missing toddler belongs to that of the little girl. what does it mean for the search for ayla. we will have that and more. thomas roberts, hope you had a great weekend. coming up, less than 24 hours before florida votes. campaign spending topped a staggering $24 million in the sunshine state. but the big number everybody is talking about today is 15. that's how many points mitt romney is ahead in florida in the latest nbs news marist poll. on par with the quinnipiac poll released. mitt romney on a roll through florida, trying to charm conservatives and latinos, taking targeted punches at newt gingrich. >> we were getting wailed on by newt gingrich, didn't respond well in south carolina. we decided we're going to respond. politics ain't bean bags, we made sure our message is out loud and clear. the idea someone running for

president was being paid by freddie mac at the time that was going on, $1.6 million, that irks people, and that's the real reason speaker gingrich had such a hard time. i also think people realize if they want to see change in washington, you can't just elect the same people to take different chairs, you have to have new people come in and take over. >> nbc's peter alexander is live in miami. we hear mitt romney say politics ain't bean bags. looks like he has taken that approach since leaving south carolina. is florida basically his to lose because of this big lead? >> i think they feel confident they're going to win in this state. he said to me 24 hours ago, we think we're going to win this state, certainly hope so. one of the things bufrg that as we go forward is the fact that 600,000 people across florida already voted by absentee or early voting, just a second ago, mitt romney came back to meet some of the reporters on the

press charter flight from jacksonville to tampa in the last ten minutes. our colleague on the plane sent me notes where romney came back and said to folks gathered there that he feels good, feels like this is different than how he felt in south carolina, that he has a sense that things are beginning to break his way. he was also asked, thomas, about newt gingrich's claim to stay in this all the way to the convention, and to use romney's words, that kind of talk is a good indication that someone thinks they are going to lose. the polls show romney leads by 15% his advisers show it is closer than that. same in new hampshire where they tried to reduce expectations to limit the belief system he was going to run away with this. they're trying to do that as well, if they have a double digit win in florida they can claim it as a big message from the republicans in the state. >> nbc's peter alexander in miami for us. thanks so much. we want to talk about his florida resurgence with richard

wolf. a lot of people are looking at this, seeing the fact there was a big "the new york times" article on the romney team resetting after south carolina, the debacle. is this mitt romney's to lose? he has done the work and organization to sew it up there. >> what you need to focus on is the amount of money romney spent over and above what gingrich spent. that's $12 million difference between the two of them. these numbers can be crazy. we lose track of what the scale is on these things, but the average senate race in the last election was $3 million. that's 12 million, four times that, just the advantage romney has had on the air waves. that had a real impact on the numbers. >> and a political writer for the miami herald, mark, ten different media markets in

florida, two different time zones. a lot of ground to cover there. let's look at the new quinnipiac poll showing 24% of florida republicans still may change their mind. is there a window cracked for newt gingrich, and if he loses big, how badly would his campaign be crippled moving out of florida? >> i don't know if there's a window cracked. he may have to knock out the window to get through this one. i can't think all the polls are wrong. at the very least, he is losing by 5 percentage points, at the most, 14 percentage points. you have to believe it is in there. mitt romney has been on the campaign trail for awhile, advertising in florida, on television, on radio, english and spanish, spending mailers, making phone calls. he has been doing it a month. there's almost 600,000 republicans that voted by early ballot. he probably banked a whole lot of votes and has the momentum. does it cripple him going forward? newt gingrich was living off the land when it was him and callista, when he had no staff,

could probably do it again. at a certain point, newt has to drop out, money dries up, only soich money that adelson will kick in to help him out. >> talk about how the narrative changed for mitt romney, changing the wealth conversation and business savvy back around to make it more of an asset going into florida voting. are polls showing electability the big concern, beating obama is the standout issue for florida republicans. romney winning that argument in the sunshine state but didn't in south carolina. would a win in the state of florida silence critics on the issue moving forward? >> we're seeing this flip around. a lot of volatility. it is changing state to state, and if you look at the issues question with values, you come up with something equal to electabili electability. february is better in terms of states moving forward for romney, but there's a lot of

time not much happens. you can see old debates about values, wealth, about their past resumes, both men coming to the floor once more. >> how is it that the candidate who says that he is going to veto proimmigrant legs, brought up self deportation of immigrants, how is he doing there in the state? how is that resonating with the huge voting block that's latino? >> well, according to our polls, he leads by two to one among hispanics, but florida is different from other states, different from the nation. our two biggest latino populations are cuban and puerto rican. cubans have a path to citizenship when they land on u.s. shores. puerto ricans are u.s. citizens, not as effected by the policy of immigration crackdowns or loosening being proposed.

they're more effected by tone and ten or of the immigration debate. that's what jeb bush and marco rubio warn the republican candidates to be aware of. on the rich thing, florida elected a very rich man to be governor in 2010. so the wealth argument to be used against mitt romney is not going to work. same with medicare fraud. governor rick scott headed a company after he left was fined a huge amount for medicare fraud. voters in the primary and general election still chose him for office. a slightly different electorate, but those attacks aren't working on mitt romney. >> mark ka putin oh of the miami herald, richard wolff. thank you. whether labeling romney a moderate or slamming him on romney care, he is down but not out and he is prepared to take this fight all the way. >> fact is on big, philosophical issues, he is for all practical purposes a liberal and i am a conservative and that's what this fight is going to be about all the way to the convention.

>> joining me this morning from washington, gingrich senior adviser david winston. nice to see you. talk about this decision to stay in the race until the convention, is newt gingrich in it to win it or to be the antagonist, somebody to bloody mitt romney as much as he can. >> he is in it to win it. again, this will be the fourth state. we will have 46 states to go. is this state potentially more favorable for governor romney than south carolina was? clearly. but as we move forward, newt gingri has states like texas, alabama, oklahoma, the governor will have states like michigan, kind of a second home, so i think what you're seeing is this is one of a multitude of states we're going to go through each state giving a sort of different dynamic to the context of this debate. all of them going to be in play. >> david, as we look at all the figures, rick santorum is scheduled to return to the campaign trail later today. his daughter, though, remains hospitalized, but we're happy to report his three-year-old daughter is doing better.

>> yes, that is good news. >> good news on that front. newt gingrich said yesterday that santorum should leave the race for the greater good. >> the fact is if you combine the santorum vote and gingrich vote, we clearly are the conservative, combined would clearly beat romney. we are down basically to the fewer conservatives there are, the better we're doing. >> david, our marist poll shows romney stands to gain more if santorum leaves the race. has there been discussion between gingrich and santorum's campaigns about that possibility? >> not that i am aware of, per se, but let me go back to what i think the speaker was saying, and i think one of the dynamics that you have seen consistently across the board is that while governor romney has been clearly going after, trying to -- in contrast, romney hasn't broken through the ceiling. still has a ceiling that exists.

his dialogue and discourse hasn't done anything to address that. when the speaker talks about you consider group the rest of the conservatives together, create a larger coalition than what governor romney has, that still stands. >> but if you talk about the ceiling that governor romney has, do you think there's still an even lower invisible ceiling for your candidate? >> no. i think what the speaker was saying is, again, looking at the other candidates, if they were not in the race, where would that vote likely go. and again, you look at a variety of surveys that tell you different things. ultimately, this is the challenge to the speaker, how do you get this back on issues, set up this contrast based on policy so people can see that ideological difference, and that becomes a central point. that's going to be the challenge in terms of moving beyond florida. >> david, want to talk about endorsements. newt gingrich picked up herman cain's endorsement, and he has another person out there speaking up, doing so in his defense. take a listen to this. >> so, if for no other reason

rage against the machine vote for newt, annoy a liberal, vote newt. keep this vetting process going, keep the debate going. >> so as we hear there sarah palin, she may have helped newt gingrich in south carolina when she said if she were in south carolina, if she was voting there, she would vote newt's way. can she help change the conversation and influence what people are thinking about newt gingrich in florida? >> i think to a large degree, even prior to being in terms of what she said about newt, she had been changing the process, changing some of the debate. she's a part of this discussion and at one point was potentially a candidate herself. obviously she will have an impact as she impacts the discourse. to what level? that's what we'll find out. in south carolina it helped. we will see how it helps moving forward into other states, perhaps she obviously would have stronger standing in. >> gingrich campaign adviser, david winston. nice to see you. thanks for your.

>> pleasure to be here. prime time coverage kicks off 6:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow. also tomorrow, now with alex wagner. talks with newt gingrich's newest celebrity backer, the man you see there, herman cain. oakland, california cleaning up from the largest protests in its history as the occupy movement comes roaring back. and in d.c., another crackdown could happen in less than an hour. we're keeping our eye on the latest developments from that. and the american aid worker rescued from somali pirates from a team of navy s.e.a.l.s headed home. new details on her story. sweet, nutty crunchy nut.

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welcome back. we want to pass on breaking news out of paramount, california. firefighters are battling a huge blaze at a warehouse. you can see from the images, that fire bursting through the

ceiling and tearing through the top of the building. huge plumes of smoke seen for miles away. not a ton of information on this. we'll keep our eye on it, bring as many details when we get them. this warehouse fire in paramount, california. not sure if anyone was inside at the time. it is only after 8:00 a.m. on the west coast. hopefully not a lot of people if they were working inside were there yet. we will let you know as soon as we get more details on that. also talking about what's taking place out west, occupy crackdowns across the country today. city of oakland, california trying to get back to business after they vandalized city hall this weekend. number of people arrested could top 400 in what police call the largest protests in oakland history. and in washington, d.c., they will evict remaining protesters at high noon. in new york, 300 marched through city streets. protesters say they demonstrated

in solidarity with oakland demonstrators. bob rendell from kntv has more from california. >> reporter: good morning. oakland city hall will reopen this morning. vandalism wasn't significant enough to force a shut down, but they have going to reconsider security measures to prevent this happening again. what happened was saturday night, occupy oakland protesters crow barred their way in, started vandalizing. mayor kwan showed the damage, which included a broken window, damage to a children's art exhibit, and historic model of city hall. protesters stole and burned an american flag. both sides are blaming each other for the violence over the weekend. protesters complained police were overly aggressive in the use of bean bag bullets, tear gas, batons. officers argue they were responding to objects being thrown at them. the clashes started when

demonstrators tried to break in to the empty kaiser convention center, the ymca, and eventually city hall. three officers, two protesters hurt according to police. oakland police arrested around 400 people. for those being arrested more than once during the recent occupy oakland demonstrations, the city is trying to obtain legal orders to keep those people out of the city of oakland. here in oakland, bob redell. >> thank you. super pacs are playing a roll in the republican race. more than 24 million bucks spent on ads in the sunshine state, nearly half coming from super pac cash, backing mitt romney and newt gingrich. are the outside groups playing too large a roll in primary outcomes? many say yes. lenny curry, chairman of the republican party and joins me now. nice to have you with me this morning. we talk about the numbers, $24

million poured into ten different media markets through the state of florida, the super pacs are the new voice of the candidate. as we look at the breakdown, newt gingrich, mitt romney watching their campaigns be outspent by outside groups. do they take away from the candidate's message, especially with all of the back and forth we've seen in debates about their authenticity? >> i don't think they take away the message simply because the debates played such a prominent role this primary season. and while i don't like the negative ads the super pacs are running and i think they hurt the party brand, there's always a silver lining in the cloud, and that's that our candidates are being vetted now internally, so it will be old news by the time the obama machine basically throws their storm of stuff at whoever our nominee is. >> lenny, a lot of people say mitt romney having more money spent the most money in the state of florida trying to take on newt gingrich that came out of south carolina with an x treem momentum, having taken the

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the taliban open offices in a more mutual country like saudi arabia or turkey, friendlier to the afghan government. they accepted the qatar offices but they continue negotiations in saudi arabia. the taliban, spoke to the spokesperson, he says any discussion of negotiations is premature. they sent a list of demands to the afghan government they want to be met before they come to the negotiation table as a confidence building measure. demands that include releasing senior taliban leaders being held at places like guantanamo bay or other u.s. prisons throughout the world. >> atia, leon panetta raised some eyebrows with comments on "60 minutes" that somewhere somebody knew osama bin laden was hiding in abbottabad. what is the fallout from that? >> reporter: what's interesting, you talk to u.s. officials,

whether here in afghanistan and pakistan or even in washington, d.c., they say the same things that leon panetta actually said, but they don't say it on the record, they're afraid to voice those opinions. so what secretary panetta said is basically what every other american official, military official has been saying for some time now. that being said, the reason these officials haven't said it in the past is they don't want to continue to fan the flames that is already burning between the u.s. and pakistan, so obviously some very strong words coming from secretary panetta, words that will obviously upset pakistan even more. >> atia abawi. thank you. good news to report on the economy. american incomes rising by the most in some nine months. could europe's debt crisis derail any hope of a true recovery? talk about super fans. what some people are willing to give up to see their team play in the super bowl. many wives aren't going to be happy to hear this.

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what was that back there? send it to the moon he says. all right. well, the idea of the moon as the 51st state isn't what would come to my mind as a campaign basis for here in florida. >> mitt romney this morning poking a little fun at newt gingrich, but the real person he's itching to take on is president obama. and new swing state polls show he has more of a fighting chance than newt gingrich. we'll explain more about that in a moment. first, a look at some other stories topping the news now. a disturbing new twist in the case of missing 20 month old baby girl in maine. police found blood in the basement of the home of ayla reynolds's father. it matches that of the little girl. her anguished mom spoke of the grim news this weekend. >> my reaction is i am trying to concept the fact that blood was found of my daughter's.

that's my reaction. okay? >> both of her parents attended a vigil for her this weekend. she has been missing now for six weeks. smoke from a brush fire being blamed for a deadly pileup on a florida highway. and investigators say it might have been deliberately set. look at this. sunday's pileup on interstate 75 near gainesville left ten dead, 18 in the hospital. witnesses on the highway say drivers couldn't see through the smoke. the brush fire began saturday, and burned some 62 acres. new tension with iran as a team of international nuclear inspectors arrives for a three day visit. their purpose, to determine whether iran has a secret weapons program. it is unclear whether they're going to be given access to nuclear sites. a spokesman for iran's military vowed to respond to any threat from america in quote, crushing manner. hold up in european debt talks causing concern in world markets.

explain the stalling of the eu talks and what it means. >> there's an eu summit going on among finance ministers, but some concern about what was said by germany's finance minister over the weekend. he said greece needs parental supervision in the future for budgets. they want the european union to have say over how greece puts budgets together going forward. greece ruled it out as an option for fresh aid. if greece doesn't get fresh aid, it increases risk of default. it is a messy influence. >> this is like saying britney spears needs to be on a conservator ship. >> close, or lindsey lohan. >> what are the odds of that happening? >> at the end of the day i think it gets worked out. there's no up side for anybody to have greece fail and ultimately go back to its own currency. then you would have greece falling out of the european monetary system, it would be a big problem. it will be a fight, but at the

end of the day, europe will prevail. >> the ripple effect at home. how does it impact the new fiscal year? >> causes market turbulence. every time you worry whether the crisis will intensify in europe, that travels across the pond and markets are hit like today. having said that, markets up a lot first part of this year, up since october, so it is not surprising we're seeing a correction in stocks. but this type of uncertainty that overhangs the markets gets investors nervous enough to sell. >> ron insana, thank you. mitt romney making the case for electability in florida, saying he is the candidate that can send president obama packing next november. new polls in the swing states just prove his point as he battles it out for the republican nomination. joining me to talk about this more, msnbc contributor, karen hunter, and michael steele, msnbc analyst, former chair for the rnc. great to see you both this morning. michael, want to start with you, get to the latest poll numbers

from the nbc poll. president obama showing here 49 to 41 amongst florida voters now. is mitt romney closing that gap? again, president barack obama being 49%, mitt romney at 41%, and everybody talking about the fact he can't break through a certain electability portion, but is he showing he can? >> i think for sure, why not. this week. next week it could be something different. that's the volatility of the time we're in. the republican field is still unsettled. any polls showing romney head to head with obama in january or february is kind of just fun and games. i think that you do this thing in order here. start with the fact that you have a three way split for the first three states here in the republican primary, you have a battle ground in florida tomorrow, but then you have a series of caucuses and primaries coming in february. super tuesday, there's a lot more ground to be gained here. but in this moment, romney found

the right chord. it struck with a lot of voters. he gets the benefit of that balance, but let's see what happens after that. i think the base has more to say before this is over. >> karen, we keep hearing the primary process is hurting the republican candidates, but you know, voters being that it is with a short attention span, it may not do so badly in the long run. we see from a new usa today gallup pole, that mitt romney and president obama are in a dead heat when it comes to 12 swing states, including florida. from the perspective of the white house, should that worry them as they see what's taking place as the runup for the gop primary nomination is vetted out? >> no. i think after the president's state of the union address last week, it was really established that he has a plan for this country and the republicans quite frankly don't. i disagree with mr. steele and i love where he is, the weather looks wonderful, but the base have spoken. they don't like mitt romney per

se. they don't like newt gingrich, they don't like any of the candidates. there's a reason he hasn't broken through to the level he needs to. they know him. he ran last time. he is no surprise here. the fact he hasn't risen above that 41% tells you that they don't really want him. >> time is still of the essence as the clock ticks down. michael, the other side of this is that the process is far from over in the long haul for newt gingrich, and i think he just began speaking at a rally he was roughly an hour late for in pensacola. show a shot of him and callista there. how much negativity from newt gingrich can hurt the like ability factor for romney. or can it entrench people to like governor romney? >> well, i think likeability is one of the issues, newt has a deficit, so does romney to a certain degree in terms of where the voters are. they like him a little more than they like newt, but i think

again that's something that gets worked out in this process. you know, i understand what karen is saying about the state of the union, which was a nice speech, but it didn't set any lofty agenda, didn't set a goal, didn't clearly define the future for the american people, and i think that's what the summer battle is going to be about between the eventual republican nominee and the president, but between now and then, you're going to have all of these contests, skirmish on like ability. in the base of the republican party, still has more up its sleeve in terms of what it wants to say. yeah, they may settle down, romney may get that energy behind him and run through the summer, and the convention, but right now i think that there are more things in the air than settled, and i think that's good overall. it strengthens the nominee for the fight in the fall, gives pima chance to cover, vet through some of the issues. >> karen, you're itching to get in there. go ahead. >> i think we are settled. mitt romney is rich uncle penny bags from the monopoly game,

that's settled. >> please, come on. >> spending money in florida, hurting newt gingrich. newt has proven to have luna see with the moon thing. i think who's silent in florida, jeb bush, who is he endorsing? where is jeb bush in this. it sets the table for something interesting to happen. >> michael, is jeb bush's silence deafening when it comes to this? >> yeah, i think it is. i think for jeb bush, there are two considerations here. one is the idea that you come to florida, you earn the support and the vote here and you earn my endorsement. number two, i think he is looking longer term at his own political prospects beyond 2012, and wants to make sure he doesn't cloudy or make that water murky for himself. >> we shall see. karen hunter, michael steele, appreciate your time this morning. the florida primary will test republicans' popularity among hispans, the country's

fastest growing population. mitt romney visited a strong hold yesterday. he sliced into a pig while his son addressed the crowd. a new poll shows romney beating gingrich among the state's hispanic voters. ron allen is live from miami with more on this. an important voting block it is. ron, florida's hispanics say they're voting both parties, but interestingly, don't know which way they're going to go on the republican side. >> indeed, thomas. it is a very important question. they are the largest minority group and are becoming more and more involved in the political process. that's why we came to florida, that's the first time you see this community and what they are doing in the political process. we drove around the state talking to latino voters about their increasing political clout. in florida, the campaign has a distinct i have latin beat

[ speaking foreign language ] >> an aggressive push to court the state's fastest growing electorate. latino voters. more than 13% in florida, important in the gop primary, and probably more crucial in november. >> is this vote in the general election going to swing the tide one way or another? >> florida is a close state, and yes, it can. >> he publishes a 90-year-old multi lingual newspaper in tampa. >> it is more complicated than it used to be. >> absolutely. florida especially we have a mix of cubans, puerto ricans, mexicans, venezuelans, columbians. >> cubans used to dominate, galvanized by tough anti-castro policies. florida has seen a big influx of immigrants from puerto rico, american citizens that tend to support democrats. >> who do you like? >> i like obama. >> think you'll always vote

democrat? >> yes, i think for now. >> president obama won the latino vote by 2-1, but then latino voters helped send marco rubio to the u.s. senate. >> the biggest priority now should be jobs. >> latinos also have a generational divide. adrian and his wife megan are republicans. daughter prefers democrats, and her sonny man well. >> republican, democrat, independent? >> independent. >> independent. right down the middle. not listen to your grandparents, not listen to your mother. >> no. >> some interesting chat around the dinner table in that household. you'll find families like that all over florida. and there are states like california and texas that have large latino populations, and many of those people are mexican americans, not cuban or puerto rican. they have a different take on the issues, that complicates it further. no one size fits all solution.

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christopher plumber. rnc chair compares the president to the captain of the costa concordia.

take a look. >> in the end, in a few months, this is all going to be ancient history, and we're going to talk about our own captain schettino, which is president obama, abandoning the ship here in united states, more interested in campaigning than doing his job as president. >> what did you call the president? >> i called him captain schettino, the captain that fled the ship. that's our own president fleeing the american people, and not doing his job and running around the country and campaigning. >> dnc chairman woman debbie wasserman schultz blasted back calling the comments incendiary and unbelievable. he faces charges including manslaughter, shipwreck, abandoning ship. president obama hanging out with a new circle of friends, participating in a google plus hangout and live chat with users. the president will also answer questions submitted via youtube. former white house press

secretary robert gibbs is back on the president's payroll. he is now a roving surrogate and strategic consultant for the campaign. known for his blunt style and candor with the president. that's one of the reasons he was reportedly brought back. senator john mccain concerned about the tarmactive between president obama and his state's governor, say it doesn't help either of them, shortly after the finger pointing incident, mccain said that finger pointing action was the president's prickly personality. look at the cover of this week's news week, showing romney dressed as a glad atore with the words "i will prevail." can it convince stauch conservatives he is the man? i think newt is behind him in the picture. peter, great to have you with me this morning. you say romney views romney care in massachusetts as his main sticking point with

conservatives nationally. this morning in florida, newt gingrich once again hit him with that very point. take a listen. >> you can't debate romney care and obama care. i mean, you can't make a big enough difference to matter. the guys that helped romney write it said publicly it's the same bill. >> peter, is this the one issue that the romney campaign cannot overcome in the long game and bigger picture? >> well, thomas, it seems like that might be the case. for most of the time when the objection on the right to romney was his supposed moderation, i got to say, i have the feeling that that horse is long since out of the barn and that it is actually about something else. i mean, it is true that romney care hurt romney with a lot of conservatives, but on the other hand, romney care is not the reason to go for gingrich who as recently as two years ago was advocating for the individual mandate in healthcare, which is,

in fact, the most objectionable part of romney care to a lot of conservatives. what's interesting to me about this race on the republican side right now is it has sort of like spun into another orbit. it is not about just any particular issue. i mean, when you look at just the issues, arguably, i mean, you could take them at their word in terms of their campaign, romney is as conservative. they pretty much have the same position. in fact, romney is to the right of gingrich on immigration, for example, which is such an important issue down there. it has become about something else. it is this almost sort of metaphysical fight about the establishment and the grass roots. >> peter, do you think that romney can ultimately overcome this rich guy image that he has? >> no. well, overcome it in the sense can he win the nomination, yes, can he possibly even beat obama,

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welcome back, facebook, could be changing their status from private to public. they could file papers for the long awaited initial public offering one of the most

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>> if your stock is over valued at the launch, it has nowhere to go than to pop. we saw it with companies like zinga, the stock came out high and did not stay up. >> we shall see how it goes. we will see it possibly in may? >> that is right. >> thank you, we will see you back tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. eastern and we will have special live coverage of the florida prime. until then, you can always follow me on twitter. don't go anywhere though, "now" is coming up. happy monday. >> happy monday, thomas. it's mark zuckerberg's world, we are just living in it. mitt romney is showing in the polls that he is breaking away, is he a changed candidate and what can newt do to stop him. 23-year-old lucas biono, one

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