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stone but they got it wrong. the new memorial to dr. martin luther king jr. needs to be fixed but how? im wolf blitzer and youre in "the situation room." dramatic new pictures of the dangerous search and rescue effort off the italian coast where a cruise ship the size of a skyscraper lies on its side half submerged. the costa concordia struck rocks on friday night with 4200 people on board. six are known dead. 16 remain unaccounted for including two americans. look at these extraor...

governor mitt romney. >> only yesterday south carolinas biggest newspaper, the state, endorsed huntsman. well talk more about this in fair game coming up later in this hour. well, the owner of the kreutz ship that ran aground and partially sank off italy says hope is the last thing to die. an estimated 16 people are still unaccounted for in fridays disaster. for a while the search teams had to pull back because the ship was rocking. the ship was carrying more than 4,000 people. hes b...

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 its starti...

Better part of the week with advertisements and the super pac that supports him has been on the air for quite some time down there. so, while he wont be too boastful about talking about the growing strength of his candidacy, behind the scenes what he has been doing is a steady ramp up of the under current of a juggernaut. he is trying to make it appear in a subtext as though he is unbeatable by the shear strength of the republic pooh bas who are backing him. just a moment ago i saw a couple of h...

campaign in new hampshire at all, moved on to south carolina. mitt romney has a commanding lead. i want to talk about that in a moment. the big winner in new hampshire, mitt romney, lost no time tonight taking on the man he sees as his biggest challenger, president obama, and drew one of the biggest applause lines from the republican front-runners victory speech. >> the president has run out of ideas. now hes running out of excuses. >> im going to be joined by somebody who was a candid...

newt gingrich and rick santorum tied for third and fourth and rick perry moved on to south carolina. the new battleground will start late tonight. first the wig big winner, mitt romney taking on president obama and drew the biggest applause lines from the speech. >> the president has run out of ideas and now he is running out of excuses. >> im going to be joined by somebody who was a candidate himself, tim pawlenty. has he sealed the deal yet? >> well, thats an understatement, piers, t...

newt gingrich and rick santorum are in fourth and rick perry goes to south carolina where the new battleground will start late tonight. well talk about mitt romneys lead. first, the big winner new hampshire, mitt romney, he lost no time taking on the man he cease as his biggest challenger. president obama, one of the biggest applause lines from the frontrunners speech. >> the president has run out of ideas. now hes running out of excuses. >> im going to be joined by somebody who was a ...

So, this was john mccain trying to put his imp madder on the republican conservative movement. >> i dont think he and rick santorum like each other. >> i think thats an understatement. some of the things that i heard privately from at least one of them about the other, i cant repeat on family show. they just didnt get along. the genesis of it was earmarks. john mccain was an attacker of earmarks and the people who got earmarks. rick santorum didnt like that, so they really clashed over that. tha...

im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." we begin with a stunning turnd around in south carolina where mitt romney has nearly downed his support in the past month to take a solid lead. in our latest cnn orc poll, 37% of likely voters are now backing romney in south carolina. santorum and gingrich are battling for second and 18% respectly. but santorum is soaring. while gingrich has dropped 25 points. paul has jumped up to 12%. perry has slipped to only 5% in south carolina. jo...

to 14 years in prison for the murder of a black teenage, stevon moore, at least two decades ago. the judge said they committed a terrible and evil crime because of racial hatred. they were convicted with new forensic evidence that was not available back then. for the first time in more than 50 years, a british foreign secretary is in myanmar. william hague is meeting with government officials bringing a message of reform and offering britains help. hes also meeting with pro-democracy...