i'm wolf blitzer here at the cnn center. campbell brown, thanks very much. the best political team on television. "larry king live" starts right now. >> larry: tonight, barack obama's first state of the union address. >> the president of the united states. >> larry: his big message, jobs and the economy. >> i'm calling for a new jobs bill tonight. >> larry: and an in-your-face challenge to republicans on health care. >> if anyone from either party has a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen medicare for seniors, let me know. >> larry: talking tough on terrorism. >> hundreds of al qaeda's fighters and affiliates have been captured or killed. >> larry: what did the president need to say and did he say it? is it going to make any difference? that's all next on a special edition. of "larry king live". well, the state of the union address is over. and the analysis is now continue as they do with us. if you missed any part of the speech, it will be repeated in one hour. wolf blitzer, john king and ca

let's check in with wolf blitzer for the latest on massachusetts. wolf? >> you did a great job last night. let me thank you. you made us all really proud. let's take a look. now almost 70% of the precincts have reported in massachusetts. this for ted kennedy's senate seat. the republican scott brown maintaining a significant lead, 53% to 46%. he's got a lead of about 100,000 votes, larry, so far. there are still plenty of precincts left out there, but it's become increasingly more and more difficult to see a way she can narrow that 100,000 gap right now. but we'll wait. we'll count the votes together with everyone else and see what happens. but this republican is getting ready, it looks like, for a huge upset, larry. >> larry: i'm not an expert, but it's going to take something in that last 30%. back we go to port-au-prince and ivan watson. we had a bad signal earlier, ivan. what were you telling us about that body coming out? >> this was a priest that was pulled out, and it was a very touching moment, larry, where the mexican rescue team which helped sav

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i'm wolf blitzer sitting in for larry tonight. i want to alert you larry will be here on the air sunday with the latest news from haiti. larry has a big event planned for monday. mick jagger, seal, colin powell, ringo starr, will i am, ryan seacrest, taylor leoni are a few who will join to help him. first the news from haiti today. estimates of those dead are pegged at about 100,000 as of now. secretary of state clinton arrived in haiti this afternoon and the top two diplomats for the united nations stationed in haiti were officially declared dead today. carl penhall is on the scene. it has been quite a day. set the scene for us. tell our viewers what happened. >> reporter: well, certainly what i've been looking at today is the relief operation. you are right. the recovery operation is still going on. people are still looking for signs of life among the rubble but of course there are thousands upon thousands of people who have lost their homes, lost everything result of this earthquake. the effort is to get aid to them quickly and

i'm wolf blitzer sitting in for larry tonight. i want to alert you that larry will be here on the air sunday with the latest news from haiti. larry has a big event also planned for monday. mick jagger, seal, colin powell, ringo star, will.i.am. ryan seacrest and tia leony are some of those who have teamed up to help haiti. estimates of those dead are pegged at 100,000 as of now according to haitian officials. secretary of state clinton arrive in haiti this afternoon. and the top two diplomats of the united neighs stationed in haiti were declared dead today. the scene for us in port-au-prince. quite a day for us. carl, set the scene for us. tell our viewers what happened? >> well, what i've been looking at too is the relief operation because, yes, you're right. the recovery operation is still going on. people are still looking for signs of life among the rubble. but, of course, there are thousands upon thousands of people who have lost their homes, who have lost everything as a result of this earthquake. and the effort now is to ge

with us in this first segment of this special hour, wolf blitzer the anchor of "situation room" and john king the anchor of "state of the union," jessica yellen is at the coakley headquarters at the scherr ton hotel in boston and dana bash, cnn's senior congressional correspondent. how did brown win, wolf? >> he got out the independents. he was impressive in doing that, convincing a lot of independents and probably a lot of democrats at the same time that he would be a better united states senator. it was an uphill struggle. it was only a few weeks ago, larry, that everybody assumed that ted kennedy's seat would be -- remain in democratic hands, martha coakley was a pretty popular attorney general. she had a good brand name. no doubt about that. things did not go in her way, and within the past two or three weeks it began to collapse pretty quickly. all of a sudden he wins rather decisively. he got 52% and she got 47% of the vote. that's an impressive he victory, especially for a republican in the state of massachusetts. >> larry: john, a lot of times in sports as we know we don't know a

wolf blitzer was guest hosting. during the interview falcon said something that raised a whole lot of questions about what had really happened and why. let's take a look. >> and falcon did you hear us calling your name at any time? >> um-hum. >> you did? >> you did? >> why didn't you come out? >> you guys said that we did this for the show. >> no. >> you didn't come out? >> no. >> larry: authorities, richard, specifically cited falcon's words as part of probable cause they had for believing you'd committed a criminal offense. he said you did it for a show. >> okay, well first off, let's take into consideration he's only been speaking english and just learned three and a half years prior to that. he's 6 years old during this interview. number one. number two, i had gotten back into the house, after the initial talking to the press in front of my house, i opened the garage door to get my family back inside, away from these guys, and i looked over, and there was 30 to 40 camera guys. i asked falcon after that, i asked

they looked silly on a show but did you see wolf blitzer tank on jeopardy? he did that all by himself. and if you disagree with meow are probably a racist homophobe. >> do you watch the show? >> i do watch the show and i have been to jersey before and i like it. i love the fact that people from new jersey swear up and down to make sure to tell you that these people are not from new jersey. they are from poughkeepsie or staten island. >> it is true. they drive all the way down there. >> greg: are they silly kids? >> they are killly but it is so much fun to watch. i love that they give themselves nicknames. like jay woww. why is t two w's at the end? >> greg: it is a sign of significance if you -- >> that is in fact her birth name. >> woww? >> yes. aren't people who pretend to be smart far more dangerous than people who are actually dumb? >> there is dumb and there is dumb. it is not like any of these people flew in a private yet to a conference on global warming and then got snowed in by the biggest blizzard in decades go >> greg: that is my point. i look at

suzanne malveaux is in for wolf blitzer. suzanne, what do you have for us? >> thanks, don. the hour i'll talk to a 9/11 commission member who's concerned that the u.s. intelligence community is still failing to connect the dots when it comes to fighting terrorism. >>> plus, is president obama doing enough to help blacks? one prominent african-american says he is not. >>> and will iran decide its future in the streets? many are chanting "death to the dictator" while others are chanting "death to america." who's going to prevail in this showdown? i'm going to speak with the best-selling author of "reading the leader in tehran." >> suzanne, we will be watching, thank you. >>> how about this, the local sheriff calls it the strangest crime he has ever seen. a man in tennessee tried to steal vaa vending machine by chaining it to his pickup. within minutes, the police were hot on his tail but the suspect kept trying to escape even when the chain broke. the police caught him, he explained that he needed some money. now he will need some more spare change, especially since he's char

actually the real hero that got to it truth was another cnn guy, and that was wolf blitzer who askedquestion and that's when we learned it was a hoax. finally, the wife came forward said it was made up. falcon was there all the time. nobody is buying the story. >> the recent release of the video of the family kind of panicking, when, you know, asking the other son, where is falcon, et cetera? that kind ever made it worse. didn't it? >> yeah, if you really think about it, it's a bad story getting worse. i think richard's right. just knock it off, already. do your time and then move forward. that's all. >> okay. let's talk about something else that's significant, too, and affects a lot of people. particularly convicted felons who don't have the right to vote, but now a federal appeals court has weighed in. 47 states already not allowing convicted felons to vote. richard what now? and might this indeed open the door for felons to be able to vote? >> well, washington state had has said felons now have the right to vote it affected disproportionately the people that lost the right to vote

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> i am less interested in passing out blame than i am in learning from and correcting these mistakes to make us safer. for ultimately the buck stops with me. as president i have a solemn responsibility to protect our nation and our people and when the system fails, it is my responsibility. >> president obama taking responsibility this week for america's closest brush with airline terror in years. he suggested no one will be fired at least for now and he ordered a series of reforms including tougher rules for putting people on the no fly list, and more widespread distribution of intelligence reports. the president also renewing his declaration of war on al qaeda and its growing presence in yemen. cnn international security correspondent paula newton is in yemen for us. we'll go to her in a moment. also here in washington are our homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve and former homeland security inspector general clark kent irvin. thanks to all