no, not in new york, in d.c. p. in a diner. it improves dramatically but no food. it begins this morning with a massacre in afghanistan apparently by an american soldier and this morning as well. the taliban is vowing revenge. the soldiers from the joint base in washington state here s how it went down. door to door he went yesterday morning in kandahar province opening fire, i ll killing at least 16 people while they slept, many children. president karzai said the dead include 9 children, 3 women. and after the attacks the soldier then returned to his base and surrendered. president obama today offering his condolences. karzai, however, is furious. is calling the killings intentional and, quote, acts of terror and unforgivable. sarah is live for news kabul, afghanistan, this morning. hey, good morning to you. what s the latest on this? good morn, soledad. i just saw pretty gruesome images in western afghanistan where this happened and there were some witnesses also tal
plus, the real story behind the extraordinary video the whole world s talking about. we fear that if we sleep at home, we can be abducted by the rebels. invisible children, the kony 2012 video already seen by 30 million people and rising fast. also, only in america, the last word on last meals. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story tonight, rick santorum doubles down. if you thought the candidate would back off of his tough talk, well, just listen to what he s been saying on the campaign trail. what s wrong with america s government today, and what is sickening the american spirit today. and there s this noxious, oppressive, we believe we re smarter than the rest of america attitude in washington. tough words. in just a moment, i ll ask rick santorum if he really thinks he can overtake mitt romney and become the republican nominee. and later, the tin man behind the video that millions of people are watching around the world and their mission
inconveniences over the next 12 to potentially 24 hours. we ve been talking about the sun here for a good couple of months because we re entering the cycle or part of an 11-year cycle where we re in the solar maximum. the next 18 to 24 months really we ll see a lot of this stuff. what do we mean by that? a lot of this stuff. black areas on the sun. sun spots. a lot of geomagnetic energy there. these are areas that throw out solar flares. we love looking at these puppies. this stuff coming to us. this is as measured in the x-ray part of the wave lengths. that just looks cool. this is the solar flare that happened a day and a half ago. you see it kind of bubbling up and then, boom. there it goes. all those x-rays and radio wave lengths immediately get to the earth. the radio blackout happened about 1.5 days ago. it also emits coronal mass of plasma that s highly charged stuff. that eventually gets to the earth as well. when it does so, boy, we start to see some things happen. t
the burning of korans earlier this week. protesters have been out on the streets for five days now furious over the koran burning. we go live to afghanistan in a couple minutes. former south african president nelson mandela is in the hospital. he had a hernia operation today and resting pretty comfortably. . he s 93 years old. the government official reassured everyone that the surgery was not an emergency. mandela will likely be released in the mebs two days. and a prosecutor said a former rutgers university student acted purposely. ravi faces charges that include hate crimes. the roommate killed himself just days later. ravi faces up to ten years in prison. a judge has dismissed the corruption case against silvio berlusconi. he was charged with bribery, but the judge rule that had the statute of limitations expired in the case. he survived a series of political corruption and sex scandals over his many years in power. let s get right to our top story out of afghanis
it is not about you. it is not about you or your quality of life, not about your jobs. it is about some phony ideal. some phony the elegy. not theology based on the bible, different theology. that phrase, a different theology sparked controversy which senator santorum seem to race. here is what he said when he asked about it later that day. obviously, he is now forcing people to do things he believes that they have the right they should do. the catholic church has a theology that says this is wrong and he is saying no, i have a different you want to call it a theology, you may call a secular values. it is a different world that is. and the president of the united states is exercising his values and trumping the values of the church. if you don t want to call it a theology, on him find, let them know what they want to call it. but it is a different set of moral values. i am suggesting that obviously, as we all know in the christian church, a lot of different stripes of c