hostage, jessica buchanan. she s at a hospital in italy. she s going through what s callcal called a reintegration. it requires time. it s to max mime health and welfare. the question is could she be coming home soon. wish her well nonetheless. special delivery. can you say hot sauce? i woke up to the story and thought, oh, my man, what a delivery. politic and tacos, folks. hundreds and hundreds of tacos going to the office of the mayor of east haven, connecticut. i think you know who s behind this, why it happened and what s the reaction to it. we have an amazing video. a snow blower rider fell hundreds of feet. what he did after the crash. there were three angles on that. let me tell you. it looks like he s completely busted up or we wouldn t be showing you the video. we wouldn t have be showing you the video. i like good x games, i tell you. a real daredevil. let s go to the x games of politics, shall we? it was the gop s final four, and they were pulli
doesn t have to eat again for two weeks. oh! okay. graphic, graphic. one way of characterizing what happened. welcome back, a live look at the white house on a foggy morning in washington. here with us from washington, nbc news chief white house correspondent and political director and host of the daily rundown chuck todd. and from tampa, florida, msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele. gentlemen, thanks for joining us. chuck todd, debate last night, quite a bit different than the one in south carolina. were you there, what were your thoughts? well i think you saw the role-swapping there a little bit with romney the aggressor and gingrich trying to play above the fray, trying to not engage. what i found interesting is we know the strategy here from romney. it s not just to try to raise some negatives about gingrich. but at the debate itself, it was about drawing him out. i think they thought feisty,
that will pull people s focus away for a moment in a frightening way perhaps. well, and frankly we ve got to make sure that the people who attacked us on 9/11 and other terrorists wish us ill are not in the position to re-establish a foothold either in iraq or afghanistan. so it is the case we ve been there now for 10 years that we have fought hard. we have made gains but we certainly can t watch the gains slip away in a way that makes the united states less safe. martha: very important issue. liz cheney, thank you so much. great to see you. thank you, martha. good to be with you. bill: good debate last night, huh? martha: very. bill: one last crack at each other before the big vote on saturday. i thought what huckabee said 20 minutes ago whether you have effective debate in closing days or whether or not it is too late and you missed the opportunity. martha: we ll see. some of these guys fare very well in the south carolina primary are you could open the door for some who may thin
there because people see the flashes that go. they re trying to blow a hole in the hull so rescuers can start getting in there is going to make the search and rescue team have better access and make it easier for them to get out. still looking for 29 people who remain unaccounted for if death toll right now is standing at six. there are also stunning new images coming in from under the water today. i want to share that with you. rescuers have to swim through debris in the hull ways. first flat block box has been picked up already and apparently picking up minute by minute betails. since they now located the second black box and divers are trying to retrieve that black box as well. this morning seeing the transcripts of the recorded conversation between the port authority and the captain of the ship. the first time it comes to us from the italian newspaper and the port authority says this. how many people are on board? the captain whose last name is schettino says, 2, 300. kee
delicious sugar-free vitafusion fiber gummies have more fiber than other leading brands. they re the better way to enjoy your fiber. checking top stories, the republican presidential candidates are getting ready to square off for the second time in just hours. they traded barbs during an abc news debate last night. they debate again on nbc this morning. the new hampshire primary is only two days away. iran says its new nuclear plant will soon operate at full capacity. the government has said the power plant will only be used to generate electricity but the u.s. is concerned that iran may be developing a nuclear program for military purposes. a container ship grounded off the coast of new zealand has finally broken in two. big swells battered the helpless ship knocking a couple of hundred containers off the deck.