Growth and Income: The economy’s rate of expansion in the third quarter was faster than previously thought. The government revised its estimate to 3.6%, up from 2.8%. It’s the first time growth has exceed 3% since the first quarter of 2012.

 But many Americans are not getting ahead. Organizers say fast food workers in 100 cities will walk out today demanding higher wages.

911: Recordings of the 911 tapes from last year’s Newtown school massacre reveal staffers calling for help. One woman can be heard saying, “I caught a glimpse of somebody. They’re running down the hallway. Oh, they’re still running and still shooting.” The released recordings are only from the Newtown police department. News organizations have filed requests for calls to the Connecticut State Police.

World: A Hezbollah leader was assassinated in front of his home outside Beirut, Lebanon, in what may be revenge for his organization’s involvement in the Syrian civil war. Hezbollah has been fighting on the side of the Syrian government. Hassane Laqees was gunned down in a parking lot outside a building where he lived and worked.

• The dangerous radioactive material from a hijacked Mexican truck has been found. The truck carrying cobalt-60 waste was stolen from a gas station outside Mexico City. The protective container was found empty, but the nuclear material was later found nearby. The thieves apparently realized the goods were too hot.

Hear Me Now?: The NSA collects 5 billion cellphone records a day around the world, The Washington Post reports. The paper says that in the process the NSA “incidentally” collects information on where cellphone users are, in particular the millions of Americans who travel overseas with their phones.

Stormy Weather: An arctic front dropped snow from the Colorado Rockies all the way to the Great Lakes. About 42 inches fell in Two Harbors, Minn. A band of snow is now headed from Indianapolis through Albany, NY and into New England.  

National: The collection at the Detroit Museum of Art would sell from between $452 million and $866 million, according to the Christie’s auction house. Detroit’s emergency manager has considered selling the art to help pay the city’s $18 billion debt. The museum has what is considered a world-class collection including works by Bruegel, Matisse and van Gogh.

Off Air: MSNBC host Martin Bashir resigned yesterday amidst controversy over nasty remarks he made about Sarah Palin. In a commentary Bashir said someone should defecate in Palin’s mouth, although that’s not the word he used. Bashir had been upset by Palin’s comparison of US debt to Chine to “slavery”. Despite apologizing, Bashir couldn’t escape weeks of blowback. His resignation used the passive voice of the guilty saying, “I deeply regret what was said.”

Google Arrest: A California woman is believed to be the first cited for driving while wearing the Google Glass. Cecilia Abadie was stopped for speeding and when the officer saw her headpiece he also wrote her up under the section for watching television while driving. Abadie is one of 10,000 “explorers” given the Google Glass before it goes on the market. The Google Glass has a small transparent lens over the right eye that takes video and displays information. It evidently did not tell her she was doing 80 in a 65 zone.

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