arkansas. and tornado watches still up in a number of places. cnn meteorologist rob marciano, i heard you back there. can t keep up with the board and everything else going on. what s the latest? what s eerie about this situation is that there s a path of the tornado took is a similar path to the one that hit them in april. north of tuscaloosa and northern birmingham. not similar results but still two fatalities. and i want to show you the latest on where this is all going. the most damage has been north of birmingham. and center point, paradise valley. this area here about, i don t know, maybe 15, 20 miles north of birmingham, alabama. this happened overnight when it was dark, dangerous situation. two fatalities. a tat least 100 people injured with this storm. and there was another cell south of birmingham with similar results, although it s less populated down there. we didn t have as much structural damage, but injuries nonetheless around clayton and reports of a transmi
we were talking about arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords. we were gripped in horror when an assassin shot her in the head and killed six others around her. we watched in hope as she made remarkable steps to recovery. today in order to stay on that pathway to healing, gabby giffords announced she is resigning from her seat in congress. i have more work to do on my recovery. so to do what is best for arizona, i will step down this week. i want to bring in now our athena jones. she s been monitoring the reaction from giffords colleagues. in just the past hour we heard from the president, right? that s right. so over the course of the afternoon we ve heard from members of congress like speaker john boehner and democratic leader nancy pelosi, all praysiprays praiseing gabby give forts. president obama said gabby s cheerful presence will be missed in washington but she will remain an inspiration to all whose lives she touched, my included. and i m confident that we hav
i did catch up with somebody a few moments ago and they were watching the returns come in on the gingrich bus. i asked were they elated, were they exciting, doing touchdown dances? the answer is no, they were very humbled by the results down here in south carolina. and anderson, i think what happened here is that conservatives in this state, republicans in the state said they couldn t care less about newt gingrich s personal life. what they did care about was a candidate taking it to the establishment, taking it to the republican establishment, not only around the country but here in social. it was the governor of this state who was on the mitt romney team, not on the newt gingrich team. he was going after the media, which we talked about again and again, and conservatives like that, as well. but it was interesting to listen to newt gingrich s victory speech here tonight, because it wasn t so much about his rival. we heard him go on and on about mitt romney on the campaign t
way ahead of mitt romney. snow flooding, wide weather across the country. we ll have a look at what else is on the horizon. captions by vitac www.vitac.com big day in south carolina as people are voting right as we speak in the republican presidential primary. at a small ham house restaurant in greenville is the center of a showdown between mitt romney and newt gingrich literally. both candidates scheduled to arrive for breakfast, a meet-and-greet at the same place at the very same time, but romney got there first. maybe he needs that head start especially after a recent poll shows a stunning turnaround, gingrich surging ahead with 450% of the vote, romney a distant second now, 26%. our jim acosta is there. so, jim, tell us what s happening at the restaurant. reporter: hey, gary, we re live outside tommy s ham house. newt gingrich is inside as part of the ham house showdown we ve seen all morning long. you can see the former speaker was hamming it up inside the restau
took the spotlight. he was asking to have an open marriage and i refused. he wanted an open marriage? yeah. that i accept the fact that he has somebody else in his life. she says that you came to her in 1999, at a time when you were having an affair. she says you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage. would you like to take some time to respond to that? no, but i will. and i am frankly astounded that cnn would take trash like that and use it to open a presidential debate. i am tired of the elite media protecting barack obama by attacking republicans. joe johns is at the republican leadership conference where gingrich is speaking at this hour. joe, gingrich got a standing o when he was asked about that interview. reporter: yeah, he sure did. i mean, this is you can say a lot of things about it, but i think probably the most important thing to say, kyra, is that this is the south. this is newt gingrich s home base. if there s anywhere these charges have