a new front in the battle for the republican presidential nomination, nevada, which holds its caucuses this coming saturday. mitt romney is there along with newt gingrich and ron paul. instead of relishing his victory, a huge victory in the florida primary last night, romney and his team are now in full damage control mode after something romney said right here on cnn. our senior congressional correspondent dana bash is in las vegas with us. she s watching what s going on. what s going on with mitt romney, dana? reporter: well, wolf, i think we ve auld had something like this happen to us. you say something, it doesn t quite come out like you mean it, but when you re the front-runner in a presidential campaign, you can t afford to be the one who trips yourself up. making the morning show rounds, mitt romney inadvertently handed opponents an eight-word give on cnn i m not concerned about the very poor reporter: to be clear that made for a bumper sticker line was only
in libya. the national criminal court wants him on charges of humanity. police arrested him on sunday while he was allegedly making a pipe bomb. authorities say he got bomb-making instructions from a website linked to al qaeda. those are the top stories. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london. and good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m andrew stevens. the top stories this monday, november 21st. it s a landslide victory for their political party. talks have collapsed between qantas unions. the dispute is in the hands of the empire. and with hours to go and no budget resolution in sight, u.s. lawmakers are e preparing for defeat. first up though, spain has voted a new prime minister in in the form of the popular party leader who is promising to get the nation back on track with measures to come. if that s giving comfort to span yards, it s not having the same eflkt on investors today. what defined is set to continue. let s have a loo
rapes of young boys allegedly by a former assistant coach and allegedly covered up or at least ignored by other penn state officials. we get the latest from our mary snow. reporter: two days after ousting its president and former coach joe paterno, penn state s board of trustees announced today that it is forming a committee to investigate the failure surrounding the reporting of sex allegations by jerry sandusky. the board of trustees says no resources will be spared. they will have independent counsel and investigative teams saying there are no restrictions on the scope or activity of this committee, this as a new interim prefz penn state rodney ericsson addressed the board about moving forward here at penn state. i accept this new leadership role under circumstances that i never could have imagined. it has been truly difficult to comprehend the terrible nature of the allegations that were revealed in the attorney general s presentment last week. my heart aches for the