while hiking. texas governor rick perry failed to live up to his front-runner s status this weekend. mitt romney won michigan straw poll by a 3-1 margin over perry. now, romney s father served as michigan governor in the 60s making the son somewhat of a home state favorite. in florida, herman cain took top billing. he drew twice as many votes as perry, with romney in third place. cain says he won because voters are beginning to notice his 999 tax plan. here s how he explains it. my plan is bold because it throws out the tax code and imposes a business flat tax of 9%, personal flat tax of 9%, national sales tax of 9%. it replaces all of the taxes that people are now having to grapple with and it provides search engine to the business community which is what they re looking for in order to grow this economy. governor perry jumped into the race for the gop nomination. that was just six weeks ago. instantly topped the polls but critics say that perry s debate performances
all this playing out on the streets as well. young palestinians who want statehood threw rocks and bottles at israeli border guards. that happened today. the israelis responded with rubber bullets and stun grenades. president abbas has called for protesters to keep things peaceful. israel has put additional forces along the border in case things get out of hand. and pakistan absolutely furious over accusations by the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mike mullen. for the first time publicly he is accusing pakistan s spy agency, the isi, of supporting the insurgents who attacked the u.s. he embassy in kabul. it was carried out by a group closely tied to the taliban. they act as a veritable arm of pakistan s internal services intelligence agency. with isi support, the operatives planned and conducted that truck bomb attack as well as the assault on our embassy. well, these aren t the first allegations that pakistan was helping terrorists, but mullen is the highe
these are all organizations opposed to the death penalty. but what this case different from others in the past as we approach the 11th hour there are hundreds of thousands of people. you saw their signatures on those petitions that were delivered. these are people, a lot of these people may not typically be against the death penalty. these are people who are looking at the case thinking that there are doubts here and that an execution needs to be stopped. there s a lot of people pushing to have his sentence commuted and not have him set free. you don t see a lot of people coming right out and saying this man is innocent. speaking of those who do think he should be set free or at least the case looked at, some names might surprise you. the former fbi director william sessions who wrote an op-ed in the newspaper in atlanta yesterday saying, the evidence in this case consisting almost entirely of conflicting stories, testimonies an statements is inadequate to the task of co
pushed the panic button probably several months ago, they just haven t telegraphed to us yet. you have to look no further than a poll out in virginia that shows president obama has a 62% disapproval rating with independents in that state. that is devastating to him. remember, virginia was one of the states that he flipped back in 2008 to win the presidency. not just virginia, north carolina is another state that they re concerned about. then go out west to colorado, another state that they flipped, as well, back in 2008. and then there s the two big states, kyra. there s ohio and there is florida, as well. these are all states that he needs to win in 2012 in order to win a second term. you know, kyra, a lot of people don t think the president has the fire in the belly any more. i was talking to a democratic strategist this morning and what he said to me was very simply, instead of when you re selling the whole idea of the jobs bill, don t say pass the bill, say, yes we can. w
for moammar gadhafi has spread way down south into this cluster of outposts in the sahara desert. what you see right there, bombs. those are bombs going off at an airport seized by the rebel are s. libyan rebels are taking on hard-line gadhafi loyalists hundreds of miles south of tripoli. this fire fight, you see and hear it, ben wedeman found himself right in the middle of it it. ben is live for us now. as i said, hundreds of miles south of tripoli, way out in this desert, just after 9:00 p.m. local time. ben, before we get to that fire fight, just tell me where you are and tell us why the rebels are there so far into ethe desert. reporter: we re about 450 miles south of tripoli. we re on this air base that just two nights ago was taken over by the rebels. now, the reason why this is important is that we re about let me think in miles 16 miles to the north of sabah, the biggest city in southern libya, a city traditionally very loyal to moammar gadhafi. in fact, rebel c