wrong about chavez, and that tells you a lot. and he also recently awarded an apartment to a woman who became his 3 millionth twitter follower, and he is a big twitter follower. yes, he is wildly popular and the message is getting through to twitter again, and he did this, and he is rewarding somebody for being the 3 millionth follower. can you imagine if president obama or mitt romney were giving away homes on live television? no. thank you, miguel. captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m suzanne malveaux and this hour in the cnn newsroom, we will tell you how the worst drought that america has seen in 50 years is affect iing the cro and the economy and our pocketbooks. and the white house takes mitt romney and two possible vp candidates to ohio. and the fda bans a chemical from baby bottles and why are adults still living with it? we go to wilted crops in fields, and soil drying up, and half of the country s farms are reaching drought which is the most since
his tax rate, mitt romney reveals his tax rate. fair or unfair? and fact or not? are the congress members back in session refresh and ready to change the world or not? let s go outfront. well, good ooevening, everyone. i m erin burnett and outfront tonight, and welcome back, congress. we missed you. we really did. after well, that may have been a bizarre and appropriate slip of the tongue. but members are back in the house today to make up for frankly an abysmal 2011. the track record. full of failures. they didn t raise the debt ceiling which caused america s credit rating to be cut which hurts all of us. and they didn t agree on a budg budget. and they didn t have a super committee deal. and no tax cuts. so it is no surprise that the cnn poll shows that 11% of americans approve of the way that congress is handling the job. that is an all-time low. more people approved of how bp handled the gulf coast oil spill. while members were off, some took trips abroad. maj
surrounding the new jersey governor and a possible run for the white house. how many times does a guy have to say no before it sinks in? you folks are an incredible disappointment as an audience. the fact that that took to second question. shows you people are off your game. that is not american exceptionalism. jim acosta, hopeful supporters still only heard one thing, he didn t say no. any reason to believe that he s reconsidering now? yeah, the buzz is exceptional, kyra. yes, there is reason to think that he is reconsidering for a governor who is known for his new jersey brand of straight talk. chris christie never really came out and said last night whether or not he s running for president. unlike what he has done in the past. he sounded very much like a candidate in a speech at the reagan presidential library out in california. the new jersey governor accused the president of dividing the country in order to win re-election. he took a settled dig at rick perry when
breaking news. the american embassy in kabul, afghanistan, coming under fire in an intense attack. word out of iran, the two american hikers convicted of espionage could soon be free. let s go ahead and start with the bold attack on america s signature presence in a war-torn country. rockets and machine gun fire aimed directly at the american embassy in kabul. gunfire coming from every corner of the building. take a listen. and we re now being told that it was a well-coordinated attack. i want to bring some more information straight from a man that i m going to talk to now. he s actually taken governor there in the embassy. i have known him for a long time. he works at the embassy and has been in afghanistan about five years now, but for security reasons, we are not going to identify him. can you hear me okay? i sure can, kyra. good morning. good morning. i sure appreciate you calling in. it seems a little quiet behind you now. when i talked to you earlier, i could actu
tonight, hurricane or hype? vermont reeling from the worst flooding since the 20s, but was irene overblown? it could have been worse. we are not out of the woods yet. did government and the media go too far? better safe than sorry. we want to protect people and protect people s lives. this was the best scenario. we took the appropriate precautions. i ll ask a woman who may be new york s next mayor if the city get it done and cory booker from the front lines. and maverick billionaire mark cuban is not afraid to say what he thinks about the economy, sport, politicians, just about anything. tonight he says he ll raise hell. watch out, america. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. of all the places to be hit by a tropical storm who expected vermont to take such a pounding? the creeks and rivers are a raging torrent tonight, one the governor fears will take many more lives. 27 people in nine states have died in hurricane irene. millions are still in the dar