to earle i start. and i m zoraida sambolin. let s get started. the. the fallout from tropical storm beryl. it is a tropical depression. guess what, building steam again and it s expected to be a tropical storm before we know it again. the storm is dumping as much as ten inches of rain in northern florida and southern georgia. it s also knocking out power to tens of thousands of people right across that region. now beryl has its eyes on the carolinas. cnn s rob marciano has been tracking the storm from the weather center. cnn s george howell is live in georgia. i m assuming that things are only just starting to get bad out there, george? reporter: ashlee , we are expecting to be to be a real soaker. this is going to be the center of the storm. it will move towards the savannah area. just a few days ago the story here was the wind event. a strong wind event that knocked down trees, knocked down power lines. today we are expecting that sustained rain over this area could p
mattresses. some senators agree. they re ought to be a law. our current toxics law allows too many untested chemicals on the market. why should parents who would be left to wonder if the chemicals used in their baby s bottles, pacifiers, cribs are safe? the status quo is dangerous and unacceptable. cnn s dana bash joins me now with, dare i say, this rolling coverage. so what are these moms hoping to accomplish? reporter: what they want is basically information, and the backstory, the background, i should tell you, something that certainly i didn t realize as a new mom and many others might not is that chemicals simply are not regulated, and we don t know a lot about the chemicals that are out there. as you mention in everything. at this press conference these lawmakers and activists made clear that there are 80,000 known chemicals, martin. only 200 have been tested and only 4 have been taken off the market. i want to bring in a couple of the moms who came here from far
the courts of corruption. her husband and four others could also be charged criminally this morning. we ll bring you the latest developments as soon as they become available. zoraida, it s not even 5:00 and you said perverting. france is ushering in a new era with the swearing in of the new president fran so i hollande. he s expecting to push new ways to deal with the new crisis. hollande has blasted the way people have dealt with the crisis. he s france s first socialist president since 1995. jpmorgan s c.e.o. stands before his shareholders in tampa, florida, to explain this $2 billion trading disaster. they ll be voting on dimon s $23 million pay package. we ve also learned that the senate banking committee will schedule hearings in the next few weeks. now president obama is weighing in. he spoke to abc s the view about the measures that are needed to end wall street s pension for risk once and for all. this is why we passed wall street reform. this is the best or o
suggest. we have will cain who is a columnist for the blaze. i like the tweed. thank you. the actual professor though is next to you and that would be the former virginia congressman tom davis is back with us. i said a long good-bye to you yesterday and i m like, oh, he s back. we loved having you. he is also the former chair of the republican house campaign committee. and he teaches political science now. and ron brownstein is the editorial director of the national journal and he is with us as well. let s move on to the state of nevada because the state of florida is over. it is next. the state caucuses are this weekend. mitt romney is going to head west with new momentum after this big win in florida. he won 46% of the vote. newt gingrich was at 32% of the vote. second place sfin anybody. 13% for rick santorum. 7% for ron paul. rick tyler joins us this morning, senior adviser to winning our future pac and former gingrich spokesman. nice to see you, sir. good morni
today the world is asking what happens next. i m wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our special our viewers through our special coverage of kim jong il s death. we re covering all the angles of this developing story. we have reporters across the world from beijing to the pentagon, to london, to the white house and beyond. instability in the region is a major worry right now. stan grant is in beijing and is joining us now live. stan, just a couple of hours ago we learned north korea test fired a short-range missile. what s the reaction in china, which obviously has the closest of relations with north korea? reporter: no reaction to that report of the short-range missile being fired. we know that north korea has these and has carried out these types of test firings before. out of south korea there have been reports that they don t see this as having been a hostile act towards south korea or anything related to that. however, this once again leads to the uncertai