shepard: jonathan hunt live tonight. jonathan, thank you. secretary of state hillary clinton calling on syria to stop the, quote: violent and brutal attacks on its own people. the secretary is due at the united nations tomorrow to join western and arab leaders in calling for the syrian president bashar assad to step down. human rights groups report security forces there have killed at least 190 civilians over the past five days. and that more than a 400 people have died since this started back in march. activists say this video shows syrian troops shelling targets in the capital city of damascus and in the central city of holmes. they say it s part of the effort to crush army defectors and protesters. fox news cannot verify the authenticity of this video. tried to smuggle his family including british born wife out of the country. egyptian newspaper reports a group of army defectors fired on the convoy forcing it to
he visited a l pos precinct near orlando on the eve of the primary. he pledged to stay in the race. we ll beat a big lie campaign with a big truth campaign, beat money power with people power. we are going to go all the way to the convention and we are going to win in tampa, and we are going to be the nominee with your help of the republican party soinchts but if the polls are right mitt romney is likely to be the big winner, his healthy lead hasn t topped him from taking a few final shots. romney and his supporters have pounded gingrich the past week, a barrage of negative ads. he describes the campaign as desperate. i know the speaker is not real happy, speaker gingrich. i know, it s sad. he s been flailing around a bit you just watch it and shake your head. it s been painfully revealing to watch. a poll released what survey after survey has shown. mitt romney has a healthy lead in florida. in the american research group poll, romney is at 343% compared to 31%. rick s
more on the race straight ahead live. newt gingrich is starting his day in iowa meeting with moms at a coffee shop. newt gingrich has seen his support among likely caucus goers plunge. part of the reason is negative ads targeting him. analysis finds almost half of all the political ads in iowa have been attack ads against gingrich. crowds defy danger and took to the streets in syria today. opposition groups call the rallies the crawl to freedom square. they urge demonstrators to defy sniper attacks to make their way to public gathering places. the opposition says 32 people were killed by security forces today. the uprising has prompted some soldiers to defect. translator: we got the orders in the army that went against my oath as a soldier. i had sworn to protect civilians, but when i saw what the government forces were doing to the people, i defected. they say there will be no change in policy despite the death of kim jong il now replaced by his son. the state-run ne
units pounding away at neighborhoods, surrounded by thousands of troops, all this while simultaneously observers from the arab league are arriving in damascus to verify that president bashar al assad is keeping his promise to dial back the violence, start talks with the opposition and let aid workers lend a hand. before showing this next video, i really do want to warn you, it is very hard to watch. you may want to turn away but it underscores the sharp contrast between the two different versions of what is going on here. this is video claiming to show the aftermath of an artillery strike today on the city of homs. there are more than just the one body you see here, but it s simply too gory to show. as always, we cannot independently confirm the facts of this video because the syrian regime will not let us see for ourselves, but take a look. [ gunfire ] these are the streets of a neighborhood. the gunfire in homs is reportedly non-stop now. some witnesses say it seems as if
from the arab league are arriving in damascus to verify that president bashar al assad is keeping his promise to dial back the violence, start talks with the opposition and let aid workers lend a hand. before showing this next video, i really do want to warn you, it is very hard to watch. you may want to turn away but it underscores the sharp contrast between the two different versions of what is going on here. this is video claiming to show the aftermath of an artillery strike today on the city of homs. there are more than just the one body you see here, but it s simply too gory to show. as always, we cannot independently confirm the facts of this video because the syrian regime will not let us see for ourselves, but take a look. [ gunfire ] [ gunfire ] these are the streets of a neighborhood. the gunfire in homs is reportedly non-stop now. some witnesses say it seems as if government troops are basically racing to wipe out the opposition before outside observers can arriv