issues that came up last night in last night s cnn debate, issues this had the making offing of a political fire storm, kids, sexually transmitted disease and government telling parents how they should protect their own children. the issue, of course is texas governor rick perry s 2007 executive order requiring girls to get vaccinated against human paploma virus, hpv, a virus that can cause cervical answer. that executive order never saw the light of day. perry signed it. two months later, the state legislature turned it over and it died on the vine. despite that fact in the debate michele bachmann tried to paint rick perry as someone who wanted innocent little girls to be held down by the arm of big government and forcibly stuck with needles in their arms. now, after the debate, she s even trying to raise fears that the hpv vaccine can cause mental retardation, something she s repeated on television at least twice already. that is, by all accounts, just flat-out wrong. more
nato command center were targeted. you re going to see rooftop to rooftop fighting, today in kabul. these are u.s. security forces that are returning fire from what we re told was a well-organized taliban attack ugz rocket-propelled grenades, also machine guns. street fighting lasted several hours. it is over now, and there were casualties. want to go straight to the capital of kabul where our own suzanne malveaux has been there for a better part of a week and a half. she has now details there. suzanne, just begin with, can you confirm what we re being told, that all of the asill aai are either dead or captured? reporter: actually, a spokesman for the ministry of defense just tweeted, there might be one or two more terrorists still alive. he also says the building has not yet been cleared. we know for sure there were four insurgents involved in this attack. they ve been going floor by floor in this abandoned building, the building that s been under construction for some t
dan simon, living the collective dream in san francisco. cnn newsroom continues right now. hello, everyone, president obama is just about to land in columbus, ohio, to campaign for the jobs bill that republican leaders of congress are openly rejecting. barely 24 hours ago the president showed off his american jobs act and demanded congress pass it with, and i quote, no games, no politics, no delays. but then came the details of how the $447 billion package would be paid for. two words. tax hikes. and you could hear the opposition digging in. the biggest hike by far would be a cap on itemized deductions for high earners. the white house estimates that would raise $400 billion over four years. the bill would also close loopholes enjoyed by oil and gas companies, raising an estimated $40 billion. it would raise taxes on investment fund managers and scale back depreciation rules for corporate jets and suddenly republicans who had been promising to hear the president out had h
news on an if you terror plot down at one of the busiest construction sites on earth. if that s all it were a construction site it would still be remarkable. we all know it is much more than that. along with a new transportation hub and two enormous skyscrapers going up behind me there s also a memorial to the 2,206 people killed here almost ten years ago. ten years later all over manhattan, washington, d.c., there are echoes of that terrible day. police and troops with assault riefls in the train stations, same as it was. checkpoints and road blocks pulling over trucks and vans looking for explosives and other dangerous material. same as it was. people on edge, same as it was. and not just because of the anniversary. the breaking news tonight, new developments in the potential plot targeting new york and washington. two of the three people thought to be connected to it are american citizens. susan candiotti has been working her sources. she joins us now so does fran townsend
military s m-16 and m-4 assault rifles. army officials locked down the post a couple of days ago. no one in or out allowed during the search. the ammo is still missing. u.s. officials announced this week they had credible yet unconfirmed information that a plot was under way to either either new york or washington or both. let s get right to susan candiotti in new york. susan, you re getting important new details about what or who u.s. officials are looking for? reporter: that s right, fred. we re learning interesting new information about the timing of this possible conspiracy. at least two of the three men involved in this possible terror plot have traveled to the united states last week. of course it remains unconfirmed as does the plot as to whether these people arrived in the united states. the authorities are still working on the assumption that they may have already arrived in the united states. a third man that is believed to be part of this possible group was tra