egyptian desert. a world war ii fighter plane almost perfectly preserved. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we re getting new details from a news conference that has just begun. a dramatic case in mississippi and let s go live to jackson, mississippi. the department of wild life, fisheries and parks and special agents response team conducting searches of the area, thoroughly combing heavily wooded areas. it was the diligent effort of these men working in conjunction with the fbi. today we have special agent in charge dan mullens from the fbi that has concentrated efforts to help mississippi and tennessee law enforcement officers. the highway special ops, the department of public safety, bureau of narcotics, guntown police department, union countier is sheriff s department, desorto, and mississippi highway patrol, troopers who have to take up the responsibility when these members of the team are off doing this important w
pistol from his waistband and shot himself in the head and was later pronounced dead at a local hospital. other agents moved in to rescue kyliyah and alexandria who were lying on the ground nearby. the girls were hungry, thirsty, and dehydrated. the head of the biggest bank in the country is admitting to a trading mistake that cost jpmorgan chase $2 billion and counting. jamie dimond made the surprise announcement during a conference call yesterday. he said the loss was a case of, quote, bad judgment. we ve more work to do, but it s obvious at this point that there were many errors, sloppiness and bad judgment. we re going to management it. we re not going to do something stupid. we re willing to hold as long as necessary inventory and we re willing to bear volatility. the improving economy is actually not good news for some americans who have been out of work for a long time. they re going to lose their unemployment checks as of this week. as the economy actually gets
malveaux. i want to get you up to speed. president obama stirs up the national debate over same-sex marriage after announcing that he thinks gays should be allowed to marry. i ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that i think same-sex couples should be able to get married. political pundits are weighing in on what this means for the november election and we re also listening to you, what you re saying about president obama s announcement. i think it s time that he came out, so to speak. i mean, i think all of america has kind of been waiting for it. i do not feel that i would support a candidate, no matter who they are, if they support gay marriage. going to hear more from supporters and opponents of gay marriage from all corners of the country. find out how this hot button issue is playing out as well in the courts. two california police officers are going to stand trial for the beating death of a mentally ill hom
some say future spy separatioop could be in jeopardy. russia s newest civilian passenger jet, one of the planes took off from an airport in indonesia on a demonstration flight. it was supposed to return after 30 minutes. it did not and now there has been no contact with the pilot. at least 37 people were on board. there s no word on what has happened. same-sex couples in north carolina are facing uncertainty today after voters approved a constitutional ban on gay marriages. let no one define your marriage for you. opponents say the ban amounts to discrimination. the amendment defines marriage as between a man and a woman. the head of the group that supported the amendment says, quote, we are not anti-gay. we are pro-marriage. 61% voted for the amendment, 39% voted against it. and a bomb went off in syria today near a convoy carrying united nations observers. none of the u.n. team was hurt but several syrian security people went to the hospital. senator dick lugar
plus, disturbing video of a deadly police beating. the victim, a meanta willy ill homeless man who can be heard calling out to his father they re killing me. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com while we begin this hour with the romney campaign, having some trouble staying on message. let s go straight to our national political correspondent jim acosta. he s on the campaign trail with the presumptive republican nominee. you re in lansing, michigan, right now. tell us what s going on, jim. reporter: wolf, earlier today mitt romney accused president obama of governing to the left of bill clinton and bringing big government back with a vengeance. it is a new message for a campaign that is sometimes straight off script in recent days. in michigan, mitt romney tried to steer his campaign back on message. america is going in the wrong direction. not forward, but sideways, or worse. reporter: he not only hit the president s