erin brockovich joining me from new york. good to see you, erin. >> hi, how are you? >> i'm doing good. you're doing your part to expose and clean up tainted wall water. as a public health issue, it really is undercovered, wouldn't you say? >> it really is. we don't realize the tens of millions of americans that are on well water that have contaminate. and oftentimes, unfortunately, an agency or a company can know they've already mapped out a plume of where the contamination is or isn't, but nobody ever lets the community know what's happening. so it is something that i hate to say, we continue to uncover on a daily basis. >> so now you have zeroed in on a community of about 100 residences in central florida, deland, florida, where the water, the well water is contaminated. that is indisputable? >> that is indisputable. deland is just one of six communities down in florida that has the contamination, a pesticide, that isn't in use anymore, but it finds its way through the system and creeps into people's wells and they don't know that it's there. it doesn't have any pa

here's newt gingrich on cnn's out front with erin burnett. >> entitlement programs, i quote, that you would have fundamental reform of entitlement programs. that's what it says. i wanted to ask you, would you be willing to say i am running to be a one-term president because i'm going to slash and fix this and stand up to special interests, whether they be banks whether they be seniors and those aarp ads they have been seeing where there has been an implicit threat that seniors won't vote for anyone that would cut medicare. would you be willing to say that, i care enough that i'll go one term and fix it? >> why would you assume that fixing all the problems is anti-democratic small d, and that people will dislike it? i want to run to be a two-term president because we solve so many of your problems that you're so happy with full employment, you're so happy with our moves to a balanced budget, that you're so happy with a better social security system, a better medicare system, a better federal government that you're littled to -- ronald reagan carried 49 states for re-election because pe

. >> we're going to have erin burnett. she's going to join us at the top to have hour. we're going to assess what is going on. clearly, lot of pain in europe, but it's spilling over here in the united states. at wall street. today, 400 points in one day. we're going to assess what's going on. we're taking a look at all the other developments in the world of politics, national security. big developments involving the iaea. barbara starr's got new information out of the pentagon. also, the latest on herman cain. will tr there be a joint news conference from some of these women? don, we're all over the news in "the situation room" as we are every day. >> thank you. breaking news, a 5.7 magnitude earthquake in turkey. report of a hotel and office building than collapsed in van turkey. live pictures, our chad myers working on it. we're trying assess some of the damage. we're going to talk about it after a quick break. losing your chex mix too easily? time to deploy the chex mix boring potato chip decoy bag. now no one will want to steal the deliciousness. with a variety of t

except for erin brockovich and norma rae? more often they are vilified. here is a janitor that needs his job and in a place he doesn't have a lot of power and he can have this -- you know, terrible emotional reaction himself. it is not going to turn into behavior because he can't risk losing his own job. and, again, i'm not defending the behavior. i'm just saying these are the factors that come into play. >> i thought the same thing as i was reading the grand jury report. i was thinking, you know, the janitor, you kind of understand a little bit and then can a when you think about the whole thing, i mean is it understandable at all? you just sort of rationalize it? >> at the time we all freak out. think bit and you see something and figure out what do. sheer where he will have the most stress now. because he realizes as a bystand their did nothing, he contributed not only to the rape of the boy but other boys. he could have stopped it. >> all right. there's much more to talk about, the scandal, mother of one of jerry sandusky's alleged victims speaks out.

but one member of the panel tells erin burnett he sees this as an opportunity. he thinks the community should go big. >> you have to come out with a balanced approach. it makes no sense for example to tell seniors their social security benefits are going to be cut to pay for deficits when social security didn't commit. if you're going to come out with the future, surely you can ask everyone to participate. it's simply a matter of making decisions about your priorities and in this case, if you want to really get the country back on track, you want to go big. be bold, but tell the american people it will be fair, balanced. >> he says this could be a magical week if the committee gets this done. >>> a sports illustrated writer says he got boot. he's going to talk about his article with jerry san ddusky a how his words have come back to haunt him. then you put in an 8-speed transmission that gets 31 miles per gallon. that combination of luxury and efficiency only comes from one place in the world. ♪ now lease the 2012 chrysler 300 for $339 a month for well-qualifi

he got a call in to cnn erin burnett last night. >> we put things on the table that were very difficult for us. i had thousands of people demonstrate against me for the things we put on there. but we also put 1.2 trillion of additional revenue. they said, no, that's too much. then it turned out that a trillion was too much. 900 was too much, 600 was too much. 250 was too much. we wound up not being able to get this because they wanted to know that the tax cut for the wealthiest people in the country was going to be made permanent, protected. and we just couldn't do that in good conscience. >> an angry john kerry there. we'll have senator jeff sessions from the republican side of the hour respond to that later in the show. we'll be right back. mary? what are you doing here? it's megan. i'm getting new insurance. marjorie, you've had a policy with us for three years. it's been five years. five years. well, progressive gives megan discounts that you guys didn't. paperless, safe driver, and i get great service. meredith, what's shakin', bacon? they'll figure it out. getting you the discount

this from erin. power rests in the strength and blessings which come as a result of a loving relationship, not the ceremony. keep the conversation flowing. facebook.com/carolcnn. >> doesn't look like people have lost hope in the sanctity of marriage. just their -- they are drawing the parallels of going the distance with the big poofy wedding. >> they are still willing to give eight go with the hopes that yes, there is such a thing as a happy marriage. >> love prevail. all right. carol costello, thanks so much. we will check back with you. >>> a russian spy ring operating in broad daylight with no idea fbi cameras were actually clicking away. we will will show you the video that could be right out of a james bond movie. [ sniffs ] i have a cold. [ sniffs ] i took dayquil but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your runny nose. [ deep breath] awesome. [ male annou