the republican party and clear choices are emerging, not just on policy but also on character. on the very passion you just hinted at, because i sense that one of the reasons rick santorum is gaining such momentum is not necessarily that he is in reality more passionate than mitt romney or that he cares more, that he sounds like he does. a lot of romney supporters say to me, why isn t he giving more of himself to this? why isn t he beating his chest more? why isn t he giving us more passion? why doesn t he look like he wants this more? i don t think anybody can come to the conclusion he doesn t want it. this guy works incredibly hard, extraordinarily hard to get out and meet people and to win votes. i don t think it s that. again, i think it s there are certain personalities, you interview lots of people. i would not be called a reserved type, right? no. but romney is. governor romney is a reserved kind of guy and people need to get to know him more. i have told him
california teacher charged with lewd acts against children, goes to court a half hour from now. mark berendt bound and gagged some of the children and took photos. some show cockroaches on the kids faces and mouths, really awful. others showing girls with plastic spoons held to their mouths. police believed they were filled with semen. for the first time a catholic church goes on trial in a priest sex abuse case. jury selection is happening in philadelphia. the monsignor supervised priests charged with raping and assaulting boys. he is charged with covering up the abuse. he is the highest ranking member of the catholic diocese ever to face criminal prosecution in a priest sex abuse case. the arizona sheriff accused of threatening to deport his former boyfriend says the allegations against him are part of a political ploy. babeu resigned from a leadership post in the romney campaign. in an interview with wolf blitzer he should be judged on his record of service, not sexual
good evening, everyone. i m tom foreman in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, iran s big power play. the new threats, the new fears, and how they could dramatically change the cost to you for a gallon of gas. if you don t think you re going to see $5 a gallon by summer, the iranians may be telling you to think again. oil prices rose monday to a nine-month high after tehran announced it was cutting off oil exports to britain and france, threatening the same to six other european countries. oil is iran s lifeline. it makes up for 80% of all its exports with the top customers being china, which gets 22% of the crude, the eu, which takes 18%, then japan, 14%. india, 13%. and south korea, 10%. so if those are the customers, why do we care? most of our oil comes from canada, saudi arabia, mexico, venezuela, and nigeria. we care in america because oil is an internationally traded commodity and when the supply is interrupted anywhere, it causes shock waves everywhere and iran knows
disorderly disintegration of greece and the european union that causes all of our financial ankments to come unclooued. finally markets get to react to $173 billion bailout deal that was thrashed out. one of the european leaders actually saying there s a reason why the marathon was invented in greece, because that s what they were doing last night, marathon negotiations. greece will stay in the eurozone. it will get the financing it needs to pay its bills in march. a big bond payment due. greece will have to take more cutting, more painful cutting and all of this is something that investors in this country are relieved about. believe it or not, in case you missed it, the dow, stocks have been moving higher for some time now on the hopes that greece would get this all settled. the dow jones industrial average is trading at the highest level since january 2008. also an election year, kyra. a real big advance. 66% has been the gain since the president took office of the dow jone
famous from an ad with mccain saying, complete that dang fence. he s been outed, accused fd threatening to deport his immigrant boyfriend. we have lots of coverage on that story today. also, take a look at these pictures. this is what you call chafing the hailstorm. it hurts. ow, look at that. we ll taking where this is happening. and the folks who took that video. millions of dollars in plastic surgery, to the taxpayers. their nose jobs, breast implants, lipo. you name it. how is this happening in the middle of a budget crisis? that s a good question. plastic surgery, teachers, really? quite a remarkable story. lordy. i don t know if you want to be a teacher in that district. heck ya. one minute past 5:00 in the east. double digit lead. always good news it you re a candidate seeking to be the guy who runs against president obama. that s the story for rick santorum this morning. he s kind of in the driver s seat now. he s got a ten point lead over romney now.