in a presidential election run thauf weekend. we should tell you that riot police, military personnel have taken up positions outside the court. ben wedeman joins us in just a few moments with the latest on this. as soon as we get ben wedeman, we ll bring it to you. back to the u.s. you know the old saying, when it rains it pours. for the obama campaign it appears to be a gully washer. lately the president has had some bad poll number, some bad headlines, some democrats are expressing doubt about his message and his chances come november. big donors are sitting tight with their money. for mitt romney, several things appear to be going right. he is raising a lot of money and his poll numbers have been getting better. a little more than two hours from now, both men take to the stump in the battleground state of ohio with dueling key economic speeches. they won t be face to face, but you can bet that they won t mince words about each other either. so, cnn s jim acosta joins us
casualties have been reported so far. we ll keep you updated as more information becomes available. in other news, an investigation under way at this hour to see if someone hacked mitt romney s private e-mail account and a new report claims that an anonymous hacker got into his hot mail account by answering a question to a security question about his favorite pet. according to the report, the hacker then changed his pa password. on the campaign trail, continuing their primary sweeps picking up wins. romney already has the number of delegates needed for the republican nomination. a wildfire raging in new mexico now the largest blaze in the nation. it s one of several fires burning across the region right now. brand new video shows another wildfire in new mexico s sante fe national forest moving closer and closer now to the arizona border. meantime, u.s. forest officials announcing the need to upgrade the firefighting fleet after incidents involving two planes. one of them forced to make
traveling public and is conducting a review of the air traffic control system including its overnight staffing. that comes after that incident at reagan national airport in which the only controller on duty on an overnight shift fell asleep and two planes ended up having to land on their own. a manhunt in alabama this morning is over after a suspect in a deadly shooting turned himself in in a very strange fashion. police say that this suspect, thomas franklin may, was arrested after he calmly walked up to a tv crew covering the story and said, i m the guy you re looking for. he s accused of killing one woman and injuring three others including a woman in her 90s and a 4-year-old child on the campus of southern union community college in atlanta. a wildfire raging right now in oklahoma, an evacuation has been ordered in spencer outside of oklahoma city where flames jumped several road. they reportedly burned several homes.
michigan, the customer ramming her car through the window outside a bank in detroit. she was reportedly angry to learn that the car was about to be repossessed. here is how another company. the recession is having everyone going crazy. police arrested that driver. north carolina, a wildfire raging across nearly 1,000 acres in cumberland county. dry brush and pine trees fueling it. officials say high winds were causing trouble for fire crews. nobody reported hurt. florida. emergency workers taking several people to hospitals after a crash involving a transit bus and car in miami-dade county. air lifted some of the injured from the scene. two of them were children. no word on what caused the wreck. arizona, a new way for families of alzheimer s patients to help keep track of their loved ones. it s a sort of wristwatch that works as a g.p.s. device and a cell phone. this couple uses it when the husband, diagnosed with as hirmings two years ago goes for
actor and david finchicer, took the best director award for the social network. is it the sign of what is to come at the academy awards. we ll find out in two weeks. gregg: looking forward to that. have you seen them. i have seen either one. gregg: i have seen them both and they are both fabulous, colin firth, and geoffry rush, too. gregg: could the revolutionary fever spread to tehran as well as egypt and tunisia? the role the u.s. should play if that happens. out of control, a wildfire raging in washington state destroying several homes, in its path and the high winds, they aren t making the situation any better. we ll show you more of the dramatic pictures, in just a few minutes. is robin. and i s a pack-a-day smoker for 25 years. i do remember sitting down with my boys, and i m like, oh, promise mommy you ll never ever pick up a cigarette.