he went for a walk, he went for a swim, and he ended up in a lifeboat. jeanne moos, cnn new york. here we go, hour number two. all eyes today on the silver and bronze in new hampshire. the biggest prize may be in south carolina. also a rare look inside syria. let's play reporter roulette on this tuesday and begin with you in new hampshire. obviously it is decision day. all eyes on who will get the number two and number three spots tonight. you just spoke with john huntsman. is he feeling confident? >> he is feeling very confident, brooke. i have to tell you, it's very calm outside the webster school here in manchester. it's been like polling palooza here all day long. we've seen several candidates go through the media mosh pit in a last appeal to voters before this primary is wrapped up. we had a chance to catch up with john huntsman. he made his way through the crowd to talk to voters at the last second and we asked him what his expectations were for tonight. here's what he had to say. >> new hampshire has the knack for a big upset. is that what you're hoping for here? >> i think tonight conventional wisdom will be upended yet again. >> is this do or die for you? >> we have to do well, make no mistake about it. and we have worked this market more than anyone else, 170 events. we've been doing everything humanly possible. >> so you heard governor huntsman say he's given it his heart and soul up here, and that's putting it mildly. he's been the rick santorum of politics, unlike all of the other candidates. he can pull off a second place showing in this state. there is a chance to reshuffle the way things are viewed right now, and he might be seen as the newest romney to emerge. we have to wait until that scrom, we call it. i can't imagine you throwing any elbows, but i can't believe it. is it getting out of control there? >> there was they had officers on horseback, but they did show up on horseback to complete miles' away hill because keep in mind it was not just the local press and national press. so was. there were a few trying moment. i wasn't sure whether it cover this polling place or body surf on it, it was that chaotic. >> being a political correspondent is a little of a contract sport, right? yeah. he has already skipped ahead, who is always skipping on new hampshire. . you've been with him the past three daysment yeah, et cetera. he's found a state more suitable to him. purlly. he's taken an even harsh tone. he'll fire friends and relatives. he actually compared bain capital to as a ruvultures. it's really tough stuff, but he's hoping to plant that seed while his fellow candidates drop the new hampshire vote. >> bain, we know that's the supporting being. you know, at different kind of ads that can work. how effective might my baby wbe effective? >> negative campaigning works. no matter how and mighty you want to be, they do work. the numbers about 50%. so, you know, that's a lot of people who are undecided about the race, and that's big. mitt romney's lead is pretty sizeable here right now. he has 37% of the vote. rick santorum is at 19%, his next closest rival. but voters here are really only waking up to this. for a long time, south carolina was mainly showing up. this superpack, it can't coordinate with a music campaign, tleez. they're going to spend over 3 million dlrz here. . they're going to nuk the televisions and airways down here, brooke. no voters. >> as we were talking earlier, mitt romney has the money as well, so i'm sure he'll be countering those ad about ads of his hose. anti-government uprising in m syria. the arab league is blasting syria's department. our correspondent rick. next. >> these incidents are very serious incidents. they all have complained to the syrian kbovt. >> arab l-- these attacks on th arabs led to damage of equipment that the arab league holds civilian moore. ri rick. >> several of convicted occurring. just a very short time ago, we learned there was a lot, the supreme court lovely icould cha way we watch television. the gop raise takes a surprising turn hours before the polls close. great guest experience. that makes my day. and during the four course feast, there's so much to choose from. 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>> the emotions come flooding back, and on top of that, they're saying, now we are at sea. they're very much frightened for what may come next and now, apparently, many more families are going to suffer through this fear. it's really a shocking development to watch happen in a state that's been so conservative where most people. they're thinking that barbour is leaving the wrong kind of legacy. >> you don't see these numbers until the '80s, at least. you're about to see it. rapid fire. beginning with.793 off the coast of sumatra. a 7.3 magnitude earthquake killed 2.7 million people in that one. >> governor ruth bader said it is oftentimes hard to determine what's decent and what's not. he said honey, jus advertise. ruling could sit in the first alert broi. and a seven. ne next. yep. max here got to blow up a building, specifically the conagra plant here in ohio. the city plans to build up the site. the hintons are from california, but the make-a-wish foundation set that up, so he had to actually push a button to see. >> kids are alice in the. >> i imagine this was a big day for the little guy. sizes of moving. now trying to before. climate change in nuclear fears make the end of the world more likely. bad weather has caused the stern of this cargo shipt -- i into tons of water so at the say there is no risk to ground. >> we are 45 minutes away from that closing bell. you can check the dow. it is up on the green, up 71 points. allison apparently, allison, from the numbers to orange juice we go until. >> fundicide, tomato, tomato. it came from an orange crop from brazil last year and sold rejected. he's actually techg. it grows on citrus trees, but you really don't to. keep in mind that 75% of the orange juice on the u.s. market is in flor. 34 of a supply shortage. when i werd about. mort measure and randolph duke. not bad. they got rich. >> who thought you would be reporting on orange juice features. the exciting nature of your job, allison costas. >> first in her bear. grenades, murder, all on a ma massive scale. that is what one man wanted in a major city. danny bye, who is going to explain what's happening, next. you can with green giant frozen vegetables. over twenty delicious varieties have sixty calories or less per serving and are now weight watchers-endorsed. try green giant frozen vegetables with sauce. the army is ruling a soldier's death in colorado springs fort carson a homicide. this is 28-year-old brenda fontaneau of houston. the army is not offering any other details. two arrests involving two men in separate cases with one common goal. to hurt, damage the united states. federal officers arrested a 25-year-old just yesterday on charges that he planned to set off a car bombing, takes hostages and then blow himself up to, quote, create mayhem in tam tampa, florida. he was born in kosovo. he is a nationalized american, and federal documents say he wanted payback for wrongs done to muslims. also another case, federal prosecutors charged a former u.s. soldier to get somalia to join the terror organization malshabob. he tried to avoid detection by flying through neighboring kenya but he was arrested there. fbi's international operations. tom, these two men worked alone. we're by no means connecting these two men, either, but the thing we first thought, these are examples of success in these lone wolf cases. >> there's been a number of these cases already in the past few years, and there's more under investigation currently, and it's just a question of at what point the fbi or police want to terminate the investigation, arrest the subject and attempt to convict them with what they have. there is already cases that have happened like this and now two more. >> something else that strikes us when we read about these cases, some of these plots are carried out, some are not. you had this soldier you mentioned who is 24, and the suspect was 25. you look, tom, at all these lone wolves and they're so young. what do you make of that? >> i think that's the power of the internet and mass communications. if they can learn about these events and in their mind treat it as if it just happened yesterday or recently. that's not unusual that we have these young fighters, whether here or overseas. pakistan, afghanistan, somalia. we've got young fighters who were 10 or 12 years old at the time of 9/11. we've been talking about lone wolves, though, since prior 2001. since that day, how much has law enforcement had to shift in stopping these kinds of acts before they happen? >> the shift is that they have to really make sure that they're conducting extensive community relations programs to get the cooperation of the local communities in this case and to maintain great cooperation overseas with all of the international partners. in the case of black saum flying and bringing hundreds of dollars with him, that took cooperation between the office in nairobi, kenya and kenya police. this enabled them to identify him and determine what his intention was as far as why he wanted to go to somalia and assist or join al-shabab. >> i am sure the fbi, tom, gets hundreds of tips, people calling in, and there has to be a clear delineation between those who want to cause harm and those that are just curious. >> i think there are more on 111. does the veteran afraid of his own chaer -- the intelligence community, state and local police agencies here as well as cooperating partnerships accidepartnerships, relationships with police all over the world. it's great credit that so far we've had great success interrupting these plots and determining what their intention was. >> we would rather be reporting on this suspect and not the other. now this. >> is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people? >> somehow the republican race just took a bizarre turn. republican candidates are debating capitalism, cash and the rich. they were outside the profit of his? >> she's going to join me live next. hello. >> good to be here. good to be with you. we'll be right back. i don't know if you can hear the newsroom buzzing behind. we are less than four hours now from most of the polls closing in new hampshire. we have been talking about the fact that mitt romney is most definitely expected to win this new hampshire primary. the question is -- one of the questions is by how much. we are going to be looking to see whether there will be a last-minute attacks by newt gingrich to shrink mitt romney's chances. have you ever heard of republicans fighting one another over something like this? >> it's interesting, because when i first started covering politics, ronald reagan's 11th commandment was thou shalt not speak ill of another republican. not only are they attacking each other, but they're attacking each other on a republican issue, which is business experience. you know, that is mitt romney's whole reason for being a political candidate, or so he says, and republicans say they have better business experience to lead the country out of our terrible economic times, and what are they doing? they're having their own little argument, their own little class warfare, if you will, within the republican party. it's crazy. >> i asked. we had one of the gingrich daughters, jackie gingrich cushman on, and i said, look, is this personal now? and she said, no, no, no, it's not personal. he's not angry. >> yes, yes, yes. >> it's ugly. >> i say yes, yes, yes. it is ugly. don't forget, newt gingrich is one of the most accomplished attack politicians of our time. and when i saw him say in iowa, i'm going to be positive, i'm going to take the high road -- >> did you buy it? >> i kept thinking to myself, well, he was making a virtue out of necessity because he didn't have a lot of money. but those romney attackers that attacked newt gingrich as a phoney capitalist, $3 million worth thrown at him, and he got angry and he got upset. so i think he thought the only way to survive was to fight back, and this is becoming personal. it seems a little scorched earth to me, because if newt gingrich fails, what he's going to do is try and bring mitt romney down a peg or down with him. >> but if he's able to bring him down a peg or two, or however much tonight, and if it's successful, and now it's not only gingrich on the bandwagon, it's all these other candidates as well as we look at south carolina and florida, might we see thois narrative play out? >> i think we'll see the narrative play out. i don't think we'll see as much effect in new hampshire. it's going to take a week or so to sink in, but you're going to see a very nasty, mean campaign in south carolina. but the positive side for romney is that all the other folks are going to be attacking each other as well in addition to attacking him. there's going to be a lot of noise, and it may all cancel each other out and voters in the end may decide to go for the status quo, which in this case is probably mitt romney. we'll have to see how that plays out. >> how damaging this whole -- the gop, this whole debate, capitalism business -- >> it is damaging. >> how damaging? >> it's damaging to romney's brand. there's a difference between the small business, blue collar conservative wing of the republican party and the corporate elite wing of the republican party. so it's kind of corporate capitalism versus buccaneer capitalism, and newt gingrich is making the case that romney came in, got people fired, and made a lot of money, and i built businesses, i saved businesses, i didn't destroy businesses. but what this does, it gives barack obama all the ammunition he needs. romney may turn out to be a better candidate as a result of this, so keep that in mind. >> watch for the play by play tonight, 7:00. i'll be there, too. you can catch both of us along your favorites tonight, 7:00 eastern. do not miss it. gloria, thank you very much. a grandmother said someone put a bomb on her ankle, forced her to rob a bank. find out what her husband was doing through this whole thing. what police found at her home. plus, for one republican candidate, new hampshire is a thing of the past. we're live there. next. 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you've been running consistently for years and years and years, so this idea that consistency suddenly runs through your mind, give it up, you've been running since the 1990s. >> the gingrich campaign took it to the internet. check it out. it's called stopromneyspiousbaloney.com. i don't know how to tell you this. day two of the primary republicans. hours, some in the hour -- >> we're going to start in the 5:00 hour, releasing in data from the exit polls, so i want our viewers to get ready for that in the 5:00 p.m. eastern hour. >> two candidates on your show today. >> yes, jon huntsman, ron paul. ron paul will be in the 4:00 p.m. eastern, and jon huntsman in the 5:00 p.m. eastern. and they have a little fight about who's coming in second. everybody assumes mitt romney for, but who comes in second? will it be ron paul or jon huntsman? >> a lot of people were up late rehearsing for the big special tonight. i have to say, you yourself were, here, what 11:00 last night? you rehearses. >> and you too. you'll be at that social media wall. you'll be seeing what's trending on twitter. facebook. >> hopefully what will pop up in the paper the next morning. >> and you have a staff helping -- >> who do i think i am? i got people, just like you. >> we got people. >> we look forward to it, and we'll be watch you, in nine minutes. >> are you ready to go? >> i'm ready to rock. >> did you run five miles this morning? >> no, today i slept in. tomorrow. >> good. thank you, wolf. see you later. all eyes may be on the guys that want president obama's job, but quietly the president doing some campaigning all his own, including folks paying $45,000 each for one of his events. roland martin has his take, next. before we talk about the president, i want to bring in roland martin, who is tweeting away. can we put the fund down? you're on television right know. >> time to see brook. this is the start of r&b, roland and brooke. >> wolf was saying are you excited about cnn after dark, and was talking music choices. let's cue of the song that wolf is very -- he's excited about marvin gaye. what tune would you like to play? >> since last week, every night i've been tweeting aening so, so we hit the jackson five, of course barry white. i say we should play funkadelic "flashlight." >> let's cue them up. >> since the spot will be on -- >> a little synergy. >> maybe on new hampshire today, president obama creating his own spotlight. the white house says, and let me quote jay carney, he isn't engaging particularly aggressively in his election campaign. it's only january, but there will be five different fund-raising dinners, two last night in washington, one you had to pay $4500 a pop to attend one of these. >> that's one of the cheap once, $4500. that's one of the cheap ones. >> do you believe they're not aggressively -- they're not getting -- >> that's nonsense. this is the cute little dance that republicans and democrats do when you're going through reelection, because you don't want to appear as if you're making, you know, electoral decisions, when in fact you are. so the reality is the president is indeed raising money for the reelection campaign you are engaged in that. when you look at the tone of speeches, when you look at those things, you are focusing on reelection, so let's stop playing the game. jay knows the game. he's a reporter. he knows how we do this deal. he is operating and focused on reelection, no doubt. >> one of the themes, and it was a "the washington post" this morning saying like it's one of the -- maybe a draft version to one of the his campaign speeches, and one of the themes is essentially lumping some of these republican candidates in some of the republican leadership in a nonsuccessful congress. what do you make of that comparison? smart? >> that's what you're supposed to do. you're supposed to link the two. it was no surprise the republicans linked speaker of the house nancy pelosi with the president in 2010. she was extremely unpopular in ads left and right. that's exactly what you do. so you want to force the candidates to have to deal with that issue, just when you see this bain ad that's running out there that newt gingrich has been working around. it's pretty funny the republicans saying we're the party of the little guy, the democrats saying, hey, that's been our domain, so of course you absolutely -- congress is extremely unpopular, boehner is speaker of the house, so of course you link romney with boehner with senator mitch mcconnell. that's what you're supposed to to do. >> will it be successful? >> some, but the key is the president has to establish a stronger pop you list tone. i don't know why they don't go to mississippi and sandra cochran's district, a seat in alabama, go to louisiana to david vitt northwesterly and explain why are you broke in these three states if you're the poorest in the union and these three senators are opposing what i'm doing to help you out. that needs to be a more aggressive tack to say i'm fighting for you. >> wow is also announcing this panel to keep a close eye on beijing. they'll call it the 230 task force. >> don't we have a state department for that? i thought that's what they do. >> it's the task force role, martin. >> we have an ambassador to china, jon huntsman, that's what they're supposed to do, but another task force? >> and we've been hearing a lot of china from romney, obviously from jon huntsman. is this another way for the white house to ready themselves to get into a good spot? >> everyone wants to focus on china because of the amount of money we actually owe them. they own so much of our debt. we want to make them out to be the boogieman if you will, but nobody wants to bring up -- they're communist. it's hilarious. we act as if they're not communist. when we say look how the regulations are so much easier for them to do stuff. they're communist. of course it's easier. >> but the point being this is a reelection year and this is the political implications of him talking china already here. >> no, i disagree, because we've had to deal with the fact that china in is frankly the biggest threat to the united states in big a world power. >> so you're saying this is old news? >> we've been focused on china the last 3, 4 years, the last 18 years, and that should be the case. look at what they're doing in terms of minerals. how they were dominating similar energy, which american created the technology. we should be paying taken. >> c'mon, bro. that's how we do