people. syrian government forces continue to fire heavy shells into the city of homs and other areas today. homs is ground zero of the uprising against president bashar al assad. opposition groups say at least 21 people, including children, have been killed today alone. the russian foreign minister arrived in syria today, holding talks with assad and calling for an end to the violence without foreign interference. another development, gulf arab states in france, spain and italy, recalled their ambassadors today, as well. so coming up in about ten minutes we re going to break down what is going on in syria as best as we can from the city s affected, to emergency care, to the specifics of the humanitarian crisis that is going on. we re also going to talk with arwa damon, who has been in that region. she ll provide some much-needed understanding as to what these we ll can do. stay with us, that is just a few minutes away from now. meantime back here in the united states, the rep
the story is a bit different and the president fares a bit better. he now has a six-point edge over mitt romney, topping the 50% mark for the time in that survey. in an interview with nbc he talked about his accomplish ams in the face of republican opposition. even with a bunch of obstruction over on capitol hill, we ve been able to save an auto industry. we ve been able to take 750,000 jobs being lost a month and move it so it s 250,000 jobs being created this month. we ve been able to make sure that we ended the war in iraq on schedule. we ve been able to make sure that we ended policies like don t ask, don t tell. so we ve been able to get a lot done, not as fast as we want. sometimes it s messy. the process is frustrating. the president also tops newt gingrich in a head-to-head matchup and i m going to be speaking with newt gingrich s daughter and campaign adviser jackie gingrich-cushman just moments from now. and facing a deadly and growing anti-government uprisi
damascus. where can syrians go? they ve been calling out to the world for help. we want to see actions, we don t want to see talk. we re really tired of talk and talk and talk. we ve seen no actions at all. the syrian president still has his legitimacy. until now no country said this president lost his legitimacy. until now. why did they not say that? why does he still have his legitimacy after all the killing he did? and that activist is talking about this weekend s lack of action from the united nations. the security council rejected a resolution to call for president bajar assad to step down, stop the violence. china and russia are the reason they voted against it. meanwhile, syrians scrambling every minute with the sky hailing on them. it seems that way, anyway, with constant shelling. cnn can t confirm the details because syria has restrictions on journalists. we do have some live in washington. we talk about the latest on the american reaction to this internationa
but you do see some institutions trying to game the system. reporter: the school blames the entire incident on one bad administrator who s been fired. the unnamed administrator who inflated those scores is now gone. still, the college has declined our requests for an interview. they said in a letter to students and staff that they take this situation very seriously and that they will conduct an independent investigation. but a college that prides itself on teaching its students is itself learning a valuable lesson. abbie boudreau, abc news, claremont, california. and the fact there s no way to verify the numbers these colleges are reporting, that is scary. and it s also a shame that people are paying, as you heard in that piece, $55,000 a year. if i m paying that kind of money, it better be the top-notch education as advertised that it is. and it is a very prestigious liberal arts school. about 1,300 students go there. it s ranked by u.s. news & world report the ninth best libe
welcome back, everyone. a cheating scandal has erupted at one of america s most elite private colleges in the country. but it s not the students who were caught cheating. mm-mm. the administration of the school was trying to boost the school s ranking. and the scandal is now raising some new questions about the value of those college ranking magazines. with more on this here is abc s abbie boudreau. reporter: at claremont mckenna college students live by a code of honor. but educators at this prestigious liberal arts college outside los angeles admitted they were the ones who had been cheating. for six years the school submitted false data to the critical u.s. news & world report, lying about the average math and reading s.a.t. scores of their students, inflating them by 10 to 20 points each.