Been fired from miles away. well, iran says its nuclear program has taken another step forward. tehran claims to have built and tested its first nuclear fuel rod. it s reportedly been placed in the core of a tehran research reactor. iran, of course, insists its nuclear program is peaceful. western powers doubt that. some have accused tehran of working towards a nuclear weapon. well, today s the day new lightbulb standards are being phased in, in spite of intense gop opposition. you may recall congress passed the energy law back in 2007, but this is the year lightbulbs have to be 30% more efficient. critics argue that the rules greatly restrict consumer choice by pushing out traditional incandescent bulbs in favor of more expensive l.e.d. bulbs.
change between today and tuesday. but, look, i think this is a volatile environment, where people are going to walk in undecided or semi-decided, and maybe as many as 50% could switch during the course of the caucuses. he s not the only one hoping undecided voters will break his way. michele bachmann was out today too. she hopes iowans will decide to back a native daughter so she can prove the pollsters wrong. well, the new year is bringing new violence to syria. video posted on the internet shows the funeral of a child today in one village. cnn cannot confirm the authenticity of these images, but activists say at least ten people were killed today, but there is hope of a brighter future. [ singing ] syrians in the city of home celebrated the dawn of 2012 by hoping for the end of president al bashar s regime. arab leaders have toured the city. the search is under way in mt. rainier national park for a gunman suspected of killing a female park ranger. park officials sa
Iranian military test haifa fired medium-range missiles today near the strait of hormuz. it is a vital waterway for oil tankers sending supplies abroad. the anti-radar missiles were tested as part of military drills. and iran didn t stop there. a news agency also reporting the country has succeeded in building and testing its first nuclear fuel rod. the rod is said to contain natural uranium. it s been placed in the core of a tehran research reactor. iran still insists its nuclear program is peaceful. western powers doubt that and some have accused them of working toward a nuclear weapon. he was once considered an also rand candidate. now rick santorum near the top of the polls. we re asking our political analysts is it because he s gaining traction or because the leaders are losing it?
shooter. he s still at large in the park. we have other agencies assisting us with trying to apprehend him and meanwhile, we ve been evacuating visitors from the lower parts of the park and we ve got about 85 people who are staying put in our main park visitors center until we think it s safe for them to leave. but you already had a lot of people in the park, right, when this happened? yeah, it was a busy day. it was a sunny day with, you know, nice weather and the holiday weekend, of course, so people had come up to play in the snow and go snowshoeing and cross country skiing and so, yeah, there were quite a few people in the park when this happened. tell us what happened. we understand one of the park rangers tried to pull this man over. take us through that that s right. we had ranger dan komecha who tried 0 pull this person over. he refused to stop so ranger anderson set up a blockade with her patrol vehicle to intercept him and when he reached that point he jumpe