option is off the table when it comes to iran. also senator john mccain calls on air strikes moments ago with regard to syria. critics are calling vladimir putin s win a fraud and possibly a game changer. on this monday, time to play reporter roulette. let s begin now at the white house. huge meeting today on the subject of iran between president obama and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. with that story we go to correspondent dan lothian. dan, tell me what happened today. reporter: officials saying that meeting between president obama and prime minister netanyahu lasted about two hours, and then they moved on to a working lunch. according to these senior officials, the message remains unchanged. the position on iran that they should not get a nuclear weapon as opposed to what the israelis are looking for, a much lower threshold, which is iran not acquiring nuclear capability. in all, though, the two leaders try to portray a sense of unity. president obama sayin
nuclear program. at the same time, he vowed to prevent iran from building nuclear weapons and defended israel s right to make its own decisions about its security. netanyahu addresses the convention tonight and minutes from now, we expect to hear his and the president s opening comments from the oval office. we are on that story for you. also, single biggest election day of the presidential nomination process is now just one day away, 437 delegates up for grabs tomorrow in ten states from alaska to massachusetts. now the superest state of all may be ohio. georgia has more delegates but no state matters more as a general election battleground. now, mitt romney, fresh off his weekend victory in the washington state caucuses, is in ohio today, so is rick santorum, whose early lead in ohio polling has faded. newt gingrich in tennessee, ron paul in idaho. we are following it all for you. now, over the weekend, romney also picked up some key conservative endorsements from house m
polls. economic conditions vary greatly from state to state. let s take a look at a few. vermont s unemployment rate is at 5.1%. that is much lower than the 8.3% national average. in january, only one in about 21,000 homes in vermont were in the foreclosure process. a very different picture in ohio. unemployment much higher there, 8.1%, though lower than the national average. 1 in 616 homes is in foreclosure in ohio. in georgia, it s seen some of the worst numbers. unemployment there, 9.7%. higher than the national average. 1 in 328 homes are in the foreclosure process in georgia. cnn s chief national correspondent john king joins us now. as if john king needs an introduction to anybody who watches tv. john, as we just pointed out, we just pointed out three states. every state has a different economy. so what economic issues are going to be the most important both in super tuesday and in the election? ali, you make a very critical point going state by state because we often
we re following the breaking news this hour, a tornado outbreak that scraped parts of the midwest this morning, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 100. hardest hit, harrisburg, illinois, where at least six people died, including two children. within the last half hour, we learned the tornado was a category ef-4, with winds, get this, up to 170 miles an hour, and as wide as two football fields. in the last hour, the mayor spoke at a grief-stricken news conference. we have suffered the loss of lives. we ve suffered many injures, and millions of dollars worth of is it damage, but first and foremost the loss of lives breaks my heart today. in neighboring missouri, the governor puts the damage in the tens of millions. there s also damage in kansas and kentucky, where the national guard has been called out. let s get the latest, chad myers is watching what s going on. the heartbreaking to see it, not a whole lot of warning. what s going on now? i think the mo
the united states is ready for the challenge. as we ve discussed, the united states and china will continue to compete and as americans, we welcome competition it s part of our dna and propels our citizens to rise to the challenge. cooperation as you and i have spoken about, can only be mutually beneficial if the game is fair. perhaps we welcome competition, but are we ready for it? business professor peter navarro is the author of the book death by china. peter vice president biden says the u.s. welcomes competition. you say china is using in your word, quote, weapons of job destruction against america. what is that and what needs to happen for the u.s. to at least compete fairly with china? we had ten years now since china joined the world trade organization of unfair trade. the weapons of job destruction are clear. there s five. start with currency manipulation. it acts as a huge subsidy for chinese goods coming in and huge tariff on our products to china. you have