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annan for this, and dont blame the man. it is kofi annans name who was on the six-point peace plan and they did not get to point one, and now he is off of the masthead. and so looking for the successor of the arab league, and it will be interesting to see if anybody steps in to want to take that over. they met together, annan and assad together with the security council to come together to meet with consequences to the assad regime to quell the violence, but nothing worked. annan may h...

a commuter airliner and two other planes dangerously close to one another. it happened at washingtons reagan national airport. and in an extraordinary move, the faa administrator and the transportation secretary came out today to talk about what happened. our brian todd is at the airport. brian. >> reporter: yeah, candy. extraordinary because for the first time were getting the hard information from americas two top transportation officials that this was really too close a call. they c...

shes 77 years old and she said time has come. she was okay with it. >> reporter: shes had quite a long time of being the most decorated olympian ever, hasnt she? upsteps michael phelps and it was widely expected to happen. it had been disappointing to this point but he is now the most successful olympian ever after picking up the silver and gold in the relay. the big question here, does that mean hes the greatest olympian ever because he has the most medals, is he the greatest or shoul...

a suicide bomber. new developments in the probe into a deadly terror attack. wolf blitzer is off today. im candy crowley. and youre in "the situation room." the battle for the white house now centered in the state of ohio. president obama paid yet another visit to what both campaigns see as a must-win state. and today the president came armed with a new report on tax policy that he used to hammer away at mitt romney. our cnn white house correspondent, dan lothian, is traveling with t...

layoffs. assistant labor secretary jane oates posted this notification. as we first reported, 46 days ago, the law called the warn act, requires that mass layoffs be announced to employees 60 days beforehand. were talking about mass layoffs threatening the defense industry. since tt sequester cuts take effect on january 2 snd. what that initially meant that announcement at the big defense contractors would go out november 3rd, as you can see thats three days before the presidential ele...

weve been talking about aleppo. you can see the neighborhoods weve highlighted. the largest city in syria where government forces are expected to win in this battle but that has yet to happen. as we told you just yesterday rebel forces captured this army base and today they have captured not just one but two maybe even were hearing three police stations in various parts here throughout aleppo. we have video of one of those battle. take a listen to this. [ gunshots ] >> again, these are...

then a first for the u.s. and the olympics. hello. im deborah at cnn world headquarters in tonight for don lemon. lets get you up to speed on some of the days headlines. the colorado suspect linked to that massed shooting spree back in court in just a couple of hours. james holmes expected to be formally charged with 12 counts of first-degree murder. 58 others were injured. court documents filed friday showed holmes was a patient of university of colorados psychiatrist before the att...

spending and thats because trat decisional path to prosperity is still strewn with debris from the last storm. the big one, the recession. your job and the wage you bring home is the single most important way to build wealth. but despite net job growth for two straight years, job creation seems to be slowing down. earnings for middle income americans fell some 7% in the past decade. and then there rinare investmen. that is complicated in this volatile market. for those of you looking f...

flames. later, rebels were seen in other government tanks. more pictures. this is a burnt out police station seized and burned today by the rebels. take a look and listen. these are syrians. they had taken this photo from the captured police station. they ransacked and they burned. we have struggled to get our crews, get our journalists inside syria. its been frustrating for us here at cnn and the assad government has put the country under lock and key. with all of that in mind, ivan w...

the scorched earth partisan politics in washington could push america over a fiscal cliff and quite possibly into a recession if congress doesnt act. economists now say that the so-called fiscal cliff has now overtaken europe as the biggest threat to the u.s. economy. in other words, our home-grown storm has a bigger chance of causing a hurricane here than the actual hurricane thats blowing our way from europe. ive been berating congress on this show to pass legislation now to head off...