ROMANS: Twenty-four minutes after the hour. "Minding Your Business" this morning. Good news for Wal-Mart today. The company just announced it raked in nearly $110 billion in sales in the U.S. stores in the third quarter. That's up more than eight percent from the same time last year. Pretty important going into the holiday shopping season as we watch how these big discount retailers are doing. Check in on the markets. U.S. stock futures are trading sharply lower ahead of the opening bell. Investors waiting to see how this political change in Greece and Italy will affect the European debt crisis. Warren Buffett betting big on big blue. The billionaire investor's Berkshire Hathaway disclosing it purchased more than $10.7 billion in IBM stock. That's enough to make it one of the largest investors in the tech giant. Buffett also invested in Visa, CBS, and Intel. For the first time, the government is finding an airline for lengthy delays. American Eagle has been ordered to pay $900,000 for leaving passengers on 15 flights stranded on the tarmac for more than three hours. All of the incidents happened earlier this year at Chicago's O'Hare. American Eagle blames weather and congestion. It's a new generation of money. Canada officially rolls out its new plastic $100 bills. The bill has a security feature, a bunch of security features that will make it tough to counterfeit like hidden numbers, transparent windows, and metallic portraits. Most of Canada's cash will be plastic by 2013. Up next, Gabby Giffords finding her voice again. Her first interview since she was shot in Tucson last winter inside her remarkable and very difficult recovery. AMERICAN MORNING back right after this break.
Buffett Invests In Big Blue; Airline Fined For Lengthy Delays