opposition group there are 110 deaths in homs, 10 were children. also in this country, six children are alive after these pictures were recorded. a school bus bursting into flames. wow. you are going to see the driver who got those kids out just in time. we re going to talk to her actually. very excited. there s an alzheimer s break-through. scientists stumble on an exciting discovery. a cancer drug that reverses alzheimer s in mice. we ll put a kick in your step as well with tunes and political players and play lists. have you ever thought about the music behind these fabulous productions, the speeches, the applause, the showmanship? there s morep to the music you might not know about. but after today you will. early start starts now. we begin with the slauter in syria. it is escalating by the hour. government tanks now storming homs. 137 more civilians have been killed. among them, there are ten children. this is the fifth straight day images like these have
other guy s back or front. newt said attack ads helped knock him to a fourth place finish last night in iowa. romney squeaking to victory over senator santorum. santorum picking up congresswoman michele bachmann suspending her campaign today. but back to the ads and also keeping them honest, how clean are speaker gingrich s hands or rick perry s or anyone else s. in his concession speech last night from beginning to end, gingrich praised iowans who ignored attack ads. they really wanted to get to the truth rather than the latest 30-second distortion. i would not have survived in this campaign against millions and millions of dollars of negative advertising. if it weren t for the thousands of volunteers who showed up and who helped us in every town and in every precinct, and every one of us that are members, what made part of these negative ads so shameful, every one of us should remember, this process survives because young men and women risk their lives to allow us to do
keeping them honest, how clean are are speaker gingrich s hands or rick per yis or anyone else s? we ll start with the concession speech speaker gingrich praised iowans who ignored the attack ads. they would listen and they really wanted to get to the truth rather than the latest 30-second distortion. i would not have survived in this campaign against millions and millions of dollars in negative advertising if it wasn t for the thousands of volunteers who showed up and who helped us in every town and in every precinct. it s part of what made these negative ads so shameful. every one of us should remember, this process survives because young men and women risk their lives to allow us to do this. speaker gingrich last night. now here s a sampling of ads that ran all over iowa in the last few weeks. newt has more baggage than the airlines. newt gingrich supports amnesty for millions of illegals. gingrich was fined $300,000 for ethics violations. whatever you think of
heroes who have dedicated their lives to helping people in need. none of them wear a spandex leotard or cape, at least not while working, not that i m aware of, but they are true heroes. we are live tonight in los angeles and around the world and we have a group of famous folks joining us tonight. they ve generously given their time to share our hero stories with you. some have journeyed to see our honorees. jerry seinfeld, will.i.am. he went to meet one of our heros in wisconsin. my colleague dr. sanjay gupta is streaming live all night with our presenters and honorees. also ice cube, laura dern, christie turlington who went to indonesia. to learn more about one of our heros. if you would like to share these amazing stories with your friends, follow us on facebook, on twitter, use hash tag cnn heroes to bring more attention to these important issues. as i said, we are live tonight. i promise i ll try very hard not to giggle. i laugh like a 13-year-old girl meeting justin b
i always believed that this was a long term project. this wasn t a short term project. and, you know, for individual americans who are struggling right now, they have every reason to be impatient. reversing structural problems in our economy that had been building up for two decades. that s going to take time. it s going to take more than a year. going take more than two years. going to take more than one term. probably takes more than one president. now more on that investigation of memphis. sexual abuse allegations are surfacing against the head of the amateur athletic union. two men tell espn that robert bobby dodd molested them back in the 1980s when they were playing on dodd s aau basketball team. cnn george howell is in memphis. he joins us now live. so, george, what more, if anything, is being said about these allegations? reporter: fredericka, we just got off the phone with police. they say there s an active investigation into bobby dodd. the amateur athletic un