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a war. and the latest from a cruise ship that ran aground off the coast of italy. lets go outfront. >> good evening, everyone. im erin burnett, and outfront tonight, were live in charleston, south carolina. tonight, newt gingrich whose performance in tomorrows primary election here will make or break his run at the presidency. no doubt, hes surging in the polls. you look that left right and center. the latest show him in striking distance of mitt romney. hes also ignited the fire sto...

General jim livingston, a marine veteran who won the congressional medal of honor will appear with newt gingrich at a rally tonight i believe on the york town with another medal of horn. these are people who supported rick perry. there is no question ma rick perry has done has helped further gingrichs surge in south carolina. jenna: it will be interesting to see what the impact will look like when we have the results of the polls. rob kelly and we are getting a lot of questions from carol on thi...

In the meantime as you can see a live picture of where we expect governor perry to make this announcement. bret baier joining us from washington, d.c. bret, if one more person walks behind that podium, at this point there is lot of false starts. as soon as we see governor perry well got to that announcement. but, bret, why now? how do you answer that question of why now for governor perry? >> well, i think he looked at the polls. i think he looked at the positioning. i think he looked at the pro...

>> reporter: the bus behind me and the bins side the building. newt gingrich with a crowd of several hundred people. mr. begin grip of drawing bigger and bigger crowds. the polls suggest hes surging and catching up rapidly and in some cases has eclipsed romney. real clear politics still shows romney ahead. but perry is out of the race. perry was passionate saying the former speaker is the right guy to be the conservative or what many have called the conservative alternative to mitt romney. liste...

Trendlines, suggests that gingrich is catching up perhaps after pace that could catch mitt romney and surpass him, particularly what happens next 36 hours. if rick perry were to endorse, that could have an effect that would turn the tables. bill: what gingrich is saying the polls show him closing that gap as you refer to there. by perhaps as close as five points on mitt romney. if the polls are right, that would go to the point youre making about the trajectory where the undecideds are going at ...

Statement where the average wage is $32,000. he now yesterday revealed he had money in the caymans. this is sort of richie rich image of him thats gotten him in big trouble. not one of us. and this endorsement by perry, there are a lot of people out there, many republicans i talked to at a coffee shop or i see in a restaurant. i say who your voting for on saturday. most of them are sort of early ear last week were saying, well, probably romney. they are moving over to newt. and they are moving o...

little volatile. for example, we saw claims jump a few weeks ago because of the temporary holiday workers that were laid off. and also the prior week was revised a little bit higher, not much. just by about 3,000. it did go above 400,000. we need to stay below that in order to associate that with actual job creation. todays report is good news. we need to see it continue in the long term. >> all right. felecia, thanks so much. lets get to politics now. we begin in iowa. yes, iowa. just...

numbers that we were hoping to see and hopefully will continue. so new jobless claims plunged to 352,000 last week. thats a huge drop. down by 50,000. this demonstrates there are fewer layoffs. however, jobless claims can be a little volatile. for example, we saw claims jump a few weeks ago because of the temporary holiday workers that were laid off. and also the prior week was revised a little bit higher, not much. just by about 3,000. it did go above 400,000. we need to stay below th...

she says ging rick -- and rick santorum trails his rivals, but a final count shows he actually won there. could that help him in south carolina and beyond? ill have an exclusive interview with rick santorum this hour. im wolf blitzer in charleston, south carolina, youre in "the situation room". an extraordinary day out on the campaign trail. today just hours before our cnn republican debate, only two days before the crucial primary here, the texas governor rick perry bowed to reality...

details. we wrap it up here. "starting point." im going to hop on a plane and get to south carolina. we hand it over to "cnn newsroom." ill see you back here tomorrow ill see you back here tomorrow morning. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning, everyone. we start this hour with that doomed cruise ship off italy and fading hope to find anymore survivors. people are still missing in those frigid waters. two americans. at least 11 people have been killed. rescue operations...