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hostage, jessica buchanan. she's at a hospital in italy. she's going through what's callcal called a reintegration. it requires time. it's to max mime health and welfare. the question is could she be coming home soon. >> wish her well nonetheless. special delivery. can you say hot sauce? >> i woke up to the story and thought, oh, my man, what a delivery. >> politic and tacos, folks. hundreds and hundreds of tacos going to the office of the mayor of east haven, connecticut. i think you know who's behind this, why it happened and what's the reaction to it. we have an amazing video....

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? i'll have an exclusive interview with rick santorum this hour. i'm wolf blitzer in charleston, south carolina, you're 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 and bowed out. >> today i am suspecting my campaign and endorsing newt gingrich for president of...

you'll be getting back to family today. unfortunately, we have to begin with tragic news on this christmas day. we're getting word that on christmas day, churches are being attacked. two churches in particular, two bombings. many people are dead and wounded. you're shown the area here, we're showing it to you, this is in nigeria, two cities in particular, madala and jos. you see the distance they are apart. a great distance apart. these are christian churches during christmas day services and prayers. again, there are a number of casualties. we do not have a definitive number yet. we...

Brand-new, fresh start. that's the goal of students at one university helping ex-cons get into the workforce. we have more from atlanta. >> reporter: hi, gregg. students and employers in nashville, tennessee, are working to put inmates back to work because the unemployment rate for ex-cons is 40 to 50%. as we know, that's five times the national average. we have one story of success, keith wilson. he's a very popular chef at a posh burger joint in nashville, tennessee, called burger up. he has been working there since he got out of prison a year ago. he has gone from being a dish washer to hav...

Organization, back in 2001. and one of the major things that we did was actually linked poverty alleviation with -- environmental remediation. by doing those two things we were able to create one of the country's green job training and place many systems. we train people in the skills of ecological restoration, green roofing to wetland restoration, urban forestry management and most of the people who were trained through this program were ex-cons. they were folks who were in and out of the public welfare system. people who discovered that they had the ability to train themselves and get themse...