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our greatest days are still ahead. we are after all americans. god bless this great country, god bless you, god bless the united states of america. thanks, you guys. thanks for the victory in wisconsin, maryland and district of columbia. thanks, you guys. thank you. >> three wins for mitt romney tonight. he's in milwaukee right now. the winner according to our own cnn projections as he says, not only washington, d.c., but maryland and wisconsin. here are the numbers, we projected romney as the winner. 27% of the official vote in maryland is now in. romney is ahead. newt gingrich and ron paul trail significantly.

in washington, d.c., 24% of the vote is in. 69% for romney. 13% for ron paul. 11% for newt gingrich, santorum was not on the ballot. did not qualify. in wisconsin, mitt romney ahead right now with third -- almost a third of the vote in. 30%. he's got 43% to 38% for rick santorum. 11% for ron paul, 6% for newt gingrich. let's bring in our own candy crowley. she has been covering the campaign. a lot of happy people over there. three win, that's significant. >> it's a clean sweep, it's exactly what they wanted. you heard first from paul ryan who has been accompanying romney around wisconsin. you know, we republicans are unified. you might get some argument tonight in the camp of rick santorum, but there is a clear push here for, hey, a clean sweep opening up april. you heard mitt romney just now saying now i want to talk to

pennsylvania and new york, all the rest of the states that are ahead in three weeks to come and join us. three words you did not hear, wolf, which i think says more about how romney views the future than anything else -- the three words not spoken tonight, santorum, gingrich, paul. so this is clearly a campaign that wants to create that momentum, it's a psychological more than a mathematical thing right now. obviously, he's more than halfway toward getting those 1,144 delegates, but he is not near there yet. so this is more about it's over even if the math does not add up right now. they want to push ahead clearly, what they'd most love to do is win in pennsylvania. they think the other states look friendlier. if they could take pennsylvania they do think that's a knockout blow, even though it doesn't necessarily mean that rick santorum or newt gingrich or ron paul will actually get out of

the race. they may dial it back as gingrich has done. but they don't necessarily believe they'll get out. but they do believe that it will be apparent to republicans after this clean sweep tonight that this train has actually left the station, wolf. >> stand by. i want you to continue as part of our conversation. we have panel here. gloria borger, david gergen, democratic strategist donna brazil and ari fleischer, the former white house press secretary for president george w. bush. i suspect what candy is saying and what a lot of others have said to me, the romney campaign and the super pac that supports romney they'll be spending millions of dollars in pennsylvania to try to nail it down. >> right. they are. because they would love nothing more than to defeat rick santorum in pennsylvania and make that be the final death blow to rick santorum's campaign. what could occur, wolf, could be a split decision. i have heard a lot of people say

that while rick santorum might win the popular vote, mitt romney would be able to win in the delegates. now, speaking of delegates we should also point out that tonight mitt romney's going to make a big haul of delegates. rick santorum i don't know, less than a dozen delegates maybe. >> eight or nine. >> so it seems to me, you know, this is a huge victory for mitt romney and also today, barack obama made it clear the president said, look, the person i'm running against is mitt romney. so while rick santorum may not be willing to admit that today, the president started to try and define mitt romney and so i think the campaign kind of began today, whether rick santorum wants it to or not. >> he already pivoted in the general campaign. he's going to spend a lot of money in pennsylvania, as he did in iowa and florida because he

wants to crush santorum in his home state and end this so they don't have to deal with texas, arkansas, states where santorum could do well. >> absolutely. and what we have seen is romney has already closed some of the gap in pennsylvania. he was behind in wisconsin not long ago and he closed that gap and then won tonight. so he's got a reasonable possibility. after all, santorum lost the last time he ran in pennsylvania. the only reason that pennsylvania matters that much is whether you can get santorum out of the race and you can go on. if rick santorum wins pennsylvania, he's going to go on apparently. and romney just wants to end it so he can focus. what i thought was interesting today, wolf, we had -- if you compare the obama speech earlier today and the romney speech tonight, you have i think a portrait of the campaign that's coming. you know, romney is making a very, very different argument. he wants to talk about how you create jobs in the private sector. he's running as a pro business republican. >> he's addressing women.

the first few words out of his mouth, donna brazil, women, moms, they have a huge stake in what's going on. do you believe as some romney supporters believe, if he spends millions in pennsylvania to try to beat santorum that's a good investment, so money spent now in pennsylvania to support mitt romney could have an effect down the road in a general election in november against barack obama. >> look, i think romney will close up the deficit, with indpen denltds, he might pick up another five percentage points with hispanics. but youth and minority voters, women, they make up a sizable chunk of the electorate. i don't believe mitt romney will close all those gaps over the next two weeks. simply by going after santorum as a big spending liberal with ties to hillary clinton, and giving exfelons the votes.

i mean, mitt romney is not inspiring. he's trying to prove he's the real conservative in the race, but he has to inspire people in the middle. right now, what i heard today, what i heard tonight that was not -- >> santorum, ari, had a very tough ad that he started running in wisconsin going after mitt romney, comparing him to the president of the united states, barack obama. a very tough ad. how much if anything among the republican establishment does a tough anti-mitt romney ad that santorum put out hurt santorum with folks like you who are insiders in the republican establishment? >> well, i used to be insider, now i'm a new yorker. it does hurt because republicans want to win and we have acknowledged -- i have said this before, mitt romney is republicans plan "b." he's ground down everybody else and he's become a first choice. but to the degree that rick santorum would hurt him in his

chances to beat newt gingrich it will turn republicans against rick santorum even more. if i was advising mitt romney and also wisconsin is part of this too, a swing state, he wants to spend not to crush santorum, but to drive his up on unfavorables down. that's what he needs to do to beat barack obama in a purple state like wisconsin or pennsylvania. >> candy, do we have a good sense of romney's whereabouts, his strategy over the next few days and weeks leading up to april 24 in pennsylvania? >> he's going to raise some money, but pennsylvania will be first stop and many stops in between because again that's the big state here. listen, one of the things that i think they're counting on now, they really do believe they can rightfully claim the momentum. we saw through the whole first part of this primary season, mitt romney wins new hampshire and immediately loses south carolina.

newt gingrich wins south carolina and immediately loses florida. mitt romney wins florida, immediately loses in that sweep that rick santorum has. so what they believe now is this truly is momentum and in the old fashioned sense of that word, that meant that the states coming afterwards those gaps began to close. you already begun to see that in the polls and they believe that will happen in pennsylvania as well. i think the big question for rick santorum, if it begins to look as though he might lose his home state, is that the period he wants on his race here? i think they're hoping to have a squeeze here of rick santorum but they're fully preprared to spend a lot of money. >> i'm sure mitt romney will manage to get lot more of those pennsylvania establishment republicans on his campaign. he's going to be spending a ton more money than rick santorum. why? because he has a lot more money. certainly his super pac does as well as his regular campaign.

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i'm not kidding. he actually thinks he's doing a great job. he thinks he's doing a historically great job like abraham lincoln and lbj and fdr. no, he did not say that on "saturday night live," all righty? it's enough -- it's enough to make you think years of flying around air force one, surrounded by an adoring staff of true believers telling you you're great and doing a great job, it's enough to make you think you might become out of touch with that and that's what happened. >> it's a very good night for mitt romney. cnn projecting he'll win wisconsin's primary, as well as maryland and the district of columbia. a clean sweep at least on this night. but his rival rick santorum isn't backing down. his tone tonight at his headquarters outside pittsburgh defiant. >> if we're going to win this race, we can't have little differences between our nominee and president obama. time and time again, the republican establishment and

aristocracy have shoved down the throats of people across this country moderate republicans because we have to win by getting people in the middle. there's one person who understood we don't win by moving to the middle. we win by getting the people to move to us. >> a lot of people were looking at a wisconsin for a must-win state for him to prove the race is not over. newt gingrich weighed in tonight. he's vowing he will stay in until the convention in tampa. the former minnesota governor tim pawlenty is co-chairman of mitt romney's national campaign. governor pawlenty is joining us right now. governor, thanks very much for coming in. little differences, did you hear that santorum saying little differences between your man, governor romney and president obama. go ahead and respond to rick

santorum. >> well, with all due respect to rick santorum, there couldn't be a brighter line between the vision that mitt romney has for the country which is getting the economy moving and having been an executive, not having a governmencentric view of the world and government's role in people's life like president obama does. it's wrong for rick santorum to say that. he's lashing out in the final stages of his campaign. this race for the nomination as a practical matter is over. it's not mathematically over. there's more processes amongst certain parts. but let's face it, mitt romney is going to be the nominee. he'll be a great nominee and a great president. he's been a executive leader in theor. he doesn't have the governmencentric view of the world like barack obama does. >> santorum as you heard him say he said it's halftime in the process right now. he says if he can win pennsylvania, may is going to be potentially a good month, texas,

kentucky, arkansas, states where he can do well. you relish that thought this is going to continue well into may? >> well, no, i think the race like i said for all practical purposes is over. i understand rick wanting to cling to it a little while longer. i hope that he doesn't. i hope that the -- he sees the need to unify this party and the conservative movement. he could be a big part of that. it's not our place to tell him when to drop out. but if you look at this clear eyed, you can see that mitt romney is on the trajectory to be the republican nominee, no question about this. >> even with tonight's three big wins, we are seeing the same numbers, a third of wisconsin republican voters told us in the exit polls that they wouldn't be satisfied with romney as the republican nominee, and one in five, governor, one in five republican voters in a recent gallup poll said they'd vote for either president obama or stay home if he's -- if romney is the nominee. any reason for concern when these kinds of numbers come up? >> well, when you have an

interparty hard fought battle for the nomination, there's going to be some differences in the near term. but coming into the fall the party will unite and should. by the way, look at mitt romney's record, decreasing unemployment, standing for traditional marriage and standing for life, that's a conservative record by any reasonable definition. is it perfect? no. but look at newt's record, look at rick's record. the idea they're the perfect conservatives is ridiculous. i mean, i know their records, i have researched it. i know them well. i can tell you, you know, mitt's record is very good and conservative. but the idea that rick santorum's record is that of the perfect conservative, give me a break. it's not. >> there's going to need to be some healing after this rough primary season, but doesn't time spent focusing in on the base keep romney from reaching ought to the independents, a lot of women voters that the republicans will desperately

need to win the white house in the fall? >> well, as you saw today, his message is switching to focus on president obama and less so on the republican nomination. we don't want to take anything for granted. we have to earn every vote. but newt gingrich and rick santorum would do the conservative movement and mitt romney's chances of being the next president of the united states relative to barack obama a great service by realizing that the nomination is going to mitt romney. they can do their part to help unite the party rather than dragging this out. obviously they're not going to be the nominees. i think anybody who's looking at this clear eyed sees that. and i wish that they would do what they can now or soon to throw in behind mitt and get this party united. we need to focus on barack obama. there's the number one objective, to get him out of office so we can get this country pointed in a better direction. >> one final question, give me a short answer if you want. four years ago, you were first runn

runnerup in the vice presidential race and you lost out to sarah palin. is this something you want to see this time if governor romney asked you? >> no, i have taken my name off that list, i have been down that road as you noted. i think the best way i can help him is be a volunteer and help him get elected. i took my name off the vice presidential -- >> why did you do that? >> well, i think he'll have a lot of great people to pick him. i think i can help him in other ways. >> tim pawlenty, governor, thank you for coming in. >> you're welcome. thank you. up next, new hints that president obama's game plan for the fall. [ male announcer ] the cadillac cts sport sedan was designed with near-perfect weight balance from front to back...

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was. and now look at that. past the 600 mark. that makes a big difference overall. let's look at the national map and talk about the intensity very briefly. if we fly in to wisconsin, we saw the counties that santorum won and ones that romney won. but look at the colors on this. now i'm going to switch it to the intensity of the win and look at that. romney's real strength -- right down here in the great big counties down here in milwaukee county. get out to walkashaw county. racine and kenosha counties. these are the very areas where president obama did so well. so the challenge for mitt romney even after a big win like this is going to be reach out to all of these places where he won, but not in a big way and say, come on, join the fold. join the fold. if he wants to take this kind of

victory into the general election up. wolf? >> tom, thank you. rick santorum still talking tough about staying in the race. but some key democrats are not talking about him much at all. and that may speak volumes. president obama's senior strategist david axelrod and vice president joe biden have been aiming their attacks directly at mitt romney. >> i can't remember a presidential candidate in the recent past who seems not to understand by what he says what ordinary middle class people are thinking about and are concerned about. >> he seems to be oblivious to the experiences of everyday people. >> look, governor romney's business practices and his policies have clearly benefitted the wealthy and most powerful among us. often at the expense of working and middle class families. >> you have a guy who wants to go back to the same policies

that got us in this disaster. >> i think governor romney is a little out of touch. >> the obama campaign clearly signaling they expect to face mitt romney in november. lots of raw politics to hash out. our panel back with us again. as far as the white house and the obama/biden campaign are coneaco concerned it's obama versus romney. >> totally obama versus romney. what was so interesting to me tonight, in mitt romney's speech after wisconsin, he started talking about president obama as being out of touch. saying that he was surrounded by true believers and it's easy when you travel around on air force one to get out of touch. you just heard joe biden say and david axelrod are saying that mitt romney is the one out of touch. so i think we have already teed up one part of the argument which is who's the person who's more out of touch with real americans and with the middle class? and so i think that's the

beginning of another argument they have already started. >> i think it's fair to say the president for the next several months will try to take the relatively high road and leave the attack dog role to biden, axelrod and others. >> i'm not so sure about that. >> really? you think he'll get down there. because he wants that presidential aura about him. i think that resonates with a lot of folks. >> i think he'll use a stiletts, but not a sledgehammer. i think he'll use mocking humor. that fits bet we are the president. but i don't think he'll leave it all to the surrogates. he relishes a fight. >> what do you think, donna? >> he's ready for a fight. over the last two years we have heard the republicans whine and complain and demonize his record. president obama is not only ready to defend his record, but he's ready to attack the other side. he doubled down on the ryan budget. the president's ready to talk

about issues facing the middle class. this is going to be an epic battle. but at the end of the day i think president obama will be able to put together the winning coalition. >> you agree, ari, if we think that what the republicans have been doing over the last several months was pretty brutal and intense, relatively speaking, it was child's play come patiented to -- play it will be child's play compared to what we'll see. >> well, president obama is a much better talker and campaigner than a leader or somebody who wants to get something done. he began with a bus tour in august of 2011. 24's when the campaign -- that's when the campaign started. that's when government ended. he's announcing he won't do anything on foreign policy because he needs space. this year to take different positions so he can flip-flop after what we call election day that he calls flexibility day. the president has given up on governing. he can't wait to get at it with

mitt romney. >> let me let donna respond to that. >> i want to respond to her. >> i know. he started campaigning on that bus tour in iowa last year. i went out and interviewed what him during the bus tour. is that when he stopped governing? >> absolutely not. in september he put out a deficit proposal that the republicans rejected. president obama had to seek his party nomination. tonight, he clinched his nomination, so technically he had to start his campaign. beyond the technicality, president obama has a record of achievement, a record of accomplishment. he wants to get out there and take to the american people about job creation, he wants to talk to the middle class about preserving, you know, programs at a time that the republicans want to cut to the bone. this is going to be like i said an epic struggle. a close election. at the end of the day, president obama will end. >> 8% unemployment and trillion dollars deficit, that's a sign of achievement? >> he needs to make this a choice, not a referendum. if it's a choice, he says okay

what's the person's out of touch, is it barack obama or mitt romney. >> go ahead and make a point. >> from the point of view of governing both parties have abandoned governing this year. >> yep. >> we have got huge issues that are coming up before the end of the year. they have all shoved them until after the election is over. >> the house republicans have at least put their stamp -- >> they put their own budget out. >> a recipe for disaster as well. >> gloria, this is surprising to me. you were touching on this. you were questioning stephanie cutter, the deputy campaign manager for the obama/biden campaign. the president said before the newspaper publishers and editors when he said they're not thinking of contingency plans in in fact the united states supreme court were to strike down the health care reform law in june. they're not thinking about that. they're not preparing for that

possibility. that sounds a bit irresponsible, don't you think? >> it sounds unreal to me. >> they just assume the supreme court going to uphold the law. >> well, look, they don't want to get out ahold of the supreme court decision, although the president seemed to challenge the supreme court, which i think is an unwise move. they don't want to get out in front of it too much. if she said, yes, we have a contingency plan, it would to admit to us that the supreme court would -- >> but jeffrey toobin said he thinks it's going down. you better start to have a contingency plan. >> i think the responsible thing would be to talk about what you're thinking about, and substantively and by the way the republicans also have to come up with some kind of a plan because they've been talking about repeal and replace. but they need to tell the american people what they would replace it with. >> on health care, wolf, the issue is not jouust who gets ou

of this politically benefit. you have insurance companies and providers and doctors who don't know what the future is going to hold. if there's no plan b, you leave this plan in chaos. >> i suspect there are contingency plans underway. they don't want to talk about it. >> and if the supreme court says the mandates are unconstitutional they have to go back to the beginning and start all over again. left's just consider that thought for a moment. everyone stand by. up next our other breaking news, the dallas area tornado, serious damage. amazingly as of right now, no fatalities. we'll have complete coverage.

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there's major tornado damage in the dallas-ft. worth area tonight. but amazingly no fatalities, no lives lost. you can see in this shot a man standing in the doorway of what appears to be a totally intact bedroom. minus the roof. other images simply boggle the mind. a funnel cloud cutting through a trucking depot, picking up trailers and cabs and tossing them hundreds of feet into the air. we have enhanced the video so you can better see just what's going on. look at this, massive trailers being swept up into the storm and in a sea of sheet metal, debris swirling all around. transformers exploding as power lines short out. tornadoes like this one forcing the love field as well as the dallas-ft. worth international airport to shut down for a time. scores of aircraft damaged. hundreds of flights cancelled. especially hard hit -- the

cities of arlington, kennedale. so far, so far, no reported fatalities. we're thankful a man in lancaster vincent tang is all right. he didn't seek shelter. he went up to his roof to get this video. >> look at the debris fly. oh, my god. please. oh, my god, look at that. holy, holy smokes. it is about -- it's about a block or two away from my house. look at that. oh, shoot, oh, shoot. oh, holy shoot. look at that, oh, my god. holy moly.

look at the debris, it's flying. oh. holy moly, oh, my god. holy moly. >> as they say, don't try this at home. the voice and the pictures of vincent tang who probably should have taken care. we're glad he is all right and we're glad that no one as far as we know, as far as we know died in this storm. i spoke about that earlier tonight with the dallas mayor, mike rawlings. >> i talked to families that saw those trailers coming towards their house and landed in the back of their house. at the same time, the next door neighbor's alive. amazing story of a couple that had just left the house, going to work at the children's medical center there. and just five minutes later the house is destroyed by one of those trailers.

a couple that -- couple of retired ladies that have lived there since the '60s were in their house. the whole back of the house is destroyed. but they're okay. >> when you say there's no fatalities fortunately and no significant injuries i assume you're referring to the city of dallas. you're the mayor of dallas. is that true in all the dallas-ft. worth area? >> we're reaching out the the whole area and we're not hearing of any fall thtalities at this . >> this geesd to hear. >> but the information we have got, while there's been major damage done, that people are walking away with their lives. >> dallas mayor mike rawlings speaking with me earlier. joining us from arlington, texas, ed levinterry. what kind of damage are you seeing there? >> we're about to show you a stunning story of survival, and

i want to get quickly to a piece of video to set this scene up here in arlington. the video, it was shot by a neighbor that lives across the street from the lawrence family. this video was taken it was just moments and the family is having a hard time seeing through the trees just what was coming their way. as the video starts to progress i think you can start to see it now. you can see that the tornado what they came to learn was a tornado was getting much closer and you can actually see the winds start to suck debris and tvs and other belongings out of the garage. that family ducked for cover, but it was the lawrence family that was inside the house that you see behind me and here's nicole lawrence who survived this incredible situation. she was in the house with her two sons. i have walked through the house a little while ago. i can't believe you're standing next to me. >> it's only by god's grace that i'm here. >> it's hard the give a sense of what happened inside the house,

but there's one little area of the house that has any ceiling left intact and it was the path room that nicole and her sons jumped into it. talk about what led up to it. >> my mother called me 30 minutes ago and said the storm was coming. my son colin, 18-year-old, came home from school. he had a sandwich, we were watching the news. the hail started coming down. and once the hail stopped, our electricity went out. and then i thought, you know, that's it. we need to get in the bathtub and then not maybe five minutes after us sitting in the bathtub and making some phone calls, i called my husband to tell him we

were safe and to find out where he was. it blew through. it was like a freight train. it was very loud. >> my sons said they threw you into the bath tub and they were -- >> they were over top of me. yes. >> some houses have some damage, but nothing like this. >> right. >> one neighborhood described that the tornado literally dropped down, hit your house and went back up. you were the only house hit. is that the way -- >> apparently so. i have noticed some trees in the neighborhood that were down, but i think our neighbors over here had some roof damage and then across the street, but our home was the only one that was damaged like this. >> and when you walked out of the bathroom, i was asking your son, you walked out of the bathroom and you looked up and there was nothing there. >> i had no idea what to expect when i came out of the bathroom. we have a vent -- i guess it's like the vent for whatever in the bathroom. and it was gone. so i could see the tree over my bathroom so i knew, you know,

part of the roof was gone. but when i came out, i had no idea to expect this at all. >> what we see here behind you, these are two bedrooms in front of the house. >> yes. yes. this is my oldest son, this is anthony's room. and then right next to it is colin's. >> and your son told me that people were walking up to the house, running up to the house. >> yes, my neighbors across the street, he works for at&t and one of his friends apparently was in the military and he knew what to do. he -- actually, his voice was the first voice that i heard. he said is everybody okay? and of course my boys had got out because they had shoes on. i didn't have shoes on. but he assisted me to get into my closet and got me shoes. kind of carried me out in the front. we smelled gas. so my husband was within minutes and once he got here, we got in the car and went to north

arlington to my mom's house. >> well, i'm so grateful that you're here to tell us this story. i imagine it's been amazing day for nicole lawrence and two sons. wolf, as you just heard, one interesting note her son told me it's for his prom, he found his tuxedo still hanging up in his closet back over here intact. everything clean. so i guess he can go to the prom. >> yes, he can. >> he can still go to the prom. a little bit of good news. >> at least they're okay. physically all right. you can always rebuild. you start from scratch, but at least they have their lives and their family. thank god for that. i want to show our viewers some new video we're getting. taken along the road from ft. worth to arlington. the person who took this had the good sense to pull over. you can see the funnel cloud crossing the highway and crossing. and you can see that the camera is remarkably steady considering what's in front of the lens just down the road. joining us now, the arlington mayor robert cluck. mayor, thanks very much for

coming in. how much damage did your community suffer? >> quite a bit. we had about 150, 155 homes, partially destroyed. some totally destroyed. we had a nursing home that was partially destroyed. you know what, wolf, three people were transported and of those three people, two are okay. one is in serious condition. but we dodged a huge bullet today. you have seen the video. you understand what happened in arlington, texas, today and in dallas, texas, today. >> mayor, you know, i have covered a lot of the tornadoes, hurricanes over the years and there's always a search and rescue mission. they go house to house to make sure no one was stuck inside. is that still continuing or have you completed the search and rescue operation? >> they'll probably start again to search tomorrow. we feel we have everybody out now. but they won't give up until they have gone through all the

searches. >> and as far as arlington is concerned, a similar situation in dallas-ft. worth. other cities and communities in your area. as far as you know, no fatalities, some injuries? >> as far as i know, that is correct. i'm telling you, we dodged a bullet today. >> what did you think when you saw those trailers -- those trailers, those tractor-trailers simply flying around as a result of the storm, tornadoes as if they were little toys. i have never seen anything like that. but i wonder if you have. >> i haven't seen anything like this severe. but what i'm wondering was who's in that trailer or who's below that trailer is going to get hurt. i always think of the people involved. just like at this house. and the fact is, i thought when i walked up here nobody could have survived this, but they did. and they did all over the city of arlington and dallas. >> was the warning, the sirens that went off, the alarms, the

alerts, did the system work in other words? >> the system worked great. and the alarms went off at the proper time. they went on for an hour or two because we kept having storms come through the city. no, they worked great. they gave people lots of warning. >> mayor, thanks very much and thanks for the good news that no serious injury, no thfatalities. we'll stay in touch with you. robert cluck is the mayor of arlington. and now we know much more about yesterday's shooting ram pain. seven people died in an execution-style bloodbath. just ahead, how it unfolded minute by minute. [ male announcer ] if you believe the mayan calendar, on december 21st polar shifts will reverse the earth's gravitational pull and hurtle us all into space. which would render retirement planning unnecessary. but say the sun rises on december 22nd,

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in crime and punishment, we are learning more about the deadly shooting in california at the christian college and the details are horrific. oakland's police chief said that the suspect a former student had been expelled and felt picked on. when he walked into the school yesterday, he allegedly had a target in mind, but then chance interveened. here's dan simon. >> reporter: monday morning, 43-year-old one l. goh arrives and he's on the hunt for a specific female administrator at the college, his intended target. when he can't find her, the rampage begins. >> this was a calculated, cold blooded execution in the classroom. >> reporter: goh first takes a receptionist into the classroom with students and then shoots her and then he tells the students to line up against the

wall. i'm going to kill you all, he allegedly tells them. some of the students refused to follow his orders, police say. and he began to shoot them one by one. at 10:33 a.m., the first 911 call comes in and police arrive on scene just three minutes later. >> shots coming from inside the building. >> reporter: and police find students barricaded inside the classrooms and hiding under desks. all are removed from the school. seven are dead, three are wounded. >> there's a scene of bleeding and face down on the concrete. >> looks like she's got a gunshot to the head. nonresponsive. >> we were able to get one body from the building. victim does have a pulse. >> reporter: by this time, goh had fled the scene. allegedly in a car stolen from one of the victims, but the police have a description.

>> he's a male korean, 5'5", heavy build. wearing a blue jacket and a baseball cap. >> reporter: at approximately 11:30 a.m., goh surrenders to police at a safeway supermarket. after allegedly telling the security guard he needed to speak with police because he adjust shot several people. he's now in custody. police say he doesn't appear to be at all remorseful. >> he said he was a student there and while he was a student, he had been picked on, wasn't treated fairly by students. and administrator. and he wanted to get back at them. >> reporter: investigators spent much of the day looking for the murder weapon. they won't say what kind of gun was used, but they said goh purchased it legally in the state of california. tomorrow, goh will have his first court appearance and be formally charged during his arraignment. dan simon, cnn, oakland, california. >> what a horrible, horrible tragedy. what a horrible story indeed.

there's still more happening tonight. susan hendricks is here with the 360 news and business bulletin. susan? >> hi, wolf. we are getting reports of new shelling by the syrian government ahead of the deadline for the latest peace plan. the assad regime agreed to withdraw the military from residential areas on april 10, but the state department says there's no evidence syria is working to meet the commitments. an update on the health of former vice president dick cheney. he left the hospital ten days after undergoing a successful heart transplant. he's suffered at least five heart attacks. and sales are revved up in march you could say. the big three saw nearly 13% jump last month. capping off the best sales quarter since 2008. good news. wolf, back to you. >> thanks very much, susan. we'll be right back. everyone in america depends on the postal service.

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