with us now the co-anchor of america's newsroom bill hemmer. s, bill. >> hey shepard, good evening to you. 30 minutes away the whole state will be open and we will watch this map slowly fill in on the touch screen billboard behind me we can show you the results and the economic picture and the look ahead too as this primary process rolls on. the results at the moment, there are not many in new hampshire but we do have a few. in this state about 1% reporting now, this is realtime at the moment. so these numbers can change at any moment. 1% reporting, romney at 35%. paul at 27%. huntsman in third at 14%. again, it is early. on the county map, remember iowa had 99 counties. new hampshire has 10. here is your population center down here. hillsborough county. all right. this is new. 6% of the vote reporting. romney at 34%. ron paul 28. huntsman behind paul in third place at 13%. but, again, it is early. about 400,000 people live in this county. mitt romney won it back in 2008 with 35% of the vote. so, with this amount of vote in, he is right at his n

i'm bill hemmer. martha: good morning, bill hemmer. good to see you. i'm martha maccallum. candidates are up and out early this morning as they are most days. they have at least a dozen events to make it too the next 24 hours. we're waiting for a event from governor rick perry. we'll speak to him later in the show. he will be in blythe wood for a meet-and-greet with supporters. bill: they have their sights set on winning that nomination, six of them. >> don't wit on our country. don't quit on my campaign. bill: he. >> leading us to become a path on greece or italy. i'm convinced we'll be there at some point if we don't get this guy out of office. bill: tom, good morning to you. you say the others will make romney work for it. how so? >> well, i mean this is going to be a long nine days for mitt romney. the attacks are coming, they're coming on his experience with, his record with bain capital. gingrich is also launched an ad on romney's record on abortion. so he will, right now leading in the polls in south carolina, and he will have to defend himself and hold that lead. it

i am bill hemmer from the heart of the new york city .reat to be back with you again. >> happy new year. >> are you ready for one more? >> why not. i am megyn kelly and we were surrounded by one mill onioor more here in times square for an event that is watched by a billion people around the world. >> it is astounding when you think about it. we are one hour away from when they drop the big ball for 2012. it is 40 stories over our head here in the end of times square. >> we talked about how it is down right balmy and looking forward to mi-ties with umbrellas. that has changed. but on tv it looks like an oversized tv ornhament. but it is 12 feet high and weighs more than 11,000 pounds. >> it is butiful. i was up there today. >> you were touching the ball. >> it gets here at midnight. we have one of the best broadcast we have done. >> this is it? >> it has begun. fifth year together. >> i feel so close to you right now, bill. >> if it gets closer we'll get closer. >> it happened years ago. >> and hearing from rich and sandy patti. >> and '8

greg: i'm bill hemmer. good morning to you. rguing over the same bill passed last summer after the standoff over the nation's debt. under that law the limit is automatically raised after the president says the country is super close to topping the current limit of $15.2 trillion. martha: mike emanuel is on this story for us at the top of the hour live on capitol hill. mike, it looks like this vote is not going to get the kind of tussle that we saw before christmas. >> reporter: that is right, we do expect some arguing, martha. bottom line house republicans say it keeps the focus on the government spending problem, our massive growing debt problem. in the end it's expected to pass the house but not go beyond that. here is the lead sponsor of the bill on today's resolution vote. >> what this will do is send a strong message to the world and throughout america that the house, and in particular the house republicans are focused on getting our fiscal house in order and that means taking care of our national debt. it's a direct threat

i am bill hemmer from the heart of the new york city .at to be back with you again. >> happy new year. >> are you ready for one more? >> why not. i am megyn kelly and we were surrounded by one mill onioor more here in times square for an event that is watched by a billion people around the world. >> it is astounding when you think about it. we are one hour away from when they drop the big ball for 2012. it is 40 stories over our head here in the end of times square. >> we talked about how it is down right balmy and looking forward to mi-ties with umbrellas. that has changed. but on tv it looks like an oversized tv ornhament. but it is 12 feet high and weighs more than 11,000 pounds. >> it is butiful. i was up there today. >> you were touching the ball. >> it gets here at midnight. we have one of the best broadcast we have done. >> this is it? >> it has begun. fifth year together. >> i feel so close to you right now, bill. >> if it gets closer we'll get closer. >> it happened years ago. >> and hearing from rich and sandy patti. >> and '80s

my friend and colleague bill hemmer has that from the touch screen.ey, bill, happy new year. >> and to you as well. i think it's been 21 hours. good to see you both and good evening. we're brg back the billboard and show you on the touch screen. we want find out how u.k. mike huckabee won and what was the success. and you tried to figure out what happened during the iowa caucus here. on the map behind us you'll see huckabee was the winner, and behind him was mitt romney. so we took the state and broke it down based on county. the counties that huckabee won is the deep red here in the middle. what romney did, he won the corners. romney won everything on the west side, which tends to be a little more conservative. and he won everything on the east side, all of these counties here, which tends to be a little more liberal. so he book-ended the states. one exception in this entire map from three years ago and this county here is jefferson county. ron paul won jefferson county, he's going to make up some ground this year or somebody, say like rick santorum,

my friend and colleague bill hemmer has that from the touch screen.ey, bill, happy new year. >> and to you as well. i think it's been 21 hours. good to see you both and good evening. we're brg back the billboard and show you on the touch screen. we want find out how u.k. mike huckabee won and what was the success. and you tried to figure out what happened during the iowa caucus here. on the map behind us you'll see huckabee was the winner, and behind him was mitt romney. so we took the state and broke it down based on county. the counties that huckabee won is the deep red here in the middle. what romney did, he won the corners. romney won everything on the west side, which tends to be a little more conservative. and he won everything on the east side, all of these counties here, which tends to be a little more liberal. so he book-ended the states. one exception in this entire map from three years ago and this county here is jefferson county. ron paul won jefferson county, he's going to make up some ground this year or somebody, say like rick santorum,

they are smiling. >> megyn: bill hemmer is there. >> bret: get out of there, bill! okay, back to our all star panel. brit, juan, steve. go ahead. [laughter] mark good times for bill and the panel back there. it is fun being back there, they know the answers and can't share it with us yet. let's talk about these late deciders, because i mentioned with the earlier panel, it seems that they are breaking for newt gingrich. which would suggest that all of the things we have heard from him in the past week about next wife and so on, either didn't matter a lot or didn't matter enough. to stop his momentum, does it mean it's not an issue for him on a go-forward basis. >> no, what sometimes happens with these primary seasons, it will happen late in the campaign for one state and won't make much difference and you'll think it didn't work. and, it will carry over, into the next rounds of campaigning and the next state. i remember in 1980, john anderson, remember, he was a republican congressman from illinois, liberal republican, basically, refo

check in with bill hemmer on the changing face of iowa.he republic rivals battling a a common enemy tonight, the weather. it's cold here for those of us who aren't from here. i mean it was 16 here last night with a a wind chill of zero and iowans are walking around in thongs. not really. they are not all bothered by the cold like the rest of the country. they are used to it they are heartier than that that's the wind chills, that's not going to do anything. not to iowans. might keep a floridian at home. iowans giggling at that. democrats are caucusing here too. it's more of a pep rally for their only candidate. they will be hearing from president obama. we will get an update from the white house on a special edition of "the fox report." we we are just getting started. caucus time is upon us. get a sitter. you are going to want to pay attention tonight. >> republicans, in general, aren't enthusiastic about any of their choices. and that is one of the reasons i think that there isn't a single one of them that is showing in any poll right now

i am bill hemmer from the heart of the new york city .reat to be back with you again. >> happy new year. >> are you ready for one more? >> why not. i am megyn kelly and we were surrounded by one mill onioor more here in times square for an event that is watched by a billion people around the world. >> it is astounding when you think about it. we are one hour away from when they drop the big ball for 2012. it is 40 stories over our head here in the end of times square. >> we talked about how it is down right balmy and looking forward to mi-ties with umbrellas. that has changed. but on tv it looks like an oversized tv ornhament. but it is 12 feet high and weighs more than 11,000 pounds. >> it is butiful. i was up there today. >> you were touching the ball. >> it gets here at midnight. we have one of the best broadcast we have done. >> this is it? >> it has begun. fifth year together. >> i feel so close to you right now, bill. >> if it gets closer we'll get closer. >> it happened years ago. >> and hearing from rich and sandy patti. >> and '8

i am bill hemmer from the heart of the new york city .reat to be back with you again. >> happy new year. >> are you ready for one more? >> why not. i am megyn kelly and we were surrounded by one mill onioor more here in times square for an event that is watched by a billion people around the world. >> it is astounding when you think about it. we are one hour away from when they drop the big ball for 2012. it is 40 stories over our head here in the end of times square. >> we talked about how it is down right balmy and looking forward to mi-ties with umbrellas. that has changed. but on tv it looks like an oversized tv ornhament. but it is 12 feet high and weighs more than 11,000 pounds. >> it is beaiful. i was up there today. >> you were touching the ball. >> it gets here at midnight. we have one of the best broadcast we have done. >> this is it? >> it has begun. fifth year together. >> i feel so close to you right now, bill. >> if it gets closer we'll get closer. >> it happened years ago. >> and hearing from rich and sandy patti. >> and '8

we're hopping aren't we, bill hemmer? bill: we are. martha: we have a lot more stories in the hopper coming up on "america's newsroom." a community is mourning the loss of one of their finest. details on a shootout that took the live after utah police officer. a sad story. bill: natalie holloway murder suspect, juror ren van der sloot is in court for the murder of another woman. how will this go? martha: in politics, newt gingrich is set to take the stage at a town hall in new hampshire this morning. the former speaker is looking strong right now in south carolina, folks. long haul this race is. we're heading into the weekend with two, two count them, debates saturday night and sunday morning before we go to the polls in new hampshire will that play to that man's strength? >> no president has put more people on food stamps than obama. this is not an attack. this is a fact. it is not negative. it is a fact. i would like to be the best paycheck for americans as president. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over

greg: i'm bill hemmer. insist that they are in it to win it. >> i stand ready to lead us down a different path where weir lifted up by your desire to succeed, not dragged down by resentment of success. >> i believe if we had a republican house, a remember senate, and a gingrich presidency, it would be amazing how much we could get done, and how rapidly we could get it done. [applause] >> we have a campaign that has a message, and a messenger that can deliver what we need, which is first and foremost, to defeat barack obama, number one. >> we have stability. we have rule of law. we have the longest surviving constitution in the world. we even have private property rights right here in new hampshire. >> i think the intellectual revolution is going on now to restore liberty in this count tree, it's well on its way and there is no way they are going to stop the momentum that we have started. [applause] martha: that's what it looked like last night when they all came out. they have a lot of ground to cover in th

check this out of the bill hemmer and i were checking during break.uld be great vehicle around downtown manhattan except if you get in collision. the wheels rotate. you spin them around to turn into tight spot. this is the part i don't understand, it folds to get them into one space. teach me about a folding car idea. there are engines in the baby. one in each wheel so you get more interior space where you can sit. they say commercial versions of this car may be ready by next year. maybe in time for --. bill: take that sucker out on the highway. easier to park. president obama set to speak at the university of michigan ann arbor talking about making college more affordable part of the push for policies set out in the state of the union yesterday. it is new energy initiative. critics asking with why the president would be blocking the keystone pipeline and cut our depep densy on foreign oil. i want to debate that. brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to george w. bush and doug schoen former pollster for president clinton and fox news contributor. dou

i'm bill hemmer, live from "america's newsroom." we're kind of an interesting couple. martha: we are. that is another story. good morning, bill. i'm martha maccallum. good to see you, everybody. four years ago -- weeks ago newt gingrich flown to the top of the pauls and rick santorum, ron paul, and trying to lock in the front-runner status they enjoyed in iowa. you've got more than tens stops. they are all over the state of new hampshire. bill: no time to rest. no time to sleep. bob cusack, editor of "the hill." good morning, to you, robert. >> good morning, bill. bill: who has the most to lose in new hampshire? >> i think there are three people. mitt romney, jon huntsman and ron paul. i mean romney is expected to win. not only has to win he has got to win big. jon huntsman pit all his eggs in new hampshire. he has to have a very strong showing, trying to get more moderate votes away from romney. ron paul had somewhat of a disappointing performance in iowa based upon the expectations. so he has got to do well in new hampshire. it is all expectations game at this point b

i'm bill hemmer, welcome to "america's newsroom". martha: morning, bill. bill: onward we go. martha: we think it is crazy. imagine how they feel. this is unbelievable florida story. good morning, everybody, i'm martha maccallum with you this morning. a total reversal of the numbers we had on monday. hear is the breakdown, if the primary were held today, mitt romney would win with 39% of the vote with newt gingrich's 31%. santorum and paul at 12% and 9% respectively. bill: the big story as we go through the numbers, how much the story has changed since monday, only four days ago. in words of the man who did the polling this is just nuts. scott rasmussen is the man. live with us from rasmussen reports. what is going on here, scott? >> bill, you have to remember a week ago we were having mirror image of this discussion. newt gingrich had gone down 14 to up two. a 16-point swing in matter of days. now gingrich down 10, romney up 17-point swing. part of it the surge is the surge and doesn't last. newt gingrich had a good week but it hasn't lasted. part of it those somewhat conserv

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i'm bill hemmer on a good note today. how are you, martha. martha: that is good place to start. hello, bill. good morning, i'm martha maccallum. the seals pulling off a daring rescue picking off nine somali pirates. in doing so they freed a pair of hostages including this young woman, american jessica buchanan. she had been held captive for the past three months. bill: let's go to the pentagon. jennifer griffin, you saw some signs last night. what was that? >> reporter: the biggest sign, the president walked into the chamber and shook hands with leon panetta the defense secretary. here is what he said. [applause] >> leon, good job tonight. good job tonight. >> reporter: we should have known what he was talking about at that point but we didn't. it was this raid had been called. he said good job tonight to panetta. we can confirm that 50 u.s. forces were involved in the raid into somalia to rescue those two hostages. they were from the navy seals. but 50 people on the ground in sew small yaw, those two hostages had been held since october, bill. bill: this is quite interesting bec

watch it live here during our new year's special with bill hemmer and megyn kelly. year's special. now, back to "the five" new year's special. >> andrea: welcome back to "the five" new year's special. time for the 2012 predictions. what does "the five" think of the next 12 months will bring? eric, start with you. >> eric: two predictions were generic republican beats barack obama in a landslide victory. the economy recovers, housing market recovers, the stock market recovers. the labor market probably going to be bad for a long time. sorry. >> bob: here is a shocker. i think obama is going to win big. i think obama will win in a close race, but he will win. the second thing when all the votes are counted the first tuesday in november, 2012, one-third of the tea party caucus of the house. >> andrea: disagree. >> eric: say it again. the first third of the tea party caucus will get defeated? >> bob: yes. >> andrea: so members elected in 2010. >> eric: i will make you an on-air bet, the loser has to wear the other guy's preferred shirt. >> kimberly: again! how about pan

watch it live here during our new year's special with bill hemmer and megyn kelly. year's special. now, back to "the five" new year's special. >> andrea: welcome back to "the five" new year's special. time for the 2012 predictions. what does "the five" think of the next 12 months will bring? eric, start with you. >> eric: two predictions were generic republican beats barack obama in a landslide victory. the economy recovers, housing market recovers, the stock market recovers. the labor market probably going to be bad for a long time. sorry. >> bob: here is a shocker. i think obama is going to win big. i think obama will win in a close race, but he will win. the second thing when all the votes are counted the first tuesday in november, 2012, one-third of the tea party caucus of the house. >> andrea: disagree. >> eric: say it again. the first third of the tea party caucus will get defeated? >> bob: yes. >> andrea: so members elected in 2010. >> eric: i will make you an on-air bet, the loser has to wear the other guy's preferred shirt. >> kimberly: again! how about pan

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bill: i'm bill hemmer.re new audio recordings showing that the captain may have lied to rescue workers. the italian port authority on the horn with the captain as the boat was taking on water. by all accounts he did not do anything he said he was doing apparently. >> commander one question will everyone leave the ship or will someone remain on board. >> i will stay here. i think we are regs on the seabed and there is water inside. the rock of the ship should ease now that the ship is filled with water. more than this we shouldn't move. >> you'll stay alone or will someone else also stay on board. >> no, i believe i will be the one staying. >> only you? okay. commander, very well. >> maybe the second in command, but i don't know where he is at moment. >> okay, please continue disembarking people and we will talk later. please keep this phone with you so we can get through in case we need to. martha: boy, and then you hear about the falling into the life boat and him not being on the ship at all. greg burke s

bill: i'm bill hemmer. the numbers tell part of the story.ch vowing a fight to the finish in this race. >> we will go all the way to the convention. i believe the republican party will not nominate a pro-abortion, progun control, protax increase moderate from massachusetts. i think they will not nominate somebody who raises millions from wall street to run ads that are false. martha: chris stirewalt joins me now, fox news. there are a lot of people out there that are not sure who they are going to vote for. >> reporter: when you see what has gone, the huge swings. we are watching the latest polls coming in. there is some reason for newt gingrich to be hopeful but obviously mitt romney is in the cat bird seat right now in florida and hopes what he does there re-establishes him as the inevitable nominee for the gop jo . martha: a really interesting story in "the new york times" that pats the campaign staff on the back saying that after south carolina they realized the mitt romney team, that they were in a tough spot if they were to lose florida

bill: i'm bill hemmer. mlk day we'll observe that throughout the day.dominated the republican field but mitt romney is deaden according to this poll with president obama. martha: all eyes are on what could be the g.o.p. debate of the election season as we get revved up for that, carl cameron is live in myrtle believe, south carolina. good morning, carl. >> reporter: big debate tomorrow. there will be one absent podium, we'll remove it from the stage, one less for this big debate before the south carolina primary. jon huntsman will resign from the race this hour. he didn't play hard in iowa and put all of his money and time in new hampshire and came in a disappoint -d thir disappointed third place. third place was not good enough for him to get a fire lit in south carolina. he will withdraw. when he does so he will throw his support behind mitt romney, a significant boost probably not so much in south carolina for rom rofpl mitt romney. huntsman didn't have a lot going here. there is not a lot of evidence to suggest that his 8% is a lot. he will say this

i'm bill hemmer. i hope you had a good weekend. welcome to "america's newsroom." what a story this is. martha: unbelievable. i'm martha maccallum. so far six people are confirmed dead. 16 are missing. more than 4,000 people on board. among them 120 americans. right now there is a desperate search going on for anybody who still might be trapped below. survivors describing complete chaos. >> they said everything was okay. we're kind of tilting. then it came act a little -- back a little bit. then it did i had again. i grabbed poll and grabbed my friend. we have to go to our room to get our life jackets. >> we were jumping into the rafters. now this is happening for real. >> all of sudden the breakage of glass, breakage of so many plates on the dinner table started to happen. >> before we jumped off, one of the crewmembers was telling us we need to stay on. that is when mark was saying, we don't need to stay on because, sinking so fast. >> keep praying the whole time for somebody to come and rescue us. i had to keep, i thought i was going to die. because nobody was s

bill: i'm bill hemmer welcome to winter and "america's newsroom."ll deserved day off. arthel: she sure is. i'm arthel neville. more of a foot of snow in some places, slowing travel to a crawl on roads, rails and runways all across the region. bill: let's go to janice dean live in the weather center. she has been waiting on this day for three months. mike tobin is live in the streets of chicago, we'll go there first. >> reporter: the bad weather finally did show up for wintertime, six inches of the last night. now you have the way chicago looks in the wintertime. you have the cars going over the wet roads, they look wet because the salt got out. here is something people living in the city are used to seeing, caution, falling ice. the snow can cascade down on the pedestrians below once in a while. it got particularly treacherous on the roadways yesterday because the snow came down warm and wet and froze. the bridges and the overpasses are usually the first to make the ice patches. that's where you see three traffic fatalities out of st. louis and one