same-sex marriage is paying off for his re-election hopes. a democratic source saying the president raised $2 million in the first 24 hours after making his remarks. that comes as a new usa today/gallup poll shows that a majority of americans, 51% of the approve of the president s position. let s bring in athena jones, where a law allowing same-sex marriage is taking effect next january but opponents hope to stop it from becoming reality. good morning to you. give us a little more about the voter reaction there to president obama s comments. what are you hearing? reporter: good morning, randi. there s going to be a farmers market later today so we re hoping to be our stwoeinformal polling here but the first national poll since the president made his remarks on wednesday shows that 51% of people approve of the president s position on same-sex marriage, 45% disapprove so that s still fairly evenly divide e. but if you look at it by party, you ll find that 71% of democrats app
carbon monoxide poisoning from broken heaters have caused dozens of deaths. this vortedly the same winter weather system that has plagued much of europe. germany: lots of singing, dancing, and beer drinking in cologne. costume, revelers crowded the city city starting carnival. german s catholic south and west take part in the festival. it reportedly has its origins in ancient fertility rights and ancient tradition of starting spring. that s a wrap on this fox trip around a the world in 80 seconds. around the world is brought to you by verizon. the droid razr. more colors, same edge. shepard: kids never stop surprising you, do they? tense moments for 2-year-old and her grandmother after 2-year-old got stuck inside one of those claw machines full of toys. it happened in a laundromat lexington, kentucky. the kid had reportedly crawled
minutes. once she was out she got to keep a couple of those stuffed toys. i hate those claw machines. look at the poor little kid. they don t explain at all how the heck she got into that thing. bill: leave it for later, wait until you get another dollar. martha: you put the dollar in and the claw goes over and it just looks like it s going to pick up the little toy and then it doesn t. and you pump another dollar in. bill: i ve got a habit, mom. martha: oh, please. bill: it started as an ad for a tax protest in the state of rhode island, an activist who published the names and photos of local politicians now at center of a free speech battle. douglas kennedy is here with the latest in our series, taking liberties. douglas. is that mick kennedy? imagine if you had to get a politician s permission before you ran a political attack ad. that is what one city councilman
miles per hour in three seconds. reporter: nasa and lockheed martin showed a mock-up of the model. patrick has no problem with a ride. cramped in there. i ve been inside that thing. you re okay with that? it would be fun to see something you ve never been to before. reporter: now, there s one big stumbling block to all this talk about flying to the moon an asteroid. o ryan can t propel itself out of the atmosphere. you need a powerful rocket. and while it s coming, that rocket doesn t yet exist. perhaps a case of the cart before the horse. john zarrella, cnn at the kennedy space center in florida. that is really cool. thank you, john. you know those claw machines with the plush toys? put your money in this one the other day and you might have gotten a real living doll. pinky included. cruze. msn autos called it the class of its class right now. but that s not the only story. it s got turn-by-turn navigation,