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Gordon Brown on banking system: 'You have to go global'
Kiran Chetry sits down with former British prime minister Gordon Brown, who helped find a global solution to the banking collapse in 2008. He talks about what he learned coming out of the crisis and why his outlook is now: “go global.”
Chetry also asks Brown what he thinks is financial security’s biggest threat today and his thoughts on the recent Arab uprisings and revolutions. Watch Kiran’s first sitdown with Brown here, and stay tuned for more with Brown tomorrow.
Shocking Pink?: Mom paints boy's toenails in J.Crew ad
Would you paint your young son’s nails?
A J.Crew advertisement gaining lots of blog buzz this week shows a mom painting her son’s toenails pink with the caption “Lucky for me, I ended up with a boy whose favorite color is pink.”
Bloggers are asking if it crosses the gender line, and many parents are responding and saying, what’s the big deal?
What do you think? Let us know here. Kiran and Christine will read your responses on air.
Abby Sunderland's story of courage on high seas
Abby Sunderland was just 16 years old when she set sail in January 2010, hoping to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. But three months into her journey, a 50-foot wave damaged her sailboat, leaving Abby stranded in the middle of the Indian Ocean and the focus of a dramatic search and rescue.
Abby was found safe and sound, and she tells her story in her new book "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas." She joined Ali Velshi and Christine Romans on "American Morning" to explain what being stranded on open ocean was like.
What Japan's elevated nuclear threat level means
Japan's nuclear crisis is now on par with Chernobyl, according to Japanese authorities who are now calling the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant a "major accident."
They have now raised the situation from a category "5" level accident, comparable with Three Mile Island, to a level "7" - the same as Chernobyl.
Ali Velshi and Kiran Chetry spoke with Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer and chief engineer with Fairewinds Associates, on American Morning and asked him what this means in terms of trying to control the plant.
What's the next financial challenge for the U.S.? Hitting the debt ceiling
(CNN) In 2006, Obama voted against raising the U.S. debt ceiling. But now, he's asking Congress to do just the opposite. Since March 1962, the debt ceiling has been raised 74 times, according to the Congressional Research Service. Ten of those times have occurred since 2001. White House press secretary Jay Carney said failing to raise the ceiling would be "Armageddon-like in terms of the economy." Should the debt ceiling be raised or not? CNN's American Morning speaks with Harvard economics professor Kenneth Rogoff about the intricacies of doing so.
Live from space – AM's interview with Expedition 27 from the ISS
We have been following Cady Coleman's journey from training to blastoff. She is now 220 miles in space at the International Space Station. Cady and the rest of her space crew speak to American Morning on their mission.
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