their ground. we re going to take you live to washington in just a few minutes. in northern florida, it looks like the aftermath of a bombing. look at these pictures. but these vehicles were actually incinerated by fire after a string of crashes on interstate 75. ten people lost their lives in the wreck. drivers say they could barely see anything because of smoke from a nearby fire. there was absolutely no warning whatsoever. it went from being just, i mean literally i don t know how far, whatever you could see as far as you could on the interstate to just nothing. rolled my window down and actually started hearing thuds and crashes and it was so thick i couldn t even tell you where they were coming from. well, almost nine months after the u.s. raid that killed osama bin laden, defense secretary leon panetta says he s convinced someone in pakistan s government knew the terrorist leader was hiding in a huge compound near pakistan s military academy. in a cbs 60 minutes
fighter jet. hope you have a great weekend. we ll be back here bright and early monday morning. it will be a great weekend just watching happy friday. we ll watch that primary, as well. it will be a great saturday. live from studio 7, i m suzanne malveaux. want to get you up to speed for friday, january 20th. it s the eve of the south carolina primary. republican presidential race is now hotter than ever. newt gingrich turned up the heat on the news media in last night s debate. it started when our john king asked about an accusation by gingrich s ex-wife. she says cause to her in 199 and asked her to enter into an open marriage. would you like to take time to respond to that? no. but i will. i m frankly as tountounded that would take trash like that and use to open the debate. i m tired of the elite media protecting barack obama by attacking republicans. gingrich is back on the campaign trail in charleston. as for his ex-wife s claim that he asked for an open m
ac360 starts right now. we begin tonight keeping them honest with breaking news. 360 has learned this waw not the first time that the costa conco concordia steered so close to shore. the cruise line not only knew about the route but approved it. the company that owns the ship said the accident was the result of a rogue decision that the captain and only the captain made. we learned the previous close call happened back in august. we have video, this is the video of the incident in august taken from the shore. the cruise line said the ship was a safe distance from the coastline. lloyds lip said it was dangerously close, closer, in fact, than it came on friday night when it hit the rocks. here is new satellite imagery of the wreck. look how big it is against the coast, just a massive, massive ship. the search for nearly two dozen was suspended when the wreckage began shifting. really dangerous for the rescue divers. a dutch salvage team has arrived to offload diesel fuel. als
concord got that close to shore. significant because the cruise line has said that the accident friday was because of a route decision the captain and only the captain made. the close call happened last august. this is view from the shore. and even though the cruise line says the ship was a safe distance from the italian s coastline, the world s leading shipping journal says it was dangerously close, closer than it came friday night, in fact, when it actually hit the rocks. in other words, except for sheer luck, the august cruise might just have as easily ended up just like this. this is the satellite imagery new today. you re looking at it basically from space. the sheer scale of it, right up against the coast, takes your breath away, frankly. it s just it s amazing. no less breathtaking, the idea this really was a disaster waiting to happen. that it could have happened back in august. tonight, keeping them honest, we re going to show you why. but today, the very latest f
numbers that we were hoping to see and hopefully will continue. so new jobless claims plunged to 352,000 last week. that s a huge drop. down by 50,000. this demonstrates there are fewer layoffs. however, jobless claims can be a little volatile. for example, we saw claims jump a few weeks ago because of the temporary holiday workers that were laid off. and also the prior week was revised a little bit higher, not much. just by about 3,000. it did go above 400,000. we need to stay below that in order to associate that with actual job creation. today s report is good news. we need to see it continue in the long term. all right. felecia, thanks so much. let s get to politics now. we begin in iowa. yes, iowa. just when you thought it was a done deal. well, the des moines register is reporting the iowa caucuses were a virtual tie, that rick santorum actually ended up with a 34 vote advantage and that romney did not win. so now we re being told that in about 15 minutes we re goin