brockovich gathers soil samples from the neighborhood. eight months after a monster tonight ripped through a missouri town destroyed homes, lives and even a hospital, today, renewal, hope and healing. all right now in the cnn newsroom. big developments in a medical mystery in upstate new york. environmental activist erin brockovich is joining others trying to figure out what s going on in the town of leroy. more than a dozen students from the same schools are suffering from uncontrollable verbal outbursts and twitching. brockovich discussed a possible cause, but dr. drew pinski friday night on our sister network hln. there was a very serious train derailment that caused one ton of cyanide to spill and 45,000 gallons of tce. the actual location of the site of the derailment is four miles from this school. four miles from the school, a massive train derailment with spectacular exposure of known carcinogen s and toxins. there is a map. how did that then become an issue f
a distant second is rick perry, who spent a lot of time down there in florida, and pundits thought he would be the one to win that straw poll result. the other one that came out this weekend, michigan, and mitt romney is at the top. no surprise here. listen, romney was born in michigan. his father a former governor there. very popular. romney won the primary there back in 2008. he was expected to win. but perry did go up to michigan and campaign and he was a distant second. for perry, i think a lot of people are saying that those uneven debate performances, especially last week and the attacks on rick perry over his stance on illegal immigration, may be taking a toll. one other thing from the debates or from the straw polls, michele bachmann nowhere to be seen near the top. remember she won the straw poll in iowa in august. but she finished very low down in both of these straw polls. one thing about those, they are important. they are a gauge or a test or a barometer of a cam
original programming that can bring in advertiser. youtube hasn t really turned a profit. this could really be the linchpin. as this phases in, the focus will be on arts and sports channels. they want to focus on having several hour of content. so advertisers want to advertise on there. here s what s interesting, something that may interest all of us, youtube is talking about i m hearing top talent agencies about possibly getting headliners to have their own channels. but the way it may really go is production houses may wind up making, you know, this original programming content to lure viewers in. if you re a production house, you start to become agnostic. as long as someone is buying your product, i doesn t matter if it s on bravo or on youtube because clearly youtube has shown clearly as many people or more will see what you have on there. this opens a whole new round of entrepreneurs. i m surprised they re not making a profit.
deceased s father to do it. and putting us in the shoes and visual sight of his father, looking at tiger woods, sort of asking us to ask him what was going on. i mean, it s interesting, an interesting commercial, obviously very thought provoking or talkative. i don t know that it sells nike products but i don t think that was the intent. the questions his father is asking him, what were you thinking? what have you learned? he really hasn t answered those questions. is that going to be the next set of nike ads or will they move on? these are only running a day and half on a couple of sports channels, the espn golf channels, has to be one of the shortest in history. but it s like those on youtube, people run them everywhere because they find them so fascinating. they didn t need to do a big ad because us and folks like us will run them and talk about them as we just have. coming up, who s in charge of the republican party? are these two the new face
sports channels have agreed to five-minute interviews? we all thought the health care story would fade after president obama finally got his hotly disputed bill through congress. on that point, we were wrong. the coverage took a dark turn this week with reports of death threats and vandalism against perhaps a dozen democratic lawmakers. some democrats started arguing that certain republicans were encouraging the threats and violence with their overheated rhetoric about the president and his supposedly socialist program. in much of the mainstream media, in tone and in story selection, they adopted that view. it can now be said that the debate over health care reform has gone too far. it s now veered into threats of violence. on twitter former alaska governor sarah palin told followers, don t retreat, reload. it turns out angry opponents of the bill unleashed threatening phone calls,