achievements. in may of 2002 he attempts to beat his record of nearly 81 miles per hour on an active volcano in nicaragua. it is to be the last ride of his professional career. known as the red baron, barone prepares with a specially designed mountain bike prototype. he makes the trek and gets ready to go. he mounts the bike and hits the slope. he flies down the volcano at a dizzying speed. suddenly, the bicycle seems to disintegrate underneath him and he s hurdled over the handlebars. his helmet ripped off him. he tumbles down the slope for nearly 110 yards. when he finally comes to a stop,
wasserman shut who is standing by live. a facebook co-founder unfriends the united states of america on giving us his u.s. citizenship could save him hundreds of millions of taxes when the company goes public. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com democrats have been betting on a big gender gap to give president obama an edge in the november election, they ve accused republicans of a war on women and president obama has been going all out to kort female voters, but suddenly a new poll suggests it s mitt romney who may have an edge among women. let s go to brianna keilar. should the president be worried that he s potentially losing his critically important edge with women? reporter: wolf, it may be too soon to tell. these poll numbers may not tell the entire story. if we take a look at the poll by cbs news and new york times it does show romney 2 percentage points ahead. one reason to look at this very carefully is because ot
miles per hour on an active volcano in nicaragua. it is to be the last ride of his professional career. known as the red baron, barone prepares for the run with a specially designed mountain bike prototype. he make the trek up the volcano and gets ready to go. he mounts the bike and hits the slope. he flies down the volcano at a dizzying speed. suddenly, the bicycle seems to disintegrate underneath him and he s hurdled over the handlebars. his helmet ripped off him. he tumbles down the slope for arly 110 yards when he finally comes to a stop, he is still conscious but barely.
how fast is fast enough? our next sports maverick risks his life trying to find out. french sportsman eric baron is a multi-world record holder for mountain bike speed achievements. in may of 2002 he attempts to beat his own land speed record of nearly 81 miles per hour on an active volcano in nicaragua. it is to be the last ride of his professional career. known as the red baron, barone prepares for the run with a specially designed mountain bike prototype. he makes the trek and gets ready to go. he mounts the bike and hits the slope. he flies down the volcano at a dizzying speed.
economy. and to illinois president obama s old senate seat. both candidates had ethical issues, but the republican is virtually tried with the democrat. the green party candidate gets 7%, and says that s significant for democrats. it hurts them, because most of the green party voters in 2008 voted for barack obama. a surprisingly close senate race in the blue state of washington and one point united states patty murray from her republican challenger dina rossy and in ohio still a double digit lead for republican rob portman over democrat lee fisher. president obama won all five of the states in 2008, but now, ohio seems somewhat out of reach. and democrats are struggling to hold on to the others. barone attributes that mainly to voters discontent over the democrats handling of the economy. in washington, molly henneberg, fox news. bret: over on capitol hill