ron paul won iowa. that's next. >>> at this time tomorrow we will be getting in results from the very, very anti-climatic races. there's no one in the seat breathlessly awaiting the results of those primaries because the republican nomination appears to be all but sewn up. there continues to be off script moments on the republican side. things that run counter to the prevailing sense that the republican primary is stick a fork in it, done. newt gingrich kicking off a campaign swing. north carolina is not on the list of states that will be voting tomorrow. north carolina doesn't hold its primary until may 8th. newt gingrich is trying to win that one. the candidate ron paul drew a huge crowd despite driving rain. it has over 4,000 people over. can the main idea it's done. it's over. there are things going on in the republican side that make it seem like it's in the done, at least not totally done. perhaps the most thing is that i think ron paul just won iowa. seriously, this weekend. you'll recall that th

officially declared that mitt romney won iowa.y declared him the winner by eight votes. eight votes by out of more than 120,000 cast. >> congratulations to governor mitt romney winner of the 2012 iowa caucuses. congratulations to senator santorum for a very close second place finish and an excellent race here. >> don't believe him for a second. about two weeks after that, the party released final certified results that said that mitt romney was not the winner. the iowa state republican party had changed its mind. they said there was no way to know who won and the results should be viewed as a tie and rick santorum had won. >> it's indisputable that the certify caucus results have rick santorum nguyening by 34 votewiy 34 votes. >> you sure now? after all of that, the chairman resi resigned. now, 16 weeks after the voting happened and, now it appears that ron paul is the winner in iowa. iowa gets to send 28 delegates. the new guy is an avowed ron paul supporter. that's one ron paul delegate. this weekend the state nomination that pi

nobody is getting more delegates than he did in minnesota or in iowa.er else this ron paul delegate strategy of his pays off. the main plot of the republican nominating process remains mostly on script. mitt romney appears to be buttoning up the nomination, but it is not tidy. want one more example? in texas, texas republicans met in their district party accommodations, whatever those are, forget the beltway media narrative here, forget the raw script, they were marching this weekend under the banner of warren g. harding. they are citing the warren g. harding strategy of 1920. in 1920, warren g. harding went into the republican convention with fewer delegates of the surviving candidates and warren g. harding walked out with the nomination. if it worked 92 years ago for the man who would become our 92nd president, could it work now if the republican party keeps this race as chaotic as it has been in the states? who knows. if this race keeps going the way it has been, frankly, newt gingrich is due to win iowa any day now. everybody else has already had th

thank you, iowa. god bless you. bless the united states of america. >> that was the president speaking to students in iowa, repeating on a second consecutive day that student loans and the interest rates against them should not double on the first of july, calling on congress to act, and saying once again in very personal terms that he knows about the struggle of having a student loan both he and the first lady spending years paying those off and also saying that not only was it a problem paying that off at the same time with two children he was trying to start saving for his young daughters loans in the future as well. kristin welker is there with us. kristin, the president once again making it clear he wants congress to act and he wants them to act in time for this july 1st deadline. >> absolutely, martin. that has been his central message these past two days. he has visited three key battle ground states talking to these young voters, urging them to press congress to act on this legislation. what makes today a li

>> iowa. winning iowa was great. we walked up on the stage and i said to the children, soak it in, enjoy this moment. every time we got on the stage we said that. it was great. >> i'll agree with you, it was a wonderful moment. we'll always have iowa. >> thank you, piers. >> thank you so much for coming in. great to see you. >> thank you. >>> coming up, the exclusive interview with the dalai lama. it's a candid, surprise, very entertaining conversation with a man who is iconic but you've never seen him quite like this. do you ever feel temptation when you see a woman? >> oh, yeah, sometimes, this is very nice. but then i'm thinking, it's a real job. too much of a problem. dirty things like that. >> really? >> really. even my dream. some sort of dreaming some woman like that. immediately i -- i never dreamt in my dream i'm dalai lama. i always remember, i'm a monk. buddhist monk. >> as i said, a candid dalai lama as you probably never heard him before. that's tomorrow night. >>> coming up next, only in america. >>> fo

oklahoma, iowa, nebraska, kansas, four states hit. killed, hundreds of homes damaged. >>> let's turn our attention to the tiny town of thurman, iowa, where the town's mayor said there's not much left. 90% of the community he says is damaged. 300 people live there. we get the story from our omaha, nebraska, affiliate katv. >> reporter: this massive piece of metal blocking larry hill's refrigerator blew in just before dinner. >> that piece of iron had to come from a building. it was no straight wind, it was a regular twister. >> reporter: hill and his wife heard the sirens and ran for their backyard shelter, but they say a twister came too fast. >> so we started back in, and windows started blasting out and out and out. we went in the bathroom like they always say. while we got here, the roof went here. >> reporter: with no other options as the walls began to blow in around them, the couple took cover in this coat closet. >> i was more or less laying on her. and i had to get up. i was starting to shake pretty good. >> reporter: we were

you are the former governor of iowa. when you heard after ethanol subsidies, what was your reaction? when do you stop a sub sid di-. >> fuel produced allowing us to reduce our reliance on foreign oil. it was time for it to be reduced. >> you are okay with it? >> we are okay with it. it creates a requirement that we produce so much biofuel each and every year. when we reach 36 billion gallons, we will reach that. it's 1 million jobs, chuck. it's expanded income opportunity. they will be created. they are new advanced biofuels. this is an unlimited opportunity to reshape our economy. the president's vision is clear. we are going to be a government that spends less, invest in research and education to allow us to get into the business of innovating and creating. that's the key. >> let me ask you one political question. why do you think we have iowa leaning romney and not ro barack obama since it was a state the president covered? >> they spend a lot of time in your state. we had a lot of republican candidates in the process

let's go now to iowa, creston, iowa, where there are reports of a hospital being hit.the emergency management department who said there was structural damage but everything appears to be okay. they're triaging patients and putting them in other places. now to jacqui jeras. salina getting hit again? >> yeah, it's just southwest of there right now. here's the salina storm that we're talking about. there's a confirmed tornado on the ground, just south of the city. so they're under a tornado emergency, and need to be seeking shelter immediately if they haven't already done so. we're tracking our storm here and a rotation near andover. so downtown wichita and wichita proper, you're in the clear at this time. but the threat of tornadoes is going to be ongoing overnight. this is the whole area that we're talking ant. the bright pink at greatest risk. you're under a watch at this time and it extends down through texas up through iowa. as we head through tomorrow, especially by tomorrow afternoon and evening, we may be seeing more violent tornadoes and there are moderate risks

chuck wagner who joined up with santorum in iowa.rd to the other primary states and caucus states. a week before santorum was on the ballot there and would rally the social conservative activist groups, get them together. plug them in to the santorum campaign. and allow santorum to ride those in some cases to victory. i think it was incredible run for santorum. he deserves credit. so does his campaign. it's been good for the republican party in one narrow respect. it's had its, done its damage this long fight. in one respect, i think mitt romney has had to continue to appeal to conservatives happen. is good for romney and for the republican party. >> bret: a.b.? >> well, i was really surprised to hear him today go on and on about what he loved about the campaign. and never mention obamacare. it was the one issue he could have won with. he did very much damage to mitt romney at key moments. the party really did not want to embrace mitt romney. it was his biggest line. no one ever gave him a run for his money on it. rick santorum had t

most are from iowa. the chairman of this veteran commission that establishes the park in 1890s from iowa. and as dominant a figure is the congressman that sponsored the bill to establish the shiloh national military park his name is david henderson. he was a representative. and he was soldier in the 12th iowa. but and he was representative after the war. he's the one that sponsored the legislation. he would aid in preserving vicksburg as well. he would actually retire as speaker of the house. he's a very prominent individual and able to throw his weight around. both figuratively and literally. the connection that henderson has to shiloh, he fought at shiloh. he was here. he knew what it looked like. he knew what it sounded like. all those tangible things that we don't know about today, what it looked like to be covered with tents. what it sounded like to hear the musketry and the canons. the fear that you feel. all of that. he knew it. there's a more tangible connection that he has, though, if you walk o

joining me now on the phone to talk about the damage in iowa is john benson from the iowa office of emergency management. good morning, john. how are you? how are things there in your community? >> well, it's been an interesting evening, to say the least, but it's been fairly quiet. i think once the sun comes up this morning, we'll have better information about the actual damages that have occurred, but it's been a quiet evening so far. >> tell me what it was like as these tornadoes rolled through there. >> well, i think one of the things that we noticed is that the weather service was very proactive about saying that this was going to be a very serious storm. we were having discussions about the potential on those on friday, so that helped us out, but it's always, you know, whenever you have a tornado or a high wind event, it's certainly one that catches your eye and, unfortunately, with both creston and thurmon, at least in terms of iowa, they're the towns that had to bare the brunt of what happened. >> give me an idea of what happened at this hospital. that was the greater regional medical

well, he fought in the 12th iowa. do we have to guess where the 12th iowa fought in the battle of shiloh, right smack in the middle of the hornet's nest. you can see his connection. that idea is built on and institutionalized in terms of the park and preserve the park when visitors go there. for decades and decades visitors were handed a brochure that told them if they bothered to read it that the hornet's nest saved grant's army and where the major thing was done. probably the most effective tool for getting the story out to the public. a lot of the general public doesn't read books. i would say millions and millions of people saw the film that was shown for 56 years at the visitor's center and that thing of the pure hornet's nest. that's basically what it showed, what it emphasized, what it interpreted, and as a result people would come out of that film and rub their finger on the map and say we have to see this and this is important and the film said it was and they read on the brochure, this was important and they

them and we will be pursuing every legal avenue to overturn the bills that have already passed in iowa and utah. not to wrap up the segment is there any truth to the business side of it that says you know we're not doing anything wrong we just feel like these activists are coming in here and trying to bring us down and really put forward a slanted truth that that's an exaggeration well you really have to wonder if they are unwilling to show the public what's happening behind closed doors what they have to hide and we're seeing every time we get into one of these facilities we're documenting. the shock and horrify most americans were documenting unsafe working conditions we're documenting sick and injured in diseased animals interim the human food supply that's what they're trying to hide and we're trying to expose that these industries are corrupt and they know it and the only defense they have against these investigations is to criminalize them and that you're right a lot of people are so detached with what we eat and it really takes something like this for people to wake up to how th

but for this crop by the iowa republican party, he would have gotten a better left winning iowa that night. he thi in at sense it is important to note that he is one of the few candidates who has run for president and come out of the race stronger and better off than when he entered a bid that is an achievement. >> he has a good argument for retail politics. he was in those diners every day. >> he was, but newt gingrich also pushed mitt romney to the right. rick perry's stance on immigration, allowing romney take a position r tohe right. a succession of republican candidates moved romney to where he is now. >> i want to pass something else, but gilad. > -- go ahead. >> just quickly, romney was able to ignore santorum in iowa. santorum was able to emerge as the alternative because he got ignored at the beginning. >> leggs barack obama? ho iin h corner? -- who likes barack obama? was in his corner? >> women, african-americans, latinos -- >> younger voters. >> part of the challenge is to get them out but he had huge enthusiasm in 2008. clearly that is not there in the same way now. the

those people in iowa and new hampshire.my bucket list just once i want to cast a vote that matters. >> i knew i what i had to do you know what today we're going to tick something off that list and get you that much closer to death. >> it was time for "the daily show"'s show new york primary day fantasy-dream machine thing. you say you are frustrated by this process. you say your vote doesn't matter. today i want you to make your dreams come true. all right? bus driver move this bus. >> what did you say to me? (bleep) ah! there they are theç media. we were going to make kevin fel like a voter that actually mattered. first stop his own cable news panel. we got him a red neck, a muslim, a soccer mom, a nonthreatening black couple and sole dad o'brien chnch candidate do you think represents a row prolife voice and why? let's hear from kevin. >> mitt romney says. >> if i could make two points, great point and letter b i agree with whatever kevin says. >> soccer mom? >> a degree, the children are our children. >> okay. >> let's

and it reesms up into iowa. -- reaches up into iowa. and as far south as the texas panhandle. i'll switch over to the radar that's going on right now. you can see how two sets of storms have developed. a strong squall line in iowa and the tornado-producing storms which are in nebraska, kansas and a little bit in oklahoma. so we'll talk more about those storms. and our own chance for rain. only a little bit coming up in a few minutes. >> thank you, john. now to the closing of two best buy stores in the baltimore area. one in hunt valley, the other downtown at the inner harbor and that's where 11 news reporter in addition in addition -- nadia ramdez joins us. >> best buy has not given any specific reasons why they are closing these stores but we talked to a local economist who tries to explain the loig to their actions -- the logic to their actions. 11 news captured employees walking out of the hunt valley best buy stores saturday after being notified the store and the inner harbor store location will be closing for good may 12. >> it seems like it's really convenient right here

for some like dale veers at iowa state penitentiary, that means the chance to pick up a new skill or two. >> you start out with a block. then cut it down. and then i keep grinding and shaping it until i get it where it's supposed to be. >> a life sentence for kidnapping has given viers a chance to master bird carving. >> i kept the very first bird i ever carved because i just knew that i would get better. that is the first one i carved. that's my duck head. duck's getting a little bit better. i have another bird here. they get better. >> when we met him, viers was hard at work on his most elaborate piece yet. >> a robin pulling a worm out of the ground. >> he even had a live model to work with. >> i've got a worm in here. see? he's alive. i've had him for three weeks. so i can get the color and everything right when i make it. >> viers is hardly alone when it comes to finding creative ways to kill time. at first our crew thought indiana state prison inmate donte kidd's stack of toilet paper with a mirror on top was a form of abstract art. but he had a far more practical reason for pu

parts of iowa, eastern side of iowa under a risk for severe weather today. of the areas from texas through arkansas, missouri into iowa and there is a bull's-eye of moderate risk across eastern iowa and into wisconsin again today. the threat for more severe weather in addition to everything we have seen, from oklahoma, kansas, nebraska, and, iowa, already, over the last 24 hours. guys? >> alisyn: they need a break. thanks. >> dave: rick told us earlier in oklahoma one of the towns had the lightning knock out the siren system though they were warned several hours in advance as tornadoes approached they did not get the advanced warnings. >> alisyn: woodward. >> clayton: let's turn our attention to vice president dick cheney, whom you will recall, a few short weeks ago, had a heart transplant. of course it was reported that it went very well and he was responding to treatment and we saw a photo his family tweeted out as he came home from the hospital. who knew, this soon after going through a heart transplant we'd be giving an hour-and-a-half speech in front of

high pressure centered over the dakotas, more toward iowa and illinois.t colder patch is bringing moisture off the great lakes but also dropping those temperatures. we'll see temperatures recover but it will be a chilly one. be ready for an extra layer you'll need in the morning. all right, passing clouds through the night and a mex of sun and clouds without as many light showers. i think it will be a drier day but a mix of sun and clouds. then into friday we clear the skies as the high pressure over iowa will center over the mid-atlantic. it will mean a dry and warming trend into the weekend, really a nice setup. next chance for rain will likely ab stray shower sunday better chances middle of next week. getting colder. your two-degree guarantee near 60 mostly sunny. most of the day in the 50s. tomorrow night down to 38, mostly clear, not as chilly. let's show you that seven-day forecast. here's the trend which is a warming trend that's slow for the next day or two. it warms up in a big way pass we go into sunday and monday pushing 80. looks like that ran

nebraska and good portions of southern iowa. we'll get confirmation. it will probably end up being around 90 or so. some of these are probably duplicate reports because there were so many storm chasers out there on saturday. yesterday, the storm was still at it. it wasn't quite as potent, be new nebraska, minneapolis, southern minnesota and one tornado in fort smith. so yesterday, ten additional tornados reported. so in total over the weekend, 136. a lot of people ask how come we didn't see more than 105 fatalities. that was bad enough. didn't have any go through metropolitan areas. these were mostly rural, and that's good. today the storm system over the top of wisconsin and iowa, get ready for a summer scorcher with record heat. temperatures in 90 in some cases. there's the cold air behind in some cases with snow. look at international falls. it's snowing. we've still got rain from memphis into louisiana and it's not all that bad. when i talk about heat, get ready today. in boston, get ready. 88 degrees for the boston marathon. that's too warm. that'

let me top it to my colleague in thurman, iowa. >> hey, here in thurman, iowa, a small town, 75% of it destroyed. 90% seeing some kind of damage. town of 238 people. but you can see this tornado cut through. they had a tornado warping here. and fortunately, no injuries or no major injuries and no fatalities in this town. they think because they had the warning, everybody took that message to heart. you can see now what is happening, the chain saws are going all over town. everybody out helping their neighbors now, clean up debris. the red cross is out, as they do. they get out so quickly, passing out water and cough and food to people who might need supplies. a lot of damage across this town, essential to the homes and the trees, as you can see. and also, there is a community center down here that had a roof on top of it. that is completely gone and now in a pile of rubble down here, across the basketball field. you can also see the power crews. they have been working here all night long because the power's out to the entire town. they have been working to get the power restored. not r

several weeks later he goes on to win iowa, is officially crowned the winner of the iowa caucuses weeks later. and he wins a total of 11 contest. so this has been a very big performance for him. >> he said it was an improbable race but he watched miracle after miracle. tonight he will be speaking at the american heartland conversation on faith, family and american values with james dobson. one thing he said that i thought was interesting was he wanted to focus on the indignities regarding social issues. that he embraced the headline, rick santorum's inconvenient truth. i recall when he was on "meet the press" with you, he blamed the media for bringing up social issues and contraception. he said these were not the things he wanted to talk about at the time. but in this speech just now, he reveled in the fact that he was bringing these issues to the forefront. >> look, in many ways, senator santorum for much of his career has been politically speaking, a cultural warrior. he talks about the sanctity of life. he talks about anti-abortion issues. the importance of the family. the encroachme

in iowa, remember iowa? you recall the state chairman in iowa was forced to resign there after the party botched the iowa republican presidential caucus this year. under the state party chairman's leadership, remember mitt romney won on election day, oh, no, no, then it was a tie, no, actually, turns out rick santorum won. no, i'm sorry, i quit. the new iowa state chairman is known for being a vociferous reporter of ron paul. one iowa republican telling politico, quote, he's not a guy you have a lot of confidence in. we spoke to a veteran iowa observer today who confirmed to us there's considerable angst in iowa right now among republican party activists and conservative activists about their new chairman's ability to get the job done in iowa. state parties are important. the first thing that we think about are things like getting out the vote and the basic logistics for the presidential race. it's also everything else on the ticket. it's every other race that will be on the ballot in november. every single

thurman, iowa. a tornado leveled a town of about 300 people. listen as one homeowner describes the terror of this storm. >> we heard the sirens, probably five minutes before it really picked up. so we were trying, okay, get the kids downstairs. it was more like, oh, my god, we've got to get downstairs. the windows were blowing out. it was just panicky. there's just glass everywhere. there was stuff off our wall. there's grass just plastered. we had a house fire and lost our first house. it's like, really? i don't think i can do this again. >> let's bring in jacqui jeras in the weather center. is the threat over now? >> for those folks it is, but the threat is just beginning for places like minneapolis, st. paul. a tornado watch has been issued across much of southern minnesota, extreme northern iowa and parts of wisconsin. a tower cam we have from the affiliate kr-11 tv in the twin cities, you can see downtown minneapolis. there you can see the mississippi river. 72 degrees in april for you, minnesota. tomorrow, we're going to be seeing that bi

delegates before the votes are counted it turns out ron paul actually won a majority of the delegates and iowa and minnesota looks like the oldest republican presidential candidate still has some fight left. it's wednesday april twenty fifth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm adding martin you're watching our t.v. the american dream go to college to get your dream job so you can own your dream home with a white picket fence and live happily ever after however for many college students and graduates in the u.s. the notion of the american dream has become a full blown nightmare coined one t. day today marks the day that student debt has topped one trillion dollars exceeding the auto loan and credit card debt in the u.s. one of the biggest problems is the exploitation of the predatory student loan industry sallie mae america's largest private investor assigns low income students interest rates about twenty five percent let's take a look at some of the stats. to issue an costs have risen six hundred percent over the last thirty years average in-state tuition has risen by eight percent just last year

lot of money in iowa. so what happens, the candidates go to the quad cities area which has a television station that broadcasts to both illinois and iowa, and they spend a lot of money in the illinois section to get to iowa. so they game all the numbers. so it's a system that has a number of things that should be changed. >> and those changes we've been talking about really over the last 40 years, as you look at the road ahead, what are the challenges? you deal with the laws that the congress and the president sign into law, what the court allows you to do, but what are those challenges? >> there are challenges both in the public financing -- public funding area and for the underlying fica itself. in the public funding as pointed out, it's becoming less and less attractive for candidates to participate in because of the limitations that go along with it. i would note that both party conventions have sought and are receiving their public financing for the conventions that will happen later this summer. so t

but for the screw up by the iowa republican party, , he would have gotten a bigger lift winning iowathat night, w where he gave the best speech of the campaign. he is s one of the few candidates who has run for president and it has come out of the race stronger and better off than he went into it having lost. that is an achievement. >> he is good argument for retail politics. he was in his diner's all day every day. >> he was. newt gingrich also pushed mitt romney to the right. rick perry's stance on immigration all-out romney to take a position far to t the right. there has been a succession of republican candidates who have moved romney it to where he is now. >> i want to a us something else but go ahead and. >> mitt romney w was able to ignore rick santorum in iowa. he did not unleashed the avalanche of negative ads. in some way, santorum was able to emerge as the alternative because he got ignored at the beginning. >> the contest is now romney and barack obama. who likes barack obamama? >> women, people of color latinonos -- >> younger voters. >> and part of his challenge is to g

in southwest iowa that search will be extensive.or of thurman said 90% of the town is damaged or destroyed. after the tornado more bad weather forced all 300 residents to evacuate to a nearby town. we'll turn now to thurman, to the emergency management director for freeman county. he'll join us very shortly. as you can imagine it's very difficult to get people on the phone because the power is out, the electricity is out, and that is just such a press. until we get him back on the line let's turn to what's happening in afghanistan. the violence this morning in kabul, afghanistan, reminds us that there is a war going on. tens of thousands of american troops are deployed there right now. it's been a very long, tough fight. couple that now with the ended war in iraq and we get a picture of the hardships that the troops have been living with for a decade. for many soldiers the war doesn't stop when they come home and that's the subject of nick kristof's column in the "new york times" this morning. he's the author of the papers on the gr