mark preston stoond standing by.k, give us the very latest. >> reporter: well, don, what we've learned today from the office of dick cheney is he is recovering in a suburban washington, d.c. hospital after undergoing a heart transplant. the former vice president's heart problems really well have been documented, don. we've known so much about them over the years. he has been on the cardiac transplant list for more than 20 months. well, right now the former vice president is in intensive care. he is recovering. and his office tells us that they do not know the identity of the donor. but of course they are very, very grateful for the donation. don, we should say vice president cheney is only 71 years old. and of course as we hear more about his condition throughout the night we'll update you on it. >> all right. thank you very much, mark preston. joe johns, our senior correspondent, standing by in louisiana to follow up on rick santorum's big win down there. you heard me talking to tom foreman. he says education -- tha

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mark preston. mark, this was expected since both mitt romney and newt gingrich pretty much seconcede e state to santorum. how big is this? >> huge in the sense that it's more wind at the back of rick santorum heading into a very critical two-state primary night. not only going to see alabama and mississippi hold their primaries, but hawaii. also holding their contest on that night. so a win is a win is a win, and for rick santorum, 25 delegates, at least 25 delegates right now, not a bad thing to pick up on a saturday afternoon, don. >> so that 25 delegates. give us a delegate breakdown. >> a quick look at the board pap new estimate now. you need 1,444 delegates to win the republican presidential nomination answers the new delegate estimate shows that mitt romney is in the lead, of course, with 447. rick santorum with these at least 25 delegates in hand a up to 195. newt gingrich at 118. ron paul at 67. let me give you information that's just come in, don. this morning, mitt romney won 18 delegates

mark preston is live in atlanta. mark preston, the fact you are in atlanta this morning is a problem because i brewed a triple espresso for you because of your very long night, and i'm holding it here for you in new york. so we'll just have to pretend that you're awake. here's my question. the guy wins six states. mitt romney pulls off ohio, and he pulls off six big states in super tuesday, and still we're having this conversation that he hasn't delivered the knockout punch. why? >> because rick santorum actually came out with three big wins. and rick santorum neither has the organization nor the money right now in this race for the republican nomination. although we shouldn't underestimate the fact that mitt romney did have six wins. he did win ohio last night. had he lost ohio -- or i should say had he lost ohio just a couple of hours ago, we would now be talking about how mitt romney would be in trouble for this republican nomination. however, we're talking about how mitt romney is going to try to go on and try to

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i know mark preston noticed it.k santorum's speaking style has changed since the race started to heat up. here is what i'm talking about. take a listen. >> there are good, decent men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to test that aren't taught by some liberal college professor and trying to indoctrinate them. well, i understand why he wants you to go to college. he wants to remake you in his image. >> okay. so it's almost someone said to me it's almost a sort of bushism where he's like -- what a snob. he's doing this thing with his voice where he almost sounds like a preacher, will. you haven't noticed that? >> no, i haven't. i haven't. i would say -- >> would you like me to play the sound bite for you again so you can hear it? >> the one you just played. i don't have anything to compare it to so i don't know how -- >> hang on. play it again. >> there are good, decent men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to test -- >> that's it. will, there it is. >> s

preston says she doesn't care.elling those lottery officials to pay up and do the right thing. >> pay me my $2600. i put my money in it. and they help myself. i think they need to honor. >> virginia lottery officials say this has never happened before. but preston is not getting the money. can you imagine? you have this high high and then this low low. >> the only good thing is, you know, it wasn't like $100 million. >> and she probably didn't spend any of that $2600 just yet. >> let's hope not. >> 67 today. that occurred after midnight. a deceiving day with temperatures in the 50s. quite frankly, a typical march day. let's have a live look outside our live weather cam brought to you by michael and son. you're looking to the right. wisconsin avenue looking south. essentially the cameras looking southeast over the post office. now we're looking at temperatures downtown still in the 50s. but i'll tell you, it doesn't feel like that when you go outside. winds are north, northwest at 25 miles per hour. pressure rising

mark preston -- let me ask you, will, and robert, are you still with me while i'm waiting forg mark prestont want to weigh in. we're getting word about this. we learned a lot about andrew brightbart with the whole videotape release if you'll remember with sha rad and the alleged allegations that she was making racist comments and that's how we really came to know brightbart. what we're seeing now though is from anthony weiner and that press conference when those pictures were released that he was sending out via e-mail. will, robert, hang with me for a second. mark preston is ready to go. mark, what do you know about brightbart's death? the website, his website, saying he died of natural causes? >> reporter: 43 years old died in los angeles. story that is just breaking right now, kyra. we're really trying to find out more of the details. we do know about andrew brightbart, as you said, very controversial, larger than life in the conservative movement. he was one of the figures who was not necessarily the old guard. i remember talking to andrew just a couple of years ago at the cpac conferen

mark preston is here. mark, with so much at stake in states like ohio and georgia, why aren't these candidates speaking in front of apac. >> i think it shows how important it is. it says a lot that rick santorum left ohio to come to address apac in person. by doing so what he's trying to do is build up his creds with the jewish vote in the united states. it would be remiss without pointing out that newt gingrich's campaign, which has been running on fumes financially, has been backed by sheldon adelson, a casino magnet in las vegas. some people say he's done that because newt gingrich has been such a strong supporter of israel. >> the u.s. and other countries have made another offer with iran to negotiate. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says time and patience have been running out. he talked about iran and then spoke at apac himself. >> israel has waited patiently waited for the international community to resolve this issue. we've waited for diplomacy to work. we've waited for sanctions to work

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thanks so much, mark preston. appreciate that. check back with you. and, of course, you want to join us every sunday afternoon at 4:00 eastern time. we want to dedicate an entire hour to the presidential contenders in the 2012 election. u.s. employers continue to ramp up hiring. the latest figures from the u.s. labor department show a total of 227,000 jobs created in february. it's the third straight month of gains above the 200,000 mark. the unemployment rate didn't fall, however. but it also didn't increase holding steady at 8.3%. and the private sector continues to lead the way with 233,000 new jobs in his weekly address. president obama touted private firms which have added jobs every month since march 2010. >> more companies are choosing to bring jobs back and invest in america. manufacturing is adding jobs for the first time since the 1990s. and we're building more things to sell to the rest of the world. stand for three proud words, made in america. it's not just that we're building stuff. we're building better stuff. the engine parts manufactu

political director mark preston is here for that. so romney wins ohio by the skin of his teeth and we know romney spent millions and millions of dollars to win ohio. rick santorum, did he even spend a million dollars? >> he did but he certainly didn't spend nearly as much as mitt romney did to pull out a squeaker in ohio, carol. >> what does that mean? >> i got off the phone with a very prominent republican. i won't say this person's name because they wanted to speak freely. they are very concerned about mitt romney just barely pulling it out in ohio. the fact of the matter is ohio is a very important state. if mitt romney is to be the nominee, if we are to believe that he will amass the delegates, then they're concerned he could be very damaged going against president obama. >> let's talk about voter turnout. i was reviewing numerous papers in ohio online. most of them said voter turnout was at best modest. at worst low. so what does that say? >> because this has been a very divisive primary. it hasn't been exciting and it's engs si

attack last saturday patrolling cta blue line stop at grand avenue chicago police officer 25 years preston ross received 17 awards for service. cook county commissioners william beavers pleaded not guilty federal tax charges tens of thousands of dollars from campaign fund county expense account without paying taxes on the money. released said after the court appearance paid money back or paid taxes so he is clean. >> that is all that is. loaning you money paying it back that is all. did not steal a dime everything i took from campaign i put back. >> once again i william beavers the critical of united states attorney patrick fitzgerald accusing him of "gestapo-like tactics" says charged william beavers refused to wear a wire on fellow commissioner john daly. young chicago father making headlines across america picture of his daughter posted on facebook talking about the unrest controversial pictures and sharing advice for facebook users and hope for all some suspicions new experimental drugs s neru [ female announcer ] need help keeping your digestive balance? align can help. only align has

as we wanted and we will have gotten delegates -- >> let's bring in our political director, mark prestongood morning. >> good morning, carol. >> newt gingrich, i mean, let's face it, he suffered two big defeats, right? because he was expecting to win in those states, but he didn't, and he still says he's staying in the race. >> he still says he's staying in the race. in fact, he put the expectations on himself to win in mississippi and alabama. his whole campaign has been based on the sudden strategy winning georgia, perhaps winning tennessee, a win in oklahoma and win in alabama and mississippi. he only won in georgia. that southern strategy has kind of fallen apart. >> stay with me. we're going back to the south lawn of the white house. the british prime minister and his wife, samantha, has arrived. we can see them exchanging kisses with the president and the first lady. does this spectacle, mark, help the president in his re-election bid? i'm going to be cynical here. >> certainly. great britain is our biggest ally. we have so much invested with them with the war in afghanistan, iraq,

preston took on this new beat in january of 2011 after working as the newsroom's first social editor. preston began her career right here in philadelphia at the bulletin newspaper and the "philadelphia daily news." she also serves as an adjunct professor at columbia school university of journalism. moderating is christopher wink cofounder of technology news site technically philly and its parent company technically media, a media services consultant for the online ecosystem. he leads the transparent city, open government reporting project including coverage of the city i.t. policy. he has appeared in the "philadelphia inquirer" pittsburgh post gazette and the morning call and now i ask to you silence your cell phones in consideration of your fellow guests but i encourage you to use them. if you would like to tweet questions for our panel tonight, please use the hash tag pound cc privacy. and now without further adieu, please join me in welcoming lori, kashmir and jennifer. [applause] >> thank you, everybody. i apologize for starting a little late. it turns outlet lapel mics to put on

. >> thanks, mark preston. we appreciate it, as always. time to go two floors down and check in with kyra phillips. >>> it's 11:00 on the east coast and 8:00 on the west. let's get straight to the news. let's get straight to the news. we have a busy hour ahead. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com the government says another 227,000 jobs were added to the u.s. economy in february and the unemployment rate held steady at 8.3%. that's largely due to almost half a million discouraged job seekers returning to the search. is the third straight month of job growth, above 200,000. chief business correspondent ali velshi is taking notice, of course. he's in austin, texas, at the music -- oh, boy. he's at the music, movie, festival, technology, all that stuff, south by southwest, kind of threw me off with the cowboy hat, but i should have expected that because he's in austin. do you have your rope and boots on and your wranglers also? could you please give me a full shot? >> kyra, i want you to think back to g-8, and i don't remember when it was w

. >> what our mark preston said is that it's mathematically possible but not probable for rick santorum. let's talk about romney now. he's still having trouble winning votes among southerners and religious conservatives. could this be a big problem if he wins the nomination? he'll need those votes badly in november in the general. >> well, what we see is in illinois recently that romney is winning among catholic voters. so romney is actually more and more sealing the deal, winning across more groups than rick santorum. women, men, working class vote he got in illinois. he's really proven that, i believe, republicans, conservatives, tea party folks, he won those groups in illinois, and the latest gallup poll shows that 40% of conservatives are now rallying behind romney and only 20% are going for rick santorum. that's because rick santorum is fixated on wedge social issues. i think we heard from ann romney before when she did the interview with piers morgan that when she's on the road, women come up to her and say ann, it's the economy, stupid. that's what i'm worried about. this is real

preston i'm a government spokesman my name is called hello i know you said you saw the radar debate sure but it's nothing like the kimmel of the regime in the radars for nothing that it shouldn't be there that's why it's for the russians who were here thirty years it's the same kind of occupation point i'm holding a discussion tomorrow hold whatever you want to figure out on to the little pointy froth of the thought they are us the larger interested the russians kept us down what about the americans why would they keep us down they will never go home tomorrow start a foreign army has no business being in a sovereign country come to the discussion and find out more mr calderon aren't you yes but also no way am i coming your still i would never suspect. that there was a great place to come here and things will be like this for the radar here you know no you're right i think. i was sure they will things will be different we'll say yankee go home jacks or turf or get used to things and just keep moving on. from it out your most intimate to you that russia i'm happy to welcome the three dog f

we are seeing shower activity toward the preston hear reaching up through points west of denton and one other isolated shower here, northern carroll county just cleared the taneytown area, the southern part impacting westminster. other than that not a tremendous amount of rain but some hit or miss showers and some could produce thunder and lightning. right now it is clear in the harbor. man, what a warm day, what a way to fin nirchlt 74 degrees out at the airport and through the day obviously, things clearing out eventually. see in towson, loch raven. as we take a look at bel air there was fog but the sunshine dominated the afternoon. our view from charm city run down main street and beautiful bel air in harford county. how about anne arundel county. you can see a couple of showers trying to get their act together. one, two, pop-up showers as you look over the ear shore. that's where we were tracking the showers from the top. mid-70s, upper 70s. these number last solid 20 degrees above average. cooler at the beach where you have an ocean breeze. remember the water temps are only around

our oil production -- >> let's bring in our political director, mark preston.sident obama is offering interviews to local television stations across the country. they're all asking him about gas prices and you heard his answer, not the greatest answer. i don't see many people out there feeling better about paying higher gas prices after listening to the president. >> no, certainly not. this is what you call a pocketbook issue. it's something that's going to affect everybody whether it's middle income, lower income, or even the folks who are making over $200,000. what's interesting about this is that this has become such a major issue at this time in the campaign. in fact, what we're seeing from polling just out yesterday from the washington post shows that nearly 2/3 of all-americans disapprove of how president obama is handling the gas price issue. so clearly as it always is energy is going to be a big issue heading to november. >> unless gas prices suddenly go down by november, which i guess they could by a little bit, right? >> they could, but doubtful given

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going to bring in mark preston from washington. mark, mitt romney has a huge lead in the delegate count and there are signs that party leaders are ready to rally around romney. what do tonight's results mean? >> it will mean something different to everyone. let's break it down quickly. this is an important election night if you want to talk about momentum. if rick santorum is to win as the polls show tonight. he will use that as wind at his back to continue to keep running for the republican presidential nomination, even though mitt romney has twice as many delegates right now as he tries to win the republican presidential nomination. if newt gingrich gets no delegates tonight, there's going to be a lot of calls for newt gingrich to get out of the race. we have heard that so far. he said on our air this past week, the fact is he has nothing to lose, no incentive to get out, so he's going to remain in. if romney would score an upset, that would all but shut the door on the republican presidential race. mitt romney right now, or at l

i asked our political director mark preston. >> some would say that by having newt gingrich stay in the mitt romney because it's divides the conservative vote and it allows mitt romney to perhaps score a couple of wins here and there or even when he loses, it's not by a big margin. other people think, though, by having newt gingrich in the race is really hurtful to mitt romney because all he's doing is hurting not only mitt romney but rick santorum. as of now, newt gingrich has no desire to leave the republican presidential race. >> there are some reports that the gop candidates might actually announce their vice president -- their running mates before august. how likely do you think that is? >> well, think it's a desperation level in some parts. in fact, newt gingrich is said to be one of those people who said that he was going to go out and perhaps name rick perry as his running mate. he did that right before the mississippi and alabama primaries. and by doing so, it perhaps could have helped him, although it didn't, on two fronts. on the first front it would have shown that he is wil

i'm with political director mark preston. how were we able to do it now?e down to simple mathematics. and we're looking at right now about 30,000 outstanding ballots that won't be counted tonight. in order for rick santorum to come back and overcome mitt romney, we would probably need double that number. so that's why our decision team as we have talked about in every election night when they sit down and take the models and crunch them together. they're looking at the real vote. bottom line they don't think rick santorum could come back. >> that includes absentee ballots? >> and provisional ballots. >> do we know know anything about alaska when we can call that? >> no, but let's hope it's not at 4:00 a.m. >> mark, i appreciate the hard work on that. continue to watch alaska, wolf. >> alaska, we'll stand for that. paul vercammen is there. now we know what has happened in ohio. why we were delaying our formal projection, you heard mark preston our political director say there's 30,000 votes outstanding. it would have to be lopsided for santorum to make up t

mark preston joining us live from washington this morning. straight wins, mark, for romney, but is it feeling pretty hollow for the team or at least romney supporters? >> well, you know, what we saw on tuesday night where he won the popular vote statewide in michigan was actually a big victory, christine, for mitt romney because had he lost the state where he grew up in and the state where his father was governor, a devastating week for mitt romney. rick santorum is correct because it is really all in the math. at least when we're talking about it here in the media and at least what the romney campaign is going to push forward, a win is a win is a win. of course, we saw that last night, as well, with the wyoming results where basically those delegates were split apart. christine, it really comes down to super tuesday where there's going to be lots of delegates on the line. >> five days to go. what does it all mean? a lot could happen in five days in politics. >> a lot could happen in five days in politics. if we look at the polling right now,

mark preston is here with me.omney's direction. let's take a quick look at the numbers. romney is at 34% right now. rick santorum is at 31 steele%. what is interesting, we're seeing the number move in romney's direction and move away from rick santorum. >> we can learn a lot from their travel itinerary? >> ohio, ohio, ohio. that's where rick santorum and mitt romney are grinding it out right now. meanwhile, newt gingrich trying to get momentum back be in tennessee. polls show that it's rick santorum state and, of course, we see ron paul who is trying to work the caucus states. he's going to be in idaho. come tomorrow, though, where will they all be? home state of massachusetts where romney will win easy. rick santorum will be in ohio. that's where he'll spend his election night. north dakota will be where ron paul camps out and where we sit in newt gingrich's home state, that's where we are talking about. >> there are some within the best political team talking about the wardrobe. somebody said to me, rick santoru

and preston back into a corner and in 1992 he finally started stealing a little money coming in from hedge funds to cover withdraws from long-term clients, thinking the market would recover in this strategy would work in and he would be able to work his way out of this hole. by 1998, the whole was billions of dollars deep and he said he knew he would never get out. and he spent the next decade to expect dean to fall at any moment and dsa describe and trained to it almost did several times. so this is me not more cliffhangers then pauline. showing my age they are. he had so many near death experience as in fact that i'm convinced that at least for most of 2008, when the markets began that precipitous climb, he thought he might make it through this storm, to because you dirty survived so many. if i was highly liquid. this was their liquid asset. whenever i'm in the market started to get so nervous in the fall of 2008 and demanded their money back or they're going to get the money to pay those guys back. a lot of those are not liquid. they're locked up in chinese for mankind than he ari

in the city, but city police worked quickly and cleared that one out of the way at washington and preston. we are on the scene of this accident on southbound 95, white marsh, blocking lanes and a live shot in a moment. i want to show you where things are not looking bad, southeast of the city. if you are traveling on 695, looking good on this stretch of 695, passing the bw parkway. we had a look at the bw parkway, northbound and southbound, moving well through as you make your way towards the capital beltway, southbound. northbound heading up to 695. for a live view of the accident location on i-95, the accident is as you approach white marsh, we are blocking two right lanes with this crash, and of course police on the scene there. not causing major back ups right now, just brief delays for those of you making the drive on southbound 9 a. in the meantime, use caution on the heels of daylight savings time. drivers are warned to watch for drowsy driving. aaa says drivers who lost an hour's sleep over the weekend may not be fully alert during today's commute. a 2010 report shows browsesey dr

the architects are here for both blocks a and b, if there are specific preston's about that stopped. i know that there are a lot of folks here that want to talk. >> i have a question about things i've heard from, concerns from constituents. -- supervisor cohen: i have some questions about things i have heard, concerns from constituents. what is the project's attitude toward historic neighborhoods? >> historic is really a technical term. i am not sure if that question is related to homes that have some kind of designation and code as historic, or just existing homes? supervisor cohen: existing homes. >> existing homes? one of the primary goals was to relate in a thoughtful way to what is around it. the taller, higher density buildings are located on the steepest part, so that the roofline's will not be much higher than the 40 or 50 foot building in the project. all of the lower buildings are located mostly on the perimeter, where they are adjacent to existing houses. we are proposing 40 feet. we are not proposing to increase the height limit. on wisconsin's three, we're going to lower

i asked our political director mark preston. >> who better to send the message for the obama campaignground. that's why barack obama chose him to be his running mate, and, of course, we saw him on the campaign trail this week. he was very critical of the republican presidential candidates, named them by name, went directly after them. of course, joe biden right now is the top surrogate on the obama campaign. >> i want to talk about illinois. certainly the primary coming up on tuesday. mitt romney, i mean, he has a lot of money, and he likes to pour it into these states and use it to attack his opponents. illinois in this case is no exception. how important is illinois and how are the candidates doing there? >> it's extremely important. you know, mitt romney needs to win illinois. he needs to change the narrative of rick santorum sweeping in at the last minute and winning these states. we saw rick santorum through that in mississippi and alabama. now we're heading off to illinois on tuesday. today there's also a puerto rico, and mitt romney needs to win puerto rico because part of his