two. hoping it will be a christmas black morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. this is monday, december 26th. i hope some of you are watching from home. did you get back from toronto okay? i did. boxing day. like the black friday of canada. right. good shopping. a lot of news right now. right. eight days to go m s ts to go ba caucuses, paul steinhauser is live with us in des moines, iowa this morning. hi, paul. good morning. reporter: good morning. quiet over the weekend. things pick up today and one week to go until the iowa caucuses. the first contest in the primary caucus calendar. this is a poll that came out friday afternoon. the most recent poll here. people are likely to go to the iowa gop caucuses. three-way traffic jam at the top. ron paul at 21%. mitt romney, former massachusetts governor, 20%. newt gingrich 19%. basically it s upgrabs here in iowa with just under a week to go. newt gingrich was the front-runner in polls. look at t
you ll be getting back to family today. unfortunately, we have to begin with tragic news on this christmas day. we re getting word that on christmas day, churches are being attacked. two churches in particular, two bombings. many people are dead and wounded. you re shown the area here, we re showing it to you, this is in nigeria, two cities in particular, madala and jos. you see the distance they are apart. a great distance apart. these are christian churches during christmas day services and prayers. again, there are a number of casualties. we do not have a definitive number yet. we re working to confirm how many, though. we ll get back to you on that. these attacks are reminiscent of last christmas day. bombers once again targeted churches in nigeria. dozens of people died in those attacks, as well. we are just getting word of this. a short time ago, these bombings just taking place. those details still coming in here at cnn. we re on top of it. we ll continue to keep you u