how funny is that. and sean pen, what he thinks americans need to ask. what do we stand for as a community and our country and what do i stand for in my family. reporter: his thoughts in the white house. i don t want to see a narrow-minded leadership encourage a narrow-minded congress. his hollywood life. it s my pleasure to sit down exclusively with the second lady, in california. jill biden joins me now. is the such an amazing place. tell me what you ve been doing here? this morning, i went to a place, they took me to a village they had constructed, like an afghan village and did a live fire and showed me what the marines went through or are going through as they went to afghanistan. i went and looked at the place where they teach them how to handle bombs and ieds and talked to all the marines there in. it was a pretty intense morning. when you are that close and they re firing live ammunition, what s the difference between that and everything you ve read or
authorities have a name and they have a picture of the man they are hunting. this is him. benjamin colton barnes, 24 years old, believed to have military experience and an assault rifle somewhere in the sprawling national park. and there s one other thing. police say barnes is their only person of interest in a shooting earlier today that left four people wounded outside seattle. so let s get more on this story. to mt. rainier national park and to komo tv. what s the latest on the manhunt? we just stepped away from a police briefing seconds before we hit air here. what they are trying to tell us is the severity of barnes, the power and danger he potentially poses. they have not fully named him as a suspect, but the only person of interest in this particular shooting and, obviously, the shooting earlier this morning when it comes to the new year s eve shooting. barnes has a military background. definitely some familiarity with military weapons. we were told the car he owns w
hello and thanks for joining us. i m frld fr i m fredricka whitfield. first an update on some of the top stories of the day. bangkok, thailand, rings in 2012. we re bringing you new year s celebrations from around the world for new year s eve. bangkok holds out all the stops. it s a new year s eve tradition in thailand to set aside this night for total indulgence, they say. and quite the opposite in syria. huge protest crowds are turning out across the country again today. and the death toll has grown. earlier today an activist network reported nine deaths in clashes with security forces. it has now changed the number of dead to at least 13. the united nations says more than 5,000 syrians have died since mid march. two opposition groups have reached a deal on a plan for democracy in case syria s president steps down. back in this country, a magnitude 4.0 earthquake has rattled ohio near the urban centers of youngstown and warren. this same area has been the center of a
away from the first tests that count. the battle for iowa and the dramatic shift in the race as it goes down to the wire. newt gingrich is telling mitt romney he needs to man up about his negative attacks. romney is asking why gingrich is so angry. stand by for my interviews with gingrich and romney along with romney s wife ann. iowa s new rising star, rick santorum, and the surprising ron paul. welcome to our viewers from around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re just a few days from the voting of the republican campaign and as the iowa caucus looms, mitt romney still leads in iowa with 25% and ron paul is right behind at 22%. but look at this. rick santorum has jumped into third place at 16%. meanwhile, gingrich plummeted to 14% down from 33% only a few weeks ago. rick perry, michele bachmann, and jon huntsman are all at the bottom. i sat down with gingrich has he was being barraged by attack ads. if you watch commercials, they are hitting
hour. the dude. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. is it possible to have a 40-year career in hollywood, makeover, 60 movies, and still have a reputation as mr. nice guy? well, apparently it is if you re jeff bridges. and he joins me now for me to test his theory. everybody tells me in the business and out you re the nicest guy in show business. how do you plead? i m going for guilty. what the hey? have you always been easy to work with? because the running theme of all your co-workers has always been you re just the nicest guy to work with. yeah, i think i have. you know? i take my lead from my old man, lloyd. lloyd bridges. you know, my dad. great actor. who loved showbiz so much. i got to work with him as a kid on sea hunt. whenever there was a role for a little kid, he d say come on, get out of school, come on, play with dad. you know, that kind of thing. but as an adult i got to work with him twice, on tucker and a movie called blown away. and