of their philosophy is, we are better off when everyone is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules. i think the republicans will take some issue with that. he is saying, that is our responsibility to take care of the middle class because the wealth gap is the defining issue in this country right now. the question i might ask is, okay, then why did you bail out wall street. right? republicans were opposed to it. and in this speech today, it's interesting, he called it infuriating that he had to bail out wall street but he said, you know what, now because of our regulations, they have to play by a different set of rules that makes them more responsible. >> yep, we heard him also, again, talking about, you know, pleading, begging to extend the payroll tax cut. it expires at the end of the year. he said if it expires, americans will not have an extra $1,000 in

their pocketbooks. in the meantime, hello, i'm brooke baldwin. a busy day on this tuesday. top of the hour. take a look at this. after years of bullying, one teenage boy tells the world how he feels without saying a single word. this video is heart wrenching and troubling and you're about to see it. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. he's a former governor, a reality show contestant and a poetry reader. the man now known as blago learns his fate. as newt gingrich climbs just minutes from now his biggest opponent gets a high-profile endorsement. plus, forget dot-com. internet porn going xxx and it's forever changing how you surf the web. also, a mom loses her son in iraq.

>> every night before i went to bed, i would come kiss him on the head. because that's my little boy. >> and to honor him she goes to the war zone and retraces every single one of his steps. i'll speak with her live. all right. here we go. top of the hour. first, new developments in the search for the missing drone in iran. also, how the payroll tax cut affects your paycheck. and rob blagojevich could soon be learning his fate. i want to begin at the pentagon with you, chris lawrence. we know that cnn has learned that this unmanned drone is a classified plane for the cia. how are they trying to get this back? >> at the moment that it crashed, the u.s. considered all potential options to get it back or to bomb it. retrieval above ensued using

some sort of proxy team to air lift it out or get it back over the board from afghanistan. bombing from the air is something that they routinely do in afghanistan or at the border in pakistan. both of those options were considered i considered impractical to try to do in iranian land. >> so assuming that they have this damaged, albeit in tact rb-170, what can iran do with this piece or pieces of equipment? >> by itself iran probably can't do all that much with it. they just don't have sort of the capabilities to reverse engineer it to any degree. but some of the folks that i've been talking about is that the iran will give or sell this technology to russia or much more likely china. china is a huge player in he is

pea johe is pea nauj from other bombers and manned fighter jet that in of a country gets a good handle on what it does and it could come up with defenses making it that much harder for american technology to be effective. >> chris lawrence at the pentagon, thanks. next, alison kosik is live at the new york stock exchange. we just heard the president speak from can stkansas, again, need to pass this extension of the payroll tax cut. what exactly -- talk to me dollar and cents, what does that mean if it is not passed? >> okay. if it's not passed, brooke, it means that all of us who are working are going to have less take home pay to then spend. with this cut right now, the average worker is putting an average $1,000 a year in their pockets but if congress doesn't extend the payroll tax cut on

social security, taxes go back to normal, 6.2%. right now we're paying 4.2% and that essentially means, if you look on the screen, if you make 35,000, an extra $700 would be taken out of your paycheck next year. that is, once again f. this payroll tax cut is not extended. if you earn $50,000, an extra $1,000 will be taken out. keep in mind, congress went ahead and voted to cut how much taxes we pay into social security to help the economy, to put more money in our pockets and if anyone who works, looks at your paycheck when you get it, it's certainly noticeable, that extra something something that you get every couple weeks. >> we appreciate that extra something something and listening to the president yesterday, he made the point not only does he want to extend it but expand it to a lower rate. we'll watch to see what happens, if anything, come the end of the year. alison kosik, thank you so much. next on "reporter roulette,"

gets will to ted rolands where the former governor of illinois will find out how much time he's going to spend in jail. ted rowlands, what do you know? has blagojevich even spoken yet? >> reporter: no, he hasn't. we're awaiting that. his attorneys are arguing with the court for leniency. they are saying, listen, he didn't receive anything out of this. he's faced up to the convictions and didn't really understand things. at one point they said, he had had an incorrect understanding of the law. we do expect lag blagojevich, though, to take the stand here and talk directly to the judge and treat his case. he made a lot of speeches in his career. this one obviously is a big one and his freedom is at stake. >> pretty important for the former governor. what is blagojevich facing here? >> they are asking for 15 to 20 years. the defense is asking for three years on the low end. who knows where this judge is

going to go in. >> ted rowlands, keep us posted. if blagojevich speaks, we'll want to know what he says. that's reporter roulette for this tuesday. still ahead, police called it a planned and calculated killing. a 7-year-old girl kidnapped, she's found dead, and right now fears are growing her killer lives in or has access to her tight-knit community. we're going to speak live with erin runion who knows this kind of pain all too well. what parents, what children need to know, next. dusters with dust lock adhesive can clean virtually every surface in your home. ♪ its thousands of fluffy fibers pick up dust here, there, pretty much everywhere. and swiffer dusters traps 3 times more dust than a feather duster. and locks it away. ♪ swiffer cleans better or your money back. ♪ get around

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the several now for a missing little girl has turned into a hunt for her killer. police called the murder of

7-year-old planned and calculated. she disappeared this friday afternoon. she had just been in this, this fenced-in playground at her apartment complex, where she lived. this is canton, georgia. a massive search ended yesterday when her body was found dumped in a trash compactor. what happened to this little girl was so horrific, authorities refused to list all of her injuries. i want you to watch them describe as much as they are willing to from a news conference that wrapped up three hours ago. >> the victim died as a result of blunt-force trauma to the head, the victim had been stabbed and that the child had been sexually assaulted. there were also other injuries to the child which i'm not going to describe. >> also terrifying, for her

neighbors, police say that it appears that the killer works or lives among them. >> the investigators feel very strongly that the killer of the child resides in the apartment complex or has readily access to that apartment complex. >> as we follow that investigation in the hunt for the killer, i want to bring in erin runion who knows the horror of abduction all too well. her daughter 5 years old when she was kidnapped from her front yard and sexually assaulted and brutally murdered. my heartfelt thanks to you for coming on. when you look at samantha's story and dureli's story, they were both playing outside in their own turf. the killer either lived at, new about, or had access where these

child lives. what about this jumps out at you? >> well, certainly the fact that she was playing in her community park, amongst her neighbors and everybody was always out there and there's this sense of safety when we live in a community like that. in spite of the fact that there are registered sex offenders who live in that complex and live nearby. it comes back to a false sense of security when our children are outside playing with other kids. the reality is that a grown-up needs to be watching whenever we can. this case is so painfully similar to samantha's. >> to that point, about these sex offenders, the police say that they have come forward, talked to them, cleared them which says to me parents -- they have more to worry about if a sex offender lives nearby. it's the whole variable of the

unknown. who else is out there that you don't know, right? >> absolutely. absolutely. it's estimated that fewer than 10% of all child molest sisters are accused and then caught and convicted of their crimes. the fact is that they are living amongst us and the penn state and other cases coming out recently bring that to light. it's very often the most unlikely suspects are the ones looking for legitimate access to prey on children. and the thing that makes this spooky is that he was clearly lying in wait. >> finally, for parents, you can't be with your kids every single second all of the time. you started this joyful child foundation. the most common question you got from parents is how to teach my child how to be safe without frightening them. what is the answer? >> absolutely.

absolutely. the answer is to teach them all about being safe, every day. part of that is personal saflt wh safety when it comes to someone trying to hurt you. we are a consultant to the orange county department of education bringing this curriculum to children throughout their school day so it becomes part of their education curriculum. every child deserves to learn how to be taught how to escape against danger whether it's a fire or predator. there are all sorts of dangers that children can learn to be safe from. >> absolutely. let's put the website on the screen. your website. you can find it a at thejoyfulchild.org. erin runnion, thank you. hopefully they find this person soon. still and head, it looks like the middle east but this chaos is russia. protesters taking to the streets, furious over what they are calling fraud.

secretary of state hillary clinton is making a huge demand. also, this -- >> my first thought was just to get there. so i did that. and i got there against everybody's odds telling me, you don't need to do this. your son wouldn't want you there. bull. >> a soldier dies in iraq and his mother retraces his footsteps in the very war zone he lost his life. she's going to join us live. wait until you hear what the military told her when she said she wanted to enlist. we're back in 90 seconds. [ female announcer ] the humana walmart-preferred

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angry protesters, hundreds of them, jam the streets of moscow. they are furious. russian police say they had to lock up 250 people who rallied there in the streets of moscow. i want to take you there live and talk to cnn's phil black. phil, why are they protesters taking such exception to these parliamentary election results? >> reporter: well, brooke, ultimately they believe that the process was unfair. they believe the whole electoral system, the way that it was carried out, the breaches that took place, there was evidence of ballot stuffing, the party, prime minister of vladimir putin and dmitry med deaf dead. they took a big electoral hit

but suffered major losses and significant representations in this country's lower house of parliament. they believe the result is still undemocratic. while the party took a big hit, it's believed that they suffered a much bigger one. >> hillary clinton is demanding the election results. here's what she said. >> we have serious questions about the conduct of those discussions, independent political parties were denied the right to register and the preliminary report by the osce cites other troubling practices. >> so given what our secretary of state said, also if we can look ahead to phil, next year's election, if putin is elected, does he really need a huge majority there? >> well, he doesn't need a huge majority. he does need his a-majority.

many people regarded this parliamentary vote as more than just an election for representatives within the lower house of parliament. it was regarded as many by a referendum or vote specifically on vladimir putin's coming back and it's being regarded as an embarrassing rendition. coming up, the emotional and heart wrenching story. a teenage boy spills his soul without speaking a word. he does this on notecards. he speaks out about bullying. you're going to see this. find out why his candid confessions are sparking a lot of hate as well. do not miss this. back in 70 seconds.

now to this youtube video of this boy in california. it's gone viral. he speaks no words but speaks so, so much about the pain that kids today endure from bullies. stick with me. we're going to play a portion. in total, the whole thing is four minutes but you're not going to hear anything. just watch. you'll see plenty.

>> this video has hit a nerve, drawing thousands of comments. including people who say his tears are fake. celeb blogger, perez hilton says, the main in jonah's eyes

is real. i believe him. i've spoken to him. he's a very brave and special kid. his video has moved me to my core and touched people all over the world. those questioning his motives or insincerity should focus their energy on something more positive, like being a voice against bullying. he also made a second video. >> to the people who think that nobody likes me, almost my entire school loves me. i don't want to sound like stupid or conceded or anything. >> uh-huh. >> pss. thank you, everyone, who's being nice. i don't know why i said p.s.s. just never mind. thank you everyone who is being nice and to the people who are being mean and calling me gay, thank you for stating the obvious. you could really be the next

einstein. >> jonah, by the way, explained to reporters, the portion of video which she showed you, he had not at the time come out to his family yet. still ahead here, we are less than a month from the iowa caucus and newt gingrich is climbing up the state's polls. so mitt romney looking to take the headlines away from newt gingrich with an endorsement that he is getting right now. jim acosta is standing by live. we'll talk to jim next. [ male announcer ] does your prescription medication give you the unexpected burden of constipation? certain prescription medications can cause occasional constipation, which is why people turn to senokot-s tablets. senokot-s is the leading brand that has the proven effectiveness of a natural vegetable laxative ingredient plus the comfort of a stool softener. senokot-s tablets. proven relief for occasional constipation. go to senokot-s.com for special savings.

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jim askoss could acosta is joining me live. tell us, we're talking dan quail. >> right. >> what is the difference, a dan quail difference can make here?

>> it's part of the narrative that the romney campaign is trying to craft here in the last couple weeks, trying to show that mitt romney is the nominee for the republican party, someone who has the republican establishment lining up behind him. mitt romney is not quite having the endorsement of the bush family but it's very close and i'll recall last week romney picked up the politicians in miami. before that, kelly ayot being one of those, in new hampshire, and mitt romney is continuing the inevitable front-runner lining up key endorsers every week. >> as we talk about him being this front-runner, we have to talk about the new polls that could spell trouble for romney in south carolina, right? >> yes. honestly, you can see paul steinhauser, our deputy

political and a poll has come out today in iowa, among caucus goers, look at newt gingrich. >> 33%. >> it's an amazing turn around. if you look at south carolina, a poll out of south carolina, which mitt romney is expected to win, newt gingrich over mitt romney and in just the last several minutes, the "new york times" and cbs poll came out. we don't have a graph but i can go over it for you. 31% for newt gingrich in iowa. trailed by mitt romney, 17%. so we have a whole series of polls out now that basically show newt gingrich with a commanding lead over mitt romney in iowa. so you can just gain this out in your mind right now. if he wins iowa, maybe comes in

a close second in new hampshire, wins south carolina and, by the way, other polls show him in the lead. newt gingrich, i don't want to say he's in the driver seat. it's way too early. but he's looking very good right now. >> front-runner, are we going to do it? >> he's in the passenger seat calling shotgun. let's put it that way. >> all right. >> he is looking very good right now. >> yes. >> and it's stunning, honestly, to look at all of these polls and see him out so much in front. at a very critical time. there are not many days left. one week from today before voting in iowa. >> massive momentum. jim acosta, thank you. and thanks, paul. porn, specifically, internet porn. forget dot-com. a new home on the web, it will forever change the way the internet works, apparently. plus, this -- >> one of the guys that they set

me up with took me to a more rack can rest rant and ate raw meet in front of me. >> dating horror stories. that's nothing new. but this is coming from baby boomers. how this generation is now looking for love. that's next.

we don't feel old and they don't want to spend the rest of their years alone but definitely don't want to reenter the traditional years of their dating years. so how are singles over the age of 50 supposed to meet new people in by using the internet,

of course. how baby boomers have embraced online dating. >> reporter: she's only met him on the phone. >> i feel like i know you. >> yeah, well there's still quite a bit to get to know. >> reporter: foreman considers companionship more important in her 50s. >> i can't believe i'm 55. i still feel like i'm 20 to 30 something. i still have that negligenenerg. i still feel like i have that spark. but i have a lot of candles on my cake. each one was just worst than the next. i was a vegetarian and one of the guys they set me up with took me to oh moroccan restaurant and ate raw meet in front of me. >> reporter: so a growing number of singles over 50 are going online. >> it's like being in a candy store. >> reporter: a 61-year-old real estate agent -- gli couldn't imagine spending the rest of my

life alone. >> reporter: after her marriage ended, her daughter-in-law made a suggestion. >> she said, you've got to get on one of those online dating websites. i said, i don't think so. >> reporter: what was your concern? >> i heard horror stories. >> online dating sites say because they collect background information on customers, it's actually a much safer way to meet people. her daughter persuaded her to join "our time" did a dating website for baby boomers. >> the more people i meet, the greater odds are that i'll meet a guy that wants to have like a loving, warm, committed serious, monogamous relationship. >> there's been a perfect storm of a growing number of baby boomers who are single with a growing number of baby boomers who are using the internet and discovering that it's a way to be connected. >> reporter: a 2010 e-harmony website found it's a greater way to meet and mary.

>> i always felt that the older generation is afraid of technology but they seem to adopt it and now adopt it in numbers just as everybody else does. >> reporter: an gee and met online in 2008. >> i had been married for so long, i kind of forgot the process. >> it was scary. >> reporter: both like the idea of reading and viewing about potential dates before agreeing to meet. >> i think it's less intimidating. >> reporter: dating after 50 is different. >> we each have assets now. and casey wian, los angeles. >> since we're talking about the world wide web, there is a new internet domain that will have plenty of people scrambling to

erase the browser history as of today the xxx domain is available for porn sites instead of dot-com. the theory here is that it will be harder for kids to stumble on to adult content by accident and supporters say that the registry will make the sites safer from con computer viruses. now this -- >> as we were arriving, i could feel the adrenaline rush and the feel that i had of the sensation of it, it all went together and all clicked. talk about a brave mother here. here she is. a mom goes to iraq as she tries to understand her son's death. what she learned about life. she joins me live, next. i see it in last year's pictures. i hear it in their plans for tomorrow. it makes me miss a couple of things. but i have a way to keep them close,

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this next story brings home the story of motherly love. army first lieutenant kyle west will not be among those returning home. why? because he died four years ago in iraq after an ied exploded near the ground. she says she lost her soul hearing when kyle was gone but she head back to the place that took her son's life.

>> this flag was flying over fog normandy when he died and they sent it to me. >> reporter: it's the first thing you see when you walk into annette's home. >> this is my son's room. >> reporter: because she wants to put hthem in is in a box. every time before i went to bed i kissed him on the head. because that's my little boy. >> reporter: when her son kyle west was killed on memorial day 2007 trying to rescue soldiers from a downed helicopter in eastern iraq she thought there was only one way to understand it. >> i wanted to see where he was. i wanted to see what he was doing, how he was willing, what they were doing over there, how he died. >> reporter: she tried to enlist in the army but was told she was too old and then landed a job as a civilian contractor and was headed to iraq 15 months after kyle's death.

>> my first goal was just to get there. so i did that. i got there against everybody's odds tell telling me, you don't need to do this. your son wouldn't want you there. bull. >> reporter: nanette says fate put her right where she needed to be, in a nearby camp close to her son's unit. for 2 1/2 years she helped support the troops with basic necessary sees like food and lodging and hand-delivered care packages. >> even just that little piece was enough for me. >> reporter: but this was the highlight of the trip. a ride in a bradley, the fighting vehicle her son was riding in when he was killed by an ied. >> we went through every piece of it. who sits where and i actually got firsthand knowledge of this bradley which put everything into place of what my son was doing when he died. as we were arriving, i could feel the adrenaline rush and the feel that i had of the sensation

of it, it all went together and all clicked. and that's just something i couldn't have done if i stayed here. >> and now, nanette, good enough to join me live from austin, texas. i have never heard anything like this before. i think it's the epitome of bravely and love for your son. you said in your piece that your son's friends said, you don't need to go over there. what do you think kyle would have thought? >> if he was alive, he probably would say no. but knowing where he is now and knowing that it would be a good thing for me to be there, i think he would okay. you can't be afraid to die and you can't be afraid to live your life and he did it and through him it's taught me to do it. and you just have to get out there and do something with it. that's why we're here. >> so they wouldn't let you enlist. you said, no problem. i'll go over there as a civilian

contractor. there are pictures of you climbing in this bradley. remind us, this is how your son died. what was it that you were seeking? what did you want to see while doing that? >> well, i didn't expect that. understanding someone's death is to completely understand it and once you understand it, you can accept it. knowing that he died in a bradley is one thing but being in it and seeing it and feeling it is a total different experience and it let me feel what he felt right up to the moment of his death. he was on a rescue mission. he volunteered for this mission. he was due home in two weeks but he knew that's what he needed to do. so getting to stand where he stood, they put me exactly where he was. they explained everything. and the adrenaline of it is -- i have never been more proud of him and to feel what he felt at the last moment doing what he loved to do, it just made -- it

made it -- helps me honor him, not scared of the death and not angry and not sad. it makes you realize, okay, he can do this, so can i. you can live your life without being afraid. >> amazing. and as we look at you, you're surrounded by these fellow soldiers. i mean, what was their reaction to you climbing in this bradley to do this for your son? >> they were great. they thought it was cool. it was like their mom, you know. they knew if their mom was there, they would dot same thing. there is a bond that you get. you do not know these people, but you are there. you are there together. you bond, and they went way out of their way and i never expected it but i think them showing me what they do helped them as well because they lost soldiers. they lost friends.

and it also helps them ease their mind, that they are doing a good job and they are there doing -- protecting us. >> we salute them. we should be saluting them every single day. >> right. >> i know you visited the memorial that his fellow se soldiers set up for him. you want to talk to other families with their experience. you wouldn't be adverse to going to afghanistan? is that correct? >> it's kind of hard to do what i've done and then come home and sit behind a desk. so you've got to find the next adventure. you've got to keep going and find something that you're passionate about and you have to make a difference. while you're here, you need to make a difference. >> words to live by. nanette west, thank you. we also thank your son, kyle. >> thank you very much. >> we're back in 90 seconds. you know, because you been, you know, this is what you had been doing. you know, working, working, working, working, working, working. and now you're talking about, well you know, i won't be,

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a couple minutes away from the "the situation room" with wolf blitzer. what do you have coming up next? i'll been checking my e-mail and seeing you have two huge interviews tomorrow, newt gingrich and rick perry. >> when it rains it powers, we've been asking for both of them. some of the other republican candidates, almost all of them will be in washington tomorrow. so we've asked for them to come into the "the situation room." we've got an interview tomorrow, we'll do an interview with both newt gingrich and rick perry.

obviously if mitt romney or any other candidates want to join us -- >> come on by. >> guess who we're going to interview on thursday? a huge fan of yours, but guess. >> within cnn or outside of? >> no outside of cnn, donald trump. >> i'm going to give him tips on how to be a moderator for a republican presidential debate. >> this month, right? >> the end of the month he's going to iowa to do the republican candidates. maybe he'll ask me for advice and i'll tell him it's all about the candidates not necessarily about the moderator. >> and grow a beard because you pull it off so well. >> maybe even grow a beard. >> we'll see you in a couple of minutes. in the meantime, all of the world is waiting for you wonder woman and so is pretty prominent u.s. senator. which lawmaker paid a handsome price for a date with the super

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before there was some wonder woman, the super hero, there was this wonderwoman. the famous wonder woman series from the '70s and that actress right there, she has a date with a senator sort of.

joe johns is here with the political pop today. i tell you, as a kid, i loved wonder woman, i might have spun around a playground or two. but we're talking about a certain senator perfect massachusetts, aren't we? >> i couldn't stop watching it either. >> amazing. >> around washington, d.c. we always have these auctions where interesting people if they pony up the right amount of money, they'll get some face time with just about anybody. senator scott brown of massachusetts, republican, paid $1,000 at a charity auction to have a sit-down meeting with linda carter, star of wonder woman. he won this at the d.c.'s funniest celebrity charity event. after bidding that $1,000. it's supposed to go to susan g. komen for the cure but it doesn't sound like this will be a date or anything. senator brown is bringing both his wife and one of his daughters. by the way, you have to say,

senator brown is in what appears to be a in a tight race for re-election going against elizabeth warren. maybe he'll get a few tips. >> from wonder woman, very funny. tom coburn, oklahoma, there's an entire twitter account devoted to his on again, off again beard. why? >> right, senator coburn gets a whole lot of attention on capitol hill for one thing. he's a medical doctor. he's also one of the biggest budget cutters in congress. he's from oklahoma but one thing he is not cutting these days is the hair on his face. and it's actually not the first time he's grown a beard. people pay so much attention to his facial hair that someone has gone to set up a twitter account for tom coburn's beard. it tweeted last week the world received an early christmas present, a patchy blanket on

tom's face and there was one tweet earlier this year when the beard mentioned that president obama had noticed senator coburn had shafd the beard. this was before the state of the union address. we have sound from that encounter between the president and senator coburn. listen. >> you shaved the beard, huh? it was looking a little scruffy. >> very quick and quiet but you could hear it. >> usually the sound bites are very quick. sometimes they are hard to hear perhaps we have to put up subtitles. >> can we give a shout-out to jessica king, who somehow remembered that president obama at the state of the union passed by tom coburn and remembered the whisper. we've got good people working on this team. >> you have to give kudos to jessica. >> our political pop producer, looking for these things. >> joe johns,