secrets. reporter: and today reports response, rather, from the chinese ministry we have stressed many times that hacking attacks are trans national and anonymous. determining their origins are extremely difficult we don t know how the evidence in the report can be tenable and the chinese portray themselves as victims of cyber attacks. the new executive order we put on your show last week, megyn, this will go some way to addressing the chinese threat and ramp up the sharing of threat information between the government and private entities, with the idea that when there is an intryin in inte can raise the bar goose the industry. a moment that made big political headlines, remember this, president obama slamming the supreme court back in 2010 and justice alito was oply disputing the charges while they were feet away from each other and the president then accused a recent supreme court ruling at the time opening the flood gates to special interest groups and their money in our politi
jenna: big headline out today that the chinese military is behind a string of hacking attacks against u.s. companies and our government. that is according to a cyber security firm which says it s tracked the source of several attacks to a single chinese government building outside of shanghai. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is here with more on this. the chinese deny this. but what evidence out there says it is them. this new report from a cyber security research firm in the washington d.c. area lace out a compelling case that the china attacks from china are sponsored and directed by the chinese military. the report specifically sites evidence linking a cyber threat called apt1 to the people s liberation army which is headquartered in the building
don t want to hear from a guy dressed as abraham lincoln. hey, jass, you going to thank me for the dayoff? pretty good. time to look at the morning papers. we ll start with the wall street journal. according to aaa, gas prices have jumped 43 cents over the past month putting the national average at $3.73. in fact, fuel prices have climbed for 32 straight days. experts blame an increase in demand and several refineries shutting down as two of the contributing factors. the new york times, a computer security firm says there s little doubt a unity within the chinese army is behind a series os of hacking attacks in the united states. the unit is increasing its focus on u.s. infrastructure including power grids, gas lines and waterworks. officials at the chinese embassy
town wins a $950 million lottery jackpot. you heard right. all except one guy who missed out on it. we start with this. we re just a few hours away from the start of the nevada caucuses. it is the fifth contest in the republican presidential race, but the first one to take place west of the mississippi we will have much more on that in just a moment. but first, here are some of the other top stories we are watching for you this morning. in syria anti-government activists say the military is randomly bombing residential neighbors. it has been the center of the uprising in syria. activists say as many as 260 people including women and children have been killed in the past day alone. cnn has not independently confirmed the accounts, though. here is what one brave activist told our anderson cooper last night. they have been bombarding an a area for like three hours with tank shells because a part of the syrian army led down to welcome the syrian army. so they bombard randomly
to an end in syria. also, another epidemic in america. this one has to do with your furry friend. we want to get right to politics, though. nevada republican caucuses get under way in just a few hours. there are 28 delegates up for grabs in the first contest west of the mississippi. cnn s joe johns has more on the final rush for support. susan, as the race for nevada caucuses entered the home stretch, the mitt romney campaign was hoping their candidate was well positioned to score a victory here just like he did four years ago. it was a bizarre week in politics, though, with donald trump stirring up a publicity firestorm before finally publicly endorsing romney for president. romney did not help his own case with his comments on cnn that he was not concerned about the poor because there s a safety net for them. he later said he misspoke. meanwhile, newt gingrich, the former speaker of the house tried to capitalize on the romney misstep promoting his own plan to create j