i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he s plunging in the polls and in need of a boost. will a new plan help rick perry climb back to the top of the republican race? his rival, herman cain, is leading the pack according to a brand new poll and perry is a distant fifth with cain apparently benefitting from his 9-9-9 tax plan, perry today unveiled his own new tax plan and 20 is the magic number. he proposes a flat tax of 20% for individuals and corporations, but in a twist, perry would let people choose to pay his flat tax rate or file under the current system, which he derived. the size of the current code is more than 72,000 pages. that s represented by this palate right over here and the reams of paper. that s what the current tax code looks like. the best representation of my plan is this postcard. this is is size of what we re talking about right here. taxpayers will be able to fill this out and file their taxes on that.
Was stranded five nights during his recent marathon round-trip vacation from london to the caribbean. it s military style. you have to go commando. we re creating facilities to help passengers so additional seating areas across the terminal, tv facilities, additional power outlets, bench seats where somewhere i can charge my phone. reporter: nobody is happy about airports becoming hotels, not passengers, airlines, or airports, but it s the reality of flyinging these days. as high-tech as we are, sometimes you can t get to where you want to go. coming up later, you re being hit with extra fees for those extra bags now, so packing like a pro could save you some big dollars. we ve got some tips from
Lyinging and flags and balloons and confetti like you re watching the finale of dancing with the stars , of course, with much more consequence results. and a happy ending. people grab on to these stories, the hero who landed the plane on the hudson. we relish the mornings when we can talk about something happy. with all the human drama involved w-the baby that was born and renamed hope, esperanza. the mistress instead of the wife. it s all fantastic. we re going to get into this a little bit later. the mistress makes the front page. the man hugging not his wife but the mistress. we get several emails yesterday from people who were saying, you know, you people celebrating this story, you
Birther issue. and i hope that someday, he can produce it, because i think he is toying with the american public. and i will tell you what, people don t like it. i made a speech in front of thousands of people in boca raton, florida, on saturday and they are very upset with the fact that if he actually has a birth certificate, he doesn t give it. i hope he has one. oh, geez, suppose he shows it. if it s a sealed record and i had my birth certificate was sealed, but when i told them it s okay to release it i release it had all over the world, it s my birth certificate, i don t care. jamaica hospital, queens new york, just so you understand. if he has a birth çcertificate he should release it, but don t tell me about some long-form certificate of live birth because it s a much lower standard. but do you believe hawaiian officials are lyinging about this? do you have evidence they are lying? the governor of hawaii said he was there when he was born. now, do you really believe that
Inside the city of misrata, which is difficult just to go over and drop something? you have to know what you re shooting at? reporter: make it 15e6r and make it more accurate. they will be able to see more. one of the things that drones really specialize in is being able to loiter over the battlefield and watch those tanks moving around, hiding under trees, coming out, firing a few shots, then going back and hiding. that s what the fighter jet these are flyinging over find it hard to target and the drones will be much more effective at that and if you couple that are a better military assessment on the ground with advisers that maybe coming in from britain and france and italy, this ups the game against gadhafi s forces a notch or two at least, candy. as rebel fighters have been hoping they would. when you first heard this news, nic, what was your first thought? . reporter: one of my first thoughts is where are the drones going to be flying from?