through, big time. painkiller prescription. oxcontrin makers planning to test their drug on children as young as 6 years old. the cash behind the candidate as big corporations give millions to obama and romney. cnn digs into who s raking in the most green. will the election be decided by wall street and not main street? and home of the beret. the u.s. olympic team in french hats and blue blazers. do these guys look ready for the olympics or a croquet match in the hamptons? good morning to you. i m carol costello. thank you so much for joining us. we begin this morning with a terrifying airline flight into miami. this morning, we are learning just how bad it was. flight 1780 was en route from aruba when it slammed into turbulence on its initial descent about 30 minutes before landing. pilots landed without major incident but a dozen people were injured, five of them taken to the hospital. i never felt something like that in the past. basically, we didn t know anythin
major setback for egypt. who is running the country? the constitution was ruled invalid today in egypt, and said that anyone elected under it has to go. egypt s military rulers took over all of the legislative pow, and it is already a tense time politically as the egyptian voters will choose a president in a runoff election this weekend. and the prosecutors in the jerry sandusky child molestation trial will wrap up the case today. one of the victims is an alleged victim whose mother called authorities after her son told her that he had showered with sandusky. he is accused of abusing ten boys in a ten-year period. this aircraft went down yesterday, and all five crew members are not injured, and the osprey s safety has been questioned since 2005. a man accused of a shooting spree in auburn university is accused of three murders and two assault counts. you can see desmonte leonard at his court appearance this morning. the funerals for the two killed will take place saturday
help us get there by passing a few common sense policies that we re convinced will make a difference. we even made a handy to do list for congress so they can just check them off. it s a list like michelle gives me. i know paul s familiar with that list. he gets it from val. now there are only five things on this list. because i don t want to overload congress with too much at once. but there are ideas that will help create jobs and build a stronger economy right now. so first up on the list, it makes absolutely no sense that we actually give tax breaks to companies that ship jobs and factories overseas. that doesn t make any sense at all. so we ve told congress it s time to end tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas and use that money to cover moving expenses for companies that bring jobs back to america. second, instead of just talking about job creators, congress should help small businesses and help small business owners who create most of the new jobs in americ
government tanks and troops. we are going to show you more of that very dramatic video. presidential candidate mitt romney addressing an empty stadium. more to the picture than meets the eye. we are going to explain. ever want to hand pick the person sitting next to you on a flight? good news. there s an app for that. from cnns world headquarters bringing you news and analysis from across the nation and around the globe. live from studio 7, this is cnn saturday morning. good morning, everyone. we start with a developing story out of south africa. former president, nelson mandela has been hospitalized with an abdominal complaint. his health declined in recent years and p has been living quietly with few appearances. what are you hearing? what s going on there? well, deb, as you can imagine, the african nation and many people who love and adore nelson mandela are holding their breath. he was admitted into the hospital. they are telling us it was because of a long st
also here in the united states before arizona, michigan, and super tuesday. brand new polling is showing that we are in a virtual tie, though, in the desert. and reliving the lewinsky affair. staffers are opening up for the very first time in a brand new documentary. they are saying the white house was consumed by it for nearly an entire term. that documentary is getting some mixed reviews this morning. we re going to share that with you. and the president singing the blues, not over the campaign, literally singing the blues with bb king. yeah, get down. you re going to hear the rest of that coming up. we begin this morning with breaking news out of syria. opposition activists telling cnn two western journalists were killed in heavy shelling by syrian government forces on a neighborhood in the besieged city of homs. we are not naming the journalists yet. we are pending notification of their next of kin. we are working our sources on this story, and we ll be following it