Today's Takeaway: Iowa Caucuses Set to Begin Listen Download Embed Share Share this on Facebook (Opens in a new window) Share this on Twitter (Opens in a new window) Share this via Email Top of the Hour: Arson Suspect Arrested in LA, Morning Headlines Iowa Caucuses Set to Begin In Defense of Paying College Athletes Iran Threatens US Navy Carrier Flash Forward: Childhood Obesity and the Future of School Lunches Top of the Hour: BP Sues Halliburton Over Gulf Oil Spill, Morning Headlines GOP Makes Final Appeal to Iowa Voters Panetta Aims to Cut Billions from Pentagon Budget Violence Continues In Syria Despite International Monitors Remembering British Cartoonist Ronald Searle Flash Forward: Louis CK's Revolutionary Comedy Special and His Predictions for 2012 Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop on January 1, 2012 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. With two days before the Iowa caucuses, Mitt Romney is continuing his bus tour through Iowa. ( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images / Getty ) Produced by PRI and WNYC