second at 18%. another poll out of iowa shows it much closer. let s go to south carolina, as well. south carolina, of course, the first southern state to vote, it goes number three in the calendar and votes on the 23rd of january. this is also, again, showing newt gingrich on top. far ahead of mitt romney. romney at 23%. gingrich 18 points ahead and rick perry at 9%. kyra, i guess newt gingrich to take his national poll numbers and translate it into an operation and make sure he gets the teams in place in theearly states to get the voters to the caulks and primary sites, kyra. nancy pelosi is saying that she has information on gingrich and newt is sending her a warning. what the heck is going on here? yeah, this started yesterday and, remember, this goes back to the late 1990s when gingrich was house speaker and he was facing 84 ethics investigations and pelosi said she maybe will unearth some of the stuff that was never made public. here s what she said. i know a lot abo
we were talking about this yesterday. today it seems to have gotten a little worse in material of the damage that has manifested itself. the santa ana winds, unreal. really bad. even into utah. the intermountain west, the great basin from centreville, had a wind gust in utah. 102 miles per hour. they said in some places, almost every house has some type of damage from the wind that occurred yesterday. then the wind went down across into vegas. made a bunch of dust. then right through the l.a. basin. wind gusts now, even 72 miles an hour. we started getting those tweets from ryan lovell. look at the tree. big trees. 24-inch diameter trees coming down into people s homes today. and i m listening to this scanner out of landfall. and power lines are still coming down. here it is. a twitter picture. i asked, hey, are you all in california? and he tweeted me multiple pictures. i m hoag that isn t ryan s car. he can t watchful. 212 customers without power across the l.a.
with him. let s go to mark preston who joine joins us now from washington. cain ducked the topic during a speech last noit. do we expect him to say anything today? we do. this is something that will dog him along the campaign trail, don. something he has been battling for several weeks. several women come out and allege that he sexually harassed them during his tenure at the national restaurant association and now we have this new woman, ginger white coming out saying that she had an inappropriate relationship with mr. cain for 13 years. she spoke out about it on a local atlanta television station, as we all know, a couple days ago.addressed it th morning, again, on good morning america. do you believe that mr. cain is fit to be president or should he end his campaign? in my opinion, no, i do not. i honestly do not think that he is, in my opinion, would make a good president as far as i m concerned. my views are different than his views, but at the end of the day, thi
sexual relationship? absolutely. i can only imagine, i can t imagine him actually confirming. it s the name of the game, i guess. david bettingly is here to look at the atlanta businesswoman who is making the accusations and joe johns focuses on the beleaguered cain campaign. let s begin with you, joe, in washington. can this cain train really keep on rolling here? is this going to essentially kill his hopes of being president? hey, ted, i think you have to say, number one, other politicians have survived allegations of extra marital affairs. interesting to see what happens with herman cain because on top of that he has all this talk about allegations of sexual harassment. still, herman cain s polling had already been trending downward. this certainly does not help him, but he does say he s not getting out of the race. here s what he told wolf blitzer in the situation room. you re staying in this race, you re not dropping out. i m not dropping out of this race, no
how would a president romney or gingrich or cain handle a situation like this? that is the kind of topic the republican candidates will debate tonight. its focus will be foreign policy and national security. cnn, the heritage foundation and the american enterprise institute will bring it to you from washington tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. we re talking to our deputy political director paul steinhauser, pentagon correspondent chris lawrence and joe johns at constitution hall where the debate will take place. joe, let s start with you. is the 11th big gop presidential debate this year, what are the expectations? who might benefit from a foreign policy question tonight and who might, you know, possibly be in trouble? well, when you look at the range of all these republican candidates who are going to be here at dar constitutional hall, the first thing you can say is that there are at least three candidates who are expected to know this stuff cold. that would be the former spe