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arizona. youre in "the situation room." they are numbers that are making mitt romney nervous. they are certainly catching the attention of the obama re-election campaign. were talking about the latest polls that show rick santorum at the front of the republican presidential pack. look at that gallup tracking poll number that has santorum ten points aheads of romney nationally among registered republicans. even with the sampling error, santorum is the frontrunner in this poll. but that ...

im candidate crowley, and youre in "the situation room." just coming in, a new snapshot capturing the big picture, a cnn lorcp poll shows support for president obama up slightly from last month 67 this new poll shows a five-point lead over romney, though still within a sampling error. the same poll shows a seven-point lead for the president over rick santorum. that is up only slightly from january. we want to bring in cnns chief analyst gloria borger. so i look at this and think mayb...

the doctors who wrote the prescriptions for those pills could be subpoenaed. in syria, artillery and machine gun fire echo aross crosse the city of homs while a thick smoke from a pipeline explosion hangs overhead e opposition activists say government forces are set on planting every neighborhood that might hold disdent. our arwa damon is in the besieged city. >> reporter: around 7:30 in the morning began the sustained bombardment, various sounds of artillery being fired, impacting h...

just into "the situation room," brand-new poll numbers confirming a new lineup in the fight for the gop presidential nomination. the cnn/orc survey has just been released and shows a two-man contest at this point. the poll shows 34% of republicans asked say santorum is their choice. 32% say romney. with a sampling error, that means its a statistic cal tie. ron paul and newt gingrich are far behind at 16 and 15%. first big picture, ron, what do you make of santorums rise? >> i think thi...

morning? >> reporter: good morning to you, kyra. the body of whitney houston flew back yesterday to new jersey. left the airport here in the los angeles area and is now back in new jersey. the latest is that the investigation, according to the beverly hills police department who came out yesterday and gave a press conference saying the investigation at the beverly hilton hotel is over and theyre saying it is not a criminal investigation, it is a death investigation. theyre saying that ...

failure. these are infrared images. what youre watching, those are actually people who are scrambling to save their lives on board that ship. now, right now, navy divers are using explosives to blast their way into the ship to search for others victims. perhaps survivors. youre going to want to hear what the captain said on the night of the disaster. weve got that up for you in just a few minutes. and brace yourself. gas prices going through the proof again. thats right. gasmoney.com...

interesting to see how this plays out. romney will not be with huntsman today here in myrtle beach for this announcement ahead of the debate tonight, kyra. >> its interesting. when i had a chance to interview him last week, he said, oh, i have respect for romney. i think he is a great family man. its really interesting how reporters like you get the inside scoop, and you cant necessarily get it directly from the candidate. meanwhile, huntsman making this announcement just a day after h...

so lets get to it. as you heard here, about 90 minutes ago on cnn, the president said that the federal government has gotten too big and complicated. thats not a revelation but he says he can fix it by streamlining, consolidating, simplifying. he said a leaner government would create a leaner and better national security. >> congress didnt consolidate on its side so now the department of homeland security reports to over 100 different congressional panels. thats a lot of paperwork. tha...

"cnn newsroom" starts right now. >> happy black friday. one in four americans says that he or she plans to shop on this busy shopping day and the crowds are coming out. at times, however, things do get out of hand like at this walmart near los angeles. authorities say a woman waiting in line pepper sprayed other customers, apparently, so she could get a better place in line. ten people were hurt when the crowd scattered. no serious injuries reported. the woman paid for her items and ra...

how would a president romney or gingrich or cain handle a situation like this? that is the kind of topic the republican candidates will debate tonight. its focus will be foreign policy and national security. cnn, the heritage foundation and the american enterprise institute will bring it to you from washington tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. were talking to our deputy political director paul steinhauser, pentagon correspondent chris lawrence and joe johns at constitution hall where the d...