ktvu's noelle walker is with the students. she will have a report in 8 minutes. >>> tomorrow is super tuesday. the day when 10 u.s. states plan to vote in the primary race. today they focused on one key super tuesday state. ohio where polls show mitt romney is slightly in the lead and today he told reporters president obama failed to deliver on his campaign promises and he made one of his own. >> i will focus this campaign on president obama's failure to lead on the economy and failure to lead on shrinking the government. this will be about more jobs and smaller government. >> mitt romney picked up two big endorsements. rick santorum also barn stormed through ohio. he said he is winning votes, despite being way outspent by mitt romney. >> the 2/3 of the contribution come from under dwohundred dollars. 2/3 of mitt romney's contributions come from people who give the maxed out amounts. >> rick santorum campaigned where he said mitt romney lacks the heart of a true conservative. >> and mitt romney is gaming momentum with voters.

noelle walker ktvu channel 2 news. >>> to pacifica where u.s. marines from across the country joined efforts to find a friend. >> we checked the entire area. >> the 12 marines met with pacifica police to talk about organized new search efforts to find former marine 27-year-old joseph mchenry of san bruno. earlier this month, mchenry told his family he was going camping for a few days, but he never returned he was reported missing march santorum was declared the winner in today's primary in the conservative southern state with 49%, front-runner mitt romney won 27% while newt gingrich and ron paul took 16 and 6%. today's win gives santorum nine more delegates to the national republican conference. the former pennsylvania senator spoke to voters in milwaukee. santorum still trails romney in the hunt of delegates, but he says he will press on and the race for the republican nomination. >>> meantime newt gingrich says he will continue his campaign as well. the former house speaker addressed voters at aleadership conference in pennsylvania. voters hea

noelle walker, ktvu channel 2 news. >> apple said it sold 3 million new ipads since friday. this is the third version of the ipad. starting at $499 and going up from there. he says there is a reason for that. >> $499 is a break point. if you price over that your market goes down by 90%. it is critical to get below 500 dollars. >> apple is selling the ipad in the united states and 9 other countries. it plans to add 24 countries by the end of the week. >>> the candidates for president are campaigning in louisiana and illinois. mitt romney stopped in springfield, illinois today. he said the company is coming back but president obama's policies made for a slow recovery. >> almost everything he has done made it harder for the economy to recover. the list goes on and on. >> later he spoke at the university of chicago where president obama was once a lecturer. he accused of president of stifling economic freedom. illinois holds its primary tomorrow. >> president obama collected tens of millions of dollars for his reelection. the campaign brought in $45 million in february. that fel

. >> at the scene of the leak we go to noelle walker where dozens of works are being treated. >> they brought 30 people to the solano medical center. an emergency call and the medical center answered. crews had a triage unit up and running in 20 minutes. ready for a bus load of patients to arrive. we are prepared to handle whatever they bring our way. eight were admitted to the emergency room. >> a lot of people -- they were out of breath. they were throwing up. they just couldn't talk really. >> reporter: justin was triaged a lower priority than some of his co workers. he said what it was like inside plant. >> everybody was just -- just started dropping and fainting and kind of scary. seeing everybody do that but -- yeah. >> reporter: you feel okay now. >> yeah. >> reporter: a leak is the suspect cause, a team of doctors and nurses at the hospital is watching out for symptoms. >> what we are doing is checking them for nausea, headache, decreased levels of consciousness. >> reporter: nobody has life threatening symptoms but doctors said they are keeping a close eye on one patient. now

reporting live, noelle walker, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the demonstration started earlier today. students from across the state converged on the state capital. >> the protesters said they are hoping to convince lawmakers to restore funding for education. peace keepers have been trying to prevent vandalism or violence. >> i want everyone to know it is the hard work of the students and not other individuals. >> reporter: occupy? >> yes. >> this afternoon many of the protesters crowded inside. police managed to keep some outside. we are watching the situation there and as soon as there is any movement police or protesters we will let you know. >>> for the first time ever a israeli president is visiting the bay area. shimon peres is here. ktvu's robert handa is live from san jose and tells us why he wanted to come to the bay area. >> reporter: we are at ibm where we fallowed the president. the bay area is focused on technology and the way it can help his country and the middle east situation. >> reporter: shimon peres is taking san jose a big priority. >> i want to see the future. ho

noelle walker, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> four people were at local pubs today and they were crowded along market street in san francisco for the 161st st. patrick's day parade. and with the luck of the irish, the luck that the iraq are famous for, the rain held off and families and tourists turned out to watch the marching bands and floats. organizers say 5,000 people participated in the parade which ended with a big celebration at the plaza, plus find out how president obama marked theholidays. >>> we're on stormwatch tonight. people came out to see the latest changes to the mouth of san lorenzo river. earlier this week the river threatened to undermine part of the popular boardwalk and the water is still flowing close by. crews are using sandbags to protect the boardwalk and heavy equipment to reroute the river towards the sea j. the national weather service has issued a high-surf advisory for the bay area coast starting tonight. in santa cruz this afternoon, surfers hit the waves taking advantage of a 4-5' break. the surf advisory is set to expire at 3:00 tomorrow afternoon. >>> some b

noelle walker. >>> apple says the launch of its newest i pad is the strongest yet. people lined up outside stores to pay between $499 and $829 for this new device. the company says it sold 3 million kwraoupts in the first three days. apple says it's customers love the new features including the retna display. >>> safe way based in pleasanton announced it is going to buy back more shares. the grocery store says it will buy back $3 million. safe way has been buying back its shares since last september. the company operates some 1,600 stores in the u.s. and canada. >>> on wall street, the dow finished the day up 6-1/2 points. the nasdaq gained 23. the two indexes rose more than 2% last week. >>> the federal reserve plans to levee fines on eight more large banks for improper foreclosures. those banks include ever bank, goldman sach, met life, one west, sun trust and u.s. bancorp. there is no word on the size of the fine. last month the nations five biggest lenders agreed to a settlement. bank of america and four other lenders also agreed to payments. >>> firefighters sa

noelle walker. >>> apple says the launch of its newest i pad is the strongest yet. people lined up outside stores to pay between $499 and $829 for this new device. the company says it sold 3 million kwraoupts in the first three days. apple says it's customers love the new features including the retna display. >>> safe way based in pleasanton announced it is going to buy back more shares. the grocery store says it will buy back $3 million. safe way has been buying back its shares since last september. the company operates some 1,600 stores in the u.s. and canada. >>> on wall street, the dow finished the day up 6-1/2 points. the nasdaq gained 23. the two indexes rose more than 2% last week. >>> the federal reserve plans to levee fines on eight more large banks for improper foreclosures. those banks include ever bank, goldman sach, met life, one west, sun trust and u.s. bancorp. there is no word on the size of the fine. last month the nations five biggest lenders agreed to a settlement. bank of america and four other lenders also agreed to payments. >>> firefighters sa