hurt on the raid on osama bin laden s compound. what s going on? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com as they should be, republicans are ecstatic over their victory in wisconsin where republican governor scott walker empress ofly survived a recall vote. democrats are on the defensive and president obama is taking heat for not going wisconsin to help his fellow democrats. what does all of this mean for november? let s go live to dana bash. she s in milwaukee right now and working on the fallout. dana, there s a lot of fallout. reporter: there sure is. the democratic chairwoman, debbie wasserman schultz told our candy crowley that it would be, quote, a dry run for democrats in november. if that s the case, the president is in trouble in wisconsin and the re-election prospects could be in jeopardy. the results here are far from clear cut when it comes to the presidential race. the energy in scott walker s victory hall was pa
involve prostitutes. details in just a moment. a massive tornado outbreak hours from now. counties are on alert and on edge. comments about ann romney have unleashed a debate about moms and thrust the spotlight on women voters. we re putting fight, the campaign for votes in focus. and there is a sense urgency right now in the u.s. that a new outbreak of tornados is possible in the plain states. conditions are ripe throughout areas. a tornado touched down in norman, oklahoma. no serious injuries. high winds in yuba city called damage as well. let s bring in alexandra steele. we caught you a little bit early. tell us what happened and where this might hit. what s most unsettling is not only where it might hit and kind of the vastness of that but when it might hit. we re going to watch these potentially develop between 4:00 and 8:00 tonight. of course, that means nighttime. that means rain-wrapped tornadoes po e ten chally. that means you can t see what s coming. when i
candidates. so does this mean that some are struggling to throw their support behind any one of the four candidates? somewhat. there is certainly enthusiasm here for defeating barack obama and hear that from the candidates. that s their mission here. the problem is that republicans are not generally fired up about the field. polling bears that out. electability is obviously also a concern. the states that mitt romney won, for example, exit polls show that had electability was a american concern. but romney got a pretty good reception. rick santorum got a far better reception. but still, it wasn t a raucous bring the house down kind of applause for rick santorum who could be the republican frontrunner right now. so that speaks volumes about how republicans feel about this fred. in the meantime, there was a straw poll that will take place and the results may come somewhere in the 4:00 eastern hour. any hints or any real feeling as to which candidate might be the most execut
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