it is 5:00 a.m. here in the east. we begin this morning with breaking news. a deadly past 48 hours in afghanistan. new details of two attacks. an effort to derail the transition of power there. the taliban is claiming responsibility for an attack wednesday that left four americans dead, including senior members of an army brigade after an in-ssurgent detonated a suice vest. thomas kennedy and kevin griffin and walter gray were killed along with an american aid worker and afghan interpreter. and nato confirms that three u.s. service members were killed when a sgun man wearing an afghan forces uniform opened fire in the southern helmand province this morning. no claim of responsibility there yet. new details are expected and well be live at the pentagon at the bottom of the hour with more information for you. and now let s take you inside the wisconsin temple where six peoe were killed, three others wounded by a gunman on sunday. this video shot exclusively by cnn showing
candidates. the response, huge. and komen bombshell. a huge shakeup at the breast cancer foundation, the president stepping down. the founder moving out of management. did planned parenthood funding change komen s focus from pink to green? and history on the track. an american breaking a record 44 years old. leo manzano bringing it in the 1,500 meters. newsroom begins right now. good morning, everyone. i m fredricka whitfield in for carol costole this morning we begin with a political competition this morning called the veep stakes. and any day, we are expecting the answer to this very critical question. who will innit mitt pick? let s bring in cnn reporter. tim pawlenty. a familiar name on the trail, says he is honored to be considered but that 2012 is about more than mitt romney s number two. let s listen. the main issue here isn t the vp process or who s going to be the vp. the main issue is what do we do to get this country and economy moving again and provide
in the swing state of colorado. there he is. let s listen in, shall we? and once again building around the core idea that built this country, the idea that if you work hard you can make it. the idea that in america everybody gets a fair shot. and everybody does their fair share. and everybody plays by the same set of rules. the idea that in america we rise or fall together. and government can t solve every problem, and it shouldn t try. and it certainly can t help folks who are not willing to help themselves, but there s some things that we can do together as a people that makes us all better off. that makes our country strong. and that our economy works best when the middle-class is growing and feeling secure. now, i have to tell you that we have less than three months left in the election. less than three months. time s flying. and over the next three months, you will see more negative ads, more money spent than you have ever seen in your life. i mean, these super pacs, a
back to being plain old welfare. newt gingrich defends that ad but makes an admission whether that ad is strictly speaking true to the facts. but first, i want to show you how mitt romney is campaign on the claims knead that very ad. 7 with a careful executive action, he removed the requirement for work from welfare. it is wrong to make any change that would make america more of a nation of government dependcy. we nus restore, and i will restore work into welfare. now, listening to that, you would think the white house with the sweep of the pen somehow managed to undo all of your elected representatives, democrats and republicans accomplished on welfare reform. you get the impression the obama administration wants an america where hardworking americans pay taxes and lazy onescy sit around collecting welfare. and in case you missed the implications, newt gingrich spelled it out. i think on the hard left there s an unending desire to create a dependent america. not just
we begin this hour with a very important change in the presidential race. according to our brand new cnn/orc poll, a majority of the nation s voters now say they want to re-elect president obama. take a look at this. the president has 52%. he s seven points ahead of mitt romney who s at 45%. just a month ago the president in our poll was ahead 49% to 46%. significantly the president now according to our latest poll is above 50%. our polls also show what voters think of mitt romney s potential vice presidential picks. let s bring in our national political correspondent jim acosta. he s taking a closer look at all of these numbers. that s right. at least on the surface, should bring a smile to the obama campaign. and perhaps a warning to mitt romney and his campaign to go big in the vice presidential search with mitt romney heading out on a potential rollout of his running mate. the results on the veepstakes are even more fascinating. the two men that seem to be the safe