tony harris, are you ready to go, tony harris? man, i wish i could do all of my high school years over again. man, i had the jackson five after row going. i used to walk down the hall and the breeze i would generate would part and i had a little is that going too far? it s a lovely picture. did you have the pick there right there. sure. yeah, yeah, all gone, it s a crying shame. we are going to dig up those pictures, my friend. you re going to regret you brought this up. it is fat tuesday, february 16th. mardi gras. here are the faces of the stories in the cnn newsroom. iran s president mahmoud ahmadinejad warns the united states and other world powers will regret any new sanctions. senator evan bayh bailing out of congress, a congress he calls dysfunctional. we put washington s bart san grind in focus. and biology professor amy bishop anderson charged with shooting her colleagues. chilling new details about the incident and her past. good morning, everyone,
were convicted of terrorism-related charges in civilian courts since 9/11. they count everything including passport violations, wolf, so the numbers go all over the place depending on who you rely on. what about the conviction rate? this is one percentage there where most studies agree with the figure around 90% first. no matter whose numbers you go by federal civilian courts convicted and jailed more alleged terrorists than military tribunals. those have produced only three convictions. david hicks, an australian who after being held nearly six years at a guantanamo pled guilty and served a nine-month sentence. he s now free. salim hamdan was convicted of material support for terrorism as osama bin laden s driver. he was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison. he had already served most of it. he s back in yemen. and the alleged al qaeda
the airline apologized through twitter, offered smith $100 voucher and put him on a later flight. look at what he tweeted when he arrived. don t worry, wall of the plane was open and i was airlifted out while richard simmons supervised. still tweeting about it today. southwest airlines flying through a twitter storm putting it all on top of the list you don t want to be on. i m rick sanchez, thanks so much for being here with us. here now, mr. blitzer. rick, thank you. happening now a u.s. senator says he can t take the anger and can t take it anymore. what bayh s retirement says about the democrats hold on power and the midterm election year. and even john mccain admits he feels very threatened. right now he has a new primary challenger who says the 2008 presidential nominee isn t conservative enough. i ll ask former congressman turned radio talk show host j . j.d.hayworth why he thinks he can beat john mccain. comes after a fatal crash. we re looking into the accide
glor: tonight, olympic downsizing. officials shorten the luge course after yesterday s deadly accident as soggy weather and mechanical malfunctions cast a shadow over these winter gamtz. i m jeff glor. also tonight, afghan push u.s. and coalition forces press a major offensive against a taliban stronghold in southern afghanistan. new beginnings florida schools make room for more than 1300 haitians who barely escaped from the earthquake s rubble. do you like it here? i love it here. glor: and shifting gears. the state of michigan tries for a makeover from motors to movies. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. glor: good evening, tonight, from vancouver, home of the winter games, where the competition did get under wayitate, under continued foggy and wet skies, and after yesterday s horrific accident. here s the latest tonight: officials say the men s luge events will now start from a lower point following the on-track death as