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again, why the long delay? was race a factor or is this just a local tragedy that s been turned into ideological fodder for television news. mitt romney wins the illinois primary but most of the chatter is about a top aide who likens it to a certain children s toy ze wanted to talk about his victory but the debate over this iconic children s toy, the etch-a-sketch threatens to erase all of that. our twitter turned that into a viral moment. plus define that. how far will you go. i don t want to campaign for candidates. he came up with the idea of televising what happens in congress and made c-span and its passionate callers part of the landscape. now he s stepping down as chief executive. this is reliable sources. it was back on february 26th that 17-year-old trayvon martin walking down the street was killed in the town of sanford, florida. the man who killed him is hispanic. it wasn t until ten days later that the killing drew a bit of national med ....
hold over the gop? answers, let s go outfront. i m erin burnett. outfront on a friday night, the most shaky republican race since 1964. six different candidates have led in the national polls so far this year. it s amazing to think about it. but there is a big reason for it. the tea party. a cnn poll shows that the republican party is literally split down the middle. half of them support the tea party or are active members. well, 49, 51, some call that a mandate. i call that a split. the tea party is really the tea parties. christina boterri from the national tea party federation told us there are at least 5,000 tea party groups. there is no national umbrella group and there is no one manifesto. case in point, michele bachmann. one tea party support group called on her to quit the presidential race today. the other tea partiers have endorsed her. minnesota congresswoman responded to the call for her to quit on the situation room earlier with wolf. it certain ....
here it s agony of waiting. a father who is trying to find out whether his two sons are still alive in the rubble. before we talked to him he found out that they had found one of his sons dead and trying to bring him out now. you get a real sense from all the people standing here waiting to find out news about loved ones in these numerous buildings that have collapsed as they see pieces of their lives, furniture, bits and pieces and all they want to know is that their loved ones are safe. they re using sound checks, dogs, hundreds of rescue workers mobilized to van where i am and 200 more than 200 people killed in both. that is the death toll as we know it now. it could well rise, of course, as the search goes on. monita? all right, diana, thank you very much for that. we ll continue to check in with diana for the very latest out of turkey. that is the top story from cnn, the world s news leader. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good mor ....
being buried near their camps. it happened today and happens every day here. it shouldn t happen any day but it does. according to the u.s., 600,000 children are on the brink of starvation. think about that. 600,000. the world food program now has less than three weeks of food aid left. less than three weeks. tonight we ll talk to singer bono about that and rapper. a problem the developing world would be lucky to have but jeopardizing the global economy. asian markets right now reacting after another massive drop on wall street. another 500 plus point drop for the dow. the market plunging and then climbing midday and losing all steam all afternoon. investors today worried about french banks becoming insolvent. they are worried about american banks too and their exposure to europe s troubles. bank of america and citigroup each down 10% today. some of the calls were some kind of action in washington and for president obama to do something. the question is what? anything ....
we re just getting the information in. that means that the players vote will happen later today in more of a formal setting. training camp could start as early as wednesday now, we ve been told. david mattingly has been following this for us. he has been live out of atlanta every day, at least he was last week when those negotiations were taking place. david, did you just get word that something came forward just moments ago? reporter: reading and finding out now is that the nfl players and the owners did come to an agreement in the wee hours of the morning. and, bottom line, they re going to play some football. exactly what the owners were asking for last week when they came out of their meeting and had a 31-0 vote in favor of this agreement. and players still have to vote on this. it s largely looked at as a formality, that it is going to go through. and the fans will only miss, so far, one game this season. the first game of the preseason, which was going to be in ....