gun battle in the fight for libyan liberation. plus, war is hell. and there s been ten years of it. now a war widow needs your help. a man of god and an icon makes news on same-sex marriage. you are either for equal rights or not. the reverend joseph lowery turning 90 and taking a stand. it s all here on cnn. hello, everyone. thanks for joining us. i m don lemon. you are in the cnn newsroom. we re going to start tonight with two subjects consuming the nation for the last few days. politics and religion. more specifically, what is keeping republican voters from fully embracing mitt romney? if you believe the headlines out of the value voters summit, the annual conference for conservatives it could be his mormon religion. as candy crowley reports, many in romney s own party of doing what they can to sidestep the issue. thomas jefferson talked about the wall of separation between church and state. nobody said anything about separating church and politics, but every
gun battle in the fight for libyan liberation. plus, war is hell. and there s been ten years of it. now a war widow needs your help. a man of god and an icon makes news on same-sex marriage. you are either for equal rights or not. the reg rev joseph lowry turning 90 and taking a stand. it s all here on cnn. hello, everyone. i m don lemon. you are in the cnn newsroom. we re going to start tonight with two subjects consuming the nation for the last few days. politics and religion. more specifically, what is keeping republican voters from fully embracing mitt romney? if you believe the headlines out of the value voters summit, the annual conference for conservatives it could be his mormon religion. as candy crowley reports, many in romney s own party of doing what they can to sidestep the issue. thomas jefferson talked about the wall of separation between church and state. nobody said anything about separating church and politics, but everybody knows it s a sticky
so possibly human error that caused this major 500 kill line to cancel out system. it impacts the power plants in southern california when those trip off line customers are going to lose power. most of the schools on the region who to be closed down today. a snow day of sorts for kid does here on the west coast, shepard. shepard: should have isolated this in yuma, for sure. they are trying to figure out why it didn t. yeah. shepard: i can t even imagine what traffic must have been like around there. an absolute nightmare. a number of traffic accidents. minor ones, in fact, reported through this huge swath of the region. because stop lights were out for miles. all of the flights were cancelled. grounded at san diego international airport yesterday. this is the eighth largest city in the country. obviously that is an issue. transa little into hundreds of passengers that were stranded. the airport did reopen today and
to you today as a candidate for president of the united states. cnn political correspondent jim acosta is at the red state conference in charleston. he joins us live now. jim, the impact that perry may have on this presidential playing field. any guesses? [ inaudible ] we ll have to work out the audio because you re not the only one who is not hearing jim acosta. we ll try to re-establish that in a moment. there is another major political story going on right now in iowa. the nation s first caucus state is holding its famous ames straw poll. it is a critical test of a candidate s strength. it can boost a candidate to the front of the pack or eliminate them from contention altogether. the best political team on television is on the ground in iowa, among them cnn deputy political director paul steinhauser. why is this one poll so important when a lot of people say other straw polls are insignificant, don t matter? well, hey, good point there. this is nonbinding. candidate
who will have to get out of the race for the republican presidential nomination. also, dozens of people arrested in philadelphia last night, but we ll explain to you why they were all between the ages of 14 and 17. at the top of the hour, we start with the breaking news out of pakistan. the u.s. embassy is saying an american was abducted from his home in lahore. we have the latest from pakistan. reporter: t.j., this is the third time an american has been kidnapped in pakistan. they are rare, but the way it happened is unprecedented. i don t think we have ever seen kidnappers ever break in to take someone. according to the embassy, an american citizen by the name of warren weinstein, around 3:15 a.m. this morning, in the city of lahore, an sassailants brokeo his home and others scaled the walls. police say this house was being guarded by three very well trained security guards. they are saying they are retired military commandos. that is why police are considered these k