happening now, her father accused of monstrous crimes. ariel castro s daughter talks exclusively to cnn. we re with u.s. marines training to prevent the next benghazi. that s another cnn exclusive. plus, more than 1,000 people killed, but one woman miraculously survived. and was rescued 16 days in the rubble of a collapsed build iin. now back safe home. wolf blitzer is off today. i m jake tapper. and you re in the situation room. cleveland police say they took michelle knight s name off the fbi s national crime information center data base in november 2003, when they could not find a parent or guardian to confirm she was still missing. police say that s standard procedure. but they also claim they were still checking up on the case as recently as november of last year. i talked about that, and more, with the deputy chief of cleveland police, ed tomba.
the world trade towers when the suspected shooter joined the army. he would spend much of the next decade at war, as part of a brigade from washington state. that brigade first deployed to iraq in november 2003. it was back in iraq in 2006 for 15 months, suffering major casualties in the final months of the tour. back home in 2008 the soldier went through a full mental health screening to become a sniper. he passed. and at some point, an official told abc news, the soldier suffered a mild brain injury after hitting his head but was treated successfully. an official tells abc news after his last deployment in 2009 the soldier, a husband and father of two, had difficulty readjusting to home life, though he eventually cleared routine mental health screenings. in december of last year he headed for his first tour in afghanistan. the base where the soldier spent much of the decade is joint base lewis-mcchord. once called the most troubled
ballot. so there will be one night in march where missouri will vote and gingrich won t get many votes. greta: if you look at a check count, and compare both of them, who is more conservative? it depends on what your standard is. if your standard is who is in favor of paul ryan road map. remember, this is the thing that newt gingrich came out saying it was right wing social engineering. mitt romney embraced it albeit in a subtle fashion but a terrific speech. if you take a look who is fighter for welfare reform in the 1990s that would be gingrich. if you take a look who stood up strong on the question of traditional marriage it was romney thrust into the issue in november 2003 when his state
but what s going to prevent terrorists from buying and using them? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he entered the race at the top of the polls, but rick perry has been watching his numbers slide and slide. his momentum rather slow. now, with a closely watched speech, the texas governor is trying to reverse his declining campaign fortunes. jim acosta is joining us now. he delivered what his campaign described as a major speech today. that s right. the speech was called the energizing american jobs and security speech, wolf, but it was also designed to energize his campaign. looking to jump-start a campaign that s been stalled for weeks, rick perry laid out a texas-sized energy plan that the governor claims will create more than a million jobs. america s the saudi arabia of code. if elected president, perry says he ll push for new coal mining, oil exploration. perry would even expand production to the gulf of mexico
giant billion dollar giveaway to the prescription drug industry that was never paid for and exploded the deficit. the medicare part d bill is one of the major reasons we have a giant deficit now. in november 2003, george w. bush and house republicans really really really wanted to pass that thing. they held the vote on the house floor, and they held it at 3:00 in the morning, when everybody else in the country was asleep. the vote is ordered. the yeas and nays are ordered. this will be a 15 minute vote. this will be a 15 minute vote, in the middle of the night. that was 3:00 in the morning. 15 minute vote on this thing that would later absolutely monsoon the deficit. there was a big political problem here. republican notice house did not have the votes they needed to pass this thing. when the 15 minutes they allotted for the vote were up, democrats had beaten it.