treatments. a doctor got to choose the winner. good medicine or playing god? newsroom starts right now. good morning to you. happy friday. i m carol costello. we begin this hour with two stories sharing a common theme. the inescapable and unrelenting force of nature. well the left, the wildfire gnawing at the edges of colorado springs. today, growing deadlier and bigger. on the right, a record-setting heat wave that will have millions of americans sweltering today. intense heat will blanket most of the country. look at all those 90s and 100s. that s drawing dire health warnings especially for the very young and the very old. our affiliates in kansas city, missouri, say the intense heat wave may be to blame for two deaths there. so be very careful today. nowhere is the heat more a factor, though, than in colorado. the heat coupled with raging wildfires have made it an inferno. this morning, the state is awakening to a bittersweet designation of federal disaster area. tod
rick santorum has a brand-new surge coming after stunning victories in the deep county. newt gingrich is refusing to add up the numbers. mitt romney s cavern says this race is still a forgone conclusion. let s begin with joe johns, he s in illinois. joe? reporter: wolf, this is rosemo rosemont, illinois, outside of chicago, where newt gingrich is expected to appear shortly. there were new calls today from conservatives for gingrich to get out of the race and give rick santorum a clean shot at the republican nomination. as indecision limped closer to the halfway mark, the candidates fanned out. rick san tore, tuesday night s winner, took hi victory lap, stumping for votes in louisiana, ending up in puerto rico, but not before a parting shot at romney. people say you re being outspent and everybody is talking about the math, all the things that this race is inevitable. well, for someone who thinks this race is inevitable, he s spending a whole lot of money against me for be
2014. reporter: pentagon says there could still be fighting by the u.s. in afghanistan after 2014. shep: it s not enough that air force screeners take away your shampoo. now one is accused of swiping cash. at john f. kennedy airport grabbing $5,000 from a passenger s jacket. apparently happened right as the jacket was going through the extra machine. so the co-worker called the cops on the suspect. police haven t recovered the cash and not releasing the surveillance video. we all know sweets can be bad for your health. there is no news there. but sugar should be the same category as cigarettes and booze. details on that. republican leaders accuse the
hill and he downplayed the pronouncement. i think it was a startling overanalysis, not necessarily a startling statement. if you go back and read what he said, so that actually sir, if i could, this is exactly in line with the policy that you, we started back in the summer of 2011, transitioning leadership of combat operations from isaf to afghan forces. let me say this. progressively completed by the end of 2014. reporter: yet there was no mention of 2013 and end to combat role in lisbon where president obama and the heads of state articulated 2014 as a deadline for the end of the afghan war. and u.s. generals serving in afghanistan were also caught off-guard by panetta s articulation of accelerated strategy to end nato s combat role a year earlier as were members of the armed services committee. if you re trying to win a war and negotiate with the enemy you want to do so from strength. bringing home the troops
how about you? oh, i m a bears fan. she s a chicago boy. i ll give you the highlights. there you go. okay, drew. thanks a lot. drew griffin here in studio 7 for suzanne malveaux, who s over in afghanistan. let s get you up to speed. new numbers out today provide more evidence of a very weak job market. the number of americans filing first-time claims rose. it was up to 414,000 last week. why is that important? economists say the number needs to fall below 400,000 to reduce the unemployment rate, which is stuck at 9.1%. president obama lays out his jobs plan tonight. our special coverage, obvious, beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern. republican front runner rick perry made his debate debut last night. quickly, it became clear that he and former massachusetts governor mitt romney were willing to slug it out. we created more jobs in the last three months in texas than he created in four yeast in massachusetts. it s is a great state. texas has zero income texas. governor