in the united states senate where i differ from michelle is really a matter of proven leadership. real life rocky times two. victor ortiz in the fight of his life. i m taking my title home. that means the victory as well. and the great oscar de la hoya life lessons from a tentime world champion. it can ruin your life. it almost ruined mine. this is piers morgan tonight. joining me now is rick santorum, one of the crowded field of republicans who aim to challenge barack obama in 2012. senator, thank you for joining me. thank you, piers. good to be on. i don t want to start on a defeater s note here but the cnn poll on monday had you at 1% of the vote to be the republican nominee. i don t really care what the national poll say. they don t really matter at all at this point. the polls that matter are in iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina. those are the first three states. folks from new york and california don t have much of a say at this point and wheth
into life-threatening torrents. we ll get an update in a few minutes. but first, breaking news on the international manhunt for moammar gadhafi and members of his family. several hours ago, a senior rebel commander told cnn that one of his sons, khamis gadhafi died sunday night. also today, algeria revealed it had allowed gadhafi s wife and daughter and two of his grown sons and some of his grandchildren to enter the country for what they call humanitarian reasons. nic robertson is in tripoli now. can you update us on the latest on this humanitarian so-called giving of them refuge in alge a algeria? reporter: you know, one of the interesting things is that algeria still recognizes moammar gadhafi as the leader of libya. so what happened in the early hours of the day is that moammar gadhafi s wife, daughter, two sons, showed up at the border and crossed over into algeria. they said they re taking them in on humanitarian grounds. they want them back and if algeria doesn t s
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this is hillside new jersey west of newark. there could be power lines in the floodwaters. it s ironic, look at this police car in newark alone six police rescues getting people out of their cars that were stuck in stranded roads because of this water. that s incredible. the force of the water can t be underestimated. it s amazing how it could probably move like that picture demonstrating, moving that park bench. why they call it flash flooding. it s pretty significant. this alone, 6 inches is drown a person. alexandra steele. thanks very much. for now, welcome back. top of the hour and we want to bring you up to date on this tropical storm irene. i m fredericka whitfield. the storm is chaurning over new england and upstate new york pounding the area with wind and rain. it hit little egg inlet in new jersey and weakening to a tropical storm, it hit land at coney island, i rerene s march accompanied by death. 15 people are dead acrond more n 5 million without power
tonight about 65 million people from north carolina to new england are in the path of hurricane irene. ten governors declared states of emerge system new york city officials ordered the first mandatory evacuations in city history, but along the jersey shore, drivers can testify trying to get out of harm s way is a slow nerve-racking process. the hurricane isn t waiting. right now, the storm, a category 2 with 100 mile-an-hour sustained winds is heading for the north carolina coast. our coverage starts with john in north carolina. we probably don t need to ask you to set the scene for us. what does it feel like there? reporter: we are getting the winds as you see right now gusting and picking up a little bit. the rain has been constant. periodically heavy and then it lightens up a little bit. the past couple of hours or so here on atlantic beach, a mandatory evacuation, obviously, this is an island. the atlantic ocean is that way. that s actually south the way this beach fac