this is your "am wake-up call" for thursday, december 1st from the time warner center in new york. i'm carol costello. here are your top stories. stocks around the world surging after the federal reserve and other central banks make a move to stop a global financial meltdown. the dow had its biggest one-day point jump of the year. talking to his wife, checking the cash flow, herman cain getting close to making a decision on the future of his presidential campaign with new allegations of an affair threatening to tear it down. marking the end and the beginning. iraq holding a cer...