Family, well, here s a new one. a study out this morning reveals babies who grow up around dogs and cats end up being healthier. researchers looked at children through their first year and found those exposed to cats and especially dogs had fewer colds and ear infections than kids who weren t around animals. scientists thinks exposure helps strengthen children s immune systems. the study is published in the journal of pediatrics. i had cats, dogs, hamster, named nip-nip, growing up. terrible allergies yes, nip-nip. i was breast-fed, i still had terrible allergies. you don t believe it? i understand. i am big into sending my kids to the playground. get some dirt, build up the immune system. i m just saying it is not foolproof. i m a living example. a mess. a hot, allergy-laden mess. all right. chinese acrobat set out on a high wire walk. the degree of difficulty that even nick wallenda has not tried. he walked backwards, blindfolded on a wire 2,300 feet long and
congressman arthur davis says he s voting for mitt romney this time around. he s going to tell us why. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the cold war is long over, but a chill has settled in in the relations right now. the key shoous, moscow s support in the regime for syria. it may help fuel a brutal crackdown. president obama is addressing that issue headon at the g-20 summit in mexico. dan lothian is joining us right now. dan, what s the latest on this tension between the u.s. and russia? the two leaders met for about two hours. president obama saying the meeting was candid and thorough. i have to tell you, you take a look at the body language, and it gives you a sense of what the meeting was like. they did not sit close together. president obama was leaning towards president putin. president putin was leaning away. you didn t see any smiles at the end of the remarks. they had a quick handshake. sort of half a smile. president obama patting him briefly on
all five victims were black. the two suspects are white. officials are not calling this a hate crime but jake england, the suspect on the left, he made a remark on his facebook page the day before the shootings that could indicate a motive here, today is two years that my dad has been gone, shot by a, blank and blank. it s hard not to go off between that and sharon, i ve gone in the red, rip dad and sharon, i love and miss you. i think about both of you every second of the day. sharon was a reference to england s 24-year-old fiance, sharon hart wild, who had recently committed suicide in front of him, leaving behind their 6-month-old daughter. we re joined by tulsa mayor dewey bartlett and tulsa police chief chuck jordan. chief i want to ask you first what do we know about a motive? we have the facebook postings which certainly are leading investigators in the direction of a hate crime but what do we know about motive here? well that s not something we can really discuss a
apple holds almost $100 billion in cash reserves. this morning the company announce wad it would do with some of that cold cash. apple announced a $10 billion stock buyback that would begin in october. it also would begin giving shareholders a quarterly dividend for the first time since 1995. and espn s chris mortenson a reporting that peyton manning will sign with the denver broncos. four-time nfl most valuable player had been deciding between tennessee and denver. indianapolis colts released the quarterback just two weeks ago after injury forced had i am to miss the entire 2011 season. well, in 2006 manning led the colts to a super bowl championship. all right. didn t do my brackets any good but north carolina state upset georgetown in the ncaa tournament. that happened this weekend. it was one of several big march madness upsets. the 11th seeded wolf pack ran away from the number 3 seed down the stretch. lorenzo brown sealed the game with three free throws in the last
homeowners across the country by relaxing some of the tough rules that have made it very difficult for homeowners to refinance, allowing them to not have to go through a credit check or get an appraisal again. again, the big key that is seen as holding back the economic recovery is the pressure on the real estate market and the white house, the president hoping that this will provide some relief. so we will hear from the president in a bit talking about refinancing. i know that s not his only stop out west. tell me about what else we ll hear from him. reporter: that s right. the president pushing his jobs bill but also raising some money for his campaign. he will be holding six fund-raisers across three states, according to a democratic official. he s expected to haul in more than $4 million. one of the star-studded events later tonight in los angeles, more than $35,000 per person. that will be a gathering of some latino stars including the mayor of los angeles, of course