to why they suspended that search? reporter: they ve been very tight-lipped about it, fred. it is a very curious development, however, because after working here all day long, i would say early in the afternoon, all of a sudden we noticed some movement. and one of the crime scene units from the new york police department pulled up in an apparent attempt to block our view from down the street. but we ve been able to look down there. we noticed the fbi was taking down a blue tent that had been covering the entrance to the basement where they had been doing their excavation work. when we peppered them with questions to find out why they were stopping their work, they simply said, we re suspending operations for now, and we will resume them in the morning. but they would tell us nothing more. so we re left to wonder, is there a development? have they found only that suspicious stain that we ll tell you more about? or were they simply knocking off for the day? fred? it s clear
the fbi and new york police are up to their elbows in dirt and dust. meticulously sifting through layers of soil six feet deep below a basement floor recemented in 1979. the same year 6-year-old etan patz disappeared. we re cautiously optimistic as law enforcement always is when it executes search warrants that they will find what they re looking for. reporter: looking for etan s remains who lived a half block from the search scene. his parents still live here. he vanished after his mom kissed him good-bye 33 years ago. he came straight out this door out decked out in a corduroy jacket. he can t wait to get to school. for the first time, his parents allow him to walk two blocks down the street this way to get to the school bus stop all by himself. along his route that basement where a law enforcement source say etan had been the day before with neighborhood carpenter otheneil miller. this author says miller was no stranger to the patz family. they knew him. the family k
there at their convention how he would measure progress. he literally used these words, he said we measure progress differently than republicans, presumably, but it was the fact that he said we measure progress and then he described how it was he and his party measured progress, and i think it s interesting given the fact that he laid out what his report card would be to go back and score him on the very report card he laid out. he said, for instance, that we, the democrats measure progress by whether people have good jobs that can pay for mortgages. okay. we re three and a half years later and he has not yet created a single net new job in america where three and a half years later there were job losses and 93% of the people that lost jobs had been women. on the measure that he himself put in place, creating jobs where people could pay mortgages, he fails, and there was another measure that he laid out. he said in a setting where you were having progress, you could measure i
and newt gingrich conceded the state spending practically no time or money there. all four gop candidates will slug it out tuesday in the alabama and mississippi primaries. i want to start with shannon travis. he is live in kansas right now. it looks like santorum s conservative credentials won the day for him. reporter: won the day yet again. you know, him touting his conservative credentials helped in oklahoma and tennessee and now in kentucky. yet again i was at a caucus site and that was the topic on a lot of people s minds. social issues. they talked little about the economy but a lot of people were saying that rick santorum is our guy in terms of leading the charge on the hot-button social issues that the conservatives care so much about. rick santorum was not here. ron paul was the only candidate in kansas today. but rick santorum campaigning in missouri. we have him talking about his win here in kansas. take a listen. a great win. awesome win. feeling great. rep
it s decision day in florida. the polls open in two hours. it is an ugly fight to the finish. and a prestigious college has fudged some s.a.t. scores for some of the incoming freshmen. why would they do that and admit to it? um find out. 911 calls from the crash in florida. he s coming too fast. here comes another one. see, there he goes. that was a bad one. we ll be talking to someone who was in the middle of the wreckage, sandwiched between two semis. a tennessee state senator is on the hot seat in a way. he is sponsoring some anti-gay legislation, but you will not believe what he s saying about homosexuals, homosexuality on the radio waves. you ll hear the transcript and you can decide for yourself. the fight for florida officially begins in about two hours. even before the polls open, the gingrich camp is back pedaling here. if the polls are right, florida appears locked. romney with a very healthy double-digit lead there. gingrich is lowering expectations f