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Super Committee Failing?; Unrest in Egypt; Congressional Super Committee Fails to Agree of Deficit Reduction Proposal; First Lady Booed at NASCAR Event; New App Helps Users Find Best Deals on Black Friday; GOP Presidential Candidates Prepare for Debate

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BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: Top of the hour. Let's roll on. Watch this.

All right, welcome back. I'm Brooke Baldwin.

Couple of stories we're watching at the top of the hour. Very soon, the super committee may announce its progress, or lack thereof. Also, the markets tank because of it.

Reports of a possible link between Iran and weapons in Libya.

And a landslide wreaks havoc in the U.S.

Time to play "Reporter Roulette."

Kate Bolduan, let's begin with you on the Hill following last- minute action along members of the super committee on debt reduction. We know the deadline, Kate, is technically Wednesday, though they're acting as though it's today. Is there any news in the last 50 or so minutes since we last spoke?

KATE BOLDUAN, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Since we last spoke, that meeting, that impromptu meeting you and I were talking about between a bipartisan group of members of the super committee, that has broken up.

As members were leaving, Senator Max Baucus, in facing a mass of reporters is the only way to describe it, he actually mentioned that there's possibly a new tax idea being floated possibly by Senator John Kerry. As you and I talked, this meeting was described by one aide earlier was kind of a Hail Mary pass to see if they could pull anything off in this 11th hour.

Unclear what the details are of this tax idea, but I will tell you that it does seem that it possibly could be a long shot as one GOP leadership aide has already speaking to my colleague Deirdre Walsh on this tax idea said, at the 11th hour Senator Kerry offered a new gimmick, in this person's word, to get to the Democrats' same trillion dollar tax hike.

There's no indication that any other super committee Democrats support it. Clearly that's coming with a heavy dose of Republican spin on that one. But I will say that it's very interesting that they're trying to discuss a new idea at this 11th hour. I think we have a little bit of sound from Senator Max Baucus as he was leaving this meeting. Let's take a listen.

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QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE)

SEN. MAX BAUCUS (D), MONTANA: We're working as hard as we can.

QUESTION: Is that a no?

BAUCUS: We're working as hard as we can.

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BOLDUAN: So they're working as hard as they can, Brooke, but all signs at this moment still point to the inevitable outcome that you and I have been discussing, that it seems that this committee is heading toward failure and we could be learning -- getting a formal announcement of that in the next few hours.

But again barring some unforeseen breakthrough that clearly they're trying to see if they can pull off, that seems to be where this is headed at this moment, Brooke.

BALDWIN: OK. Kate Bolduan for us on Capitol Hill watching the news and this possible tax idea, we will see if that goes anywhere. Kate Bolduan, thank you.

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BALDWIN: Next on "Reporter Roulette," let's go to Jill Dougherty at the State Department.

Jill, we're hearing about possible new sanctions on Iran? What are you learning about that?

JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN FOREIGN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: Right.

It's continuing to ratchet up. And in a couple of hours, actually about an hour-and-a-half, we're expecting to hear from Secretary Clinton and from Secretary Geithner of the Treasury about new sanctions against Iran. This time, what they're doing is they are accusing Iran and Iran's Central Bank of money laundering.

This term they use, primary money laundering, and once they do that, it's going to be a warning to a lot of different countries that deal with Iran, buy their oils and other products, that they better watch out. Also, this, Brooke, is following just another step by Britain today, a very strong step, in which they're cutting off any type of working with any of the banks in Iran, including the Central Bank -- Brooke.

BALDWIN: What is this, Jill, also as we're on Iran, this link between Iran and weapons in Libya? What can you tell me about that?

DOUGHERTY: Yes. Well, they also -- they're accused of providing some type of canisters for chemical weapons.

This is just one more thing, Brooke, you would have to say added to the list right now. You have got the nuclear program. You have that plot against the Saudi ambassador. Everything that seems to be loaded into the ammunition against Iran is being trotted out right now, and the most serious thing right now is what the U.S. and the world community are going to be doing about really turning up the heat economically.

BALDWIN: Want to push people to your reporting. Go to CNN.com/securityclearance. Jill Dougherty live for us at the State Department.

Next on "Reporter Roulette," chunks of a highway in Southern California, they are gone, swallowed up by this massive landslide.

Chad Myers, I saw these images. This is San Pedro, California, just into the Pacific.

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CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Right down by White Point State Park.

BALDWIN: Here it is.

MYERS: This has been cracking for months. The road was closed, no cars were not on it, bicyclists were not on it. They knew this was going to eventually fall in. But the rain from this weekend, in some spots Santa Barbara all the way down to almost L.A., one to two inches of rain, well, that was the final straw.

BALDWIN: Wow.

MYERS: So, yes, the rain came in from the north, in fact, it rained all the way right from San Francisco right through Fresno and Bakersfield and right on down to L.A. Go through one more time, that crack in the cement right there, you can see it rained there for hours and hours and hours.

But when you get those images, you think to yourself, when you were a kid, how everybody told you California was going to fall into the ocean. We didn't think like one small piece at a time.

BALDWIN: One highway is doing that today.

MYERS: Exactly. One highway is coming in.

That is such a scenic roadway, too. I have been on the road. They think they may have to change the route of the scenic highway because they don't see any way to fix that gash in the earth, Brooke.

BALDWIN: Oh, you think? Wow. That is stunning. So that's all just because of the little bit of rain they got over the weekend that was finally what the catalyst, I guess?

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MYERS: That was the crack that broke the camel's back, the straw that broke the camel's back. That was it.

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BALDWIN: Chad Myers, news out of San Pedro. Chad, thank you.

MYERS: You're welcome.

BALDWIN: That's your "Reporter Roulette" for this Monday. Now this.

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RICK SANTORUM (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I prayed that moment, please, please let her live.

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BALDWIN: Three presidential candidates break down into tears during this emotional conversation. We're going to play those moments for you.

Plus, three days of bloodshed as bullets fly, tear gas rains down in Egypt. And just a short time ago, a bombshell. CNN is live in the midst of the chaos.

Also:

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's hope we find her and bring her home.

QUESTION: It's tough for you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's tough.

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BALDWIN: A mother goes missing the same day she appears on an episode of "The People's Court." I will tell you what police found 24 hours after she disappeared.

And we're watching Wall Street as the markets tank, as Alison Kosik was pointing out a moment ago, and America waits to hear whether the super committee failed. We are told an announcement is coming very soon. Stay with us.

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BALDWIN: For decades now, the people of Egypt lived under the same government rule. And now in less than a year, Egyptians have seen their president overturned and even more upheaval over who is leading the country. In fact, the nation's cabinet just submitted its resignation and it is the government response to three days of bloody clashes between protesters and security forces. It's certainly reminiscent of the initial uprising months ago.

So far, at least 22 people have died; 1,700 others have been wounded.

Let's go to Cairo to CNN's Ivan Watson.

And, Ivan, as you have been watching the crowds behind you there, have you seen -- what kind of reaction have you seen now that the cabinet has submitted its resignation?

IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, we did see some fireworks a little while back and some cheering. That may have been in part a response to that announced resignation.

But the crowd there calling for the resignation of the civilian government, which I think many Egyptians felt was basically a puppet to the ruling Military Council here, which has basically run the show for the past nine months since Hosni Mubarak stepped down.

The crowd there, they're angry, they're baying for blood after at least 22 of their colleagues were killed in these clashes. They're calling on the ruling Military Council to step down. When you step away from the energy and the adrenaline in here, with wounded people being ferried out pretty much every minute from the front lines where there are clashes going on with the police, the political parties that are supposed to compete in parliamentary elections just seven days from now, they're not calling on the Military Council to resign.

They say they want it to step aside. They want true civilian rule, but they don't want a power vacuum immediately. They want some kind of transition process here -- Brooke.

BALDWIN: Ivan, you talk about the gun battles. You mentioned 22 deaths. Has the military at all been apologetic for using force?

WATSON: Not so much.

And it does seem like it's at the forefront, it is the riot police, the Interior Ministry that are engaged in the battles. And there are some signs actually from some eyewitnesses that it's the demonstrators themselves that are trying to attack the headquarters of the riot police. It's not exactly a one-sided battle at this point.

But it does seem clear that what triggered this Saturday morning was a very small number of demonstrators here, perhaps less than 200, and the security forces came in and evicted them using force, set fire to their tents, may have killed somebody there.

And that's what triggered this crisis that has already taken down a government and may do irreparable harm to Egypt's economy, which is also -- already suffering since the first revolution some 10 months ago. BALDWIN: As you mention, the election there in Egypt seven days away.

Ivan Watson, thank you so much in Cairo.

Back here at home, a pretty stunning piece of video of campus police, University of California, Davis, these police officers pepper- spraying college students in a nonviolent protest. It has gone viral on the Internet. Here it is. This was U.C. Davis. The was on campus Friday. This is where officers -- you see this one guy with his can of pepper spray spraying just about a dozen demonstrators associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement, spraying them at point-blank range.

Today, the campus police chief was placed on administrative leave, and this is after two police officers were placed on leave just yesterday.

Senior Sophia Kamran was among those student protesters. She talked to me last hour, said she could feel the effects. This is her after she was sprayed. She could feel the effects of being pepper- sprayed. Here's what she told me.

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SOPHIA KAMRAN, PROTESTER (on the phone): After they sprayed us, it felt like we were being showered in the liquid. It got all over our bodies, our hands, all over. Our clothes were soaked. And we were just burning. Even hours afterwards, when we tried to remove our clothes and shower, it was like the first burn all over again.

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BALDWIN: Sophia and thousands of other students now signing this petition calling on the resignation of the chancellor of U.C. Davis.

Still ahead, it's known as the prison ward where some of the most dangerous, out-of-control patients spend their days, their nights, and right now it is believed to be the place where Jared Loughner lives, in this tiny concrete cell. We're learning these brand-new revelations about his day-to-day life, including who's watching him every 15 minutes.

Plus, this:

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NEWT GINGRICH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, you run around the country like a 16-year-old with your first credit card and you giving things away that you don't have, and so you have to borrow.

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BALDWIN: Newt Gingrich discusses America's debt crisis as the super committee gets ready to announce what it's done -- scratch that -- hasn't done in three months of debate. How does the failure affect the average American? John King is standing by. We're going to talk about that next.

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BALDWIN: Want to bring in the host of "J.K., USA," Mr. John King himself, who I know is watching and working his sources to try to figure out what is going on today with regard to the super committee.

We know technically the deadline which has been set for many months is this upcoming Wednesday, but we knew that it had to be scored and get to the CBO by today. That's why we're talking a lot about this.

What's the latest news you have? I mean, are we still assuming it's going to fail?

JOHN KING, CNN HOST: Hashtag fail, is that what we're going to call today, Brooke?

BALDWIN: Hashtag fail.

KING: I think this is super fail. This committee has been in business for about three months now, charged with a pretty important task, $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years.

Remember at the beginning, a lot of people said, go bigger, go for $4 trillion, six Democrats, six Republicans? Never mind. The fundamental disagreement that was there at the beginning is there at the end. The Republicans say no to any proposal that includes higher tax revenue. The Democrats have been reluctant at times to talk about big numbers when it comes to cutting domestic programs, especially Medicare and Social Security.

So, Brooke, unless there is a miracle, and there's not one in sight, in the next few hours, instead, they will concede they have failed. Some automatic spending cuts then kick in, but those are not until 2013. So don't believe they will happen especially as mapped out in the law.

We're now going to have again barring a big miracle a political debate. This will become a central issue in campaign 2012.

BALDWIN: So according to our own reporting, we know some of the members of this super committee, they were meeting in a room on Capitol Hill and apparently Senator Baucus has been facing the cameras and it was Senator Kerry who brought up some sort of tax idea. That's all I know, tax idea.

I mean, why are they even talking about this? Is this just more theater?

KING: Well, in a way it would be nice if they'd meet publicly and talk at least until they ran out of time. They last met publicly on November 1. We haven't been able to see much of this.

And then they have been meeting largely in groups. The Democrats meet amongst themselves, the Republicans meet amongst themselves. Every now and then, one or two Democrats sit down with one or two Republicans. The tax idea is that most Democrats want to take away, let the Bush tax cuts expire. Remember President Obama campaigned on that back in 2008, and then he agreed to extend them.

Most Democrats want to have those expire, which means taxes on more wealthy Americans would go up. There are some other proposals where you would let those tax cuts stay in place and then in the meantime do a big structural tax reform, that rates would go down for everybody under that scenario, but all the loopholes would disappear and Washington in theory would get more money.

But they have been unable to get to the consensus. The six and six have to get to a consensus, or at least either one Democrat would have to peel off and go with the Republicans or one Republican would have to peel off and go to the Democrats.

This is Washington doing what it does best, Brooke, which is to say it's broken.

BALDWIN: But, John, you mentioned the last time the six and six met, November 1. I just checked my calendar. It is November 21 today. That was 20 days ago. I mean, shouldn't that make the American people mad?

KING: Well, the process can make the American people mad.

Again, some lawmakers, Speaker Pelosi, former speaker, now Leader Pelosi on the Democrats side was one of them. Vern Buchanan is a Republican lawmaker on the Ways and Means Committee. They said at the very beginning, have all these hearings in public, let the cameras in so we can have a public conversation about what you would have to do to get real deficit reduction.

That would actually be pretty good for the country, most people think. However, a lot of the members of the committee said, look, there's no way we will be able to cut these difficult deals unless we have a lot of private meetings. So they did mostly private negotiations.

Much of this to be honest has been done at the staff level, not the House members and the Senate members. Their staffs go back and forth. The process is collapsing. Congressional approval ratings are somewhere in the ballpark of 8 percent, 9 percent, 10 percent, maybe 11 percent. People he are pretty disgusted with Washington.

Now the Democrats -- people also have very partisan reactions, so the Democrats will blame Republicans out there, Republicans will blame Democrats. Look, the system, what we have in place right now is pretty broken. It is almost impossible to do anything big in Washington right now, Brooke.

And we have a pretty evenly divided Congress. We have a very close, competitive presidential election coming up. We will debate these things through next November. We will see how they try to tinker in the meantime.

BALDWIN: Hashtag super fail, you say.

John King, we will see you 6:00 tonight. I'm sure you will be all over this one. John King, thank you.

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BALDWIN: He is a chef who pushes the envelope, mixing flavors and textures to reinvent what we eat. And for three years, this chef grew up hungry and homeless. Here is in on "The Next List."

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We serve an edible menu here, we have almost since day one, and that's because serving edible menus makes sense. Every month about 20 tons of paper are wasted in restaurant menus alone. By that rationale, if you just ate your menu, and it was made from organic local products, you could eliminate that paper waste. It looks like a sushi roll, it takes like a sushi roll, but it's your menu.

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BALDWIN: Interesting. Don't forget to watch CNN's brand-new show. We're calling it "The Next List," so it features some of America's brightest minds, and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, pretty bright himself, he is the host, Sundays 2:00 p.m. Sundays right here on CNN.

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HUGH GRANT, ACTOR: I find that cowardly and bullying and shocking.

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BALDWIN: Hugh Grant pretty livid on the stand today. He's testifying about the media hacking into his cell phone and it involved his love life. That's coming up.

Also, find out who he says is responsible, and it's not who you think.

Also just in, we are getting word that a terror group has just captured CIA agents. That story is unfolding this second. Stay there.

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BALDWIN: This just in to us here at CNN. We are hearing now that reports indicate that several spies working for the CIA in Lebanon have been captured, and U.S. officials fear some of them may now be dead, possibly, possibly executed.

CNN's Brian Todd working the story for us out of Washington.

Brian, what do we know so far? BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Brooke, CNN is told that the group Hezbollah was able to identify some CIA agents in Lebanon, leading to their capture.

These were not Americans, we're told, but foreign assets. A U.S. official would not discuss the details, would not say how many agents were affected. But in a speech in June, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said his group uncovered three spies, including two recruited by CIA officers based at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut.

At the time, the U.S. Embassy dismissed that as -- quote -- "empty accusations." The U.S. official we spoke to today would not say what impact the capture of the informants had on CIA operations in Beirut. This official said reports that the CIA station there had shut down as a result of this are nonsense.

But we also spoke with Bob Baer, a former CIA officer who worked in Beirut and who was involved in operations targeting Hezbollah. Baer said it's standard operating procedure when you lose multiple assets to shut down a CIA station at least temporarily and assess what went wrong, Brooke. So, just getting word now of this that happened probably over the late spring, early summer in Lebanon.

BALDWIN: OK. Let me ask you this. What would Hezbollah likely do to these agents it captured?

TODD: You said at the beginning that there's a fear that they might have been executed. That is a tangible concern right now. We spoke to Matthew Leverett -- Levitt -- excuse me -- who is an expert on Hezbollah. He said that in some cases when Hezbollah catches spies, it puts them in prison, maybe later rehabilitates them.

At the time that Hassan Nasrallah announced this, he said he knew some of them personally, knew their families. That may lead to some speculation that they may have been put in prison and later rehabilitated. But this expert also told us that Hezbollah has been known to also make them -- quote -- "disappear." So there is a chance they could have been executed as well.

BALDWIN: OK. Brian Todd, we will watch more of your reporting coming up in "THE SITUATION ROOM." Brian, thank you.

Now to this. Actor Hugh Grant takes the stand and accuses a tabloid of illegally hacking his cell phone's voice-mails. This is the first time "The Mail on Sunday" has been named in the scandal.

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GRANT: I cannot for the life of me think of any conceivable source for this story in "The Mail on Sunday" except those voice messages on my mobile telephone. What I would love to hear what "The Daily Mail"'s or "The Sunday Mail"'s explanation for that article was, what their source was, if it wasn't phone hacking.

(END VIDEO CLIP) BALDWIN: That story falsely accused Hugh Grant of having a flirty relationship with a movie executive. He did later win the lawsuit against "The Mail."

The British court hearing, this is all part of that investigation into what could be widespread unethical media practices. You remember the tabloid "News of the World" that was shut down back in July following revelations of an alleged phone hacking scandal involving that particular paper.

Still ahead, concrete floors, a steel bed and a space as big as a closet. We're now learning new details what life is like behind bars for this man, Jared Lee Loughner, including how his actions are defined by colors.

Plus, the same day a mother appeared on the episode of "The People's Court," she up and vanishes, last seen dropping off her twins at her ex-fiance's home. Sunny Hostin is "On the Case." She's next.

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BALDWIN: He has been in Congress ever since Jimmy Carter was president. Now Michigan Democrat Dale Kildee is again denying allegations he sexually abused his cousin. Kildee, who is 82 years of age, says in a statement the claims are from 50 years by a relative who has a history of mental issues. Michigan affiliate WNEN interviewed Patrick Kildee, who says years later he confronted the Congressman.

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PATRICK KILDEE, ACCUSER/SECOND COUSIN TO REP. DALE KILDEE: I said, Dale, I've got to tell you, you have no idea what I've been through because of what you did to me. And he said, Patrick, he says every year I make a general confession. And he said, that's the first thing on my list every year.

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BALDWIN: "The Washington Times" newspaper caught up with Kildee asking about these allegations and asking about the impact on his legacy since he's retiring at the end of this term.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Give me your response to these allegations.

REP. DALE KILDEE, (D) MICHIGAN: There's no shred of truth to them. I hope I've left a good legacy. I served 36 years in the Congress.

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BALDWIN: Kildee's office has provided a letter that Kildee says is from the cousin signed with "All my love". New details today about Jared Loughner's life behind bars. Plus, a woman disappears days after this taped appearance on "The People's Court."

Let's go to Sunny Hostin, as always, "On the Case." And Sunny, let's start with this Jared Loughner story. I read the article out of "The Arizona Republic." This paper dug up all kinds of information, took a look at court documents, and before we talk let me just run down some of what "The Arizona Republic" learned. There are cameras that watch his had every move. Every 15 minutes a guard checks on what he's doing, logs it in a color-coded chart.

So blue means he's in bed, green means he's up and awake, and red means that he's pacing the floor of his eight by 10 foot cell in this mega federal medical facility in Springfield, Missouri. And his main therapist, Sunny, says he's getting a better grip on reality. One sign is that he has now agreed to watch the Safeway shooting footage with her. And he said, quote, "I'll draw you a picture of it so you'll understand it." What do you make of that?

SUNNY HOSTIN, CNN LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR: It's remarkable, isn't it, Brooke? I mean, it's pretty extraordinary. What I make of it is that the psychologist in this case has been tasked to return his mental competency so that he can stand trial for the 49 charges that he's accused of in relation to that Tucson shooting.

So we're hearing a lot about the back-and-forth of his mental state. We know in 2008 he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and at that time he was sort of forced these antipsychotic medical occasions. Well, the ninth circuit, U.S. circuit court of appeals, ordered those meds be stopped. And we hear that he really spiraled downwards. He was doing things like pacing 14 hours a day in his cell. He stayed awake for about 50 hours. He was flinging feces about his bed and the cell.

And so the prison team determined outside of the court order that they were going to resume his medication even though that's sort of now the topic of another legal battle. But my understanding is that we're seeing some clarity with Jared Loughner now. We're seeing him sort of return to some normalcy, and that's what this psychologist I think is describing.

BALDWIN: They talk a lot about the schizophrenia and the drugs and the pacing and that there was a lot of red on his chart for a number of months. And the therapist also said that Loughner now understands he's murdered people, now understands that. It's unreal to try to wrap my head around not wrapping one's headed around that. Does that make sense?

HOSTIN: It really is. I mean, it's very much of a story of paranoid schizophrenia. It's a story of mental illness. And I think people have a lot of trouble with that, especially when we look at Gabrielle Giffords and her story and her recovery and the fact that so many people, including a young child, died in this shooting.

And so people may not have an understanding of it. I don't think they'll have much sympathy for him. But the issue is whether or not he will be restored to competency so he can stand trial for these crimes. I mean, you know, we're talking about death and mayhem. And I think many of us hope that he will be able to stand trial for these charges and perhaps be kept away from the general public for the rest of had his life.

BALDWIN: Yes. We're also learning I guess his parents did actually take him to a psychologist back in 2006, something we hadn't heard before.

I do want to move on to the next case. So Michelle Parker, she's a Florida mother of three. She disappears after a taped appearance on "The People's Court." The episode aired Thursday. Family members think she was carjacked. They're begging for her return. Here is her mother.

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YVONNE, STEWART, MICHELLE PARKER'S MOTHER: This isn't a wallet. This isn't just a purse. This is my baby girl. We need to find her and we need help. We need help from everybody in this community.

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BALDWIN: So one odd issue about this case, Sunny, is that she disappeared just after a sometimes angry appearance on "The People's Court" with her ex-fiancee, the father of her three-year-old twins. I guess they were fighting over some engagement ring. Does that change at all how police approach the case?

HOSTIN: Well, certainly the police did investigate this because, you're right, the disappearance occurred right after this was aired. And certainly many of her friends and acquaintances have said that this was a violent relationship, that he was very abusive towards her. But my understanding now is that they've ruled that out. They don't believe that he is a suspect in her disappearance, and, in fact, may have nothing to do with it, and this may just be a sheer coincidence.

BALDWIN: OK. We'll follow it and see if she does turn up, hopefully safe and sound. Sunny Hostin, thanks so much, "On the Case."

Coming up, this is the week of Thanksgiving, you know what happens after Thanksgiving -- black Friday. I have show-and-tell for you. I learned about this app. And we're going to talk to Katie Linendoll here in just a minutes. So basically you upload it on your iPhone, check this out, hit scan, grab a bar code, and by scanning a bar code on almost anything, as I've discovered through my day to day, you can actually figure out who has the best deal in town. Much more on this, all the apps you need to know about before Friday, next.

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BALDWIN: Thanksgiving is almost here, which means black Friday is not far behind. As many as 152 million people are planning to shop this weekend. So you'll face steep competitions for deals like the shoppers who have been camping out in front of this Florida Best Buy for days.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We set up tent and our game plan is to stay here until about Thursday, Thursday afternoon.

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BALDWIN: That's some serious shopping. In case you cannot spend the next couple of days camped out in front of a big box store, maybe it's time to do your black Friday shopping a little smarter. Then we talk to tech reporter Katie Linendoll. I just called out Katie on twitter for being a "geek girl," but I think I'm in good company here --

KATIE LINENDOLL, TECH REPORTER: Yes!

BALDWIN: -- with some of what you're about to show me. Talk to me about these apps. I just uploaded shop savvy for the first time today. Totally cool.

LINENDOLL: Yes, totally cool. And what's really interesting is, according to a study, 45 percent of users are actually going to use your smartphone come black Friday to do price comparisons. The bar code scanning app, there's three I love to make those price comparisons. The find red laser and also shop savvy.

And they work pretty easily. You just scan that bar code on any product and it uses your cell GPS to show you if there's another store in your range to find it cheaper at. It will tell you places online to find a better bargain.

For instance I was at Best Buy this weekend picking up a Blu-ray player for a friend. I scanned the bar code and I made sure all the electronics stores around me didn't have a better deal. So turn to the bar scanning apps for the holiday season.

Another one I love is catalog by "The Find." This is an app made specifically for tablet users. What it does is compiles 70 of the top retailers, their catalogs and also their circulars, so you can flip through with easy access. It has all the back-catalogs, but now you don't have to go through your newspapers to sort through the circulars when it comes to black Friday deals.

And the last app I want to show you is brand new. This actually just launched. It's called savvy.com, and it deals with price adjustments. Last year $20 billion were missed out by consumer because of price adjustments they missed out during holiday. So savvy.com allows you to scan a receipt, and if an item goes on sale, it will actually send you a push notification, which is really nice. This is an app and a website. Plan to download this in a few days. It's still buggy. But pretty awesome when it takes off the scare --

BALDWIN: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait, if I buy something and I figure out it's gone on sale, I get a little ding or something on my phone, and I can go back and get the deal? Is that what I'm hearing? LINENDOLL: Yes. It pulls 41 of the top retail hers and if something on your receipt goes on sale it's actually going to alert you. And if you don't have an app for this, you can actually use the desktop version. I think this is a phenomenal way for us to stop getting that scare. Here's the deal, black Friday is moving into thanksgiving, then cyber Monday. When is the best time to purchase something? You're scared about it going on sale. Now there's an app for that.

BALDWIN: Incredible. You'll have to tweet me the names of these apps. I have a feeling people want to know how they can get the best deal. Katie Linendoll, always a pleasure. Thank you so much. And Katie's web site, "Talk Nerdy to Me." Love it. Nerds Unite. Thanks Katie.

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BALDWIN: Now this.

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HERMAN CAIN, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I said, I can do this. She said, we can do this. Amen.

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BALDWIN: Herman Cain breaks down into tears during this event with his fellow Republicans, but he wasn't the only candidate to get emotional. You're going to see these candid moments and what drove these grown men to tears.

Plus, the man who will be asking those candidates the good tough questions tomorrow night will join me live. Wolf Blitzer with a preview of CNN's debate, next.

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BALDWIN: It got emotional Saturday night at a campaign forum in Iowa. Three of the six Republicans sitting there at that table got teary. They welled up when prodded to bear their souls about a particular life challenge. Newt Gingrich, see him there, he choked up when he spoke of a friend's son battling a serious illness. Herman Cain gives Gingrich, there it was a pat on the back. It was Cain who had set the mood from the start speaking of his own battle with cancer.

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CAIN: Cancer. I will never forget walking out of --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I will come back to you because I want to hear this story.

(END VIDEO CLIP) BALDWIN: Cain did oblige by the way and spoke about the support he got from his wife Gloria. Now I want you to listen to Rick Santorum, listen to Rick Santorum speaking of how he coped very early on with having a special needs child. Santorum says the child has had numerous brushes with death. Listen to that.

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RICK SANTORUM, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I decided that the best thing I could do decided that the special thing I could do was it treat her differently and not love her like I did because it wouldn't hurt as much if I lost her. I remember holding that finger, looking at her, and realizing, what I had done. I did exactly what I had said that I had fought against at the partial birth abortion. I had seen her as a less of a person because of her disability.

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BALDWIN: That again was Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum. I should add that Romney did not attend the forum and Santorum later suggested that Romney might have been uncomfortable there. Romney, as you know, is a Mormon. The Romney campaign has not yet responded.

Now to my friend, Wolf Blitzer, who is not in "THE SITUATION ROOM," though I know you always say wherever Wolf Blitzer is, is where the situation room is. You just moved it down to Constitution Hall.

WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST, "THE SITUATION ROOM": Just a few blocks. Not that far from our CNN Washington bureau. For all purposes, you are still, Brooke, in "THE SITUATION ROOM."

BALDWIN: That's what I thought.

BLITZER: Ready for the show. It'll be an important show here. We have a lot of news happening today. It's breaking over the course of the next hour or two. There is a formal acknowledgement that that so-called super committee not necessary all that super. There is a lot happening on the ground in Egypt route now. We are going to Cairo.

Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador, says she just left Libya. She is in Malta. She has a lot on her mind. So a lot of political news, important international news, the economy, it is all happening. And we will be covering it all in "THE SITUATION ROOM." We will do a lot of work ahead to the debate, big debate, tomorrow night at Constitution Hall in Washington. Brooke?

BALDWIN: Big topic, you mentioned, super committee. Do you have -- did I hear you have Grover Norquist on the show?

BLITZER: Yes, Grover Norquist, arguably one of the most powerful guys in Washington. He has a pledge that for many, many years a lot of Republicans, a handful of Democrats, but mostly Republicans have signed, business pledging no new taxes. And it's very influential. One of the reasons the super committee deal may be off, and it looks like it is, is because the Republicans didn't want to increase taxes.

The Democrats wanted to increase taxes, especially on the wealthy and big corporations. That didn't happen and apparently they are back -- I guess they're just starting all over again. Right now we will see what happens. Lots of new stuff, lots to digest. And Grover Norquist will be here live in the situation room at Constitution Hall. He is coming over here.

BALDWIN: All right, good deal. Wolf Blitzer, thank you again. Wolf is there at constitution hall. That is the home of tomorrow night's GOP presidential debate tomorrow night, only here on CNN.

Coming up next, Michelle Obama booed at a NASCAR event.

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CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: The exact opposite reply should have been there, because they were doing something good for the people that the NASCAR nation love, the veterans.

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BALDWIN: OK, so why did we just show you Chad Myers? Because he's a former NASCAR reporter. He weighed in earlier. Here is the thing. Forget the politics. What makes this moment more controversial involves the people standing next to her. Joe Johns has the Political Pop next.

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BALDWIN: The boos came out at yesterday's NASCAR race, not for rival drivers but for the first lady. Joe Johns has the Political Pop. And Joe, why?

JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT: You know, Brooke, it is one of those moments that tells you how polarized we are politically. Not only was the first lady of the United States in attendance, but also the wife of the vice president, Joe Biden. And they are there on behalf of U.S. military families, which makes booing even more awkward by times 12. There were supposed to be thousands of active duty military and their families there.

Now, if you have been to NASCAR race, and I have, you know it is chaotic in the stand, hard it hear anything. But why don't we roll the tape and you can listen and tell me if you heard any booing. I'm pretty sure I did.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And now, please welcome our grand marshals, Sergeant Andrew Berry, and family, first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, and Dr. Jill Biden, as they deliver the first words in motor sports.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Gentlemen, start your engines.

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BALDWIN: Yes, you can hear it.

JOHNS: Yes, like seriously? I assume it was booing and that the booing was directed toward the grand marshals, Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Biden. What's probably most unfortunate about this, there's a third grand marshal who really didn't get his props here. Army Sergeant Andrew Berry, severely injured, surviving two bullets and eight bomb blasts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it was the last IED that left him too injured to continue working in the military. He is blind in his right eye, deaf, suffers seizures due to brain injury and post traumatic syndrome. His right leg was crushed and he wears a brace to compensate for it, working now with veterans at the Orlando vet center.

BALDWIN: Sergeant Berry, we salute him, and we thank him for his service. We thought that was important enough to get that into the story, not that there were boos for the first lady.

Second story, Michele Bachmann, she's in New York today meeting with a certain Donald Trump.

JOHNS: Yes, the Donald, fourth meeting with the Donald. It is going to happen at trump tower New York. The meeting, we're hearing, from the press secretary, is supposed to last for about an hour. The last time they met was something like October 13 in New York.

And Bachmann has been very busy, not doing so great in the polls right now. But she is also supposed to appear on NBC's "Late Night" with Jimmy Fallon. And she's got a book out there as well that she is pushing right now. So she has a lot going on even though she is not in the top tier of the candidates, as we speak. It looks like she is still a little optimistic.

BALDWIN: She is there, isn't she Joe Johns? It should be interesting Jimmy Fallon episode, I suppose, to watch. Joe, thank you so much, Political Pop for this Monday.

Now let's take a look at tomorrow's news today. The president heading to Manchester in New Hampshire to talk about the American jobs act, his Bill to try to boost the economy. And all of the men who would like the president's job, they are set to debate tomorrow. Topics include national security and foreign policy. So CNN, the Heritage Foundation, and the American Enterprise Institute or hosting this Washington event.

As we mentioned, Wolf Blitzer, who you are about to see in mere seconds live from Constitution Hall. He is moderating that debate for us tomorrow night. And a week I'm kind of excited about. CNN's John Zarrella is covering all things space for us. He's beginning his special series tomorrow on the mission to and search for life there. Tune into CNN throughout the day for that one.

That does it for me here at world headquarters in Atlanta. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Thanks for being with me. Now as we mentioned, Wolf Blitzer on location, Constitution Hall, site of the debate tomorrow night. Wolf?