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and then, israel, iran and the u.s. with mike rogers. i'm candy crowley. and this is "state of the union." a gallup/"usa today" poll of 12 key swing states shows president obama beating every republican comer except one, mitt romney. after months of pounding by republican rivals and the president's re-election team, romney is up by a point over the president, a statistical dead heat. 35% of swing state republicans say they're extremely enthusiastic to vote this year. that's compared to 23% of democrats. 20% of independents. that's called an enthusiasm gap. also, troublesome for the...

Estimated that the economy gained an impressive 243,000 jobs in january. bringing unemployment down to 8.3%. u.s. stock market rallied on the news with the dow jones industrial average closing at nearly 13,000, its highest level since may 2008. check this out. in the past five years the economy has added -- in the past year the economy has added almost 2 million jobs. you can see it there, 1.8 million. more than in any year since the recession started going back to 2007. throughout the past year, republicans had a lot to say about the why the economy is not improving. >> the uncertainty that t...

He was very loopy, kind of sliding down the seat and just seeing double and that sort of thing. >> that morning in may 2008 david junior had surgery to remove an extra tooth, and apparently the anesthesia had not yet worn off. >> i'm hungry. >> yeah, i know. how did it go? >> i didn't feel anything. >> yeah. it was pretty invasive surgery, so he had a strong sedative. >> with david junior strapped securely in his seat, his father decides to document the moment. he pools out his camera and begins taping in the parking lot. >> the original intent of the video was to record it because my wife cou...

Up and stopped the guy. he wouldn't have gotten anywhere. the police are the cleanup crew. they're not there when the crimes are going on. if you can stop the people from doing crimes, you try to stop them as best you can. another terrifying crime on the road. this one on a public bus. a man boards a bus in broad daylight and immediately begins pummeling the driver, taking him and the passengers on a wild ride to remember. may 2008, in milwaukee, wisconsin. and a masked man reportedly asks, do you remember me? before pounding the driver's head with his fists. it's all caught on the bus' secu...

30,000 wounded warriors, many of whom still struggle with serious, life-altering injuries. >> reporter: it's estimated more than 150,000 iraqis lost their lives in the war. most of them civilians. 16 days to go before the typical american worker gets hit with $1,000 a year tax increase. there are some signs now republicans, democrats, might, might break their log jam over extending the payroll tax cut. democratic source says that president obama may drop his plan for a millionaire surtax to cover the cost of extending it. republicans oppose any new taxes on the wealthy. they would ...