clouds of tear gas in the streets of cairo again as police battle protesters, we ll take you right into the middle of the clashes, i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. a day after the republican candidates sparred and cnn s national security debate. mitt romney is back out there on the campaign trail. he picked up a new endorsement today in iowa. key conservatives have already held secret talks there. end of fining alternative candidate for the support. cnn joe johns is tracking the latest for us. joe. six weeks out from the iowa caucuses, if you take a picture, race for the nomination, it s clear as mud. the strangest thing of all in the volatile race, mitt romney and the within most republicans can believe is the president is not the person they say they re most likely to support. for the anybody but romney crowd, this had to be a rich moment. senator john thune, the true conservative, could have been a republican contender from president but decided not to
i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. we re live here at constitution hall, here in the nation s capitol, where in just a little bit more than 24 hours, the republican presidential hopeful will face off for the first time in a major debate on national security, foreign affairs and the economy. he will be mod rating the event co-sponsored by the her kaj foundation and american enterprise institute. on the eve of this critical contest an eye-popping shift? the republican con taft. a new cnn poll just released minutes ago, shows newt gingrich on top of the republican pack for the first time. look at this wp 24% of republicans asked, if the former house speaker is their choice to be the presidential nominee, compared to mitt romney there is a dead heat, with gingrich and romney nationwide. other candidates, all in single digits. our chief political analyst, still at constitutional hall looking at numbers, gloria, gingrich is doing amazingly well. in several categories
christine is busy preparing a thanksgiving feast for thursday. it s a full week. and ali is preparing to eat one. that s right. so they re off today. i m carol costello along with alina cho. welcome to american morning. first, new details in a plot to plant pipe bombs in and around new york city. 27-year-old jose pimentel, arraigned and made bail an hour ago. a muslim convert to plotted to bomb nypd pa control car, post office and returning u.s. troops and he was doing much more than just talking about it. our deb feyerick is here to tell us more and it appears this lone wolf was acting alone. reporter: absolutely and under surveillance about two years. jose pimentel, 27 years old, preparing as many as three pipe bombs. had he built and executed them properly he could have killed upwards of a dozen people. before arrested the nypd bomb experts built and detonate add similar device. you see it on the screen. they showed it last night. the device was detonated ins
before this man allegedly tried to kill president obama, he sent a tape to oprah winfrey. you ll hear what he had to say. also, you remember the story of the baseball player kidnapped in ve vein zela, he s safe and back with his team. let s start right now with the break being story out of libya. where saif gadhafi has been captured apparently trying to flee. he was caught mere the algerian libya poureder. he is wanted by the criminal court. what do know? reporter: t.j., we re joined by a guest who can give us more information on this significant capture. i am joined here by a national transitional council military liaison and if you could tell us what happened? how was he captured? the full details is not clear at the moment. we released the information. he was caught near the border. he is currently en route to sdplin tan from what i last heard. the exact details are kept from us for the moment for his own safety and security. what state was he in? was he wounded or