insurance salesman from poughkeepsie. that was a very warm response to him. let's begin tonight with last night's primary result out of florida, where mitt romney decisively thumped newt gingrich by 14 percentage points. now, i can easily break that vote down for you demographically, geographically, give you a sense from all the different interest groups of how bad a night newt gingrich had. but perhaps a more succinct and entertaining way to exemplify the magnitude of this defeat, imagine this skateboarder is newt gingrich and he has some momentum out of south carolina-- oh! oh, my god! oh! ( laughter ) ( applause ) ( laughter ) what-- the results for newt gingrich in florida are similar to the hardest you could ever be hit in your balls. do you see what i'm saying? but in the end, the victory and a set of still-function, cuevos, was romney's and socelebrate romney unveiled the new general election romney. always exciting to see a new romney. i wonder what this ron will be like. >> i want you to remember when our white house reflected the best of who we are,

i kind of caught it after a while, because i have to go back to the post office in poughkeepsie and see some of those folks. i think it's a quality that's wondrous and one that's endeared dick wesley to us, the kind of judging that we appreciate and i think the public does, as well. so fast forward, many years later, judge wesley is on the second circuit and writing a decision talking about ex-party merriman and milligan. and we thought what a great addition to this program to have dick wesley talk about that. so with that, here he is, judge richard wesley. [ applause ] >> my presence here tonight is the result of a conversation that i had with albert about four months ago when he was telling me about coming and talking about lincoln and i got all excited about it, because i think most of us who end up judging become somewhat interested in history, because we're always taken into the historic context of the cases or the cases that we look to for guidance. so i got to immediately said to al, that's an interesting thing, because when i was involved with padilla versus rumsfeld, argued in

because i have to go back to a post office in poughkeepsie and see some of those folks. i think it's a quality that is wonderous and endeared dick wesly to us. it's the kind of judging we do appreciate and i think the public does, as well. so fast forward many years later, judge wesly's now in the second circuit and he's writing a decision that involves one of the very subjects we're dealing with here tonight and he writes a decision talking about ex-party merriman and the other milligan. what a great addition to have dick wesly talk about ex-party merriman and milligan. so with that, here he is, judge richard wesley. [ applause ] >> my presence here tonight is the result of a conversation that i had with albert about four months ago when he was talking about lincoln and i got all excited about it because i think most of us who end up judging become somewhat interested in history because we're always taken into the historic context of the cases where the cases that we look to for guidance. so i got this immediately said to al, i said, al, that's an interesting thing beca

he went into poughkeepsie and crashed out all the windows. >> unimaginable damaged. -- he went into kfcndows. >> the driver of the bmw lost control while speeding down martin luther king jr. highway in landover, maryland. the vehicle plowed into a car parked at this restaurant. >> it had to be doing 100 miles an hour. >> at least two adults were taken to a hospital with non- life threatening injuries. police say that a third person possibly the driver or passenger in the bmw, was ejected and killed. witness is tell us the victims seemed to be young. >> i just cannot explain it. >> abc 7 news, jummy olabanji. >> a senior airmen from prince george's county is dead after a plane crash in africa. the pentagon said 26-year old julian scholten and three other airmen died on saturday in djibouti after their aivehicle was involved in an accident. there were based in florida. he is 26 and is from upper marlborough. >> former redskins defensive tackle albert haynesworth is expected to appear in the d.c. courtroom today. scheduled to be in court for a review hearing on his sentencing agreement. he

charter company by first flying ibm executives between washington and the company's main plant in poughkeepsie then, colgan got a big break when, in the late '70s, the government deregulated the airline industry. deregulation brought increased competition and lower airfares. it also brought a new operating model called the hub and spoke. the major airlines created central hubs in big cities and turned to small regionals, or commuters, to feed their networks. >> so, they created these mechanisms where, "okay, we'll buy," you know, "50-seat airplanes for you. you'll set up or expand an existing company, and we'll make it look like that it's actually our airline. you buy the ticket from us, but," you know, "you're really flying on this other carrier." >> o'brien: the new model of contract flying was called a code-share. the regional airline carried the same ticketing code and colors as the major. and under most contracts, the regionals were paid a set profit on each flight they completed, regardless of how many passengers they carried. >> so, there is a margin there of profit, but if you can hold

new york city, rain in new york and most of long island, but snowing in bridgeport, hartford, poughkeepsie and newburg. warmer air will work its way in but it will be windy as well. a lot of energy with it from the canadian border down to parts of georgia. snowfall totals, four to seven across parts of upstate new york. the severe threat again today across parts of the southeast. this is after the report-breaking warm temperatures we saw yesterday across the area. into the 80s in some spots in georgia. 76 in atlanta. everybody coming out of the woodwork to enjoy an indian summer here. >> here's something else you will never hear, manitoba mudslide. it will never happen. >> no pretty flat. >> i just made it up. >>> it's 13 minutes past the hour here. a judge tosses a case of a man accused of killing his wife on a scuba diving trip in australia. that happened ten days after they were married. he pled guilty in australia and served time in australia. now he's back here. why is the case getting tossed out here? >>> and was there ever a tabloid story. john edwards and a sex tape with a mystery