this morning the olympic committee responds. newsroom begins right now. good morning. happy friday 13th. i m carol costello. we begin this hour with a very bad day for the nation s biggest banks. jpmorgan chase and its ceo jamie dimon are opening their books and telling us just how much money the firm lost in a bunch of risky trades. the blunder stunned the financial world and fueled more debate on whether banking regulations are tough enough. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange and has been listening to a jpmorgan conference call this morning. alison, what have you heard? if you re totalling up the losses so far this year from those trading losses from the risky trades, what it adds up to is $5.8 billion. that s almost triple what was originally thought. but jamie dimon said they could get bigger by another $1.7 billion. keep in mind just because the trades were discovered and announced to everybody, you know, they can t just suddenly be stopped. so what has
just releasing right now, a latest poll showing a tightening race. newt gingrich is charging ahead, trying to keep the fight for the republican nomination going, and the new cnn/time/orc poll shows him closing the gap here in south carolina. mitt romney remains the front-runner with 33%. gingrich up now, though, to 23%. rick santorum third at, and rick perry 6%. joining us now our chief political analyst gloria borger and time columnist joe klein. gloria, let me say, the gap seems to be narrowing in these recent days. what evidence do we see? take a look at this, wolf. in the poll we did january 4th to 5th there was a 19-point difference. now, in our current poll there s a ten-point gap. i think we can explain that by the fact that quite honestly mitt romney hasn t had a good week. and they re throwing it at him, not only newt gingrich, but rick santorum. i think he s been really under attack here. you see a narrows of the gap in you ve been oregon he for a while. i thi
cruise liner is suspended. rescue diver face new difficulties while the captain may face years of prison. i m wolf blitzern charleston, south carolina. you re in the situation room. just releasing right now, a latest poll showing a tightening race. newt gingrich is charging ahead, trying to keep the fight for the republican nomination going, and the new cnn/time/orc poll shows him closing the gap here in south carolina. mitt romney remains the front-runner with 33%. gingrich up now, though, to 23%. rick santorum third at, and rick perry 6%. joining us now our chief political analyst gloria borger and time columnist joe klein. gloria, let me say, the gap seems to be narrowing in these recent days. what evidence do we see? take a look at this, wolf. in the poll we did january 4th to 5th there was a 19-point difference. now, in our current poll there s a ten-point gap. i think we can explain that by the fact that quite honestly mitt romney hasn t had a good week. and the
dan wheldon exemplified everything about this series and about why people continue to come to this place, this is the racing capital of the world. two other drivers spent the night in las vegas hospitals for observation. dan wheldon leaves behind a wife and two sons. the occupy wall street movement is marking one month of protests today. a campsite in lower manhattan group says they have raised $300,000 and received hundreds of boxes of food and medicine from supporters. protestors are angry over the widening payout between corporate executives and every day americans. over the weekend protests in solidarity with occupy wall street spanned cities around the globe. cornell west was among 19 people arrested at the u.s. supreme court on sunday. the authorities say that the group refused to leave the court grounds and weston and the others were protesting corporate influence in politics. three families are asking israel s supreme court to stop the release of 1,000 palestini
dan wheldon exemplified everything about this series and about why people continue to come to this place, this is the racing capital of the world. two other drivers spent the night in las vegas hospitals for observation. dan wheldon leaves behind a wife and two sons. the occupy wall street movement is marking one month of protests today. a campsite in lower manhattan group says they have raised $300,000 and received hundreds of boxes of food and medicine from supporters. protestors are angry over the widening payout between corporate executives and every day americans. over the weekend protests in solidarity with occupy wall street spanned cities around the globe. cornell west was among 19 people arrested at the u.s. supreme court on sunday. the authorities say that the group refused to leave the court grounds and weston and the others were protesting corporate influence in politics. three families are asking israel s supreme court to stop the release of 1,000 palesti