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good morning to you. this is your "a.m. wake-up call" for friday. happy friday. it's november 18th, from the time warner center in new york, i'm carol costello. here are the morning's top stories. another child sex scandal at a major university. syracuse university has confirmed that basketball assistant coach bernie fein has been put on administrative leave. one of his accusers talking about more than a decade of abuse that started in sixth grade. he thought president obama was the antichrist. the man accused of taking shots at the white house, now accused of trying to assassinate...

rupert murdoch under fire in britain and in the united states. two separate u.s. agencies calling for investigations into rupert murdoch. have you heard this story? an 8-year-old boy kidnapped, murdered, then mutilated. now new york place are scouring a stream of surveillance video for answers. more on that. first, i want to begin with this. let's just plunge right into the debt negotiations at this hour. daily talks at the white house resume in one hour, and by all accounts, they are becoming more tense, more heated, more testy, the closer we get to the deadline. you know the da...

Nation's deficit. history shows stopping the flow of red ink is rarely done. since 1969 only four u.s. budget surpluses have been recorded. our large u.s. surplus was in 2000 over $290 billion. for the real news, dig into charlie sheen. what a weekend it was for charlie sheen. he started a web show called sheen's corner. can we see a little bit of that? yeah. from his home. as a matter of fact, there he is with one of the goddesses. he revealed he tattooed the word winning on the inside of his wrist. the webcast, sheen's corner, let's look at last night's episode. >> sheen's corner is ingrai...

Are members of the tea party movement, not necessarily directly connected to you, however, out of washington. this is an article they put out yesterday, this is the suggestion, end farm subsidy, $290 billion. scrap that. that's hud, 550. there's the farm subsidy. cut nasa spending 50 percent. that's # on billion dollars. and urban mass transit grants, 52 billion. privatize air traffic control, 38 billion. a quick glancing blow here, sal. what do you think of that? >> i thought they had very good ideas. i think they were -- i think the point they were trying to make, not exactly that these were...

For president, but it's not hard to force politicians to take a different position. that's the thing about the tea party. there's no question that ross perot forced the country to take debt more seriously. as a result, president clinton passed an economic plan that was a combination of tax cuts and spending cuts that really reassured the financial markets and put us on a path from a $290 billion debt under president bush, h.w. bush, to a $127 billion surplus at the end of clinton's term. can that happen again? we'll see. under george w. bush, we saw the debt go from $5.7 trillion to he added $...