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road to democracy. she spoke to reporters after holding a second round of talks with hillary clinton. the u.s. secretary of state has called myanmars reforms a positive step. she warned they need to make more changes before the u.s. will consider restoring diplomatic relations. jipgs wi s -- the militarys of egypt say they wont be ready until does he or sunday. democrats and republicans say an extension of the payroll tax cut will help the economy but cant agree on how to pay for i...

T free.tivists say they are they will keep up the protests in peoples squ militaryders say that will not happen until next summer but thats earlier than the tiine that they in placa week ago. greg palkot streaming live from cairo now. greg? >> shep, the turnout on monday was remarkable. we went out to the polling station. we saw the long lines extending from several places, talked to an observer. at the end of the da estes the turnout 60%. compthat to 10 to 15% for the last parliamentary electio...

Next couple weeks. >> the delegates going to republican convention and people voting in iowa caucuses, new hampshire primary and other primaries, they have to figure out, do they want to sit in the backseat of a car, being driven by thelma and louise or do they want to arrive at their destination, which is 1600 pennsylvania avenue? thats really for them to figure out. and if you look at the field, it would seem to i think a neutral observer, which i consider myself to be, is that romney would ha...

Completely wrong and it was obviously an accident but you can see the feelings inside pakistan when you have people who say that and are respected and will get picked up in the press and shows the kind of feeling in the population, that we need to be concerned about, because, if that feeling expresses itself in elections, works its way up through the military, we could see the whole country go in the wrong direction, which would not only be a problem, respecting the supply of nato forces in afgh...

Observer theres as well. over 40 people have been killed maybe as many as 3,000 injured in clashes just in the past week alone. military chief today said that he would not allow any troublemakers to meddle with this process. he also, by the way, said he would not step down. by the way, tomorrow is just the first day in a weeks long complex process to vote in a new parliament here. it is just the beginning of a long and difficult and dangerous road to democracy which started as we noted and as we...

>> see you, fredricka. >> we have a lot straight ahead, including pakistan, where theres a lot of activity, growing outrage after the government says nato helicopters opened fire on two military checkpoints. at least 24 soldiers were reportedly killed near the volatile border with afghanistan. lets get an update from reza sayah. >> yeah, fredricka, an angry reaction in pakistan to what officials are calling a nato air strike on two pakistani military check posts on pakistani soil. its ...

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good morning. happy thanksgiving. this is the day youve been waiting for. carol costello, thursday, november 24th. ali and christina have the day off. so glad youre with us. >> i have all of the fattening stuff laid out for me already here. its already here. they ordered in thanksgiving dinner for us at 3:00 a.m. the turkey is crusty now. still edible. >> the stuffing is quite good actually. >> first up this morning, one thing were very thankful for, our brave men and women in the mili...

I mean, were asking the question tonight, has law enforcement in some instances in this country gone out of bounds? i mean, how -- is there a formula for really handling this? i mean, ive noticed that there are some off duty police officers that are marching alongside the protesters. is that it? >> well, ed, first and foremost, from the perspective of our union, we were very proud of the leadership from our chief, from the commanders of the madison police department and the leadership from other...

Assad. the soldiers are looking for activist who are trying to unseat president assad. word of the crack down comes one day after the president reported to let the observer sent to the nation. they want to implement a peace plan to resolve the deadly turmoil. more than 4,000 people have been killed in the past eight months there. >> dozens of cars involve in a pile up and a major election in one of europe a biggest economies. as we go around the world in 80 seconds. germany, a 52 car pile up and...