with president obama and the first family, but he s with me this hour to explain more. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. he s come on through the rise and fall of michele bachmann, but this time, it might be different for mitt romney. newt gingrich is now posing a threat to romney s persistent high polling, opening up a new battle line in the republican race for the white house. joe johns the working the story for us. what s the latest between romney and gingrich? well, mitt romney has spent most of this campaign in a fairly comfortable position, but his organization is feeling the heat and the question now is how they re planning to row respond. newt gingrich at the head of the pack a month out from the iowa caucuses. a thing nobody planned for except newt gingrich. a new poll in the early primary state of florida showing 50% of likely republican voters saying gingrich is their pick for president. only 19% picked romney, who spent much of the campaign beh
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.
people were killed and 30 wounded when a car bomb was blown up at an outdoor village market, 75 kilometers north of bagdad. in a separate incident, seven people were killed when a gunman struck a town. when he meets with the eu foreign ministers thursday, hague shutdown the embassy and expelled diplomats in response to an attack on demonstrators on tuesday. he says iran should be ashamed of failing to protect britain s interest. today is the 24th annual world aids day. people, organizations and retailers are working together. in 2010 34 million people have the virus, nearly 17% than a decade ago. i m zain verjee and world business today starts now. it s 9:00 a.m. in the morning here in london. a very good morning to you. i m nina dos santos. it s 5:00 p.m. in hong kong. good afternoon. i m andrew stephens. you re watching world business today, the top stories this thursday, december 1st. steps to boost lending send asian markets soaring, banks and property stocks see
alarming study showing that so many people don t know how to treat or protect themselves. this is your a.m. wake-up call. and good morning to you. this is your am wake-up call for thursday, december 1st from the time warner center in new york. i m carol costello. here are your top stories. stocks around the world surging after the federal reserve and other central banks make a move to stop a global financial meltdown. the dow had its biggest one-day point jump of the year. talking to his wife, checking the cash flow, herman cain getting close to making a decision on the future of his presidential campaign with new allegations of an affair threatening to tear it down. marking the end and the beginning. iraq holding a ceremony this morning honoring u.s. soldiers who are leaving after more than eight years of war. let s head to atlanta now for a check of today s weather. rob marciano is here. good morning, rob. good morning, carol. things at least on the eastern ha
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