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well bring you all the highlights. good morning to you. happitry, its october 28th. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." im carol costello in new york. youre waking up to some of the best news in recent memory. gdp up 2.5%, nearly double the rate of last quarter. we have gains on thursday, up 340 points. the dow is heading for its best month in 24 years. the broader s&p, october could close as the best month since 1974. cnns erin burnett asked pete kenny for his take. >> are you optimisti...

"outfront" tonight, whoa, whoa, whoa. the markets soared, the dow up 339 points. nasdaq and s&p up more than 3%. and there were two big reasons why. one, america defied skeptics with american consumers spending money. the u.s. economy grew 2.5% in the third quarter. twice as fast as the prior quarter. look at it compared to earlier this year. 2.5% isnt great overall. but it is a lot better than a lot of doomsayers expected. the other big news was europe. they made a deal to bail out gr...