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were live on the las vegas strip where in just four hours, the republican hopefuls will face off in a cnn western presidential debate. tonight, herman cain is the candidate to beat. since the last debate one week ago in new hampshire, herman cain has continued to rise in the polls and is now the front-runner for the republican presidential nomination. he is joining me now. hes here in "the situation room." were in las vegas. mr. cain, thanks very much for coming in. how does that feel ...

for locking her sisters boyfriend in a closet until he starved to death. more recently she had a house in florida and she had the i.d.s and social security numbers or powers of attorney for some 50 other people when they arrested her. finding those people, learning their storieses no small job but some questions are still being answered. just this morning police in west palm beach confirmed a 15-year-old girl who was last seen in july with gregory thomas or thomass teenage son was foun...

Tonight. martha: thank you very much, take care. bye alice. bill: 25 minutes before the hour, after five years in captivity, captured israeli soldier gilad shalik could be reunited with his family as soon as tomorrow. shepard smith talked with his anguished father right after his capture in the senior of 2006. >> its not logic that theyll keep the young boy as a hostage, and for many people, for us as family, for many other innocent people. bill: again, that was five years ago, now the home comi...

Prisoner and that happening over and over again. i just cant imagine how she did not, how elisabeth did not shut down entirely and give up. >> in total, elisabeth gave birth to seven of her fathers children. today, only six are alive. michael, a twin, died soon after birth. his tiny body incinerated by josef fritzl, most likely in the furnace. three others, felix now 5, stefan now 18, and kirsten, 19, were condemned to lead a life in captivity with their mother. but, incredibly, fritzl selected ...

>> fritzls closest neighbors bought his story, too. >> translator: people said that it was irresponsible. what a bad mother elisabeth was just to leave the children on the doorstep. frau fritzl already had seven children and now she has to bring up grandchildren, as well. terrible. >> incredibly, over the 24 years elisabeth was in captivity, there were more than 100 tenants renting rooms in the fritzl house right above elisabeths prison. none suspected. >> translator: in hindsight, you can alway...

without controversy. change depends on persistence. change requires determination. it took a full decade before the moral guidance of brown versus board of education was translated into the enforcement measures of the civil rights about and the voting rights act. but those ten long years did not lead dr. king to give up. he kept on pushing. he kept on speaking. he kept on marching until change finally came. and when the civil rights and voting rights act was passed, americans still fou...

He said, tell him i said hello. so i think that thats a dramatic improvement from where he started to where he is today. bill: two men are facing charge after the attack that happened outside of dodger staitd stadium in march in los angeles. both men pled not guilty. martha: he could be nearing the end of five years in captivity behind enemy lives. a soldier for the israeli defense force kidnapped by hamas militants in 2006 and hid on where in the gaza strip. but there may be a break in the nego...

Radar here. >> the state department says iran may be focusing more aggressively on terrorist activities against diplomats all around the world. how quickly have tensions escalated? where does this seem to be headed? >> tensions have escalated a lot. we have to go way back to the iraq war. tensions with the saudis were terrible from there. theres a sectarian divide, theres a sunni/shia divide. thats always been a problem. since the arab spring, this has become even worse, and the revolution guard...

than 1,000 palestinians in israeli prisons. the exchange is expected to happen within the next few days. the worst floods in decades are wreaking havoc on the livelihood of thailands people and economy. theyre bracing for the next round which could reach them in days. flooding has killed at least 269 people and affected 8 million across the country. in southwestern mexico, soldiers have been deployed, tourists have been told to leave, and emergency shelters are open as a hurricane ...

senior administration official tells me this was international murder for hire. heres what we have been told. two men charged in an alleged plot to assassinate the saudi arabiian ambassador to the united states. both are iranian. one is also a naturalized u.s. citizen, whos in custody and identified as 56-year-old manssor arbabsiar. manssor arbabsiar appeared in a federal courthouse in downtown manhattan this afternoon. he did not enter a plea. according to the complaint that we read, ...