of being a one term president. jimmy carter, his peace making work around the world. if i had one constant prayer it would be to bring peace to israel. his place in history. what is the one piece of advice you would give any president when they walk in the oval office the first time. tell the truth. what he thinks of the state of america s union. we are still the greatest country in the world but we have extraordinary problems at the same time. this is piers morgan tonight . jimmy carter was president from 1977 to 1981. his work since then has won praise world wide and a peace prize. tonight i m privileged to set down with president carter. thank you for coming to this center. i love the dates here. so you became president in 77. cnn is launched in 1980. the carter center launched in 1982. the carter center is unusual in the sense that most expresidents went for a big library. just walking around the library is really a small part of it. you have these dif
mitt romney is coming off his second place win in south carolina with nonstop attacks on the rival who beat him. newt gingrich. with the biggest contest to date just eight days away, even his temperment are talking points for mitt romney. he s gone from pillar to post like a pinball machine, from item to item in a way that is highly erratic and does not suggest a stable, thoughtful course which is normally associated with leadership. so far three republican contests have picked three different winners ron paul will take part in another debate in tampa. a state of emergency is in effect in alabama after storms in late january. two people are known dead in the birmingham area. dozens of people are hurt in what appears to be one or two tornadoes. many homes are damaged or destroyed and many thousands don t have power. a possible tornado touchdown in arkansas as well. overseas now, europe tightening the jus on iran. eu foreign ministers say they won t sign any more contra
be changing. an american research group poll out today shows newt gingrich surging ahead of mitt romney. 40% of south carolina s likely primary voters according to this poll say they would vote for gingrich. romney falls behind to just 26%. mid-week gingrich and romney were in a dead heat. south carolina is a big state but somehow this morning both gingrich and romney campaigned at the same greenville restaurant at the same time. but romney avoid ad showdown by arriving 45 minutes early and leaving just minutes before gingrich actually showed up. stay right here we ll have a live report from south carolina in a moment. also this morning firefighters contained a 3,000 acre wildfire burning near reno, nevada. flames destroyed nearly 30 houses. about 10,000 people had to leave their homes but evacuation orders were lift ad couple of hours ago. investigators think they know what caused the fire. they say a man came forward yesterday admitting that he improperly discarded firepl
took the spotlight. he was asking to have an open marriage and i refused. he wanted an open marriage? yeah. that i accept the fact that he has somebody else in his life. she says that you came to her in 1999, at a time when you were having an affair. she says you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage. would you like to take some time to respond to that? no, but i will. and i am frankly astounded that cnn would take trash like that and use it to open a presidential debate. i am tired of the elite media protecting barack obama by attacking republicans. joe johns is at the republican leadership conference where gingrich is speaking at this hour. joe, gingrich got a standing o when he was asked about that interview. reporter: yeah, he sure did. i mean, this is you can say a lot of things about it, but i think probably the most important thing to say, kyra, is that this is the south. this is newt gingrich s home base. if there s anywhere these charges have
the total to 11 with nearly two dozen people missing. a judge ordered the captain held under arrest and he could face manslaughter charges. his story is not holding up well. he claims he and his crew were the last to abandon ship and claims his navigational ship did not show the rocks that crippled the concordia and it does not hold up to facts we already know. as passengers and crews were still scrambling down the side of the ship. this infrared camera shows people scrambling down the side of the ship in the middle of the night trying to board lifeboats. captain schettino, we know at this point, he was safely away on the phone with the coast guard commander at that time. in tapes released today, he tells him literally as the senior scene is playing out, he and his officers are on a lifeboat. when he mentions he thinks there s still about 100 passengers on board. the coast guard commander is stunned. flabbergasted. first, he tells the captain to get his men back on board the