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the dark. our congressional correspondent kate bolduan is on capitol hill looking into the story. kate, what s going only here? this was not supposed to be like this. reporter: hey there, wolf. i m standing out front as people are passing by. behind me is this nondescript room. this is where the super committee will meet again this evening behind closed doors which has some government watchers, since this committee has such a huge job before them, some government watchers are calling this approach troubling. good morning. reporter: the so-called super committee began its work with a promise of transparency. i believe the american people deserve to have full access to committee business the way they do with every committee here in congress. there will be ample opportunities for the public to have their opinions heard. reporter: but with just seven weeks before their thanksgiving deadline, the committee has met in public only three times. the 12 members meetin ....
up of mostly 20-somethings, they re angry about fat wall street paychecks, war, environment, you name it. the protests have been going on for three weeks now and now have spread to other cities. americans absolutely fed up with congress. new numbers leave no doubt that a washington post/abc news poll found just 14% of the public approves of the job that congress is doing. congress s lowest rating ever. amanda knox says right now, she just wants time with her family. knox is home in seattle today for the first time in four years. she went to italy for college studies but ended up in prison for murder. reminding me to speak in english because i m having problems with that. i m really overwhelmed right now. i was looking down from the airplane and it seemed like everything wasn t real. knox was serving a 26-year sentence for killing her roommate and appeals court overturned that murder conviction on monday. u.s. ambassador susan rice is calling it an outrage, she ....
i m really overwhelmed right now. i was looking down from the airplane, and it seemed like everything wasn t real. what s important for me to say is just thank you to everyone who s believed in me, who s defended me, who has supported my family. i just want my family s the most important thing to me right now. and i just want to go and be with them. so thank you for being there for me. emotional scene. so amanda knox just a few moments ago. she arrived back in america. joining us now in seattle live is cnn s drew griffin. a pretty relieved and obviously very emotional knox family. where do they go from here? what are the next few days going to hold for them? well, i think, piers, they re going to try to literally hide, to find some home where the media won t be staking out and watch every move that amanda knox makes. in that statement she gave, she s still extremely emotional. remember, she s had no contact with the media or the press while she was in that italian ....
now. i was looking down from the airplane, and it seemed like everything wasn t real. what s important for me to say is just thank you to everyone who s believed in me, who s defended me, who has supported my family. i just want my family s the most important thing to me right now. and i just want to go and be with them. so thank you for being there for me. emotional scene. so amanda knox just a few moments ago. she arrived back in america. joining us now in seattle live is cnn s drew griffin. a pretty relieved and obviously very emotional knox family. where do they go from here? what are the next few days going to hold for them? well, i think, piers, they re going to try to literally hide, to find some home where the media won t be staking out and watch every move that amanda knox makes. in that statement she gave, she s still extremely emotional. remember, she s had no contact with the media or the press while she was in that italian prison. the italians wouldn ....
days since a jury in an appeals court cleared her and her boyfriend at the time of the charge. safe to say her family has been waiting for and working for this moment for a very, very long time. working extraordinarily hard. also safe to say it was a moment that meredith kercher s family has been dreading. a very complex case. you know, there s a lot of evidence there, whether it s forensic or physical. one of the things we re left questioning is how the decision was so adamant the first time around has been so emphatically overturned. the kercher family in britain earlier today. we re waiting to hear from the knoxes themselves tonight. drew griffin reporting tonight from seattle. the plane that amanda knox is on landing within just a few minute, do we know what s going to happen? reporter: well, she has to clear customs somewhat, and pick up her bags and extended family have to come. i m expecting a news conference. i m right in the middle of this huge, huge me ....