COSTELLO: Fifty-one minutes past the hour. Here's what you need to know to start your day.</s>COSTELLO (voice-over): Newt Gingrich gaining momentum. The former House speaker opening up double digit leads on Mitt Romney in several national polls with less than four weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses. A new accuser coming forward saying former Penn State coach, Jerry Sandusky, sexually assaulted him when he was 12 and gave him alcohol. A U.S. spy drone that crashed last week in Iran was not spying on Iran. U.S. officials telling CNN the drone was on a CIA mission over Western Afghanistan looking for insurgent activity. An American citizen is among the victims killed in a series of deadly attacks in Afghanistan. Fifty-six people were killed yesterday at a crowded Shiite Muslim shrine in Kabul and a second bomb in Northern Afghanistan killed four others. Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, cut short a European trip. And a big heads up now -- big head up for more than 42 million Americans. The Medicare open enrollment period ends today for seniors. The deadline coming three weeks earlier than previous years. Today is the last day seniors can enroll in a new prescription drug plan or renew their old one.</s>COSTELLO (on-camera): That's the news you need to know to start your day. AMERICAN MORNING BACK after a break.
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