100 miles by running 100 miles, i think it would scare me and i don t think i would want to run 100 miles. the bulk of my training has been cross fit. so i work out cross fit great gym. strength coaches that put me in the right frame of mind and get my body in shape for this. you run about the distance of a marathon to prepare for this. correct. think doubts you will make it the full 100 miles. we see here flipping over tires with the weighted vest. get yourself in the right frame of mind. focus not only raising $100,000 for the september 11th memorial and museum. the marine corps scholarship foundation as well as the disposable harris project. and dakota scholarship. part of the marine corps scholarship foundation. but to raise the level of awareness that we need to give to our troops who endured so
hello, there. it s not quite 2012 yet. we still have some news to get to before the new year. i m hala garani in washington. kyra phillips has the day off and we begin with the latest out of the united states in terms of politics this morning. let s get you straight to iowa and expecting any minute now, by the way, the new jersey governor chris christie will join mitt romney in iowa. christie is a rising star and many republicans wanted in this presidential race. he endorsed romney back in october and this will be their first joint appearance since then. just four days before the iowa caucuses. and mitt romney is going into this confident, according to the polls, still leading four days as we said before these iowa caucuses. cnn political reporter jim acosta is awaiting the event. he s in west des moines this morning. hi, there, jim. what can we expect today and how much might this appearance bice chris christie help mitt romney? well, it will help him a lot. chris chri
from 33% early in december. perry 11%, bachmann and huntsman in the single digits. huntsman is not in iowa. tonight, bachmann is doing it without two high ranking members of her team. bachmann s iowa campaign chairman jumped ship and went to ron paul s campaign. he is a sell out and was paid to go to the paul campaign. take a look. i had a conversation with ken. in the direct conversation i had with him, he told me he was offered money. he was offered a lot of money by the ron paul campaign to go and associate with the ron paul campaign. no one else knows about that conversation other than kent and myself. i know what he said to me about that. he says he went to the paul camp because ron paul has the best change of beating romney and president obama. in his statement he says as for the ridiculous allegations that congresswoman bachman made, i was never paid. here is what he said on fox news with megan kelly. was money offered to you by anybody from the ron paul camp to
surrounding the new jersey governor and a possible run for the white house. how many times does a guy have to say no before it sinks in? you folks are an incredible disappointment as an audience. the fact that that took to second question. shows you people are off your game. that is not american exceptionalism. jim acosta, hopeful supporters still only heard one thing, he didn t say no. any reason to believe that he s reconsidering now? yeah, the buzz is exceptional, kyra. yes, there is reason to think that he is reconsidering for a governor who is known for his new jersey brand of straight talk. chris christie never really came out and said last night whether or not he s running for president. unlike what he has done in the past. he sounded very much like a candidate in a speech at the reagan presidential library out in california. the new jersey governor accused the president of dividing the country in order to win re-election. he took a settled dig at rick perry when
jet in 172 dressed as a priest. the fbi says wright then forced agents to deliver $1 million ransom dressed only in swim trunks to prove agents had no guns. he flew to algeria and vanished, until now. he was living in a resort town and is now fighting extradition. for a second day workers are hanging outside the washington monument at the very tippy top, checking each marble block. that earthquake that shook the east coast last month did more damage than first thought. these engineers will have to inspect every stone. it will take at least a few days. park officials say they can work through heavy rain, but there f there s any threat of lightning they have to stop. 9 monument s been hit by lightning several times in its history. it is structurally sound. tribal fighters say they shot down a yemeni war jet north of the capital of sanaa today and captured the pilot. the fighters are aligned with a prominent gemny generyemeni gen defected. they raided the base for anti-a