eric holder. there is a hearing right now from an oversight committee to ask for contempt order from eric holder. and the situation existed when issa asked for information, and they were denied documents. and it is the time of year to limit your sun exposure and wear light clothing and things should cool down by the weekend. more of the legal and the botched gun sting operation. president obama and the white house are now involved. the house oversight committee is seeking contempt measure over attorney general eric holder. the congress is wanting more information about the gun running sting. the department of tobacco and firearms and alcohol lost the weapons. kate bolduan is here to help explain. reporter: well, the white house is involved because some of the documents are esensitive and are under the purview of executive workings, and they are under the president s communications with his advisers that they do not think it should be part of the investigation. in this l
you might think that hispanics are the fastest growing immigrant group in the country but you d be wrong. a new pew studies shows that asians have surpassed them. 31% for hispanics. 10 years ago asians made up 19% of new immigrants. the number has almost doubled in just a decade. let me bring in deborah faye err rick. a lot of people are talking in our morning meeting about what this means politically, what it means economically. asian immigration way up. it still only makes up 5% of the u.s. population. explain this to us. reporter: it s not 5 or 6%. what we re talking about is a record 18.2 asian-americans in the united states. three or four adults were born abroad. they came from dozens of countries in the far east, southeast asia, the indian subcontinent. the shift occurs over the last decade. in 2005 you see the number of hispanic immigrants dropping while the number of asian immigrants begins to go up sharply. four years later, in 2009, asians become the largest immig
it is a major development from an administration that s been under fire for record deportations. straight to brianna keilar at the white house who has been following this. it s not a stunning reversal of any policy or anything from the obama administration, but it certainly did come as a surprise that the announcement was going to be made today. reporter: this is certainly a very big deal, don, to protect young illegal immigrants. this is something that democrats and some republicans have been calling for in congress for over ten years now and has had a hard time getting through congress. but basically here is what the announcement says. if someone came to the united states as a child, so 16 years or younger, they don t have a criminal record, they don t pose a national security or public safety risk, in school or a high school graduate or have their ged or honor bli discharged former member of the military and not over 30, they would be eligible to defer deportation for a
major setback for egypt. who is running the country? the constitution was ruled invalid today in egypt, and said that anyone elected under it has to go. egypt s military rulers took over all of the legislative pow, and it is already a tense time politically as the egyptian voters will choose a president in a runoff election this weekend. and the prosecutors in the jerry sandusky child molestation trial will wrap up the case today. one of the victims is an alleged victim whose mother called authorities after her son told her that he had showered with sandusky. he is accused of abusing ten boys in a ten-year period. this aircraft went down yesterday, and all five crew members are not injured, and the osprey s safety has been questioned since 2005. a man accused of a shooting spree in auburn university is accused of three murders and two assault counts. you can see desmonte leonard at his court appearance this morning. the funerals for the two killed will take place saturday
in a presidential election run thauf weekend. we should tell you that riot police, military personnel have taken up positions outside the court. ben wedeman joins us in just a few moments with the latest on this. as soon as we get ben wedeman, we ll bring it to you. back to the u.s. you know the old saying, when it rains it pours. for the obama campaign it appears to be a gully washer. lately the president has had some bad poll number, some bad headlines, some democrats are expressing doubt about his message and his chances come november. big donors are sitting tight with their money. for mitt romney, several things appear to be going right. he is raising a lot of money and his poll numbers have been getting better. a little more than two hours from now, both men take to the stump in the battleground state of ohio with dueling key economic speeches. they won t be face to face, but you can bet that they won t mince words about each other either. so, cnn s jim acosta joins us