three of the four gop presidential candidates took their turns trying to woo the crowd. plus, sarah palin talks today. will she officially endorse anyone? we ll check on reynolds wolf. an avalanche rescue dog had to dig him out on the slopes. we ll explain. syria is in a state of crisis, a steady stream of new video is coming into cnn as the city of homs is under attack. take a listen. [ gunfire ] the scene is disturbing. just yesterday, 110 people were killed, most of them civilians. we cannot verify the authenticity of these videos, but we have heard from antigovernment activists who say if they don t receive help, they will kill millions. most is in homs but spreading to other areas. stay with cnn throughout the morning. the cias website is back up this morning after hackers took it down. a group known as anonymous claimed responsibility. they may have attacked the website run by the state of alabama. personal data of more than 46,000 people was compromised. the hacker
international journalists. russian s foreign minister is in syria trying to keep it from being the latest arab government to fall. many world leaders say moscow is ignoring the slaughter of civilians. ivan watson is in istanbul, turkey, covering this for us. is there any optimism that russia can rein in this violence? reporter: that s a big question. the russian foreign minister definitely got a hero s welcome as he arrived in damascus. he seemed to be one of the biggest allies and friends of president bashar al-assad right now. the russian line has been that the western governments have not been putting enough pressure on the opposition groups to stop violence as well. if you want to know how wide the differentiation is between the two sides in syria, just about 100 miles away the artillery shells continue to rain on the opposition held city of homs where hundreds of civilians are believed to have died in just the past couple of days, kyra. now you re also seeing a growi
says, don t count me out. yes, today is super bowl sunday. 111 million viewers will be glued to the tv tonight. will you? also, 111 million viewers are snacking. can you guess the top three foods that go hand in hand with the fwam? we ll tell you about them. we start with mitt romney. he is waking up a very happy man this morning, you could say. the republican presidential candidate is the winner of the nevada caucuses. it was predicted yesterday. 43% of the vote, he got. romney is leading by 33%. newt gingrich with 25% followed with ron paul with 19%. now, mitt romney is the first one of them to score back to back victories. this is big. he rallied his supporters in vegas last night after the fact. our mission is to increase the freedom and opportunity of the american people and our blueprint is the constitution of the united states. we re going to build an america are hope is a new job with a paycheck. not a word on an old bumper sticker. newt gingrich says he vows he i
winner. the winner of the nevada caucuses. cnn projects that the former massachusetts governor has a decisive win in the caucuses in nevada. mitt romney going ahead, capitalizing only his dramatic win in florida, now capturing nevada, as well. we do not we do not yet know who s going to come in second or third. but there is a dramatic race under way for second and third place. but now you can see romney headquarters in las vegas. the crowd hearing the news that mitt romney has won the nevada caucuses. very, very excited. jim acosta is our man over at mitt romney headquarters in las vegas. jim, the crowd pretty excited there, as they should be. that s right, wolf. this is a very pumped up crowd and also a very big crowd. we talked over the last couple of weeks that mitt romney has, at times, had trouble drawing large crowds. that s not the case tonight. it s a very big crowd for the former massachusetts governor. we are expecting to see mitt romney address this crowd withi
town wins a $950 million lottery jackpot. you heard right. all except one guy who missed out on it. we start with this. we re just a few hours away from the start of the nevada caucuses. it is the fifth contest in the republican presidential race, but the first one to take place west of the mississippi we will have much more on that in just a moment. but first, here are some of the other top stories we are watching for you this morning. in syria anti-government activists say the military is randomly bombing residential neighbors. it has been the center of the uprising in syria. activists say as many as 260 people including women and children have been killed in the past day alone. cnn has not independently confirmed the accounts, though. here is what one brave activist told our anderson cooper last night. they have been bombarding an a area for like three hours with tank shells because a part of the syrian army led down to welcome the syrian army. so they bombard randomly