rwandan genocide. president bill clinton outfront. let s go. good evening, everyone, i m erin burnett live tonight from rwanda where i spent the day with former president bill clinton. we talked about a lot of things. he spent some time visiting some projects. some farms and some factories where he had spent a lot of time over the past few years. with the likes, in fact, of nascar famous driver jeff gordon. also i saw the president at a soy factory he s bringing in the countryside. he arrived with his daughter chelsea. shaking everybody s hand and taking pictures with everybody who asked. and he asked a lot of questions himself. whenever i hear somebody say oh, these small farmers, they re just inefficient, they can t generate income, i just decided to see if that was not necessarily true. and so we get em cheaper and better seed and fertilizer, get their crops to market so they don t lose half their income taking it to market. reporter: the president told me that he
family flying. these loopholes still exist. absolutely. thank you. it s the top of the hour and i want to update you on a story that s developing. a bus carrying israeli tourists exploded. the death toll has grown to six. there s a great deal of speculation as to who is to blame for this. elise is covering this story for us. israel is blaming iran for this. why is that? reporter: in recent months they say the israelis have th thwarted atakes. they say they have indications it could be iran. they are saying the explosion was the result of a bomb in a tourist bus. the bus exploded from a bomb within. eyewitnesss are describing accounts of seeing victims on the ground. the defense minister left no doubt about who the israelis think it was. let s take a listen. this is clearly a terrorist attack initiated by probably jihad or any other group under either iran or other groups. we re in a continued fight against them. we re determined to identify who sent them and executed
be changing. an american research group poll out today shows newt gingrich surging ahead of mitt romney. 40% of south carolina s likely primary voters according to this poll say they would vote for gingrich. romney falls behind to just 26%. mid-week gingrich and romney were in a dead heat. south carolina is a big state but somehow this morning both gingrich and romney campaigned at the same greenville restaurant at the same time. but romney avoid ad showdown by arriving 45 minutes early and leaving just minutes before gingrich actually showed up. stay right here we ll have a live report from south carolina in a moment. also this morning firefighters contained a 3,000 acre wildfire burning near reno, nevada. flames destroyed nearly 30 houses. about 10,000 people had to leave their homes but evacuation orders were lift ad couple of hours ago. investigators think they know what caused the fire. they say a man came forward yesterday admitting that he improperly discarded firepl
what s going on here. there is about 80% of the israeli public that supports this deal. 60%, though, say even though they support it, it s going to mean more attacks. more dead israelis and at least for the people who have already been victims of these attacks, they re saying we understand that people want this soldier home but what was my son s life worth? the bombing in jerusalem killed 15. the attack in tel aviv killed more than 20, mostly teenagers. the bus bombing killed 17 and now the men and women behind some of israel s most deadly and horrific suicide attacks will go free. does that seem fair to you? it s not it s not fair. it s not just. joseph zurr is like many fathers who now feel betrayed by a government willing to trade hundreds of convicted killers for one young soldier. the state of israel first to
rain and snow about the last two weeks. no end in site. a lot of rain coming into southern california. the snow is very heavy. the end of this week we should have another 4 to 5 feet of snow across the sierra nevadas. in california they ve never had a tornado there since 1950. they had two three days apart in that county this week. martha: me must be wondering what the heck is going on. thanks a lot. a worker at a u.s. nuclear plant has now been charged with lying, details on that developing story is coming up, and new information on the deadly bus bombing that we have covered for you since yesterday midday that happened in jerusalem, what we now know about the five americans involved and wounded in that attack. and the u.s. and allies giving rebels a boost in libya, but what do we really know about these rebels? there are new concerns as the same rebel forces also getting