the presidential candidates go toe to toe tonight. as they face off in jacksonville. romney and gingrich are in a virtual poll. romney is ahead by just two percentage points. on the campaign trail, gingrich conceded that all the super pac attack ads have now hurt. but he s not backing down. i can promise you i am going to fight every day from here until we win the nomination, because i am not going to allow the monied interests that are bose buying those ads to come in here and into other states, to misinform people and think we re too dumb to fight back. jessica buchanan, she is safe. right now at a u.s. navy base in italy after her rescue from kidnappers in somalia. u.s. special ops troops parachuted in and picked up buchanan and a fellow aid worker and killed all the people holding them hostage. her father expects to see her some time today. massive crowds of people said to be supporters of syrian president al assad gathering in cities across the country today. it ra
fighter jet. hope you have a great weekend. we ll be back here bright and early monday morning. it will be a great weekend just watching happy friday. we ll watch that primary, as well. it will be a great saturday. live from studio 7, i m suzanne malveaux. want to get you up to speed for friday, january 20th. it s the eve of the south carolina primary. republican presidential race is now hotter than ever. newt gingrich turned up the heat on the news media in last night s debate. it started when our john king asked about an accusation by gingrich s ex-wife. she says cause to her in 199 and asked her to enter into an open marriage. would you like to take time to respond to that? no. but i will. i m frankly as tountounded that would take trash like that and use to open the debate. i m tired of the elite media protecting barack obama by attacking republicans. gingrich is back on the campaign trail in charleston. as for his ex-wife s claim that he asked for an open m
he put his hand on my leg under my skirt and reached for my genitals. he also grabbed my head and brought it toward his crotch. mr. cain said, you want a job, right? i asked him to stop and he did. cain told abc s jimmy kimmel that the allegation is false and he got angry watching it with his staff. they could see steam coming out of my ears and the feelings that you have when you know that all of this is totally fabricated, you go from anger, then you go, you get disgusted. you try to control yourself to make sure you watch this thing all the way through. i was listening very closely and then when it was all over with i said, well, i know what we got to do because there is not an ounce of truth in all of these accusations. so we re also going to be listening very closely and bring you cain s news conference that is live at 5:00 p.m. eastern. joe paterno is going to face a barrage of questions about the penn state sex abuse case. that is happening today. the legendary f
than the testimony in court? none. none. he s set to be put to death next wednesday unless they grant clemency. no two hours, john boehner will reveal the republican plan to create jobs and close loopholes. they said they could go along with some of the president s jobs plans until they found he would raise taxes on wealthy americans. the line for first time jobless claims jumped 11,000 for a total of 428,000. it s the highest number of first-time claims since june. the postmaster general is outlining a plan that could cost 150,000 jobs. they want to close more than 300 mail processing facilities, saturday deliver could end, first class mail would be slower to arrive. they are $10 billion in the hole this fiscal year. in los angeles today, lawyers in dr. conrad murray s manslaughter trial are going over juror questionnaires with the judge. the final phase of juror selection is next week. they say murray had a hand in michael jackson s death. jacqueline kennedy is
i think she s stuck with the network because of the attacks. we ll is more in the next hour. live from studio 7, i m drew griffin in for suzanne, who s on assignment in dangerous conditions in afghanistan. let s get you up to data on this tuesday, september 13. taliban fighters attacking the u.s. embassy with rocket-propelled grenades and guns. u.s. troops trying to flush these guys out. they re in an abandoned building where the attack was launched. fewer than ten taliban are believed to be involved. republic saying two americans could be released in days. that is if the men s families pay bail of $1 billion. josh fattal and shane bauer have been in custody since they went on that hike in 2009. iran sentenced them to eight years for spying and illegal entry. the americans say they were just hiking in iraq, accidently straying into iran. texas governor rick perry may feel like he is a punching bag this morning. seven republicans who trailed perry in the polls, they roug