children off for a supervised visit. powell had lost custody of the boys, and he was a suspect in his wife s disappearance. he sent an e-mail saying only i m sorry, good-bye. a neighbor describes what he saw. i just knew that if there was anyone in there, they didn t survive. you could tell that instantly from what we saw. i can t imagine anyone killing their children. i just that s beyond anything i can imagine someone doing. the state department shut down the embassy in syria hours ago. they are urging americans now to get out. syrian activists describe a weekend bloodbath that left hundreds dead in the city of homs. another 46 syrians are said to have been killed. activists accuse the syrian government of intensifying the brutal crackdown. russia and china gave president bashar al-assad a life line, vetoing a resolution that would have condemned him. they are asking for help. we re asking for your help. the rockets for four hours now, they re going to kill us all
with you and that question. candidates are going to be crisscrossing the state today. talk to us about this day a week before the caucuses, joe. oh, yeah, you can call this crunchtime for sure, hala. a time when the candidates really bear down and iowa truly gets focuses on the caucuses. mitt romney starts out his day in inp. the. however, he like many of the other candidates will end up here in iowa. he s going out on a bus tour and so is newt gingrich, in fact. he is another guy we re watching very closely and he is supposed to show up in an interview with wolf blitzer on the situation room later today. notably, one of the candidates who is expected to get back out here until tomorrow is ron paul and he and mitt romney and newt gingrich are locked up in a three-way statistical tie for the caucuses here in iowa. very busy days ahead. and we re looking forward to it, hala. okay, yes, we look forward to your reporting, as well. mark, romney, gingrich and ron paul, all lo
plane headed into this thing. they are calling it a tropical disturbance for now just to see if it s serious enough to name it a tropical storm possibly in the next couple of hours. keep in mind we re also learning major oil companies are not taking any chances with this disturbance. evacuations have begun just in case and the mayor of new orleans, mitch landrieu, he ll be holding a news conference as they are all watching this disturbance as well heading precariously closely to their government line. we ll keep an eye on all of it and let s move on to some other news. moammar gadhafi, a la saddam hussein, is threatening to plunge his country into a drawn out civil war, but did you know it is 42 years to the day since a much younger gadhafi seized control of libya in a military coup. now presumably on the run but apparently still alive, gadhafi is extorting supporters exhorting excuse me, exhorting supporters to fight to the death. here s his message. this was aired today
brink of all out civil war. joining us now is former u.s. ambassador to the united nations great to see you, john bolton the president narrowly avoided being killed, what impact will that have on his presidency, but the leadership of his country going forward and to the american efforts that to contain al-qaeda there? i think it s unlikely that the president there is going to be negotiate with his adversaries. the fact he is in saudi arabia indicates his wounds were probably more severe than his government wants to led on and it might be more intimate discussions with the saudis. the fact that the government has lost more control is clearly something advantageous to al-qaeda and to iran given the presence of shea militia and one
you re watching world one . violent he can lates in yemen after cease-fire break down between security forces and tribal fighters. uncertain future. japan s prime minister survives a no-confidence vote but he s weakened by rebellion in his party. and the u.s. state of massachusetts is reeling after a series of tornadoes, leaving behind a trail of destruction. we want to start in yemen where there are growing fears deadly street battles are dragging the country to the brink of civil war. the capital has been a flash point for revolt. people who live there say they heard explosions all night long. they describe the fighting as worse than anything before and it s spreading. state tvs says an army general has been killed in the latest clashes. here is the man in the center of the crisis, yemen s long-time president saleh. for five months protesters have been calling him to step down. at one point he promised to go but he s still clinging on and this is the result. a coun