good morning to you. happy monday, november 7th. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." i'm carol costello joining you live from new york this morning. prime minister george papandreou is meeting with the leader of the main opposition party after agreeing to step down. on the table who will be the next prime minister after both sides agree to form a unity government? the new government is expected to approve a $178 billion bailout package aimed at preventing greece from defaulting on its massive debt. cnn's diana magnay explains how it went down. >> reporter: it was a day of intense political wrangling in athens as the leaders of the two main parties fought tooth and nail over the formation of a new government. finally they came together in a late night meeting with the president. the reporters waited outside. after one and a half hour, a written statement delivered through the bars of the palace gate, a statement that a new government will be formed to tide the country through to elections. a new prime minister would be at the helm. >> at the heart of the greek crisis is the fear that a greek debt default would drag down larger european economies, especially those of italy and spain. that concern will be on the minds of euro zone finance ministers meeting in brussels today. here's how the markets reacted in asia, the nikkei, shanghai composite and hong kong's hang seng all closed down. on wall street, futures for the dow, s&p 500 and nasdaq also down. later this morning, jurors return for day two of deliberations in the trial of michael jackson's doctor. they must decide whether dr. conrad murray is guilty of involuntary manslaughter in jackson's 2009 death from an overdose of propofol. in an exclusive interview of "in session" jackson's former dermatologist says the pop star was totally addicted to propofol. >> i knew he had a dependency on propofol. he felt he couldn't sleep without it. when he was in hawaii, i and my self and my nurse was there. i knew this problem existed. did i my best to prevent it. i'm only one man. i have to support my own life and take care of myself. i knew the problem existed. we had long discussions about it, trust me on this. >> you can watch the whole interview with dr. arnold klein on "in session" starting at 9:00 a.m. eastern. in atlanta, police arrested a lone woman draped in an american flag the the city's downtown woodruff park. that was a far cry from saturday when police arrested 19 demonstrators. police say they moved in after protesters refused to leave the park after closing time. in new york, women only tent has been set up in the park after several incidents of sexual harassment. last week police arrested a man on charges of sexually abusing a teenager. at the white house on sunday, thousands of protesters with a different cause. their message to president obama, reject a proposed oil pipeline that will run from canada all the way to texas. supporters argue the project would create needed jobs and help ease america's dependence on foreign oil. critics say a spill could create an environmental disaster on par with the gulf oil spill. president initially said a final decision would be made in the state department but recently he's indicated he might give the fin fin fin fin final yay or nay. the strongest in nearly 06 years. >> another earthquake has just hit. i still hear a few lights rattling in the studio. we will -- we still have -- if you can see our duratran is still shaking. here in oklahoma city. >> the duratran is steady this morning. the quake was centered near the town of sparks. it was felt as far away was illinois, kansas, texas and tennessee. roads and buildings did suffer some damage. to atlanta and rob marciano. happy monday. >> hey, i tell you what, folks in oklahoma have had quite a year, record stow storm, record cold, tornadoes and now earthquakes. >> what's next? >> good morning, carol. listen, thunderstorms, the threat for severe weather does exist today throughout much of central oklahoma. and texas -- and parts of dallas as well. there's the weather map, the decent storm that's winding up and dallas will see severe thunderstorms pop up in the afternoon. and that may be enough to cause delays up over an hour. st. louis, kansas city, more of a generic rain. there may be low clouds in san francisco if you're traveling that way. this storm will give us action for the next couple of days. stormy week ahead with moisture being tapped from the gulf of mexico and we'll start it off across north texas today and through oklahoma and spread the map in the red area, the danger spots into parts of louisiana, arkansas and through the midsouth as we go through tomorrow. the threat for a tornado today is on the strong side. and 3 to 5 inches of snow expected across parts of colorado. seasons are a changing. that means that thanksgiving is right around the corner. this video coming from our affiliates just outside of south bend. this turkey in granger, indiana, is causing quite a stir. apparently it's been around for a couple of weeks, carol, popping up at a construction site nearby. the workers call it kenny or tommy, depending on who you talk to. lately it's causing traffic problems, expecting and chasing in some cases, some of the cars as they go through town. >> it knows, rob, thanksgiving is approaching. it's angry about that. >> certainly. i could totally understand. >> me, too. thank you, rob. >> see you, carol. >> appreciate it. >> who better to spoof kim kardashian's divorce from kris humphries than the cast of "saturday night live." here's your punch line this morning. >> it seems i got divorced. >> the fairy tale divorce. >> can you believe i'm old enough to have a daughter who's getting divorced? 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[ male announcer ] learn more at acuvue.com. ten minutes past the hour. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." back to our quote of the day. you can't take a congressman for lunch for $25 but you can take him to a fund-raising lunch and not only buy him that steak but give him $25,000 extra and call it a fund-raiser, end quote. that came from washington, d.c. lobbyist jack abramoff. he served 3 1/2 years in prison for conspiracy, fraud and tax evasion before his release last december. he was on cbs "60 minutes" last night, saying techniques used by some lobbyists are evil and terrible. he went on to say ethics reform policies put in place after his conviction are not working and the system is flawed and needs to be fixed. >> the thought of private space ships loaded with tourists landing on the moon is making nasa scientists very nervous, so nervous they're working to lay down serious rules. let's hit hong kong and kristie lu stout to talk more about this? really? >> really. talk about planning in advance, carol. space tourists may one day soon descend upon the apollo mission landing sites. nasa is laying out ground rules. it's call are to a 1,200 acre -- teams are competing for the google lunar x prize enthey want answers. they're out to land a robot on the moon and they've been asking nasa these lunar guidelines. the guidelines are not designed to just keep out the visitors but also to let certain researchers in. this is interesting. nasa is very keen to see how artifacts degrade on the moon. carol, we should expect to see space archaeologists join all those anticipated tourists on the trips to the moon. back to you. >> i'm just curious, i can't believe an entity would have jurisdiction over the moon. >> naert. there is no jurisdiction over the moon. it is a gray legal area. and nasa responds to that question by saying it makes these guidelines available for all of its international space partners. >> interesting stuff. let's talk about steve jobs and the lost interview because it's coming to a theater near you very soon. >> that's right. steve jobs' last interview, a 70-minute feature that repurposes a copy of the full interview with the apple co-founder from 1995. here's a short clip. let's listen in. >> i was so blinded by the first thing they showed me which was the graphical user interface. remember it was very flawflawed. what we saw was incomplete. they'd done a bunch of things wrong. we didn't know that at the time. the germ of the idea was there and they had done it very well. >> there, steve jobs is describing the moment when he discovered the graphical user interface. it was during a visit to xerox park. he later applied that to the apple lisa and the mcintosh. he discovered the lost interview in his garage in london after steve jobs passed away. fewer than ten minutes from the large interview made it into the pbs special that aired back in the mid-'90s called "triumph of the nerds." it will play a two-night run at the landmark theaters in palo alto. >> interesting. kristie lu stout, thank you. just who will it be for the republicans in 2012? after a roller coaster race so far, can any of the candidates beat mitt romney? we'll talk about it in our political ticker. that's coming our way, next. it's 14 minutes past the hour. of potato. is ♪ what's that? big piece of potato. 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