oh, here we go. oh, kyra. what a laugh to start the day. happy monday, peeps. happy monday. [ laughter ] kyra, have a good show. we start off with presidential politics and the two states that will be critical in choosing the new president. the new presidential nominee. mitt romney is considered the heavy favorite. iowa is still up for grabs just 10 weeks before it hosts the nation s first caucuses. gingrich kicking off his day with a town hall. rick santorum holding several meet and greets across the state. both are touting their conservative credentials and seizing on the latest stumbles by herman cain. paul steinhauser has the big picture from washington. shannon travis on the campaign trail in iowa. paul, let s start with you. as romney files to get onto the new hampshire ballot, how strong is his lead? what do you think? very strong in the granite state. about 15 minutes from now, he ll be in concord, the state capital, and make it official there by putting
captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. good morning. good morning to you, alina. it s monday, october 24th. there s definitely something wrong with my seat. see this? yes, there is. right. christina and carol are off this morning. welcome to american morning. his is a very strange seating situation but we have a lot of news to cover. we will fix that momentarily. a mounting situation in eastern tuck u turkey. a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake, worst to hit the country in a decade killed 260 people, 1,300 hurt and cold temperatures making it hard to find those when the ground began to shake yesterday. diana magnay is with us. reporter: hi, ali. as you shared, freezing temperatures overnight made the search and rescue efforts extremely difficult. we ve just been to hospital across the road and the problem there is, of course, that that building was, it is pretty much impossible to use anymore. they were having to treat all the injured outside y