. >> hi, i am jack dalrymple, governor of north dakota. where i live, we run government with common sense. we don't spend more money than we collect in revenue each year. we don't have generally obligation debt. and we only borrow when we have identified a revenue source to pay it back. these are big ropes why north dakota is doing so well compared to the rest of the nation. we have the lowest unemployment rate of all 50 states at 3.2%, and our prude fiscal management has allowed us to lower taxes each of the last three lidge slave sessions. we have lowered substantially our real estate taxes, our individual income taxes and even corporate income taxes. our growing budget surpluses allow us to make large investments in infrastructure and job growth. think of the wise investments our country could be making right now if the federal budget was managed as carefully. as a nation, what progress has been made to balance our annual budget deficit? have any real spending reductions been proposed by the democratic majority in the senate? has presid

we have thousands of job openings in north dakota today. but almost every day the national media asks me if it is not all due to the oil boom in northwestern north dakota. i enjoy telling them that the county with the most job openings is not among western oil counties, but the counties surrounding fargo, our largest city and on the opposite side of the state. our technology parks around our research universities create great jobs by the thousands. advanced manufacturing as jobs in north dakota while most of the nation has lost manufacturing jobs. over the last 10 years, north dakota has been no. 1 in the nation in income and job growth. according to the u.s. chamber of commerce. why is our national economic policy on the wrong track? there are two main reasons. first, the federal government is unnecessarily adding to the cost of living and the cost of doing business in america. just one example is their cost of energy. the price of gasoline is rising rapidly because we continue to depend on foreign oil. it is now within our reach to become

we have thousands of job openings in north dakota today. but almost every day the national media asks me if it isn't all due to the oil boom in northwestern north dakota. i enjoy telling them, the county with the most job openings is not among western oil counties, but is the county surrounding fargo, our largest city

now north dakota. mitt romney earlier won vermont, his home state of massachusetts, and virginia where only he and ron paul were on the ballot. gingrich won in georgia. we're waiting for idaho and alaska. north dakota finally, we have made the projection, north dakota, rick santorum wins. so it's three wins so far for santorum. three wins right now for mitt romney. but we're going to be waiting for ohio. right now, santorum, santorum has a slight lead in ohio right now. but it could be the tiebreaker, a very significant tiebreaker in ohio right now. i want to go to dana bash in cincinnati, hamilton county in ohio. tell our viewers what's going on over there because this race is really tight. santorum slightly ahead. >> this race is really tight. he's slightly ahead on the state level, but here in very, very important hamilton county, he's not. with about half of the votes in to hamilton county, mitt romney is winning by about 3,700 votes. he's got 46%, and rick santorum has about 35%. so mitt romney is

the fighting irish. >> north dakota?there is somebody who is irish there. >> i don't think ever. actually i am told it is the only state in the union an irish person never lived in. >> not even a kevin somewhere? >> no. >> i want to believe in you. >> bill, you play in a homeless soccer league. what is the name of your team? >> we change every year. last year it was the gonna rheas. >> had a good season. >> this season it is the hepititis c. i am the captain. this year we will honor our dealer, the sherrod smalls. >> did you have a shirt made up that said "the hep." >> i am the hep? >> no, it was recalled. sherrod, try to stay with the show. into. >>> from mascots to pot shots. if you can't condemn something rude how can you stand up to ma mud. axel rod says romney's unwillingness to call out rush limbaugh means he craps the bed. he said if mitt cooperate stand up to, quote, the most stria dent voices in hoar party how can he stand up to the challenges of the presidency? what did mitt say about the remarks ? >> that's no

but santa santa bested him in the north dakota caucuses and the oklahoma and tennessee primaries. >> and newt gingrich came up with a single win in his home state of georgia. >> one of the night's biggest prizes, ohio, remained too close to call, with santorum and romney in a virtual tie. romney spent this election night in massachusetts and addressed his support in other words boston, here is some of what he said. >> this, it is wonderful to be able to go home tonight for the first time in two months. [ cheers and applause ] >> and what cash ann said it right. what a great night. we are so excited to be in the bay state tonight, celebrating with family, with friends who have worked just tirelessly on this campaign. and of course it is such an on or to have the citizens that i served as governor as part of our cause. your support really means affirming to ann and me and i am not going to let you down. i am going to get this nomination. >> tonight, we are doing some counting, we are counting up the delegates for the convention and it looks good and counting down the days until novembe

. >> in oklahoma, idaho, alaska and north dakota. >> i want north dakota's votes. >> it's america's choice. and it's super tuesday. mrz mo mitt romney needs to finally prove he can close the deal with voters and rick santorum needs to move prove he can stop him. >> everyone is going out here scrapping and clawing. and we're doing all right. >> this may be newt gingrich's last chance for a campaign comeback. >> i'm not a team player. i'm a change agent. >> and ron paul's biggest chance to pick off more delegates. >> we do know that the strategy of building up delegates is a pretty sound position to have. >> will any one candidate emerge as the big super tuesday winner or loser? republicans are choosing. the world is watching. and nothing in this election compares to what's happening right now. >>> welcome to the cnn election sent they are special edition of "john king usa." there's a gold mine of delegates at stake right now. 400 that stretch from vermont to alaska and something that may be just as valuable, a chance for the republican candidates to prove they can win on a big national play

including ohio, idaho, virginia, vermont and massachusetts, santorum has the green states, north dakota, oklahoma, tennessee gingrich won his adoptive state of georgia more now from foxs doug luzader on cap till hill. >> -- capitol hill. >> mitt romney did what he needed to do but this is not a resounding super tuesday victory, so the long slog continues. >>> most of america, together let's fight for the america we love. >> a call for unity but that still seems to be the missing element for mitt romney's campaign overall he picked up six super tuesday states massachusetts vermont, virginia idaho, alaska and the most watched race of the night ohio his win there came with the barest of margins just one point over rick santorum, despite flooding the state with money and santorum laid claim to three states last night tennessee, oklahoma, and north dakota. >> we have won in the west, the

the state of north dakota is currently experiencing an oil boom in its formation. we have doubled our oil production in the last four years and are about to become the second largest oil producing state behind only texas. but we cannot effectively market our crude oil domestically without a large north-south pipeline. north dakota oil producers were scheduled to feed the keystone pipeline with 100,000 barrels of crude oil per day. now we will not be able to supply the choice american markets because president obama says he needs more time to study keystone. the fact is he has had over three years to study this issue. congress should steph in and mass the measure which would authorize the keystone project. it's the common sense thing to do. the other key to north american energy independence is the rapid development of natural gas. production from shale, the e.p.a. is threatening to regulate this production out of existence by forcing rules that end hydraulic fracturing. in our part of the country, hydraulic fracturing takes place two miles below the surface of the

with only a three percent unemployment rate i mean is it just because it's north dakota. i think that plays a huge role i mean i know that it's kind of funny to say that but who really wants to move to north dakota i'm not trying to say north dakota is a bad place but most people are not willing to move to locations like that just for work and also keep in mind like north dakota has the population of washington d.c. north dakota isn't going to save us from the economic crisis or the huge financial burden that people in our generation have right now thanks to student loan debt there needs to be a better solution to the problem so and also people you know little how expensive it is to move to another state moving to north dakota is also going to be a financial burden just because the cost of housing alone and also people from small towns necessarily don't have enough money saved up to relocate to a big city like los angeles or new york i can speak from experience last year i was considering a move to new york you know her there my career and i was like yeah that's not going

now north dakota.arlier won vermont, his home state of massachusetts, and virginia where only he and ron paul were on the ballot. gingrich won in georgia. we're waiting for idaho and alaska. north dakota finally, we have made the projection, north dakota, rick santorum wins. so it's three wins so far for santorum. three wins right now for mitt romney. but we're going to be waiting for ohio. right now, santorum, santorum has a slight lead in ohio right now. but it could be the tiebreaker, a very significant tiebreaker in ohio right now. i want to go to dana bash in cincinnati, hamilton county in ohio. tell our viewers what's going on over there because this race is really tight. santorum slightly ahead. >> this race is really tight. he's slightly ahead on the state level, but here in very, very important hamilton county, he's not. with about half of the votes in to hamilton county, mitt romney is winning by about 3,700 votes. he's got 46%, and rick santorum has about 35%. so mitt romney is doing well he

2012, oil production in north dakota increased by 75%. mean it is growing just incredibly rapidly. it can't sustain that kind of growth rate, but the amount of oil they are producing in north dakota is truly impressive, especially the rapid increase. >> so the obvious question is why. what are they doing and what does that tell you about that part of the country, what's there >> they are using newer technology, it's i had drawlic fractu -- hydraulic fracturing. it is being able to use hydraulic fracturing and drilling together to access oil that -- they knew it was oil but tightly locked together troing by using i he ining hydraulic f during they can get this oil. there's more shale formation ages round the country. it's similar to the marcellus shale in pennsylvania and new york where they produce a lot of natural gas. so what that means is that we can be producing a lot more oil and natural gas around the country in areas that we couldn't just a few years ago because of new technology. >> we're talking with daniel simmons with the insti

up in northwest north dakota but they have trouble.hey have trouble getting investors to come here, why? because they believe, they believe the government is going to shut them down. >> the guy is lying. he's absolutely lying. he must think nobody ever been to north dakota, i have, they have damn good goose hunting. i know the state. the problem is north dakota is not a problem with the epa. the problem is this, housing and infrastructure. they can't keep up with all the jobs being created in the state of north dakota because of the oil boom. in fact, nation-wide, there is more drilling now than during the bush administration. but of course president obama is not getting any credit for that, either because he has the epa in the way. today, congress and darrell issa fell over himself trying to give bush credit for all the drilling. >> bush opened up areas to drilling and drillers became more efficient, they never hit a dry hole, more extracted from existing wells the president is benefitting from that. with lower amounts of permits, are

south dakota state and western illinois needed overtime for a bid.riffin callahan knocked down the three to put south dakota on top. they won the conference summit title 52-50. that is your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >>> which 25-year-old starlet was mistaken last weekend for a 60 plus singer? your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, out of tragedy, another story of survival and new beginnings. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back to "early today." the wild, windy weather of yesterday in southern california, portions of arizona and throughout southern nevada is a thing of the past. that storm is leaving us. in its wake, definitely a chillier air mass. highs today only in phoenix of 63. 55 in vegas. 65 in l.a. as we go to thursday's forecast, that's when we're going to be watching things improving. we should see warmer weather eventually, especially areas of the northwest. >>> if you're watching on knbc 4 in los angeles, california, in nearby hollywood, see the props and costumes

in north dakota, thank you to senator john hobin., here we go, senator rob portman, the linder family, eddie crawford, ron weinberg and honorary buckeye donald trump. [ applause ] >> he was on the radio all the time for us in iowa. in oklahoma, san coburn. ryan leonard, fred how and harold ham. senator alexander and commissioner bill haggerty. in vermont, darcy johnston and state senators randy brock and vince elusey, thank you. more states, guy, sorry. in virginia, a big thank you to governor bob mcdonald -- bob mcdonnell. we love him. our wonderful friend, lieutenant-governor bill bolland. and house leader eric cantor. thank you for that endorsement. bobby killberg, jack gerard and tom ferrell. finally, massachusetts, thank you! [ applause ] >> we want mitt, we want mitt, we want mitt, we want mitt, we want mitt, we want mitt, we want mi mitt. >> i have to thank senator scott brown, who's going to be your next senator. some of our favorite governors, bill weld and paul saluchi and our hearts go to paul and all the health problems a

griffin callahan knocks down the three to put south dakota on top. they won the summit conference title, 52-50. they're going to the ncaa tournament for first time ever. that's your "first look" at sports. i'm fred roggin. >>> for another look at the weather here is nbc meteorologist bill karins. he has your weather channel forecast. good morning. that's what we want to see. >> we're excited. the temperatures are going up. we like to show the temperature change map going up instead of down. albany, new york is 20 degrees warmer right now than what we were talking about yesterday morning, in areas like hartford and new york. d.c. about ten. buffalo, 30 degrees warmer this morning than you were at this time yesterday. an incredible warmup has occurred, even during the overnight hours. buffalo, 47 degrees. you're actually warmer right now than d.c. this afternoon will be just great from buffalo to everywhere else. temperatures will be in the 50s and 60s, pretty widespread out there. grab the sunglasses today. there won't be many clouds up there in the s

with wti trading at prices 14% below east coast oil and north dakota crude 14wti. transcanada's key spoken pipeline would help the dakota bottleneck, but president obama has temporarily halted it on environmental gop criticism. obama is to speak in curbing today, where a related pipeline project is expected to ease some congestion there. also, jc watts, republican congressman from oklahoma, he writes in "the washington times" today about president obama's decision on expanding the entire keystone pipeline. he says this, pipeline ruling is filled with politics that the white house sided with the epa against the state department. the epa's decision to intervene in this raises some very serious questions about how and why the agency thought it had the muscle to tell the state department it hadn't done its job correctly. i was glad to see the institute for energy research submit a freedom of information act request to the epa to turn over documents related to this decision. we have every reason to demand to know why the epa sided with radical environmentalists over job

santorum was also the winner of north dakota's caucuses. and newt gingrich won in his home state of georgia. tyler suitor is in washington with more. tyler, good morning to you. >> good morning to you. mitt romney won the most states and delegates on super tuesday but for these candidates, victory is clearly in the eye of the beholder. mitt romney won in ohio. he -- >> we're counting up the delegates for the convention and it looks good. we're counting down the days until november and that looks even better. >> with victories in five other states, he's already talking like the gop nominee. >> as president i will get our economy back on track and get our citizens back to work. unlike president obama, i actually have the experience to deliver on that promise. >> evangelical voters helped rick santorum finish on top in tennessee and oklahoma. he also put north dakota in his win column. >> we have won in the west, the midwest and the south and we're ready to win across this country. >> the candidates will divide up the super tuesday delegates.

she's from north dakota.nest review of the new olive garden in grand forks has gone viral, provoking a massive online debate in the food world. we're going to give you taste of that debate coming up. >> i love this woman. >>> first, the latest twist in the so called day care murder trial. a shocking new jailhouse video of the defendant may prove that voices in his head did not drive him to kill his romantic rival. abc's reena ninan has been following the trial and joins us from washington with the latest. good morning, reena. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. hemy neuman said he thought about planning, even staging an accident to kill harvard grad, us are ty sneiderman. he describes his plot in chilling details. >> i had a wig and you know, a mustache. you know, as the garage opens, i would make my way into the garage and then -- and then shoot him. >> reporter: in interviews with the state's forensic psychiatrist, he spoke of how he snuck up to rusty sneiderman's home to kill him a week before the actual mu

the senator from north dakota. mr. hoeven: madam president, i rise in support of this amendment, which authorizes the keystone -- the presiding officer: will the senator hold for a minute while the senate chamber gets in order. the senator from north dakota. mr. hoeven: madam president, i rise to speak in support of this amendment which would authorize the keystone x.l. pipeline project to move forward. it provides an authorization after more than three and a half years of study. it incorporates all of the safeguards that have been developed through the environmental impact statement process with both e.p.a. and the department of state, and it allows whatever time may be necessary for rerouting in nebraska. so it addresses the concerns that have been raised, as far as the environmental impact statement, but authorizes that the project can proceed. this project will bring 830,000 barrels a day of crude to our refineries. as i mentioned earlier, not only from canada, but from my home state of north dakota, as well as fro

. >>> an 85-year-old woman from north dakota made quite a name for herself in the rough and tumble world of restaurant reviews, all with just one article. the food critic wrote a glowing record -- review on the town's new olive garden restaurant, saying it's impressive and the most beautiful restaurant in south dakota. >> people were very excited about the olive garden, and it was packed with people for the first several weeks. >> by noon everyone blogged, tweeted, facebooked it. she is the most famous restaurant critic in america right now. >> alan: while she hey not put north dakota on the map for foodize, she could be the biggest boost for olive gardens business. >> be prepared for a traffic slowdown. a stretch of the embarcadero will be closed starting from pier 39 and running to mariposa street tomorrow. this this first street closure this year for the sunday streets program which gives walkers and bicyclists a chance to envoy a car-free environment. all right. all this good weather is over and we have rain on the way. leigh glaser is standing by to tell you about that. >> leigh: we

south dakota state and western illinois needed overtime for a bid.y won the summit conference title 52-50 and going to the ncaa tournament for the first time ever. >> that is your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >>> which 25-year-old starlet was mistaken last weekend for a 60 plus singer? your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, out of tragedy, another story of survival and new beginnings. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back to "early today." today is the day we have been waiting for on the east coast after a little cold spell. a beautiful warm-up today. temperatures getting into the 60s from d.c. to baltimore, philly to new york and boston not bad in the 50s. we will see some rain on the front in the midwest. especially later on today. tap some of the moisture out of the gulf and it looks like the rain threat will remain here especially in texas and areas of arkansas and tennessee in the days ahead. >>> if you're watching us on lex 18 in lexington, kentucky see a collection of chine

yes, they won out west in oklahoma, but they won out in north dakota.ey played very heavily for north dakota. made a stop in just the last week up there. was sending his son josh romney up there a couple of times over the last week or so. so they feel like they have mitt romney on the ropes right now. you heard rick santorum earlier in the night going after mitt romney on healthcare reform and the individual plan date. they're going after that over and over again. in the campaign stops coming up in kansas, mississippi and alabama. >> a week from today. let's go over to peter hamby. you have spent a lot of time in the south looking at these various races. does romney have a significant opportunity in either mississippi or alabama or should he just forget about those southern states? >> a troubling trend emerged tonight. it's not just about the south. tonight was mitt romney's first test in appalachia of this whole cycle. look at the ohio river. look at the first district of tennessee. look at north georgia, southwest virginia. mitt romney won in southern

and in north dakota, his u.s. attorney filed a law against the oil industry, so, this is a very anti-american energy president who has appoint add very anti-american energy secretary. >>neil: do you think in the latest budget plan, he wants to take all the tax breaks away for the oil companies, and swap a lot of them to what he calls promising green technology. would you be for just wiping them all out, all the tax breaks? >>guest: no, look, i'm not in favor of raising taxes. you wipe them out you are raising taxes. i'm in favor of 100 percent expensing for all new equipment for everybody, farmers, factories, you name it, they can write it off in one year, i'm in favor of a massive reinvestment in america manufacturing and a reinvestment in american energy, that is why i am also in favor of zero capital gains but i'm very much outside the washington establishment model and i think the key for the american people is to shrink the government to fit the revenue coming in not to raise taxes and come up with obama's go

will she put north dakota on the map for foodies? time will tell.e could be a big boost for olive garden's business. >> when you're here, your family. >> reporter: how do you not love her, right? as of last night, her column was read over 400,000 times on the paper's website, making history for the paper. >> a couple of years back, i did a story on olive garden. they go through 9 million bread sticks a day. they're all baked in-house. >> and she had chicken alfredo. >> dan, thank you. >> by the way, we would like to thank our friends at the local affiliate there, wdaz, they helped us put that together. >>> coming up, ginger zee on thin ice in a speeding boat. what could possibly go wrong? keep it here. keep it here. you think you take off all your make-up before bed. but do you really? [ female announcer ] neutrogena® makeup remover erases 99% of your most stubborn makeup with one towelette. can your makeup remover do that? [ female announcer ] neutrogena® makeup remover. >> announcer: one fabric softener has that special snuggly softness your famil

up here in canada, and in north dakota, we've got all this oil. and the president is down here in oklahoma taking credit for a part of the pipeline that's going to go through the normal process. it's already gotten its approvals. and this idea that the president is going to expedite this will have no impact on the construction of this pipeline. now let me explain something. it's not just oil that's up in canada. right now, this year, oklahoma -- north dakota will become the second-largest oil-producing state in our country. there are three 100-tank trains every day that come out of north dakota and have to go all the way to the gulf, because of the lack of this pipeline. and so what's canadian oil, north dakota oil needs to get down to our refineries in the gulf. so the president can take credit for having nothing to do with the bottom half of this pipeline and the fact is, there's only one permit that requires his approval, because it crosses our national boundaries. and that's the keystone decision on the upper half of this. remember, we have 16

newt gingrich in fourth in north dakota.georgia a big win for newt gingrich who needed to win in his home state. third and fourth in georgia going to santorum and paul gingrich needed that one. in idaho 16% reported mitt romney 78% over ron paul 11%. smaller numbers in idaho for santorum and newt gingrich. the idaho caucuses there. newt gingrich needed to call himself a winner tonight. ron paul continued to accumulate delegates which is what he said he wanted to do. after all the voting starts, the spinning begins. everybody accentuating the positive. romney wanted enough big wins to be the unchallenged front runner. he won enough to be considered front runner, lost enough to be unchallenged. >> i'm not going to let you down. i'm going to get this nomination. [ cheers and applause ] >> tonight we're doing some counting. we're counting up the delegates for the convention and it looks good. and we're counting down the days until november. and that looks even better. >> reporter: with no clean sweep, everybody got to brag about

. >>> a body believed to be that of a missing montana teacher has been found in north dakota. police say that sherry arnold was snatched off the street at random during a morning jog more than two months ago. one of the suspects charged in the case admits they kidnapped arnold and choked her to death. >>> and homicide and other formal charges are expected to be filed today against army sergeant robert bales. he is accused of leaving his base in afghanistan and killing 16 afghan civilians. many of them children. bales is in custody at ft. leavenworth, texas. >>> we want you to look at this video. an apache helicopter swoops in and bounces off a snow-covered landing zone. and it kept spinning into the distance, completely out of control. just flipping, flipping. luckily, no one on the ground was hurt. and the two-man flight crew amazingly survived. the $20 million chopper, however, was destroyed. the army is looking into the entire incident. >> amazing they survived. wow. >>> a truly bizarre story here. a central wisconsin town is trying to find the source of mysterious booming

state partnerships, is the question that is before the court and it raises the question under south dakota v dole about whether given that we're talking about now a program that is the federal government putting to the state the following proposition namely expand your medicaid or you will lose all of the current funds you get from the federal government for your current medicaid recipients as to whether that will be unconstitutional in south dakota v dole the court held that because the imposition amounted to only 5% of the federal transportation funds that came to the states, the compulsion required in urging the states to raise their drinking age from 18 to 21 was not all that great. i think south dakota v dole was wrongly decided, but still they left open, the court left open the possibility that if the compulsion amounted to more than 5% of the budget and here on average it's about 40%, then you might have a case of using the taxing power co-hersively. that's one of the questions indeed the central question that is before the court in this aspect of its proceedings. we're going to dis

it's been an generally mild winter in north dakota. the national weather service in grand forks said they have 27 inches of snow, half of last year's snow totals. ch is actual's oldest convention this week and that's where our team of experts gathered. >> here in grand forks north dakota, chs agriculture industry day and we have an interesting group of producers that are watching. we are going to be talking about the things that our audience has told us that we need to be talking about. the first thing i think, and what i think is on everyone's mind, not just here, but that's the acreage. what are we going to be planting this year looks. >> well, as you drive around the country, there have been a lot of preparations made to put the horn in this fall and winter. we've had very conducive winter season ticket fieldwork done. we will get the 94 m illion acres, and i think we will go north about. >> i would agree with that. we see pretty strong corn acres. beans have made our run of it as the bladesof late, and i think we may be north of 94

. >>> rick santorum is using a chunk of north dakota oil to fearmonger. bernie sanders joins us to tell us what is driving up the price. >>> scott walker has done every conservative talk show on the face of the earth, raised millions of outside dollars. the rookie governor is spinning his wheels, new polling out of the badger state. >>> we're buzzing about it.

they have asked north dakota to take that away.ey don't, their penalties i think are appropriate. >> then overreach, mark. that is complete overreach by the ncaa to be able to say if you don't go by our dictates, you students, forget about politics of this, students, athletes, working so hard on the line for maybe a championship here, they have to forfeit a game? what kind of message is that sending to students that is wrong. >> please. here's the message. the message is we won't tolerate racism. that is what this is. and it is unfortunate that the kids won't get to play. >> unfortunate? >> you have kids. i have kids. they don't listen. they grow to bed when david letterman take as stage if they wanted to. so in order to get them to go to bed sometimes you have to come up with significant threats to get them to comply. you look draconian in doing so but they comply when you do it that is it what is going on here. >> mark, you have many people in north dakota, native americans, who want it, like it, think it is a tribute. it is an h