welcome to you, both. mary, is it too late for sarah palin? not technically. obviously newt gingrich came from a position of apparently being dead to being front-runner and the surge has temporarily hit the buffers, although he s still in joint lead with mitt romney. what s your reading of these fluctuations? there s durability in newt s numbers based on what you ve shown. there s other polls that confirm what you ve shown. mitt romney has basically been the front-runner. he s been running for five years. he s had a slight upparticular. a lot of gains have not gone to him. they ve gone to ron paul, some of the former herman cain voters are looking for a comfortable place to park their votes. they re up for grabs. i think what you see is that the electability argument that was propelling the romney candidacy for years now, i can win, has been completely swept away because in these polls most voters, republican voters say that either newt or mitt could beat barak obama and
like an arab terrorist. nobody does. i said three words. should i have said something else? what is more to the point than be wear of cockpit intrusion. they are the people who aswoek september 11th living ordinary lives. i was in my office sitting in that chair. reporter: suddenly thrust into one of the most horrific days in this nation s history. they said we have some planes. we clearly had a hijack in process. they said be prepared to shoot down the next hijack track. and they report ten miles from the white house. nine miles. eight miles. reporter: this is their story. if it was going to hit anything, it was going to hit us. reporter: the footnotes of 9/11. tuesday, september 11, 2001, dawn temperate and nearly cloudless. so begins the 9/11 commission report on what was about to become a day filled with dark skies. the first event of that day happened not in washington, boston or new york, but here in portland, maine, at the us airways ticket counte
about 40 minutes from now. we re taking a look at live pictures showing you there the flag set up, the podium set up, waiting for the president to be speaking. that will be happening momentarily. now, of course we re taking a look at how the events a world away impact your security, our standing in the world. we ve got a few details ahead of the speech. the president is expected to say that the post-bin laden area is a time to reject terror and extremist views. the president will emphasize that the united states doesn t take a one size fits all approach to change in the region. and he s going to announce $2 billion in aid to help egyptian democracy take root. a tape was released that is bin laden speaking just days after his death. the speaker expresses support for the revolutionary change in the arab world. if. former imf chief dominique strauss-kahn will ask a new york judge to release him on bail. that s happening today. he is offering $1 million cash to be confined at