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fredricka whitfield. get you up to speed this wednesday november 23rd. just in -- egypt's highest ranking muslim cleric is calling on police to stop attacking protesters. this comes as the country's uprising bloodier and bolder. authorities now say at least 35 people have been killed and almost 2,000 injured in five straight days of violence. clashes between protesters and police are happening outside tahrir square. and inside the square, tens of thousands of demonstrators are standing their ground demanding the country's military council quickly hand over power to civilian rule....

underwear bomber begins this morning with earnest with opens statements at the federal courthouse in droit. umar farouk abdulmutallab is charged with trying to blow up a flight on christmas day 2009 with a bomb hidden in his underwear. >> the defendant is acting as his own attorney. cnn's deb feyerick in live in detroit, where you were the night this all developed and christmas day 2009. deb, what is the situation? >> reporter: well, ali, christine and carol, we can tell you that he is facing eight charges today. it carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. the charges against hi...

month before his death in 2009. >> ted rowlands was inside the courtroom when that audio was played. ted, it was stunning to hear. i can't imagine what the reaction was like inside the courtroom where michael jacks jackson's family was attending. >> reporter: to be honest, drew, i was not inside the courtroom during that audio, but i think anybody who heard it was shocked. and the prosecutors used it for one reason, to show that dr. conrad murray knew what he was doing to michael jackson, knew the drugs he was administering to michael jackson had this type of effect. they got that re...

>> ted rowlands was inside the courtroom when that audio was played. ted, it was stunning to hear. i can't imagine what the reaction was like inside the courtroom where michael jacks jackson's family was attending. >> reporter: to be honest, drew, i was not inside the courtroom during that audio, but i think anybody who heard it was shocked. and the prosecutors used it for one reason, to show that dr. conrad murray knew what he was doing to michael jackson, knew the drugs he was administering to michael jackson had this type of effect. they got that recording from murray's own cell p...

those are fighting words to republicans. but look at this a brand-new cnn/orc poll, show more americans like the jobs act than not. the president also leads in the trust contest. asked whom may trust more to handle our troubled economy? 46 .say mr. obama. 37 .say republicans in congress. more than 7 americans say they're angry about the way things are going. and that could explain, at least one of the outcomes of yesterday's special elections. vacant house seats were up in nevada and new york. the new york seat is in heavily democratic district. it, too, went to a drm, bob turner, he...