candidates. the response, huge. and komen bombshell. a huge shakeup at the breast cancer foundation, the president stepping down. the founder moving out of management. did planned parenthood funding change komen s focus from pink to green? and history on the track. an american breaking a record 44 years old. leo manzano bringing it in the 1,500 meters. newsroom begins right now. good morning, everyone. i m fredricka whitfield in for carol costole this morning we begin with a political competition this morning called the veep stakes. and any day, we are expecting the answer to this very critical question. who will innit mitt pick? let s bring in cnn reporter. tim pawlenty. a familiar name on the trail, says he is honored to be considered but that 2012 is about more than mitt romney s number two. let s listen. the main issue here isn t the vp process or who s going to be the vp. the main issue is what do we do to get this country and economy moving again and provide
rebels in syria pulling back. fierce air and ground attacks by the military in the city of aleppo forcing the anti-government fighters out of the neighborhood stronghold. for now, the rebels say it is a tactical withdrawal, and that reinforcements are already on the way. and meanwhile, the country has a new prime minister and former health minister who has been name named to replace the prime minister who you will remember defected to jordan four ys ago to join the opposition. a rescue team had just minutes of daylight to get a patient out of one of the harshest places on earth. we told you about this coming up yesterday. australian rescuers flying to antarctica today to evacuate a sick expeditioner as they are called, believed to be an american, and it all started when a distress call went out wednesday from the mcmurdo research facility. the recue team was forced to wait it out in new zealand until today for a narrow window of daylight to planned the land the plane, and
store. gabby giffords survived and is still recovering. he will avoid the death penalty. after the hearing a number of survivors came together outside the courthouse. give up this hopelessness in this country that we can t do anything. because we can and we must. these taboo words, gun control can be spoken plainly in the halls of congress again. one of ways i believe we can make good come out of this, is to begin some common sense discussion about who should bear arms. what hands should firearms go into. kyung lah was in the courtroom. he seemed calmer than previous appearances. clearly medicated. when he first walked into the courtroom, he did have an unusual look on his face a he looked at the public at his family and reporters and some of the victims. he looked very briefly at everyone and sat down. he was very calm. he sat very still and he was able to engage with his attorney as well as respond to questions from the judge. this is different from the jared lee
oh! iceberg tsunami. a glacier from greenland melting off the side of a cliff and causing the scare of a lifetime for a boatful of tourists. it s video you just have to see. newsroom begins right now. and good morning. thank you so much for joining me. i m carol costello. we begin this morning in oak creek, wisconsin, the site of the weekend massacre at that sikh temple. for the third straight night, the community has bonded in its grief. and the vigil keeps growing larger. the police department is also on edge. the fear white supremacists might retaliate for the death of the temple gunman. cnn s brian todd is in oak creek, wisconsin. you witnessed the depths of those concerns first hand. describe that for us. reporter: well, carol, yesterday we had gotten the name of the officer who took down the shooter on sunday. we ve gotten the name and the address of that person. we went to his house. we knocked on his door to see if he might want to talk to us. he declined, c
the stronghold. video posted online by the opposition shows extensive damage to neighborhoods. there you can see it for yourself, and that one appearing to show people finding the body of a man crushed in his collapsed home. the opposition says that 20,000 people have now been killed since this uprising began 17 months ago. filipinos got more bad news today. expect torrential rains and flooding to continue. listen to this. manila, the capital, already drown i drowning in water. check out the pictures. 30 inches of rain fell in just 48 hours at one point. water chest deep in some place, and so far the flooding and the landslides have killed at least 11 people. almost 800,000 are out of their homes and some of them on rooftops waiting to be rescued or wading through the deep water through high ground. secretary of state hillary clinton providing dancing and diplomacy with her visit to south africa, and after a dinner, with the foreign minister, clinton hit the dance floor sho