accountability for the failures that horrible day. this week in no smart part due to the reporting of shimon revealed the school district police department hired a former state trooper under investigation for her actions during the mass sacre, i should say lack of actions during the massacre and shimon uncovered this video of her on the day of the massacre talking to other officers. listen. reporter: an officer asked if her children attend rob eloquent men starry. her response. do you have kids in there? my son is in daycare. he s not old enough. i saw you yeah, no, no. if my son had been in there, i would not have been outside, i promise you that. she said if her son had been inside the school, quote, i would not have been outside. i promise you that. so last night we learned there officer has been fired by the school district. fired the day after shim mon ha tried to get answers why she was hired in the first place since she was under investigation. the studen
College, emphasis on research, on job creation and innovation. And now North Carolina under the Current Governor and legislature has been trying to restrict peoples right to vote. Well, you know it. North carolina voters won an important victory when a Federal Court just struck down this states voter i. D. Law. The Federal Court brought back more days of whats called onestop early voting. Here is what the court said. This is not me talking. This is what the Federal Court said. The court said the North Carolina law was designed to target africanamericans with almost surgical precision. Thats not just happening in North Carolina. Unfortunately its happening across america. And courts have been Overturning Restrictions that make it harder, not just for africanamericans, but latino people, young people. One of the provisions in the North Carolina law was to make it really hard to vote where you go to school. So this has been a concerted effort to undermine the right to vote, even to make i
first, video of the latest violence. look at this. we found it on youtube minutes ago. [ gunshots ] [ explosion ] [ yelling ] shelling and shooting in homs. a fire breaks out. again, at least 200 people killed there today according to activists in the city, including women and children. i spoke to a witness. we re calling him danny. he s giving only his first name but he s showing his face at great risk. listen. danny, what s happening? what s the latest? what s been happening, right? yes. they have been bombarding an area in homs for three hours. they have been bombarding with bombers and tank shells. t-72 tank shills. part of the syrian army defected and the civilians went to welcome the syrian army, so they bombarded it randomly with bombs and tank shells. in the first half an hour they ve got 40 people dead. now we have about 200 dead all around homs. there are still people under the destruction. we can t move them. all the buildings have been falling over human b
so far there is no information on a possible motive. chris johns lives at the intersection. he shot video of the gunman and even engaged him in conversation to try to get his attention and he join us from los angeles. thank pup what were you thinking at the time in first of all, what drew your attention in the noise? yeah. basically, i heard pop, pop, pop. you know, i heard the gunshots. so that kind of drew my attention. i looked at the video and you said, hey, over here. look over here. why were you why were you trying to get him to come? you were asking him to shoot at you. yeah. i thought that i made a calculate calculated, kind of comparison. i thought, if people down there at point blank range to the shooter were going to get shot, you know, they were kind of helpless to avoid being killed. you know, me, i m four stories up, if i could take any of his attention and divert it towards me, any gunshots that he would shoot at me, i would have an opportunity to get
matter, penn state university. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. but first, a stunning new shift in the republican race for the presidency. our new polls shows gingrich gained 14 points since october. that puts him in a virtual tie for the lead with mitt romney. herm yan can dropped 11 points. that puts him in a battle for third place right now with rick perry. ron paul and michele bachmann follow with jon huntsman and rick santorum rounding out the field. herman cain s plunge comes as he struggled with allegations of sexual harassment going back pour than a decade. now herman cain s wife is speaking out, but she isn t the only one. cnn s joe john says tracking the latest developments for us. and there have been many joe, what s the late snef. with herman cain losing status in the polls, the latest person to talk about the sexual harassment controversy happens to be a man. it is a case in the court of public opinion where proof, illusive. herman cain says