[Carol Costello, Cnn Anchor:] But we begin this morning with startling new developments in a missing child case that's riveted much of the world nearly five years after Madeleine McCann vanished during a family vacation to Portugal. British police believed she may still be alive. They've released a new image. You're looking at it right there that shows how she might look like now. She'll be 9 years old in mid-May. She was three when she disappeared. I'm sure you remember this. Investigators have faced blistering criticism for the way they handled the case. CNN's Max Foster is in London. He is following the latest developments from there. Fill us in.
[Max Foster, Cnn Correspondent:] Yes, Carol. The British police aren't the lead investigators on this. The Portuguese police are, but the British police got involved after being asked by the prime minister. And they basically got together all of the evidence from the Portuguese investigation, from the British investigation, but also all of the evidence from private investigators and they're pouring over it. Thirty seven police officers working full time on that for nearly a year. They got a quarter of the way through. Now, what they want to do is present this. These findings to the Portuguese police and see what they can do with it. This is where we stand at the moment. The British police are calling for Portugal to reopen the case. They have close to 200 leads they say, so far. They consider that's a quarter of the way through the evidence. There are 40,000 pieces of information to get through and approximately 100,000 pages of evidence. So huge, huge project for the British police, but certainly which has grabbed the world's attention, Carol and that's partly why there's so much pressure on them.
[Costello:] Interesting. The McCann's any reaction from the parents?
[Foster:] No reaction so far today, but we do know that they were very involved in forming this portrait that you have just shown. The idea really is to show Madeleine as she would probably appear now to the best of their estimations, really. It's deliberately made to look like a school photograph. So the sort of picture the people could well have or parents could well have on their mantelpiece. Hopefully jogging some memories if they have seen the girl looking like this or they can remember being in Portugal at the time when she went missing. There are gaps in the story here the police are saying and there are opportunities for something to have happened, which they are not aware of. They are going to try to get this reopened, but it's up to the Portuguese.
[Costello:] I know you will follow this story. Max Foster live in London for us. Also this morning, new developments to tell you about and new casualties in the Colombian prostitution scandal. A total of nine members of the Secret Service are now losing their jobs. But that is not satisfying the political blood loss. Right now, the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee is opening the first public hearing on the scandal. And Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano will be front and center as you see she is right now. She is the first member of the Obama administration to face public questions. Here is what she had to say moments ago.
[Janet Napolitano, Secretary Of Homeland Security:] The director took immediate action to remove the agents involved. And a full and thorough investigation is under way to determine exactly what transpired and actions we need to take to ensure this kind of conduct doesn't happen again. Director Sullivan has the president's and my full confidence as this investigation proceeds. Investigation will be complete and thorough and we will leave no stone unturned.
[Costello:] Senior congressional correspondent, Dana Bash is on Capitol Hill. So, Dana, that was her opening statement. Has the questioning began?
[Dana Bash, Cnn Senior Congressional Correspondent:] It has. You know, what is fascinating has been so far. It's just the beginning. Both Democrats and Republicans are extremely forceful about one of the main concerns, which is, of course, the safety of the president and everybody else who is protected by the Secret Service. Listen to what the Democratic chairman said about that.
[Senator Patrick Leahy , Chairman, Judiciary Committee:] Nobody wants to see the president's security compromised. Nobody wants to see America embarrassed. I can't think of anything that would aside from the personal tragedy, anything that would look worse than the rest of the world if something happened either to President Obama or Governor Romney, especially during a presidential election.
[Bash:] Now, Carol, the first question that Senator Leahy asked Janet Napolitano was whether the president was in danger. She said that was the first question she asked Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, and his answer was no. And she later said that according to what they know so far, there was no impinging on the president's safety and no access to secure information by the people involved Carol.
[Costello:] What did the secretary say about the possibility of other incidence, anything yet?
[Bash:] She did. She was also asked that question by Senator Leahy and I believe actually if you can look at the live picture, she's being asked similar questions by the Republican Lindsey Graham. But she was very careful in her answer. It was very interesting, Carol. The way she answered was that in the two and a half years that she has been there, the office of public responsibility, which is where anybody would call to report a tip of bad behavior, they have not received complaints. She made a point saying that during that time, there had been 900 trips internationally and 1,300 trips domestically. Nothing on the record to suggest that anything happened like that again, very carefully answering that question that they don't have anything on the record. That doesn't answer the question about whether it happened.
[Costello:] OK, you're going to back into that hearing. We'll check back with you later. Dana Bash reporting live from Capitol Hill. In Chicago, trial resumes next hour for the man accused of murdering Jennifer Hudson's family. Her former brother-in-law is charged with the killings of the singer's mother, brother and nephew. Hudson left the courtroom yesterday before grizzly police photos of the crime scene were shown. A former aide to John Edwards back on the stand today and he may be cross-examined. Andrew Young has been spilling intimate details about his former boss' secret love life during testimony. Edwards is accused of using a large amount of campaign contributions to hide his alleged affair. Here is CNN's Joe Johns.
[Joe Johns, Cnn Senior Correspondent:] With Andrew Young on the stand, he's the former right hand man, errand boy and fixer to former Senator John Edwards. The prosecution laid out a simply amazing story of sex, lies, politics and money. Young spoke of the day when Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter, made so many repeated frantic calls to him. That when he finally got her on the phone, he said somebody better either be pregnant or dying. Rielle Hunter, Young says, responded, nobody is dying. When Edwards found out he was pregnant, he responded gruffly. Young quoting Edwards, he said, she's a crazy slut and there's a one in three chance it was his child. Also stunning was the response of Bunny Mellon, the big money donor from Northern Virginia who agreed to help because she thought Edwards could rescue America. Andrew Young said he secured her agreement to give hundreds of thousands of dollars for the benefit of the campaign, no questions asked Young claimed. Checks in ever increasing sums funnelled through Mrs. Mellon's decorator and endorsed by Andrew Young's wife according to Young. With this money in the family account Young said, he moved Rielle Hunter to North Carolina to keep her away from the media. She was threatening to go public he said. He gave her a $5,000 a month allowance. A couple times it went up to $12,000. He rented a house for her in his name. Got her a BMW. By this time, she was using an alias Young said going by the name of Jaya James. Young said Rielle also lived in his house with him and his wife and kids for about three weeks, which he called very difficult. He said Rielle could be very demanding. More than once he said Rielle said, if she didn't talk to Edwards, she was going public. How did his wife feel about all of this? Young says she was scared to death. We were scared to death. Edwards was a viable presidential candidate and this was a truckload of money. They asked the trial lawyer, Edwards, if it was OK to do this. Young says, Edwards told them it was completely legal. Young said he communicated in code with Edwards because there was concerned that knowledge of these matters could implicate Edwards if he were to become attorney general.
[Johns:] So far it's all been about Andrew Young's version of events. But as early as today, he's expected to get challenged as the Edwards defense team gets its first opportunity to cross examine him Carol.
[Costello:] Joe Johns reporting live for us. This just in to CNN. We have confirmed that Newt Gingrich will indeed drop out of the presidential race next week. Shannon Travis, he's in North Carolina. That's our reporter where Gingrich had a campaign event today. Shannon will join us a little later to talk more about this decision that a lot of people didn't think would come because as you know, Newt Gingrich said he would go all the way to the convention. But apparently, he has changed his mind due to his showing in North Carolina because those big five primaries were held yesterday. He will announce that he will drop from the presidential race on Tuesday. Again, we'll get more information later on NEWSROOM. New Jersey's governor is defending the decision to suspend two state troopers over this video. Here it is. It shows police officers escorting a caravan of exotic luxury cars down the Garden State Parkway. The problem is they were traveling fast. Speeds reportedly topped 100 miles per hour.
[Governor Chris Christie , New Jersey:] It's a completely ridiculous story. It shouldn't have happened. Dumb thing to do. But let me assure you that it's not the last dumb thing that we will see happen.
[Costello:] The caravan included dozens of elite sports cars like Ferraris and Lamborghinis. Yes, they were traveling at break-neck speeds. One witness dubbed it death race 2012. President Obama is on the campaign trail again today stumping for low interest rates on subsidized student loans. It's a pitch that targeting young voters. He found the perfect stage on late night television. Listen as the president joins Jimmy Fallon to slow jams the news.
[Barack Obama, President Of The United States Of America:] Now is not the time to make school more expensive for our young people.
[Costello:] Maybe the president did make his audience swoon, but he's playing a familiar tune throughout the presidential race. Polls have shown Mr. Obama is more likable especially to young people than his presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney. For some members of a Mormon Church in Massachusetts, politics isn't the first thing that comes to mind when they hear the name Mitt Romney. Coming up, a look at the man they know as Bishop Romney.