though, new terror concerns as we approach the first anniversary of the daring raid that led to the death of osama bin laden. there is no credible information suggesting al qaeda or its allies are planning attacks tied to the anniversary. but the concerns are real enough that president obama reviewed the threat picture just this morning with this top national security advisers. our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence is here with the details. what is the biggest threat intel officials are most worried about. they are very concerned right now about a renewed effort to target western aviation. in fact, the fbi, homeland security, and the u.s. military s northern command sent this memo out to law enforcement agencies across the country. basically alerting them to the possibility of this threat. specifically, they think the biggest threat is coming from al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. that is the most active al qaeda group. it s also the group that has tried to attack to u
hooker scandal hits the hill. the first member of the obama administration getting grilled this hour on the colombian prostitution debacle. the white house saying their staff is in the clear. why do they have to testify? coverup. john edwards former top aide coming clean admitting he helped cover up edwards affair with his mist res mistress, rielle hunter. has presidential politics moved from behind the podium to on the stage? newsroom begins right now. we begin with startling new developments in a missing child case that riveted much of the world nearly five years after madeleine mccann vanished during a family vacation to portugal, british police came out this morning and say they believe she may still be alive. they released a new image showing how she might look. she ll be 9 years old in mid may. she was 3 years old when she vanished. investigators face blistering criticism for the way they handled that case. max foster is following the latest developments from l
top of the hour. want to get you up to seed. newt gingrich gets ready to pull the plug on his presidential campaign. sources telling cnn gingrich is going to officially end his run for the white house next week, throw his support behind mitt romney. gingrich expected to help republicans try to win back the senate and hold onto the house. here is what he said earlier today. we re going to stay very, very active. we re working out the details of our transition and we ll have information for the press the next couple days, but i am committed to this party, i am committed to defeating obama. we will find ways to try to be helpful. i do think it s pretty clear that governor romney is only going to be the nominee and we ll do everything we can to make sure he is, in fact, effective. a major retailer in south korea is pulling u.s. beef from its shelves. the store is stopping sales after a single case of mad cow disease was confirmed in california. the u.s. agriculture department
it is deadly. the u.s. agriculture department announced that a case of mad cow disease has been confirmed confirmed in a dairy cow out in central california. let s bring in lisa sylvester. she s working this story for us. lisa, what is the department of agriculture saying. what s going on? reporter: wolf, the usda just released information within the last hour and what we know is that it is a dairy cow from central california that has tested positive for bse or commonly known or referred to as mad cow disease, and wolf, this is only the fourth case ever detected in the united states. normally an animal contracts bse from consuming contaminated feed and this cow tested positive from atypical bse, it s a rare form of the disease and not generally associated with an animal-consuming infected feed and it states, quote, the cow was never presented for slaughter for human consumption so at no time presented a risk to the food supply and milk does not transmit bse. so you can se
far ohave opinion forced out of the agency. all starting in a hotel in cartagena. that s where we find drew griffin now. drew, we re now seeing this woman. you ve been down there all weekend. what s the latest? reporter: this woman, her name is dania suarez. 24 years old, anderson. single mother of a young son. the young son goes to school. she herself goes to english-speaking class. we went to the apartment where she lived. it s down a dirt alley, a middle class neighborhood, a gated community. her neighbors were quite frankly they were stunned that this was the woman involved with this scandal. they called her a model citizen of her gated community and had no idea how she made a living. but they do say that this woman they saw in their local newspaper is the woman who lived in the apartment. a couple days ago somebody came to the apartment and removed some suitcases. she has not been seen at her home since this news broke. anderson? what do we know about what took pla