good morning to you. this is your a.m. wakeup call for thursday, november 17th. from the time warner center in new york, i m carol costello. here are this morning s top stories. new questions about what police knew and what they knew about it in the penn state child abuse sex scandal. a coach who s taken a lot of heat for witnessing the alleged sexual assault on a little boy and not reporting it says he went to the cops years ago. but two law enforcement agencies are now saying that s not true. the secret service catching up to the man accused of shooting at the white house with an ak-47 that he left at the scene. one bullet was lodged in a bulletproof window facing the south lawn. and severe weather that ripped across the southeast has killed at least four people. the concern now there could be more victims beneath the rubble of some homes. let s check in with meteorologist reynolds wolf. the southeast getting pounded the last 24 hours. a very intense line of storms th
piers morgan tonight starts right now. he was an american original. a businessman who changed the world. an ipod. a phone. an internet communicator. who is the real steve jobs? he s a risk taker, a gambler, charismatic, compelling. brilliant and abrasive. if somebody said something stupid instead of saying i don t agree you he would say that s the stupidest blank blank blank idea i ever heard. i will talk to the man jobs picked to tell his story. your time is limited. don t waste it living someone else s life. and top chef from a tiny italian joint downtown to a global food empire and tv career. mario batali will dish on his past and competition and own waistline. this is piers morgan tonight. walter isaacson author of the biography steve jobs. walter, welcome. good to be here. a real firestorm. top of the charts. it s selling like hot cakes. it s causing huge debate. you would expect all that because steve jobs is one of the great american busines
hold over the gop? answers, let s go outfront. i m erin burnett. outfront on a friday night, the most shaky republican race since 1964. six different candidates have led in the national polls so far this year. it s amazing to think about it. but there is a big reason for it. the tea party. a cnn poll shows that the republican party is literally split down the middle. half of them support the tea party or are active members. well, 49, 51, some call that a mandate. i call that a split. the tea party is really the tea parties. christina boterri from the national tea party federation told us there are at least 5,000 tea party groups. there is no national umbrella group and there is no one manifesto. case in point, michele bachmann. one tea party support group called on her to quit the presidential race today. the other tea partiers have endorsed her. minnesota congresswoman responded to the call for her to quit on the situation room earlier with wolf. it certainly isn
millions of dollars by the u.s. government but many of those victims say they have to the seen a penny what does the government say about that? and certainly something to cheer about. they barely made the playoffs, now the st. louis cardinals are the world series champions. we will show you the celebrations. we begin this morning with cities throughout the northeast getting ready for a major snowstorm. it s happening before halloween. let s take a look at new york now. the city is preparing for up to a foot of snow, and they aren t alone. snow is expected from baltimore up to boston. and take a look at the radar, here s what it looks like now. one of the biggest problems, potential power outages. heavy snow could leave about a million people without electricity. the trees, still plenty of leaves on them. you have forecasters saying heavy, wet snow, high winds, those are all the perfect ingredients for potentially a large problem with the electric grid. all right. let
outfront tonight, whoa, whoa, whoa. it really was one of those days. the markets soared, the dow up 339 points. nasdaq and s&p up more than 3%. and there were two big reasons why. one, america defied skeptics with american consumers spending money. the u.s. economy grew 2.5% in the third quarter. twice as fast as the prior quarter. look at it compared to earlier this year. now, 2.5% isn t great overall, but it is a lot better than a lot of doomsayers expected. the other big news was europe. they made a deal to bail out greece. that deal also, not that great. but after 14 summits, any deal was enough to juice the markets and that it did. october now on track to be the best october for the overall markets since january of 1974. to put that in perspective, that was the year blazing saddles came out. we must do something about this immediately! immediately! immediately! thatrumf. i didn t get a harrumf out of that guy. apparently a movie a lot of guys like. 1984 also