infrastructure in a neighborhood in northwest rafah. it s a stunning incident for israel and one of the deadliest days for the idf since teuber seventh, the short time ago, people gathered for a moment of silence to pay their respects for the eighth lives lost. cnn s oren liebermann is joining us now, live from a haifa israel or and what are you learning fredricka as you point out, this is one of the single deadliest incidents we ve seen against israeli soldiers in gaza since the beginning of the war, a total of eight soldiers were killed. one of those has been identified to this point, a captain who was with those eight soldiers who are part of a combat engineering brigade, the idf says this is still under investigation, but according to what they know, now, there was an explosion from what they call a sidebar them near their armored personnel carriers. so an armored vehicle. now they don t explain what a sidebar is, whether it was something affixed to the vehicle itself o
inside four weeks until iowa. a brand new poll showing newt gingrich as running away with it. now his past used by conservative critics. more disturbing allegations against jerry sandusky. another man saying he abused him and gave him alcohol as a boy. i have been excused of being a tramt traitor to both sides. a woman goes from wall street protester to wall street professional on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com all right. good morning, everyone. it s wednesday, december 7th. ali is off today. i m christine romans along with carol costello on this american morning. welcome, everyone. welcome and good morning. up first this morning, newt gingrich threatening to run away with the republican race. his bid for the gop nomination going gang busters. it s beginning to look like a gingrich juggernaut. look at the latest gallup poll. among republican voters nationwide, 37% now say gingrich is their choice. he leads mitt romney by a whopping 15