i'm so tired of i think there is somewhere near three one really was the most important thing. is going to change i was quite pleased the way. you have to win because you get some good chances but i was happy to see some good individuals through the future regime goes with the russian youngsters through their what it takes to back out aces like a shove it should go front of the chink. in the year old when it will look asian complain

ours stephen webster with raul story dot com broke the story yesterday and i want to think thank you kiran for releasing the report because i feel the american police are too secretive about their operations against its citizens and answer your questions on your question i've always stated i want the feds to watch me i want them to read my emails i want them to listen to my phone calls i want them to follow me so true that i'm not doing anything illegal or immoral or that could be dangerous to our country well you say that they're there to secretive law enforcement tells to secret if you want to know anything about that from experience what do you know well my experience in law enforcement being one of the x. top drug enforcement agents i had a feeling i actually knew the feds were watching me that i didn't think they were to inform as in their report they gave me a low risk rating which is good i'm glad they gave me that re rating because i'm no risk so harm anybody you would think the f.b.i. though would have been happy with me exposing law enforcement you know i want to quote something

kiran is off and carol joins us this morning. good morning, carol. >> good morning. >> nice to be here. are you exhausted already? >> no. i'm wound up. i'm ready to go. a busy, busy morning. >> i've never seen you not wound up. >> that's a point. >> i'm carol costello. want to tell you about the slow water retreat in minot, north dakota. the souris river beginning to recede after cresting this weekend. the crest two feet lower than forecast but still shattered a record set in 1881. as many as 4,000 homes and businesses still under water, more than 10,000 residents have been displaced by the flooding and now face an uncertain future. cnn's jim spellman is live in minot, north dakota, bring us up to speed. >> yeah, good morning carol. a lot of those people, those 12,000 almost people that have been displaced, have been coming back here to the edge of the floodwater to take a look into their neighborhoods and it's just terrible news they're finding. block off block, right at the edge of the flood zone, and even these houses have a f

. >> i'm kiran chetry. glad you are with us. a stunning admission from the attorney of the parents of casey anthony. it is a cnn exclusive. mark lipman, attorney for george and cindy anthony, told cnn's gary tuchman, the couple does not believe their daughter is innocent. >> casey an hone is charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter caylee. it is not clear how the comments will affect the trial today. david mattingly is live for us outside of the orlando courthouse. good morning, david. >> reporter: good morning. what we are seeing in the courtroom every day from george and cindy anthony, had walk into the courtroom, they sit in the same seats every day. they are in back row. they are physically about as far away from their daughter as they possibly can be on that main floor of the courtroom. we know that they have both testified for the prosecution in this case. both have provided damaging testimony in the case against their daughter. still this admission from their attorney is somewhat surprising. this coming from orlando a

. >> kiran and ali are off. i'm drew griffin. happy to be here. >> thank goodness it's friday, right. talks on the verge of collapse this morning. >> with weeks to go before the nation supposedly can no longer pay off its debt a key republican walked away from the talks hosted by the vice president biden. dan lothian following the president live in pittsburgh this morning, dan? >> yes, that key republican eric cantor walking out of those talks. you know, this is, obviously, a critical moment in the 7 week old talks and republicans are blaming democrats for talking about tax hikes. speaker boehner saying tax hikes are completely off the table. you heard the president while on the road last night several fund-raisers bring up the point that there needs to be a balanced approach in order to reach a solution here. the president also pointing out that over the next several weeks, this whole situation was really going to start heating up and those were the words that the president used. but, what the administration is laying out in the

i have visions of kiran in velour shorts. i don't know. that is just like haunting me right now. >> i know. i got to toss them. i don't know what to do about it. >> they are in the back! >> you guys have been carson-ated. >>> i'm kyra phillips. >>> libya says nato air strikes kill innocent civilians. now, it claims to have shot down an allied apache. nato says not so fast. it was an unmanned drone. >>> wrestling the job of his former boss. jon huntsman is specked to announce he is running for president. we will be there live. >>> five days after disgraced congressman anthony weiner announced he will quit. today it becomes official. his resignation letter will be read into the record ending this chapter of his cessting scandal. >>> the longest war in u.s. and tomorrow will mark the beginning of the end. president obama due to announce the long awaited details of how many u.s. troops will be leaving afghanistan. right now, nearly 100,000 americans are serving in uniform there. that is twice the number of u.s. troops when president obama took

couple of things to point out quickly, kiran, from a medical, ne. rosurgical perspective. it's this area here we focused so much on, where that bone is removed. this picture taken before she had that bone substitute placed back in. she will shael have a more normal contour and scars up here and down here as well, typical tracheostomy scar. this is obviously just one picture. she looks pretty good overall in terms of how she is doing, what -- the fact that she's able to actually maintain. >> we look at these pictures and think, wow, she looks great. she's smiling. everybody has been talking about those pictures. what does it say or what do we know, i guess, about her cognitive skills? >> it's interesting. we know, for example, she's going to go to outpatient rehab now. that's a milestone. you're in your own kitchen, your own bathroom, your ability to live on your own starts to become the focus and gets tested to some extent. cognitively, there's always this belief that she could understand what people were saying. she was following commands all along. her receptive abilitie

. >> reporter: she says it's more convincing evidence that teens like kiran could benefit from the vaccinebetter knowing that it will work better for me because i got it earlier. >> reporter: betty nguyen cbs news new york. >> 80% of american women have been exposed to hpv at some point in their lives, both the cdc and the fda say the vaccine is safe and effective, despite reports of its side effects. >>> up next only 22 years old and broke all kinds of records at the u.s. open. we'll look at the inside story of budding golf superstar rory mcilroy. you're watching "the early show" right here on cbs. team! after age 40 we can start losing muscle -- 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time. [ female announcer ] ensure muscle health has revigor and protein to help protect, preserve and promote muscle health. keeps you from getting soft. [ major nutrition ] ensure. nutrition in charge! i'm bored with my

>> you know, i don't know if she is, kiran, to be quite honest with you. she is old enough to get the support of my daughter, who is a big hannah montana fan. that is unfortunately, the case. i hope i don't get in trouble for that. rick santorum had his big announcement yesterday in pennsylvania, that he is running for president. he has pretty much a long shot chance of becoming president at this point. after he did an interview on abc talking about his presidential bid, he went on a radio talk show and was asked about the fact that miliary cyrus has been tweeting basically the fact that she doesn't like rick santorum's positions on gay marriage. rick santorum is very much against gay marriage. miley cyrus took aim about that. he was asked about this on the radio program. rick santorum said maybe he will hold out hope for lindsay lohan's support coming up in the presidential race. i'm not sure that's going to help him either. >> my guess is he probably should stick with miley cyrus versus lindsay lohan. great to see you. i'm sure your daughter will love th

i'll take a few more minutes for him but now, i send it back to kiran and christine. >> sound good. all right. good tips. hopefully, people are paying attention if they are hitting the road. >> saving money on the front end and not paying on the back end. >>> "cnn newsroom" begins right now with kyra phillips. >> hi, guys. it's 9:00 a.m. on the east coast and 6:00 a.m. on the west coast. >>> will casey anthony take the stand in her murdle trial? we are live in orlando, florida. >>> firefighters make critical process against the wildfire threatening the los alamos lab. >>> minutes ago, the number of americans file their first unemployment claim tipped slightly to 428,000, a decrease of about 1,000 from the week before. >>> we begin with the security breach that will leave you speechless. a man allegedly gets on a plane, flies across the country, and get this. no valid i.d. and somebody else's old boarding pass. our homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve is on the story for us. with all of the focus on our security and precautions in place this seems outrageous. >> it is an ey

cnn's kiran chetry has a recap. >> you asked your sister, "why won't you allow us to see caylee?"e said, i'm paraphrasing, "because i'm a spiteful [ muted ]". >> reporter: that conversation took place july 15th, 2008, and it contained a shocking admission. >> she told me that she had not seen caylee in 31 days, that she had been kidnapped, and that the nanny took her. >> reporter: lee anthony testified he had no idea his sister had even hired a nanny, and he told the court when he walked into casey's garage that day, a horrible odor was coming from her car. >> it was very potent, very strong. >> was it an offensive smell? >> yes. >> did you approach the car? >> i had to walk by to get to the door, but otherwise not by choice. >> reporter: it was the same day that casey's mother called police to report her granddaughter missing. also taking the stand yesterday, the lead investigator in the case, yuri melic. he said anthony told him her daughter was kidnapped by the nanny, who was never found. she replied that she thought she could handle the problem by herself. >> it's almost as if

. >> i'm kiran chetry. al qaeda choosing a successor to osama bin laden. not much a surprise.ization long time second in command but this morning, more about what we know about ayman al zawahiri. >> i'm ali velshi. a confession in the 1994 shooting of shakur. an inmate says he was involved and paid to do it. details ahead on this "american morning." ♪ >>> good morning. it is thursday, june 16th. welcome to "american morning." >>> we have new information this morning out of libya. a new assault early in the morning on moammar gadhafi and we have it on tape. take a look. series of explosions rocking tripo tripoli. black smoke rising from the presidential compound in libya's capital. david mckenzie is live with the datest details. do we know any of the targets hit or what the damage is, david? >> reporter: what we do know is that these were around six strikes -- location. two very large strikes close to the windows. before 5:00 a.m. local, we know that they were jets from nato striking. moammar gadhafi's compound is away from hee mere. it was struck a number of times. they were s