Maureen Miller
AC360° Writer

Tiger Woods is taking an "indefinite break" from golf. He posted this announcement on this web site tonight:

"I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children. I want to say again to everyone that I am profoundly sorry and that I ask forgiveness. It may not be possible to repair the damage I've done, but I want to do my best to try.

I would like to ask everyone, including my fans, the good people at my foundation, business partners, the PGA Tour, and my fellow competitors, for their understanding. What's most important now is that my family has the time, privacy, and safe haven we will need for personal healing.

After much soul searching, I have decided to take an indefinite break from professional golf. I need to focus my attention on being a better husband, father, and person.

Again, I ask for privacy for my family and I am especially grateful for all those who have offered compassion and concern during this difficult period."

What do you think of Tiger's decision? Share your thoughts below.

The announcement comes two weeks after a car accident led to the shocking fall from grace for the world's No. 1 golfer, which included allegations of numerous extramarital affairs.

After the crash, Woods apologized for "transgressions" that "let his family down." Those comments came just as the magazine US Weekly published a report alleging Woods had an affair with a cocktail waitress.

Woods and his wife, Elin, have been married five years and have two children.

Tonight, we'll have the all the angles on Woods' decision. Could his break from the sport impact his endorsements?

We have put together a panel of sports journalists to weigh in on Woods' annoucement.

One of them is Christine Brennan, of USA Today, who wrote this about the golf star, "What Tiger Woods has caused to happen to himself and his image over the past two weeks is the sports world's most remarkable fall from grace, ever. No athlete has ever held a perch so high in our culture – right up there with President and Mrs. Obama, and Oprah – and fallen so far so fast."

Join us for this story and much more starting at 10 p.m. ET on CNN. See you then!

A jackhammer discovered inside the tunnel.

Eliza Browning
AC360° Associate Producer

If you saw AC360° last night, you saw Anderson’s live report from an underground tunnel that was discovered under the border between Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, Calif.

The tunnel – complete with an elevator shaft, electricity and pipes – is approximately 900 feet long and nearly 100 feet deep. Tonight, Anderson explains exactly how this tunnel was built. Law enforcement agents estimate that it had been under construction for almost three years and thirteen people were arrested when it was uncovered.

Who else was behind the construction of this illegal route? Investigation into potential involvement by drug cartels is ongoing. Jackhammers, cigarette lighters and pages torn from magazines still litter the ground in the most elaborate tunnel authorities say they’ve found in the ongoing attempt to curb drug smuggling and violence along the U.S. border with Mexico.

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Maureen Miller
AC360° Writer

Tonight on 360°, Anderson will be reporting live from San Diego, along the U.S.-Mexico border, where authorities have discovered a very sophisticated drug tunnel. 13 people were arrested inside the tunnel last week.

Anderson and his team have just fed us video from inside the tunnel, which we will show you tonight on the program. You will be amazed at the work that went into this tunnel. The entrance is in a bathroom, inside a Tijuana, Mexico warehouse. It looks like any other bathroom, until you look closely and notice it has a false floor that can lower down about eight feet.

The tunnel covers approximately 900 feet in total and reaches a depth of about 100 feet, with several rooms. Though, the main shaft is five-feet by four-feet and the people who built it even installed an elevator, electricity and pipes for water.

Anderson will give you a tour of the drug tunnel. He'll also talk with DEA and Immigration officials on the scene. Hear what they're facing on the job and how they're trying to secure the U.S. border.

We'll also give you an up close look at the drug war in Juarez, Mexico, along the border with Texas.

Michael Ware and his producer Ismael Estrada went on patrol with a task force in Juarez, where they discovered it's still a deadly place to be.

And, we'll take you to Olso, Norway where Pres. Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today, just days after he ordered more U.S. troops to Afghanistan.

A commander-in-chief at war, accepting a peace prize. How does he reconcile the two?

We’ll play you parts of his speech. We’ve got the raw politics.

Join us for these stories and much more starting at 10 p.m. ET on CNN. See you then!

Eliza Browning
AC360° Associate Producer

Authorities have uncovered an unfinished tunnel under the border between the United States and Mexico. The tunnel, complete with an elevator, electricity and a ventilation system, extends from Tijuana, Mexico to Otay Mesa, Calif., in San Diego.

The tunnel was discovered by Mexican law enforcement working with the San Diego Tunnel Task Force, which includes agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the U.S. Border Patrol.
The tunnel is approximately 900 feet long and reaches a depth of up to 100 feet. Anderson will report live from inside the tunnel tonight, where authorities believe Mexican drug cartels would have smuggled drugs under the border in the U.S.

Michael Ware is in Juarez, Mexico – a city still plagued by drug violence. Yesterday, Michael Ware went out on patrol with Mexican law enforcement agents. Seventeen people were killed in the city that day – including two children. Tonight he’ll report on the drug rehabilitation centers where cartels are trying to recruit drug addicts.

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The November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India, which included the siege at the Taj Mahal hotel, killed 160 people.

Maureen Miller
AC360° Writer

Tonight, we are following several new developments in the war on terror. Five missing Virginia men have turned up in Pakistan where they have been arrested and accused of planning terrorist attacks. Meanwhile, a Chicago man appeared in court today and pleaded not guilty to charges he's tied to terror plots in India and Denmark. Here's the chilling reality: The suspects are all Americans, who are suspected of homegrown hate here on U.S. soil.

If you think you've been seeing a lot of stories like this one lately, the sad fact is you're right. Tonight, Anderson will show you the reach of homegrown extremism. The accused arrested within the last year have ties to cities across America: Denver, New York, Detroit, Minneapolis, Raleigh, North Carolina and more.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently talked about the homegrown threat.

"Home-based terrorism is here. And, like violent extremism abroad, it will be part of the threat picture that we must now confront," she said.

Tonight, we will give you the facts on today's arrests in Pakistan of the five Americans. The men all disappeared recently from their homes in Northern Virginia. Their families contacted the FBI soon after they vanished.

One of the men left behind a video.

"I recall the video is about 11 minutes. It's like a farewell, and they did not specify what they will be doing. But just hearing and seeing videos, similar on the internet, it just made me uncomfortable, " said Nihad Awad, Executive Director of The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), at a news conference this afternoon.

The video "juxtaposed certain verses of the Quran," and Awad suggested the verses were interpreted incorrectly.

CAIR officials said they're "going to launch a major campaign of education to refute the misuse of verses in the Quran, or the misuse of certain grievances in the Muslim world."

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Sen. Harry Reid called the health care debate one of the most important in the nation's history.

Eliza Browning
AC360° Associate Producer

They are called the Toronto 18 – a group of homegrown terrorists that were planning to create their own, Canadian version, of 9/11. The plot, frightening, the date: September 11th, 2006. It would have been a five year "celebration" of the attack on the World Trade Towers and it would have most likely killed thousands. Only now are we learning the full details of plot, how close it came to happening, and the surprising turn of events that has placed many of these would-be terrorists right back on the streets. Drew Griffin investigates tonight.

Liberal and moderate Democrats have reached a “broad agreement” on a health care bill that will be sent to the Congressional Budget Office today. Two Democratic sources said that the deal includes proposals to replace the public option by creating a not-for-profit private insurance option – much like the current health care plan for federal workers. Another part of the bill is that the plan would allow people 55 and older to buy into Medicare coverage – right now it’s only available to people who are 65 and older. So what does this Senate plan mean for you? We’ll take a look at how this plan affects a variety of people – what will the impact be on people who are single in their 30s, married in their 40s and beyond.

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Maureen Miller
AC360° Writer

We have breaking news from Capitol Hill, where liberal and moderate Democrats have reached “broad agreement” on a health care bill. That’s what Democratic leader Harry Reid said just moments ago in a news conference. Will Democrats drop the government-run insurance option and open Medicare to those under the age of 55? We’re working our sources and we'll give you the latest developments, tonight on 360°.

Meanwhile, there’s a big embarrassment for the Department of Homeland Security. A 93-page manual for airport security screeners made it onto the internet for the world to see, including terrorists.

“As Americans make travel plans for the upcoming holidays, this shocking breach undercuts the public’s confidence in the security procedures at our airports,” said Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine., of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

The TSA operating manual went online in March on the Federal Business Opportunity site, as part of a posting for contract work.

However, those who were computer-savvy could undo the blacked-out sections, making the security playbook no longer secret.

The TSA, which has been in charge of protecting America’s airports since the September 11th terror attacks, released this statement:

"The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has become aware that an outdated version of a Standard Operating Procedures document was improperly posted by the agency to the Federal Business Opportunities Web site wherein redacted material was not properly protected.‪

TSA takes this matter very seriously and took swift action when this was discovered. A full review is now underway.

TSA has many layers of security to keep the traveling public safe and to constantly adapt to evolving threats. TSA is confident that screening procedures currently in place remain strong.”

The agency also said the manual posted online, dated May 2008, was outdated and was never implemented. Six newer versions have been issued since that one, a TSA official said.

Tonight on 360°, we’ll be digging deeper into the controversy.

We’re also following developments in the battle for Afghanistan. Afghan President Hamid Karzi said today he’ll need help from the U.S. for 15 to 20 years.

"We hope that the international community and the United States, in particular the U.S., as our first ally, helps us reach the ability… sustain a force that can protect Afghanistan with the right numbers and the right equipment, " Karzai said at a news conference with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates by his side during an unannounced visit to the war zone.

Just last week, Pres. Obama announced he wants U.S. forces to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in 18 months.

But today, Pres. Karzai asked for patience. He laid out his own timeline.

The Afghan leader wants his Army to have control in parts of the country within two years, and total control in five years. There’s also the request for U.S. assistance for 15 to 20 years.

Secretary Gates pledged the U.S. “will never turn our back” on Afghanistan.

“The president has been very clear that will begin this process of transitioning in July of 2011… I would hope we not only could meet the timelines President Karzai has laid out… but as more afghans are trained that we will be able to beat those timelines,” Gates said.

“We expect this is a several year process, ” he added.

Join us for these stories and much more starting at 10 p.m. ET. See you then!

Eliza Browning
AC360° Associate Producer

In October, three people died in a sweat lodge run by self-help guru James Arthur Ray. It turns out that 12 weeks before the tragic incident, another woman’s life came to an end during another one of Ray’s workshops. But this one received little attention – in part because Ray’s company maintained a low-profile about it. The woman was participating in one of Ray’s scenarios in which she wandered around San Diego as a homeless person, without any identification or possessions. But this woman ended up jumping off a building and killing herself in the process. And if you think that’s bad, the story only gets worse. Gary Tuchman has the details for us tonight.

Earlier today, at least 112 people were killed in central Baghdad and more than 400 were wounded when suicide bombers exploded their cars in a series of five terrorist attacks. The attacks shattered a two-month period of relative calm in the capital that had existed since twin car bombings in late October. The passage of Iraq’s election law has led to intense controversy in the Iraqi parliament and a vote which was planned for January has been pushed back. Is Iraq facing an increased risk of danger? Are we leaving too early?

Robert Gates, the U.S. Defense Secretary, arrived in Afghanistan and spoke with President Karzai today. Karzai told Gates that his country would need international help for 15-20 years. Gates promised the US would not abandon Afghanistan as they had done in the past.

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Amanda Knox looks on during a session of her trial last week at the courthouse in Perugia, Italy.

Cate Vojdik
AC360° Writer

U.S. Senator Mary Cantwell is urging Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to help American college student Amanda Knox, who was convicted of murdering her study abroad roommate in Italy and sentenced to 26 years in prison. Senator Cantwell, who represents Knox’s home state, has issued a statement saying she has profound concerns that Knox has been failed by the Italian justice system. She wants Secretary Clinton to intervene and ensure that Knox gets a fair appeals trial. Tonight, Anderson talks to the senator about why she thinks U.S. officials need to step in. We’ll also hear from Former Assistant Secretary of State James Rubin. Even if Secretary Clinton decides she wants to intervene, can she? How m uch leverage does she have?

Also tonight: science, skepticism and allegations of conspiracy. World leaders have gathered in Copenhagen for the United Nations climate summit but leaked emails from an internationally-renowned climate research unit are threatening to overshadow the talks. Climate change skeptics say the emails are proof that scientists have manipulated data and public perception of global warming. We’ll explain the controversy. You can decide if you think it’s a conspiracy or much ado about nothing.

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Delegates arrive at the summit building in Copenhagen as talks get under way.

Eliza Browning
AC360° Associate Producer

In Copenhagen today, 15,000 people from 192 countries are hashing out a successor to the Kyoto Treaty, the global agreement regulating greenhouse gases. The current agreement expires in 2012. So what are the key issues that will be tackled by members of the summit? What impact will emission limits have on industries, the economy and jobs? And do most Americans care? Enough to do something about it? Already today, a European official claimed that the U.S. and China have not offered to go far enough to combat climate change.

But the climate change summit is at risk of being overshadowed by what some are calling “Climate-Gate.” At the University of East Anglia, thousands of pieces of correspondence between some of the world’s leading climate scientists were stolen and leaked on the internet. Apparently, hacked emails from some of the scientists have ignited allegations that scientists “cooked the books” on some of the impact of global warming. Will this email leak lead to more debate about the truth behind global warming? What do you think? We’re looking into the the emails and following the money trail – who benefits from making the argument that global warming is man-made? We’re keeping them honest tonight.

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