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good morning to you. happy monday, november 7th. this is your a.m. wake-up call. i m carol costello joining you live from new york this morning. prime minister george papandreou is meeting with the leader of the main opposition party after agreeing to step down. on the table who will be the next prime minister after both sides agree to form a unity government? the new government is expected to approve a $178 billion bailout package aimed at preventing greece from defaulting on its massive debt. cnn s diana magnay explains how it went down. reporter: it was a day of intense political wrangling in athens as the leaders of the two main parties fought tooth and nail over the formation of a new government. finally they came together in a late night meeting with the president. the reporters waited outside. after one and a half hour, a written statement delivered through the bars of the palace gate, a statement that a new government will be formed to tide the country thr ....
the accused ft. hood attacker, u.s. major anadal hasan and three 9/11 hijackers and faisal shahzad. the death of awlaki is a major blow to al qaeda s most active operational affiliate. awlaki was the leader of external operations for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. in that role he took the lead in planning and directing efforts to murder innocent americans. reporter: for more on awlaki, the al qaeda off shoot he represented and where we go from here, i want to bring in cnn s international correspondent nic robertson. nic, this was a huge development. why was awlaki such a threat and a priority for the snus. he was an intellectual. he was smart. he was well educated. he knew how to sort of manipulate his audience and the one thing that he had that al qaeda really wanted was a way to communicate the potential recruits in the west. he spoke english and he spoke it with a charisma and a meaning that drew in radicals or potential radicals towards al qaeda. and reall ....