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different direction every morning. >> come on, white chocolate. >> oh, no. yup. he can explain that one, soledad. soledad. bye, guys. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com im going to try to compose myself here. it is top of the hour. 9:00 a.m. eastern time. we begin with five days until floridas republican presidential primary and just hours from the cnn debate there. mitt romney and newt gingrich are locked in a dead heat in the polls. this debate could be a game changer. the votes...

yp you juyou just heard to tax returns. mitt romney released histax returns 30 minutes ago. its no surprise. mitts a rich guy. heres a look at just how rich. he made more than $21 million in 2010. almost all of it came from incompetent vestments, not wages. he payed $3 million in taxes that year or 13.9%. christine romans is digging deeper into the 1040s. lets start with his offshore funds, christine. we had talked a little bit about that this week, and now were actually seeing it in...

arkansas. and tornado watches still up in a number of places. cnn meteorologist rob marciano, i heard you back there. cant keep up with the board and everything else going on. whats the latest? >> whats eerie about this situation is that theres a path of the tornado took is a similar path to the one that hit them in april. north of tuscaloosa and northern birmingham. not similar results but still two fatalities. and i want to show you the latest on where this is all going. the most dam...

took the spotlight. >> he was asking to have an open marriage and i refused. >> he wanted an open marriage? >> yeah. that i accept the fact that he has somebody else in his life. >> she says that you came to her in 1999, at a time when you were having an affair. she says you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage. would you like to take some time to respond to that? >> no, but i will. and i am frankly astounded that cnn would take trash like that and use it to open a presidenti...

details. we wrap it up here. "starting point." im going to hop on a plane and get to south carolina. we hand it over to "cnn newsroom." ill see you back here tomorrow ill see you back here tomorrow morning. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning, everyone. we start this hour with that doomed cruise ship off italy and fading hope to find anymore survivors. people are still missing in those frigid waters. two americans. at least 11 people have been killed. rescue operations...

interesting to see how this plays out. romney will not be with huntsman today here in myrtle beach for this announcement ahead of the debate tonight, kyra. >> its interesting. when i had a chance to interview him last week, he said, oh, i have respect for romney. i think he is a great family man. its really interesting how reporters like you get the inside scoop, and you cant necessarily get it directly from the candidate. meanwhile, huntsman making this announcement just a day after h...

pretty steady. were at ward 1. you step inside where voters started showing up about 6:00 this morning. right now you see a few of the voters here. you havent seen the long lines, but a steady stream of folks coming in here. this is a very busy ward. we take a look back to 2008, according to official als here, they had to call up the clerks office and get the ballots. they got the ballots this time. perhaps they wont have to do that. overallstate wide according to the secretary of stat...

Kardashians name and guess what, it worked? i spoke with one of them last night on "showbiz tonight." his basic point was she only pays 1 percentage point more than someone who earns around $47,000 a year, this is reportedly. considering the budget issues in california he thinks somebody like kardashian who reportedly earned $12 million last year can afford to pay a little more. again, i think the big story here is you bring kim kardashians name into the mix and you get attention for whatever it...

surging along with his poll numbers, i understand. tell me more about that. >> thats right, they raised a million dollars in 24 hours after those iowa caucuses and he is fighting hard for votes here in new hampshire. you know, the conventional wisdom was, kyra, that he would spend more time in south carolina because thats where a lot of social conservatives are, not so much up here in new hampshire. but keep in mind, rick santorum has a rust belt republican approach to how he wants to ...

Hes retreated to texas where hes going to be reassessing his campaign. so at this point south carolina wondering whos going to be left in this field by the time their primary rolls around on the 21st. kyra? >> just about half an hour from now we will take that news conference live when michele bachmann steps up to the mic. david mattingly, thanks so much. also still ahead, were going to ask our political buzz panel about the importance of being dull. it could be the key to the white house appa...