Next. Tonight, a celebration of the First Amendment and the importance of a free press in the United States. Also, jokes, lots of jokes. All the most powerful people in washington except us all in the same room and about to be roasted by the president and a comedian. The white house Correspondents Dinner starts now. Members of the White House Correspondents association, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, here i am. F announcer fora time honore tradition bringing togethers washingtons people and powerful laughs. I invited luther, my anger translator, to join me here tonight. I mean, really. What is he saying . Tonight, roy wood jr. Takes aim at the politicians and President Biden himself will get in on the fun. I told my grandkids and Pete Buttigieg they could stay up late and watch this show tonight. From roasts. Donald trump has been saying he will run for president as a republican. I just assumed he was running as a joke. To jokes. Reality has a wellknown liberal bias. To mi
hernia surgery for that and he is resting comfortably. he s 93 years old. and a huge explosion rips through a neighborhood in the syrian city of homs. people there have been trapped by shelling and sniper fire for three weeks now. syrian officials agreed to a cease-fire yesterday to let wounded people and women and children evacuate. at least 75 people are reported killed across syria just today. nato s reacting swiftly to the shooting deaths of two american military officers in afghanistan. both were shot dead inside a government building in kabul earlier today. protesters have been packing the streets across afghanistan for five days furious over the burning of korans at a nato base p. nick payton walsh joins us from kabul. what are nato and the u.s. going to do to get other westerners out of harm s way is th? because clearly the situation is not stable. reporter: absolutely. what they ve immediately done is the head general john allen has withdrawn advisers from mini
live from new york this morning. we begin with what may be the occupy wall street move s biggest target so far, the iowa caucuses. cnn learned protesters plan to disrupt the first of the nation contest on january 3rd. organizers hope to have enough demonstrators on hand to occupy the campaign offices of president obama and all the republican candidates. they say their goal is to get them to start talking about the issues facing the 99%. also in tennessee, a federal judge has now ordered officials to stop arresting occupy protesters. the temporary restraining order blocks a curfew imposed by the governor last week that limited the time protesteders could gather at a popular downtown spot in nashville. the order will remain in effect for three weeks. republican presidential candidate herman cain is denying allegations of sexual harassment. he came out swinging yesterday regarding issues of inappropriate behavior while he was head of the national restaurant association in
days. last night they found him. gentleman vars crittendon is accused of killing a mother of four in atlanta. the fbi arrested crittendon before he boarded a red-eye flight from orange county, california to atlanta. he was in the news about two years ago when he played for the washington wizards. he and a teammate pulled guns on each other in the locker room. the power is still out for about five million customers courtesy of irene. today a white house team will visit some of the hardest-hit areas, including the state of vermont. floodwaters were still cresting there late last night. waters have damaged more than 200,000 in their communities. intense flooding wrecked the town of pratsville in the new york skill mountains. it took crews four trips and a helicopter to get a man out. a reporter told cnn that she can t get out of prattsville now. we ll give you an idea of the flooding so you understand why we were trapped here. if you can follow me over here. can you see wher