issuing a warrant for vladimir putin for alleged war crimes, putin ice response to that and what the odds are that he actually gets arrested. plus a $30 billion lifeline, how big banks are stepping in to save a smaller one from financial ruin and helping to stabilize the u.s. economy. it s thick in the summertime and builds up and smells terrible. it s heading to the u.s. what we know about the 5,000-mile-long mass of seaweed making its way to the coast and what it will do to the tourism industry. for the second time ever plus another stunning upset in the ncaa tournament. a huge undered to do, 16 seed knocking out a number 1 in the first round of the tournament. our andy scholes is standing by with the highlights. the international court has issued arrest warrants for vladimir putin and the country s children s rights commissioner in an alleged scheme to deport ukrainian children, thousands of them, to russia. of course, moscow rejected those allegations. a spok
celebrating our 509 year of title ix is really, really important. you have a mother, you might have sisters or daughters or aunts or female cousins, and they deserve the same opportunities that boys do. as of last year, 63% of women s basketball coaches were women. tell me how your tara vanderveer fund for advancement of women in coaching is working to change that. it s to help young women get into every sport. you know, a lot of times we hire people we know. if it s a male athletic director, he doesn t know a young woman. so we ve got to give these young women opportunities. what they can do is get an internship through the sports foundation. we ve seen a lot of coaches get jobs because of it. we re trying to bring more women into the pipeline. t-dog, where did that nickname come from? the relationship of me being
$1.2 trillion are expected to give up. that s supposed to mean automatic cuts in almost every federal department in 2013. same bottom line $1.2 trillion half from defense, half non-defense. but congress can and likely will change it. meantime stock markets are tanking again,down jones down more than 2.5% today. again the u.s. credit rating may be in for a down gragradedowngr. much more on fallout in our face time segments minutes from now. in cairo, 1,700 people have been wounded during the worse violence to hit egypt s capital since the revolution. at least 20 people have been killed. there are now reports a government official has resigned over the violence. coming up we head to cry row aia live report. the former head of the fbi will lead the penn state investigation, an independent panel. i m committed to ensuring that our independent investigation be conducted in a thorough, fair, comprehensive manner, leaving no stone unturned and without any fear. the panel
christine is busy preparing a thanksgiving feast for thursday. it s a full week. and ali is preparing to eat one. that s right. so they re off today. i m carol costello along with alina cho. welcome to american morning. first, new details in a plot to plant pipe bombs in and around new york city. 27-year-old jose pimentel, arraigned and made bail an hour ago. a muslim convert to plotted to bomb nypd pa control car, post office and returning u.s. troops and he was doing much more than just talking about it. our deb feyerick is here to tell us more and it appears this lone wolf was acting alone. reporter: absolutely and under surveillance about two years. jose pimentel, 27 years old, preparing as many as three pipe bombs. had he built and executed them properly he could have killed upwards of a dozen people. before arrested the nypd bomb experts built and detonate add similar device. you see it on the screen. they showed it last night. the device was detonated ins
hello, everyone you re in the cnn newsroom where the news unfolds live this saturday, november 19th. i m fredricka whitfield. within the hour reno, nevada authorities will let some people go back home. they were evacuated because of a fast-moving wildfire. it s 65% contained. it will be a while before officials know how much damage was done. they think they know how it started. we have been able to rule out two causes. we ve been able to rule out the homeless encampment potential cause and we ve been able to rule out the possibility of teenagers that may have been in the area. we are currently working with nv energy. we believe although this has not been confirmed but we believe the cause of the fire may have been electrical arcing. on capitol hill the deficit cutting super committee has four days to come up with a plan and right now still no deal. the committee must trim more than $1 trillion from the deficit. if there s no deal there could be cuts from sfoed program but