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just days ago, south carolina looked like it could be the third punch of a one, two three, mitt romney primary knockout. but this morning, ohios republicans took away romneys first win, announcing rick santorum won the caucuses by 34 votes. then governor rick perry of texas pulled out of the race and immediately endorsed newt gingrich whos been surging in several new south carolina polls. >> a conservative visionary who can transform our country. weve had our differences, which campaig...

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...

we have video, this is the video of the incident in august taken from the shore. the cruise line said the ship was a safe distance from the coastline. lloyds lip said it was dangerously close, closer, in fact, than it came on friday night when it hit the rocks. here is new satellite imagery of the wreck. look how big it is against the coast, just a massive, massive ship. the search for nearly two dozen was suspended when the wreckage began shifting. really dangerous for the rescue dive...

happened in that tax return. lets go "outfront." good evening. im erin burnett, "outfront" tonight, mitts taxes. now, romney is caving in to the mounting pressure. >> i think both president obama and hillary clinton released their taxes in 2008. just strikes me that governor romney ought to step and follow the same procedure. >> i dont know what my effective rate of tax is, but im fairly confidence its a lot higher than 15%. >> mitt, we need for you to release your income tax so the pe...

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...

on the issue of taxes, on the issue of bain capital. so, it takes out of the debate a candidate who in the past 72 hours or so has been dead on hitting the front-runner, suzanne. >> and john, are you rejiggering any of your questions now as you move forward and look at what youve got tonight? >> those perry questions are going into the shredder, suzanne. thats just, you know. were going to have to -- look, we want this to be about the issues. this is the candidates debate, its not mine...

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...

there are two dozen people still missing. that number includes an american couple from minnesota. today a prayer vigil will be held with that couple. the captain is under house arrest. prosecutors are going to appeal that decision that let the captain out of jail. plus, very more tapes between the captain and port authority that are emerging and remember how stunned we were just reading the transcripts yesterday of the audiotapes i think are even worse. it appears to show the captain s...

his tax rate, mitt romney reveals his tax rate. fair or unfair? and fact or not? are the congress members back in session refresh and ready to change the world -- or not? lets go "outfront." well, good ooevening, everyone. im erin burnett and "outfront" tonight, and welcome back, congress. we missed you. we really did. after -- well, that may have been a bizarre and appropriate slip of the tongue. but members are back in the house today to make up for frankly an abysmal 2011. the t...

-- the web. we begin in south carolina this evening with a fast-change republican presidential race. fast as in overnight. our new cnn time orc poll tonight shows mitt romney leading here by 10 points. 33% for the former massachusetts governor to 23% for the former house speaker newt gingrich. but, and this is important, the final 24 hours of our polling suggest a gingrich surge. my sources in several republican campaigns tell me tonight their numbers, too, are detecting a significan...