the honor murders took place in june 2009. they found that mohammed shafia killed three of his teenage daughters and his first wife. all three were sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole. bloody sunday in syria. 64 people were killed. heavy clashes were reported right outside the capitol, damascus. limited access to the country prevents cnn from independently verifying these reports. those are the headlines from cnn, the world s business leader. i m zain verjee and show sh wo business today begins right now. welcome to another week of wbt. i m andrew stevens in hong kong. i m nina dos santos in london. debt talks deja vu. european leaders try yet again to save greece and the single currency. ryanair dedefies forecasts. we take these jobs at the pleasure of the president. at a time when he faced so much challenge, so much pressure, if the president asks you to do this, you have to do them. treasury secretary timothy geithner talks exclusively about
does not have the experience of being an effective leader. i am in fact the legitimate heir of the reagan movement. not some liberal from massachusetts. well, mitt romney has surged ahead in the race. and a win in florida could be pretty critical. cnn political editor paul stein haweshaus hauser is in tampa. we have four polls out over the past 36 hours, and they all indicate the same thing, that mitt romney is up by double digits over newt gingrich along people likely to vote in that primary tomorrow. take a look at the most recent out about two hours ago. you can see right there mitt romney with about a 14-point lead. 43% are backing him. 29% say they are backing gingrich. you see santorum and paul both further down at 11%. when you break that poll down, it s interesting. among tea party supporters, among social conservatives, these are the base voters for gingrich. but romney has the edge there. one more poll i want to share with you. take a look at this. it came out
caused by a brush fire. at least ten people were killed. many more injured in this accident. i-75 shut down in both directions. at least 12 cars and 7 tractor-trailer trucks involved in this accident. one of the survivors joins us on the phone. his name is steven camps. we re glad you re okay. obviously, sorry about the others. you watched the driver in the car next to you die in this chaos sadly, didn t you? yes, sir. it was quite a life-changing thing because, you know, growing up you never really go through anything like that, and seeing someone s life taken so easily, it really makes you bring a lot of things into question, and it was really something that just really blew my mind. how are you doing? it s a day by day thing. i m not going to lie to you. as much as the mental if not really the physical, but really just the thought of going through that and actually surviving is still, you know, it still, you know, it gets to me a little. yeah. and you know just how
poll. ron paul and rick santorum lag far behind. i want to go now to a cnn exclusive. you re looking at what happened to romney. but let s go to herman cain joining us on the phone. mr. cain, you are endorsing newt gingrich. tell us why you made that choice. i m endorsing newt gingrich tonight for several reasons, but the two biggest reasons is, number one, he and i talked about him being open to 9-9-9, which you know i happen to believe is a critical solution that we need to embrace. and as a result of that, he has asked me to co-chair his economic growth and jobs advisory council. the second reason i m endorsing him is when you look at replacing the tax code, energy independence, regulatory reform, sound money, all of the things that i ve talked about, he and i are 100% in lock step in terms of what we need to do. so when you find a candidate that basically is running on the ideas and the ideologies that i was running on, along with him embracing 9-9-9, then it was a no-b
villaraigosa and former commerce secretary carlos gutierrez. i m candy crowley. and this is state of the union. there are more delegates at stake in florida than any of the previous contests. so major momentum will come out of this winner-take-all state. naturally ron paul, a road less traveled kind of guy, spent the week in maine. what am i doing in maine? why am i not in florida? to get delegates. that s what we re doing here. truth is, ron paul doesn t need to be in florida to have a presence. the debt is certainly an important issue. you can hear it from the ron paulites who are here cheering tonight. that s the intrigue of the paul campaign. maximum commitment by voters in the face of minimal chances. his support now is too small to be a threat to romney or gingrich in the short run, but large enough to be a factor in the long run. and if ron paul shouldn t win, what s the price for his support? the texas congressman joins me now from his home state. thank you,