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work. thank you so much. facebook.com/carolcnn if you d like to continue the conversation. let s continue the cnn newsroom with randi kaye. hello, it s 1:00. two short days before the make or break south carolina primary. one gop hopeful is out. governor rick perry who dominated the field so briefly last summer called it a race. good morning, i have come to the conclusion that there is no more viable path for me in this campaign. therefore, today i m suspending my campaign and endorsing newt gingrich for president of the united states. our latest polls shows gingrich gaining on romney and perry stuck in fifth with single digits. santorum is running third but today he s officially the winner of the iowa caucuses. 16 days ago, you ll recall romney was on top with eight votes but the final results show santorum actually won by a total of 34 votes. it s basically a toss-up because eight votes are still missing. four republican candidates will meet tonight and wolf ....
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 ....
their boat tipping over after it ran aground off of one of italy s islands. this is not how you re supposed to see the sunset from a cruise ship. look at those pictures. they are unbelievable. three people are dead. among more than 4,000 who were onboard that ship, and here is what authorities are saying. they say 43 to 70 people could still be missing. an estimated 16 americans, 126 were on the cruise, but none of them are reported hurt. the italian captain is under arrest right now. he could be charged with manslaughter and abandoning ship. the ship is owned by carnival. the biggest cruise line in the world based in miami. cnn spoke with one of the americans who had to flee the ship, army colonel vivian shafer on an r&r leave. we had just been on only a few hours. we didn t even have the safety brief yet. it was really bizarre. we had finished dinner and we were at the magic show. we thought it was really sort of a bizarre trick to have the curtains all be sideways ....