. >> reporter: hi, chris. here are the changes. a new shuttle service is going to be offered between haynes point and jefferson. it's only going to cost you a dollar. also two new capitol stations are going to be added. this is all an effort to make it easier to come down here and check out the cherry blossoms. here it is mid-march, st. patrick's day, and already the cherry blossoms on the tidal basin are starting to bloom. >> we came in actually for a conference and we decided to come into the city for the evening and we've been enjoying the cherry blossoms and the monuments. >> reporter: they're not even at peak yet. is that a good thing they're out? >> that's great. it's great. i would like to see snow in the winter, but i'm loving it. >> reporter: the snow, that's not likely to happen. but the national parks predict they'll peak on tuesday because of the warm winter. >> it's nice to walk around and see the trees and see them bloom. >> reporter: earlier in the day the tidal basin was swarming with thousands of people getting a s

is chris here? from the office of small business. >> good afternoon, supervisors. regina apologizes that she was not able to be here. i have a brief statement on her behalf. the office of small business and small business commission have been supporters of nightlife economy and we're pleased to hear the results of this economic study. just as we hear about innovation in this traditional economy, we need to remind ourselves that the the other nine-five economies are equally debated. after today we find out it is overall important to the economy here. we remain committed to working with the entertainment commission, to promote, advocate, and support this sector. as permitting is under the purview of this sector, there are a number of areas where the office place a supporting role about employer mandates, permitting, planning and other areas of city in the street. recently, we worked with the entertainment commission are pleased to hear that businesses are taking advantage of this exciting new kind of permit. but look forward to other opportunities to partner with the

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chris: thank you. we to take a break here. when we come back, rick santorum gets a big primary win but is it too little too late? >>> the people of louisiana sent a loud and clear message. this race is long and far from over and the people of wisconsin i just say to you, on wisconsin. let's get it done. thank you. >> chris: republican presidential candidate rick santorum celebrating his big win last night in the louisiana primary. and we are back now with the panel. so, how much should we make of santorum's victory and of romney's continued difficulty, paul, in reaching out to voters in the south and to some of the conservative base of the party all across the country? >> should make something of it. it was a beg win for santorum. he needd that win badly and one 49% of the vote and won in just about every demographic except for people that make more than a couple hundred thousand dollars a year. a repudiation of romney support in the south. a blowback too for the comment by his staffer about etch-a-sketch and now we will just

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chris: you start here, john.t would be a time capsule, don't tell me those also things we communicate on. >> god, i hope not. i think we're already doing that, right? the series to me captured this era best had been the ones with, you think about homeland and anxiety and paranoia and the post-911 that's still with us. >> there's another series i think which is in treatment about somebody on a couch with their shrink which is the sort of self-involvement. >> absolutely. >> that we have right now. chris: what do you think would be -- >> we're not going to have one because it's digital bits and bytes. you can't save a tweet. >> there is no context. >> so little sometimes i think in a physical world, so much of it happens and what we're doing takes place in this sort of cloud, it's going to be a bunch of people standing around on their device looking up, going uh-huh, uh-huh. chris: it's like they go to the movies to escape and yet at the movies they're doing that. david? >> something will disappear. facebook will di

chris. >> here's where i want to start with you. the sense people who are court watchers who have watched this develop over two years started out basically thinking there wasn't going to be much of a problem. after listening to arguments in the first three days are now maybe beginning to reconsider that. what do you think accounts for the mismatch between perceptions early on how squarely the law fit within the four corners of current interstate commerce jurisprudence and where the justices on the supreme court seem to be headed in oral arguments? >> let me preface my answer in saying i'm not certain how this case will come out and i don't think you can tell from oral argument what the court is going to do with the mandate. both chief justice roberts and justice kennedy did express concerns with the challenger's positions. justice kennedy said they were coming -- that people who were not buying insurance, who would inevitably be in commerce were very closely approximately connected to commerce and the chief justice kept correcting t

"20/20" co-anchor chris cuomo is here. chris?> reporter: diane, it was really important for us to get dharun ravi. he is big for two reasons. we have this case we know about. we also have this conversation that this country is struggling with about bullying. dharun ravi finds himself in the middle of both and now for the first time, we can see what was going on in his mind when he did what he did. what did he think about tyler clementi? >> looking back, i was very self-absorbed. it was just about what i was thinking, what i was -- how i was reacting. it was never, what if tyler finds out, how is he going to feel about it? i was 18. i was stupid. i wasn't thinking about my actions like beyond a minute into the future. >> reporter: did you bully tyler clementi? >> no, no, i didn't bully tyler clementi. >> reporter: do you think tyler clementi thought you were bullying him? >> no, i don't think he thought that at all. >> reporter: did you want to intimidate him, tighten him? >> no. >> reporter: shame him? >> no. >> reporter: make hi

what he's doing, but he's not winning the hearts and minds of the republican electric trat. >> chris, here's the deal. the republican party is looking for a transitional leader. the problem they have is mitt romney is a transitional leader and he's a transition inside this republican party where it is today. he's not even promising transformation of the republican party. he's not trying to bring it back to the days of when he and his father would have been more comfortable inside the old republican party. if they were, then you could say he's trying to be transformational. rick santorum is the one trying to make the case that he's the transformational leader, that a party who wants to transform itself needs, and that's mitt romney's struggle. >> the wall street journal's op-ed page, one of the journalists wrote this. if mr. romney could speak about obamacare the way mr. santorum does not simply as a policy disagreement but as a threat to our freedom, he would be locking up the nomination. >> he uses that reagan. chronic, and i've noticed he tries to say this election is about freedom. he tri

the most bipartisan of these bills, it shows where we are as a country and how divided we are, chris. >> herebunch of other things representative shore from pennsylvania who can characterize the democratic argument better than i could. what's going on on the house floor? >> luke russert, the king of segues. what doesn't he do. thank you for joining us. thank you for standing next to luke for so long. luke and i obviously you heard us talking about this. first of all, let me properly introduce you, pennsylvania congresswoman, a member of the house budget committee, i do want to talk and we can talk about the democratic and the republican budget but i want to talk about this simpson-bowles. you were one of the 38 people who voted for, in support of this bipartisan budget modeled on the simpson-bowles. we've got the screen, scrolling through the names. 38 is not a lot of people. what does that say about the nature of bipartisan compromise in congress? >> first of all that 38, while a small number was bipartisan. 22 democrats and -- get my numbers right, republicans, it was a pretty good support

states has its own interests but in this case they are aligned with israel's. >> chris: but there is a disagreement here. there is, senator graham a disappearment about how far are they should allow iran to go and at what point a military strike should be triggered. >> there is a difference in capability. >> chris: and difference in the assessment of the situation. >> an intelligence difference. we have been sanctioning iran seriously i think in an effective way for about the last six months. they keep enriching. they have 3,000-kilograms of enriched uranium. here is the situation in israel. their military capability is less than hours. there will come a point where the sites get hardened and they are being hardened. if they want to built a power plant for peaceful purposes they are going at it in an odd way. put the behavior and rhetoric together, with israel you can't lose control of our own destiny. they want sanctions to work wele give them time but when the iranians get to the point our military capability is not sufficient to stop their program that is the red line for us and we have a different p

sadly the republicans running for president, many republicans here in washington kind of vili fay this, almost mock it. >> chris: will the president release oil from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve? >> we have spoken of this before and i'm not going to make any news here today. it is an option that is always on the table. it was used last year because of the situation in libya obviously. >> chris: something that the white house is actively considering? >> we are always mindful of what is going on in earl its of the oil market. not going to make any news than today obviously. we are monitoring the pipeline issues and refinery issues and supply issues. obviously the sanctions in iran are working well. hurting their oil industry and hurting their economy. >> chris: what makes you think if you were to release from the strategic petroleum reserve it would be any more effective in lowering the price of oil and gasoline than it was last year during the libyan operation? >> i'm not going to get into the hypotheticals. generally it has been whether it was done in 2005, when it was done last year when there is a

that is the primary one. >> okay. >> i don't know what you want me to say here. >> well, i'm chris hansenand we're doing a story on adults who try to meet kids online for sex. >> i've never done anything like that. >> you've never done anything. you didn't do this here today? >> no. >> you didn't have this chat? >> no, sir. >> then the potential predator's phone begins to buzz. it's the decoy calling to verify that it's the same person he spoke with earlier. >> did you want to answer your phone? >> why, was it ringing? >> yeah. >> i'll just turn it off until we're done talking. >> you know who just called you? >> it could have been my mother for all i know. >> i can tell you exactly what it was. it was my crew called you because they had the cell phone number that you gave the boy in the chat. >> what's the police officer doing here? >> that is a good question. >> get on the ground now! >> get on the ground, sir. >> there you go. >> you have the right to remain silent. >> after he's read his rights, fine decides not to speak without a lawyer present. >> i would like to wait for an attorne

chris cillizza is here. >> i feel like i'm just getting caught up on sleep from super tuesday. we got another vote. this is the kansas caucuses. i think, unless we're wrong about this, i think rick santorum is going to win this. >> a lot of evangelicals. >> exactly. very socially conservative. an under told story in this, look at rick santorum, he's gone quite well in the plain, missouri, kansas, oklahoma. he's doing quite well in that area. rick santorum has done well there. think about kansas. if we wins alabama and mississippi, we're going to be talking about momentum for rick santorum. it may not matter because of the delegate math. we know that is still very strong for mitt romney but rick santorum looks like three wins in a row. >> thank you very much, chris. have a great weekend. >> you too. >> that does it for us for this week. thanks so much. >>> we continue to follow breaking news. a terrifying experience on board an american airlines plane. passengers say a flight attendant went on a rant making r

chris. the polls have been open here for a couple hours now.f voters coming in and out of here. no long lines but a steady stream of voters. and we did talk to some of them to find out how they voted. >> i voted for rick santorum. >> why? >> i felt like i liked his record, i like his pro-life stance. i like his fiscal conservativism. i don't suppose i was completely sure until this morning who i was going to vote for. >> i voted for romney. >> can you tell me why? >> i just felt like he's a little bit more in touch with everybody and a little more open to issues for everyone. and not so dead-set in his conservative ways. >> when it came down to education, that was a real deciding factor to switch to newt. >> reporter: newt gingrich has a lot at stake here today. he hasn't won since south carolina and georgia. his home state next door. he's putting a lot of emphasis here. he says he's going to go on to the convention no matter what, but he's still campaigning here today. the only candidate who is. he's going to speak to the local chamber of comm

on spring break, we thought we would go out with our first stop over here. chris and company, watching the game. >> we were all jumping up and down that we beat manhattan. it's great. >> it is great. with jimmy, you know it's going to be one for the age. find out where they're going to play in the first round of the ncaa. >> that is great news. great. >>> computer viruses are nothing new, but scammers found a new way to try to trick you. >>> abc2 news is working for you with what you need to do as scammers start to move. >>> plus, the roads turn into a slip and slide for many drivers with similar conditions nearing some of that. >>> later, new treatment for diabetes. how an artificial organ could help regulate blood sugar and insulin. >>> i want to show you this in columbus. one right after the other. slammed into signs, into the guardrail, the glass. fortunately, no one hurt. unbelievable. this is a classic case of roads freezing up overnight. ryan will tell us if anything like that is headed our way. kelly? >> we know about the extreme weather in the west, jamie

chris: it was on his wall at the time. here are a few more side besides from those two appearances. >> number five. >> i'll rename the 10th month of the year barachtober, how about that. >> number six. >> do i smell as good as i look? no. >> number four. >> i won't let apple release the newest iphone the day after you bought the previous one. >> number two. >> i have absolutely no idea where my birth certificate is. >> and the promise. >> three words, vice president oprah! >> the number one thing you don't know about mitt romney. >> oprah is my half-sister. >> yeah, there you go. chris: well, guys, those two guys back to back right next to each other in presidential debates, hour and a half, three times, we'll get a look at them will this change everything? >> those are the really important moments and we forget in all of the soup of this discussion of the daily event or the daily number, romney had some things going for him. he was a governor. look at the last three presidents of the united states who had two terms, reagan, bu

. >> and you said chris christy here in california?but i don't think he is going to want to jump on this train, because his brand is all about i'm standing on principal, and he doesn't want to be standing on principal when he is arm and arm with mr. etch-a-sketch. >> let's listen to a sound bite. take a listen. >> would you guys quit distorting what i'm saying. >> you can use -- >> i'm against barack obama on the issue of health care because he fashioned the blueprint. i have been saying it at every speech. quit distorting my words. if i see it it's bull [ censor bleep ]. come on, man, what are you doing? [ laughter ] >> so, i mean joe, isn't that like -- don't you just burnish your credentials -- >> he went on fox hours later and said this is a winner for me for the conservative voters. that gets you votes. because that is the embodiment of the liberal media. >> in fact he was raising money off of it today, craig. did you hear that? >> absolutely. and i think it goes back to our earlier discussion. he had to worry how that statement w

we have chris hansen here with the fox hollow gulf coast. good morning. >> good morning. have you been seeing a lot more people out here quick. >> absolutely. >> you were saying that this is something that golfers or want to be golfers can take advantage of because you can still get the winter rates. >> absolutely. at our premier golf courses, we are still offering the winter rates until the end of this month. 70-degree weather with winter rates. >> we will be talking golf tips. in the meantime, can you give us one quick one for someone trying to improve their game quick. >> absolutely. when you are out there at the driving range and working on your game, think about having a ball in front of the middle of your stands. that way you are hitting it on a dissenting blow, catching the ball first, and taking a nice little tidbit. >> there are still some tee times available this afternoon. the driving range is open all day. back to you guys. >> thank you, sharon. >> reporting live from fox hollow. >> we almost gave -- almost played miniature golf yesterday. >> are you any good?

but i think there's an enthusiasm gap here. >> and, chris, just to add, look, i think it's funny none of -- look, here's the dirty little secret that you've hit on. none of these three guys are sons of the south in any meaningful way. the guy who is the son of the south in this field was rick perry, the governor of texas. he was culturally and stylistically a fit with the south. obviously, he's not around in the race anymore. newt gingrich, i know he represented the atlanta suburbs in congress, but newt gingrich is not a cultural southerner in any meaningful way. rick sarn tomorrow is from pennsylvania, and mitt romney is from massachusetts. having grown up in the northeast, pennsylvania and massachusetts, they don't understand the very unique culture that is the south. i think it's why you've seen lots of coverage of these guys trying to talk about how much they love grits and how they fit in. look, you know, talking with a southern accent. the truth of the matter is none of these guys is a natural fit for the south. to cynthia's point, it's why you see lots of undecideds. in those p