i'm paul in carson city. >> we're going to go to carson city live as soon as they start counting there coming in right now. we're going to update you in a moment. let me go over to soledad once again. she has some excellent contributors. >> yes. the best. let me introduce you to the contributors. maria cardona, wearing the red jacket. >> absolutely. >> ted rowlands and will cain. >> shocking he has a tie on. >> you've been promoted to the big boy table. let's start with eric. is it all about momentum and who has it tonight? >> yes, momentum and you've got to remember looking at a lot of the polling that we've seen thus far, it takes a while to have news events catch up. romney will probably have momentum coming out of nevada as people speculated that it would happen a couple weeks ago. but also you will see, for example, the marion gingrich story, that happened three our four days before south carolina, it did in florida. the mitt romney interview with you came so soon to nevada it hasn't had time to percolate. >> roland martin, let me ask you about that. he was talking about the poo

you can see the 24 precinct boxes here in carson city, nevada. people coming up and voting right now as we speak. the caucus here has begun. you might wonder, they have 11,000 republicans here in carson city, 10,000 democrats. back in 2008, they voted for john mccain. they're expecting about a 50% turnout by the sight of things right now, could be even more vibrant than that in carson city. people checking in over there, going to vote. they're going to talley up these ballots in about three hours, at least start to do so. one things that interesting, no matter who you talk to whether they're for romney or for ron paul or for santorum or gain rich, they all say that we need to change in congress and right now more patriotism. listen. >> indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> as we said, a rousing celebration, if you will, here in carson city, nevada. >> all right. paul, thank you so much. we'll continue to watch the caucusing and the results unfolding later on. appreciate that. >>> a massive pileup in florida is still under investigation

. >>> i'm paul vercammen here in carson city.e are four of the precincts. 24 in all in carson city. this county does lean republican. it's like their super bowl their game. in the end they've got to get behind one republican candidate and beat barack obama in nevada. i'm paul vercammen reporting from carson city. >>> heading into the nevada caucuses, mitt romney had a 20 point lead in the most recent poll. rick santorum and ron paul were lagging further behind. romney hasn't had a huge advantage around the country. gingrich was the leader in national polls two weeks ago after winning the south carolina primary. the race tightened after that. and gingrich and romney were running neck and neck. but romney jumped back in the lead boosted by his primary victory in the state of florida. will kane if you look at the state of florida mitt romney lost who said they were strong tea partiers. you look at the entrance polls in nevada and it seems different. >> mitt romney is the establishment candidate. but after looking at the numbers in n

he was planning on visiting reno, carson city and vegas now only reno. >> i would have thought he wouldne with vegas and maybe done some tiffany shopping. >> or looking for someone to participate in an open marriage. >> or go to the venetian. they've got a room at the adelson compound. >> i wanted to ask you about that. do we make much of that, that he's only going to one city and scaling back or is that not important? >> could he be dumping callista? >> probably not, but could he be dumping his campaign. >> that's not what he's saying. he's so mad at romney, i have to wonder if what newt really wants is to make sure mitt romney never gets elected president much less the nominee, the way he's been talking. he's opened a religious war on romney now, calling him anti christian, anti catholic anti religious liberty anti religious freedom. the dog whistler could be back. could he be playing the mormon card, i'm asking? >> that doesn't appear to be subtle at all. let me ask you about that. this appears to be one of the strongest cases of discrimination against a candidate i have seen in a lo

o-verdi high school is repeated across the state in so many of the caucus precincts. 16 caucuses plus carson citynd 44,000 people participated in 2008 and the g.o.p. is thinking they may go above 60,000, but unclear, a better read on it later this afternoon. we did get anecdotal results from a couple of precincts here and see the way the vote is going and hold that until they start to officially release the results. >> yeah, very much understood by me, as well as the understanding of that, but it's always fun to watch the caucuses take place, john. what does nevada mean for the race overall? >> it's an interesting snapshot how they're going to stack up in the the west. from here to colorado another big state and minnesota is holding a caucus and missouri a primary and mitt romney is expected to do very well here in nevada and got 51% of the majority of the vote. and the latest polls show him with the same level of support and did he very well in colorado last time around as well and he's running strongly then. one thing that we should point out. kelly, we're going to start to get results from acr

snow up in carson city and you can tweet me weather information. our system is moving through fast.a has a rapidly breeze. there is sill pretty good line of showers on the peninsula. also down toward san jose and back over toward the east bay. to the north things are starting to calm down rapidly. but still we'll put our cloud and rain forecast into motion here. by 9:00 or 10:00 this is gone. look upstream. systems continue to drop down out of the northwest. by noon things start to juice up again. i don't think the commute will be as bad as the morning. we'll have more showery in nature. most of the rain is ending here. if you lee at 7:00 you won't encounter any rain at all. one more system comes down thursday morning but we clear things out by friday. 48 seems possible. san rafael at 48. 50 at san francisco. san jose a little cooler. the coming down of the northwest you can see right there, that will continue to clip us. keeping unsettled weather in the forecast today and tomorrow. the front is the morning. then we turn showery in nature. rain and wind gives way to cool breezy cond

this is what the results from 15 counties as well as carson city and 50%, 50% of clark county, mitt romney has 48%. gingrich has 23%. ron paul in third at 19%. santorum way back in fourth at 11%. what is important about this about getting the count right. didn't romney win, he did. but he upped his percentage he could get another one to two delegates which could prove important going forward. then second place, only a thousand votes separate gingrich and ron paul. paul's campaign they were beating, this is according to local reports during the caucuses. they were beating gingrich two to one. they think they can close that gap, maybe move into second position. i'll tell you, this whole thing is looking pretty bad right now. we have a lot of local g.o.p. people, it's ridiculous. it borders on incompetence. a lot of these caucuses were over 24 hours ago and still counting. it's increasing the momentum for this to be the last caucus in nevada. what we should do in the future is hold a primary. turn it over to the state. voting that would last all day to caucuses that go until 9:00 in the morni

our doors, and likely file for bankruptcy due to the horrible economic situation in our state and carson city in particular. it's a true tragedy, the lifelong endeavor ends this way and pam feels that she is a failure. i keep reminding her that the failures -- that the failure was not hers but rather a failure of liberal elected officials to do what's right for our country and get out of the way. let free enterprise work its magic and in turn, let individuals flourish. members of congress are willfully refusing to put our nation on a path of long-term fiscal responsibility, creating greater uncertainty, contributing to an anemic economy that is forcing small businesses to close their doors. as long as this is the case, americans will continue to be frustrated and angry with washington's inability to produce real results. our nation's capital remains the only place in the country where difficult decisions are not made. congress continually kicks the can down the road, leaving tough fiscal decisions for future congresses, future administrations, and worse, the next generation. in light of these

our first question -- the infamous legal brothel in carson city, the moonlite bunny ranch is throwing journalist steve frees, author of the blog "vegas happens here." i get that, as in what happens here stays here. here we go. we have the fact or fiction -- the girls of the moonlite bunny ranch are supporting a gop candidate. >> that's a fact, alex. actually, it makes sense. it's like pimpin for paul i think is the name. it's sort of the perfect congress between personal politics and states' rights and personal rights. >> pimpin' for paul. we just wanted another excuse for the director to throw up this video. we're moving on. the official slogan for vegas is, what happens in vegas stays in vegas. fact or fiction? >> actually, you said it right a few moments ago. that's fiction. it's actually what happens here stays here. as recently as yesterday on the "today" show, matt lauer said it the wrong way, too. it's just sort of one of the pet peeves of people who know vegas. >> oh, our apologies. how about this fact or fiction. elvis presley was the first entertainer to earn $100,000 a week

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