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closed doors. we ll tell you what s happening right now and what happens next. also, $640 million up for grabs. the largest lottery jackpot in history could be yours if you got the lucky ticket. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we ve got breaking news coming into the situation room right now. president obama has just stepped up his re-election campaign. we have the information that is just coming in, stepped up pressure on iran. huge new pressure. the white house has decided to go ahead with what will be the toughest sanctions yet against the iranian regime. bottom line, get this, any country getting oil from iran won t be doing business with the united states any longer. let s go straight to our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin. tell our viewers what the president decided to do just now. well, if the news is that 12 countries that get oil from iran will have to make a decision by ....
see the difference between somebody who s trying to help the country and somebody who is simply running a negative campaign. campaign insiders, do you have to play dirty to win. plus a phenomenal tim tebow. superstar even if you know nothing about football. who is he really? why his on section with 24-year-old christian quarterback. i ll talk with former nfl coach and the man who wrote the book on tebow. also kenneth brener. shakespeare, to hollywood s leading man. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. while the rest of the country is deep in the holiday preparations, the world is buzzing over the official opening of the 2012 campaign. the first in the nation iowa caucuses are two weeks away. the stakes couldn t be higher in the republican field. latest cnn orc poll puts newt gingrich and mitt romney in a dead heat battling for the top spot. ron paul makes a surprisingly strong showing in third place. with all of this back and forth in the polls, i want to ....
also kenneth brenner. shakespeare, to hollywood s leading man. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. while the rest of the country is deep in the holiday preparations, the world is buzzing over the official opening of the 2012 campaign. the first in the nation iowa caucuses are two weeks away. the stakes couldn t be higher in the republican field. latest cnn orc poll puts newt gingrich and mitt romney in a dead heat battling for the top spot. ron paul makes a surprisingly strong showing in third place. with all of this back and forth in the polls, i want to take for a clear front-runner to emerge in time to win. joining me now is tim pawlenty, national co chair of the romney campaign and kellyanne conway. seen advisor to newt gingrich. tim, start with you. clearly i would have thought a good week for your man. good debate performance. good on the attack. lacerating newt gingrich with these shocking tv ads. you ve gone on the offensive and it s working. would y ....
welcome to you, both. mary, is it too late for sarah palin? not technically. obviously newt gingrich came from a position of apparently being dead to being front-runner and the surge has temporarily hit the buffers, although he s still in joint lead with mitt romney. what s your reading of these fluctuations? there s durability in newt s numbers based on what you ve shown. there s other polls that confirm what you ve shown. mitt romney has basically been the front-runner. he s been running for five years. he s had a slight upparticular. a lot of gains have not gone to him. they ve gone to ron paul, some of the former herman cain voters are looking for a comfortable place to park their votes. they re up for grabs. i think what you see is that the electability argument that was propelling the romney candidacy for years now, i can win, has been completely swept away because in these polls most voters, republican voters say that either newt or mitt could beat barak oba ....
rescue workers used everything from their hands to shovels to cranes, to reach trapped survivors crying out for help amid the rubble. a reporter in van describes the scene there. let me tell you, it s really, really cold, it s zero celsius degrees, literally freezing. and there s no electricity in most of the city. no natural gas. i mean the survivors are now trying to survive the cold weather at the same time. turkey is especially vulnerable to earthquakes because it sits on major geological fault lines. an autopsy confirms that moammar gadhafi died if a gunshot wound to the head. the following images are very graphic. what doctors didn t reveal is whether the ousted libyan leader was shot in a cross-fire or killed by rebel who is captured him last thursday. the u.n. is calling for an investigation into his death. meanwhile people lined up over the weekend to view his corpse. the family wants his woddy handed over. as the international community asks more quest ....