governor paul la page. and records smashed from the midwest to the east coast. and now a new record. this past year has been the warmest ever for america. so turn up the ac, grab a cold drunk. cnn newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. thank you so much for joining us. i m carol costello. right now, president obama is just about to head to the heartland. he is visiting the battle ground state of iowa and reaching out to middle class voters. that s who would most benefit from his plan to extend the bush era tax cuts. here s what s going to change. basically if we don t do anything, everybody s taxes go up at the end of this year. now, understand what i m proposing is 98% of america, 98% of american families, won t see their taxes go up according to my plaque. plan. the only folks who would see their taxes go up would be the top 2%, folks like me who don t need those tax breaks, are doing just fine without them. republicans will seize the spotlight first in
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blossomed. and first there was bountygate, now there s spygate. the general manager of the new orleans saints is being accused of bugging the superdome to listen in on visiting coaches. there s talk of criminal charges, but mickey loomis is saying the report is 1,0000 plu false. a police dog sent in to end a high speed chase. apparently he worked it out. that s some nice maneuvers. up first this morning a dramatic turnaround in the trayvon martin case. the sanford, florida city commission voted to reject the police commissioner s resignation. last month he was blasted for not arresting trayvon martin immediately after the shooting, but now they question the fairness of removing him. chief lee is paying for the sins of past police officers. the police chiefs. he s been here he has been in office ten months. how do you steer a boat that big, mr. mayor? how do you steer a boat in ten months to a complete turnaround? you don t. heated discussion, in the meantime the
baby soon. yes. there are reports out there. the district attorney isn t saying exactly right now but they are lining up everything and interviewing family members and friends and figure out why she would have waited allegedly in a parking lot for a mother to come out and again what appears to be is wrong place, wrong time, a mother coming out with a three day old child and just didn t it could have been any mother. that s the scary part about this. as you reported at the top of this report that the prosecutors say that the suspect, a registered nurse, now faces capital murder which charges. thank you. there are developments in the trayvon martin shooting investigation we have exclusive video. they are book at the scene of the shooting and no word on exactly what they were doing, but they were taking extensive
courageous move. while an attorney for trayvon martin s family says the family is trying to have patience. north korea thumbing its nose at the world. any day now could launch this rocket which would violate a u.n. resolution. much of the world sees this as a possible test for a long-range missile that would be capable of reaching the united states. now south korea is warning that the north is trying to provoke an angry international reaction. it says that the north plans to use that reaction as an excuse to go ahead with a third nuclear test. 75 people were killed in syria today. just a day shy of the deadline for the government to pull its forces from cities across the country. now, the mounting death toll is dimming hopes that the assad regime is actually going to follow through with its pledge to withdraw. earlier we also saw clashes between rebel forces and syrian troops at the turkish border. republican presidential candidate newt gingrich says campaign front-runn