a suicide bomber. new developments in the probe into a deadly terror attack. wolf blitzer is off today. i m candy crowley. and you re in the situation room. the battle for the white house now centered in the state of ohio. president obama paid yet another visit to what both campaigns see as a must-win state. and today the president came armed with a new report on tax policy that he used to hammer away at mitt romney. our cnn white house correspondent, dan lothian, is traveling with the president. dan, the president pretty much could take up citizenship in ohio at this point. reporter: that s right. he really could. he was right here in akron almost a month ago. it was part of his bus tour. and since he announced his re-election bid last spring, the president has been to this state about a dozen or so times. this is really a crucial state not only for the president but also for mitt romney. and today the president was going after his opponent on his tax plan saying they
gains. they claim this video shows a police station they took over. cnn cannot independently verify the authenticity of this video, however. opening statements got under way today in the drew peterson trial. now, he is the former chicago area police officer accused of murdering his third wife, she was found dead in the bathtub in 2004. her death was treated as an accident. but peterson came under scrutiny when his fourth wife stacy disappeared. the trial is expected to last about a month. now to what is going on in the olympics. okay. we got a spoiler alert, though. so put your tv on mute if you don t want to know who the winner is. the u.s. women s gymnastics team now in first place in the finals after the first rotation. they just did the vault. now, if the u.s. wins, it is going to be their first team gold since 1996. we ll watch this one and keep you posted. now, in swimming, the women s 200 meter freestyle happens in about two hours. 17-year-old american missy frankl
two straight years, job creation seems to be slowing down. earnings for middle income americans fell some 7% in the past decade. and then there are investments. your i.r.a., your 401(k), your pensions. they re a second road to prosperity. that is complicated in this volatile market. for those of you looking for a safe harbor by investing in fixed income or parking money in the shelter of a bank, you re getting nothing. even our virtually nonexistent inflation is higher than what you re earning. you are being penalized for not taking risks. ironically, owning your home may be the one vehicle to personal wealth that shows signs of some brightness. home prices may have hit bottom and are finally bouncing back. if that s the case, then now is the best time to buy a home or refinance a loan. interest rates are at historic lows. but that s little consolation to scores of homeowners who have seen the value of their homes on average shrink by a quarter since the beginning of the rece
thought going through my head was he s just he s going to finish what he started right now, you know, i just laid there and i thought, this is it, this is it. he says he felt a curtain of darkness falling and just as quickly it was as if the sun came out. tonight, he ll tell you about how dark turned to day. and in barely a heartbeat, he knew he would make it out of the theater alive. we begin with another report. an update on an important story we ve been following for months now. try to get answers keeping them honest. we told you about a number of supposed charities which have raised many of millions of dollars but when we examined their tax filings we haven t been able to find much of any of of that money going directly to the people or groups they claim to be helping. people like disabled veterans. one charity called the disabled veterans national foundation we found has sent a shelter for homeless veterans thousands of bags of these. coconut m&ms. as absurd as i
day here in aurora as people here merge from shock and descended into grief. they re being confronted by the grotesque cartoon-colored image of the man police say was behind their nightmare. we will, of course, update you on the alleged gunman s day in court and the many days in court ahead for him. tonight though and throughout our many nights ahead, the main story will not be about that person. we re giving the suspect as little air time as we can. giving him as little publicity as possible. trying not even to say his name, instead we re trying to focus on the victims, the survivors and heroes. and the many heroes who have emerged from this. and we re taking a lesson from the people of aurora themselves, the governor of aurora and the president of the united states. i had a chance to visit with each family. and most of the conversation was filled with memory. it was an opportunity for families to describe how wonderful their brother or their son or daughter was. and the l