that happens to the track with the electoral college projection, the state by state race. a multi-million dollars campaign attacking mitt romney s record on the issue we all know will define the election. when mitt romney was governor, massachusetts lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs, a rate twice the national average and fell to 47th in job creation, fourth from the bottom. instead of hiring workers from his own state, romney outsourced call center jobs to india. he cut taxes for millionaires like himself while raising them on the middle class and left the state 2.6 billion deeper in debt. the new ad is airing in nine states including seven you see in yellow here. that s thes to-up yellow. here is the state of the race, the race to 270 electoral votes and 155 days out. it takes 270 to win. we have solid blue and light blue. that means solid bam or leading obama and only 23 shy of victory if the map doesn t change from here on out. governor romney, a bit of a steeper hill but
get aid in and dead and wounded out. friends of syria group includes u.s., arab and european nations. preparing to give legitimacy to the opposition. arab nations have started supplying arms to syrian rebels. protesters on the street in afghanistan voicing outrage over the kwurning of qurans by troops. eight people have been killed in today s demonstrations. nato says burning the cqurans w mistake. gas prices shot up 12 cents this week alone nationwide the average bright, 3.64. in some price in the country more than $4 a gallon. election hot button issue. anybody who tells you we can drill our way out of this problem doesn t know what they are talking about or just isn t telling you the truth. that is maryland state senate voted to legalize same sex marriage. the governor will sign it in law appeared join sx states, connecticut, iowa, new hampshire, new york and vermont and washington d.c., all of which will currently currently issue same sex marriage licenses. 35
at for more than a year now. growing evidence repeated blows to the head, the kind you get on the football field can have lasting rep recushions. a law take effect in california. a player who gets a concussion must be cleared by a trainer or doctor before going back on the field. the risk is hard to gauge. you can t see damage to the brain unless you actually look inside. of course by then, it s too late. football is a violent game, full of big hits. what are all those collisions doing to the brain inside the helmets? i met with kevin, he s a researcher from the university of north carolina. he can measure the intensity of the hits. a moderate hit and see what happens. it s recorded up here at 23.6 gs of acceleration. he won a grant for his work on concussions in football. he s going to with stand an impact 157 gs. wow. it s similar to a car accident. right. the question is how many of those big impacts can a player with stand over the course of a season orca rear b
out the door. we re going to talk to a family member of the victims who says they ve been left now without any answers. no one is talking to them. and then, a tragedy. i m not even a really big football fan. that was so sad to watch, the tide rolling over my favorite lsu. of course, they were thrilled because it was revenge approximately we . we ll talk about that. and former chief white house staff, they re going to talk about the former governor s late surge. texas a&m going to get into it with tebow. all that and much more aheard this morning on starting point. we begin right now. good morning. welcome. that s what it looks like outside. and chen inside at cha says bacho, the voter, starting earlier in dixon notch. nine registered voters. here s how it turned out. huntsman and romney tied, 2-2. gingrich and paul got one vote apiece. and obama got three votes. we re expecting some new poll numbers this morning from suffolk, university. we ve been following the suffolk pol
a handful of people who s been into north korea and very familiar with the region. i am and i have to say quite a shock. he had been sick since 2008 officially. had suffer add stroke there, but i think it came to a shock to a lot of people including south korea and we do begin with this breaking news thinking morning. some hope, some fear and lots of uncertainty. people are reacting worldwide to the death of north korean dictator kim jong-il. his 17-year reign of power is over. this came late last night on north korea television. delivered by a weak tv anchor having trouble keeping it together. take a look. [ speaking in foreign language ] now, this, what you re looking at, is the last known image of kim jong-il released by state media, north korea said he dysart of a heart attack. he was on a train when he suffered. only 69 years old. the country announced what it calls a great successor to the so-called dear leader. his son, third son, kim jong un, who is said to be