friends at p and g and low s. perfect day 46th and sixth avenue. maybe visiting from wanetca; 69 degrees going for a high of 88. it s going to be hot today. ainsley: but it s friday. steve: three hours away from saturday for us. brian: sometimes we have bands on they don t sound exactly like they do on the album. jimmie allen, that s exactly how he sounds through his rehearsal sounds exactly like you just heard him on his video with the perfect studio recording. what a voice he has. ainsley: you have an ear for music. you can tell the difference. brian: everyone in my family does except for me. i was asked to quit. ainsley: your parents were honest with you. some of those parents on american idol. brian: my dad, i used to play the clarinet. my dad would say what song are you trying to play? ainsley: mary had a little
she had a small amount of weed. pickle mary wasn t known to be a pot smoker little cat? [buzzer] mary had a little lamb close mama i don t know the rest of it. mary had a block of cheese. lamb? what do you think of lamb? i don t eat lamb great i know someone who each lamb. jesse: lamb is underrated. to people famously went up a hill. what were their names? adam and eve. jim and jane. tweedledee and tweedledum. [buzzer] jack and jill. why did jack and jill go up they ll? they had beef with the due at the top of the hill. don t make me come up there! to fetch. to fetch some. beef! beings last week! jack fell down buried because jack fell down. and he broke his.
intensified. the army shelling its own people as the arab world steps in to try to end the slaughter of civilians. and an all-out brawl at the mall. police with guns drawn, shoppers scrambling for exits. chaos after christmas on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. it s tuesday, december 27th. this is american morning. i m alina cho along with ali velshi. good morning. good morning to you. we re so glad you re with us today. there s a lot going on. let s get right to it. starting in iowa. it s the place to be this morning. five top republicans plan to visits hawkeye state today. not going for the corn. seven day rees main until the iowa caucuses. the first in the nation, a nomination is up for grabs. cnn political director mark preston is live in des moines this morning. mark, the week begins with newt gingrich trying to distance himself once again, not from someone else, but from his own past. reporter: yeah. from his own p
iowa caucuses. first big test really, the 2012 presidential race. the candidates crisscrossing that state. five campaigning in iowa today. so far, none have won the support of a particular aiiowa congressman whose endorsement carries a lot of weight. a large percentage of iowans haven t decided. i m among them. i thought i would come to a conclusion in september or october. we re within a week of the caucus and i have not gotten to that point. still up in the air. a fact finding team on the ground in homs. we are hearing reports of more gunfire near a volatile neighborhood in that city. the team of arab league monitors trying to get the government to uphold its promise. more than 6,000 people have been killed since that uprising started in march. police in detroit say three of four women found dead in car trunks have been linked to online sex ads. all are black women in their 20s. police say three of these women had profiles on backpage.com. a website used to buy and se
endorsement from the state s gop king maker. they fought wars over their borders. now a strange bit by pakistan s turning, once again fwloob a big tourist attraction. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. the first vote in 2012 presidential campaign is only eight days way. we re talking about the republican caucuses in iowa. and the latest poll there shows what amounts to be a dead heat. ron paul is on the rise. he s the current favorite of likely republican caucus goers. the arg poll shows him with 21%. mitt romney is next at 20%. and newt gingrich who s been slipping a bit lately is at 19%. there s a big drop off to rick perry at 9%. michele bachmann, 8%. jon huntsman at 6%. rick santorum who has been to every iowa county and there are 99 counties. he gets only 4% in this arg poll. with time running out, you would think the candidates would be pounding pavement in iowa but santorum on this date, is the only one on the campaign trail and he is getting a visit w