take a look at this. 7-year-old alex walker was posing for a picture in front of the lions' den. got awfully close but as you can see the lion jumped up to the glass, the boy heard the commotion and turned around and saw that. the lion. his dad says it scared him but it was a once in a lifetime shot. that kid looked pretty terrified in that photo. >>> it looks like a big snowstorm? pennsylvania but on wednesday take a second look. it was not filled up with snow, it was actually powdered sugar. a tractor-trailer crashed and it spilled its load of sugar all over the roadway. it took hours to clean up this mess and reopen that road. as for the driver he was hurt but he's expected to be all right. >>> all right, time now for a check on the weather. lynette did you get excited there for a minute thinking you saw snow? >> these hot temperatures are really going to begin to move in here. none of that is happening but let's look at the temperatures right now because we are on the warm side in d.c. coming in at 72 degrees right now. 64 in easton and 67 in baltimore. actually a little bit

overcome all of that money that poured into the state and poured into the republican side for scott walker. >> alex, do you see that, that the democrats were overspent? >> let's look at meg whit man in california. all the money in the world won't win an election when it's not the product that people want to buy. i think we ought to remember that apple computer makes a lot of money not because they make a lot of money but because they're popular. they're doing something people like. i think the people in wisconsin decided, you know what, we'd rather have some fiscal responsibility and an economy that doesn't go bankrupt. besides that, it's not that much money really. $80 million to i think deal president obama a setback here at the beginning of his presidential campaign. having him as president is costing us trillions. this is a deal. >> john, let's look at what the exit polls show us in terms of what was on voter's minds. from my reading, a lot of them did not like the idea of recalling a governor in the middle of a term for something that wasn't misconduct. >> i think that is a huge part of the dy

walker. his headquarters are in milwaukee. alexhis is not your favorite thing in the world to do but we wanted to talk to you. thanks for joining us. >> reporter: thanks for having me. >> what is the barrett campaign telling you about their expectations? ron allen said the republicans are confident they will win. what are you hearing? >> reporter: we're hearing the exact same thing. they said the momentum has been with them the past few days. the mayor really feels like he has a shot at winning this. he was out all day today across the state campaigning. he voted, meeting with folks. they think the exits they have seen show a close race. they know it's going to be a long night. they think they can take this. they will not speak. mayor barrett will not speak until this race is called. there's no word on a recount. all i can say is from the folks i've been talking to in wisconsin the past couple of days, they are really ready for this race to be over and for them to get back to work and the mayor's staff feels like he has it in the b

alex is going to be a senior. they've been spectacular. mrs. walker mentioned the rest of our family. know a lat of you at the victory centers have my mom's chocolate cookies. you have to love those! my mom and dad, my brother-in-law, my sister-in-law my nieces, my father-in-law, all of my family here and so many of our long-time friends. so many who lifted us up over the last year and a half even when times were tough. we say thank you to all of them. [applause] thank you. ] [chanting] >> it's great to see so many kids out here too. it's what it's all about! [applause] i want to thank you our tremendous lieutenant governor rebecca! to rebecca, to her husband, state representative joe, they're two beautiful daughters, thank you to them for standing up with us as well. to for the proud taxpayer of wisconsin [applause] i want to thank my incredible staff on the campaign and the cabinet and the capitol staff. we thought abouted more than 4 million voter contacts, the staff, the volunteers, supporters we can't thank you all enough. there's a tent last night with the overflow. we couldn't

. >> i think a lot has been made that scott walker side spent more in the recall alex. teresting the results of this election were almost the same as scott walker's original that didn't have all this money. all this money apparently on scott walker's side didn't make much a difference. one thing is labor unions are better at on the ground labor unions and the greatest example how money doesn't make a difference is the election for governor a couple of years ago. megawhitman one of the richest people in california ran for governor. spent an enormous $140 million and lost to gerry brown. money help as candidate get a message out but i don't think it as determinant. >> the wisconsin vote this viewer writes about the appropriateness of her calling a city governor rather than referendum on unions. welcome brian. caller: i'm a member of the construction union and i'm not an employee. americans in general, are very, very ignorant of their history and don't realize what the american working class has been through and why they form unions and mr. kay or the there keeps making a l

that you would see a romney presidency that operates like kasich, like walker, like christie in new jersey. and i would point also, alex were talking about the new ads today. when you look at those ads, note sort of how they talk about jobs and how they talk about the economy in different states. we were in iowa a few weeks ago when romney gave this big speech about debt. the unemployment rate in iowa is significantly better than the national average. aside from the line about getting rid of the president's health care refo, the ad in iowa focuses on the debt, not jobs. so they're trying to break this out in areas where they can't say this is a jobs issue, they can sort of point to other factors of the economy as the things he would like to address. >> it's certainly a tailored message. i notice he talked about the high tech sector in north carolina where there's sort of booming industry. the issue, though, is he's supposed to get this all done in 100 days which is a lot of work for any guy. garrett, i have to leave it here but i do need to ask since you're on the ground, with the swishy fund-raiser like this, are ther

alex haley. he began to take information from his students without checking it out, and they were giving him stuff from other books. i remember margaret walker did her best to try to get somebody with her book that she did on jubilee. and a number of, i mean, i compared that when "roots" first came out, i saw so many similarities there. similarly with harold doorlander's book, the african, and he sued and got heavy six figures and really hurt alex haley's estate sufficiently. so what happens is, is that, you know, looking at what has to be done as we go forward, we have other books that are coming, things that have to be done, and we're working on that as we look at the papers that was found in if an attic out in detroit. which gets back to the whole founding of the nation of islam, you know? so we're going back to first principles again, you know? can we take it back to the beginning and kind of sort it out and see how this particular thing evolve. and then finally with the word "reinvention," we felt that the word itself, you know, the connotations that it tend to infer, you know, not at all admirable and suggest that malcolm was manipulat