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The time and the space for a society that has long suffered, long been stifled. >> for americans, the battleground now shifts to history, books, films, ph.d. dissertations and consensus on the bush administrations decision to invade remain allusive as long as iraqs long-term stability remain uncertain. leon panetta told a think tank audience in washington less than an hour ago the u.s. will maintain a troop presence of 40,000 strong. shep? >> shepard: james rosen in washington. james, thanks. fo...

Charities, only good can come. >>dave: it puts people become to work. how so? >>guest: when you get people excited and motivated and the sense of accomplishment, and reinvogrates their job search so you get people back in to the mold, only good things will happen. >>dave: makes a lot of sense, senator. an interesting proposal. folks let us know how you feel about this. thank you for being with us. ali, what else? >>alisyn: in the news, to the headlines, it is compared to hurricane irene, a mess ...

Authorization bill this week to tighten the language of benefits due to national guard families. that amendment passed yesterday in the senate. >> i am fighting on behalf of him. his family and others in a similarly situated sick where we clarify when you are on orders, when you are doing your national guard training you are entitled to the benefit wherever you happen to be laying your head down that particular night. >>shepard: the family is waiting to hear back from the army. thank y jennifer....

She wont be staying there any longer. martha: look at this. look at that. a brutal wind storm knocked out power to 350,000 people. uprooted trees crashing on the top of homes as you see there. >> oh, my gosh. my son start screaming, its a tree, its a tree. this huge tree tell like this on the side. thats when i heard the noise. when you see the car you wouldnt believe. martha: weve had scary weather patterns in the last few months. high winds in utah forced troopers to shut down the highways. ad...

November. thats because 125,000 or so jobs still is not enough job creation to really start to push the unemployment rate down significantly. you need to have around 250,000 to 300,000 jobs per month to start doing that. gretchen? >> all right. well wait for the numbers in just about an hour from now. thanks so much, peter. >> as i look at the futures, i guess wall street thinks its going to be a positive number for them because theyre all up over -- the indices are over 1% right now. meantime, ...

Christmas. and somehow try to take that out and change definitions, i think thats what has the listeners on my show on wpro so upset. >> well, as weve been doing all week long, weve been asking folks if they are upset, they can call your radio show and they can contact the governor. heres the phone number just in case you need it. 401-222-2080. i hope you have a lot of listeners today, john. thanks so much. good luck with that event on tuesday. >> good to be with you, gretchen. >> thanks. >> com...

new york, im christine romans. carol has the morning off this morning. here are the mornings top stories for you. herman cain heading home to atlanta today, and he says the decision about whether to continue his campaign could come by monday at the latest. its a decision that could be in his wifes hands after another woman accused cain of having a 13-year affair. with a $1,000 tax hike looming, congress cant get it done. the senate defeating competing payroll tax cut bills, one fro...

and good morning, everyone. its friday, december 2nd. ali and carol are both off today. im christine romans along with alina cho on this "american morning." >> so glad you got the memo. >> i know. were both feeling a lot like christmas this morning. up first, the countdown is on for herman cain. hes heading back home to atlanta this morning in the decision to whether continue his campaign could be in his wifes hands. cain says we will know by monday at the latest whether hes in or ou...

Visit onstar.com for retailers. >> there has been a tremendous wind storm in central and southern california. the santa anas blowing to 80 and 100 miles an hour. 100 trees down in pasadena. emergency calls coming in about trees being down about 12 seconds over the last few hours. large tree down on sunset boulevard in los angeles. so tremendous wind event. and the winds will continue through much of today. its still very gusty in the mountains in particular. same story to orange county. winds ar...

Cavanas was raising money for burn victims, organizers say he collapsed only 500 yards from the finish line yesterday afternoon. hurricane joba gaining strength in the pacific, forecasters saying the wind storm has speeds up to 120 miles an hour and could make landfall in mexico as early as this week. >> a star of the nfl is being called back to complete the remainder of his five year deal, the contract with the military, picahi says hed like to finish up football before he returns to active s...