of mexican origin. 14% puerto rico and 5% cuban. in florida, cubans are 32%. puerto ricans 28% and mexicans 9%. president obama speaks to latino officials here this hour. president has a wide lead over mitt romney among latino voters. what s he plan to do? shore up the support, bring in juan carlos lopez to talk a little bit about that and jessica yellin, inside where president obama will be speaking shortly. jessica, i want to start off with you. yesterday we heard from mitt romney. he highlighted the poor economic conditions among hispanics. 11% unemployment. 2 million hispanics living in poverty. how will the president address the concerns of latino community when it comes to the economy? i expect he will draw on the same message we heard recently from the president about the two different visions for the future economy of the nation talking about how he believes he will build on the middle class and fare fair shake, fair future, building on the middle class and mitt r
relationship edges towards a close. diana magnay, cnn, bamberg, germany. the u.n. security council tried to formally condemn the government of syria today. but the draft resolution failed. shot down by a double veto. ambassadors from russia and china voted against it. american ambassador susan rice made her feelings very clear. the united states is disgusted that a couple members of this council prevent us from fug filling our soul purpose here, addressing an ever deepening crisis in syria and a growing threat to regional peace and security. for months this council is held hostage by a couple members. these members stand behind empty argue ams and individual interests while delaying and seeking to strip bare any text that would pressure assad to change his actions. richard ross is at the united nations. we just heard ambassador rice say she was disgusted. you just spoke with her personally as well. what did she add to that? the u.s. ambassador and others are deeply di
they were hanging in them and children were crying and people screaming and jumping. we heard crew members jumped at the end into the water. my goodness. frightening moments. a journalist is where survivors are being taken and joins us by phone. barbie, what is the latest on the rescue mission, the search for the missing people and if they know what the ship ran into. reporter: well, right now the rescue operations are sort of winding town. darkness has fallen here and it s starting to get a little bit cold. the divers worked all afternoon searching the underwater components of that ship on its side in search of bodies. they have not ruled out that there will be more fatalities from this accident. several people, though, that did get off the boat at the port prior to this one have come forward to say they got off. so we ve taken the number of missing from 70 to i think the last count was 51. but that s still a considerable number. they don t know, you know, if these peopl
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