nathan adrian beating the aussie missile in the 100 meter freestyle finish. you ve just got to see it. when is gold actually green? olympians being taxed for their gold, silver, and bronze. does first place really mean a $9,000 tax bill? skipping, pirouettes, the extended trot. a 15-year-old mayor enters the olympic sport of dressage today. why is this news, you ask? rafalka is ann romney s horse. cnn newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. i m carol costello. thank you so much for joining us. just in this morning, a collision narrowly averted at reagan national airport near washington, d.c. it involved three jets carrying a total of 192 passengers. two planes took off tuesday afternoon heading toward a third plane, which was already cleared to land. the planes were seconds away from crashing. when an air traffic controller realized a mistake had been made. 3329, stands by. hold on. we re trying to figure this out too. stand by. we have a temporary stop on a
newsroom. let s get you up to speed now on what s happening here in aurora. a community still in deep shock today. the mayor of aurora talked to reporters a few minutes ago. he s been meeting with victims of yesterday s horrific movie theater shooting. this is the mayor. one of the people i met with this morning at the hospital was somebody who was hit with buckshot in his back, broken rib, punctured lung, broken coar bone. came out his back at the base of his neck. he is doing well right now, believe it or not. that s because he got to the hospital and because the doctors and nurses at the hospital do the best job that they can do. now about the apartment where the suspect, james holmes, lived. police say it was definitely booby trapped, rigged with trip wires and some sort of explosive devices. there is still no all clear from the apartment. ed lavendara is there live for us. i ll talk with him in a minute. 12 people died almost 6 o others injured when the masked man sp
you re in the situation room. their voters no candidate can afford to ignore any longer. and both mitt romney and president obama are reaching out to latinos this week with speeches to a national conference being held near orlando. the president addresses the group tomorrow. mitt romney spoke today. but the presumptive republican nominee has the greater challenge. a gallop poll shows mr. obama with a strong lead among hispanic registered voters. 66% to romney s 24%. but the president s advantage all but disappears in the battleground state of florida where the conference is being held. romney s trailing there by only four points according to a university poll. cnn national political correspondent, jim acosta s on the scene for us right outside orr lan toe. jim, romney spoke about immigration today. how did it go? reporter: wolf, a senior romney advisor told me that today s speech was more about laying out broad principles than specific policy proposals. that left some i
when antiregime protests are increasing. as saudi arabia s interior minister, prince nay yef, was a hard-liner. he was in geneva, switzerland for medical tests. his body will be flown back tomorrow. they have not released the cause of death. he was 79. entire towns ground into dust and children brutally massacred as their families forced to watch. it didn t seem like the violence in syria could get worse, but now it is too dangerous even for the united nations. the head of the u.n. supervisor mission in syria says it is suspending all u.n. activities, including patrols. unarmed monitors are in syria to try to make sure all sides are abiding by the proposed cease-fire plan. so far, the guns are still firing and u.n. observers have even faced attacks from hostile crowds. in egypt, voters are heading to the polls more than a year after their arab spring revolution toppled hosni mubarak from power and landed him in prison. they are picking his successor in a closely watched r
the fbi and new york police are up to their elbows in dirt and dust. meticulously sifting through layers of soil six feet deep below a basement floor recemented in 1979. the same year 6-year-old etan patz disappeared. we re cautiously optimistic as law enforcement always is when it executes search warrants that they will find what they re looking for. reporter: looking for etan s remains who lived a half block from the search scene. his parents still live here. he vanished after his mom kissed him good-bye 33 years ago. he came straight out this door out decked out in a corduroy jacket. he can t wait to get to school. for the first time, his parents allow him to walk two blocks down the street this way to get to the school bus stop all by himself. along his route that basement where a law enforcement source say etan had been the day before with neighborhood carpenter otheneil miller. this author says miller was no stranger to the patz family. they knew him. the family k