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worldwide news organization like cnn can bring to you every single day. we re going to talk to the leaders and newsmakers and also real folks and challenge some of the conventional looks and issues people are discussing today. the starting point this morning is about changing minds in iowa. just 36 hours before the caucuses begin, and it is a statistical dead heat for first place between presidential candidates mitt romney and ron paul, and that means the race for third is on between rick santorum and rick perry, newt gingrich and michele bachmann as well. the good news for them, more than 40% of iowan voters say their minds could be changed. got some breaking news to get to this morning. police are speaking to a person of interest right now in the los angeles arson spree. even as eight more fires were set overnight, surveillance videotape, show you this, shows the person officers wanted to speak to. we ll bring you more on this story as more information is coming in to us as well.
candidates first true test, will take place in the iowa caucuses and you can watch what happens from all sides. a special live coverage of the iowa caucuses all begins tomorrow night, 7:00 eastern, right here on cnn. well, los angeles police have detained a man in a suspected arson spree. at least eight more fires were set this morning, making a total of 47 fires in just the past few days. police also released the surveillance video of an individual that they want to question about those fires. cnn s casey wyans is joining us now. what do we know about the man that police have detained, and is there any possible well, any possible connection, we should say, to those fires? reporter: well, we don t know a lot, kyra, at this point. what i can tell you is that he does bear a similarity to that surveillance video that was released, taken not far from where i am standing at the command post in hollywood over the weekend of a white male emerging from a parking
how they feel about the sudden santorum surge. that is coming up in a matter of minutes. i want to move along to california because now one los angeles city leader is calling what is happening in and around the hollywood area and i m quoting him here, a new form of urban terrorism. an arson spree over the course of the last four days now involves 53 fires that have burned cars, apartments, homes, including one where jim morrison of the doors used to live. but what makes today different than the last three? this. investigators are questioning a man seen in the see this? this is the guy in the back seat of this car, could he be the figure seen in the surveillance video here that authorities released to the public? casey wian is live at the fire command center for us in hollywood. casey, got to ask. is the man they ve detained the same person in the video? reporter: law enforcement officials are not saying whether