the student who allegedly shot five of his fellow classmates at an ohio high school this morning. his name is tj lane. he s a junior. he was described by friends as quiet, but a nice kid from a broken home. no matter what, he created a scene of horror and chaos in chardon, ohio today. allegedly opening fire in the high school cafeteria, leaving one dead and four wounded. two remain in critical condition tonight. nate mueller was in the cafeteria. he s a fellow student and described the scene. he didn t say anything the entire time. he took one shot and then that s when we looked to see what was happening. i saw him shoot, which hit one of my other friends that was sitting at the table with us and then as i was turning around, that s when he hit me. ted rollins is outside the high school in chardon for us tonight. and teresa hunt is going to join us in a couple of months on the phone. her daughter was in a classroom during the shooting. ted, i wanted to start with you thou
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. what s the latest on the fight between the front-runners. reporter: wolf, it s pretty clear last night s debate touched off a very personal tone in the race for the gop nomination. that s because there s a lot riding on the next several days. i hope you watched the debate last night. it was kind of fun. reporter: the morning after the debate, mitt romney had a smile on his face, swinging away at rick santorum. i don t know that i ve ever seen a politics explain why he voted against his you re entitled to your opinions, but not entitled to misrepresenting the facts. i took that at aim. romney took aim at his performance. when le tried to justify his vote for the no child left behind law sometimes you take one for the team for the leader, and i made a mistake. politics is a team sport, folks. in front of a big crow, romney knocked that one into the blea bleachers. i wonder what team he was taking it for
visited the white house website. they shared how losing the tax cut would have impacted their daily lives. so congress did the right thing here. they listened to the voices of the american people. each side made a few compromises. we passed some important reforms to help turn unemployment insurance into reemployment insurance, so that more people get training and the skills they need to get back in a job. the president has promised to sign the bill into law when it hits his desk a little later on this week. the arizona sheriff who was publicly outed by an ex-gay lover and then went ahead and quick the mitt romney arizona campaign says he is not a hypocrite. during an interview with wolf blitzer, paul babeu says the scandal is a smear campaign meant to derail his gop congressional bid. this is outrageous that this has been brought up because i m a conservative republican and now they think that somehow there s hypocrisy because i m gay. i ve never worn it on my sleeve,
we begin tonight with presidential politics. new numbers that underscore just how important our big debate here is tomorrow night and a new twist in the campai campaign conversation. a new cnn times poll shows a statistical dead heat this arizona. 36% for mitt romney, 32% for the surging rick santorum. add in a small santorum lead in michigan which also votes next tuesday, and what you get is a tense, volatile gop race as the final four candidates prepare for their first debate in nearly a month. in a moment how the tightness of the race is playing out among the candidates. but first a campaign commentary is stirring controversy. listen here to franklin graham, the son of the reverend billy graham, when asked on msnbc just this morning if he can say categorically that the president is not a muslim. i can t say categorically, because islam has gotten a free pass under obama. how so? well, we see the arab spring. coming out of the arab spring the islamists are taking co
very good friday morning to you. welcome to early start. i m ashleigh banfield. i m zoraida sambolin. we are bringing you the news from a to z. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. let s get started here. some developments overnight be want to tell you about, very unusual. a shoot-out? a federal building and ice agent killing another and another ice agent injured. how and why this happened. new details on whitney houston s funeral. we know who will sing, who will speak and who will simply witness it all. your car may be getting smarter as you get a little dumber. you see these images all the time, don t you? distracted drivers endangering you and me. the d.o.t. department of transportation is going to crack down on this. no facebook until you park, folks. it s a huge mystery. have you been following this, it s all over twitter. the stephen colbert show mysteriously canceled some shows. we re going to try to dig deep and figure out what happened for you. we want to b