make a big decision when he made the call to go after obama. vice president joe biden shows the behind the scenes details on how that decision was made. this is cnn saturday morning. i m christi paul. so glad to have your company. let s start together here with the republican presidential race and the battle between newt gingrich and mitt romney in florida. take a look at this poll showing mitt romney with a nine-point lead. here s a significant thing with these numbers. just days earlier, the numbers were virtually reversed. newt gingrich was on top. today they re in florida trying to reach as many people as they can before tuesday s republican primary. let s go live to miami. peter, in your opinion based on what you know down there, has this turned into a two-man race down in florida? reporter: it actually has. partly because ron paul and rick santorum have decided not to race down here. after they were seen on the debate, mitt romney is the prohibitive favorite to win.
big, big topic. what s the story there? first, background, he did a stint on mtv s real world program and has been elected to congress and find the out what the real world is about, getting slammed, because he said he s having hard times making ends meeting on the salary, which is something like $174,000, which is really nothing to snead at for most folks. not at all too shabby. we have the audio. we have him saying this. let s both listen, joe. i guarantee you, i m in more debt than all of you. with six kids, i still pay my student loans, i still pay my mortgage. i drive a used minivan. i have one paycheck. i struggle to meet my bills. he was actually on road rules. i don t expect you to know that, road rules, real
this is not my study. but there s a headline that got our attention that says sex can kill you. researchers elsewhere in massachusetts to be specific say that sudden bursts of moderate to intense physical activity like sex or jogging can increase your chance of having a heart attack. that s why i don t jog. this goes for people who don t exercise or have sex regularly. so perhaps the bottom line here is either have sex more often or in the same of safety, do that or get in shape. yeah. because they re saying i don t know, it doesn t seem new. shovel snow after a big and they haven t done a lot of exercise. i think what s new is they put sex into the mix. how many times are you going to say this before 6:00? the kids are eating their fruity pebbles. i m not going to talk about this anymore. we ll have you talk about it next hour. two dramatic developments in japan s nauk lar crisis to get you back on the top news. black smoke rising from the plant and radioactive contami
graphic because we d talked about this, as well, about how japan compares with other countries when it comes to how much nuclear generated electricity they have. look at france up there, 75%. japan s 30%, we re not far behind at 20%, and canada at 15%. now, in japan, there are 30, but christine and i were looking into this this morning, this fukushima daiichi plant with six reactors is about 18% of that 30%. it s about 5% or 6% of their electricity. 10% of the electricity is offline because of the earthquake and tsunami. and also a country that s a big net importer of energy needs. japan has an energy problem right now. as we ask those questions about how long they re going to continue to try to repair and rebuild at this plant, or do they have to call it a day? they ve got to replace it with something because that is 5% or 6% of their electricity in that country. it s a big, big topic. coming up next on american
least, and at the next best, go and be replaced. there s no doubt there s a ground swell for that. but people differ. they re worried about scenario of violence, as we re witnessing today, spreading across the country. a sort of civil war scenario, international forces involved in that. there s international forces helping in some way, but without getting involved. so it s really split. people have heard about it and it s a big, big topic here, and the government, of course, is trying to use it against the opposition forces here, and the opposition has divided opinions on it, don. nic robertson in tripoli, thank you, nic. staying in the region, hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators took to the streets in yemen today. as they have for weeks now, they called on the longtime president to step down. the president fueled their anger by rejecting an opposition demand that he transfer power this year. he s offering to give up power when his current term runs out in 2013. in