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heading into saturday's nevada caucuses, romney is already talking like the gop nominee as gingrich vows to fight on. it was a decisive win for romney fueled in part by female voters. romney picked up 50 delegates in florida, giving him april cbs news estimated total of 80. gingrich has 24. it takes 1144 delegates to clinch the nomination. susan mcginnis is in tampa with more on that. good morning, susan. >> reporter: good morning, betty. romney grabbed 46% of vote here in florida, easily beating newt gingrich and making romney officially the man to beat in the race to challenge barack obama. mitt romney's already talking like the gop nominee. >> my leadership will end the obama era and begin a new era of american prosperity. >> last night the former massachusetts governor cruised to victory in florida taking nearly half of the vote. he thanked his supporters before

blasting president obama. >> mr. president, you were elected to lead. you chose to follow. and now it's time for you to get out of the way. >> reporter: florida was his second primary win. he's expected to get secret service protection by thursday. the only current candidate to have it. despite winning less than a third of the vote, newt gingrich is vowing to fight on. he spoke at a podium that read, 46 states to go. >> we are going to contest every place and we're going to win and we will be in tampa as the nominee in august. >> for the first time this election season, exit polls show a gender gap. female voters backed romney in droves helping him to a double digit win. rick santorum and ron paul skipped florida to campaign out west. in mnevada shall santorum urged his opponents o to ease up on attacks. >> what we saw last week is not something to help us win this electric. >> paul called romney after his

win. >> i honestly congratulated him. he ran a good campaign. but i also said i would see him soon in the caucus states. >> romney is expected to do well in the next five contests beginning with the nevada caucuses on saturday. now, it's onward to nevada where romney is again expected to win. but with newt gingrich promising to take this all the way to the convention, some worry that a protracted battle could hurt the republicans' chances of beating barack obama. >> there has been a lot of talk about that. susan mcginnis in tampa for us. thank you. exit polls indicate about half the florida voters said the most important factor for them was backing a candidate who could beat president obama. and 69% of those asked said the recent debates played a role in their vote. 60% of those who voted for mitt romney said his blistering ad campaign was an important factor. cbs news chief washington correspondent, bob schieffer, has more on that part of the florida campaign. >> romney got himself a debate

coach, he took a more aggressive tone, but the important thing and the overwhelming thing here was they literally just dumped a mountain of negative advertising on newt gingrich that worked against gingrich out in iowa and it certainly worked against gingrich here in florida. so mitt romney comes out of this, he hasn't sewn up the nomination but the wind will be in newt gingrich's face as he moves on from here. he says he's going to stay in it until the very end. but his road now is going to be more uphill than it was. >> cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. later on "cbs this morning," we'll hear more from bob, plus a live interview with mitt romney. now to alaska where scientists are keeping a close watch on a remote volcano that could erupt at any time. the cleveland volcano is located about 950 miles southwest of anchorage. the warning level has been raised after a new lava dome

began forming. officials say if the volcano erupts, ash clouds could soar 20,000 feet into the air, threatening aircraft. wikileaks founder julian assange takes his fight against extradition to the supreme court in britain today. he's wanted on allegations of sex crimes. he denies the charges. two other attempt to block his extradition have failed. a decision is not expected for several weeks. on money watch, american taxpayers are still on the hook for the government-backed bailouts and is today the day for a facebook ipo announcement? ashley morrison has more on that. good morning, ashley. >> good morning, betty. a lot of chatter there. facebook could file papers as early as today for an initial public offering of stock. it will be one of the most anticipated ipo's since google shares started trading back in 2004. facebook is expected to raise as much as $10 billion, which would then value the company at 75 to $100 billion. to give you perspective on what

this could mean to investors, when linkedin went public last year, its price per share doubled in the first day of trading. but even if facebook files today, it probably won't start trading for a few more months. checking overseas markets, a mixed day in asia. the nikkei finished higher for a second day in a row, while the hang seng lost about half a percent. it was also a mixed day on wall street. the dow jones slipped 20 points and the nasdaq stayed mostly flat. despite that, still the best january for stocks in 15 years. amazon.com disappointed investors on tuesday. the online retailer reported a 57% drop in quarterly earnings. sales were also a billion dollars shy of estimates. free shipping deals over the holidays and a steep price cut for the kindle e-reader hurt its results. and the congressional budget office is predicting the government's bailout program will lose $23 billion in the

fiscal year that ended in september. the loss is mainly due to the drop in stock prices of general motors and the insurance company aig. last year the government made $37 billion. betty, getting back to facebook, a lot of investors will be keeping their eyes on that ipo filing possibly today. >> no doubt. indeed. ashley morrison here in new york. thank you. coming up on the morning news, u.s. security officials warn against a growing threat from iran. plus, caught on tape. flaming rescue. cops risk their lives to save the driver of a burning car. you're watching "cbs morning news." - will you marry me? - before saying those words, there's one word every man should know. - leo. - the leo diamond, certified to be visibly brighter, at kay, the number one jewelry store in america. - yes. with a vial and syringe. me, explaining what i was doing at breakfast.

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chicago, partly sunny, 44. dallas, you'll see morning showers. 71. l.a., you'll be cloudy but 66. time now for a check of the national forecast. highs will be 5 to 20 degrees above normal for most of the country east of the mississippi. showers and thunderstorms will move from east texas and oklahoma into the southeast. showers and mountain snow will he can tend from washington to northern california and east to the rockies. in sports, the super bowl tradition known as media day produced some wacky moments, even a bit of news. players from the new england patriots and new york giants chatted with reporters and for the first time, fans were invited to watch from the stands. with costume characters roaming the field, interview topics, they stayed on the light side like patriot wes welker's mustache and giant victor cruz's salsa-style touchdown dance. >> i do not have a salsa outfit just yet, but something may be in the work. you never know. >> every time you've gone with the mustache, we haven't lost a

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abusing more than 20 young students. 61-year-old martin berndt will be arraigned today on 23 counts of lewd acts on children. sheriff's deputies say berndt blindfolded boys and girls, ages six to ten, taped their mouths shut, put cockroaches on their faces and even took pictures of himself with them. if convicted, he faces life in prison. the nation's largest breast cancer charity, susan g. komen for the cure is cutting off the partnership with planned parenthood. that means planned parenthood will stop receiving funding for breast cancer screening and education programs from the komen organization which totals $700,000 last year. a spokeswoman for the komen foundation says it's because planned parenthood is under investigation in congress. the group denies it is yielding to pressure from anti-abortion rights groups. in health news, a new study on treating breast cancer found that some women may be undergoing more surgery than

necessary. elaine quijano has that story. >> the first year is the roughest. >> when donna learned she had breast cancer in 2008, she chose a lumpectomy to remove the tumor. a month later, she had to undergo a second procedure. >> we didn't believe there were more cancer cells but to be safe was to remove it. >> one out of four patients have the same experience as she did. it also raises questions about whether the second surgeries are necessary. >> is lumpectomy and the decision for a second operation fairly uniform across the country and we found that it really wasn't. >> during a lumpectomy surgeons try to remove the entire tumor and get what's called a clean margin. that means there are no cancer cells in the tissue surrounding the tumor. researchers studied more than 2200 women who had lumpectomies and the criteria for reoperation differed dramatically. 48% had a clean margin, that is no sign of cancerous tissue,

within one millimeter around the tumor after their first operation. 20% had a margin up to two millimeters and were still reoperated on. with no set guide lines, the decision to reoperate comes down to each surgeon. >> sometimes women are frustrated enough by a second operation that they -- a percentage of them maybe will just elect to move forward with a mastectomy, removal of the whole breast. >> perhaps more disturbing, 14% of the patients in the study who had evidence of cancer after their first surgery did not go in for a second operation. elaine quijano shall cbs news, new york. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," a live interview with mitt romney and actor channing tatum from the movies stops by. i'm betty nguyen, this is the "cbs morning news." i'm betty nguyen. this is the "cbs morning news." hey, you made your own lunch.

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four minutes before 5:00 on a wednesday morning. it is the moment a pleasant day start, marty is over in the first warning weather center. >> yeah, it is 10 degree g warmer than your normal daytime high, 42 degrees but shower meandering throughout the area, will be with us through the morning commute. take a look at the day part. note how mild it is again today. i know we are talking about morning showers, 52, but look at that 63 at lunch with partly sunny skies going back to the mid-60s, my goodness, with clouds and 50s different time. don, take it away. >> here is what we have got our eye on your, the governor holding his state of the state address. a proposal to change your requirements to renew your license and the art museum is recruiting lot students for a google design contest. already in the news a big win for mitt romney in the florida primary but was it a

knock out blow to the other contenders. a man is dead after police say he stole a police cruiser. more on the wild moments leading up to that death. the ravens hold their annual state of the team address. the big issues on everyone's mind. more news, first warning weather and your first traffic report of the morning in a report of the morning in a couple of minutes. ,,,,,,

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