the presidential candidates go toe to toe tonight. as they face off in jacksonville. romney and gingrich are in a virtual poll. romney is ahead by just two percentage points. on the campaign trail, gingrich conceded that all the super pac attack ads have now hurt. but he s not backing down. i can promise you i am going to fight every day from here until we win the nomination, because i am not going to allow the monied interests that are bose buying those ads to come in here and into other states, to misinform people and think we re too dumb to fight back. jessica buchanan, she is safe. right now at a u.s. navy base in italy after her rescue from kidnappers in somalia. u.s. special ops troops parachuted in and picked up buchanan and a fellow aid worker and killed all the people holding them hostage. her father expects to see her some time today. massive crowds of people said to be supporters of syrian president al assad gathering in cities across the country today. it ra
we also have ron brownstein and will cain, nephew of herman cain. brother from another mother. roland martin here shaking his head. oh, my goodness. way too much soul in here. haven t seen him since the family reunion. right. we have a lot to talk about this morning. we have former new hampshire governor john sununu is going to join us, the chairman is going to be here as well. former we re going to talk to you about this big announcen t about who you are endorsing which honestly confused the heck out of me. virginia governor bob mcdonald is going to be with us as well. south carolina congressman jim clyburn is going to join us. we re going to talk to those reporters who broke the news on the maryanne geingricgingrich. kind of hard talking. nothing going on. nothing at all. light morning. first, though, let s get to some of the other stories a are pappi i happening. we re going to shatart in afghanistan. the taliban claiming responsibility for shooting dow
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there because people see the flashes that go. they re trying to blow a hole in the hull so rescuers can start getting in there is going to make the search and rescue team have better access and make it easier for them to get out. still looking for 29 people who remain unaccounted for if death toll right now is standing at six. there are also stunning new images coming in from under the water today. i want to share that with you. rescuers have to swim through debris in the hull ways. first flat block box has been picked up already and apparently picking up minute by minute betails. since they now located the second black box and divers are trying to retrieve that black box as well. this morning seeing the transcripts of the recorded conversation between the port authority and the captain of the ship. the first time it comes to us from the italian newspaper and the port authority says this. how many people are on board? the captain whose last name is schettino says, 2, 300. kee
11:20 eastern. going to bring you the remarks live. and just a week and a day until the south carolina primaries. one of them will be in florida. newt gingrich attends the opening of his campaign headquarters. that s happening this hour. mitt romney speaks in south carolina in the next hour and r rick perry is going to be in bluffton. he s made a career out of poking fun at the political process. but now comedian stephen colbert actually talking about running for president himself. it sounds like a joke, but it s no laughing matter. i am proud to announce that i m forming an exploratory committee to lay the ground work for my possible candidacy for the president of the united states of south carolina. now clearly my fellow south carolinians see me as the only viable mitt-ternative. happening now in peru. this is live pictures. joran van der sloot waiting to find out how many years he s going to send behind bars. a panel of judges is sentencing the confessed killer. this w