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BY HARUMENDHAH HELMY
ANCHOR NATHAN BYRNE
This is Newsy Now and here are your latest headlines.
In U.S. news, one day before the Florida primary and GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has a significant lead over rival Newt Gingrich in the polls. Fox News has the numbers - saying even though Gingrich came in with a lead after his win in South Carolina, his momentum has stalled...
“The polls are all showing Mitt Romney with a comfortable lead here in Florida - where it’s 7 points in the latest PPP poll, or 14 in the couple of polls that came out Saturday and Sunday.”
Still in U.S. news, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta tells 60 Minutes he believes the Pakistani government must have had an idea that Osama bin Laden was hiding in the country. Still - he says he has no hard evidence. CNN has Panetta’s remarks.
“I personally have always felt that somebody must have had some sense of what was
happening in this compound. Don’t forget, this compound had 18-foot walls around it...”
In world news, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook the Peruvian central coastline early Monday. Another quake hit the region last October, leveling buildings and leaving some homeless.
Reports note the scale of this quake’s damage is not yet clear - but KXAS has info about the injured.
“We’re getting some reports now, about 60 people injured there. None of the injuries from what we’re hearing appear to be very serious, though.”
In tech news, U.S. prosecutors are saying all data stored on Megaupload could be deleted as soon as Thursday. The company’s lawyer says about 50 million users could lose their data - including ones that were legitimately uploaded.
CNET quotes one of its readers, who says: “Millions of people have their work and personal files on MegaUpload and depend on MegaUpload to provide service for them to make money to feed their family.”
Stay with Newsy for more analysis on news throughout the day. For Newsy Now, I’m Nathan Byrne highlighting the day’s top headlines to make you smarter, faster.
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