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Assure there was no ongoing public danger. >>heather: what other ways could the investigation still be hampered? >>reporter: authorities are zeroing in on tamerlan tsarnaevs trip to russia. did he have help and training when he was there? they say the russians are not being completely cooperative. >> the big unknown is still the six months, over six months, in russia. clearly, that is where they went from the process of radical ization to -- the older brother -- to violence. there is a lot we do...

Safe in schools. democrat joe manchin says he hopes his fellow nra members will look beyond the opposition of its leadership. >> nra has been the benchmark, its the one we look torkswards. >> my wife disagreed with me and i still love her. >> reporter: now to sweeten the deal manchin and toomey added some things that gun owners and those groups have long championed things like lifting restriction on interstate travel and a commission to look into mental health and other things that might cause v...

and may be in her system from the doctors to the pharmacies that provided them. sus dan candiotti has more about the funeral preparations. don, lets start with you. how are they examining those prescription drugs? >> they have subpoenaed several pharmacies and several doctors from the prescription medications found in whitney houstons hotel suite. they are doing that because they want to know exactly what was in her system. they are trying to trace the doctors and the pharmacies. one t...

just into "the situation room," brand-new poll numbers confirming a new lineup in the fight for the gop presidential nomination. the cnn/orc survey has just been released and shows a two-man contest at this point. the poll shows 34% of republicans asked say santorum is their choice. 32% say romney. with a sampling error, that means its a statistic cal tie. ron paul and newt gingrich are far behind at 16 and 15%. first big picture, ron, what do you make of santorums rise? >> i think thi...

Politically to erupt like this on a scale and demanding mubarak step down, many experts weve talked to feel like anything really could be next. people have been talking about algiers, yemen. the slogan has been, today egypt, tomorrow yemen. but also libya, jordan even. thats the sense, we dont know whats coming next. never mind predictions online, some groups have written out a schedule of dates when protests will happen in each country. whether that holds true or not, theres a sense of not nece...

The unknown, the big unknown. >> reporter: there are a number of risks. one is, israel has, for the past 30 years has been able to basically with measure of ease, not have to sort of man up or have a large military presence on its border with israel or egypt, rather. its one border they have not had to be concerned about. it allowed it to focus on other threats. the border of lebanon and iran. going forward, they dont want to stretch the military to place it on another border. also, they are loo...

Welcome back. live pictures from the briefing room. the epas carol browner. lets go to bill nelson from florida at the balcony and anne thompson from the gulf, a reality check from both of you. first, hearing good news from the president and his top officials reports today. are you as optimistic as they are that the gulf situation is far better than we expected and that we believe its two-thirds or three-quarters cleaned up? >> i believe if thats what they think, then i believe it. let me say, t...

People and thats the big, big unknown. and thats what may keep us there years longer than even the president thought we might be there. >> but right now, over the past month, americans have had great success tracking down the taliban, right? arresting taliban members and killing taliban members. >> yes, we have had great success. and i mean the administration again to its credit is being moderate about it. its not pumping its chest and saying were doing extraordinarily well. they dont want to --...

In recent weeks across the uk and there is huge uncertainty about how big this third wave will be. the number of covid patients being admitted to hospital has doubled in the past ten days to more than 500 per day but if we look at december, to the point when daily cases were the same as they are now, then there were more than 2,000 admissions per day, four times the rate now. the difference is down to the protection from vaccines. they could be as much as 98% effective at preventing serious illn...

Congressman standing by. lets get to the latest on where we stand-in all of this. chad, good morning, what can you tell us? mada >> good morning. everything so far has been -- they will advance the nomination to the senate floor. the big unknown is if other gop senators told grassily they cant have a vote because they lack information. if they do move ahead running through the senate procedural traps it will take friday night for a confirmation vote on the floor. this nomination might be in