now, back to judy. >> thanks, kwame. i am judy woodruff in des moines and i can tell you at this hour counting of what results have come in from the iowa caucuses, with about 31 percent of the precincts reporting, mitt romney, rick santorum and ron paul are all bunched at right around 23 percent, it is kind of a stunning three way tie at this point, and guinn, i have to say, what i am -- if my recollection is correct, if this is the way it enup and we are a long way from the end, this could be the lowest percentage for a winner coming out of iowa in a long time, maybe ever. >> well, certainly huckabee four years ago the republican who won these caucuses was up north of 30 percent, like 34, 35 percent, what we are seeing in this case, at this late hour eastern time, just before 10:00 o'clock eastern time about 9:00 o'clock central time the caucuses have been open for a while and we are just talking about 100 votes or so separating these top tier candidates. completely unusual, and, in fact, the networks are already report

thank you. >> thanks, judy. >> thanks, judy and now we are back to stuart rothenberg and kristina bellatoni. >> we are now up to 26 percent of the vote, that is the news, more amazing thing is we still have so few -- we still have this dead heat between romney, santorum and paul, take a look at that. >> what do you make of it, stu? >> it is going to be tight and tight all night, i mean, when you have this chunk of the vote in and what we have seen from the entrance polls it looks like photo finish, this is a kentucky derby, i don't know, somebody is going to win by a nose but in politics it is not quite that clear-cut. and the fact that we have three contenders who are seemingly headed for the finish line at the same time, i think that probably makes it worse for the people who aren't close behind at their heels because if you add those numbers up, we talk about 70 percent of the vote right there, if my math is pretty close. >> yes. >> and, you know, they are not much left for the rest of the field. >> we have a few more votes since you started talking, still a dead heat, kristina. >> yes w

judy woodruff for us in iowa tonight. thanks so much. >> woodruff: great. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day. it was countdown to caucus night in iowa, as the republican presidential candidates made final appeals for the first votes of the 2012 nominating season. wall street got the new year off to a good start, thanks to encouraging economic reports from germany and china. the dow industrials gained more than 179 points. and the u.s. navy said it will continue sending warships to the persian gulf, despite iran's warnings to stay away. follow the iowa caucuses online. kwame holman explains. kwame? >> holman: there's a viewer's guide to our online coverage including an interactive map where we'll show results later on the rundown blog. our team in iowa filed a video dispatch on the occupy movement in des moines and interviewed people there. plus, on our politics page, watch all our conversations with this year's g.o.p. presidential contenders, as well as a few from years past. all that and more is on our we

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i'm use judy woodruff.>> you can check out our interactive map all night for the final results plus we'll post videos of all the candidate speeches. all that and more you'll find on our website newshour dot pbs.org. thank you and good night. . >> rose: funding for charlie rose was provided by the llowing. captioning sponsored by rose communications >> additional funding provided by these funers. funders. and by bloomberg. a provider of multimedia news and informion services worldwide. tonight the special edition of charlie rose, live analysis of the iowa caucus. >> rose: welcome to our coverage of the iowa caucuses at the time of this taping 11:00 p.m. eastern tonight tonight's results are too close to call. mitt romney and rk santorum tied for first place, ron paul is a cle third. whoever emerges as the winner this could be onof the closest contests in iowan recent memory, newt gingrich and rick santorum battling for fourth and fifth place, michellbachmann appears to be last, hunt man did not compete this

we did something interesting today, judy. we called back the couple we talked to for last night's piece. you remember them? we talked to them about they were undecided. they had changed their minds. so we asked them who do you really both for? both of them voted for jon huntsman. if those independents made up their mind, maybe he'll see a surge tonight. >> woodruff: gwen, we talk about expectations and they have changed. this has been a tough couple of days for miltate romney. who sets those expectations? i think people watching this crazy process often want to know who is the great setter of numbers? who comes in first, second and third and by how much? >> ifill: you know, it was only a couple of months ago, if you look on the graph you see that mitt romney has been leading by multiple double dij is for a long, long time. in the last week he's begun to lose some ground, so people begin to think if you don't win by 30 points, then you didn't win especially if you've run in new hampshire before, you were the governor of massac

judy it's so interesting hearing your conversations with these voters.ow do they square up with showing these polls with romney running away with the florida vote. >> woodruff: it's a little more complicated than that. when you're out on the road first of all, as you know, gwen, this is a closed primary. it's only registered republicans who can vote. tomorrow. a lot of them have already voted early. they've sent in early ballots. they've requested absentee ballots. the number is something like 600,000 have already been sent in. but you get a more of a mixed picture. sure, there's a lot of support for governor mitt romney. people think he looks presidential. he acts presidential. you heard some of the voters there at his event yesterday in naples telling us that he seems like someone who they can trust. they're a little hesitant at times when you ask them to describe what they like about mitt romney. you heard that gentleman say to me, i think he's going to be more conservative once he gets in the white house. but it is interesting. and among the evangeli

and joining us now from jacksonville is our own judy woodruff. hi, judy. >> woodruff: hi, margaret, from jacksonville lville, yes. >> warner: so you have been there a couple days now. what's the dynamic? is it as nasty as it sounds? >> woodruff: i was just thinking margaret, this is a state of over 11 million people and it's a state that's used to being in the national political spotlight so i'm confident there's a huge swath of floridians who are not paying much attention to this campaign. but the folks who are-- the republicans, the independents, no doubt, and even the democrats in this state, because they know what happens in florida will have bearing on what happens on the general election-- they are paying attention. to this date, margaret, there have been over 400,000 early ballots mailed in. that's close to the number total of republicans who voted in the south carolina primary. so voters are paying attention and, as you just heard from the candidates, it's getting hot. newt gingrich rolled into florida with a head of steam having won in s

i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we get the latest on the new numbers and assess what they mean for the recovery. >> woodruff: then, with just a few days to go before the nation's first primary, we update the presidential race. >> brown: gwen ifill sat down with five registered republicans and independents who plan to vote next tuesday. >> as a candidates struggle to break out, i'm here in new hampshire talking to voters who are struggling to decide. >> woodruff: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> brown: and ray suarez examines a new report showing good teachers have a lasting impact on their students' lives and livelihoods. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: bnsf railway. >> the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was mad

>> sreenivasan: we have more reporting by judy in florida. she filed a blog post on how space exploration and the tea party may have an effect on next weeks primary. that's on the rundown blog. a team of scientists hope to capture the first image of a black hole. we spoke with a project leader for science thursday. on art beat, we talk to songwriter ryan tedder, who's up for two grammy awards this year, including producer of the year. all that and more is on our web site: newshour.pbs.org. >> warner: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm margaret warner. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening with david brooks and e.j. dionne among others. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corp

i'm judy woodruff. we'll have the latest results and analysis of the nation's first primary. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> it is mitt romney's night in new hampshire. the associated press and the major television networks have projected him the winner in the first republican primary of this presidential election year. with vote counting still underway the former governor of massachusetts was winning 36 percent of the vote. now, that is a dozen points better than ron paul, who is in second place. john huntsman was in third, with newt gingrich and rick santorum fighting for fourth. rick perry trailed the field. romney claimed his victory at a celebration with support in other words manchester, new hampshire

>> well, i will tell you this, judy. it's an argument that every single candidate in this race is making. if you turn on the television here in south carolina, i don't think you don't see furniture ads or news or weather any more in the morning. what you see are campaign ads. and a lot of these campaign ads are targeting romney. when they do it's saying he's like obama, that they worry about that. but that a lot more of these ads are targeting newt gingrich. you hear people like ron paul going after newt gingrich, rick santorum going after newt gingrich as a washington insider. rick perry who dropped out just a week ago was talking about all the insiders in the race and today he endorsed one of the insiders. so you know, the good news for newt gingrich as he is rising in the polls and he's within barking distance of mitt romney, the bad news is that means that everybody is training scrutiny on him and i don't think you have seen the end of that. >> woodruff: so all the pore reason to watch tonight's debate, gwen, they're