entertainment. early this friday morning, entertainment. early this friday morning, december 30th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good morning, everyone. on this last day of the workweek. last friday of 2011. 2011 was weird. i like 2012 better. it has a good ring to it. good morning, everyone. i m jeff glor. i m rebecca jarvis. in just four days, iowa republicans will be the first to vote in the 2012 presidential campaign. still a tight race in the iowa caucuses and that means a busy weekend coming up for the candidates and those covering them. chief political correspondent jan crawford is in west des moines, iowa, this morning. jan, good morning. good morning, guys. that s right, as these candidates make their final push across iowa, one thing that is striking, mitt romney is on the rise and that alone makes this campaign very different than the one four years ago. mitt romney s machine is powering through iowa, handing out yard signs and shaking hands andasking
i m on my way in. highs around the mid-50s to lower 60s. tonight is expected to be cloudy with more fog and drizzle. sunday expected to be cloudy with fog and drizzle in the morning. we will look at the full forecast. 7-days coming up in the next few minutes. first, stopping our news this morning, the military s policy of don t ask, don t tell for the gay service members will continue for now. a federal appeals court in san francisco issued the order last night the justice department says ending the policy now would end the process of rolling it back. but in the court ruling they said the government cannot penalize anyone under don t ask, don t tell. pose people opposed about gay lessons to social studies classes hopes to pup the issue to a vote. they want a referendum on the ballot. the group has to collect nearly half a million signatures. the law signed by governor brown will allow the first state toe teach about gays and lesbians in public schools. someone shot and ki
but the shuttle program because that is the history-making event of the day, we hope. ali velshi at kennedy space center where they re fueled up, ready to go, but we ll see if it happens. they are ready to go. we know there s going to be a lot of news one way or the other. we are live at kennedy space center here in florida. the counting down, the hours. you can see it there the countdown clock hasn t started going. this is the countdown to the last launch ever of the space shuttle atlantis, last launch ever of a space shuttle. it is truly the end of an amazing era. four astronauts will make history today. 1 million people from around the world are expected to gather in the greater area here to witness it. if the weather holds out. they re ready to go in case the shuttle takes off. of the people on the shuttle only 355 of the very elite have flown the shuttle in its 30-year history. we ll be bringing you every step of the final four astronauts, the steps that they take th
ratcliff. what a pleasant human being. i love the fact that ten years ago he was just auditioning for this role and now he s standing here at the wizarding world of harry potter and i asked him if he could make sense of it all. it s been kind of wild, it s been an amazing sort of ten years and i have always felt very, very lucky to have fallen into almost by accident a job that i absolutely love. reporter: over ten years you have gone from being an actor to a potter fan. you re not just behind a green screen, you re actually seeing it happen. we re used to just having facades and then we get to go inside. reporter: a lot of people would love to have a steady job for ten years, is it hard to turn the page now and not be harry potter?
the small people, which offended so many americans, so we ll see how he goes over for the american public, he s swedish, he didn t mean to be taken the way he was. but we ll see what the americans think. and word that it s brgs p managing director bob dudley that will be taking over, do we know yet when that will happen? is this immediately? i have read in some reports that he s not going to be taking over until the well is capped or until the leak is capped. that s not what i heard, i listened to the interview and i was under the presentation with mr. hayward is on his way back to britain now and that bob dudley will be taking over fairly shortly. we ll have to wait and see how that all plays out. dawna freisen, thank you for that update. we want to get reaction on this story, of course this shake-up in bp s management, i m joined by a nationally syndicated radio talk show host, also an msnbc contributor. michael, thank you for being with us. i want to get your reactio