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Russian-made passenger plane that had vanished during a test flight. the plane was carrying potential buyers as well as journalists when it crashed into a cliff off a dormant volcano shortly after takeoff. searchers say there were no signs of survivors among the 47 people who were on board. the food and drug administration meets today to decide whether a daily pill called truvada will become the first drug approved to prevent hiv infections in healthy patients. the fda study shows when taken d...

Lets not forget that the president is proposing to increase tax rates on folks above $250,000. this is the sunsetting of the high end bush tax cut. it should have happened awhile ago. this is a tax cut that expires at the end of this year with a bunch of others. i think most important, reverend, is you know we have a couple of rich people arding for about stuff, $800,000 puts you up in the income scale. the median income is $50,000 and those folks are struggling and theres a lot of people below ...

The 1144 delegates he needs to secure the nomination. is there a reasonable scenario in which hes not the gop candidate? >> it will be something extraordinary to keep mitt romney away from being the republican nominee. we have crunched the numbers and rick santorum needs to win about 70% of the remaining delegates to actually get to that 1144 magic number. and when you consider that many of the delegates are awarded on a proportional basis in the upcoming contests, it is very hard to keep mitt r...

Carl? >> its important to remember the whole chronology of it too, shep. romney was believed to have no problems in michigan. when rick santorum won colorado, missouri he shot ahead in the polls by double digits on mitt romneys home turf of michigan. its a very big deal for romney to lose this would really destroy the atmosphere he has tried to create of a well established, well-connected candidate who ultimately has the nomination in grasp or at least in reach because of his organization and th...

By a sizable margin? >> actually a week ago, it would have been enough. he would have needed to win by a sizable margin but a win would be seen as turning things around. where we are in this primary is where we intended to be by the rnc rules where its easy for a front-runner to wrap up early. we have sprints in the past. it was designed to make it more of a race. now it may make it a marathon but i think the race is going on for some time. it does come down to romney and santorum. >> the propor...

>> a week ago it would have been enough. he would have needed to win by ald sizable margin, and now a win will be seen as turning things around. dealing with where santorum was a week ago, thats where we are intended to be by the rnc rules. it is to not have a race that is easy for a front runner to wrap up early. it was gin s designed to go -- it was designed to go on. it wasav designed to make it more of a race. and it may make it more of a marathon. i think this race will go on for some time....

>> actually a week ago, it would have been enough. he would have needed to win by a sizable margin but a win would be seen as turning things around. where we are in this primary is where we intended to be by the rnc rules where its easy for a front-runner to wrap up early. we have sprints in the past. it was designed to make it more of a race. now it may make it a marathon but i think the race is going on for some time. it does come down to romney and santorum. >> the proportional awarding of de...

Ironically, this has become mitt romneys race to win or lose. he really has to win here. if he loses, its contributing to the narrative the party wants anybody besides him. >> ron allen, thank you. more on what happens in maine. most of the state has been voting over this past week. others cast their ballots even earlier. some continue into march. officials will announce straw poll results tonight at 7:30 eastern time but maines decision is nonbinding. the actual awarding of the 24 delegates w...

celebrating because todays job news might really start to seal the deal for re-election. thats his hope unemployment in america fell to 8.3% as the country added 243,000 jobs. >> the recovery is speeding up. and we have to do everything in our power to keep it going. >> which reminds us of another president who found himself in a similar situation during his re-election year. >> i am pleased to report that america is much improved. and theres good reason to believe that improvement wil...