locking on sunshine. after a double digit victory in florida, mitt romney is ready to take on 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. wall street wait. investors are anxious to hear if and when facebook will start selling stock to the public. and pulled from the flames. new jersey police rescue a man from a burning car. >> get out of the car! get out of the car! captioning funded by cbs this is the "cbs morning news" for wednesday, february 1, 2012.

good morning everybody. thanks for joining us. i'm betty nguyen. mitt romney used deep pockets and more aggressive tactics to swamp newt gingrich in the florida primary. 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 who overwhelmingly supported romney. romney picked up 50 delegates in florida gichg him an estimated total of 80. gingrich has 24. it takes 1144 to clinch the nomination. susan mcginnis has more from tampa. good morning, susan. >> reporter: good morning, betty. romney grabbed 42% of the vote here in florida easily beating newt gingrich and making romney the man to beat in the race to chatening president 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. >> florida marched his second primary win. he's expected to get secret service protection by wednesday. the only current candidate to have it. >> despite winning less than a third much the vote, newt gingrich is vowing to go on. he spoekd at a podium saying 46 states to go. >> we are going to contest every place and we're going to win. we'll be this tampa as the no, ma'am me 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. santorum urged opponent to ease

up on their attacks. >> what we saw in the last few weeks in the state of florida will not help us win the election. >> paul, who finished fourth, 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. so now it's onward to nevada where romney is expected to win again. 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, 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. chief washington correspondent bob schieffer has more on that part of the campaign. >> romney got himself a debate coach, he took a more aggressive tone but the overwhelming thing here is they 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 is certainly going to be in newt gingrich's face as he moves on from here. he says he'll stay in it until the very end but his road is more uphill from now. >> bob schieffer. later on, "cbs this mornng," 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 to britain's supreme court today. he's wanted in sweden on allegations of sex crimes. he denies the charge. two other attempts to block his extradition have failed. a decision is not expected for several weeks. on cbs 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, betty. a lot of chatter there. facebook could file paper 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 in 2004. facebook is expected to raise as much as $10 billion which would value the company at 75 to $100 billion to give you some perspective on what this could mean to investors when linked in went public last year, the price per share doubled. even if facebook files today, it won't start trading for a few more months. checking overseas market, a mixed day in asia. the nikkei finished higher, up a fraction while the hang seng lost about half a percent. it was also a mixed day on wall street. the dow jones slipped 20 points while the nasdaq stayed mostly flat. despite that, it was still the best january for stocks in 15 years. amazon.com disappointed investors on tuesday. the online repted a 57% drop in quarterly earnings. sales were also a billion dollars shy of estimates. free shipping deals over the

holidays and price cuts for the kindle e-reader hurt results. the congressional budget office is predicting the 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.

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leaders are now more willing to order attacks on u.s. soil. in response to perceived threats in washington. >> now to syria and the debate over what to do about it. secretary of state hillary clinton made the u.s. position clear yesterday. syria's president must go. but russia does not agree. here's the report. >> hillary clinton arrived at the united nations to back a resolution demanding the immediate ouster of syrian president bashar al assad. >> we all have a choice. stand with the people of syria and the region or become complicit in the continuing violence there. >> western and arab countries are pushing for the plan to hand overpower to the vice president. assad would have sa days to step down. if he doesn't, the security council could take what it calls further measures, including economic sanctions. russia, which has veto power,

objects to the resolution saying it could lead to civil war or eventual military strikes like the nato led bombings. >> the role of the international community should not be one of exacerbating conflict or meddling by the use of economic sanctions or military force. >> the united nations estimates more than 5400 syrians have been killed since the government cracked down on protesters last march. the battle intensified monday when rebel forces captured two suburbs of the capital city of damascus. by early tuesday, government troops retook the towns. rebel groups estimate around 100 people have died this week. >> translator: syria's ambassador to russia said assad has no plans to step down. >> he said the protesters are nothing more than terrorists carrying out a foreign plot. cbs news, the united nations. while most of the u.s. is

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here's a look at weather. new york, partly cloudy, 60. miami, partly cloudy, 80 degrees there. chicago, partly sunny, 44. dallas, morning showers, 71. l.a., you'll be cloudy but 66. time now for a check of the national forecast. highs will be five 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 extend from washington to northern california and east to the rockies. in sports shall 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 type, fans were invited to watch from the stands. costume characters roaming the field, interview top ibs, they stayed on the light side, patriots wes welker's mustache

and victor cruz's salsa-style touchdown dance >> i do not have a salsa outfit just yet. but something may be in the work. >> every time you've gone with the mustache we haven't lost a game. so i was like, you know what, you're right. time for a playoff' stash. it's gotten us to this point. we'll keep on rocking it. >> rocking the playoff stash. kidding aside, rob gronkowski is optimistic. his injured ankle will be good to go on sunday. he was second in the nfl with 18 touchdowns this season. now to hockey. a big day for the nhl's pittsburgh penguins and their injured star sidney crosby. in the afternoon the team got news about crosby who has barely played for more than a year. new tests show his problem isn't a concussion. but a treat aable neck injury. later in the game, evgeni malkin

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degrees. in southern california, a veteran school teacher is in jail charged with sexually abusing more than 20 young students. 61-year-old martin bernt will be arraigned on 23 counts of lewd act on children. he blindfolded boys and girls ages six to ten, taped their mouths shut, put cockroaches on their faces and 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 they will stop receiving funding for breast cancer screening and education programs from the komen organization which totals $700,000 last year. a spokeswoman says it's because planned parenthood is under investigation in congress. the komen group denies it's --

>> 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 in the roughest. >> when donna learned she had breast cancer in 2008, she chose a lumpectomy to remove her tumor and preserve as much of her breast as possible. just one month later, she had to undergo a second procedure. >> we didn't believe there was any more cancer cells, but to be safe was to remove it. >> one out of four breast cancer patients have the same experience as moran owe. it raises questions about when whether the second surgeries are necessary. >> lumpectomy and the decision for a second operation fairly uniform across the country and we found that it wasn't. >> surgeons try to remove the entire tumor and get a clean margin. that means there are no cancer cells in the tissues surrounding the tumor.

researchers study more than 2200 women and the criteria for reoperation differed dramatically. 48% had a clean margin that is no sign of cancerous tissue within one millimeter after the first operation. 20% were still reoperated on. >> with no set guidelines, 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. after your local news, on "cbs this morning," a live interview with mitt romney and actor channing tatum from the

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good morning and welcome to 9news now. today is wednesday, a new month, february 1. i'm andrea roane. that means we're closer to the super bowl. go patriots. i'm mike hydeck. good morning. i think you're a skins fans.

>> i am. the red works for me for good reason. >> it's red? it's burgundy. >> let's just move on. >> come on. let's be strong. >> we have work to do. good luck this weekend. >> thank you. >> weather wise it's a new month but it feels like spring, the new season. yesterday a record setting 66 at dulles. today we're going to be back in the mid- to upper 60s. this morning want to caution you we've got some showers out there so you need a little rain gear at times all for the next several hours but the sun will return this afternoon. the midday temps near 60. mid up toker 60s for highs with the drive home temperature of 62 degrees. this morning we've been watching the moisture coming in from west to east with some showers, especially south overnight. want to show you the regional dopplers. you can see the showers on the eastern shore from pennsylvania. some light stuff about to come through d.c. coming from west virginia into the shenandoah

valley, this stuff goes back into ohio and kentucky. we're going to watch this for a little while. on our own doppler, showers from luray, new market, woodstock. some approaching winchester up towards martinsburg and charleston in the next little while and north of frederick. some light showers out there in spots. temperatures really mild. upper 40s to low even some mid- 50s out there right now. that's just crazy stuff, monika. >> it really is but it feels good when you head out the door so early in the morning and you don't have to be as bundled up as normal on february 1. good morning, everybody. the beltway is looking great with the exception of course the west side of the town. first of all you've got those construction spots on the inner loop of the beltway. braddock road, route 50, up at route 123. 66 west nutley street and courthouse road watch out for the construction as well. let's take you outside live. nice and quiet at duke street to the 14th street bridge.

we're looking great. we'll go back over to the map. on the inside of town watch out as you head over the 14th street bridge. 16th and r streets, police activity. also flashing red lights pennsylvania avenue at alabama avenue in southeast. a quick live look southbound i -270 also looking great from frederick down to the point where the lanes divide. >> thank you, monika. mitt romney has moved one step closer toward the republican presidential nomination. >> last night he scored a huge victory in florida's primary taking nearly half the votes in the state. susan mcginnis has more. >> reporter: mitt romney's already talking like the g.o.p. nominee. >> my leadership will end the obama era and begin a new era of american pros expert. >> reporter: the -- prosperity. >> reporter: the former governor cruised to victory. he thanked his such porters

before blast -- his supporters before blasting president obama. >> you chose to follow. now it's time for you to get out of the way. >> reporter: florida marks romney's 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 votes, 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 are going to win and we will be in tampa as the nominee in august. >> reporter: 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 nevada santorum urged his opponents to ease up on their attacks. >> what we saw in the last few weeks in the state of florida is not something that's going to help us win this election. >> reporter: paul who finished fourth called romney after his