trace is live in the west coast news hub. the people who wrote the report, trace, they claim the laws have not kept up with the technology. trace: well, and they say they need uniform laws on how the government tracks you and the aclu says the laws are in a state of chaos with different laws for different areas and some areas for law. there are some cell phone carriers that require a warrant or a court order before they give out police data but the aclu says and i quote, the practice is so common that cell phone companies have manuals for police explaining what data the companies store and how were they charge the police to access the data and what officers need to do to get it. judge napolitano: the principle is the same for matter what the police are seeking tone said whether it is the medical records, your legal records or banking records or cell phone records or computer records. if the government wants it it
gingrich is now 15 points ahead of romney in a new gallup poll and mr. paul steinhauser joins us right now from washington. hello, paul. how does romney plan to handle what is shaping up to be a two-man race at this point? it really is shaping up. that was the national poll, don. take a look at this, state poll. iowa. two new polls in iowa. one of them, cbs/ new york times. you adjust showed the national poll. newt gingrich ahead by double digits. the frontrunner, we re less than four weeks away from the iowa caucuses. what is mitt romney doing about all this? romney was speaking to reporters yesterday on the campaign trail and said he would be more forceful in going after newt gingrich and pointing out the differences where they stand on certain things and he also said, you ll see more of me. more interviews and more time on the campaign trail. he says after about a week from now when he finishes up some fund-raising, you ll see a lot more of mitt romney. four weeks to go
immigration. we ll show you the old clip making new headlines. wolf blitzer is off. i m joe johns. you re in the situation room. we begin with breaking news. american students caught up in the bloody cairo protest are finally on their way out of a nightmare experience in egypt. let s go straight to cnn s senior international correspondent, ben wedeman in cairo. earlier today we heard the three american students would be released on saturday. now we re hearing it s already happened. why? what we understand is that yesterday the prosecutors ordered their release but it took for today to get released. they have been released and they are on their way to the airport. they were attending the american university in cairo and according to the egyptian police, they were involved in attacks on security forces during the demonstrations. of course, their lawyers and their parents deny that they could have done that sort of thing and clearly the fact that the egyptians who shadly s
are concerned, a little bit more forecasting for you. new crest expected now in morgan city and butte larose, that s not going to happen until next week. so this water that s spilling ferociously out of the morganza spillway is going to take its sweet time as it spreads out across the atchafalaya basin. one other thing to note, to add levity to this, we found a woman yesterday selling t-shirts, 20 bucks a pop to raise some money for her and her neighbors to, you know, help ease the pain as they have to move out of their homes as the river rises. capitalism alive and well, but i want to be in that situation to sell t-shirts in preparation for potentially lose something of my belongings. back up to you. what a sad situation. all right, rob. thanks so much. coming up next on american morning, find out which cell phone carriers are ranked the worst when it comes to satisfied customers. everyone here says mine. whatever your cell phone carrier is. and donald trump is out of the
of l.a. this morning. it was unbelievable to even hear this morning, but yes, according to the los angeles times, quite a bombshell this morning they re breaking a story out of california that the former governor, arnold schwarzenegger, admitted fathering a child with a former member of his household staff and that is why the marriage broke up. schwarzenegger says it happened over a decade ago, but that he only told his wife maria shriver, after he left office earlier this year. that s when shriver moved out of their brentwood mansion. she has not commented. schwarzenegger says he has no excuses for his behavior, he s sorry for the hurt he caused his wife and children. casey wian is live in los angeles this morning. when the couple announced they would be splitting and living separately but didn t say they would be divorced but tongues were wagging, why now. now we have the answer. absolutely. it s hard to believe that schwarzenegger could become even more controversial