mt. rainier for about four years. she is an excellent ranger, a very dedicated public servant, really committed to park visitors and was an excellent ranger. her husband also works in the park as a law enforcement ranger, and they have two small children. so it s a terrible loss. it s a great tragedy for the park service and all of us are grieving that loss. and barnes is also linked to a shooting yesterday near seattle that left four people hurt. the stock market is closed today, part of the three-day new year s weekend. investors will face a pretty important week of trading starting tomorrow, though. and allison kosik is in new york to explain. good morning, kyra. ask just about any market expert, and they would tell you it s almost impossible to time the market to figure out when the market or an individual stock has hit its high or its low. so some experts say the best way to understand how the market is
the park rangers and margaret anderson, a 34-year-old mother of two whose husband is also a park ranger was gunned down and he fled into the woods. it looks like at this point he may have commit suicide. the victim s husband is a park ranger and was as i understand it also working that day on a different side of the park and the call went out that his wife or another ranger obviously had been injured at the time. do we know any more about barnes s background? we don t at this time. as far as margaret anderson is concerned, we has only been a park ranger for a couple of years, but she is a law enforcement ranger and she has the authority and probably was carrying a firearm, but again she was shot before she could even exit her vehicle. it suggests that the individual who is now dead, benjamin barnes
the park rangers and margaret anderson, a 34-year-old mother of two whose husband is also a park ranger was gunned down and he fled into the woods. it looks like at this point he may have commit suicide. the victim s husband is a park ranger and was as i understand it also working that day on a different side of the park and the call went out that his wife or another ranger obviously had been injured at the time. do we know any more about barnes s background? we don t at this time. as far as margaret anderson is concerned, we has only been a park ranger for a couple of years, but she is a law enforcement ranger and she has the authority and probably was carrying a firearm, but again she was shot before she could even exit her vehicle. it suggests that the individual who is now dead, benjamin barnes
that s right. one of the big questions in this day before the iowa caucuses is whether the man in the sweater vest can make mitt romney sweat. rick santorum is in the enviable position of being the final surging non-romney conservative to do well. before these iowa caucuses so we are chasing him from stop to stop to stop today. he is chasing the undecided caucus goers. and you get the sense looking at the poll that came out over the weekend that showed rick santorum in third place. if you look at the last two days that that poll was taken, he is surging into second place into a statistical tie with mitt romney. so it s no surprise that the former massachusetts governor went after rick santorum, talking about the fact that santorum was a senator in washington, trying to tie him to those other politicians, those other washington politicians, who are in the race. and rick santorum had a response for that. let s play that for you. senator santorum was kind enough to endorse m
change between today and tuesday. but, look, i think this is a volatile environment, where people are going to walk in undecided or semi-decided, and maybe as many as 50% could switch during the course of the caucuses. he s not the only one hoping undecided voters will break his way. michele bachmann was out today too. she hopes iowans will decide to back a native daughter so she can prove the pollsters wrong. well, the new year is bringing new violence to syria. video posted on the internet shows the funeral of a child today in one village. cnn cannot confirm the authenticity of these images, but activists say at least ten people were killed today, but there is hope of a brighter future. [ singing ] syrians in the city of home celebrated the dawn of 2012 by hoping for the end of president al bashar s regime. arab leaders have toured the city. the search is under way in mt. rainier national park for a gunman suspected of killing a female park ranger. park officials sa