had made its own nuclear fuel rods domestically for the first time. it was loading these into what it said was a reactor for medical purposes, not for nuclear weapons. but this is going to be watched very closely here in washington and in israel, of course, because the question is whether this development, this announcement of them being able to make their own nuclear fuel rods is actually the real deal. can they do it? do these fuel rods work? how good is the quality? is this another step potentially on iran s road to potentially making nuclear weapons? that s the key question for intelligence agencies right now. what does this all mean? iran s had a lot of problems with its nuclear efforts. are they really successful at this? have they made the decision to go forward. c.i.a. director david petraeus says one of the things he s watching very carefully is whether they re going to make that move to go for highly enriched uranium. that would be a significant step on the road to
will bring it to you when they ve decided. thank you, kate baldwin, there on the hill. now this. here we go, top of the hour number two. i m brooke baldwin. i want to talk iran here. we have hit on today s advances in the company s new program. we re going to circle that back here. the targets are in israeli. in new delhi, it wounded at least two people. they seem to think this is a terror campaign against hoz bolla. brian, what do you know? brooke, even before this bomb threat in new delhi, the homeland security and the fbi put out a bulletin. this was last week, and it was intended for law enforcement agencies. it says, in light of attentions over iran, they were maybe concerned iran might attempt attacks inside the united states given last year s foiled plot to. i think that is going to help keep them in control of targets around the u.s. but they said the dhs and the fbi have received no specific threats to jewish organizations, facilities and personnel in the unite
an hour before her death by someone in the very hotel room where she died, according to ed winter, the assistant coroner here. the person left the room and then came back about an hour later and found whitney houston s body inside the bathtub. and then ed winter said her body was removed from the bathtub. they tried to revive her. they coop revive her. of course, at 3:55 a.m. pacific time she was pronounced dead. as you know, you had been covering these beats when stars die, when people die. they want to do toxicology reports. and usually they have some sort of idea just from doing the autopsy which, by the way, has been completely. they might have an idea or a suspicion about how that person died. but using the toxicology reports, that s the final word. and i pose that question to ed winter a short time ago during a briefing. and i spoke to him afterwards, as well. here s part of our conversation at the briefing. and i ll tell but our conversation afterwards toxicology repor
wall street is celebrating. ali velshi will join me in a few minutes. president obama is speaking at a fire engine in virginia and is calling for a payroll tax cut due to expire at the end of this month. he also wants to boost federal grants to local governments to hire veterans at first responders. over the past three years, my administration s made it possible to keep responders on the job and now communities that make a prir tea to recruit veterans will be among the first in line when it comes to getting help from the federal government. the jobless rate for recent vets stands much higher at 11%. four of the three gop presidential hopefuls are making last pitches in in nevada. mitt romney holds a commanding lead. newt gingrich and ron paul are stomping away and rick santorum is holding the nonbinding primary on tuesday. forget about what you heard about the susan b. komen cutting support of the planned parenthood foundation. that was yesterday s news. planned par
it s a heartbreak to know that he s gone at 75. talk to me a little bit about, you know, the barriers he broke, the doors he opened. do you think had it not been for soul train, had it not been for don cornelius, stevie wonder, do you think you would be where you are today? well, obviously, he was a major contribute toor to allowi that to happen. i think definitely the visual presence of a lot of the different artists he made happen because the doors to get in like that were kind of crazy. but it opened up such a whole other kind of era of music and dance. he found the latest dances on soul train. again, like i said before, my understanding is that the dancers were incredibly great, and at some point a lot of oertel visiothe other television shows began to emulate what he was doing. so that s a good thing. when americans saw soul train and saw a new don cornelius. we knew him for his baritone, his style, the dancing kind of setting the trend. but who was the perso