autopsy report. the report finds houston died of accidental drowning but cocaine was a factor and it wasn t the only drug in her system. charges could come today. the u.s. military about to begin the long process of prosecuting army staff sergeant robert bales who s accused in that massacre of afghan civilians. he s expected to be charged with 17 counts of murder. an explosion at a silicon factory in portland, oregon, sends at least two people to the hospital. the fire was reportedly sparked by a chemical used to make silicon. haz mat crews were called to the scene there. rick santorum slamming mitt romney and raising a lot of republican eyebrows while doing it with how he did it. we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk at what may be the etch a sketch candidate for the future. what we have. stay with what we have? really? the fallout from a republican candidate putting the president before his party. and up first, cries of justice for tra
falls, what happens to that cash? we re also seeing some new video of a violent train crash. time to play reporter roulette. miguel marquez, straight to you in yuma, arizona. you were briefed. have you even more information on what s happened there. the two helicopters colliding in the skies over yuma. snfrl yeah, we just spoke to the base commander. the most stunning thing coming out is the picture of that crash. it occurred around 10:30 p.m. eastern standard time on the california side of the base here. the entire crash was there. if you look at those pictures, what is very, very clear is it was in fact, a mid-air collision. there may have been an explosion as well because there s not much left of either of those helicopters except for a rotor that you can make out. the terrain says the base commander is very much like afghanistan and in iraq. the only differencing between that it s not the altitude isn t quite as great. commander also told us that there was a training pi
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. what s the latest on the fight between the front-runners. reporter: wolf, it s pretty clear last night s debate touched off a very personal tone in the race for the gop nomination. that s because there s a lot riding on the next several days. i hope you watched the debate last night. it was kind of fun. reporter: the morning after the debate, mitt romney had a smile on his face, swinging away at rick santorum. i don t know that i ve ever seen a politics explain why he voted against his you re entitled to your opinions, but not entitled to misrepresenting the facts. i took that at aim. romney took aim at his performance. when le tried to justify his vote for the no child left behind law sometimes you take one for the team for the leader, and i made a mistake. politics is a team sport, folks. in front of a big crow, romney knocked that one into the blea bleachers. i wonder what team he was taking it for
of almost like front-runnerish position. that was the 20th gop debate last night on cnn and really hit from all sides accused of being a big spender and accused of being a washington insider and accused of being a fake at which point he s like, i m real, i m real. some of the toughest attacks came from mitt romney. they literally yelled at each other. listen. while i was fighting to save the olympics, you were fighting to save the bridge to no where. just as torturous as they were kind of going at it. al stewart national press secretary for the santorum 2012 presidential campaign. nice to have you with us this morning. there were some comments from if you scan the headlines. some people said he did a great job in the debate and others said he was deep in the weeds of the debate. he outlined his record and also pointed out the fact that despite the distortions from other candidates, he never voted to raise taxes in washington and voted against the wasteful spending i
jury in the lacrosse place. that player convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend in a drunken and jealous rage, but did he actually come out better than he could have? and there are new fears about chemical weapon sites in syria. the military is saying it would take almost as many troops as there are in afghanistan to protect those chemical sites. they re also concerned about those chemical weapons falling into the wrong hands and perhaps being used against civilians. and in america s constant battle of the bulge there may be yet another magic diet pill. it s the first prescription drug to battle obesity in a decade. we are going to tell you all about it. it s getting a lot of buzz. the pros and the cons. duel in the desert as they re calling it. five days left until arizona and michigan. it s been forever since we ve had a primary, right? rick santorum has had his turn at the top, but is it over? a lot of score cards saying that he may have actually missed his chan