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syria. the captain of that wrecked cruise ship in italy says his employer is also responsible for the disaster. the reuters news agencies quotes italian media as saying the captain said costa cruises instructed him to take the ship close to the island in a maneuver meant to attract publicity. the iranian lawmakers says the country will stop oil shipments through the straits of hormuz. it will ban oil imports beginning in july. the e.u. and the u.s. are putting crippling pressure on the iranian community. severe weather in the southeastern united states killed two people, injured doze...

tonight and tomorrow morning elsewhere. in new hampshire. he's also back to attacking president obama. this time, comparing him to marie antoinette. cnn's jim acosta at romney's early stops in iowa today. jim? >> reporter: candy, there are several reasons for mitt romney's growing confidence, one is the fact that we've been talking about this for several days, newt gingrich has been staying positive, not going after mitt romney. ron paul, romney's chief rival in the state is leaving the state and going back to texas to spend new year's eve with his wife and family. michele bachmann, ...

The scene and discovery security personnel. >>neil: one other thing occurs to me as i look at this, and that is the hostages he has, would they obviously you do not know the exact number, but is it anyone he saw when he pulled the security official aside, more than a handful? a large group? this is who hen countered on the way in? just that number? >> it can run the gamut. the lobby of the building is enormous. almost in terms of a football-sized field, it is enormous. enormous. it does have the security desk and controlled access to the rest of the worlding but it is possible it could have be...

Little roof line coming out right on the trees. that is the overhang that leads into the lobby into the building itself, and you can kind of make out that walkway, that sidewalk there. that runs on the side of the u-shaped driveway that goes into one discovery place where people get dropped off. they don't get -- you don't get very close to the building when you pull up. there's going to be a distance, a little walkway, as you see right there, but when you go in, this is a pretty big atrium that this lobby has as you would expect from a building this size. it's also pretty sparse. a security d...

Was on that flight and got him off. >> here's the interesting thing, he paid for those tickets in cash. how about the people who paid for that airline tickets in cash. is that going to change, jean? >> there's a movement afoot to do that. right now the airlines are not required to tell tsa if someone bias ticket one way with cash. but some members of congress say there should be a requirement on a cash provision, if someone pays with cash they give an alert to the airlines. emirates says it did turn and and alert security officials at tsa -- at jfk the minute they saw this person purchase a ti...