investigation. we begin with the gabby giffords announcement. giffords released a video statement online just hours ago saying she has to focus on her recovery. i don t remember much from that horrible day, but i will never forget the trust you placed in me to be your voice. thank you for your prayers and for giving me time to recover. i have more work to do on my recovery. so to do what is best for arizona, i will step down this week. i m getting better. let s bring in athena jones in washington. so, athena, what kind of reaction is pouring in? well, we re getting a lot of reaction there was a lot of love and support shown to congresswoman giffords after the shooting last year. you remember in august when she returned to the house chamber to vote on the debt ceiling bill, she got a standing ovation from her colleagues. so today we have seen reactions from both sides of the oil. democratic leader nancy pelosi released a statement saying in part, i join all my colleagu
in this picture, and i quote, will be held accountable to the fullest extent. stay with us. i m going to talk more about the outrage and fallout with mark in facetime seven minutes from now. it sounds like a vacation, west hilton, west palm beach, but seven days before the primary and 19 days before the florida votes, it s all work for republicans who think they have a shot for their party s nomination. that includes jon huntsman who came in respectable third in new hampshire and this guy who came in sixth. one of the reasons that we re here in south carolina is because we don t quit. and i want to ask you between now and the 21st to do everything that you can to talk to your friends and anybody that s not going to be here or absentee vote to get their votes in to count. because if you ll have my back on the 21st of january, i will have your back for four years in washington, d.c. the man they all want to replace will have plenty of cash to spend on keeping his job. pre
oh, here we go. oh, kyra. what a laugh to start the day. happy monday, peeps. happy monday. [ laughter ] kyra, have a good show. we start off with presidential politics and the two states that will be critical in choosing the new president. the new presidential nominee. mitt romney is considered the heavy favorite. iowa is still up for grabs just 10 weeks before it hosts the nation s first caucuses. gingrich kicking off his day with a town hall. rick santorum holding several meet and greets across the state. both are touting their conservative credentials and seizing on the latest stumbles by herman cain. paul steinhauser has the big picture from washington. shannon travis on the campaign trail in iowa. paul, let s start with you. as romney files to get onto the new hampshire ballot, how strong is his lead? what do you think? very strong in the granite state. about 15 minutes from now, he ll be in concord, the state capital, and make it official there by putting
another possible republican challenger is riled up, too, because of tea party criticism during the debt ceiling debate. yeah, right. independent patriotic americans who desire fiscal sanity in our beloved nation being called terrorist. if you were a real domestic terrorist we begin overseas tonight with two dramas unimaginable just months ago in syria, a vicious regime crackdown designed to crush an anti-government protest movement that is standing firm despite the deadly risks. and in cairo, a historic event that brought a collective gasp across the arab world, hosni mubarak on trial, wheeled into the defendant s cage in a hospital bed, dismissing with the wave of his hand allegations of corruption and complicity in the killings of anti-government protesters. translator: what do you say? translator: i deny all these charges. the 83-year-old mubarak was forced from office six months ago, but even some of the most ardent tahrir square demonstrators thought they
we were on a second short break and heading to the fieldhouse. he collapsed outside the fieldhouse. the heat proving to be fatal in georgia. two high school football players collapsed while out practicings under the sun and the heat. they both later died. if you have kids who say, mom, dad, the coach says i have to practice, i have to be out there, maybe in full pads, i want you to listen to the father of one of those high school players who just passed away. when your body tells you that you re tired, you need to tell somebody, the kids need to tell their coaches or whoever, there s something wrong with me, i need a break. also this, the heat is warping train tracks. yes, in missouri, in oklahoma, in texas, inspectors are hitting the rails every afternoon. checking and fixing what day ca they call sun kinked that could cause trains to derail. i want to turn your attention to the town of robert lee, texas, the water source is about to run try. it s a towny town ther