two. hoping it will be a christmas black morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. this is monday, december 26th. i hope some of you are watching from home. did you get back from toronto okay? i did. boxing day. like the black friday of canada. right. good shopping. a lot of news right now. right. eight days to go m s ts to go ba caucuses, paul steinhauser is live with us in des moines, iowa this morning. hi, paul. good morning. reporter: good morning. quiet over the weekend. things pick up today and one week to go until the iowa caucuses. the first contest in the primary caucus calendar. this is a poll that came out friday afternoon. the most recent poll here. people are likely to go to the iowa gop caucuses. three-way traffic jam at the top. ron paul at 21%. mitt romney, former massachusetts governor, 20%. newt gingrich 19%. basically it s upgrabs here in iowa with just under a week to go. newt gingrich was the front-runner in polls. look at t
there on christmas day. the white house condemning these blasts. nigeria s president calling an end to the sectarian violence voug to catch those responsible. churches also bombed in nigeria last christmas season. more arab league observers are on their way to sir yeah here s why. an opposition group says security forces killed more than 20 people in the city of homs today. the observer planned to go there. u.n. says more than 5,000 people have died since syria s crackdown on protests began in march. a suicide car bomber in iraq got through six security check points before setting off an explosive device at the interior ministry. at least five people killed there, 39 wounded. this happened after iraq s prime minister was meeting with the senior security officials to talk about how to keep the country safe. a series of explosions killed almost 70 people in baghdad just last week. mexico says it s captured the chief of security for one of the most wanted alleged drug king