keep us posted throughout the afternoon. the battle for election delegates kicking into high gear today in the state of maine. republican voters have been kaw cu caucusing there for weeks and tonight we find out the winner. let s go to shannon travis where mitt romney and ron paul are campaigning today. so what s the feeling as to how these caucuses just might turn out? yeah, i mean the feeling about how they might turn out, ron paul seems to have a bit of an edge there. you remember, fred, that while the other candidates a few weeks ago were campaigning in florida, ron paul packed up his v-neck sweaters, packed up and headed north. he s got a lot of young supporters here and libertarian supporters here. not so fast. mitt romney is saying obviously he s a favorite son of new england, former massachusetts governor, and he came here with an 11th hour appeal. today he did something for the first time appearing at a caucus site and has been very involved in republican circl
and it is february 11th. good morning, everyone. this is cnn saturday morning. i m ted rowlands. it s 10:00 a.m. here in atlanta and 5:00 p.m. in syria. amateur video from inside over there shows the damage caused by the ongoing explosions and attacks in that country. a child s pink doll appears to be lying in the rubble. hear from an activist from inside the country who says the people there just want a moment to save their children. plus, the cia s website hacked. a group called anonymous has taken credit for the cyber attack, and they say they re not done targeting government websites. you re looking at a live picture from cpac. it s the conservative political action conference meeting in washington. it s the third and final day of the convention which brings together the nation s leading conservative activists. here s a look at today s highlights. at 4:15 the conference will release the much anticipated results of the much anticipated presidential straw poll. right
come out with a war on religion and now, the white house is ready to walk back its decision to make catholic institutions pay for employee s birth control and a source according to a white house source, the administration is going to talk about it at least later on. the white house held a news conference. a conference call with religious activists today promising to make religious universities and hospitals exception. an announcement is expected from the president next hour. 12:15, the president will talk about that. we will carry that for you live on cnn. and we are going now to syria. that s what it looks like, tens of thousands of syrians are holding demonstrations across the country today. this one is in hama. the crowd is chanting support for the people of homs who have been under heavy bombardment all week long. today s nationwide demonstrations were also called to show opposition to russia for its veto of a u.n. resolution condemning the violence. women and children
it s the conservative political action conference in washington, d.c. i ve got you there live right now. this is the vamp up, folks, to the big delegate leader, mitt romney. if you want to be the republican nominee for president, you d better have your game face on when you come to cpac. and you better have cpac on your side, some say. there is a caveat to that. i ll get to that in a moment. any second now, as i said, we re expecting mitt romney, who s going to make his case from that podium to this audience. a critical audience. core conservatives in that audience. and the message he wants to deliver, i am your core conservative leader. and i ve got a message for you. we re following those comments live as he shakes the hand of the interviewer or the look at that. perfect timing. mitt romney takes the podium. let s listen in live as he gets ready to sell his conservative message and his record in massachusetts. wow, thank you, please. thank you! thank you. please. wo