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hello to everybody. just five weeks before the first ballot in the 2012 presidential election. >> a highly influential newspaper in new hampshire has endorsed newt gingrich. we have more on what could be a game changing endorsement. >> i gave my life over to the lord. my life to christ. >> the conservatives in the secretly after the forum, mad at mitt romney. tothis is a coveted after a single, social conservative that voters can behind and win the caucuses and a 9 mitt romney any momentum going into new hampshire. the anti-o pick romney. take a conservative

rather than splitting the vote. could get from me a chance to win iowa. -- it could give romney a chance win iow. michele bachmann, who has made a series historical flubs. perry, with his debate performances. and rick santorum, who has not any traction. the eye what conservatives could -- the iowa not agree.es could >> they have one of the most voices as to who our will be. >> if romney has a strong iowa, he could be tough to beat. clear is this is the month that will determine the field.can are less than a month away the first book is having their say. >> we are coming to crunch time. -- from the first voters having

say. >> we are coming to crunch time. >> social conservatives may to cut and a hint. the most important paper in new hampshire has just endorsed it in which. -- newt gingrich. >> let's talk more about that now. have the senior writer for "politico.com." a big endorsement for newt gingrich. hampshire union leader, the preeminent paper in hampshire, the republican primary, in particular, indorsed newt gingrich. this after mitt romney had spent months endorsing new hampshire. he bought a house there. he lives there. was counting on winning the state.

it is a big blow for him to see endorsement go to newt gingrich. could it really make a difference? romney had been leading in new quite some time now, could this make a difference? atthere are two ways to look this. a whole,sement as as toare some questions whether it is significant, particularly in newspaper .ndorsement this paper is important. paper that is looked to hampshirenting new kelly. values. it could propel newt gingrich. the more problematic thing is that this paper could decide, pages as well as of things, to go after mitt romney and make it to campaign. him it did that in 2008 when it

mccain and went on mitt romney. >> and made a difference there. three weeks that newt gingrich top of the national polls. how much longer do we see this going on? it is tough to predict. this guy is a guy who was out by everyone only ago. months but to be totally collapsed. charge the steady course. well in the very debate. he remained consistent on policy saytions and did not anything that was controversial. now it is going to be tough. there is a lot of attention on him. of chancesng a lot to talk. he talks, the more gets into. >> his stance on immigration, great, that is bold, from a conservative standpoint,

it is not aligned with what the republicans want. >> that was looked to as test.ing that was a his ability to be the leader himself to be. he said he would not seek the support of illegal aliens. rather, he would set up these juries with it would would assesshat .he individual circumstances that is an interesting idea. will it really work? that is the question that is about a lot of his positions. is going to be interesting to see. the caucus is in five weeks. a man accused of firing a semiautomatic rifle at the white house is scheduled for a hearing tomorrow. toega is accused of trying assassinate president obama. he says he believes he is the christ and thes the anti christ.

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we have a jet of this week's weather. all about it. >> we will see mild temperatures. just above the corner. folks are looking forward to it. jolly.e season to be clouds are rolling in. a little bit of patchy fog. look at a high. it was not the record, but complain about. 20 degrees above average. slow to cool this evening?

to the cloud cover. now 59 degrees. winds of the south just about 10 hour.per of 71 degrees. we are looking at 61 degrees hour. final stop takes us to now at 59 hospital, degrees. earlier, their high was 10 degrees warmer. 61 degrees in fredericksburg. looking at 60 degrees. thereal cold air out to west of us. is behind the cold front. is slowly moving towards the east. degrees in detroit. 36 degrees in chicago. minneapolis at 31 degrees. a feel of how much colder it is behind the front. was 25 degrees in nashville. now standing at 11 degrees warmer compared to yesterday. all of this moisture pushing up the gulf of mexico. it is going to move in ellen

direction. the heavier rain, moving towards westernpennsylvania and new york state. urharers -- opu our showers will hold off. this is the next 48 hours. stickubs are going to all day tomorrow. growing more confident the will hold off. by the brush of a commute into tuesday morning, -- by the rush hour commute into .onday, tuesday morning this moves out of here. will build.e this cooler, drier air. 47 degrees to 55 degrees for overnight. not expecting any trouble delay. mid to upper-60's. high stand at 71 tomorrow.

we may tie that record. the record high at reagan is 74. i think that is safe. there is the big call them by wednesday. friday, sunshine. earlygoing to feel like december. temperatures are below average. the roller-coaster ride continues. >> those are the temperatures in the city. degrees overnight in the city, it is in the 20's out to the west. >> thank you. to the west. >> th[ male announcer ] citibank's new app for ipad makes it easy for anne to view her finances from anywhere. like gate d12 for the next three hours. citibank for ipad. easier banki. standard at citibank.

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