minnesota, missouri and maine all hold contests in the next week and a half. the candidates have a lot of ground to cover and not much time. for mitt romney this day after his big victory in florida turned out to be pretty rock yichlt during an interview this morning, romney gave his opponents a new gift. yet another inelegant remark that s easy, very easy to take out of context. i m in this race because i care about americans. i m not concerned about the very poor. we have a safety net there. if it need repair i ll fix it. i m not concerned about the very rich. they re doing just fine. i m concerned about the very heart of america, the 90-95% of americans who right now are struggling. i ll continue to take that message across the nation. last question but i got to ask you. you just said i m not concerned about the very poor because they have a safety net. and i think there are lots of very poor americans who are struggling who would say that sounds odd. can you explain t
fiction that it s independent. it s my former staff. it s it s legal, but it s fictional. that conversation, which was the high point of this whole campaign as far as i was concerned in terms of honesty ended with him saying beanbag, you ve got to take this stuff. there was a question about the abortion language in the ad, but newt comes back. and says, look, i agree, you have to have broad shoulders to be in the cam paper, and, hey, buddy, wait till you get a load of the independent ad about bane capital that s going to be 27 1/2 minutes long, and, you know, it s always going to be based on the new york times and the washington post. a spokesman a surrogate for governor romney, who is, of course, the former governor of this state, new hampshire, he supports governor romney for president, he was also white house chief of staff for first
child molestation. what you ll hear him explain in his own words, his, quote, attraction to young boys. also new this morning a boarding school refuses to admit a teenage boy because he has hiv. you will hear the school defend its decision. captions by vitac www.vitac.com let s get you started with the headlines today. herman cain says he will make an announcement on the future of his presidential campaign. this will come in a matter of hours. we are standing by in atlanta to hear it. he is in atlanta today for the planned opening of his georgia campaign headquarters, but instead a lot of people are speculating that he could drop out of the race. as you know this week a georgia woman had said she d had a 13-year affair with cain. he denied it. much more on this coming your way. also country music sin ner mccready and her son were finally found in a closet in arkansas. mccready took off with her 5-year-old boy. her mother and stepfather actually have custody of the y
cnn s jim spellman is seeing its power firsthand. he s now in the bahamas. we ll try to get jim spellman. we don t have him quite yet because the wind is blowing really, really hard in the bahamas at this moment. let s head into atlanta and check in with jack can jeras. can you tell us the track of the storm? we can, carol. we ve seen more changes and it bridges it closer to hugging the coast of the united states, potentially from north carolina all the way on up northward. i do want to tell people, this is just in. normally we get this 20 minutes before the top of the hour and it literally just came in. bear with me. the hurricane watches you ve been talking about, this is the north carolina coast, from north of surfacy to the north carolina/virginia border. tropical storm watches in addition for that north of modesto beach to surfacy. basically what that means is hurricane conditions are expected in about 48 hours, but tropical storm watch means tropical storm conditions
in 04 and reelected in 08. he was tapped by our our president, barack obama, to serve as the u.s. ambassador to beijing. he would be the second mormon in the field, mitt romney, the former massachusetts governor already running for the white house, carol. what are lhis chances? is he too moderate for the field? we hear a lot about that. who would he go after? probably not social conservatives, more mainstream or traditional republicans some of the same that mitt romney is going after. one of the criticisms of huntsman, is he too moderate to win in the republican field? his earlier, past support for the wall street bailout back in 2008 and for the stimulus package under president obama back in 2009 could hurt him with some voters in the republican field, carol? let s talk about raising money for the obama campaign. the obama cam paper is trying to capitalize on the birther issue. you thought we were done with the birther issue, i guess not. this time it is the president or