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another romney victory. as predicted the former massachusetts governor finished first in new hampshire's republican primary dealing a blow to conservatives who had hoped to break his momentum. now it looks like the rest of the field, including last night's runners up, ron paul and jon huntsman need to work fast to catch up. tracie potts has more from new hampshire. good morning to you. >> reporter: veronica, good morning. all of these candidates now say they're moving on to south carolina. in fact, some are already there this morning but now only one can claim victory in two states. >> thank you, new hampshire. >> reporter: mitt romney scored a decisive victory. today he heads to south carolina, focused on president obama. >> we're asking the good people of south carolina to join the citizens of new hampshire and make 2012 the year he runs out of time. >> he certainly had a clear-cut victory but we're nibbling at his heels. >> reporter: ron paul ran strong

among independents and young voters here. jon huntsman calls his third place finish a solid, comfortable position. >> we proved a point, that this state wants its candidates to earn it the old-fashioned way. that's on the ground, handshake by handshake. >> reporter: newt gingrich failed to break into the top three after hammering away at romney but says the conservative south will be different. >> we can create a majority that will shock the country and a majority that will begin to put us back on the right track. it is doable. >> reporter: rick santorum could not replicate his iowa success in the granite state. >> i had a lost folks here, spending a lot of time here and money. we knew it would be tough. >> reporter: he spent zero in new hampshire but has committed to a million to get his message out dunn south. compare that to the nearly 3 1/2 million gingrich plans to spend or the 6 million romney's political action committee already spent in ads for florida and south carolina.

veronica? >> tracie potts in new hampshire. thank you. the obama administration is rejecting claims by syria's president that the deadly violence in his country is the fault of demonstrators. after tuesday's speech by ba bar ad assad. meanwhile, a senior u.n. official told the security council tuesday the level of violence in syria actually went up since arab league monitors arrived last month. some 4 o people are believed to have been killed in just the last three weeks. a scientist working on iran's nuclear program was killed in a bomb blast in tehran. an iranian news agency says a motorcyclist drove up and attached the bomb to the scientist's car using magnets. he worked at a uranium enrichment facility, the same type of attack that's killed two other iranian scientists and wounded a third over the last two years. iran has blamed the u.s. and israel for those bombings.

both countries deny involvement. exactly four months to the day after the september 1th attacks the u.s. started impresidentening what it called enemy combatants at the american naval base in guantanamo bay, cuba. nbc's francis koe reports. >> reporter: today is the ten-year anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at guantanamo bay, cuba. it's been controversial since the outset. >> it's humane, it's legal, it's proper. it's skin with the geneva conventions and after a period that will sink in. let there be no doubt. >> reporter: president obama ordered the facility closed in january 2009. >> guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now. >> reporter: but congressional road blocks slowed the closing and debate continues over the existence of the prison and its

policies. some analysts predict the facility may stay in business for a while. lawmakers cut off funding that would have brought prisoners to the united states for trial. and downed a plan to how's them at a prison in illinois. since the beginning, 779 prisoners have passed through guantana guantanamo, according to the defense department. there are currently 171 detainees being held there. only seven are scheduled for trial and 89 are eligible for release. some former inmates say their time at guantanamo is a dark memory. >> this is an anniversary of tragedy, of pain, of torment, of families being ripped apart. of a dark page in the modern history of humanity. >> reporter: he spent two years at guantanamo before being freed without charge. since then he's formed an organization, caged prisoners, for former detainees.

earlier this month, a defense authorization bill was signed into law that will broaden the military's power over terrorist detainees and will require security guarantees before prisoners can be sent home. among detainees that are rumored to be marked for transfer are 12 taliban detainees who may be transferred to afghan custody as part of a u.s. bid with peace talks with the taliban. francis koe, nbc news. here's your "first look" at some of the other news going on around america today. a coalition of civil and human rights activists joined the chorus of voices. accusations of racism have been levied against the teachers for basing math questions and equations on slavery and slave beatings. a bus passenger's confrontation with police on a california bus turned vial en. moments after she refused to get off the bus she began cursing at them and was then struck.

the incident is being investigated. a wave of vandali isism thr wrench into roanoke's garbage pickup service. it was canceled on tuesday. it will resume today. a california's preteen attempt to keep her sister out of her room helped police nab a thief. she captured a former real estate agent stealing items during the family's open house. police have arrested the suspect. now for a look at the national weather we turn to bill karins with the weather channel forecast. oops. >> not only was he stealing, he was stealing from a preteen. >> a client. >> from a little girl. >> what was he -- what was he stealing? >> i'm always nervous about the realtors. >> you know, anybody passing through your house you have to be nervous about, even you, bill karins. >> especially me.

don'tly me out of your sight at your house party. >> good morning, everyone. we have snow in the forecast, cold air in the forecast, finally, a wintertime forecast. let's get to it. first things first. we have to get the first storm out of the way. tomorrow snow in chicago and northern new england. right now, all rain. this storm system plagued us yesterday in texas and louisiana. can't can't, tennessee, alabama and georgia, heavy rain. atlanta, you'll get rain sooner or later. this storm makes its way into d.c. baltimore, philadelphia, late today and not in new york city until later on tonight. this is the 48-hour rainfall totals. kind of an impressive rainfall event. some areas picking up a half inch to an edge. new york city, up to 1 1/2 inches. chicago, no rain for you. that's because you'll be coal enough for snow. also northern new england, same

for you. we hold on to enough cold air that we'll get snow out of this. some areas will start off as snow and transition to ice and rain. a cold shot of air, 18 in billings. final i, winter is returning here. this cold air will race in behind the storm. we get a significant lake-effect snow event and also regular plain old snow in the days ahead. this is mostly thursday, not today, thursday, snow on the backside of the storm as it lingers in the great lakes. chicago right now 3 to 6 inches for you. we could see a bullseye somewhere from madison to lacrosse. as far as new england goes, this looks like it starts tonight. we'll mostly be all know, the higher terrain of ver monday, 6 to 12 inches. great news for the ski areas, the adirondacks and the catskills. maybe a slushy coating to start and changing over to rain areas like boston and province. today, fine travel day. exception being the southeast.

veronica, the cold air in winter finally may be -- i don't want to say returns, maybe it finally arrives. >> we're so lucky. it's been so mild. >> i know. it's mid-january. juice causes jitter and the wall street protesters affect on our language. your "first look" at this morning's business headlines is straight ahead. coming up, the raiders make a surprising move. the mayor of pittsburgh has a case of tebow mania and the wizards win. that's right, they finally win. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. wake up!

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hey there. welcome back to "first look." i'm veronica de la cruz. here are is some of the top stories making news this morning. secretary of state clinton slammed iran tuesday citing iran's blatant disregard for its responsibilities and growing isolation regarding tehran increasing its uranium enrichment program. the u.s. rescued iranians in the persian gulf for a second

time this week. six iranians were saved from a cargo boat taking on water tuesday. the victims were given flood and medical attention before being turned over to the iranian coast guard. a surprise development at the birth place of the occupy wall street movement. metal barricades have been removed from zuccotti park in new york. police warned they are still not allowed to damp there. oklahoma's ban on islamic sharia law is likely unconstitutional. an appeals court found no evidence that the ban was necessary. the case returns to a lower court. and sobering numbers from the government when it comes to binge drinking. college age drinkers have an average of nine cloik beverages when they get drunk. one in six adults say they binged on booze at least once in the last month. here's your "first look" at wall street. the dow opens april 12462 after adding 69 points yesterday.

the s&p rose 11, the nasdaq jumped 25. taking a look at overseas trading, in tokyo, the nikkei up 25 points. while in hong kong, the hang seng gained 147. a strong earnings outlooks for alcoa helped stocks climb to a five-month high on tuesday. investors' hopes for a strong earnings season were lifted by heavy aluminum demand. chin in's high imports of copper last month helped drive the rest of the material sector higher. caterpillar rose 3%. jp morgan chase added 2%. tiffany and company plunged 10% after slashing its full-year profit forecast. elsewhere, orange juice futures surged a record 10% on news some brazilian imports contain a potentially harmful fungicide. news that fitch ratings does not expect to cut france's aaa credit rating helped ease

bailouts. the mafia has now become the country's largest lender. back here at home, it was a good year for the federal reserve. thanks to its investments, the fed paid $77 billion to the government in 2011. the second highest amount ever. and in an effort to stay afloat, east man kodak is hoping patent suits against apple and htc corporations will help speed its turnaround. several of the nation's biggest banks are reportedly under investigation over whether they overcharged customers strugging to pay home insurance. the occupy wall street movement has left its mark on 2011 in more than one way. occupiers were named its word of the year. kobe throws them up, the wizards finally win and a big college hoops upset. plus pittsburgh's mayor experiences firsthand the agony

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won a game. the wizards put an end to the worst start in franchise history. john wahl to mcgee, wiz up 12 at the half. rashard lewis came off the bench with his best game of the year. finished with 15. break up the wiz. they beat the raptors 93-78. kobe bryant got things started with 17 in the first quarter with be finishing with 48. the most points by a player this season. he may be 33 but kobe still got game. the lakers beat phoenix. brandon paul with the kind of night you dream about. career high 43. nailed a three-pointer late in the game for the lead. moments later with a man all over him, he threw up a rainbow and he draened it. brandon paul carried illinois to a 74-72 win. football, raiders surprisingly fired head coach hugh jackson. but then again, is anything the raiders do a surprise. jackson 8-8 after one season

with the club. the gm says he want to bring in his own guy. tim tebow has plenty of job security after upsetting the steelers in the playoffs. broncos are two wins away from the super bowl. this game-winning touchdown in overtime prompted nearly 10,000 tweets a second. pittsburgh mayor luke ravenstahl had a case of tebow mania. he wore a tebow jersey and tebow'ing in the pittsburgh skyli skyline. for another quick look at the weather, here's bill karins with the weather channel forecast. can i see you tebow, please? down on your knee. >> i'm not making any bets. >> i have the jersey. >> i went on my knee once. that was for my wife proposing, that was it. >> not even before you did the weather. >> that was it. f. you're up in new england, a lot of reporters, our co-workers

are returning from new hampshire during the day today. "morning joe" will still be up there this morning. storm is heading that way. the rain and snow won at riff in areas like new hampshire and new england until overnight tonight. you still have 18 hours to go. temperatures are chilly out there this morning. we will keep it mild during the day. clouds willing on the increase. as far as the snow and the rain goes, most of it will hold off to the second half of today. the rain in d.c. expecting in the afternoon hours, philadelphia, probably after dark. new york city won't come in probably until after, you know, maybe 10:00 p.m. or so. areas like buffalo and pittsburgh, you're warm enough initially for just some rain. the snowfall predictions are in the mountainous areas of new england. we get a wintry mix like albany, springfield, north of boston, northern massachusetts will start off with wintry precip and slowly change over to ice or rain. it won't be a significant storm, only for northern new england. the cold air arrives.

areas like milwaukee and chicago tomorrow will get their biggest snow of the season. >> i can hardly wait. >> we'll get you a parka. >> will you tebow one more time? >> i never did it the first time. justin bieber talks about being a grown-up, that's coming up. and brad pitt talks about his kids one day perhaps becoming actors. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. ereal, what is? now, in every box of general mills big g cereal, there's more whole grain than any other ingredient. that's why it's listed first on the side. from honey nut cheerios to cinnamon toast crunch to lucky charms, get more whole grain than any other ingredient... without question. just look for the white check. over a million people have discovered how easy it is to use legalzoom for important legal documents. so start your business, protect your family,

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let's take a look at the pros and cons of jay-z and beyonce becoming parents. pro, they named her name blue

ivy carter. the delivery was performed by one of the most sought after doctors in the world, con, dr. dre. >> he's a medical doctor. >> pro, blue is a nod to jay-z's blue print album while ivory is a clever interpretation of the roman numeral four or i.v. con, he named me james because his name was james. tonight, musical guest robin thicke. that is "late night with jimmy fallon" weeknights at 11:30, 12:35 central. it is time for your first look at entertainment news. oddsmakers are probably taking bets that brad pitt and angelina jolie's kids will one day be actors. dad has one condition.

he says not until they're 18. "daily times" reporting, it was found no evidence the cause was nothing but an accident. a top sheriff's official says it's highly unlikely that there's any new ground we broke. justin bieber tells "v" magazine he is not a kid anymore. he said he will never sing about sex, drugs or swearing. >> he's so squeaky clean. lindsay lohan, tms is reporting that the irs filed a lien against lohan for unpaid taxes. maybe if she does the liz

taylor movie. >> i don't know if lifetime will pay her that much. >> i'm veronica de la cruz. stay tune. "way too early with willie geist" live from new hampshire starts right now. thank you, new hampshire. tonight we made history. the president has run out of ideas. now he's running out of excuses. tonight we're asking the good people of south carolina to join the citizens of new hampshire and make 2012 the year he runs out of time. good morning and welcome back to jd's tavern in new hampshire, the morning after mitt romney's big primary win. i'm willie geist. this is a special edition of