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he will let you pay a flat 20% or stick with the current tax system. the centers for disease control is recommending boys ages 11 and 12 get vaccinated for the human pap loma virus or hpv. currently girls are vaccinated to cut the risk of their cervical cancer. the cdc says vaccinating boys will help slow hpv, which is spread by sexual contact. libyas new rulers say moammar gadhafi was buried in an unmarked grave today in the desert. his body was on display in a cold storage unit f...

>> oh, here we go. >> oh, kyra. what a laugh to start the day. >> happy monday, peeps. happy monday. [ laughter ] >> kyra, have a good show. we start off with presidential politics and the two states that will be critical in choosing the new president. -- the new presidential nominee. mitt romney is considered the heavy favorite. iowa is still up for grabs just 10 weeks before it hosts the nations first caucuses. gingrich kicking off his day with a town hall. rick santorum holding se...

collapsed. people left homeless are dealing now with freezing temperatures. in north africa today tunisians are counting millions of votes by hand. the results of parliamentary elections are expected tomorrow. tunisia was the first country to overthrow the dictator in what became the arab spirang. 80% turned out. many faced long waits. >> i waited three hours to cast your ballot. >> something like 3 1/2 hours. we didnt feel it. it was like five minutes because we were very, very happ...

our list. >> you tie for number one on my list. how about poppy harlow with kiss. thats our era! its the top of the hour. 9:00 on the east coast and after 42 years, libyans awaken this morning to a new beginning free of a murderous tyrant. an ambassador for libyas transitional government says the death of gadhafi means a black era has come to an end forever and across the country, libyans celebrate under to the morni in hours firing off guns and blasting off car horns. dna tests conf...

with fredricka whitfield. >> have a great day. the cnn presidential debate, tempers flair and well talk more on that. this morning after were tallying the fight cards of the most tested debate of the election season. jim acosta is in las vegas where the candidates anted up and they threw down. jim, all must be nursing some bruises after that throw down. any winners? >> there were some winners and some losers and i think youre going to see in this piece we are talking about. this was,...

well be going live to las vegas to catch up with jim in just a second. all right, meanwhile, lets go to senior political editor mark preston, also in vegas while were waiting to hear from our jim acosta. mark, we have just been talking about these new polls that were released a few moments ago as we are preparing for the presidential debate tonight. okay. this is live television, folks. its like a juggling act when you have about three live shots to get to in las vegas. jim acosta, a...

vegas. and theres crashes all the time in this sport. lets talk about what made this one so bad. >> what made it so bad is the fact that you have a field, which is bigger than the indianapolis 500, on a racetrack which is almost half as small. the oval here at the las vegas motor speedway is a mile and a half oval. and in indianapolis, its a 2 1/2 mile oval. so you have a lot more spacing of cars. as you look at the wreck right now, you have a much fatter track so cars can go four wide...

times for people who arent rich players or owners. take san antonio. the spurs are the only major pro sports team. some 4,000 people depend on them for a living. and then cities like sacramento, orlando, portland, salt lake city, the nba is the only major pro sport in that town. well see the economic impact there for sure in those cities. so, lets talk more about this with mike pesca from mpr. mike, its a complicated money dispute, no doubt. what is the main sticking point at 9:01 east...

im not getting into that. >> i think what the real focus is here again is on religious tolerance. thats really what this is about. and i think again to make this a big issue is just ridiculous right now. >> were covering all the angles for you. paul steinhauser is in washington. and shannon travis is in iowa. lets go ahead and start with you, paul. bachmann and cain ducking the debate shows. just how delicate the balancing act proves, i guess, how delicate that balancing act needs to b...

the world. >> we cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence development at all levels of society. >> it is worth noting that the yemeni recipient is the first arab woman to receive the nobel peace prize. well, no formal ceremony by u.s. troops in afghanistan today to mark the tenth anniversary of the war. the conflict is the longest in u.s. history. more than 2,700 coalition forces have been killed over the d...