bluster, big talk, and beating the drums of war with iraq. and rush limbaugh inc., a contract worth hundreds of millions as more advertisers jump the ship, as he put his own empire at risk? i m wolf blitzer at the cnn election center. you re in the situation room. it s called super tuesday for a reason. even in this year s slimmed down version 1/3 gop contests in ten states today. more than all the primaries and three of then last week, certainly romney could leave some of the but the most important prize today is ohio. our latest cnn poll shows romney is neck and neck with rick santorum who needs a big day of his own. let s go straight to jim acosta. he s on the scene for us in ohio. what s the latest there, jim? reporter: wolf, ohio mike the marquee state in the super tuesday states up for grabs, but you wouldn t know it. none of the candidates were out in the state looking for votes, but rick santorum will be in steubenville, ohio later tonight with the hope th
this is piers morgan tonight. last time ricky gervais was here, he had just mortally offended pretty much every big star in hollywood at the golden globes last year. by a wonderful coincidence, he s back again, just after offending just about every major star in hollywood at the golden globes. welcome back, ricky, and congratulations on behalf of everybody in britain. they took it better this time. they did take it better. they ve had a year to get used to it. the first time they went, why is he saying all these awful things. then the second time, they thought, oh, they re jokes. is that better? i didn t want them to take it bad, and i don t think i said anything that bad the first time. and they are jokes. i d rather entertain and people gasp i cherish the gasps. they re just as good. not everybody seemed to enjoy your jokes as much as others. i mean, sir elton didn t seem massively enthusiastic. yeah, yeah, he had a grumpy look on his face. but i don t
possible iranian nuclear weapon. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. he s made a fortune stoking conservative passions while poking and proding at liberals and rush limbaugh has seen his share of controversies but this time it s different. the outrage he sparked when he called a conception advocate a slut and a prostitute has snowballed, one after the other and major advertisers are pulling their ads from his radio show and there s no sign that the uproar is dying down. lisa sylvester is working the story. what s the latest on rush limbaugh and all his advertisers? reporter: hi, wolf, we re up to at least eight advertisers walking away from the show. today on his radio show, limbaugh apologized for his choice of words but does he seem concerned about losing those advertisers? the answer is, no. thank you. reporter: the reaction was swift and fierce, advertisers are pulling spots from the rush limbaugh show including quicken loans and the latest aol wh
tick to ck. three days to super tuesday. who stays, who goes? tonight, it s all about the washington caucuses. tsunami on tape. incredible new images out of japan like you ve never seen before. why there could be thousands more like these to come. that and more right here, right now on cnn. good evening, i m don lemon. tonight, you re going to meet some of the people mind images of destruction that you won t soon shake. you ll hear stories of survival from americans who through quick thinking, luck or divine intervention will live to see another day. we begin in henryville, inn inl. if you re ever this close to a tornado, run to a safer place. luckily our i-reporter did survive. [ bleep ]. we ve got to get in the house. [ bleep ]. look at that. my friend lives right over there, too. oh, good! come on, nick. that is nuts! [ bleep ]! same town, same storm, but a different man who has to duck into a gas station for cover. a fearsome sight of a swirling mass tearing u
survivors. don benson is one of those who made it through the storm in tennessee. his house did not. definitely i thank the lord for sparing as many people as he had. and i know these things can all be replaced. but like everyone else here, it s going to take a while. it s going to take a lot of construction to help out. it s important to note that this destruction storm system is not over yet. hitting parts of the deep south right now. more on that in a moment. all right. meantime, bp will pay about $7.8 billion to federal lawsuit with victims of the 2010 oil spill in the gulf of mexico. thousands of fishermen, hotel owners, and gulf coast residents will get a payout in april of 2010. the deepwater horizon oil rig exploded killing 11 people and causing the worst oil spill in u.s. history. and gas prices are going up again, the average price of a gallon of regular jumped more than a penny and a half in the last 24 hours. now nearly 3.76 a gallon, 30 cents more than la