Washington in this is cnn yeah im here on the east coast welcome to cnn this morning. Im kasie hunt. We have Breaking News right now. Violence on the Ucla Campus A crowd of proisraeli demonstrators clashing with members of a propalestinian encampment on campus after School Officials declared the encampment illegal in video from the scene, you can see protesters throwing a wooden pallet, fireworks, parking cones, a scooter. These classes lets have been ongoing for hours. There had been minimal police intervention, but we are told that the lapd is now on seeing that from tweets from the lapd and from the la Mayors Office joining me now is denial hartmann. He is with georgetown universitys emergency and Disaster Management at department and ill good morning to you. How would you assess the response here we know that there has been some reluctance on the part of these universities to call police for fear of escalating the situation. But the violence that were seeing at ucla does seem uniqu
let me give issue perspective. put aside the unemployment rate for a a while because there are lots of reasons why that s not the most effective way to look at this. the most effective way is job growth, the number of jobs lost or added in a given month. let s go back to january of 2011. you can see all through 2011, we gain jobs. off to a strong start and then we started talking about a double dip recession, issues in europe became more serious. our debt crisis became an issue, the debt ceiling debook kell that we had, the downgrade, all that happened in the late summer and companies were hesitant about hiring more people. but starting late summer and into the fall, we ve had strong growth. from october through january, it s been a steady trend upward culminating in january where we added 243,000 job, the vast majority private sector jobs. how does it affect the political landscape? republicans have been using president obama s job creation record against him. and jobs are
across the sky? i m trying to hum that song. that s a pathetic effort. anyway, some people very concerned about the ufo possibilities here. we have the answer to what that fireball in the sky was. what are you trying to do? i was thinking about that 80s show, that 90s show. whatever. a woman wins gas money after she sues honda. she spoke to us when she first filed this lawsuit. she said the car s manual promised her 50 miles per gallon. it didn t deliver. can others cash in on her lawsuit? and mitt romney talks to cnn. our soledad o brien saying something along i m not concerned about the very poor. okay, hold on. was that all he said? or has he been eviscerated unfairly? we re going to get to the bottom of context and why it matters. up first, a war of words over ending a war. reaction is pouring in after leon panetta announced that combat in afghanistan will end next year. this was on a plane to a nato conference in brussels. he told reporters, quote, our goal is
virtual third. we ll have a round table in vegas and we ll bring you live pictures. later today, romney will pick up the backing of a fellow businessman who will give donald trump his support on monday when he says it s a great thing to be successful and employ a lot of people. whether trump s endorsement will mean anything, it s unclear. in a recent poll, 64% of voters will say that it will not. fireworks on capitol hill over the justice department s botched gun running operation. house republican darryl issa demanded that attorney general eric holder turn over documents in the fast and furious operation. hundreds of weapons were lost or unaccounted for. and holder says firings and charges against justice officials who oversaw the program are likely to come in the next six months. at least 60 people have been arrested in one of the biggest child porn busts in canada s history. here s a look at how far-reaching this sweep was. police say at least 22 victims had been ide
mitt romney in all 50 of the delegates beat newt gingrich by a wider margin and beat him in south carolina. the former house speaker let his lecturn do the talking. 46 states to go. seven states are up for grabs. the caucuses in maine goes on for a week. wolf blitzer was watching it all last night great election coverage once again. dominating florida, some might look at the comments that he made, certainly to our soledad o brien. he told soledad, i m not concerned about the very poor. she pressed on it. let s listen to what she said and then i want to ask you about it. my campaign is focused on middle-class americans. you can focus on the rich, that s not my focus. you can focus on my very poor. that s not my focus. my focus is on middle-income americans, retirees living on social security, people who can t find work. folks that have kids getting tr ready to go to college. is this going to spell trouble for him? he said it inartfully. he tried to explain what he meant