evacuated. students say it was chaotic when the shooting started with people basically running for their lives. parents were frantic to find their kids. i just want you to take a listen to this. she texted me and said there s been a shooting and i m in a closet, but don t worry. i said, well, just keep texting me. so that s what we re doing. my son is over there. i have a daughter here in middle schoo school. more on the shootings throughout the morning as well. they are spending time in tennessee today. that s ahead of next week s big super tuesday contest. and more apparent retaliation for last week s burning of korans by nato troops. a suicide bomber detonated explosives, killing nine civilians. the taliban are claiming responsible for the attack and for poisoning food at another base. we have traces of bleach found in fruit and coffee. no troops were sicked. they re eating now prescreened meals. president obama s apology nor the koran burning has sparked criticism f
the outside world with william cohen. it is a new day hopefully a far safer one for sunlts at a los angeles school at the center of a shobi ishocking child abu n scandal. they were greeted with an entirely new staff. the whole staff was replaced after the arrest of at least two teachers accused of committing lewd acts with students. eight alleged victims are expected to announce the first lawsuits in that case. president obama is let sing states off the hook when it comes to the no child left behind law. the president is expected to announce this hour that he s freeing ten states from stricter parts of the law in return for a promise to improve how they evaluate and prepare students. those states will no longer be forced to meet the requirement that all students be proficient in reading and math by 2014. mr. obama s announcement is due to start at 1:55 eastern time and we ll bring it to you live. finally big relief to the tune of 26 billion for distressed homeowners. if y
in the first says there what exactly is a super pac, you ask? i am here for you. it is an independent political group that can accept huge donation from individuals and corporations to support a candidate. but, and that is a massive but, the super pac is not allowed to work directly with the candidate, but as you saw just now and as you were watching yesterday, the waters get pretty politically muddy, here to talk about it cnn political analyst ron brownstein, hey, good to see you. good morning. good to be here. i m sure you probably prefer to be in a warm studio but let s heat things up, shall we, ron? yeah. not too bad it is pretty warm for the new hampshire primary. you are lucky it could be a lot worse. i m telling you something, i was raking through my past political lexicon and trying to remember when super pacs sort of came to be and they are fairly new for a lot of people. they heard about pacss, now they are super pacs, exactly what is
rick perry watching the returns from a hotel room is my guess from south carolina i don t know that is such a good idea. i don t know anything about politics, you do is that because he is so lows in new hampshire? you are selling yourself short. perry came up here for the doubleheader and once the second debate was over he jumped on a plane and got to south carolina. i guess you can say he is hopefully doesn t hope it is going to be his last stand but doesn t look like his last stand down there, southern state, eastern texas, more favorable climate for him closer to iowa. take a look at this the brand new polls from the other day in south carolina, cnn/time/orc. look who is on top, same guy on top in new hampshire. surprise! yeah, surprise. 19% for santorum, gingrich, 18, paul 12, perry 5%. there again, a brand new poll
and the pharmaceutical company novartis is recalling several of its products because of complaints about mislabeling or broken pill in s pills i the bottles. it contains other products in them and asking the customers to destroy them or return them to the store. america s choice, 2012, nation s first primary one day away, mitt romney is the odds on favorite, if you have been watch the polls, a lot of the folk discuss who comes second and who comes third. latest tracking poll by seven news and suffolk university shows romney at 33% followed by ron paul at 20%, huntsman third at 13% and if you look, newt gingrich and rick santorum are fairly close behind but rick perry, tinkering along at the end there, just 1%. cnn s political director mark