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attempt, congresswoman gabrielle giffords im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." first, an apparent shake-up in the republican race for the white house after a turbulent week that saw herman cain finding new allegations of sexual harassment and rick perry stumbling sadly in a debate. newt gingrich leaping towards the top of a pack in a stunni stunningcome back. jim acosta is watching the race for us as he always does. where do things stand right now? >> some candidates are ste...

rapes of young boys allegedly by a former assistant coach and allegedly covered up or at least ignored by other penn state officials. we get the latest from our mary snow. >> reporter: two days after ousting its president and former coach joe paterno, penn states board of trustees announced today that it is forming a committee to investigate the failure surrounding the reporting of sex allegations by jerry sandusky. the board of trustees says no resources will be spared. they will have...

sensitive equipment and illegal immigration in the center of arizona history. youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we begin with the breaking news. political and financial chaos within the european union, sending fresh shock waves through wall street and world financial markets. stocks plunging in new york today on all three indices with the dow tumbling about 400 points amid a growing debt crisis in italy. and the third largest in europe. lets bring i...

So -- but what mr. cain said today this is already in the plan that this was something that was a provision that he had in mind all along but that he will not talked publicly about it, which is a departure from what we heard him say earlier, when he had proposals and how it would deal with the poorest americans. >> hes talking about opportunity zones, isnt he? >> opportunity zones is another part of this. these are specific zones that will be created throughout the country that would have certai...

good morning to you. tuesday wednesday, august 24th. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." im carol costello joining you live from new york. international leaders meet today to talk about getting aid into libya. as for moammar gadhafi, hes nowhere to be found even though rebels have taken control of his compound. but gadhafi is still talking, at least we think he is. two networks have been aired supposedly from the embattled leader. he calls for libyans to clear out of tripoli and get ri...

need folks to leave. ive been in there when planes have entered airspace and they told us to leave the capitol. during this instance, there was no such warning, there was no such direction from capitol police. it happened so quickly that the evacuation orders were given simply by word-of-mouth. by whatever office you were closest to. that was my experience just outside the senate chamber right above it. >> lisa with the latest from the capitol. wolf blitzer standing by for us in washin...

We can engineer to with stand wind speed of 110 miles an hour and emerge unscathed. john: im assuming there are building codes that demand that they build to those specifications. >> f-3, f-4, f-5, as they had in joplin, there is nothing you can do. >> you wants to go to a storm shelter, designated storm shelter or have a safe room built into your house and if you dont have the time to got a

>> reporter: and those stories, sadly, are being repeated all over the place here. again, the waters starting to recede, but its going to take a long time, she thinks maybe six weeks before they can get in, assess the damage and at least get fema to give some help as they determine exactly where weather they can rebuild. the new building codes have gone into force here, and they have to have houses built 100 feet above flood stage. and so they dont even know if they can rebuild. jon? jon: that i...

>> absurd, mandating higher prices on homes. i will say this my dad was a construction worker and bemoaning for years how lousy new homes were constructed out of sheet rock, out of paper, out ofwood. he was an iron worker and believed in plaster and metal. and thats a problem with a lot of the homes, they dont build them. >> i had an opportunity to buy a house that was brand new or built in the 1950s. i opted for the 1950s. and we have record tornados, last month, perhaps in may well perhaps con...

Take the money and move them out of the flood prone areas and put them in areas that doesnt flood. that makes sense. >> some cases, flood zones for example, we have government insurance policiless paying wealthy people. john stosil got insurance money from the feds to rebuild on the same spot. >> again, tornados, you dont know where they will hit. but flood zones two thing to do. building codes, if it is in a flood area. charge realistic insurance rates. realistic insurance rates and popular bui...