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people. syrian government forces continue to fire heavy shells into the city of homs and other areas today. homs is ground zero of the uprising against president bashar al assad. opposition groups say at least 21 people, including children, have been killed today alone. the russian foreign minister arrived in syria today, holding talks with assad and calling for an end to the violence without foreign interference. another development, gulf arab states in france, spain and italy, recall...

People there is a special place in hell. i think that guy may qualify. unbelievable. >> pedophiles. yeah. they need to burn. thats just very disturbing. other news this morning. 15 students at a high school near houston all came down with a mysterious illness after lunch yesterday. ambulances took at least six to the hospital, in fact. administrators suspect the students were under the influence, but of what theyre not quite sure yet. the students wont say. so doctors have now ordered blood te...

Illinois loses power spewing steam. officials running the plant says the steam does contain radioactive material but says its not dangerous. the reason the reactor lost power, still not known. >> hopefully they figure that out. meanwhile, as the cancer survivor, he wanted to give back to those suffering from the disease. but his decision to grow his hair for locks of love causing a lot of controversy at his michigan high school. administrators there at madison academy suspended the 17-year-old c...

Massachusetts moderate to a liberal now? according to gingrich. >> gloves are off, man, its getting nasty. also this morning, a routine medical test that should be done not once but twice. the new research about blood pressure and why a second test could be a real life saver. >> interesting story there, too. could help a lot of folks. also later this half hour, it sounds like the fashion police are cracking down on all those ugg boots at a pennsylvania school. well tell you why administrators ...

Spend in class the better they do. >> my sister is a teacher. she spends 12 hours a day more than that actually coming up with a lesson plans, her day is not an eight hour workday by far. to put another hour and that extends their day, as well. >> what about the childrens family time. that is another issue that was raised. what about the childrens family time? its very long time is going to cut in family time which is very critical. it its not just what they are learning and to deal with life. >...

Kicker. the graduation rate in chicago, about half. they spend all that money and yet, juan, its not working. >> you know, steve, i dont have any objection to paying good teachers and good administrators top dollar. we want those people teaching our children. the problem comes when you get locked into all this bureaucratic union structure thats not about educating children. thats why the two missions, parents and kids have a very clear strict mission. education first. but the union seems to have...

Between a u.s. senator and someone who poses a risk, we have a problem. and i dont want to say that we should have different set of rules for u.s. senators, but we have seen the same thing just recently with an 85-year-old grandmother. weve seen tsa tackling babies and children. this is not a thinking agency, and then youve heard also the discrepancies from airport to airport as the senator found out. so this is an agency that really needs some reform. were spending $8 billion and they have this...

And what they say is that this new measure in massachusetts requires the school district to base it decisions on, quote, merit and ability which sounds good in theory, but they say those terms are not defined, and that winds up giving too much discretion to the administrators. >> yeah. and, you know, we really want to see that student achievement through a value-ed mod o el be at least 50% of the evaluation. we actually want to make the evaluation system more concrete so it is less arbitrary. so...

>> tonight is karen and the kids are going to be on piers morgan show tonight on cnn. so i would encourage you all to take a look at that. we did the interview yesterday from charleston and youll get to see what -- at the end of the interview, piers morgan leaned over to me and said, you want my suggestion? less rick, more karen. >> thank you for the punt, mr. santorum. and sound and fury came in last night at the cnn-sponsored debate. gingrich seems to be the target of a new dirty t...

now new details about the charges the ships captain and first officer could face. well take you live to italy. imagine your child being put into this storage closet at school. teachers call it the scream room and they have no problem sending students there. were going to explain why. and youre looking at live pictures also from coppenhagen, denmark, and thousands of danes are celebrating their queens 40-year reign. and we start with the rescue just moments ago from the italian crui...