believe that it would have a happy ending. now syria is a much, much different picture. tonight, i ll take a close look at where the arab spring went wrong as the threat of outright war hangs over a region, that at least for a moment thought change was coming. more in just a moment. but, first, a look at the other stories that we re covering tonight. mitt romney made it official. he s running for president but with sarah palin s bus tour in new hampshire, will anybody notice? and today the only muslim in congress made a vow. the world will not forget for liberty and justice and for the people of syria. earlier he had urged the world to go into libya. where do we draw the line. then moammar gadhafi and goldman sachs, a marriage made in heaven or in hell? i ll ask matt what happened when libya s dictator mate the deal kings of wall street. syria and the story that we ve been closely following over the past few nights. the 13-year-old boy who was tortured and murdered. his
items to his room. moammar gadhafi is ready for a cease-fire, parentally, according to the south african president trying to broker a truce. gadhafi is not promising to step down, which is the main demand of the rebels. sarah palin s one-nation bus tour is in gettysburg, finally. there are times when she sounds like a would-be presidential candidate. she still isn t ready to call her tour anything but a campaign for america s constitution. the tour started in washington wag. then, it continued on to pennsylvania. there was some confusion about where exactly her bus was headed at times. she refuses to tell the so-called mainstream media exactly where she is going. her co-worker, greta van susteren was invited on the bus. she said, despite how things look, her one nation tour is not political. it is not about me. it is not a publicity-seeking tour. it is about highlighting the great things about america and the media can figure out where we are going if they do their inve
promises to speed up the process by which families can identify the remains of lost loved ones. going forward, we will have regular briefings in order to update you about what our progress is to get that number of unaccounted for individuals to zero, that is our goal to connect each and every one of those names with a loved one to make sure that we have reconciled that process. there are some signs, some signs that process is improving tonight. yet not enough or fast enough for many of the affected families. brian todd is live in joplin tonight, and brian, early on, once the list was finally, finally made public, already you found some discrepancies, some mistakes? reporter: we did, john, almost no sooner than we got this list than we found that one of the key people who we have been profiling this week with he and his family, he was reported missing, he was on this list, but we found him on this list twice. his name is lansz hare, we interviewed his mother when the tor
more tornadoes are possible today across the region. right now, the death toll stands at 116. that ties the single deadliest tornado record in u.s. history. so far, rescue crews have pulled 17 survivors from the rubble but time and the weather, now the enemies. precious hours are slipping away as bleak reality set in. t.j. holms in joplin. you went out with one of the rescue teams. what did you see? reporter: last night, i couldn t believe what i was seeing, carol. i have been covering tornadoes for a long time. grew up with tornadoes really in the south. i can t figure them out. if you see behind me. this is the part i can t figure out. that neighborhood in the short distance behind me is doing just fine. those homes are not touched. now, come with me and just a street over and this is what you see. this neighborhood taken out. still, the camera shot you are seeing right there, we can t figure out really if there was a house here or not. you can t figure out what s going
this hour, concerns that there are potential targets at risk by cutting homeland security funds. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with deadly new clashes today in syria as security forces try to break up anti-government protests in a number of cities. human rights activists say that at least 34 people were killed. they say to end the crackdown or get out of the way. here is arwa damon. reporter: wolf, when we see the images coming out of syria, the path that the regime continues to take seems pretty clear. they are aiming to clear. a voice yells off camera. this is video said to be from the city of hopes, which has seen many protests in recent weeks. it was posted to youtube. cnn cannot verify its authenticity or when it was shot. but one opposition activist told cnn on friday that the security forces fired straight in crowds of demonstrators and the syrian human rights information link reported a mounting death poll throughout the day. a simila