debt problems. let s bring in our chief business correspondent ali velshi who is watching all of this. we re about to know any minute now, ali, how much the stock will go for. bottom line is they could take hours. we think it will come out very, very quickly. the top of the range is $38, all indications are that facebook is oversubscribed. there are more people who want to buy the stock than there are stocks available and as a result they re going to the high end of the range and they can go higher, but we re thinking about $38 and that is the price at which institutional investors will get it. that s not the price that retail investors at 9:30 who want to buy it are going to get it. it s important to understand. look at that loss on the dow. that s got nothing to do with facebook. that has more to do with what s going on in europe and the average person, greece has more to do with your economic life than facebook. there will be a whole bunch of people who will get a lot ri
wasserman shut who is standing by live. a facebook co-founder unfriends the united states of america on giving us his u.s. citizenship could save him hundreds of millions of taxes when the company goes public. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com democrats have been betting on a big gender gap to give president obama an edge in the november election, they ve accused republicans of a war on women and president obama has been going all out to kort female voters, but suddenly a new poll suggests it s mitt romney who may have an edge among women. let s go to brianna keilar. should the president be worried that he s potentially losing his critically important edge with women? reporter: wolf, it may be too soon to tell. these poll numbers may not tell the entire story. if we take a look at the poll by cbs news and new york times it does show romney 2 percentage points ahead. one reason to look at this very carefully is because ot
it s looking more and more as if the supreme court will cut the heart out of health care reform law. that s the part which would require americans to buy insurance if that mandate is found unconstitutional and we won t know it until june. it s an open question whether the rest of the law could survive. the court wrapped up three days of historic arguments today. cnn s congressional correspondent kate bolduan and our legal analyst jeffrey toobin, they were both inside during the oral arguments. let s start with kate. what s your take, kate? how did it go today? wolf, after three days of oral arguments and four issues being debated and more than six hours of debate, this historic case is a bit exhausting and i m sure even for the justices and for the attorneys arguing before them. this all wraps up with still the same question at the center of this case. is the individual mandate constitutional and with that very question in mind, the justices today took a look at the quest
picture this, you re walking through the airport checkpoint with your shoes on and your belt on, and your laptop still in its case. how you can speed your way through the security line. new information coming in. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. suddenly a brand-new campaign. rick santorum s stunning sweep has turned the republican race into a real race. he s grabbed some delegates and more importantly he s grabbing the momentum. that s enabling him to raise lots of cash and it s raising a big question for the republicans. now what? let s begin our coverage with our national political correspondent jim acosta. wolf, mitt romney says he s focused on the contest ahead. that s probably a good thing, because the rest of them may count like never before. moments after the secret service housed a man who tried to throw glitter on mitt romney, it looked like a scene from csi. the real post mortem of the night was on romney s caucus collapse. the romney bandw
middle-class families pay. we ll explain what s going on. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. dramatic new developments today in the cruise ship disaster off the coast of italy after blasting holes in the capsized costa philosopconcord the massive liner hits rocks and ripped open the hull friday night. it shows the dramatic escape as people clamor off the sinks vessel. the ship s captain is under house arrest, and he may face charges of manslaughter and abandoning ship. now a stunning the transcript between outrages authorities on shore and the captain. matthew chance is faults this unfold. what s the latest, matthew? reporter: these transcripts and recordings that have emerged of astonishing. they show conversations that were taking place between the captain of the costa concordia. his name is francesco scampino. the coast guard asking about the situation. he sounds confused. then emerges much to the astonishment of is the coast guard that the captain