--you can watch videos featuring mit romney and to get a grip. >>catherine: a drunken father who tosses seven year-old son overboard on a harbor cruise has pleaded guilty today to child abuse and endangerment. he was sentenced to three years of probation and one year for a program of child abusers and six months at a residential program for alcoholics. last august witnesses say he poked and slapped his little boy and then threw him over the side of the boat. his attorney said the sentencing today was a part of a plea deal. >> it is an offer that allows him to try to get his life back on track and deal with his alcohol addiction that has been a problem for him his whole life. >> any number of things could happen to this child he could and swept under and hit by a boat. fortunately none of those things happen. >>catherine: in earlier interviews he angrily insisted that he was playing around with his son. his attorney now claims his i realize that his attorney-- that his client was wrong. now brushfires in california have been contained. the fires b

clearly putting himself in the same basket as mit romney. rick santorum has not had a lot of money until he began raising it quickly over the weekend. going to be a tough week ahead for him in new hampshire particularly with paul saying he and romney are the only two who can compete. we've not heard from romney or santorum, but as the newscast progresses we'll watch and bring it to you when it happens about we'll turn the microphone on. >> thank you, gary. we'll have a lot more on the iowa caucas right after the break. >>> the new year got off to an unpleasant start for the british royal family at their country estate. >>> voters in iowa have been choosing their candidate in that states gop presidential caucases and boy is it close. >> very tight there. gary has been following latest so we'll check back in with him in news room, just a few dozen votes separating the top. >> 89% of the precincts in, romney has a 125 vote lead over rick santorum separated 25% each. ron paul came in third, he says he's the only viable candidate to continue, jus

mit romney does have a big leap and race for second is still wide open. shows just how close it is. this one shows wantagh, roxanne kron, new gingrich and jon huntsman, jr all within a few percent less of each other clearly it >>kimberlee: republican presidential hopeful john huntsman has been passed huma and lincoln town hall with appearances curator now his attempt to win over of voters is by taking over twitter. take a look at this they have been running social media calls when a takeover. we want to get out at least 1000 tweets per day. less >>kimberlee: take the next video gear and why you are on his web site you can see what people are quitting and on the right you can read tweet the messages. his campaign showed how to schedule tweets. and what >>pam: the outcome of the iowa caucuses could be wrong. mit romney you are won by a very slim margin he amanda's explains this possible disruptive student with >>reporter: vote him who the night was a chaotic in many jason hunt of voters in canada to join the hunt along of media that followed. you could hear

you would be surprised what happens to women when you hold the mits up and they start. you have to yell stop because they won't. something going on in a woman's head. >> all right. if you want to get in touch with candace, www.fitisit.com make sure you have on some kind of mit when you call her, because you never know. stay with us. john has a look at you are weekend forecast when -- john has a look at the weekend forecast when we come back. >> coming up, we will head to new hampshire where the republican candidates are making the final push three days before the utah primary. meanwhile, as police in maine continue to search for missing 20-month-old ayla reynolds, her dad is seen handing out fliers for the first time since she disappeared. >> also, casey anthony. she's been out of the public eye since a jury found her not guilty for the death of her child back in july. now a new video with casey anthony surfaced, but was this new video stolen or did she want to get it out? plus, take a cute babe baby and famous movie scenes, and what does it make? a movie -- and strikin

mit romney and newt gingrich last-minute appeals to voters.how romney with a lead over gingrich. >> jack johnson will be a free man for two more weeks. report to osed to prison on friday. officials have not decided where he will serve his more than seven-year sentence on orruption charges. >> by the way, a maryland senate committee will debate a bill today. same-sex galize marriage. governor martin o'malley says this is one of his top legislative priorities for 2012. >> we're learning more about saturday's crash that killed n davidsonville in anne arundel county. e made urgent 911 calls shortly before that crash. >> he may have been doing the speed limit. clue t think they had a they were on the wrong side of the road. e say a car driven by 19-year-old brittany walker was going the wrong way on 97 and then 50. the car slammed into a bmw driven by perry davis of saverna park. all four were killed. to determine ng if alcohol or speed contributed . the crash turns out that one of the victims in sunday's chain crash florida was from richmond. jaso

mit romney owns several homes including this beach home.upert-- >> everything i haven't paid off, my home, cars, everything. >>reporter: that includes this four-bedroom pad currently valued at 30% above the purchase price. sharing a virginia address, rick santorum purchase this four-bedroom five that home with a heated pool and great falls virginia for $2 million back in 2007. >> i tell people that i and a conservationist. we did not spend too much time in the water. >>reporter: the texas governor's mansion is going under $20 million of reservations--of renovations. and ron paul is currently selling his house. >>reporter: the south carolina primary is january 21st. stay with us on our facebook fan page for continued coverage of decision 2012. how is your appetite? we will dine and dish and some of the hottest restaurant in san francisco's north beach. >>reporter: we have temperatures cooling off tonight. we have temperatures dropping into the 20s this evening i will have the forecast coming up. [woman narrator] it's your car. you take it to

[laughter] >>james: mit romney is set to get a boost in his campaign to date.mccain who we got it running for the 2008 republican nomination party has decided to endorse him this time around. he says mccain will announce the endorsement sometime today we will watch for that to lead a normal if and fact that happen. and and the latest coverage on decision 2012 ticket to into kron4. yolie could always count the latest on our web site. we will take a break and have much more shredded. we have a live look at the bay bridge. the shot shows pretty light traffic as you make your way from oakland into san francisco. >> announcer: bank robbery certainly is a frightening crime. after all, bank robbers stole $43 million in one year. but identity thieves? try 37 billion! and guess how identity thieves are getting some of that money. by taking over our bank accounts. they may not even need your social security number anymore. all an identity thief may need are a couple of simple pieces of information, like your mother's maiden name or the city you were born in, and they cou

and communication. >> reporter: students are programming satellites using online systems provided by mitteam rocket will have their programs run by astronauts on board the space station in a live web cast from space. >> i think it's an exciting experience in that we have applied engineering, math, technology, computer programming, in a real life situation. it's a work space that they have to come together as a team, solve problems, and get things turned by a deadline. >> reporter: it's the first year for the competition and students off to a great start. the team ranked had 4th internationally and second among united states teams. >> definitely didn't expect to do so well in the competition. when we first started but we worked really hard so we are just really thrilled to be ranked so high in the competition. >> coming in we just had no idea where we would go and now that we are in -- throughout the whole process we realize how much we got out of this. >> reporter: with most interested in engineering computer science this competition gives them a taste of what they can expect in their fu

>>reporter: polls show mit romney has 30 percent of the primary voters and a gingrich has 29%. ron paul took his campaign to new england saturday. rick santorum has an event scheduled saturday night. he is expected to campaign on saturday--on sunday and florida. >> not taken the tack to the issues out there. it is run and you can't see mount tancam temperatures right now are in the '40's and 50's. santa clara 29 degrees, san francisco is pretty mild. >>reporter: there is a weather system london this pacific bell will jens touched us on wednesday. we have a chance for a few sprinkles or showers for the north bay monday before noon but it's a slight chance right now. here is the future forecast at 3:00 p.m. tomorrow. mostly sunny and watch the hike out begin to increase for late afternoon and evening. most of the rain is on the coast. there is to front runner around 5:00 a.m.. notice the showers through much nonexistent. so rainfall totals for this even have increased. but the numbers are still pretty low about 2 in. in south bay 11 for the north bay and that represents about 30

. >> mit romney, the next president of the united states. >> wrapping up his campaign before today's vote, mit romney tried to focus on barack obama. >> the american people want a different course. >> but is romney's course chig? his lead faded fast in south carolina. >> to be in a neck-and-neck race at this last moment is kind of exciting. >> exciting maybe to newt gingrich. >> gallonup said romney is collapsing across the country and i'm gaining. >> rick santorum piled on gingrich. >> someone who tried to run the clock out and be the person with the most money. >> suddenly the focus is on romney's wealth and his taxes. at a cafe some mit voters were switching to newt. >> i think romney would not be as good a debater against obama as gingrich would. >> and gingrich's second wife claiming he asked her to ok his affair with his second wife calista may not have stopped his search. >> i am more interested in getting obama out of office than i am anything else right now. >> mit romney wants to get out of south carolina with his campaign attack. steve handelsman, wbal-tv 11 news. >> presi

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in little over a handful of all that separated mit romney and rick santorum.d razor thin margin with rick santorum in joining a last-minute surge of support from evangelicals. now it is on to have shot. and ronnie is banking on support from the former gop credentials candidate john mccain. >> i am proud to be here with santa john mccain. >> i am here for one reason only that is to make sure that we make mit romney the next president of the united states of america. >>reporter: rick sent from set includes looking for to a rematch in just a matter of days a. >>reporter: as for the rest of the pack, ron hall came in third followed by newt gingrich and rick perry. coming in seventh, jon huntsman, jr who skipped iowa to focus on the hampshire. >>catherine: president obama is bypassing congress and made an announcement today in her to appoint his new consumer watchdog. republican leaders are calling this an arrogant move by the president. >> the only reason republicans and the senate's have blocked this because they do not agree with the law that is set up for the c

mit romney is confident he will top.out on good morning, washington. 4:30 now on tuesday, january 31. >> we begin with your traffic and weather every 10 minutes. lisa is with us, and so is adam casky. >> it is going to be a warm day. 42 in the district, 37 at dulles airport. 42 in martinsburg. normally hitting the morning low in the next couple hours of 29 in the district. that's not the case today. look at our high temperatures this afternoon. of sunshine. ot a beautiful day. 0's later on mid 6 today. cooler in western maryland. r 50's. in the uppe culpeper, fredericksberg in the mid 60's. tomorrow just as warm. 60's. mid partial sunshine. we have a chance for isolated sprinkles tomorrow. it is not looking likely. it could be a stray hit-or-miss shower tomorrow. then thursday a better chance of rain in the morning. we clear back out friday and saturday, temperatures in the 40's sunday. >> traffic on 95 in virginia looking good in both directions between fredericksberg and springfield. no problems between the 14th street bridge and 495. a lot of construction on both beltway between ty

at some point, one of mit romney son yelled that gross. a brown liquid was dripping down the back window this was payback from a dog that was riding in the wind for hours. there were comments from howard stern and a parody son on youtube.--song on youtube. there's even a real imagine hit your parity.--reimagined hittler parady. the ride of the rhetorical and thinks the most interesting angle has been this. >> when the dog is in distress, mit romney pulls off into the gas station fire as a whole swashes it down and they could the dog back up there. >>reporter: the citizens a tiny preview of a trait that he would grow famous for in business the motion for crisis management. and look where do the hound gets to sit. and granny is in the shameless position--shamus position. >>james: we will take a break and be back with more in a minute as traffic is looking light on 680. but be right back. >>erica: this is our roof camera overlooking downtown san francisco. it is a pretty clear to--start to the morning. as we head into the afternoon and tomorr

mit romney. the cnn poll suggests that mit romney would edge out the president and as congressman ron hall the president would barely hold on to the office. outside of those to this could just the odds are pretty lean. >>jacqueline: very cold conditions on tap, we already have the freezing and in effect for the no. 8. all temperatures will be widespread in the twenties and low 30's. we will see areas of frost nearly everywhere. you will have the icy wind chill as you out the door to calm one. you will have to limit your car and turned on the defroster. it will take several minutes, get yourself some extra time. definitely bring their pets in overnight. protecting pipes because they could burst with temperatures that are just call it here live and take a look at this is absolutely frigid from the bay area 20 than even 30's for places like san francisco, or 39 degrees, 32 in oakland, 20 in redwood city. we have 21 and napa, and 23 in santa rosa. there was a call earlier from a viewer in kai-shek. i

. >> mit romney looks unstoppable heading into the primaries.ll have the latest. >> the weather across most of the u.s. looks decent. it is the pacific northwest that has a storm coming on shore. a rain-snow mix there. the insta-weather plus forecast th the word is swapportunity. can i have the definition? swapportunity: the opportunity to swap a higher calorie snack for a yoplait light. can you use it in a sentence? mmm. swapping a 300 calorie donut for this 110 calorie strawberry shortcake is a good swapportunity. that's not a real word. oh haha it's real. [ female announcer ] delicious, creamy, yoplait light. over 30 flavors each around 100 calories. do the swap today. >> there is still a bit of a breeze out there. it is cold. winter time cold. we look at live h.d. doppler radar. over the northeast corner of maryland we see some return echos. i think that's what the radars are seeing. i doubt much of that, if any is hitting the ground. you might see a few flurries in the northeast corner of the state. generally it is a fair-weather morning. t

but what about the kids at mit, and the multitasking experiments at stanford? at some point, does the increasing use of technology create diminishing returns? >> i never read books. i'll be honest, i can't remember the last time i read a book. >> dretzin: greg bukata was a senior at a new jersey high school when we interviewed him about his reading habits. >> nowadays, people are so busy that they need to get summaries of it, like sparknotes. you can read the whole book in a matter of pages. so i read all online. i've actually never read, like, "romeo and juliet," so i read it yesterday in five minutes. i mean, if there were 27 hours in a day, i'd read "hamlet," i really would, but it's only 24. >> you will find a lot of english professors saying, "i can't assign a novel more than 200 pages. i used to. i can't anymore." >> dretzin: mark bauerlein, a professor at emory university, wrote a book called the dumbest generation. it's filled with data suggesting that kids aren't as academically capable as they used to be before all these digital distractions. >> what

>>reporter: mit romney who also won i whistled to go 3 for 3 in south carolina.suggest that he is well on his way but his conservative rivals say this will give them the best chance to finally get a victory. when rent >> there will be a very clear torahs between a reagan conservative and in massachusetts moderate. and we get to south carolina at age was between those two values will be cooked--put in to sight. >> it will come down my friends as it always does to south carolina. >>reporter: this will be a high-stakes move for with presidential hopeful rick perry. he and the other five competitors will not have a little more than a week to set the stage for the next showdown. >> this is where it will take place, we have a 30 year track record of picking the right nominee and we want to continue that tradition this time around. >>james: the other five candidates will head to south carolina today. the primary there will be held on january 21st. >>justine: let us take a quick break, we have new live pictures and this is the ferry building on market street and the emba

. >> mit romney tried to focus on barack obama. >> the american people want a different course. >> butey's course changing? his 12-point lead faded fast in south carolina. >> frankly, to be in a neck-and-neck race at this moment is kind of exciting. >> exciting? maybe to newt gingrich. >> romney is collapsing across the country and i'm gaining according to gallup. >> trying to be the person who runs the clock out. >> suddenly the fopingous is on romney's wealth. >> at a cafe, some mit voters were switching to newt. >> i think romney would not be as good a dware against obama as newt gingrich would. >> and newt gingrich's second wife claiming he asked her to ok his affair with his current wife calista may not have stopped his surge. >> i'm more interested in getting obama out of office than i am anything else right now. >> mit romney wants to get out of south carolina with his camp -- campaign intact. >> president obama tried something a little give different on the campaign trail. he broke into song to the delight of reporters. take a look. >> ♪ i'm so in love with you ♪ >> the preside

now it is about getting everyone >> mit romney is leading in the polls. new hampshire votes on tuesday. >> in the meantime, final preparations are underway for today's second presidential debate in new hampshire. the nbc news facebook presidential debate will air on "meet the press" and questions from the -- for the candidates will come from david gregory. we will talk to david gregory live from new hampshire coming up. >> a 24-year-old airman from new hampshire has died. matthew seidler died thursday when an explosion happened in the hellman province in afghanistan. two other people were also killed. seidler eventered active duty in 200 . he was assigned to petersen airbase in colorado. >> police were called to the 1900 block of north collington avenue. on the scene 29-year-old man was wounded. so far no arrests have been made. >> 52-year-old john robey and his sons jonathan and toms and michael grimes were arrested by state police yesterday. a grand jury indicted them all on thursday. police say the men assaulted 26-year-old craig myers back in august i

in the critical state of florida, it is a campaign reset for mit romney. in his first event after a huge loss to newt gingrich, romney went on the attack. >> at the end of four years, it was proven he was a failed leader and he had to resign in disgrace. >> romney will debate his republican rival and said he will release his tax returns tomorrow. >> i think we made a mistake in holding off as long as we did. it is just a distraction. >> gingrich is working to capitalize on the political momentum, casting himself as the best republican to take on the president. >> i think my job in florida is to convince people that i am the one candidate that can defeat obama in a series of debates. >> while gingrich and obama are saying this will be a two-man race through the spring, santorum had other ideas. >> this idea that romney will not be defeated unless conservatives call us is objectively false. >> ron paul said he's moving forward but looking beyond florida. >> i see it as an opportunity to accumulate delegates, and that will be our efforts. >> this week, the fo

heading into this thing mit romney knew gingrich are pretty much in a dead heat. the latest poll gives mit romney a slight edge of 36% but his lead over new gingrich is within the margin of error. they are far ahead of the other two challengers. mit romney said that he expected to have fun today. >> we are going to have a great time talking about the president and his failures. >> they also spent plenty of time attacking each other. the mit romney campaign has a new ad highlighting new gingrich's ties to freddie mac. >>reporter: newt gingrich calls this add this on this. >> how can a guy that owns stocks in the goldman sacks investment fund run the ads that he isn't running. >>reporter: ron hall skit campaigning in the sunshine state. although he is lagging in the polls, rick santorum continues to fight in florida. >> this race is constantly changing, south carolina changes like that and we believe that dynamic is still very present. >>reporter: a quarter of the voters say they still may shift their support so tonight's debate could be a game changer. in the first

mit romney holds a slim lead 24% to ron paul's 22% but rick santorum surged to 3rd place with 15%. >> mit romney is shaking as many hands as he can to keep the momentum going. >> i am asked time to time how much i enjoy this. this is the best part. >> reporter: he is slightly ahead of the pack. ron paul right on his heels and rick santorum is surging. >> the more we do for each other, the less government has to do for us. >> reporter: newt gingrich blames his slide on bad ads. >> i don't know. spending millions in negative ads you tell me. >> reporter: 40% ofgoers said they are undecided or can change their minds. that includes many iowa e van gel evangelica se. >> tom cougar is considering michelle bachmann and rick is santorumment rick persetrying perry is looking through. >> we are depended on your word. we are depended upon your will. >> reporter: both are behind in the polls but telling supporters to have faith come tuesday. daniel knottingham, back to you. >> a lot of bowl games on tomorrow, and rose bowls on tv but you may want to head outside. >> yes. we saw warm temperatures

and others are questioning gingrich and rick perry to throw their support to santorum to try to stop mity. steve handelsman, manchester, new hampshire. >> final preparations underway for the debate in new hampshire. the facebook presidential debate will air on "meet the press "i "and questions for the candidates will come from david gregory. we have a programming note. former governor bob ehrlich will be our "q & a" guest tomorrow morning on "11 news sunday morning." if you have a question e-mail us at sundayquestions@www.wbaltv.com. >> martin luther king jr. iii returned to the campus to honor his father. king also a civil rights and community leader served yesterday as the keynote speaker of the 30th anniversary commemorating his father's life. >> my father delivered that incredible speech where he talked about his dream for our nation, and that dream i must say has not totally come to fruition. he will mingts of it have. but you know what? we're going to need everyone's help. >> aides were also awarded with annual martin luther king jr. awards for their service during 2011. you can se

he's an mit graduate and he would be a great asset to the entertainment commission. i look forward to seeing him in that role. as an entertainer, he would be there to support the needs of the community. thank you. >> hello, my name is asha metta, i am from the beacon initiative. at my office is right across the hall from bryant's. i have been the director of the initiative and i have been able to watch bryant grow. it was just an idea into a very robust use leadership program. it in fuses high levels of youth leadership within -- i would imagine of all the departments, it has the greatest amount of that type of leadership. taken a small body of young people helping make decisions into multiple bodies and citywide change. it is incredibly exciting and robust youth empowerment initiatives that he has led. i can't imagine someone more strategic, more connected to the community back at a very different perspective. what i appreciate about bryant is that he is very rigorous and intelligent and thoughtful, and not a real knee-jerk response -- and never has a knee-jerk resp

newt gingrich attacked back by saying that mit romney was the most anti-immigrant canada.tion was the hot topic last night. >> i want to control the border i one english to be the official language of government. i want us to have a lot of changes. >> i am not anti-immigrant my father was born in mexico, my wife's father was born in wales. they came to this country and the idea that i and anti-immigrant is proposal. i think we need to secure the border. secondly we need to have enforcement and then who need to have not only employer sanctions but we have to have people who are found that are working here illegally to be deployed. >> i think we spend too much time worrying about the border between afghanistan and >>mark: florida has more than 1 million hispanic voters that are expected to play prominent role in tuesday's primary. romney does have a slight read over gingrich in the most recent poll. >>darya: the cost of college and how students will afford it is topping the president's agenda. he will deliver a speech at the university of michigan. michigan is considered a k

mit romne y and santorem are neck and neck. >> reporter: no landslide victory for any candidate tonight with 88% of the precincts reporting the race is still too close to call. it's a three-way race in iowa tonight. >> 62. >> reporter: mit romney is in a tight battle with ron paul and rick santorem. >> we think romney has the best chance to be the newest president. >> i decided to vote for ron paul when he spoke at iowa state. >> reporter: michelle, rick perry, and gingrich did not win over enough iowa voters. >> i'm not enthused by the chevy duty conservatism. >> reporter: his supporters are convinced he's the only one that can beat president obama in november. he's well funded and organized. cbs fuse chief political correspondent expects the republicans to target romney. >> the other candidates haven't gone after romney, but that's about to change. gingrich already calling him a liar. >> reporter: huntsman ignored the iowa caucuses all together. he's spending his time in new hampshire and hoping it will pay off next week. rick perry and michelle plan to skip new hampshire and head str

mit romney nearly one the iowa caucus and is now leading in new hampshire. the former massachusetts governor left to self wide open to criticism on monday. he spoke at a breakfast at a local chamber of commerce and listen to what he said. >> i like being able to fire people that provide services to me if someone does not give me the good service i need, i want to say that i will get someone else to provide that service to me. >>justine: he then had to clarify his statement he says that he wants people to be able to fire their health insurance company if it is not doing a good job. his opponents say that he is out of touch with working-class people early polls are showing that he has a strong lead heading into today's primary. keeping here on kron4 for your decision 2012 coverage. we have a full recap tonight on the kron4 evening news and everything you need to know back here tomorrow morning. we will talk more about voting ahead. we will take a quick break and look outside of what is going on in san mateo. traffic is light. the time now is for 11:00 a.m. and

the spotlight for a moment, in the span of a few seconds he managed to criticize newt gingrich and mitomney and then praised them. take a look. >> these two gentlemen who are out distracting from the most important, uses we have by playing personal politics, can we set aside that newt was a member of congress and used the skills he developed as a member of congress to go out and advise companies and that's not the worst thing in the world and mit romney is a wealthy guy because he worked hard and you guys should leave that alone and focus on the issues. >> [applause]. >> okay! the campaign rolls on. florida holds its primary next tuesday. >>> thousands of penn state loyalists packed a campus aranea today for a final tribute to coach joe paterno. >> he lived his large life, never blindly chasing success, defined by the words ever changing values. >> that's from his son jay. they came to celebrate husband life and legacy remembering her generosity to community as well as committment to education and his own family. the service ended in prayer as the community and the paterno family share

keen to edwards again you think you mit want to cover this guy. nobody around.rows for 5 32 and 3 touch downs. houston rolls. tampa. michigan state winless in the last 5 appearances. 20 second left against georgia to send out back wall to over time. george kicker walsh misses the game winning attempt from 42 yards out. had he kind of a williamson type game then down 33-30 and third over time. walsh has that one blocked. michigan state. they were down 16 at the half. they come become to win 33 to 30. capitol 1 bowl in orlando. nebraska south carolina final play first half connor shaw for the game tie. hail mary. it's never worked. it never. no way. edward. jeffrey. he is 6 foot 4. and likewise he is an nfl receiver waiting to happen. nebraska never recovers. south carolina 30-1 30-13. it was a would have could have should have monday for the raiders who let an opportunity to make the play off yesterday slip right through their hands. a lot of finger pointed at the defense which let san diego drive up and down the field at will in a 38-26 san diego victory. silver

port mit romney behave under 14 percent of income. we've been the top up just under 1 million. take a look . >>catherine: that jo paternal died sunday, this was just more than two months after he was diagnosed with lung cancer. we became the most winning coach in major football history just some days before the jerry sandusky sex abuse scandal broke par of all of the viewing will continue tomorrow and there will be a publ >>catherine: 4 people living in the far north, there was compensation a brilliant show of light. the photographer said that the show lasted for one full hour. this is the biggest solar storm in seven years. casolo were expected to get more intense--the sole weather is expected to get more intense over the next 12 months. had a storm passed to the north, into tomorrow we expect a little more sunshine into the afternoon. as we head into the noon hour we have mostly sunny skies, temperatures warming up a little bit more and mainly in the low 60s evening gave up to 65 down and plan to attend. let us talk a little more ab

the latest polls in south carolina show the top spot is up for grabs with mit romney and gingrich neck and neck and santorum and paul battling it out. our "commitment 2012 report." >> candidates are firing all over the south. >> i passed my test. >> romney claims his company created thousands of jobs. >> he is clearly misstating the fact. "the washington post" gave him three pinocchios for his claims. >> this is a pr business mit romney helped start, and this one. >> romney is fighting back. in a new tv ad he paints himself as a conservative business firm. his attacks are also directed at president obama. >> i will take all the programs that commivet exist in washington and i will ask this question for each one. is this program so critical, it is worth borrowing money from china to pay for it. >> rick santorum is banking on. >> this race is just beginning. south carolina can completely clay this whole tenor of this race. >> the candidates are mostly gunning for romney and hoping his wins in iowa and new hampshire will warn southern voters. south carolina's primary is january 21. wbal-t

. >> it was mit romney's debate to lose. on saturday he kept his footing and focus on president obama. >> his policies have made the economy nore tepid. >> gingrich worked to knock the front-runner. >> this does not match up with being the commander-in-chief of the country. >> ron paul called rick santorum a washington spender. >> the speaker took offense. >> i take offense to the comments he makes without accurate information and slurs people with. >> john huntsman and rick perry tried to cast themselves as the outsiders in this contest. >> a lot of insider gobbldy-gook. >> i think you have seen a great example of why i got in this race. >> kate amara, wbal-tv 11 news. >> meanwhile, final preparations are underway for tood's second presidential debate in new hampshire. the nbc news facebook presidential debate will air on "meet the press" and candidates will come from "meet the press moderator david gregory. >> a 24-year-old airman from westminster has died in afghanistan. he died thursday when an i.u.d. hit his vehicle in

>>reporter: according to the tracking poll, to gingrich is closing in with mit romney.ormer speaker has the backing of 28% been registered republicans and to meet ronnie's 29 percent nationwide. and on the campaign trail, ron hall will skew the florida primary same man he will focus on figure early caucus state of nevada and colorado. in tampa, rigs and ron this into an audience member to they mistakenly called president roh obama: be a devout muslim and claim that he was not believe the president. rick santorum did not correct her or argue this point. harm >> why is it isn't being done to get him out of the government? he has no legal right to be calling himself president. >> i am doing my best to try to give him out of there. [no audio /+ loser, your giants is interested it up on the break! one worker who >> read what it does is it natural to assume the role we can see what if my home. on the fall overnight. it will begin to in some spots.--our focus is on the fog it is going to be dense in some spots. >>jacqueline: and all our children shares for tomorrow. >>jacqueli

of this was created at mit and places like that, i mean -- >> with the technology of the computers? >> well, no. it's the mathematics. it's all of this mathematics of finance and the presumption in much of this mathematics that you can capture risk by looking at historical volatility and so forth and so on. as soon as you say something appears not to be risky, you get an over investment in it, because the capital requirements are less. and then if something does go wrong, the hurt is all the more because you don't have the capital to take the risks. and you know, if somebody says, "walk across that sheet of ice, there's no danger whatsoever you're going to fall in," you know, you're fine. as long as you don't fall in. >> are you suggesting that the chairman of the board of mit's suggesting -- that human intelligence no longer runs our financial system? >> well, it's a little wisdom balance that judgment wouldn't hurt. >> so how, when you look back on it, how did so many people, including yourself, get it wrong? >> we were carried away by the enthusiasm. and like everything else, you

how >>catherine: in the final poll last week in mit romney was the choice of 24 percent republicans. ron paul was right behind him and rick santorum was rising fast in third place all by newt gingrich, rick barry and michelle laughlin. jon huntsman has to% even though he is not campaign giving. in fact, when in iowa has not proved to be v for the road to the white house. here are 4 fax that you may not know about them. >>catherine: dan kerman is a live in the news room he is monitoring the latest out of iowa. >>reporter: there are more than 800 iowa caucuses. at this when they are gathering in gymnasiums and all kind of other places to voice their opinion. strangely enough, caucus results have no control over at the 25 delegates involved in the national convention but if everything goes as planned it can happen but they're not tied to what happens tonight. still, a lot of people are keeping an eye on this. we will bring the details as soon as we get them. he'd canada can have someone read a speech on behalf of each of them and that should be what is going to happen here soon enough.

as we know, nubian ridge won saturday's primary in south carolina mit romney came in second place. the two are now front runners and they did attack each other's experience last night. >> when a second, we did not do any work with the government are countries like medicare and medicaid. >> we did not do any work, i was not a lobbyist, i never reported to washington. congressman said you came to lobby them, you have congressmen who say the u.k. and lobbied them with regards to medicare and at the same time you're center was taken in contributions... >> you just jump a long way over your friend. >>james: the florida primary is on january 31st, one week from today. and it ronnie has released his tax returns at last night's debate who said there will be no surprises in those returns, coming up next half hour you can see for yourself. >>justine: if you fly there are new rules affecting airline passengers that will go into effect this week it will force airlines to advertise the exact price of the trip. fees and bags and other calls will be included in the estimate that you get to see on

>>reporter: 2 mit romney is hoping to win the next battle in hampshire with a larger margin. >> whateaker, but it sure enough to have a win. >>reporter: mit romney picked up a key endorsement from the 2008 republican presidential nominee senator john mccain. most recent polls show him far ahead of the competition in new hampshire. even his rivals expect him to bush--score big. but now he has any rising santorum on his heels. campaign cash has been pouring in for santorum since the second place in the iowa caucus. >> the suppose it 40 +% that mit romney has in new hampshire now, i think when people see would send an arms capability live this will have the potential to turn very fast. >>justine: marks santorum campaign says they have raised more than $1 million during caucus night and he plans to spend the day in the venture. your ronnie will also split his day between new hampshire and the third contest which is south carolina. >>james: we have a live report on the increase fire danger. that is in the oakland hills. now here is a live look at traffic which is moving fairly well this m