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Republican field, cbs has the positive portrayal of candidates with the stories about ron paul. it found our program had the most overall balanced coverage of the candidates with 52% positive versus 48% negative comments. president obama is headed to walt disney world thursday to give economic speech to hit home for main street. literally. his bid to boost tourism will be closed to tourists. disney will shut down main street usa and other areas of the magic kingdom park until after the preside...

The policy thats right for you. liberty mutual insurance, responsibility -- whats your policy? >> neil: attention all you fathers of the bride or future brides, have i got a wedding deal for you. as the father of the marrying-age daughter myself, ill be the first to tell you there is now an alternative to the recession at the acropolis diner. how about the acropolis, itself? yeah, the real one in greece now. its true. greeces culture ministry opened up to renting out the most cherished archaeolo...

governor, the new prime minister will have to call early elections and implementing the debt deal. michael jacksons doctor is scheduled to be sentenced november 29th now that hes been convicted of involuntary manslaughter. dr. murray showed no emotion when he was taken into custody. murray could be sentenced up to four years in prison. an asteroid bigger than four football fields wide will whiz by earth today. dont worry about it. astronomers dont expect it to hit us. its the close...

but there is a force greater. a force at work here much greater than those who would try to destroy me and destroy this campaign and this journey to the white house. and that force is called, the voice of the people. thats why were doing as well as we are in this campaign thus far. yall were supposed to applaud. >> heres another development. one of his accusers may go public. her attorney says that she can only break her silence if the confidentiality agreement is lifted. that decision...

behind me which is the most fortified entrance into dale farm is still currently at an impasse. we understand its because some residents have chained themselves on the inside of that gate. last time when there was threat of an eviction, there had been concern that some of the residents had chained themselves by the neck to the gate, which is one of the reaps that police are trying to move very slowly here, monita. council said they wanted this eviction to be as safe and dignified as po...

and good morning, everybody. its wednesday, october 5th. a very cool, crisp day here in the northeast. welcome to "american morning," everyone. >> lots of news to tell you about today. first, amanda knox is back on american soil. what a homecoming it was. knox touched down in seattle shortly after 8:00 last night, p.m. she thanked everyone who supported drew griffin was there. what was it like? >> reporter: before she even spoke, before anyone spoke, you could just see the relief on th...

Places like the acropolis. >> reporter: the rioting was caused by the police, they had closed off the acropolis for the last couple of days, they had padlocked the gates and the police decided yesterday to remove them through orders of the government and this is where the problems occurred, and of course they used tear goods and there was a nasty scene and some journalists were also injured in the attacks. jon: so many americans have visited that ancient monument, is the acropolis it the selfin ...

Out to protect yourself. if they fail will it hurt us? >> you want the euro zone to be strong and all of the other countries are holding greeces debt. if they go over we dont yust not get to to so the acropolis. it is a debt and crumble and the euro currency. >> talk about the good news here. unemployment was also up. explain that strange paradox. >> focs at home dont care if you added 200,000 jobs. we went up to 9 minute 9 percent. jobs added at the fastest pace in four years. good news. but ba...

We also have reports of rioters throwing stones at police who are in their full riot gear. stephanie gosk is standing by. as you pointed out, even though some of these images certainly are disturbing whenever you see these clashes, police believe they do have this under control. im curious, are tourists even milling around athens under these circumstances? >> reporter: you know, this morning when we woke up, we were seeing things kind of back to normal. we went by the acropolis and there were to...

About earth hour, the president and ceo of the world wildlife fund. i should say cities and countries all over the world. >> looks like hundreds of millions of people. 126 countries. weve got about 6,000 cities. 3,000 businesses in the u.s. every state in the u.s., and as you said, theres just a spectacular array of the worlds biggest landmarks from the acropolis to the forbidden city, to the eiffel tower to mount rushmore in the united states. >> so, listen, some of your global colleague was cl...