baby girl. fellow marathon participants may have done a few double-takes, amber miller says she felt great. i have been running marathons for many years, so coming into pregnancy, it was very normal for me to be running this many miles a week. amber and baby june are both doing just fine. big night for the republican presidential candidates. what mitt romney has to do to stay on top, and what rick perry has to do to regain momentum. and what about herman cain? and the search for baby lisa, a major new development in the past 30 minutes. we ll tell you about that on the other side of this break. woman: saving for our child s college fund was getting expensive.
thanks. could the growing popularity of herman cain s 999 tax plan be behind the surging poll numbers in the race for the republican presidential nomination? his tax equality calls for 9% income tax, national sales tax and corporate income tax across the board. the plan has been criticized, but cain defends that plan. some people attack it saying it won t do this and won t do that. they don t know what the assumptions are. if they know what the assumptions are and how we arrived at it, they wouldn t have the erroneous claims. we don t want to attack. jackie fitzsimmons joins me. you wrote about this this morning. what would cain s plan mean for low income americans and what would it mean for the wealthiest as well? it is hard to think it
happens to me sometimes as well, jackie kucinich, thank you. appreciate that. thank you. fresh off the debate, candidate herman cain joins chuck todd on the daily rundown tomorrow, 9 eastern on msnbc. developing now, investigators conducting a brand new search for baby lisa. the ten month old reported missing a week ago in kansas city. they are gathered there at a deep well near a vacant house. this is video we got in moments ago. want to get to nbc s peter alexander in kansas city, following the story several days. pete, what do we know about this search? reporter: we want to give you the latest on this breaking news. we re about three blocks from where this is happening. i ran over here to share it with you. right now, firefighters from kansas city, police and fbi agents as you can see have converged in the backyard of a vacant home about three blocks,
the pinata that one of the analysts mentioned he probably would be? he won t be the pinata campaign. romney was asked about herman cain at a town hall, he was singing his praises, didn t want to contrast the two business records. romney continues to believe his private sector experience and government experience is something that sets him apart, but he s had only good things to say about herman cain thus far. will rick perry pay attention to herman cain, go on the attack at some point? i think it will be a different story than what gary said on mitt romney. they re competing for similar voters, people that want somebody that s not a person of washington. i think you ll see him go a bit on the offensive on the issue of herman cain s experience and rick perry s decade in gubernatorial office, creating jobs in that respect. two of the busiest. thank you both. appreciate your time.
i know newt gingrich, rick santorum. herman cain really has a chance to shine. he is surging because he is so smart and he has been so on point throughout this whole process. he s had less money to spend than some of the other candidates. joe, is that why he s surging? absolutely. think about who he is. he is a turnaround specialist, guy that turned around family franchises and did it getting them to take a second look at his product. he is doing the same with the voters. joe, i respectfully disagree. i think herman cain is the latest play. it was donald trump, then michele bachmann, now herman cain. sooner or later, people are going to accept the fact it is going to be mitt romney. you better deal with it. it is months and months of hard work for herman cain, his message is getting through and resonating with voters. he has no organization, no campaign. he has the 999. we re going to talk more about the 999 plan a little