>> pelley: tonight newt gingrich wins south carolina, and suddenly it's a whole new battle for the republican presidential nomination. snow finally comes to the northeast while wet weather continues to drench much of the pacific northwest. alan pizzey reports another victim has been recovered from the "costa concordia." and elaine quijano with a piece of south carolina history on view for the first time nearly 150 years after going down during the civil war. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news"

with scott pelley. >> pelley: this is a special western edition. good evening. newt gingrich has shaken up the race for the republican presidential nomination. cbs news projects tonight that he has won the g.o.p. primary in south carolina, defeating the man who was once the front- runner, mitt romney. here are the votes as we have them so far. 43% of the vote in, and counting. here is the key to the gingrich victory. he got more than 40% of three important voting groups-- the tea party movement, conservatives, and evangelicals. we hav we have a team of correspondents covering the south carolina primary. first, dean reynolds with the gingrich campaign. dean. we're expecting the former speaker to be taking that platform any moment now. you know, his campaign sort of

saw this thing shifting right after the debate on monday when they detected a tonal shift in their opponent. mitt romney began attacking them, and not president obama. and that told them that they had a nervous opponent. then, of course, there were those debates when-- the debate on thursday just augmented the debate on monday, and gingrich took on the-- what he calls the elites and the news media, two lines of attack that resonate deeply with conservatives in this state. and now it's on to florida and believe it or not, after this roller coaster of a ride that we've had, gingrich believes he has a very good shot in florida and thinks he can put this race to an end much quicker than anyone else imagined possible. >> pelley: dean, he may like his chances in florida, but he's

been running this campaign on a shoe string. what's he going to do about money going forward? >> reporter: obviously, scott, they believe they're going to get a big infusion of funds but they're not letting that just rely on the boost from this. they are actually going out and appealing for funds. the speaker tweeted earlier today that he was happy with his victory, he thanked the people of south carolina. he said, "help me deliver the knockout punch in florida," and then he said two more words-- "donate now." >> pelley: send money. dean, thank you very much. this program note-- newt gingrich will be bob schieffer's guest tomorrow morning on "the face the nation." right after his win in new hampshire last week, it looked like mitt romney would win in south carolina, too, but his once-big lead evaporated in just the last few days. jan crawford is covering the romney campaign. jan? >> reporter: well, scott, the

room is obviously clear now, but about an hour okay it was full of screaming, cheering supporters, shout,, "florida, florida!" already look, forward to the next state. romney, of course, came in and said he called to concede with speaker gingrich and then he struck a very upbeat tone. he said the race had gotten interesting but there was a long way to go. he started his remarks off by attacking president obama. he sthis election was a battle for the soul of america, and then he turned his sights on the new front-runner, newt gingrich. let's listen to that. >> president obama has no experience running a business and no experience running a state. our party can't be led to victory by someone who also has never run a business and never run a state. ( cheers and applause ) line of attack by romney, and ironically, gingrich has been saying romney is too much like president obama, and voters have really picked up on that. they've always thought here in south carolina that romney was

just too moderate. but in speaking with campaign advisers tonight, they're still taking the long view, scott. they've got a big, strong organization in florida. thethey've got a lot of money. they're very disciplined. woulone adviser told me politics all about patience and pick your opponent. they don't see any missteps that will hurt them down the road. tonight they're looking forward, disappointed, but not downbeat. >> pelley: florida vote coming up january 31. jan, thanks very much. cbs news projects that rick santorum has finished third in south carolina after winning the iowa caucuses just two weeks ago. he's battling to be the conservative alternative to mitt romney. but with the gingrich win tonight, where does santorum go from here? nancy cordes is covering his campaign. nancy. >> reporter: well, scott, where he goes is full speed ahead to florida, according to santorum this evening. the way he sees it, he told me today, is that he's won one in

iowa, mitt romney has won one, and now newt gingrich, and so it's all tied up. >> if the south carolina turns out the way some of the recent polls have suggested, which is congressman gingrich ahead, you've got all three candidates now winning a race, and that's a great place to go in to florida and we are already planning-- we've got trips planned to nevada and colorado and minnesota, which are the next three states right after that. >> reporter: but you've already said that florida is even tougher territory for you than south carolina. so what's your path to victory here? >> well, so far, i think, a total of 50 delegation have been awarded out of 2,000. the field has narrowed down to three candidates that could be president, and let that process work a little bit and let the people of america decide, and not just one or two states picking who the final candidate is. >> reporter: he shrugged off any notion that he's going to have to step aside and allow

conservatives to coalesce around newt gingrich. he says the only pressure that he's getting to get out of this race is coming from the other candidates, and not, scott, from his supporters. >> pelley: nancy, thanks very much. we've had dozens of reporters talking to south carolina voters as they left the polls today. anthony mason is join us now with some insight into what was on the voters' minds. anthony. >> reporter: scott, nearly two-third of south carolina voters say the recent debates were important to their decision today and newt gingrich won fully half of those voters, 50%. that was important to him making inroads on key issues that romney had dominated, the first one being electability. among those who ranked that the most important quality, gingrich won the majority today, 51 business. gingrich also beat businessman romney among those who picked economy as the top issue. >> pelley: anthony, thank you very much. john dickerson, our cbs news

political director has been traveling all over south carolina these last many days, talking to the folks there. gingrich has been running his campaign on a shoe string, john. how did he manage to pull this off? >> reporter: well, he did it mostly by appealing to voters' passion. the republican race, voters have been telling pollsters that they just weren't enthusiastic about mitt romney, and now mitt romney has lost two of three races. voters have ratified what they've been telling pollsters. well, gingrich appeals to their passion. i talked to one voter who said during those debates she found herself talking to the television in agreement with gingrich. that's what they've been thirsting for. now it goes on to florida where it will be a match with gingrich's enthusiasm and passion versus romney's money and his organization. the big test for gingrich, though, may be whether he has the discipline to hold on to his momentum. he's had some trouble with discipline before, and it's one thing to ride a wave of momentum. the challenge for him, scott, is whether he can hold on to momentum for 10 days.

>> pelley: so, romney's lost two out of three. we're all been talking about him as the front-runner. what does this mean for him? >> reporter: what this means for romney is he has two tasks. the first is to pitch himself more forcefully. voters are looking for a strong advocate who can take on president obama, and romney needs to be able to make that pitch better. he's also going to have to go after newt gingrich in a much more forceful way. he's been doing it here in south carolina pretty hard. it doesn't seem to have scratched gingrich. romney is going to go harder. there are already negative pieces of mail in people's mailboxes. it's going to get pretty ugly in florida. >> pelley: john, thank you very much. a win for newt gingrich tonight in south carolina and not just a win-- a win by a large margin. divers off the coast of italy today recovered the body of a woman from the wreck of the cruise ship "costa concordia." we don't know who she is yet, but allen pizzey has been following the search. >> reporter: the victim was

wearing a lifejacket when her body was found by police divers in a narrow passageway. the divers were able to reach the dangerously cluttered area of the ship after holes in a newly released audio recording from the night the ship sank, the captain on his cell phone told the coast guard he would stay with his ship. "when everyone abandoned ship," the coast guard asked. the reply from the coast guard contradicts what actually happened. "i will stay here." he did not. and later refused to go back to help stranded passengers. now oil is leaking from the ship he abandoned. so far, the leaks appear to be from light fuel and lubricants

for machinery on board rather than heavier fuel oil that would cast an environmental disaster in these pristine waters. as desperate as they are to get the 500,000 gallons of fuel off the ship before it leaks, the authorities maintain the priority must be finding the bodies of the missing. most of the massive amount of equipment needed to remove the oil is in place, and once the operation begins, it will take several weeks if the weather is good and the ship doesn't shift position. allen pizzey, cbs news, giglio, italy. >> pelley: the winter weather here at home finally arrived in the northeast, and there is more misery in the pacific northwest as two storms move across the country. more than four inches of snow fell on new york city, giving plows their first work of the season. in the midwest, nine inches of snow fell on chicago, snarling traffic and grounding some 700 flights. and nearly a quarter million people in the northwest face

another cold, dark night after a snow and ice storm this week knocked out power. now rain is drenching the region, triggering the worst flooding oregon has seen in a decade, and high winds buried these coastal homes with sand. syrians speak out on political violence and repression, a hospital is reborn in earthquake-stricken haiti, and our first good look at a submarine raised from a civil war grave-- when the "cbs evening news" continues. especially when you're sick. ghs, sn] now, with new simpler packaging, robitussin® makes it simple to get the right relief for your symptoms. new simpler packaging, same effective relief. robitussin®. relief made simple. and hello to "whoa, yum." use campbell's cream of chicken soup to make easy enchiladas, cheesy chicken & rice, and other chicken dishes that are oh...so...whoa.

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the people of haiti this month are marking the second anniversary of the massive 7.0- magnitude earthquake that killed 316,000 people and made one million people homeless. tonight, our medical correspondent dr. jon lapook has paid a return visit to one devastated town. >> reporter: three months after the earthquake in haiti, we visited a makeshift clinic near the northern city of port-de- paix. this hospital was so poorly equipped, the only oxygen machine was taken from a premature baby to help save a woman in labor and her unborn child. the mother and her newborn survived, the premature baby died. now, nearly two years later, these haitians are laying the foundation of one of the largest, most sophisticated projects in haiti, a state-of- the-art teaching hospital. and there's oxygen outlets in the wall. it's the mission of dr. paul farmer to prevent any further deaths from such unacceptable

causes as lack of proper equipment. is there any other facility in all of haiti that is like this? >> i doubt it. there's a couple nice hospitals in port-au-prince, but they're very difficult to access for poor people. >> reporter: farmer is cofounder of partners in health, a nonprofit that's collaborated with the haitian government to build a hospital that's free of charge to patients. paul, how does it make you feel to walk through this big, beautiful hospital? >> about time, is how i feel. >> reporter: farmer is fed up with the double standard in health care. >> this is a serious problem in health care delivery. it's setting standards based on whether or not someone is poor or a country is poor. people living in poverty and with sickness deserve something better than what they've been offered, which is the sharp end of a stick. >> reporter: dr. farmer knows the challenges of getting resources directly to the haitian people. a lot of people in the united states say haiti, it's a lost cause. we've poured billions into that country, and it's just money that's going down the hole.

it's wasted. what do you say to them? >> what i would say to someone who said haiti is a lost cause, it's all wasted: that's not our experience. we've built or rebuilt a dozen hospitals and have thousands of employees working in the public sector in haiti, and, you know, so that's... that's a successful experience. there's room to teach here. >> reporter: this facility will also help teach a new generation of haitian doctors and nurses to heal the wounds of a broken country. dr. jon lapook, cbs news, mirebalais. >> pelley: and there is other progress in haiti. the number of people living in camps went down 65% from 1.5 million to half a million. the number of camps has fallen by half. so there is progress, but far to go. a civil war submarine has been raised from the waters off south carolina. elaine quijano has that story next. next.

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>> reporter: no one knows more about the history of the h.l. "hunley" than south carolina state senator glen mcconell. >> when the "hunley" went out in 1864 and sank the u.s.s. "housatonic," it forever changed the rules by which warfare would occur on the water. >> reporter: the "hunley" completed its mission but then sank four miles off the coast of south carolina. mcconell has worked to salvage the vessel's legacy since 1995. this is not just about south carolina's history. >> it's about america now. and it's world history because it is the world's first successful combat submarine. >> reporter: the submarine was carefully raised from the ocean floor in 2000. last week, the steel truss that lifted the vessel was removed, allowing the public it see the "hunley" unobstructed for the first time. when you look at that, what do you see? >> well, i see a sleek, hydrodynamically designed

vessel, 50-something years ahead of its time. >> reporter: a new orleans lawyer, horace hunley, designed it. it was powered by hand crank and its depth controlled by filling tanks with sea water. this artist's rendering reveals how the "hunley" sank the "housatonic" by ramming it with a 135-pound torpedo. the reason the "hunley" sank remains a history. eight sailors were aboard. the men were found still at their stations 156 years after their mission. senator mcconell is one of a select few who sat inside. >> it's like having your head up in darth vader's mask. you can hear your breathing and the echoing of everything around your head. >> reporter: when conservation work is complete, the "hunley" will be placed in its own museum, a permanent resting place for what was in its day the only weapon of its kind. elaine quijano, cbs news, north charleston, south carolina.

the power is fine. but the parking lot is a mess. last minute efforts to dry out. he's the man of the hour for the republican party. but so far that hasn't been enough for the other candidates. what newt gingrich's win in south carolina really means. and a chance to shape the future. the game that let's voters decide how one city should spend it's limited funds. cbs five eyewitness news is next. good evening, i'm ann notarangelo.