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in nearly a year. in case you were thinking that europes crisis was their problem and your eyes glaze over when you hear about it, this is the wake-up call. americas 401(k)s are losing value thanks to greece and spain. why? well, because if and when greece drops the euro, its a little domino with a lot of punch. next comes spain, portugal, ireland, maybe even italy. they could all fail. and that means the breakup of the worlds biggest economy and americas biggest trading partner. it me...

as the gop nominee to be hoping to win back a state that went for president obama in 2008. and hes hoping hispanics will help him out. our colleague on that story in-depth for us in denver. i mentioned 2008. two thirds of the hispanic vote nationwide went to the democratic ticket but the vote in colorado was closer. does romney see an opening and could that spell a difference, do you think? >> oh, he definitely seeing an opening. both kand date candidates do. 12% to 14% of the overall ...

these beaches had been closed for people to get into the water, and we talked to a life guard just the other day about the strong rip currents that they are concerned about. take a listen. so i see the white caps out there. is that safe for a person to get into the water? >> no. it is not. the thing is with closing water completely, you let somebody knee deep they want to get waist deep. you let them waist deep they want to go in. >> reporter: what is a rip current? >> its a channel of...

to earle i start. and im zoraida sambolin. >> lets get started. the. the fallout from tropical storm beryl. it is a tropical depression. guess what, building steam again and its expected to be a tropical storm before we know it again. the storm is dumping as much as ten inches of rain in northern florida and southern georgia. its also knocking out power to tens of thousands of people right across that region. now beryl has its eyes on the carolinas. cnns rob marciano has been trackin...

Assad says his country is under what he called a media attack but he says his forces are, quote, strong other the ground. 55 syrians died sunday in an army attack in homs and other cities. intelligent services in russia claim to have stopped assassination plot against vladimir put. putin is expected to win in russian elections on march 4th. sunday, more than 30,000 russians protested against putin joining hands to form a ring around boss cow. in canada three railroad engineers died in a dera...

investigation into what could have led to this, and thats ongoing, as you can see behind me at the high school here. local sheriffs department leading this investigation, but theyre getting help from the fbi and the atf. in fact, they have recovered the firearm that they believe was used, and they have given that to the atf to do some ballistics work on it. the other side of the story is clearly the absolute despair and shock that the people here are going through, and especially the f...

>> thatll be a matter of investigation. some of these are equipped with self-destruction protocols. its possible that they lost contact and didnt want to blow up a $40 million plus piece of equipment without knowing what was going on. but that will have to be looked into. i do think, though, to try to go in and do a unilateral strike it would have been great to deny them the ability to try to reverse engineer our technology. however, you need to know the location of it in order to do that, and w...

Voted to deplore the assassination plot from saudi arabia ambassador weeks ago here in d.c. they say it shows that iran is becoming more and more isolated. >> it indicates i think the isolation that iran is undergoing right now with respect to the choices they have made on the nuclear program. >> reporter: and he said late last night china and russia are on board with the u.s. because we share the common goal of not letting iran developing a nuclear weapon. >> heather: peter, thank you. >> gregg...

Move them south. >> and while the texas used car salesman seemed an unlikely choice for assassination plot. the committee was told of a similar plot backed by iran in 1986. >> a failed seller of vegetables and fruit in the streets of paris. yet hezbollah and iranians found him to be ideal candidate to bomb paris. >> as you might expect that plot was busted by french intelligence, shep. >> not all the committee members, catherine were, on the same page in this matter. >> thats an important point....

>> we are risk averse and afraid of our shadow with dealing with iran and they are aggressive. not a combination that will work. >>reporter: the bottom line is iran has learned to live with the economic sanctions and in the past the united states has not taken bold action against them whether the assassination plot with the used car sales man rises to that level is, really, continues to be debated. >>shepard: thank you from washington, catherine. now a minute ago, a minute ago in the world serie...