heats up the contenders are fighting hard to make it to the white house our resident in new york laurie harvin is hit the streets of times square to find out what people think about the oval office race. in the u.s. republican presidential hopefuls are duking it out with the gloves are off what does the world's make of these candidates this week let's talk about that do you think there's any difference between mitt and newt no i think they're both going to want to use church who are sort of exclusionary and don't think a lot about the people they're supposed to serve and their big difference between mitt romney and newt gingrich republicans so there's no difference ron paul's republican you think there's a difference with him really the same for the watch with the better business room. he's done a lot into a somewhat copies of the yeah but he's also like gotten a lot of people out of jobs with his business he's been a little bit ruthless in his business and so you've got so much more to so why would you trust him to represent you in represent the common man oh i don't trust him at all gingrich

become political over the years and that is the environment and more specifically global warming so laurie harvin us with the resident donna decided to ask people what they think of of global warming and also what they sacrifice to try to curb its effects. today legislators are introducing more and more bills to help curb the effects of global warming what are you willing to do to help out this week let's talk about that do you agree that global warming is the real problem. a real real problem i think you the people need to think more about this would you be willing to heat your house with a fireplace instead of using electric heat you know you'd be willing to do that absolutely so why is she doing that now not now would you be willing to not blow dry your hair anymore not that i'd be willing to them would you be willing to dry your clothes on the line and never use a drag machine i don't know about that. and it depends would you be willing to change your behavior like say i walk into any destination that's under two miles instead of driving like what i'm doing today yes yeah yeah absolutely abso