a war. and the latest from a cruise ship that ran aground off the coast of italy. let s go outfront. good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett, and outfront tonight, we re live in charleston, south carolina. tonight, newt gingrich whose performance in tomorrow s primary election here will make or break his run at the presidency. no doubt, he s surging in the polls. you look that left right and center. the latest show him in striking distance of mitt romney. he s also ignited the fire storm, slamming the media of his ex-wife s accusation he wanted an open marriage. the destructive, vicious, negative media of much of the news media makes it harder to govern the country, harder to attract decent people to run forophilfor office, and rm i m appalled you would open a presidential debate with a topic like that. i caught up with newt gingrich today, about an hour and a half away from here, in a town called orangeburg, south carolina, to talk about the race, the issues, and ye
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mosque. what need to take a second to take a look at where this actually is. that s what we re going to do with google earth. we re going to zoom in. let s start off zooming in to ground zero. we all know where it is and what it looks like. i want to go there first so we can do a little trip aerially. we re going to lift up and go a couple of blocks over to this proposed islamic center, whichever one you want to call it. it s around the corner. what you wanted to find the idea here is that what happened at ground zero on september 11th, 2001, affected that entire region. and it affected the entire section of manhattan economically in a really important way, too. ever since then, there have been these massive discussions about what to do to rebuild, to draw back economic activity in parts of that area.
and she had this idea of taking interactive theater to chronically ill children in various hospitals and medical facilities. it was just someone with this idea. dena had a passion for children s charities and jamie had a passion for theater. so she combined the two. she said, i have this idea, taking performances to kids in hospitals. soundsed like a sweet idea. what exactly do you do? do you take plays or take parts of plays or something entirely different? it s entirely different. dena and some of the other actors write the scripts. we take three professional actors to hospitals and over a six-week cycle, they perform small plays for kids. but they re plays the kids can participate in and act with. we also bring a trunk of costumes so it s about dressing up. and the idea was really just to bring joy to kids in hospitals
it is also the case that as of right now, because of the way the building is situated, if you were inside the building, you wouldn t actually be able to see ground zero itself. but it is just around the corner. as buildings rise up and are built in that location, you will be able to see those. i have google open right behind me. the simple map is just this blue line from one to the other. this is the location of the islamic center. people are talking about if you go just around the corner, that s how you get over to ground zero. i m also able to show you a street view. i can take you under this. the idea is taking this building and turning it into an islamic center. what some are saying, do you call it a mosque or do you not? it is planned to be a center that includes a prayer room. so ultimately what gets defined as being a mosque or not a mosque is up to individuals out there.