bail last week. we had to go on hunger strike repeatedly just to receive letters from our loved ones. many times, too many times, we heard the screams of other prisoners being beaten and there was nothing we could do to help them. bauer and fattal say they accidentally strayed into iran while hiking. texas governor rick perry failed to live up to his front-runner s status this weekend. mitt romney won michigan straw poll by a 3-1 margin over perry. now, romney s father served as michigan governor in the 60s making the son somewhat of a home state favorite. in florida, herman cain took top billing. he drew twice as many votes as perry, with romney in third place. cain says he won because voters are beginning to notice his 999 tax plan. here s how he explains it. my plan is bold because it throws out the tax code and imposes a business flat tax of 9%, personal flat tax of 9%, national sales tax of 9%. it replaces all of the taxes that people are now having to grapple w
non-afghan employee. we ll bring more details as soon as we get them. here s a look at how the world markets are doing. all three major indiss closed in the red. the news has been better in europe. and u.s. stock futures are been up and down so far this morning. we ll keep an eye on greece today. people have been protesting the austerity measures and tax hikes the government has passed to get it out of its deep hole. president obama is on the west coast again today. he ll be in los angeles to raise some big money for his re-election war chest. a dinner tonight costs nearly $18,000 per person. the president was in seattle yesterday and he goes to denver tomorrow before president obama left for the west coast, he spoke at the congressional black caucuses awards dinner and he s really start to sound like a candidate now. i m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. i don t have time to feel sorry for myself. i don t have time to co
paul steinhauser in washington. paul, rick perry s campaign is suffering a couple of big blows this weekend. so how about that unexpected victory from herman cain? yeah. and this was a big unexpected defeat, you could say, for rick perry, the texas governor, who s been the front-runner in the national polls. let s look at the results from that saturday straw poll in florida. a crucial state in the battle for the nomination. look at the top ranked there. herman cain. a distant second is rick perry, who spent a lot of time down there in florida, and pundits thought he would be the one to win that straw poll result. the other one that came out this weekend, michigan, and mitt romney is at the top. no surprise here. listen, romney was born in michigan. his father a former governor there. very popular. romney won the primary there back in 2008. he was expected to win. but perry did go up to michigan and campaign and he was a distant second. for perry, i think a lot of people are
today is monday, september 26th. 3 fiber map 3 a baltimore county police officer fatally shoots a man in north point.it happened late last night.police say 40-year old nathan mccormick charged at the officer with a knife.it happened at the 7300 block of berkshire.around 9:30 last night. police responded here to a call of a man threatening to harm himself and his girlfriend. girlfriend.according to police, nathan mccormick and his girlfriend had been arguing on and off for the past couple of weeks.when police responded to his house. mccormick answered the door. armed with two knifes.officers asked him to drop the weapons. and that s when they say. mccormick charged the officers with the knifes.one officer fired. and hit mccormick. 12:22:13 they just shot him for no reason in the door butt with:12:22:20 how could they be threatened they were outside he was inside 12:29:57 he attacked the officer moved towards at least two officers officers at this point it s unclear where mcc
embassy in afghanistan in kabul. two dead, one an american citizen. monitoring the situation from our bureau in abu dhabi. an apparent breach of security inside a heavily guarded complex in kabul. what do we know about it. reporter: bear in mind where this was. this was a part of the u.s. embassy compound and annex will many are working. one of the employees started shooting in various directions. he was later shot dead. his victims appeared to have been one u.s. citizen, also an embassy employee and another one injured, not life threatening and subsequently moved to hospital. has we don t know is why this happened. could it have been some kind of taliban plot? unclear. investigations are ongoing. or a personal dispute. how did this afghan get through security and carry this out? many questions but certainly a significant breach of security right in the heart of kabul s most secure area, ali. it s not the first time. we saw this attack a little while ago. hats going on wi