the right. a new television ad that labels him as a fake. why? because he s a fake. while i was fighting to save the olympics you were fighting to save the bridge to nowhere. we re going to stay with cnn, full highlights from last night s republican debates live from phoenix in just a moment. and gas prices have jumped again. up 3% three cents, rather, overnight, according to aaa. average is $3.61. it is still going up. economists say the gas could jump to 4 or even $5 a gallon by the summer. you re going to hear from president obama on gas prices and energy policy. that s happening later today. president obama is apologizing for the burning of korans by nato troops in afghanistan. now, this incident set off protests across the country. after again president hamid karzai said president obama sent a letter calling the burning an inadvertent error. he also promised to take steps to avoid any reoccurrence. two u.s. troops were killed by someone wearing an afghan army
coming from courageous syrians who work very hard to get the story out. remi was one of those people until yesterday. he is shown here with his 18-year-old daughter. rami was killed yesterday in the heavy shelling of homs. his death came as he was trying to help a family flee the bombardment. in afghanistan, a deadly day. after began owe kwigss say five people were killed, four by police who opened fire on the demonstrators. some copies of islam s holy book were burned by mistake this week at the air field. the u.s. commander of nato forces in afghanistan issued a formal apology saying in part the incident was an error and immediately stopped when discovered. the political spotlight is on arizona tonight as the republican contenders for the white house square off in a debate sponsored by cnn. with his surge in the polls, rick santorum could be the main target by his rivals saying that satan is waging war against america. here s what he said about it yesterday. i m a per
also here in the united states before arizona, michigan, and super tuesday. brand new polling is showing that we are in a virtual tie, though, in the desert. and reliving the lewinsky affair. staffers are opening up for the very first time in a brand new documentary. they are saying the white house was consumed by it for nearly an entire term. that documentary is getting some mixed reviews this morning. we re going to share that with you. and the president singing the blues, not over the campaign, literally singing the blues with bb king. yeah, get down. you re going to hear the rest of that coming up. we begin this morning with breaking news out of syria. opposition activists telling cnn two western journalists were killed in heavy shelling by syrian government forces on a neighborhood in the besieged city of homs. we are not naming the journalists yet. we are pending notification of their next of kin. we are working our sources on this story, and we ll be following it
become victims of the violence they were covering there on the ground in syria. just hours before her death, american-born journalist marie colvin told anderson cooper just last night, quote, the syrian army is shelling the city of cold, stavrving civilians, end quote. colvin and remi ochik were killed in the shelling there. he was just 28 years old. he was a veteran war correspondent with the new york times for more than two decades. i have cnn s ivan watson and jim clancy joining me. ivan, i want to begin with you in istanbul. i ll get to you, jim, i know you definitely knew marie very well. ivan, you met her a few times. you were also just recently in syria, days ago in syria. what did you see? tell me about the shelling. i was in a different part of the country that wasn t being pummelled the way that the city of homs is under such fierce bombardment. we were hearing periodic clashes and hearing heavy arms, and there were periodic bombardments of villages in the area.
producer clive davis. this is the beverly hilton hotel. piers morgan is helping us out as well. as well as our folks who were there at the beverly hilton tonight. before we go to piers, i want to go to drew pinsky helping us as well. dr. drew, we want to pay tribute to whitney and remember the good things about her and the extraordinary voice and talent that she did possess. we would be remiss if we didn t talk about the possibilities, just the possibilities of what might have happened and some of the issues that whitney dealt with in her life. doctor drew? we lost dr. drew. piers morgan is standing by. i thought it was interesting when you spoke with simon cowell and i got to jump in and he mentioned the same thing that we should be honoring whitney houston. go ahead. i think there is a fine line when these tragic events happen. when you have somebody who had such a well-documented history of problems and terrible issues to do with substance abuse and brutal marriage and s