attracting the attention of homeland security. wolf blitzer is off today, i m candy crowley, and you re in the situation room. right now they re pretearing to vote on a resolution. it strongly condemns the killing, gee mooning the assad regime call off sits forces and cease all violence. we ll bring the vote to you live when it happens. we have cnn journalists in syria right now documenting some of the awful violence. you ll see that as well, ahead. bus first to the battle for michigan, which holes its primary in just 12 days. it is home turn for mitt romney who grew up there and whose father was governor. the latest poll shows tide if not ahead of romney in michigan. that means we re likely in for a bitter fight. cnn s senior correspondent joe johns is in detroit for us. joe, what is the feeling there? what are you seeing? it s interesting. mitt romney rolled in today. he was met by a very warm and receptive crowd. he is really playing up, candy, the notion he is a n
and you can visit be an elf.org to find out where to go. make sure that you call ahead for hours. and then once you are done shopping you bring all of the gifts ck to the post office on december 21 and 22 and that allows enough time for the mail carriers to get the gifts all the way up to the north pole so they can be loaded on to santa s sleigh. a very good program, shannon. shannon: sounds efficient as well. casey, thank you so much. the battle between church and state is on full display in the mississippi state capital. on one side a nativity scene and on the other side a sign that says religion is but a myth. for a fair and balanced debate, gentlemen, bac welcome to you . tank you. good morning. in the mississippi statehouse we have the nativity scene and the sign on the other
through a very tough year. and i ve been working congress pretty hard. so, i know there may not be an appetite immediately to dive into another controversial issue. by the way, that was aboard air force one, something that does not happen very often, but we can talk about that. a five hive foot cross kicked off a controversial battle between church and state will remain standing after the supreme court gave its approval. a lower court had found that the world war i memorial cross violated the constitutional ban on government endorsement of religion since it was on public land in california s mojave desert. but they agreed to let it stay. and scientists in australia are trying to salvage millions of dollars of equipment after a space balloon attached to it crashed during takeoff. this is not going well. to. the research balloon was