movement for women s rights. we do want to start with the president and covid as well. tomorrow president joe biden and vice president kamala harris and their spouses are going to start a whirlwind tour fanning out across battleground states to promote and explain the coronavirus relief package. with that i want to go to monica alba who s in wilmington, delaware, for us standing by with all this information. monica, good to see you this afternoon. talk us through some of the first stops of the president and the vice president and what we re expecting from them. reporter: well, this is really where you re going to see the policies start to intersect with the politics. you re going to see the president, the vice president, their spouses, cabinet officials, really fanning out all across the country from nevada and colorado to states like pennsylvania and elsewhere to tout what s in the covid relief package. everybody has seen the headlines at this point and the white house fee
our latest polls on the republican race, they are just coming out this minute andy sho stunning change in fortune for two of the republican hopefuls. mitt romney still plead leads in iowa with 21%. ron paul is right behind at 22%. but look at this. rick santorum has jumped into third place with 16%. tripling his shows just three weeks ago. meantime, newt gingrich has fallen off a cliff. at least it seems like it now. he s at only 14% down from 33% in our last poll. rick perry is at 11%. michele bachmann, still in single digits, followed by jon huntsm huntsman, who has written off campaigning here in iowa. there s less drama in romney s backyard of new hampshire. he s at 44% there, followed by paul at 17%, gingrich at 16%. the rest of the poll in single digits. joining us now from des moines, candy crowley. candy, i guess the headline here is not necessarily that mitt romney is number one in iowa, although he is even though he really hasn t spent a lot of time here. but all of
issue many people thought would settle. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the the situation room. president obama is going around congress for his latest plan. he is out west focusing in on the ongoing housing crisis that continues to drag down the u.s. economy. he wants it make it easier for a homeowners who are under water to refinance and he is unveiling his plan in one of hardest hit housing markets in the country. we are talking about las vegas nevada. jessica is joining us now with details. jessica, what is the president doing? he is rolling out a new plan to help homeowners drowning in massive mortgage payments who can t take advantage of the historically low interest rates because the value of their home has plummeted. that s the policy but there s politics here too. nevada, a must-win for the president in 2012. statewide home values have fallen 53% since the height of the crisis, 59% in las vegas. so that s where the president is unveiling his latest housing plan. so