an 11-year-old boy spoke to cnn about what he witnessed firsthand. the united nations is blaming the majority of the hula deaths on a group of armed men who are loyal to syrian president assad saying the militia went house to house to carry out executions. turkey is joining 11 other nations to expel syrian diplomats in response to the syrian killings. but not everyone is united. china and russia continue to resist calls for military intervention, this despite a report saying a ship loaded with weapons was scheduled to arrive in syria last weekend sent from russia. vladimir putin is asaad s arms dealer. say assad bought nearly 5 billion in weapons in the past decade. so now, the question is what can be done to end syria s 15 months of violence and which country will be the one to lead the effort? joining me now is james spidermarx. so, some u.s. lawmakers said the united states should take the lead and involve itself militarily. why is syria different than let s say lib
we had the primary season. we heard him talk about important issues to latinos and non latinos, but so far, the polls are proving his positions, which were tough on immigration and other issues didn t convince latinos. now, he s at 27%. for a republican to win, they need anywhere above 35%. the last one to do that was george bush. he had a very aggressive campaign and mitt romney hasn t done that. so far and we ll see if he has time for november to change his message and to bring latinos on board. he has a strategy. president obama has a wider lead. there are questions and doubts from latinos and republicans, but obviously, we see the numbers confirm what has been historically a trend and that s up for more democrats than republicans. we talked a lot about immigration and romney s views. how that impacts latino voters. we haven t talked about board security. how s that playing into this? reporter: well, they re tied and one in all and mitt romney made very, very tough sta
as the gop nominee to be hoping to win back a state that went for president obama in 2008. and he s hoping hispanics will help him out. our colleague on that story in-depth for us in denver. i mentioned 2008. two thirds of the hispanic vote nationwide went to the democratic ticket but the vote in colorado was closer. does romney see an opening and could that spell a difference, do you think? oh, he definitely seeing an opening. both kand date candidates do. 12% to 14% of the overall voterless here in colorado and both sides are going at them. romney, the second trip since basically becoming the nominee, at least, unofficially to colorado. he is in the far west shoring up the business interests today and the latino voters, the swing voters and late deciders they hope to bring over to their side. a pollster here in colorado breaks it down why both candidates are after hispanics here in colorado, new mexico and in nevada. these candidates are looking at different pathways to
these beaches had been closed for people to get into the water, and we talked to a life guard just the other day about the strong rip currents that they are concerned about. take a listen. so i see the white caps out there. is that safe for a person to get into the water? no. it is not. the thing is with closing water completely, you let somebody knee deep they want to get waist deep. you let them waist deep they want to go in. reporter: what is a rip current? it s a channel of water pulls out to sea, too much water close to the shore, rip current will pull you out to sea, it s gravity. rip current will pull you out 20 to 150 yards at eight to ten miles an hour. reporter: we saw a lot of people out on the beach yesterday, no one was allowed in the water. the life guards made sure no one got in with the concern about rip currents. george howell for us this morning, thank you. we ll continue to check in with you throughout the morning to get updates. let s go tote rob
her way to a degree. that s why anybody who feels sorry for pat will find themselves on the receiving end of the receiving glare where she might punch you. she s still getting up every day and doing what she does best which is teaching. the players, she says, are my best medicine. our final honoree is not here. shimon peres, the president of israel, who has done more for the cause of peace in the middle east than just about anybody alive. i ll be hosting president peres for a dinner here at the white house next month and we ll be presenting him with his medal and honoring his incredible contributions to the state of israel and the world at that time. i m looking forward to welcoming him and i ll save my best lines for him for that occasion. so these are the recipients of the 2012 medals of freedom, and just on a personal note, i had a chance to see everybody in the back. what s wonderful about these events for me is so many of these people are my heroes individually. you know