morning pressing the candidate. shark attack. cape cod on alert this morning. a man bitten on both legs just 75 feet from shore. onlookers say a large dorsal fin broke the surface just before. plus this. the drought is spreading across the midwest. there is no rain in the forecast, and it is hot. just how bad will the corn crop be? farmers won t know until they harvest the corn. but what is certain, food prices are rising for you. cnn newsroom starts right now. and good morning. thank you for joining us. it carol costello. we begin with a teenaged chinese supergirl who at age 16 swam at such an incredible speed some suspect she cheated. she won gold in the 400 meter. she swam the last 50 meters or 164 feet faster than american ryan lochte s time in the men s competition. amazing feat, considering according to the bbc that she is 5 6 and 141 pounds, and lochte is 6 1 and 194 pounds. john leonard, the director of the world s swimming coaches calls the win disturbing a
gains. they claim this video shows a police station they took over. cnn cannot independently verify the authenticity of this video, however. opening statements got under way today in the drew peterson trial. now, he is the former chicago area police officer accused of murdering his third wife, she was found dead in the bathtub in 2004. her death was treated as an accident. but peterson came under scrutiny when his fourth wife stacy disappeared. the trial is expected to last about a month. now to what is going on in the olympics. okay. we got a spoiler alert, though. so put your tv on mute if you don t want to know who the winner is. the u.s. women s gymnastics team now in first place in the finals after the first rotation. they just did the vault. now, if the u.s. wins, it is going to be their first team gold since 1996. we ll watch this one and keep you posted. now, in swimming, the women s 200 meter freestyle happens in about two hours. 17-year-old american missy frankl
i m candidate crowley, and you re in the situation room. just coming in, a new snapshot capturing the big picture, a cnn lorcp poll shows support for president obama up slightly from last month 67 this new poll shows a five-point lead over romney, though still within a sampling error. the same poll shows a seven-point lead for the president over rick santorum. that is up only slightly from january. we want to bring in cnn s chief analyst gloria borger. so i look at this and think maybe a problem for mitt romney? absolutely a problem for mitt romney. as you pointed out, in january neck and neck. now president obama is up. what s mitt romney s calling card as he campaigns he electability? what do republican voters say they want in all those dpit polls we ve been taking and all those primaries? somebody who can beat president obama. he kind of loses that argument. it s early, this is good news for president obama. we should say it s february, these numbers can change. an
family and said he would decide whether fund-raising is strong enough to stay in the race at least through the iowa caucuses 35 days from now. steve grubs is cain s chairman, on the conference call this morning and is with us live to start the program from davenport, iowa. tell me your gut. does your gut tell you yes or no you ll have a candidate come saturday or sunday? i think we ll definitely have a campaign and a candidate come this weekend and all the way to january 3rd. the real issue is, you know, the impact on the iowa cam. . we ve got almost 900 precinct captains in place, working to keep them. today we added more, we lost a couple. for most part we added more than we lost. we re charging ahead, with a lot of effort i think we re going to storm the gates january 3rd. on the call this morning, i want to be clear, you were listening, mr. cain said he was doing a reassessment, because of the new allegations and within several days he would make a decision, is that c
as i do. this is your old stomping grounds and some of the same people may be here. you know, this is the set up. that s what s going to happen today. the jury is going to get instructions from the judge and this is a set up. this is where the prosecution and defense say, here s what happened. this is why dr. conrad murray is guilty because he did this and then the defense will say, well, this is why he s not guilty because michael jackson did this and they re going to say that michael jackson really took the lethal dose himself. he either ingested it by drinking it or gave himself a shot or put the iv into his arm and gave himself a higher dose. that s what s going to happen today. that s a set up and that will happen and then later the first witness, kyra. tell us about the makeup of the jury. what exactly we know. i was looking at some of the details this morning. lay it out for us. okay. so, kyra, here we go. we have in the jury, first seven men in the jury, always 12