learn what exactly wanted to the pioneering female aviator a mellia earhart? i m wolf blirts. i m wolf blirts. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com this is cnn breaking news. lettay get right to breaking news from mexico. a powerful earthquake from acapulco to mexico city. let s go to our meteorologist chad myers. what are you seeing? what s going on? it has been reduced to a 7.4 earthquake, wolf, but that is still a very major shake. about 200 miles to mexico city, but there are cities or towns at least, much closer to the epicenter. let me take you to a few because there are 4,000 to up to 17,000 people in some of these cities and we know that they were right on top of the epicenter. there you see the towns with the roof, the tile roofs here. a beautiful part of mexico here. other towns not that far right over the other side of the hill. this is only about eight miles from the epicenter at a 7.4 shake and now about 12 miles deep. those t
we re only a day away from a crucial primary that could determine where this republican marathon is headed. fresh off a run away win in puerto rico, mitt romney is now looking to score big in illinois. rick santorum needs a strong showing as he tries to deny romney the nomination. the two rivals have long since taken off the gloves, but now they have put on some brass knuckles as well. our national correspondent jim accosta is in chicago with the very latest. the top two gop contenders are practicing their own brand of chicago style politics on this day before the illinois primary and both rick santorum and mitt romney are proving to be untouchable. reporter: the battle for the gop nomination has come to illinois and in the land of lincoln the republican party is a house divided in an uncivil war of words. i m somewhat experienced in the economy, i m not an economic light weight. president obama is. we re not going to be successful replacing an economic light weight wit
four men a, robert bales was brought to the u.s. and speaks to his lawyer for the first time. here s his attorney, john brown. i think flfs an effort to paint him as someone who, rather than having a serious brain injury and shouldn t have been there to begin with, had some other factors. the financial situation for all of us is stressful, i think. but, you know, nobody goes and kills women and children because they had financial stresses. bales is kbg held now at fort leavenworth military prison in kansas. that s where we have ted rollins standing by. do we even know if sergeant bales has met with that attorney yet ted? are we expecting the attorney to come on and speak? well, we are expecting him to come out and speak. we reached out to him via e-mail and he said he likely would. he said possibly right afterwards. we do know talking to people that they have met, they are meeting at this hour and they apparently met for three hours this morning and are on a lunch break
and children last weekend in kandahar, afghanistan. today he remains in solitary confinement at ft. leavenworth. he s not yet been formally charged. gas prices go up for the ninth straight day. it is now on average close to $3.84 a gallon, but if you live in some big cities, you re already seeing gas prices average more than $4 a gallon. the record high was $4.11 back in july of 2008. a colorado dad is going the extra mile to stop his children from texting while driving. and he s getting an early start. his triplets are just 8 years old. he s already created a special cell phone app that blocks calls, texts and e-mails while users are driving. it is called the life before text app. and get this, it sends parents an e-mail if someone tries to disable the app. rick santorum, this guy, he announced today puerto ricans need to speak english before they can become a state. you can t be a state if you don t speak english. we are so screwed here in california, oh, my god. we are
more than a decade. the economy has added jobs. that s the most important thing, for 17 straight months. more than two million jobs in the last year alone. so there are real signs the economy is improving, but gas prices have been soaring. the cost of living rising. the most in more than ten months. some americans may be feeling left out of this economy. diane swonk, diane, as gas prices have increased, the president s approval rating has decreased. i m not one to make direct correlations, but there s been really nothing else that might have caused this. there s a clear breakdown based on where americans fall in the economy. your thoughts let me show you a poll first. a cbs/new york times poll shows among those making more than $100,000 a year, the president s approval rating has replamained relatively flat. meanwhile the approval rating for those making 30 to 50,000 a year dropped by 16 points. diane, is this a clear illustration that we ve got two americas on two very dif