♪ ♪ great rates for great rides. geico motorcycle see how much you could save. we begin with a fox news alert. we are minutes away from getting results in the cpac straw poll as another conservative conference is under way. hello, everyone. i'm arthel neville. glad you could join us. welcome to america's news headquarters. >> hello i'm eric shawn. cpac wrapping up its third and final day. that result for you in a few moments. meanwhile, the club for growth is hosting its event. several of those same potential republican presidential candidates on the docket there including texas senator ted cruz and louisiana governor bobby jindal. the senior national correspondent john roberts has been covering that event in the breakers hotel in palm beach,

florida, where club for growth is listening to what they have to say. >> reporter: good afternoon. louisiana governor bobby jindal still addressing the crowd here. give you a little bit of golf commentary through this. like governor jindal texas senator ted cruz probably wouldn't be where he is today without the massive support of the club for growth which helped him get elected. last night cruz addressed this crowd here urging them not to nominate a moderate for president but to go with a conservative. if that was a veiled reference to jeb bush and chris christie, saying when republicans run conservative candidates they win elections. in an exclusive interview, cruz told me the reason that john mccain and mitt romney lost is because millions of conservatives stayed home. >> we nominate another candidate in the mold of bob dole or john mccain or mitt romney, and let me be clear all three of those are good honorable men, they love their country but what they did didn't work. it's not a winning strategy.

>> reporter: cruz, of course is making a career out of bashing the republican leadership and now he's got some help from louisiana governor bobby jindal. he is furious at the leadership for running on a promise to repeal obamacare and then, after winning a majority in congress, not doing anything about it. >> this campaign this election wasn't about having a second liberal party. it wasn't about getting a nicer office space for senator mcconnell. it was about making a real difference but this wasn't a trivial issue. this was the main issue in many of these elections. they didn't mean it, they should have said that when they were campaigning. >> reporter: there is still one more speaker to go tonight, senator marco rubio will be here this evening. marco rubio expected to tell the club for growth that he has learned his lesson on immigration, and won't be doing that again. eric? >> john, with the golf commentary as the governor is speaking right behind you. certainly they are coming out swinging. we will see how it goes. thank you as always. a man to watch also today's

straw poll was wisconsin governor scott walker. he will sit down exclusively tomorrow with chris wallace on fox news sunday. you will want to hear that interview. it airs here on the fox news channel of course and on your local station also so check your local listings for times. well, congress averting a partial shutdown of homeland security shortly before a midnight deadline passing a stopgap funding bill that pushes the deadline to next week. peter doocy is live in washington. tell you what, what's happening there in congress in d.c. is giving netflix a run for its money, all the drama. >> reporter: it is arthel. there are some republicans who are very unhappy with this one week extension for dhs funding. senator john mccain, summing up the stalemate and near shutdown by telling "the hill" newspaper this, i think we just ought to move on to other things. i'm not sure how it helps for the american people to have the perception that republicans in the senate and republicans in the house are at odds with each other.

but there are others in the gop pretty happy the debate is going to continue because it gives congress another chance to talk about cutting out money that funds president obama's executive actions on immigration. >> all over the country republicans, senate and house candidates, told the people if you give us a republican majority, we will stop president obama's illegal and unconstitutional amnesty. i think we need to follow through on that commitment. >> reporter: across the aisle democrats that supported the one-week extension are complaining that they didn't really have another choice and charging that republicans taking issue with the president's immigration ideas are protesting in the wrong chamber. >> there is some serious controversy over how to deal with the immigration but also the immigration issue, according to the discussion yesterday on the floor, was a constitutional issue. maybe yes, maybe no, but that's something since madison and

mulberry back in the early days of our republic has been decided by the courts, and the courts actually do have this case under way. we ought to put that issue aside. >> reporter: so lots of confusion and potentially lots of chaos ahead with important votes on budgets and money for the fight against isis and highway funding on the horizon. arthel? >> indeed. so many crucial issues on the table. so my netflix comment is in no way to make light of what's happening there in d.c., as you well know. peter doocy, thanks. it's another victory in the fight on terrorism. this time another drone strike that happened in yemen. it killed three suspected al qaeda terrorists. security officials say that the attack took place in central yemen. the u.s. has launched several strikes as you may know in recent weeks. that after rebels there forced the president to flee the capital. he is now running the country from the southern city of aden where several other countries have moved their embassies to

try to show support for the president. there has been another win against isis and they are coming slowly. this time by kurdish fighters in northeast syria. the local militia with the help of assyrian christians and coalition air strikes. they drove back the isis militants and took control of a key town along the syrian border with turkey and iraq. while in iraq there has been a new round of violence they say from the islamic state. at least 37 people have been killed in the latest series of attacks. for the very latest we go to john huddy. he joins us from the mideast bureau in jerusalem. >> reporter: there were a series of car bomb attacks today in iraq that killed close to two dozen people one with the continued fighting and also a major ground offensive that continues to rage on in iraq. iraqi forces at this point are in a pretty fierce battle for control of the city of samara between tikrit and baghdad. isis militants for quite awhile

have been trying to push their way through to baghdad but have so far been stopped by those iraqi forces, with help from coalition air strikes, including more than a dozen during the past 24 hours. i have said this before i have been saying this losing control of samarra would be disastrous because it is a key transportation corridor, basically standing between as i said tikrit and baghdad. another key transportation corridor is a town that kurdish forces have taken control of in the northeast corner of the country. this has been an isis stronghold, so this is a key win, because in particular its location along the borders of iraq and turkey. so it's been really used to transport isis militants, artillery and also vehicles back and forth between iraq and syria. so taking back control is a major victory for those kurdish forces and the people's protection units with help from

syrian christian militias. other towns have been major major battlegrounds because also, the names may sound familiar because over the past week, this is where isis militants early monday morning abducted more than 250 at this point, that number could be much higher, syrian christians. we are talking about men, women and children. according to sources, at least one source of mine, and witnesses on the ground those people have been divided up, men taken to a mountainous region the women and children divided among the cluster of towns and villages in the northeast part of syria. at this point, there has been no contact with or communication from all of those people. so their fate remains unknown. really, the concern and the threat at this point is whether isis will release another video threatening their lives or possibly even worse. >> john the radical islamic terrorism continues. it is so sad. thank you so much.

arthel? meanwhile, egypt declaring hamas a terrorist organization. an egyptian court saying hamas is targeting both civilians and security forces in the sinai peninsula and trying to harm the country. the decision will further isolate hamas which ruled the gaza strip. egypt has already begun clearing a buffer zone along the gaza border to destroy tunnels that hamas considers a lifeline. hamas officials condemning today's decision and urging egypt to reverse course. police in denmark arresting a third person in connection with the copenhagen shooting attack. the suspect is a brother of the gunman omar al hussain. the 18-year-old is accused of providing a bulletproof jacket to al hussain. a film maker and security guard were killed in the attack earlier this month. the suspect was killed by police in a shootout soon after. two others are also suspected of helping the shooter.

it was a brazen assassination in the shadow of the kremlin. the victim, a top critic of russian president vladimir putin. shot dead, his body left in the street and why his family was so worried about his safety. coming up the former president of georgia will be here with his reaction to the killing and what this means. plus, iran offering to protect iraq's cultural heritage from destruction by isis but the night of chaos on capitol hill in a last minute vote on homeland security, so what options are on the table now to keep money from that department from running out? >> mr. speaker, this has been a day of confusion both here in this house and for the men and women of the department of homeland security. do you want to know how hard it can be to breathe with copd? it can feel like this. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva is a once-daily inhaled

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time now for a quick check of the headlines. kidnapping hundreds of boys in south sudan. the u.n. children's agency reports the group believed to have ties with the military general of that country. south sudan's government saying the general has been summoned to the capital for an investigation of this mass kidnapping. iran offering to protect iraq's artartifacts. this comes after isis released a

video showing its militants destroying iraqi artifacts in the city of mosul. iran says it feels obligated to protect the artifacts because the two countries share a common history. it was a plot that sounded like it was out of a george clooney movie. eight people convicted in the two major jewel heists in paris. they stole more than $110 million worth of fancy watches necklaces and valuables at harry winston in 2007 and 2008. sentences ranging from nine months to 15 years in prison. i guess in the end, arthel, crime may not pay. >> never does. never does. there are some last minute maneuverings behind the scene on capitol hill averting a partial shutdown of homeland security. democrats apparently cutting a deal with house speaker john boehner, helping him pass a one-week extension in return for a long-term bill next week. funding homeland security without blocking the president's executive action on immigration.

the chief congressional correspondent for "the washington examiner" is here. susan, let's start here. i would like you to give us a fly on the wall perspective of what's going on behind the scenes. where's the real resistance the real arm wrestling, taking place? >> well, the bottom line is that republicans do not want to leave the department of homeland security unfunded and because of that, their options moving forward from last night are really quite limited. there is this week-long bill that keeps the department funded but that's going to run out next week, so what can they do? other than have another fight and another threat over a shutdown. they can allow a bill to go through that will fund the department through september 30th without including any of the language that would curb the president's executive actions on immigration. to do that, though they would have to turn their backs on their conservative faction in the house and senate who do not like this deal one bit and they would have to pass it with many republicans but also the democrats, and it would be

considered a deal that conservatives would dislike enough that it could potentially threaten a coup or revolt against the republican leadership. they don't want that, either. so they are really in a tough position here. they also have the upcoming speech with benjamin netanyahu next week that they don't want to be overshadowed by this looming crisis over homeland funding. they are in a real tough position. there's no easy answer for them and there's no real answer that will get them out of this without causing damage either to their conservative base or the reputation of the party as a whole. >> so i mean, considering the turmoil throughout the world due to terrorism, is that part of the congressional conversation there? >> oh, absolutely. there's an elevated sense in the united states that we need to be worried about terrorism, not just abroad but here in the united states. don't forget, just a week ago, we were talking about threats to america's shopping malls. this is not something that anybody in the republican party is taking lightly. now, there would not be a full closure of the department of

homeland security if funding ran out. border enforcement airport screeners, all the folks who are considered essential and there are many would be at work but they wouldn't get pay and the optics would look pretty terrible for the party. the republicans don't want that to happen. this is the first time they have had control of the majority in eight years of the full congress. they want to look like they are governing the congress in a responsible way. but the conservatives are responding to their constituents who really want the congress to use the power of the purse to stop the president. it's two competing interests here and they haven't really found a way using any kind of legislative strategy to get out of this looking good. no one is quite sure what's going to happen next week, but it appears more likely that they are just going to put this long-term bill on the floor without any ties to curbing the president, because there's just no other real option for them at this point unless they are willing to let the department go unfunded and just see what

happens politically to their party. >> that last scenario you just painted there, they will get to the bottom line, end of the rope, if you will come next friday and say okay, we will not let the dhs lose funding and we are going to have to take off the president's executive actions off the table and deal with this separately. didn't everybody kind of predict it was going to get to this? so why all the back and forth in the meantime? >> that's an excellent question. i think there's a real reason why they did this. i don't think they just kept saying well, let's try this and keep letting the clock run out. i think what they wanted to do was show their conservative base that they are going to push as hard as they can to accomplish the goals of trying to stop the president's executive action. they will push it as far as they can until they can't push it any further. i predict any further is next week, when this runs out, and you've also got the texas court case limiting the president for now on implementing those actions which gives them a way to say hey, we still have time to fight this. those two things i think are what are going to provide the

republicans the option for how to handle this bill by the end of next week. >> susan, i look forward to talking to you next saturday after it's all said and done. thanks so much. good to see you. eric? arthel, change the country's immigration policies before someone else is murdered. that stark demand from the family of a young store clerk who was shot and killed allegedly by a 29-year-old man in arizona after an argument over a pack of cigarettes. the suspect is an undocumented immigrant with a criminal history and in a heartfelt and emotional plea to our country's leaders in washington, the victim's father is calling for that change, saying the federal government should have deported or detained that illegal accused of so horribly murdering his son. senior correspondent adam houseley has the details in los angeles. >> reporter: you know he was just 21 years old when he was murdered. now his father says he lost not only his son but his best friend and he blames u.s. politicians and immigration officials for

not doing enough because the man who killed his son was really accused of some serious crimes. in fact, as you can see, he was a 21-year-old clerk. this is the man though here that was accused. he is an undocumented immigrant who was convicted of a violent burglary about three years ago here in the u.s. he was released from federal custody on bond and since that time, two different women had gone to authorities saying that this man also threatened to kill them, so he had two protective orders against him but was still allowed to run free. he is accused of the murder over a pack of cigarettes when he dumped some coins on a counter. grant's family is beside themselves that this man was out and about. his family is directing their frustration at law makers. they want their son's legacy not to be one of simple tragedy but a force for good. his uncle spoke to lawmakers about this tragedy. take a listen. >> is it your opinion that this death could have been prevented

had government done a better job here? >> absolutely. you know, this guy was a convicted felon that i.c.e. released. >> reporter: at this point, the family says there hasn't been enough change. they are continuing to go out and push for that. in the meantime more issues along the border as just on thursday, the second largest seizure of drugs ever on the u.s. border. we have been to the crossing before over the years down by san diego. we are talking about 15 tons of marijuana hitting a cargo shipment that was supposed to be mattresses. the driver comes to the border tells agents he has a shipload of mattresses. the agents say well, doesn't really pass the smell test so they had the truck go for a secondary screening. they used the x-ray machine basically, look inside the truck and see they don't really look like mattresses. you open up the back and that's what they found, 15 tons of marijuana. once again, the second largest seizure of drugs along the u.s.

border in history. that happened on thursday. good work for our agents down there as the issues about illegal immigration do continue. eric? >> adam, grant's murder such a horrible shame that seemingly could have been so easily prevented if we had those policies in place. thank you. arthel? we are waiting to hear who wins the cpac straw poll. 17 names on this year's poll. kentucky senator rand paul has been the winner for two straight years. will there be a three-peat? we will let you know what happens when it happens live right here moments away on the fox news channel. and the latest on that brazen assassination of a prominent russian opposition leader. he feared vladimir putin would kill him. he reportedly was ready to tell the world about russia's role in the ukraine crisis. why he was shot who did it, the former president of georgia is here to fill us in. >> i was in shock because just

to imagine in the center, also near the kremlin, this is absolutely beyond imagination. i cannot understand, couldn't even think about that before.

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it's the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. the world getting its first look at so-called jihadi john unmasked. a photo of the man from the isis beheading videos seen wearing a pittsburgh pirates baseball cap as a student in london. congress passes a one-week bill to keep the department of homeland security funded but lawmakers remain far apart on a long term deal. republicans want any bill to block the president's orders on immigration. the democrats want a clean bill. plus a brutal winter storm dumping freezing rain on parts of texas and oklahoma overnight

turning roads into skating rinks and snow by the way, causing trouble at a real skating rink in massachusetts when the roof collapsed under the weight. fortunately, no one was hurt there. and kurdish fighters driving back isis in northeast syria. local militias taking control of the town along the syrian border with turkey and iraq. let's bring in lieutenant colonel bill collin. good to see you this saturday. i want to start here. want to get your assessment of the fight against isis. where is the u.s. and allies winning and where do the vulnerabilities still remain? >> i'm not sure we're winning anywhere. we are carrying out some strikes against them maybe upwards of 20 strikes a day but that's nothing, arthel, compared to the hundreds of strikes we are carrying out during the war. it's not a lack of targets. we know there's plenty of people running around out there. i would say we in the united states have a long long way to go with our coalition partners

to really have any kind of gains against isis. >> speaking of the coalition partners, which military there in the region is best suited to fight on the ground? >> well, look there is an important aspect here when we talk about fighting isis. we have to remember that isis is in two countries, iraq and syria, and all the talk that's going on right now is about the fight against the isis people in iraq. that's the iraqi troops we are going to get, the kurdish troops. the kurds you just mentioned are syrian kurds. the iraqi kurds being totally different. we don't even have all these forces together yet to go after isis inside iraq and we don't have anything really going on other than some syrian kurds to go after the isis people in syria. >> why is it that it appears at least that the syrian part of this equation seems to have been -- i'm sure it's not overlooked. obviously they are watching what's happening there. but there's no movement there. >> kobani, i'm sorry, i just had somebody jump in here the

kobani victory, arthel, was clearly a matter of syrian kurds and u.s. air strikes and some iraqi kurds were allowed in by way of the turks but these are really two distinct wars two distinct battles so to speak. isis is spread across the whole battlefield but we are not, the iraqi army isn't, the syrian kurds aren't the iraqi kurds aren't and the problem is we still do not have a comprehensive strategy for going against isis the greater isis. we are looking at pieces of it but we are not going against the whole animal. >> i want to move on because i just reported and we showed the picture of so-called jihadi john. first time we are getting to see his face. he is born in -- went to school, well-bred, went to school in london, and so i ask you the significance of the u.s. knowing who this guy is and how does his resume, if you will, impact the strategy? the computer sciences as i said educated. for the aspect of u.s.

intelligence with profiling as well as the potential for getting isis recruits they are looking at who might be doing with what. you look at isis and their propaganda, this plays right into their propaganda i'm assuming. you tell me different if you think so. >> well, i think being able to identify the guy is important because it will now send shivers up and down his spine but it also sends shivers up and down the spines of foreigners who have gone over there concerned that they too will be identified. one of the big issues is all these foreigners with passports exemption countries that can come and go to the united states. this puts the burden on those members of isis from these passport -- visa exempt, excuse me countries, that can come and go. i'm sure there's a psychological effect of us being able to identify the guy. by the same token the fact that he is well-bred and well-educated, comes from a well-to-do family goes totally against the grain of the white house's story. the state department story that we are really talking about

people who need jobs and people who are disenfranchised. he and many of the people like him are anything but. they are well-to-do people, come from good backgrounds, have good educations and want to be engaged in the fight. all of that, interestingly enough, plays very well to isis because it tells other people with similar backgrounds that you may have a job, but you can have a better one with us. >> why can't we get the borders there in turkey syria everybody is flying through turkey to go to syria. why can't we have turkey cut the bothereds borders, block it? >> that's one of the finest questions i have been asked for awhile on tv because the issue is really the turkish border. we see three british school girls who just left britain traveled to turkey and are now believed to be inside syria already with isis. that's because people flying into turkey with a one-way ticket, that's your first indicator something's up and making their way down to the border through a series of safe houses and contacts that they have, then crossing the border

into syria. the turks are not doing what is required of them in order to stem that flow of foreigners making their way down to fight with isis. turkey is really guilty here. >> we will leave the lingering question of why they are not doing anything because i do have to go. colonel, thank you for your time. there is sadness suspicion and lots of questions surrounding the brazen assassination of one of the most prominent critics of russian president vladimir putin. a scheduled rally in moscow protesting russia's action ns ukraine has been canceled and instead will become a tribute to boris nemtsov. nemtsov was fatally shot last night as he walked with a woman right near the kremlin just hours after he gave a radio interview denouncing putin's tactics in ukraine as mad and aggressive. he is said to have been ready to provide the world with evidence of russian troops and more meddling in ukraine something putin has long denied. a lot of people don't buy that.

the former president of georgia joins us now. currently chairman of the advisory council of the reforms for president poroshenko for ukraine. mr. president, welcome. >> thank you for inviting me. who do you think murdered this brave man? >> it's not -- we shouldn't ask who but i think what. i think what murdered him is the system. that was created by putin. this is a system of intimidation, this is a mafia state run by -- hit men are beinglñdxñ rewarded for all kind of these actions. the general atmosphere that violence is permitted and even encouraged. vladimir putin came with violence. initially he came with war. that's how he did his election campaigns. inside and also outside his borders toward neighbors. that is still continuing to escalate, i'm afraid. >> you just had lunch last week

with nemtsov. let me show you a quote from two weeks ago on february 10th. quote, i'm afraid putin will kill me. i believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in the ukraine. i couldn't dislike him more. what did he tell you at that lunch? did he have fear? did he express any sense that he could lose his life in this battle? >> we had a couple of meetings for the last couple of weeks and he was coming often to kiev. he was especially interested in evidence of participation of russian troops into this and he wanted to bring the truth because you know the way brainwashing in russia works it's most of the russians are convinced this is america that actually russians have nothing to do with this there are nazis running around, anti-semitic ukrainians killing jews and of course, this is all a very old style propaganda but that's

basically suffocating the whole public opinion in russia. boñ he was one of the brave people who -- you opposite to what putin and his what did you think he was going to bring forward? >> there is plenty of evidence about it. it's not just about evidence. it's about who is there to present it to theat go out and reach out and say that's us conducting war that's us killing ukrainians, that's us invading there that's us doing all these ugly, nasty things, stirring up trouble doing new big aggressive war in europe and just like in afghanistan in the '70s and '80] just like beforeil9j second world war nazis invading europe but it takes courage to say this in russia because the whole climate is justi;zbñ so dangerous and so you know, boris was one of the liveliest

persons i met. i knew him since the '90s. we often disagreed, we had our arguments, but one thing is clear. he was a democrat. he was -- he genera,;q wanted to help his country and he certainly tried to learn the truth. he was not one of the gray-suited poker-faced kgb operatives thatwu:[ñ putin brought in for the 21st century of a huge government. >> he wasaáú5ñ freedom, for democracy, for the people of ukraine. everyone knows that russia is behind it. >> what has been played out now in ukraine has repercussions much beyond ukraine. first of all it's the largesteé country in the world, second prgest country in europe. >> he's gobbling it up bit by bit and we can't stop him. what should we do? should weh will that inflame putin? what should the west do to protect democracy? >> i think first of all, say

very plainly what david cameron of uk said. this is russian invasion period. not pro-russian rebels. but real invasion.gf:(q second, of course when somebody says, i have lots of arguments i have lots of meetings i met with dozens of senators and lawmakers ongñiíñ the hill and when some of the people -- >> what do they want? >> we want weapons for ukraine.7xuafgc ukrainians are not asking, they will never ask forysx soldiers or boots, american boots on the ground. >> how come they're not getting them? >> the point is that some of the people are saying if we give them weapons, typical logic of every aggressive historical, every time some aggressor shows up, a major nasty guy, by the way, we don't have to make him more nervous maybe we should lay down, lay low and maybe he will cam down and leave us alone. that doesn't work. the thing is by arming

ukrainians we are defending the cause of freedom. ukrainians proved they are willing to fight for their country. they are trying to fight for freedom. the united states won three world wars concluding the cold war..4< t[ was right against evil. you couldn't allow, we cannot allow for the united states who won this war and for the world who won this war for free world who won this war, to lose most of its3x;$ gains because democracies will not have guts to confront evil as it is and to do the basic things the basic thing is to give them weapons. they will stand for their own rights for their own freedom and also for the freedom for the rest of the world out there in europe and the united states and the free world. >> tragically if you are in moscow and you speak up against putin you get shot in the head and in the back four times. >> that's really tragic.oos%ñ you know it reminds me a little of f milosivic. putin is ruling with violence.

he will end in violence.? the problem is at what cost for the rest of the world. that's what we should all be aware of.dûápr(t&háhp &hc% just appeasing him or trying to delay this whole process is not going to work. the world needs to act now because later, we will all pay higher cost and it also may be too late for some people like nemtsov. also for some countries. ukraine cannot be defeated because it would be defeat of the free world. >> nemtsov's memory and what he stood for will continue, especially in our country. joining us. >> thank you for having me on your show. >> arthel. we are waiting to hear who wins the cpac straw poll. 17 names on this year's poll. kentucky senator rand paul has been the winner for two straight years. will he make it to nvñ "juttño who will it be? stay tuned.

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did you hearj÷ about this heartwarming story in colorado. turns out dozens of homeowners in the town of sentinel woke up and their driveways and walkways were already shoveled. happened after a major snowstorm. so what happened? a group.xioñ of high school teenagers said they wanted to pay it forward. there they are. christian winder is one of the students and one of the homeowners joins us. christian, welcome. first of all, youó guys 6:30 in the morning, there are six of you, you decide to what go out and shovel everybody's driveway? >> yes. we did. >> why? >> well we just wanted to give back to our neighbors and pay it forward and our main source of this was our god. >> that was -- this is absolutely terrific. you got up at 6:30. tell me what happened. anyone catch you? >> well, yeah. we few people while we were

shoveling came out of their houses and just thanked us and it was great. it made us feel very wzc+great, very good, and they tried to pay us money.ñ.rx we denied it. we didn't want to take any donations. >> this came from your heart although i understand you got some hot chocolate. jeff, you were in your home you wake up, you know it's going to snow. you are expecting to bring the snow blower out but instead you found what? >> our entire driveway our walkway and the sidewalk completely clean. it was a very very nice surprise. we had gotten quite a bit of snow that night, the night before, like i would say at least ten inches of snow. so they did a lot of shoveling. >> these guys did about 15 homes, yours was one of them. what did you think happened? >> well, when we came down we actually saw one of them out there. when we looked down on the street, we saw the rest of them and we said wow, these guys are out shoveling everybody's

driveway, what an awfully nice thing to do. we were quite surprised and quite pleased by it. >> you know, you are a father. what does this m this say to:a" teenagers around the country and others about helping each other and neighbors being neighbors? >> right. well, it renews some faith there are good kids out there doing good things and it makes us proud to see young men like this and young women out there doing this kind of thing. i was quite proud of them. >> congratulations. you and your pals really deserve it. get some hot chocolate tonight, extra. thank you for joining us. we have breaking news to attend to. terrific, terrific gesture. we are moments away from finding out who the winner of the straw poll standing by for that. there we are live there in ♪ ♪ ♪ tigers, both of you. tigers? don't be modest. i see how you've been investing. setting long term goals.

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plus enjoy special savings when you purchase any new verizon wireless smartphone or tablet from comcast. visit comcast.com/wireless to learn more. any moment now, we await the cpac result. it's not clear what it could mean because in 41 years they've only selected three republican nominees. ronald reagan, george w. bush and mitt romney and senator rand paul has won the last two years. so we'll have to see who will be anointed in just a moment. >> our reporter john roberts, he's been covering all of the÷-5fñ conferences for us. in fact, he's in palm beach now

with more there from the;! (su! for growth. hey, john. >> reporter: how are you? if anything, cpac is good for bragging rights. they have nailed it three times in the past, more often than not they haven't. if rand paul wins again third time could be the charm for him because it would give him a boost in the middle of this invisible primary where he is trying hard to get traction against candidates like jeb bush and scott walker who are at the moment seem to be sucking all of the oxygen out of the room. so for him, it could be a little bit of a renewed vigor for his campaign because i think at this point, he certainly could use a little of that. >> of course, his father, ron paul, won in 2010 and 2011 and then in between there with mitt romney and then paul again two more years. as you said, jeb bush has been kind of sucking the oxygen out of the room and really playing to letting people know, hey,

look, i'm not just a moderate republican. >> reporter: yeah. squishy rhino is the way he has been described byo2ñ alk radio, being republican in name only. jeb bush tried to put that to rest here at the club for growth, he was the opening night speaker on thursday. being pretty well received by the club. they're still skeptical about a couple of hisn ú policies. the club for growth really focuses8ai more on economic conservetism and not so much on@ issues of immigration and commoniéo core, which really are the things that could be seen to be dogging jeb bush. but i thinkghñ the consensus was while there was some negative reaction to his presence at cpac and group of people did kind of turn their backs on him, that he acquitted himself pretty well. in the middle of this, and3z'÷ in is how important the+ could be. there are notions that not even an exploratory committee is trying to stack the deck there at cpac by bussing in hundreds of supporters.

certainly when he spoke at cpac yesterday, the room was full of jeb bush supporters, but it may be a bit of a bridge too far to suggest he's trying to stack zdw the deck in terms ázl that.m+dzv >> they said he wasj some. how about scott walker? what type of showing could we expect from walker? the more conservative versus the standard bearer mainstream-, establishment[( [ republicans? >> scott walker certainly set the place on fire during his appearance at cpac. it's a safe beat beth he's going to do -- bet he's going to do pretty well. i was talking to a person associated with one of the candidates in the straw policy that rand paul would probably be first, scottrióuju second, and ben carson third. we talk abouth nthis idea that ron paul won the cpac straw poll one year and what does that really mean in terms of his viability as a candidate? i think this year might be different. 'cause ted cruz when he was speaking last night, was urging

these very, very deep donors, and among them, the people who ranw7zññ some of the biggest corporations in the world, he's make the case, don't elect or don't nominate anothert0# squishy moderate as has happened in the past. nominate a conservative because every time republicans nominate a conservative, they win elections as opposed to losing them. >> you have a good point there. it may not necessarily have to come in first but it could give real boost to scott walker potentially, or maybe rick perry or othersu they do very well. >> reporter: scott walker could probably take a real boost from this. when you look at the way he's polling right now, it looks like they're getting close to announcing the straw poll. if you look where he is right now without having been out on this invisible campaign trail too long he already in the latest quinnipiac poll leads3ry8s in iowa by double digits. he's got 25% there. a lot of that could be attributed to the fact that wisconsin and iowa are next door to each other. butbk7m walker told me in andy neighbors in iowa are looking at

what he's doing in wisconsin. they look at him as a guy who gets things done. he's willing to zw fight, and by and large, when he takes on those fights he wins. andmj z iowans really like someone like that. >> john, back to your point if> yeah. at least for a little while. don'th=ñ forget, there's a long time between now and the first caucuses next january. but in thisxnqxy jockeying for position and right now really what they're doing in terms of this quote, invisible primary action is looking up staff andó donors certainly if 2 out of cpac with a head ofjz÷v steam, ba/÷ going to tell a lot of people, particularly on the conservative side of things that looks like your candidac may be viable. as long as it's not a big outline in terms of the straw poll winner, tells people in the conservative side of things that your can did city is viable and that you may be somebody to get behind. >> kind of like a little bit of a political fortune telling.

>> it can be. it's very much like the iowa straw poll. it's of the moment. don't forget michelle,hw -- michellevzzo bachmann and didn't get anywhere near the nomination. it looks like in terms of cpac and the conservative union, when it comes to rand paul, they've been feeling this way for a very long time. >> you're looking now at the stage in maryland right outside of washington where -- all the candidates, most of them -- >> 17 people. >> 17 are out there. let's see exactly who has been picked by cpac to be number one, as well as the others following through as we wait for that announcement. john finally your best guess or is that even possible? >> reporter: om4% nk it's probably pretty safe to say that it's going to come down to one of three people. i think it will probably come down to rand paul, scott walker or ted cruz because they really were the ones who set the house on fire during cpac. rand paul because he's the

favorite there, may win again or maybe they think he won twice in!2! the past and it's time to elevate somebody else. so you're guessing the winner is a hazardous occupation at best, but i think reasonably you could say one of those three people k/y or near the top. >> let's listen in just for a second. >> i didn't know you were in the audience, but thankfully you were. now the winner of the second competition has a chance to send the liberals into retirement and return the white house to conservative leadership in 2016! to+wñ this conservative like me makes a big difference and it sounds great, doesn't it? really from the south or not as i am, like most of you know, been here the last few years. the washington times presidential straw poll is one of the most respected ?hñ barometersz that's because it reflectsvfd your

views, your perceptions of which 2016>p k]h candidate is the best equipped to win the next year election. thanks to the great work that kelly ann conway's firm does it also has an uncanny knack of predicting whov- top echelons of conservative power. so without further ado, let me bring matt and kelly ann to the lectern to explain what you told us and who won zñ straw poll. thank you. >> h9z)b cpac. what a great week it's been. larry bees will he%m;@ñ -- beasley and the washington times thanks for inviting my firm to conduct this year's straw poll. i'm very happy to report to you that we had over 3,000 respondents. a sample size of 3007 to be exact. that's a 20% increase in participation over last year's