bluster, big talk, and beating the drums of war with iraq. and rush limbaugh inc., a contract worth hundreds of millions as more advertisers jump the ship, as he put his own empire at risk? i m wolf blitzer at the cnn election center. you re in the situation room. it s called super tuesday for a reason. even in this year s slimmed down version 1/3 gop contests in ten states today. more than all the primaries and three of then last week, certainly romney could leave some of the but the most important prize today is ohio. our latest cnn poll shows romney is neck and neck with rick santorum who needs a big day of his own. let s go straight to jim acosta. he s on the scene for us in ohio. what s the latest there, jim? reporter: wolf, ohio mike the marquee state in the super tuesday states up for grabs, but you wouldn t know it. none of the candidates were out in the state looking for votes, but rick santorum will be in steubenville, ohio later tonight with the hope th
magnitude. short jolt. only lasted for a few seconds. from what we understand, no damage. but, yeah, very unsettling this morning, about 5:30 this morning, carol. unsettling but i dare say californians are pretty used to this, right? very used to it. but anytime it happens, you know, this early in the morning, people are a little bit more unsettled as people are getting ready, you know, for their day. we know that it s standard operating procedure for them to check bridges and things like that and the subway system. and from what again we understand no damage at all. all right, dan simon. thank you so much. like a war zone or an end of the world movie. that s how people are describing tornadoes that tore through the midwest and the south. here is the latest. the violent storms are blamed for 39 deaths in five states. national guard troops are now on the ground in kentucky and indiana. fema has also dispatched teams to those states to begin damage assessment. but one sta
possible iranian nuclear weapon. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. he s made a fortune stoking conservative passions while poking and proding at liberals and rush limbaugh has seen his share of controversies but this time it s different. the outrage he sparked when he called a conception advocate a slut and a prostitute has snowballed, one after the other and major advertisers are pulling their ads from his radio show and there s no sign that the uproar is dying down. lisa sylvester is working the story. what s the latest on rush limbaugh and all his advertisers? reporter: hi, wolf, we re up to at least eight advertisers walking away from the show. today on his radio show, limbaugh apologized for his choice of words but does he seem concerned about losing those advertisers? the answer is, no. thank you. reporter: the reaction was swift and fierce, advertisers are pulling spots from the rush limbaugh show including quicken loans and the latest aol wh
nuclear program. at the same time, he vowed to prevent iran from building nuclear weapons and defended israel s right to make its own decisions about its security. netanyahu addresses the convention tonight and minutes from now, we expect to hear his and the president s opening comments from the oval office. we are on that story for you. also, single biggest election day of the presidential nomination process is now just one day away, 437 delegates up for grabs tomorrow in ten states from alaska to massachusetts. now the superest state of all may be ohio. georgia has more delegates but no state matters more as a general election battleground. now, mitt romney, fresh off his weekend victory in the washington state caucuses, is in ohio today, so is rick santorum, whose early lead in ohio polling has faded. newt gingrich in tennessee, ron paul in idaho. we are following it all for you. now, over the weekend, romney also picked up some key conservative endorsements from house m
gas pump and casts a big shadow over obama s hopes for re-election. just a day after dismissing what he called loose talk of war with iran, he sat down with benjamin netanyahu. at the top of their agenda, talk that israel may soon attack iran s nuclear sites. jessica yellin working sources all day. take us inside three hours of talks and a working lunch later, what do we know? reporter: we re told the prime minister and the president within their three hours had 30 minutes when they were one-on-one. none of us will know really what they talked about when they were alone together. but the most pressing question, did they discuss red lines, and we are told by u.s. and israeli officials that that was not what the the two leaders sat down to talk about. that this was essentially a meeting to make clear to each leader where they stand on these fundamental issues of what it would take to press each other for an attack, but they did not ask each other fundamentally for the go-ahea