he was meant to board a flight to the united states with that device under his clothes. authorities leave alaseery was behind the plot and mind the so-called underwear bombing attempt in 2009. the plot itself indicates that these terrorists keep trying, they keep trying to device more terrible ways to kill innocent people. and it s a reminder as to why we have to remain vigilant. something that is disturbing, this is a homeless man, yelling, pleading for help as he s kicked, punched, tasered by police officers. that man died last july, five days after the beating. one of the fullerton, california officers is charged with second-degree murder, another is charged with manslaughter and excessive force. the judge is deciding whether there is enough evidence for them to be tried. new developments minutes ago in the search for a kidnapping suspect and the two young girls, the suspect s wife and mother are under arrest on especially aggravated kidnapping charges. the situation
today s reporter roulette. here we go. jojahn, straight to you in miami where newt gingrich is interest to hold a big event there. last night he had a bit of a weaker showing. what is his tacamp saying about that today? the first observation i have to make is the candidate looking a little tired here in south florida. a long slug down from jacksonville after the debate. now here? south florida, pu now here in florida, pushing for the hispanic vote. he s wishing certain questions had been asked in certain ways. meanwhile, the speaker, as i said, reaching out to the latino voters here in south florida, really making a big play over h support of his portion of the dream act that will allow military who are immigrants to go on to become american citizens. hoping that plays very well with the immigrant community here in south florida. as we move into the weekend, newt gingrich is planning just a flurry of activity across this state to try to drum up support. because, frankly,
answered, send an e-mail to cnnhelpdesk@cnn.com. hello, everyone. let s start this hour with our reporter roulette. trying to stop gunfire on new year s eve. also we ll get a look at your weather for tomorrow night. and some good economic news. let s start with iran. flexing its military muscle. it s conducting naval exercises in the persian gulf. apparently to show the west what it s capable of if the west imposes new sanctions on iran s oil exports. let s bring in barbara starr, pentagon correspondent. she joins us now. barbara, you ve been following developments. what can you tell us about these exercises? isha, let s start with a photo, a picture that the iranians say they took of a u.s. aircraft carriers in north arabian sea. the only u.s. aircraft carrier out there is the uss john stennis. this film apparently taken from iranian aircraft. part of those naval exercises going on right now in the north arabian sea. it could be a tense weekend out in that region off i
that because her family wants to spend a lot of private time with her to catch up for that past four years. brooke? sandy, thank you very much. let s go to alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. we re 60 minutes away from the closing bell. how did today fair? that s right. it s just another rough day. we ve got another hour to go before the closing bell sounds. stocks have been stuck in the red for most of the day. we saw them trim their losses after comments from fed chief ben bernanke. saying growth will be in the second half of the year. problem is, the second half of the year is right now. what we re seeing is worries about greece defaulting continue. you re seeing that worry play out in the numbers today. brooke? we also speaking of the red, we saw the s&p 500 dip into the bear market today. what does that mean? it continues to be trading in bear market territory. it represents the same downturn for the market and the s&p 500 is really knee-deep in th
the freedom to the right to bear arms it seems like a very reasonable trade-off for preventing serious tragedy in society. 30 seconds. i want to ask you for a quick response. pete, a lot of criticism about cnn s decision and some support for it to air the tea party response by michele bachmann last night. your thoughts, good or bad idea? quick. number one, we ve got to get ratings. number two, anytime you can get michele bachmann on television, put her on television, ali. rachel? she s a fringe member. she s not a national leader. this was the state of the union address. you can report on her response without giving it time as though she is an official elected representative. the republicans picked their person and until the tea party has a complete separate party, you know, on the ballot, i think that that was a mistake on cnn s part to glorify them. rachel, pete, thanks for