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republican candidates gather in the shadow of the white house tonight for the big cnn national security debate. it is the first test for newt gingrich as front-runner. cairo bracing for a million-man sit-in. police beating demonstrators on the fourth straight day of violence, and now late word three americans have been arrested. is there anybody out there? nasa relaunching a program to listen for alien life, searching for signs, on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning. it's tuesday, november 22nd. ali and christine are off this morning. i'...

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one for b.p. officials trying to stop gallons of oil gushing in the gulf every day. they're considering new options because the attempt to use 100-ton containment vessel failed. kris gutierrez is live in venice, louisiana, with more. hi, kris. >> reporter: hi, shannon. joining us live is curtis thomas with b.p. you are going to explain that the containment dome didn't work as you hoped yesterday but you are going to try to use it, correct? tell us. >> absolutely. we knew there would be a lot of challenges in the proposal. what happened is we lowered the dome over the leak and ice cry...