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member has opened fire on civilians. sarah is in kabul, afghanistan. what can you tell us at this point? reporter: good morning. at this point there s a lot of conflicting information, depending bho you ask, which has been par for the course in this conflict. away we re hearing from the international service assistance force is that they are saying, look, this was one soldier who went off base. it was not a part of any kind of a mission. the soldier left base, walked off the base, and eventually opened fire injuring several civilians. those civilians are being treated at a coalition medical facility. now, that is now being disputed by the taliban and by a villager that we were able to get ahold of in the area. this is happening in an area that has been heavily targeted because it is filled with the taliban, and so it s an area that has seen quite a bit of action, but we need to mention that the taliban is saying that they believe this was many soldiers who attacked on ....
the largest haul yet. the winner takes all of them and seizes momentum as the clear-cut front-runner. so if the polls are right, mitt romney could be coasting to an easy win. cnn s john zarella is at a polling place in tampa. john s, how s the turnout been? reporter: real good. this is actually the largest republican precinct in hillsboro county, the tampa area. about 3800 registered republicans here, and turnout has been very good this morning. a lot of people going before work. a lot of families coming before dropping off their kids at school. so quite a good turnout. there s 232,000 registered republicans in hillsboro county. i talked to the election supervisor a little while ago. he was telling me that they expected a very good turnout counting all of the early voting and the people that are likely to vote today could be 40 to 50%, he said, of that 232,000. so he expects quite a few people to vote today. here, kyra, is an example of the ballot we were talking abou ....
different direction every morning. come on, white chocolate. oh, no. yup. he can explain that one, soledad. soledad. bye, guys. captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m going to try to compose myself here. it is top of the hour. 9:00 a.m. eastern time. we begin with five days until florida s republican presidential primary and just hours from the cnn debate there. mitt romney and newt gingrich are locked in a dead heat in the polls. this debate could be a game changer. the votes the candidates want right now, latinos. the ads prove it. joe johns is live in mount dora. he s calling romney the most anti-immigration candidate. reporter: that s absolutely right, kyra. it s very interesting to watch as that develops. senator marco rub yes who s sort of a favorite son of florida actually chaz tiesed gingrich for putting that radio ad out saying it was inaccurate. gingrich saying last night in a press media availability here in florida that he pulled the ad because he d ....
yp you juyou just heard to tax returns. mitt romney released histax returns 30 minutes ago. it s no surprise. mitt s a rich guy. here s a look at just how rich. he made more than $21 million in 2010. almost all of it came from incompetent vestments, not wages. he payed $3 million in taxes that year or 13.9%. christine romans is digging deeper into the 1040s. let s start with his offshore funds, christine. we had talked a little bit about that this week, and now we re actually seeing it in this, what is it, 200 something pages i ve got on the table. let me show you. i have it too. this is from 2010. willard m. and ann d. romney. they ve blocked out their social security numbers just in case you re wondering. so it s actually brad malt who handles all their blind trusts and their investments. he s on the phone talking to reporters. he s saying to call these overseas accounts is not right. these are funds. he s got all kinds of foreign stocks, american stocks, foreign ....
details. we wrap it up here. starting point. i m going to hop on a plane and get to south carolina. we hand it over to cnn newsroom. i ll see you back here tomorrow i ll see you back here tomorrow morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning, everyone. we start this hour with that doomed cruise ship off italy and fading hope to find anymore survivors. people are still missing in those frigid waters. two americans. at least 11 people have been killed. rescue operations are on hold again because it s too risky for divers as the cruise ship moves in the water. meanwhile, the ship s captain is under house arrest. he could be looking at man slaurt ter and abandoning ship charges after the cost at that c costa concordia hit a rock. barbie is joining us live from rome. barbie, any idea when the rescue operations might start up again? barbie, are you with us? reporter: oh, i can hear you now. yes. great. tell us, do you have any idea when these rescue c ....