you know what, we have never had richie havens starting off this morning. this is danny glover s playlist, thanks for being with us. he is an oscar nominated actor and producer of a new documentary shenandoah. i spent time there doing a documentary as well. ryan lizza, the washington correspondent from the new yorker and will cain from the blaze.com. i missed you terribly. it s been 12 hours since we ve seen each other. i get to meet one of my favorite actors, deets from lone some dove. are you from texas? if you don t like lonesome dove, you re in trouble. you might have to switch spots today. i was going to say lethal weapon but everybody says that, right? our starting point this morning, breaking news, hazmat crews are on the scene. a spectacular fire, taking place in ohio. a train was pulling several tankers derailed just before 2:00 this morning. the accident happened in the north end of columbus, which is near ohio state university and the ohio s
craft bobbing in the water there. not going anywhere today. most of the entire central and north part of the state is right now under a tornado watch, not a warning but a watch. a good indication of just the breadth of this storm, tropical storm debby and how far its reach. from tornadoes to water spouts to flooding in the tampa area, to the one death in venus, florida, reported so far. heavy rainfall. maybe up to 20 or 25 inches before all is said and done. we re going to continue to get pounded for at least the next couple of days. soledad? you ll be in the middle of it. john, thanks for the update. we ll keep checking in. tornado and flood warnings are still in effect today. let s get right to meteorologist alexandra steele, in for rob this morning. he made really great points, john, did, because what we re looking at is this is the tropical storm and it is stationary. that s been the biggest problem with this thing. there s no momentum. there s no movement because t
u.s. oil companies, are raking in near record profits, so why are they still getting huge taxpayer subsidies? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. he skipped the last presidential debate and sidelined himself in iowa saying he wants to focus on the first of the nation s primary state. jon huntsman is betting almost everything on new hampshire, but is trail ng the state while romney is enjoying a substantial lead and now, huntsman is joining some of romney s sharpest critics in questioning romney s conservative credentials. jon huntsman is joining us now from salt lake city. thanks very much for coming in. thank you, wolf. an honor to be with you. george will, the conservative columnist writing in an upcoming edition of the washington post says this about mitt romney. he says you agree with george will on that? those are pretty tough words, wolf. all i can say is this is the time when this nation wants leadership. we ve been looking for leadership for
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of texas, at the second top of the poll behind mitt romney. he hasn t even announced. but governor perry will make a major speech saturday, the same day as the ames straw poll, and mark murray joins me live, and mark, we have often heard when governor palin would show up at events people would say, is she trying to upstage mitt romney in new hampshire, so is rick perry s announcement an attempt to upstage congresswoman bachmann and others looking at the ames straw poll? well, it is clear that he did steal some of that spotlight and saturday is going to bring us a split screen day which is rare, and we will see all of the republicans in iowa including michele bachmann, and tim pawlenty, and her maiman cain a even newt gingrich, and rick