>> it's a great cause, it's a fantastic book in many ways, incredibly inspiring. obviously it was desperately sad, but inspiring is probably the way you would like christina to be remembered, and i think that comes out in the books. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having us. >> that's all for us tonight. from cnn center, this is cnn "sunday morning." it's sunday, january 8, 6:00 a.m. in atlanta, 5:00 a.m. in chicago, 4:00 a.m. in denver, 3:00 a.m. in las vegas. good morning, i'm gary tuchman. presidential candidates duking it out on stage again. ron paul and rick santorum involved in a heated exchange. rick perry says he would send u.s. troops back into iraq. we'll give you highlights if you

missed the new hampshire debate last night. plus, if you're driving while sick, one study says it's just as bad as driving while drunk. why you shouldn't get behind the wheel if you're not feeling too well. and is there ever enough time in the day? we'll give you an idea about some extra time on the clock later this year. we'll explain. we start with politics and the race to be the republican presidential nominee. the new hampshire primary is now just two days away, so you could have expected fireworks at last night's abc news debate in manchester. well you may have been disappointed. there were a few shots fired, but surprisedi in-- surprisingl front-runner mitt romney wasn't

always the target. we have the highlights. >> reporter: good morning, gary. round one of this doubleheader of debates this weekend up here in new hampshire is over, and guess what -- front-runner mitt romney is still the front-runner. the former massachusetts governor who's way ahead in polls in new hampshire really remained unscathed. a lot of his rivals for the republican nomination didn't really attack him but rather went after each other. take a listen to this exchange between ron paul, the congressman from texas, and former senator rick santorum of pennsylvania, who's been surging in the polls. >> he's a big government person along with him being very associated with the lobbyists and taking a lot of funds. and also, where did he make his living afterwards, i mean? he became a high-powered lobbyist in washington, d.c.. >> it's a ridiculous charge. and you should know better than to cite george soros-like organizations to say that they're corrupt. so that's number one. ron, i'm a conservative. i'm not a libertarian, i believe

in some government. >> reporter: former utah governor jon huntsman didn't really campaign in iowa and is hoping for a strong finish in tuesday's primary. huntsman was touting his experience as u.s. ambassador to china, but mitt romney had an answer. >> it's nonsense to think you can slap a tariff on china the first day in office as governor romney would like it do. you have to deal with it like you deal with iran and burma and pakistan and the south china sea, they're interrelated. to have a president who understands how that relationship works would serve the interests of the people of this country from an economic standpoint and from a security standpoint. >> i'm sorry, governor, you were the last two years implementing the policies of this administration in china. >> reporter: texas governor rick perry had a disappointing fifth-place finish. he's hoping for a strong comeback. he appeared to make a little news at the debate.

>> i would send troops back into iraq -- >> yeah? >> i tell you, i think we start talking with the iraqi individuals there. the idea that we allow the iranians to come back into iraq and take over that country with all of the treasure both in blood and money that we have spent in iraq because this president wants to kowtow to his liberal leftist base and move out those men and women -- he could have renegotiateiated that time frame. i think it is a huge error for us. >> reporter: those comments generated buzz on line and the social networks and were a talking point in the points room after the debate. this debate only round one. a few hours from now, another showdown between the candidates as we get closer to tuesday's primary. gary? >> paul, thank you very much. stay with cnn for all of the news on the new hampshire primary. our special coverage kicks off tuesday night, 7:00 p.m. eastern time. now for some other headlines. around 100 soldiers are locked down now at lewis mccord army

air force base in washington state. commanders reacting to a report of missing military equipment including night lasers, guns, and scopes. the restricted soldiers are all part of the fourth brigade second infantry division. police in denver are trying to figure out why an area couple were the targets of a package bomb. the two people, a man and woman, were injured when the bomb exploded in their car. it had been left at the front door. investigators are looking at a suspect but there's no motive in the attack. congresswoman gabby giffords is back in tucson today for ceremonies marking the one-year anniversary of her shooting. six people were killed and 13 others injured in the attack. she and her husband mark kelly visited a memorial for gabe zimmerman. an aide of giffords who was killed in the attack. this is a new picture of giffords from just yesterday. there are more ceremonies

scheduled intu-- scheduled in tucson later today. mt. rainier park was shut down after a ranger was shot and killed last week. a former soldier was blamed. he was found dead a while later. a memorial for ranger margaret anderson is planned for tuesday. a container ship grounded off the coast of new zealand has broken into two. big swells battered the helpless ship, knocking a couple hundred containers off the deck. only around 15 have been recovered. tons of milk powder from one of the containers spilled into the water. the ship has been stuck on a reef off northern new zealand since october. officials are ready to clean up oil that spills from the broken ship. it's six minutes past the hour. meteorologist alexandra steele has the forecast. hello, everyone out there. another day yesterday of record heat. where's the heat, what the week will see, more rain on tap, and

strong winds. we'll meet you after the break with the full forecast. and a very cool story about adding time, right, gary? >> that's right. we're going to tell everyone that they're going to have more time in their lives coming up. thank you. and an iced in alaskan town is months from running out of fuel. help is on the way. more in a minute.

an alaskan city that's been

iced in for months may get the emergency fuel that is desperately needed within the next 48 hours. according to cnn affiliate ktuu, a russian tanker carrying the fuel is less than 200 miles from nome, alaska. it's been escorted by a coast guard icebreaker plowing through the thick ice in the strait. we spoke with mayor michaels who said without the delivery, nome would run out of fuel supplies before spring. >> we've had four back-to-back storms, and this below-zero weather for almost two weeks now. so there is more use of the low-grade diesel for heavy equipment to clear snow. they came to us and told us the inventory and the historical use, they said by march -- middle of winter for us, the

iditarod is running then -- that we would run out of diesel. the first fuel barge can't get here until june, until the ice is cleared. >> if the mission is a success, this would be the first time ever fuel's been delivered by sea to a western alaska community in the middle of winter. the fuel tanker is expected to reach nome on monday. it's nine minutes past the hour. meteorologist alexandra steele has the weather. i was in nome a few years ago for a story. it is a beautiful place but a desplat place, especially this time of year. >> thank you very much, gary. we talked so much yesterday about the 1,100 records from the past seven days. another record day of heat all the way from texas to new york city. look at these numbers. galveston, texas, a record of 75. greenville, spartans, and south carolina -- spartanburg, and south carolina, 71. new york city, 62. the heat is on, but that's the

end of the heat, and we're cooling down. as we look toward monday, we will still be above average. that cool front we were talking about dropped the numbers. not as dramatda dramatically wa. 40, 17 above average in the heartlands where we see the axis. it is not there. the heat continues from atlanta to new orleans. the big story if you're getting out and driving anywhere in the southeast, the fog. a lot of fog out there, slowing airport travel for sure. and rain, big boomer in the southeast last night. still a line of showers, not a total washout by any means. foggy, cloudy, scattered showers from memphis south toward atlanta and charlotte heading to the mid-atlantic for today. in terms of delays, here's where we could see them today. atlanta, georgia, birmingham, you get the quadrant of the country in trouble. the southeast with the fog early on and the clouds and showers. sporadic but they could slow

things down. los angeles with fog early on. a big picture today, a few things to be mindful of. the cold front moving through, dropping temperatures. everyone up in new hampshire, it has been mild. we'll shave off a couple of degrees. in the southeast, still above average temperatures. again, cloudy and showery. also, a couple types of wind. chinook winds in montana, warm snow-eater winds, in southern cal, santa ana. gusting between 40 and 60 miles per hour. that's the story in the wind department. here in the southeast, a rainy go this morning. look at this -- this is where the rain's going to stay. tuesday, area of low pressure staying in the south. so the quadrant of the country, gary, now will be wet tomorrow to tuesday. even makes its way into the mid-atlantic by wednesday. >> when you talk about cold fronts in the middle of january, that usually means temperatures, you know, ten below, 15 below in the northern part of the united states. >> that's right. cold, and i use the term loosely. >> that's right. loosely is right. there's still a lot of winter to go. alexandra, thank you very much. >> sure.

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fromretha aretha franklin to emmitt smith, many celebrities turned out for the 20th annual trumpet awards honoring outstanding achievements and contributions to the african-american community. cnn founder ted turner was one of those walking the red carpet. he received the golden trumpet award. newark, new jersey, mayor cory booker received an award for political leadership. he stopped by yesterday, and i talked with him about the awards and presidential politics, including that controversial remark rick santorum made last week. >> being in this game, you try to afford people as much latitude as possible when you're speaking constantly. that to me is patently offensive on the face. i'll give latitude that he possibly made a mistake. often in campaigns, and we've seen it before, people try to use bigotry or stereotypes about african-americans as a foil to appeal to the lesser angels of others. and it's that kind of politics

in all of america -- forget black people -- all of russ tired of. we want people to appeal to the better angels because at the end of the day the aspirations of the country is that we will be the united states, the nation that finds a way forward for everyone. that's the first time i'm seeing it. i didn't see the entire context so i don't want to cast aspersions on him. just pulling out the sound bite wh from what i see is disappointing. >> rick santorum talking about no cuts to the military budget. barack obama is saying we need a leaner, cheaper military. do you think that's a smart move for barack obama in an election year? >> again, i don't know about the politics, and this is why i report the president so much. at the end of the day, he obviously is gearing up for a campaign and has to make a lot of decisions. i'm sure advisers probably told him better to do this after the election. but the reality is is we are spending more on military than most of the major industrial nations out there combined.

that we have expenditures that are unsustainable in the long term that we ramped up for these two very expensive wars. we can't keep fighting the wars of 100 years ago or 50 years ago. we've got to gear up our military to be far more focused on what the future holds. i think that's what he's doing. we do not need to be spending this much money. and in addition, we now know with the technologies that we have, we don't necessarily need the manpower we had before. and as i know from my police department as well as the military, a large part of our expenses is sustaining that force. and not only while they're in the military -- i understand that even after they leave and they've given that incredible service to our country, we're still paying in terms of the benefits that they receive. so shrinking that force lowers overall expenditures. but preparedness is what's critical. when you have generals, when you have leaders, military personnel telling you that we could be far more effective with less spending, it's a responsible leadership. you know, say, we're going to pursue that, we're going to lower military spending. everybody knows that -- that the

amount of money you spend on something, we see this with public education, doesn't mean necessarily that that's the kind of strength or result that we're going to get. you can spend less often and get more. >> one more prediction question, who do you think will win the nomination? >> it's clear to me that it's going to be mitt romney. it's clear to me it's going to be a barack obama versus mitt romney, democrat and republican. >> and november of this year, who's going to win? i mean -- i know who you want to win. i know you're going to say obama. do you think it's clear-cut? >> no. i think president obama has a difficult road helping americans understand the incredible things that he's done. i think that's the biggest thing i find even in newark. when you ask people what's barack obama done for the country, they're not as articulate. once you inform them of the challenges he faced, the accomplishments he made, you see people's realization and embrace of our president go -- get a lot more extreme. >> go visit newark, new jersey, sometime, folks. go to a nets game at the beautiful prudential stadium. beautiful. >> thank you, from one jersey

guy another, you don't give love a bad name. as some would say. >> springsteen, bon jovi, love those guys. okay. thanks for joining us. >> great. mayor cory booker, newark, new jersey. family and friends of a missing atlanta woman are desperately trying to find her. 36-year-old stacey nicole english vanished around christmas. police found her abandoned car still running the other day but found nothing else. english's parents appeared on cnn last night. don lemon asked about robert kirk, a friend who was visiting the young woman before she disappeared. >> she asked him to leave. argument, dispute, whatever it was, we don't know because we hear one side. now this new timeline has come forward. someone had to see something. >> we called a few days after the first contact to him was made by the apd. then a few days later, my husband and i picked up the phone and called him and said,

hey, have you heard anything from her? have you reached out to call her? he said no to both questions. >> police are calling him a person of interest. according to a police report, he told investigators that english was acting strangely, quoting the bible, and talking about the end of the world during his stay. democratic lawmakers turning the tables on other legislators who want to drug test welfare recipients. georgia state representative scott holcomb has introduced a bill that would require the state legislature, the legislators in the legislature to take mandatory drug tests and prove they're not legislating under the influence. holcomb says the bill is meant to push back on the wave of republican bills to drug test the poor and jobless. he said this on his website, "if the general assembly is going to pass laws requiring struggling jobless georgians to pay for drug tests as a precondition to receiving state benefits, then members of the general assembly should lead by example and take

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everyone knows that driving after you've had too much to drink is dangerous and selfish. what about getting behind the wheel the next time you have a cold, the common cold? our very own nadia belichick has the answers. >> there's been a study that having a cold or flu can be just as dangerous as driving drunk. in fact, they say's the equivalent to having four double shots of whiskey. >> well, that is obviously dangerous when you have four double shots of whisky to drive. how do they do the study? obviously if you have a minor cold, it's not as severe as if you have a major cold and you're hacking and sneezing. >> with all of the studies, they're not totally finite. there is criticism that the study isn't comprehensive. but it's making people aware

that having a cold or flu can impair your judgment, mood, and concentration. those are the things they're looking at. they don't say in the study was it if they had taken flu medication. >> that would obviously make it -- when i take medications i nod off. >> there's a rap term called sipping the scissor. have you heard it? >> no, had you heard that before you investigated -- just curious? >> no, but rap terms are amazing. i heard the word dope -- d-o-p-e. >> that i have heard. >> but the other is having codeine. so obviously in a flu or cold you might be sipping the scissor, and that would alter your mood incrementally. apparently this study was done with people who hadn't necessarily taken medication. they test your braking and your basic reflexes and how you went around a curve. they found people who had a cold or flu were literally as

impaired as somebody who had been drinking. that's the study. and again with all of the studies, are they definitive? what it's saying, gary, is let's be careful. if you have cold or flu, be careful. be mindful. and then you asked me a question earlier -- >> i asked the question, we hear a lot about -- you know, in many states you can't talk on the phone. like you're in georgia, you can. in other states you can't. you need an earpiece or speakerphone. you can't text in most states, it's against the law. >> right. >> then you hear, you know, people say, oh, you going to change radio stations, are you going to make wiping your nose illegal? i think drunk drivers, eh, driving drunk is no worse than these things. it is worse. >> driving drunk we know definitively because the research on driving drunk is extensive and definitive. a study like this comes out that says let's all be careful. let's hope you won't get a cold this season. have you had your flu shot? >> hi had my flu shot.

but every year i lose my voice. in this job, it's a hazards. >> be careful and don't go sipping on the scissor. >> that is interesting. thank you very much, appreciate it. >> thank you. an adoptive couple just can't believe the judge's order. the child they've raised from birth has been taken away from them. plus, the republican presidential candidates square off. we've got the hits and misses from last night's debate next. ♪ nice ring. knock it off. ignore him. with the capital one venture card you earn... double miles on every purchase. [ sharon ] 3d is so real larry. i'm right here larry. if you're not earning double miles... you're settling for half. really? a plaid tie? what, are we in prep school? [ male announcer ] get the venture card at capitalone.com

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welcome back, i'm gary tuchman. it's half past the hour. mitt romney is leading the polls in new hampshire and south carolina. it makes sense that he was the main target at last night's republican presidential debate, right? wrong. he largely sidestepped criticism while watching his rivals hammer each other on everything from spending to service in the military. ron paul was the most vocal creditic last nighter. here's his exchange with rick santorum over spending.

>> you're a big spender, that's all there is to it. you're a big government conservative. you don't vote for right to work and important things. that's what weakens the economy. to say you're a conservative sieve a stretch. you've -- conservative is a stretch. you've convinced a lot of people. >> i'm not a libertarian, i agree. you vote against everything. i don't vote for everything. >> i think it has a role to play -- >> particularly in defense. >> meanwhile, mitt romney focused his attention on washington. at one point he was criticizing the way the obama administration has dealt with china. he offered his own strategy which led to this exchange with jon huntsman. >> if i'm president of the united states, i'm not going to continue to talk about how important china is and how we have to get along. and i believe those things. they're very important. and we do have to get along. i'm also going to tell the chinese it's time to stop. you have to play by the rules. i will not let you kill american jobs any longer. >> i think it's important to

note, as they would say in china, that -- [ speaking chinese ] >> he doesn't quite understand the situation. what he is calling for would lead to a trade war. it makes for easy talk and a nice applause line. it's far different from the reality in the u.s.-china relationship. >> i am reasonably certain that is the first time that chinese has ever been spoken at a presidential debate. earlier, romney had taken a shot at huntsman for talking about carrying out obama's plan and that he -- he knew it before he went there and knew it better after he left there. they have another debate later this morning. coming up, much more on the debate and the strategy. patricia murphy of citizen jane politics will join me to talk about the real winners and losers here or rather the hits and the misses. that's around 25 minutes away. missing from the debate last night, as you probably know, was michele bachmann. she dropped out of the race after a disappointing sixth

place finish in iowa last week. that's something the folks at "saturday night live" had a little fun with. >> after a sixth place finish in tuesday's iowa caucus, michele bachmann announced that she was dropping out of the race. here to comment on her campaign, michele bachmann. how do you feel now that it's over? >> seth, while i'm disappointed that my campaign has come to a close, i am also looking forward to resting. to spending some time at home. and most of all, to blinking for the first time since this all started. >> now, at points during your campaign, you alluded to the fact that god sent you the message that you should run for president. >> yes, seth. but what i haven't send until now is that god sent me that message via text. and i'm starting to think it was a mass text. >> oh, like a group tech that he sent to a -- group text that he sent to a lot of people? >> yeah, that's what i fear. when i texted him and he texted me back asking for clarification as to what the iowa results meant, he wrote back, "new

phone, who's this?" >> few are left unscathed on "snl." we haven't heard much from bachmann since she stepped away from the race. no word on when or if she may endorse one of the other republican presidential candidates. other stories making news this morning -- a new york congressman is the first to endorse jon huntsman's run for president. two sources say first-time representative richard hanna backs huntsman's drive for quality education, specifically to teach more quality science, technology, engineering, and math. according to a campaign source, rick santorum will pick up an endorsement. he will get the backing of evangelical leader gary bauer later in south carolina. bauer is chairman of the campaign for working families. bauer ran for president himself 12 years ago, in 2000. republicans could lose a seat they've held in california

for a quarter century. elton gallegly says he's retiring. redistricting would challenge another congressman, something he doesn't want to. do or would have to take his chances running for a new district as a democrat in georgia. "entertainment" is reporting that beyonce and jay-z welcomed a baby girl in new york. there have been reports and rumors about the birth over the past few weeks. cnn hasn't been able to independently confirm if she gave birth or not. "e" entertainment reports the baby's name is blue ivy. another single lady. forget the penny for your thoughts. how about a million dollars for a penny? not unknown buyer paid the price for a one-cent copper coin minted in 1793, the first year the united states minted its own coins. experts say the penny generated such a large price because of its exceptional condition. a heartbroken south carolina couple just can't believe it. after raising a newborn baby girl for two years, a court gave

her biological father custody. the deciding factor -- a law aimed at keeping native american families intact. here's george howell. >> reporter: gary, this story has generated a lot of responses from our viewers. some people outraged by what has happened to the family. many others concerned about 2-year-old veronica who, at this point, is caught up in a custody tug-of-war. veronica, a toddler, adopted and raised by the couple she's known since birth. taken from them by a court order on new year's eve and turned over to the native american biological father she has never met. a family torn apart by a law designed to keep indian families together. the parents are matt and melanie capobianco. >> matt said when we had to do the transfer, it was like he was failing her as a father. to send her off with people she didn't know, what she must think of us. >> reporter: it was an open

adoption. veronica's biological mother was in full agreement. when veronica was 4-month-old, the biological father, dustin brown, filed suit to get her back. brown's attorney said he claimed he'd been tricked into signing papers agreeing to give up his daughter. brown won full custody under a law called the indian welfare act of 1978. the law was designed to keep indian children and their families together. cnn legal analyst avery freedman says in this case the law was misused. >> it's a wonderful law which seeks to preserve the integrity of families of native americans. but it cannot be used as a bludgeon to destroy the -- the integrity of an existing family. >> reporter: the assistant attorney general for the cherokee nation says the law is clear. >> some of the protections provided by the indian child welfare act, there's a placement preference. if children are removed by the state or if they're placed in

private adoption placement, the first preference is for a family member. >> reporter: in cases like this, what about the child? >> everybody keeps saying how bad they feel for us, but i mean, she's a 2-year-old girl that got shoved in a truck and driven to oklahoma with strangers. >> reporter: the couple thought the transfer would happen on new year's day, but it happened on new year's eve. a lot sooner than they were prepared for. they've gotten to speak with veronica once. a day after she was taken away. >> she said, "hi, mommy, hi, daddy." she sounded really excited to hear us. she said, "i love you, i love you," numerous times. >> reporter: their daughter starting the new year with an entirely new family. the only vaem er ha-- family vea has ever known starting the year without her. brown's attorney released a statement saying that the indian child welfare act was not used as a loophole and he likely

would have won his daughter back under south carolina law. the couple has filed an appeal in south carolina. that case could be heard later in the summer. gary? >> george, thank you. what a difficult situation. later this year, we're going to have a 61-second minute. i'm not kidding. more in, well, about a minute. hey guys, breakfast!

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are we short of time? not enough minutes in the day? in june, everyone, everyone in the world, will get one extra second. that's right, one brief second will be added to the world's clocks. use the time wisely, i guess. meteorologist alexandra steele is in for reynolds wolf. why is time getting taxed on to sfwhoifl. >> do you have a -- 2012? >> do you have a minute? i need a minute to explain. in the 1950s atomic clocks were introduced to measure the earth's rotation. some days are actually longer or shorter than other days. so the goal here is to bring atomic clocks and solar time back in sync. that's what it will do. so it will happen on this one day, on june 30. if we didn't do it, after

several hundred years, we'd maybe be a minute off between these two times. after several hundred thousand years, we may be having lunch at midnight. to get the two in sync is what we need to do to avoid the problem. at the stroke of midnight on june 30, it will take two seconds instead of one to transition into july, gary. >> what was the last -- i know it happened before. when of the last time we did there leap second thing? >> the last time was 2008. it all began in 1972. since then they've done it 25 times. but this is a leap year, too. is there a relationship between leap year and leap second, there isn't. a leap second we've decided to do purposefully. a leap year is kind of a regularly scheduled thing that happens on its own. >> i know you talked about how hundreds of years down the road we'd be eating lunch at midnight. >> right. >> what if we forgot -- >> no, hundreds of thousands of years. hundreds of thousands of years. >> that makes the point even better. it sounds like an interesting thing to talk about. why don't we forget leap seconds

and we can let our descendants worry about it later? >> that's one of the options, that's the contrarian view. let them deal with it after. we're a pro-active society. there are people that deal with this. these people have decided this is the way we're doing it. >> i guess it's no big do add a second to the clock after all. you just had samoa skip the entire day of friday, go from thursday to saturday. what's a second when you lose 24 hours? >> it's cool. a fascinating story. i love it. >> i think it's great, too. thanks for telling us the fascinating story. saving more and getting out of debt. if that's what you hope to do in 2012, we have simple steps to help you get this. that's next.

managing debt and saving money are two of the most popular new year's resolutions. actually keeping them is a challenge for even those with the best intentions. june walbert is here to help keep you on track. a certified financial planner with usaa and lieutenant colonel in the army reserve. june, thank you very much for joining us, first of all. >> you're welcome. >> you say rather than committing to a -- >> yeah, you betcha -- >> sorry, let me -- we have a little delay. i apologize about that. i want to be polite and set you up properly and tell everyone that one of the things you're saying is that you should commit to a pile of resolutions on january 1, commit to just one resolution a month. why is that? >> big resolutions can really be daunting for some. and often they'll be put on the back burner within about a month or so. so why not eat that financial elephant one bite at a time. do some small things that you

can accomplish easily and build momentum from there. but i must say there's some financial promises that you have to make and keep throughout the year like living within your means. >> so eat that elephant one bite at a time sounds appetizing. but it's also important when you look at it figuratively. so what steps can people take this year to be more financially responsible? why don't you break this down for us by month? >> in january, this is the time to develop your plan for each month of the year. what is it that you're going to do, and be specific. as an example, don't just say i want to pay down credit card debt. say i want to pay down $1,000 debt down by april 1. it will work much better. >> and what about -- >> in february, that's the time when corporate raises -- i apologize. in february, that's the time when corporate raises hit our banks and military paychecks is gotten their raises. don't let that money just get

caught up in cash flow. make sure you have a plan such as i want to add 2% more of that money to my retirement blth, or i want to pay that debt down as an example. >> okay. what about march, april, may and june, as we get to the warmerer months? >> right. march is spring cleaning time. and that's the perfect time to do a personal inventory of your things at home. don't wait until the tornado sirens are blaring or the neighborhood is on fire. do it now. shoot video or take still photos, and then you can recreate the contents of your home just in case worse case scenario happens. in april, you know, we've just written that check or received that big check from uncle sam. this is the time to adjust your with holding. what we want to do, gary, is we want to basically break even or pay $1,000 or get $1,000 back. don't make a tax cut-free or

interest free loan to uncle sam throughout the year. you can go to irs.goff and find the w4 calculator there. and in may, kids are greating. droves of college students are coming home to mom and dad's house because they're saddled with debt. and i have to say, mom and dad, this is not budget neutral. you need to make plans for the money, and set ground rules because you don't want this to foil your retirement plan. that's one of the biggest expenses that you'll ever have. >> and then june, what happens? kids are out of school, what do you do in june? >> well, you know, i can hear wedding bells ringing already. and so instead of buying an elaborate gift for someone for their wedding, why not just give them some small memento and then write them a check so that you can help them jump-start their financial future by funding an emergency reserve fund or a house down payment?

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before the break, we showed you six financial resolutions to make from now, january, through june. certified financial planner june walbert was kind enough to stick around and help us plan for the rest of the year, july through december. we'll listen carefully. let's start with july. what do you think, june? >> all right. so we're in tornado season and hurricane season is starting. this is a great time to check your homeowner's insurance levels. you want to make sure you have enough homeowner's insurance to rebuild your home from the ground up, should worst case scenario happen. many people simply insure for market value, big mistake. that's an often -- often not enough. liability insurance is very important, and very inexpensive. so you should insure your net worth by one or two times. so that you can be prepared in case somebody says, "i'm going to sue you for all you're worth." august, back-to-school time. there's often these tax-free sales, and those are two of my favorite words maybe besides on

sale. and both of those are happening at the same time. no kids? take advantage anyway and buy some things that you might need. if you do have kids, this is a teaching moment for you. have them sit down, make a list within a budget, then they can shop. any leftover money? maybe they have -- they can buy a video game. if they like those $100 jeans, they have to like them a lot it wear them through the year. i say plan for the worst but hope for the best. and life insurance is definitely not an exception. you want enough life insurance to cover lost income, pay down a mortgage, and other debt. it's a critical part of a financial plan. in october, make it a point to sit down and review your credit report for any errors. many do have errors. of course, it's important to effectively manage your credit throughout the year. pay your bills on time every

time. and keep those balances low. then in november, families often gather. that's a great time to have a family financial meeting. does mom and dad, as an example, have long-term car insuranc-- c insurance? if so, who's it with? look at living wills, important conversations to have. and december, we've just been through that, gary. this is the time to streamline your stuch aff and start fresh . through the attic, basement, garage, and stuff that's in good shape, donate it to an organization so then you can both streamline and get a tax cut deduction. >> june walbert, you know your stuff. you were very prepared. that's why we had you on. thank you very much, i hope everyone was listening carefully. we appreciate it. gabby giffords returns to tucson, arizona. ahead, we look back at the day that stunned the nation as we mark the one-year anniversary of the deadly shooting rampage.

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good morning, it's 58 minutes after the hour. let's look at news across the country, we'll start in new hampshire. with just two days to go until the first in the nation primary, a portsmouth, new hampshire, diner is telling republican presidential candidates they're not welcome. >> this isn't iowa, we don't need them in our face 24/7. we can decide on our own. >> in fact, colby's breakfast and lunch is banning all politicians, no exception. that's just fine with some of the customers. they say the campaigning can be a bit too much to digest. >> i invited mitt romney for lunch, but i told him to meet me here at 3:30. >> just so happens the restaurant closes at 2:00. in south florida a mysterious plane is being seen for the first time in 70 years. >> it's so out of place. it's an absolute wonderful thing to see. >> a diver discovered the world war ii-era plane last week off the coast of jupiter. it's sitting upside down about 200 feet deep on the atlantic

floor. jordan says he's been receiving calls from around the country from aviation buffs and other interested divers. in missouri, a fire was so bad in lynn creek that it drained the town's water supply. it happened thursday at a company that makes scenery for model trains. firefighters from 20 different department helped fight it. authorities say nothing looks suspicious, but investigators are trying to determine the cause. no injuries were reported. from cnn center, this is cnn "sunday morning," sunday, january 8. it's 7:00 a.m. here in atlanta, 6:00 a.m. in asheville, and 5:00 a.m. in tucson, arizona. good morning, everyone. i'm gary tuchman. republican presidential candidates duking it out on stage again. ron paul and rick santorum engaged in a heated exchange. rick perry says he would send

u.s. troops back into iraq if he were president. we'll give you the highlights if you missed the new hampshire debate. plus, you may not know it, but you are killing your credit score with simple things such as renting a car. we'll explain coming up. we start with politics and the race to be the republican presidential nominee. the new hampshire primary is two days away. the first in the nation primary. you could have expected fireworks -- you may have expected it because there's been lots of fireworks in other debates. at last night's debate in manchester. if you wanted fireworks, you might have been disappointed in this one. there were just a few shots fired. maybe surprisingly, front-runner mitt romney wasn't generally the target. cnn political editor paul steinhauser with the highlights. >> reporter: good morning, gary. round one this doubleheader of debates this weekend up here in new hampshire is over, and guess what, front-runner mitt romney is still the front-runner. the former massachusetts governor who's way ahead in poll here in new hampshire really remained unscathed in this debate as a lot of his rivals

for the republican nomination didn't attack him but went after each other. listen to this exchange between ron paul, congressman from texas, and former senator rick santorum of pennsylvania, who's really been surging in the polls. >> he's a big government person along with him being very associated with the lobbyists and taking a lot of funds, and also where did he make his living afterwards, i mean? he became a high-powered lobbyist in washington, d.c. >> it's a ridiculous charge. and you should know better than to cite george sorrowori soros- organizations to say they're corrupt. ron, i'm a conservative, i'm not a libertarian, i believe in some government. >> reporter: former utah governor jon huntsman is placing his chips in new hampshire. he didn't really campaign in iowa and is hoping for a strong finish in tuesday's primary. huntsman was touting his experience as u.s. ambassador to china. but mitt romney had an answer. >> it's nonsense to think you can slap a tariff on china the

first day that you're in office as governor romney would like to do. you've got to sort through the issues of trade like you do with north korea, like with iran, bummer apakistan, and the -- burma, pakistan, and the south china sea. to have a president who understands how that relationship works would serve the interests of the people of this country from an economic standpoint and from a security standpoint. >> i'm sorry. governor, you were the last two years implementing the policies of this administration in china. >> texas governor rick perry had a disappointing fifth place finish in iowa. he's hoping for a strong comeback. he appeared to make a little news at the debate. >> i would send troops back in to iraq -- >> now? >> i think we start talking with the iraqi individuals there, the idea that we allow the iranians to come back in to iraq and take over that country with all of the treasure both in blood and money that we have spent in iraq pau

because this president wants to kowtow to his liberal leftist base and move out those men and women. he could have renegotiated that time frame. i think it is a huge error for us. >> reporter: those comments generated bouz line and social networks and were a talking point in the spin room after the debate. this debate only round one. a few hours from now, another showdown between the candidates as we get closer and closer to tuesday's primary. gary? >> thank you very much, paul. we still want to talk about the debate. joining me live from new hampshire's largest city of manchester is patricia murphy, she's the founder and editor of "citizen jane politics." thank you very much for joining us, we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> now, mitt romney, the clear front-runner in new hampshire and in south carolina and probably in florida after that as of now. did his rivals miss the mark last night by not going after him? >> i think what we saw his rivals doing, they were going after whoever they thought was between them and the nomination.

and at this point, mitt romney is not really a lot of these guys' biggest problem. there's a huge battle up here in new hampshire for second and third. everybody knows mitt romney is going to run away with this. he's lunned here forever. he's -- lived here forever. he's been campaigning here forever. he was the governor of a neighboring state. he's going to win new hampshire, no doubt about it, there's the battle for second and third. so you saw this dog fight between everyone who wanted get ahead of each other in any way possible. we saw newt gingrich mixing it up with ron paul who mixed it up with rick santorum. that's what they were doing. did they miss an opportunity? i think so. if nobody goes after mitt romney, he's going win the whole thing. they need do something soon. we'll see if they do it this morning. >> you raise an important point. there's a -- a situation where you want to come in second because you want to be at just a one and two race between mitt romney and yourself. you think you could coalesce and get the conservative voters and beat him. you would expect to hear criticism of romney even if that wasn't the most important goal.

you heard rick santorum coming close to criticizing romney. listen. >> i'm talking about -- in the case of the manager, as you're talking about, as far as the commander in chief or the manager part? >> the manager -- >> the manager part. of course i was talking about governor romney. i was talking about someone who says i've got business experience. well, business experience doesn't necessarily match up with being the commander in chief of this country. the commander in chief this country isn't a ceo. it's someone who has to lead, and it's also being the president is not a ceo. you can't direct members of congress and members of the senate as to how you do things. you've got to lead and inspire. >> we knew that santorum wasn't going to win in new hampshire, not necessarily come close. after the iowa caucuses, lost by eight votes. we anticipated some significant jump in the polling in new hampshire over the last few days, which we haven't seen as of yet. do you think he's capitalizing on his momentum?

>> i think he's doing everything he can to capitalize on his momentum. we know that he's raising more money this week than he was last week. that's a good way to get started. we know also that he's going to go into south carolina. new hampshire isn't fertile territory for rick santorum but he's here just to play, to be on the field and to finish top three. i think you're going to see rick santorum's biggest move come in south carolina. that's where he needs to wrap up the conservative vote, coalesce it behind him. then he can become the anti-romney, try and make it a two-man race. >> so, at this point, what does it look like as far as the two-man race scenario goes? do you think by the time we get to florida we're going to have two people left? >> i think south carolina's going to give us a huge indication of that. if mitt romney wins south carolina, then he will -- he's most likely to have won the first three states. they all have a huge, diverse ideological breadth. if he wins one, two, three, it looks like he's going to be coming away with it in florida. if he doesn't win in south carolina and if he doesn't do as

well as expected in new hampshire, it could still be anybody's race in florida. look at how big the margin is tuesday and look at what happens in south carolina. if mitt romney doesn't win south carolina, this is not his race to win. we still know that about 75% of republicans are not on the romney bandwagon yet. and south carolina's going to give us a big sign of whether or not that's going to happen. >> well, patricia murphy, just like you advised, we will be looking and paying attention. thank you very much for joining us, appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> be sure to stay with cnn for all of the news on the new hampshire primary. our special coverage kicks off tuesday night at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. now per some other headlines. around 100 soldiers are locked down right now at lewis mcchord army air force base in washington state. commanders there are reacting to a report of missing military equipment including night lasers and gun scopes. the restricted soldiers are all part of the fourth brigade second infantry division. officials are telling us there is no threat to the public.

police in denver, colorado, trying to figure out why an area couple were the targets of a package bomb. the two people, a man and a woman, were injured when the bomb exploded in their car. it had been left at the front door. according to local reports, investigators are looking at a possible suspect, but there's been no word on a motive in the attack. mt. rainier national park is now open to the public once again. the park was closed down after a park ranger was shot and killed last week. a former soldier is blamed in the shooting. he was found dead a little while later. a memorial service for the ranger who was killed, margaret anderson, is planned for tuesday. a container ship grounded off the coast of new zealand has broken into two. big swells battered the helpless ship. amazing pictures. knocking a couple hundred containers off the deck. only 15 containers have been recovered. inside, one of the containers had ton of milk powder which spilled into the water. the ship has been stuck on a reef off northern new zealand since october. so you're talking about three

months the ship's been there. officials are ready to clean up any oil that spills from the broken ship. right now it's nine minutes past the hour. meteorologist alexandra steele has a sneak peek of your sunday forecast. >> good morning, gary. hi, everyone, good morning to you. new york city, an april day yesterday, feeling like it anyway. temperatures in the 60s. is that heat over? and where's the rain and the fog? talk a little chinook action, instances and snow out west. all the details coming up in the full forecast in a few minutes. gary? >> i love the word chinook. when we come back, i want to ask you, what does that mean? >> chinook-y -- >> a snooki chinook-y wind? i'll ask but that shortly. an iced-in alaskan town is months away from running out of fuel. help is on the way in the bering strait. more on the historic mission in a minute. thank you so much, i appreciate it, i'll be right back.

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a remote alaskan city that's been iced in for months may get the emergency fuel that it's desperately needed there within the next 48 hours or so. according to cnn affiliate ktuu, a russian tanker carrying the fuel is less than 200 miles away from nome, alaska. the tanker is being escorted by a u.s. coast guard icebreaker that's plowing a path through the thick sea ice. an international effort. we spoke with nome's mayor, denise michels, who said without the delivery, nome would run out of fuel by spring. >> we've had four back-to-back slow storms, and the below-zero weather snap for almost two weeks now. so there is more use of the low-grade diesel for heavy equipment to clear snow. they came to us and they looked at the inventory and the historical use and said by march, which is in the middle of winter for us, the iditarod's

running then, that we would run out of unleaded and low-grace diesel. come march we would have a serious issue. the first fuel barge can't get here until june, until the ice is cleared. >> the mayor and residents of nome are hearty people, particularly in the winter. if the mission is a success, this would be the first time fuel has been delivered by sea to a western alaskan community in the middle of the winter. the fuel tanker is expected to reach nome on monday, tomorrow. it's another warm winter day around here in the atlanta, georgia, area. much of the united states. it's a different story out west. meteorologist alexandra steele is keeping her eye on the weekend forecast. one of the reasons it's getting colder is because of the chinook winds. i've heard that term -- >> no! >> no, it's isn't that's what i'm asking. what is a chinook win? >> chinook. >> chinook. >> it's the warming of downward flowing air. and it happens in the interior west. and so air goes over the mountain and then goes down. so it's the air as it sinks, it

compresses and warms. and it warms the air. so it's a chinook wind, warp wind in montana. and gusts are pretty strong. 30, 40 mile-per-hour winds. you know, it's been known that a chinook wind can eat away, it's called a snow eater. it can eat away a foot of snow in a day. it's a warm wind. there you go with that. talk about some winds. these are not courtesy of instances or chinook winds, with we have seen some incredibly warm temperatures. this is just warm air coming up from the gulf. look at this, newark, new jersey, 60s yesterday. new york city, 62, more like an april day than a day in january. temperatures are warm today. continuing and will stay warm for tomorrow, as well. tomorrow, new york, six degrees above where we should be this time of year. atlanta should be a 52, how about 67, and all the way -- pretty dramatic in minot, 26 degree above average. so jet stream continues to be well far to the north. keeping any of that arctic air locked up in canada and certainly not allowing the u.s. to get in on the action. in terms of what we're seeing in

the southeast, if you're getting out now in atlanta or charlotte, new orleans, waking up and can't see anything, so it's pretty foggy out there. so fog this morning, clouds and scattered showers. not a total washout, but there are bigger cells moving through with some stronger winds. from raleigh to charleston, again, a little bit of cloud and shower activity. delays potentially atlanta, birmingham, charlotte, you got the picture in the southeast and los angeles, the little fog and warm santa ana winds there. not chinook-y. gary? >> i pronouned ed pronounced i- >> the definition was wrong completely. you're the smartest guy i think i know. >> i was going to say something nice to you -- thank goodness are you here to correct me. our viewers probably knew it anyway. >> what would you all do without me at 6:00 in the morning? i can't imagine. >> i agree 100%. thank you very much. >> sure. climbing kilimanjaro for charity. last week we talked with new york mets pitcher arie dicky

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today marks one year since the shooting rampage in tucson, arizona, which left six people dead, 13 injured. among the victims was congresswoman gabby giffords. amazingly, giffords survived after a bullet went through her brain. this is a picture of her before and then after the shooting.

she's now undergoing a long recovery. giffords and her staff held a ceremony in her tucson office honoring her aide, gabe zimmerman, who was killed. thelma gutierrez looks back at the tragic day. we have breaking news, several people have been shot. the shooting occurred at a grocery store -- [ siren ] >> we have discovered that we have 18 individuals who were shot. >> reporter: january 8, 2011. a date tucson will never forget. >> the bodies laying on the concrete. >> the screaming, the crying, the bleeding. >> reporter: 19 people were shot that day, six of them died. the youngest, 9-year-old kristina green, one of many who had gone to the store to meet arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords. >> then the gunshot. >> reporter: christina was shot in the chest. >> i was holding hands with christina, we were eyeball to eyeball. she was confused and scared.

and i knew when we were laying on the ground outside of safeway, the light went out of her eyes. >> reporter: as many of the victims lay bleeding in pools of blood, two men wrestled the gunman. >> i put my legs on his -- behind his knees and my arm on the back of the small of his back. i think i was stepping on his neck. >> reporter: the gunman is in police custody. jared lee loughner, 22 years old. >> reporter: the scene was chaotic with sheriff's deputies and civilians trying to triage victims. >> is anybody injured? did you say gabrielle giffords was hit? >> reporter: the congresswoman was shot in the head. her intern ran to her side and used his bare hands to stop the bleeding. >> i couldn't see an exit wound. i didn't know if there was one. all i saw was the entry wound, where i was applying pressure. >> reporter: in the end, it was hernandez, the paramedics, and trauma team who saved giffords' life. >> overall, this is about as good as it's going to get.

when you get shot in the head and the bullet goes through your brain, the chances of you living is small. the chances of you waking up and following commands. >> reporter: january 8, 2011, will be remembered as a catsastrophic day. one where a year later a community has pulled together to honor the victims and survivors of the deadliest rampage in the city's history. thelma gutierrez, cnn, tucson, arizona. >> thank you, thelma. here's a look at the events that are planned in arizona today. ron barber, shot twice in the massacre, will host a program called "reflections: honoring the lives of the january 8 shooting victims." that's at 5:00 p.m. eastern, 3:00 p.m. arizona time in centennial hall on the university of arizona campus. at 8:30 eastern, 6:30 p.m. arizona time, representative gabby giffords and husband captain mark kelly will participate in a vigil at the university of arizona mall. saving your credit score. there are easy ways to avoid

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if you plan to settle your holiday debt with a holiday bonus or tax refunds, believe it or not, paying off your debts completely could hurt your credit score. money coach claude anderson explains that and other self-digs to your score. >> what you have to understand, it's a game. if the -- the credit system has been set up in a certain way. if you understand the system, you know how work the credit

system. generally if you pay down to zero, it hurts your score. they want to see you keep a balance. think about it, that's what benefits the creditors. that you're paying a little bit of interest on those cards. you're playing into their game. when you say a little business -- >> generally 30%. >> really? >> for example, if you have a card that you have a $1,000 balance, keep about $300 on there. pay it down, but you want to control it but keep a little balance if your goal is to increase your credit score and not damage it. >> do you do that? >> yes, definitely. >> i want to make sure that you practice what you preach. >> i do, i play the game. >> what else can unwittingly cause our credit rating to snufr. >> several things. people don't realize rental cars -- if you rent a rental car and you use a debit card, it can hurt your score because they're pulling your credit. it's considered to be a hard pull. when you have a heard pull, those are dings on your credit score. people don't realize that a lot of times. >> it ding the scientific term? >> yeah, the scientific term. actually the term i coined. >> okay. i thought i've heard that before. >> you heard that before? >> maybe because i've coined it.

it's all over the place. dings your score? i like that term. >> you like that. >> doesn't sound that bad as ruined your score. >> ding. it and apr -- people want to reduce their apr, they call the credit card companies and say, hey, i need a lower interest rate. when they do that, what happens is sometimes they reduce your limit, as well. now when your limit is reduced on a credit card, it can hurt your score also. >> if you want your apr reduced, which is -- i would think a good thing -- >> great thing. >> you have to make sure they don't reduce your limit -- >> do not reduce my limit. what happens is -- we've seen the last year or so with the economy shifting, some of the credit card companies are unknowing to the customers reducing limits, saying you had a $5,000, now it's reduced to $2,500. reduces their risk but hurts your credit score. >> what should we do to improve our scores? >> several things to improve your credit scores. one is paying bills on time. that's the first. pay your bills on time. but also monitor it. make sure that things aren't going on that you don't know about. so sometimes people say, put a fraud alert. i think you always need to have an alert to alertou