more on the race straight ahead live. newt gingrich is starting his day in iowa meeting with moms at a coffee shop. newt gingrich has seen his support among likely caucus goers plunge. part of the reason is negative ads targeting him. analysis finds almost half of all the political ads in iowa have been attack ads against gingrich. crowds defy danger and took to the streets in syria today. opposition groups call the rallies the crawl to freedom square. they urge demonstrators to defy sniper attacks to make their way to public gathering places. the opposition says 32 people were killed by security forces today. the uprising has prompted some soldiers to defect. translator: we got the orders in the army that went against my oath as a soldier. i had sworn to protect civilians, but when i saw what the government forces were doing to the people, i defected. they say there will be no change in policy despite the death of kim jong il now replaced by his son. the state-run ne
and the bottom line on the iowa and the bottom line on the iowa caucus it is the country s first contest and let s just say it s getting ugly. let s go outfront. hi there, and good evening. i m brooke bolduan sitting outfront with erin burnett. five days, we re five days away in the contest for the gop nomination, and as i mentioned a moment ago, i know it s following. newt going after romney and perry going after santorum and everyone going after paul and bachmann is fighting very publicly with her now former iowa chief, but romney, he seems to be riding pretty high after a new cnn poll shows he has broken out of his dead heat and has first place pretty much all to himself. let s go straight to the ground there to our cnn political correspondent jim acosta. i know you spent the day following around mitt romney, his campaign, and you know, if i may, it looks like mitt romney has a little extra pep in his step. reporter: i would say so, brooke. he has a spring in his
much more from and about the hawkeye caucuses later this hour. sears holdings is out with a partial list of the sears and k-mart stores it plans to close. earlier this week sears said it would close between 100 and 120 stores as a result of poor holiday sales. the firm has released a list of 79 that will be closed nationwide. sears said in a statement that it could not say how many jobs will be cut or when the stores will be closed. sears holdings has more than 4,000 stores in the u.s. and canada. a protest in syria turns deadly. hundreds of thoses of pro-democracy demonstrators jammed the streets and homes and other cities across the country as part of what the opposition called the crawl to freedom square. anti-government groups say at least 32 protesters have been killed. witnesses say this video shows a man who had his legs blown off being carried by friends in a ma das tus suburb. crackdown by president bashar al assad s forces continues despite the presence of arab
been waiting for. morgan and morgan. here you are, morgan freeman. yay. my hour with the great morgan freeman from glory and driving miss daisy to invictus and shawshank redemption. his extraordinary 40-year career. his first proper love scene. he gets up and plants one right on my lips. a good one, you know. and i was so surprised. meaning? that the reaction on my face was bob says it was priceless. very strong feelings about race and the state of his country. that s stated policy. publicly stated. is to do whatever it takes to see to it that obama only serves one term. screw the country. we re going to do whatever we can to get this black man out of here. and the morgan freeman you really don t know. play golf with one hand. really? yeah. i can drive a ball 180 yards. this man can do just about anything. i ll have to ask him to do me a personal favor. i m going to do this one more time. but after this i get paid. right? this is piers m
that it s krun f time? and we re digging deeper into ron paul s writings and finding sexual harassment victims. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re here in the new cnn election center counting down to the final few days and hours before the first contest of 2012. the new iowa poll out today reenforcing mitt romney s place at the top of the pack, running neck and neck with ron paul. it drives home the bombshell findings of our poll this week, sh showing rick santorum has surged to third place in iowa, while newt gingrich has faded. it s put iting more and more pressure on romney to go for broke in iowa, to try to pull off a win tuesday night. jim acosta is joining us from des moines with more. t mitt romney has the big mo and the question heading into this weekend is whether he will win the iowa caucuses without breaking a sweat. no wonder mitt romney appears to be going all in in iowa. he just might be holding a winning hand. a sign just days before