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united nations got up and walked out right in the middle of a security council meeting. good morning to you. it is wednesday, october 5th. this is your a.m. "wake-up call." i'm carol kos tecostello live fw york this morning. it's a brand-new day in every sense of the word for amanda knox. she'll be waking up at home for the first time in four years. she returned with her family yesterday, just one day after an italian appeals court overturned her murder conviction in the death of her british roommate, meredith kercher. knox held back tears speaking to reporters thanking her parents a...

She has been chosen to get this consumer watchdog group off the ground. elizabeth, the card act reformed to some degree the credit card industry by mandating some degree of simplicity on statements including an easy to understand disclosure of how much people will owe if they just make the minimum payment, how much they will owe if they make more than that. do you look at that and see it as a precursor to the know before you owe. will it be successful in helping people out? >> i see the card act as the first step, sort of the down payment, on a real shift in what we're trying to accomplish and...

>> we have over 50 tlts in unfunded liabilities, medicare, medicaid, all unsustainable. i think we need to do something in connection with the decision to raise the debt ceiling. it deals with the debt. both medium and short-term, medium term and long-term. that what it would take to get my vote. >> a cnn contributor, secretary geithner said not raising the debt ceiling would be catastrophic for the economy. now, he concedes no one knows for certain what could happen in the event that it's not raised. are republicans willing to risk sending this fragile recovery that we're in into ch...

Possible mortgage documents. elizabeth warren is one of the architects of those documents. she has been chosen to get this consumer watchdog group off the ground. elizabeth, the card act, reformed to some degree the credit card industry by mandating some degree of simplicity on statements, including an easy-to-understand disclosure of how much people are going to owe if they just make the minimum payment, how much they'll owe if they make more than that. do you see that as a precursor to this "know before you quo"? >> absolutely. i see the card act as the first step, sort of the down payment o...

some serious concessions from democrats. >> we have over $50 trillion in unfunded liabilities. all of them are unsustainable. we need to raise the debt ceiling -- both short term, medium term and long term. that's what it would take to get my vote. >> will cain is a cnn contributor. secretary geithner said not raising the debt ceiling would be catastrophic for the economy. he concedes no one knows for certain in the event that it's not raised. are republicans willing to risk sending this fragile recovery that we're in into chaos to find out if they're right? >> no. but neither are de...