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now, but a million people are on the way to fill it up for americas biggest celebration. and 2012 arriving hour by hour around the world. live pictures here. happy new year. hon congress. just three days until the iowa caucuses. cnns political editor paul steinhauser is in the thick of it live in des moines, iowa. whirlwind day ahead, im sure, for you, right? >> no doubt about it, nonstop on the campaign trail. this is the end of december in iowa and it should be cold. lets start w...

tonight. whats being done to keep them all safe? we have a live report with preparations. in los angeles, 21 fires and a $61,000 reward. people are scared, authorities are desperate. from the cnn center in atlanta, this is cnn saturday morning. im e.d. hill. we start this hour in iowa. it is hard to believe, there are only three days left until the first votes are cast in the republican presidential race. it seems like weve been waiting for a year or so. so, of course, all the candid...

state until the final push. what the heck is a caucus any way? and are you looking for a job? one employer says you better not smoke. well show you how they are testing job applicants for nicotine. happy new year to you. if youre celebrating new zealand style. thats because its midnight there. lets look at auckland. there it is. they are among the first to ring in the new year. they do it in amazing style. we will spend the next couple hours showing you the new years celebrations fro...

its going to be hilarious. stay home. deep on cnn. stay with us. the countdown to the republican caucuses. the first contest over who will face president obama in november. well take you live to des moines. and a corporation bows to public pressure. verizon convenience fee, fuhgedaboudit. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we start with iowa and the republican presidential race. there are just three days now until the first votes are cast, which means plenty of action this wee...

thwart a potentially catastrophic event, the likes of which the city of tampa has not seen and hopefully never will. >> i want to bring in david mattingly who has been covering this for us all day long. i want to begin with the fact that im glad were sitting here telling this version of the story. this could have gone a different direction. a lot of this is all in thanks to this unsung hero who we may never know who this individual is who tipped police off. what did the police ultimate...

threatening to throw, project, place or discharge a destructive device, possession of bomb making materials, and also cultivation of marijuana in his room at his house, and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia as well. major newman? >> good morning. once we were able to identify mr. kanos whereabouts, where he lived and what his relationship was to the new tampa freedom high school area, i notified the supervisor sergeant pryor who works out there, very intimately with that n...

now we know that hamza alkhalee is dead. pictures of his body are disturbing. his family received his remains. it appeared the 13-year-old had been tortured. he was mutilated. many of the pictures weve received are too graphic to broadcast. cnn made repeated attempts to reach for comment without success. hamzas murder brought syrians into the streets. even children have joined the protests. well have more on dramatic developments in syria and the strongest words yet from washington in ...

>> i actually talked to him the night before the tornado and his little brother called me and said that he was trying to get home in it and that severe hail had hit his car and nobody had heard from him and that was roughly about right ten minutes after the tornado went through joplin. and i actually live in tulsa, and i was in my car on the way to joplin as soon as i got that from my youngest son. >> well, i hear that he was in the car with somebody else who has survive. is there any ...

written. 116 people are dead with that toll expected to rise. now i want to show you two different perspectives of a tornado. first, through the eyes of a storm chaser and then from the inside, 20 people huddled in a refrigeration unit in a convenience store. >> the tornado is trying to come down right here. the winds are out of the north and its coming right back around. tornado is here. coming on the ground right here. get sirens going. get the sirens going. im telling you. i got deb...

joint chiefs chairmen mike mullen and defense secretary bob gates expressed strong concern for safety of the s.e.a.l.s. each of them gave a stark warning. >> from my perspective, it is time to stop talking. and we have talked far too much about this. we need to move on. its a story that if we dont stop talking, it will never end. and it needs to. >> im very concerned about this. because we -- we wont to retain the capability to carry out these kinds of operations in the future. and whe...