things are getting closer, rick san santorum in the lead, beating out many mitt by four points, withinargin of error. a few days ago, santorum held a 7 point lead. they are holding events in ohio, santorum trying to convince republicans he is the clear choice. >> the conservative across the board, at a time when your country is in peril of losing foundation and freedom is the only way we are going to win the election. >> rick hoping this is familiar territory for him, ohio of course right next door to pennsylvania, he was a u.s. senator from pennsylvania for 12 years before he lost the bid for reelection six years ago. he is hoping this will help him turn around his fortunes and pick up a win he wants. >> ten states in play on tuesday. one state voting tomorrow. what can we expect in washington? any surprises? >> reporter: you can't forget washington, they have 40 delegates, there are a caucus system. ron paul is hoping to use to it his advantage, pick up his first win. he is holding three campaign events in washington today, also gone up with the campaign ad blasting three opponents.

they said, quote, rick san santorum is like a football team celebrate ago field goal when they are losing by seven touchdowns with less than a minute left in the game. his attempts to distract from the listless campaign and the conservative back lash caused by the suggestion that keeping president obama would be better than electing a republican or becoming sadder and more pathetic by the day." what do you have to say to that? sadder and more pathetic. >> you know, that's just a desperate campaign that has no message. i've said from the very beginning, i've said in every interview i've ever been asked. i'm going to support whoever the republican nominee is. i'm running this campaign because i think barack obama's re-election would be the end of freedom as we know it here in america. we're going to support whoever it is. but we want someone who can win. someone who can go up against barack obama and actually draw contrast on the big issues of the day like health care and on energy. governor romney has just been dead wrong on those issues for years and years and years. it would be probably

that is rick san santorum in a nutshell. what he was in 1998 and 2000. >> how about consistent within the year. is that asking too much? let's go to some other interesting developments. i do consider this the number one issue that i will ring like a bell here. let's look at this one. eric, apparently one of the real touch stones of the conservative movement on his site, red state, wrote this morning quote rick santorum will probably win louisiana. conservatives rally to santorum and continue protesting romney as nominee. but it will not be enough. romney will do well in new england and remaining mid-atlantic states and do well out west winning california. he will be the nominee. conservatives may not like mitt romney but do not want a fractured party too divided to beat barack obama. there will be no white night, no dark horse, no brokered convention. we have our nominee. pretty profound. >> we knew this three weeks ago. the question always was, could somehow, because you knew it wouldn't be santorum. what was jeb bush waiti

. >> reporter: rick san santorum is defending comments he made in illinois. >> we need a candidate who is going to get up and fight for freedom and make that the central theme. i don't care what the unemployment rate is. it doesn't matter to me. >> the former senator says he would like a do over and try to explain what he meant. >> of course i care about the unemployment rate. i want it to go down but i am saying my candidacy doesn't hinge on, that our candy days candidacy is about something that strand transcends that, freedom. >> mitt romney tried to capitalize on it. >> one of them said he doesn't care about the unemployment rate. i do care. it does bother me. i want to get people back to work. >> the latest poll shows romney with a 14 point lead over santorum heading into today's illinois primary and romney is showing confidence in a win. >> together we are going to get this job done. i am going to get the nomination, we are going to defeat barack obama and take back this great country. >> romney has an advantage even before the polls open, santorum didn't file the necessary paperw

rick santorum is hoping for a rebound. in a new me gel land strategies poll they have him leading mitt romney by 13 points in louisiana. that's ahead rick sanrum still up. he ever. >> we got states like texas. you know, texas, california, pennsylvania, a lot of big states left. >> shepard: there are. he was in one of them today, texas. that primary is set for the end of may. campaign carl cammeron is in new orleans tonight. rick santorum claims he is in this thing for the long haul, carl. >> and that's part of the reason for being in texas to signal that even though he is favored here in louisiana and the vote comes up on saturday, he is -- he needs to stay in the race and needs to come back a long distance and it will take states that vote well down the campaign trail from now. that said, santorum is facing renewed pressure from mitt romney. the latest allegation if the form of a memo from the romney campaign's political director saying in essence it's almost impossible, very steep hill for rick santorum to come back now the memo states like both jeb bush and jim demint the south carolina senator and tea party leader who said today that he

>> that's anti-santorum money wherever romney goes he finds either newt beginninggingrich or rick san santorumdepend inging upon teahe state, depending upon teahe chron chronology of theis election and he spends like crazy through his unpack. >> am i under -- his super p ac. >> are there motherre anti-santorum ad sleets than every other kind of add comebined. >> that is correct schulte. it makes you understand in a big picture. we look at good where newt beginninggingrich is leading the pchlt asmta ck. ashe is a native sun. all feof thawt anti-santorum money going to newt beginninggingrich. all of the romney money, all fe of the unpack money going did he have did he have unpack did he have did he have super a c p ac in his own super pack trying to boost him up cannot restore. >> even in his home state rchlt ob asmto corp is out spending him with negative beginninggingrich ad sleets. there is no way romney will win georgia. but r asmto bchltb asmto corp has benen fireing laysser beam ss and missile ss anyway. >> every delegate even in a state like georgia which takes delegates and splits them u

san francisco. >>> rick santorum will be in the bay area and he is scheduled to give what they are calling a major jelly belly speech. that may seem like an on location but it is a major support for causes. later in the evening rick santorum is attending another fundraiser in alamo. >>> mitt romney is picking up more high profile endorsements. bush will endorse mitt romney as they presidential nominee. he will meet for a photo option and mitt romney has met last night. he is being mentioned as possible candidate. >>> and he is ending tax breaks for oil companies. the president was scheduled a speech. he will call on them to for tax penalty tis to repeal oil tax subsidies. >>> time now 4:38 a bomb scare turned out to be a false alarm. emergency crews were called out just after 8:00 last night when a suspicious bomb. >>> let's go to sal to check in on traffic, how is the commute, it is early, sal? >> not too bad, pam, as a matter of fact we are doing well on most bay area commutes and that commute looks good getting to the bay bridge toll plaza westbound there are no problems and no problems on the

wonderful and talented robert yun who does the math for us. 404 delegates for mitt romney. 165 for rick san santorumich and 66 for ron paul. mitt romney telling supporters, though, i am so into that math. have a listen. >> tonight we're doing some counting. we're counting up the delegates for the convention. it looks good. we're counting down the days until november, and that looks even pbetter. >> how did he get into good at the man smiling at the mike. catholics, catholics really helped mitt romney squeak by in ohio. 44% of the catholics chose mitt romney. only 31% chose the catholic, rick santorum. our political editor paul steinhauser is in columbus, ohio, live for us this morning. it ain't the first time i heard that story, that the catholic didn't go for the catholic. was that a surprise to you? >> you know our cnn poll from yesterday -- from two days ago indicated it could happen. there it goes, it happened. it's like deja vu all over again. michigan, a squeaker for mitt romney, but a win is a win. the latest vote totals, close, a little over 10,000 votes separating romney in santorum. how di

. >> my guess is if you sat down with dinner the person you're nodding with most is rick san santor santorum. is that a misreading? >> i like rick santorum a lot and i like mitt romney and newt gingrich and ron paul. >> who do you most agree with? >> i think my opinions were fairly forthright throughout the debate and i felt i was the perfect candidate for america. but that didn't happen. and so, really, quite honestly, whichever candidate it is, i'll be happy to back. there are some issues that we are more alike on others with various candidates. i'm very strongly aligned with ron paul coming to the federal reserve and the economy. so i'm closely aligned with the candidates on different issues. >> disappointing there are no women in the final four, i think. >> i wish there was. i absolutely do. but i think that it was very important. our party fielded a woman and fielded an african-american as serious presidential candidates. i was the first republican woman ever to win the iowa straw poll. that had never happened before and i made some very important distinct contributions to this race. wh

mitt romney, rick santorum. >> well, san form has more to lose. romney loses illinois, it's clear how he can come back. if santorum loses, i think it puts him in a tough position. he'll have lost another big state and a state where he had a chance to have effectively that one-on-one matchup that everybody said he wanted with gingrich fading so thoroughly. >> haven't we come to the point, though, mark where we've learned from florida and from other states that's really no such thing as a make or break state anymore, that is to say, rick santorum can carry on with the mitt romney will never get to the 1144 threshold of delegates as long as rin rik santorum has money behind him had, can he continue to march on despite losses? >> he can, but if romney has a big win in illinois can actually start to convince people that in fact he can get to the majority of delegates. and so that would put him in a stronger position and i think it also will be the case that people realize, again, if romney has a big win in illinois, that santorum can't get there. once y

obama knows he'll beat rick santorum. san form says he's the principled conservative. that's not how he voted. here are his own words on voting to planned parenthood. >> while i have paernl objection to it, that i don't support it, i voted for bills that included it. >> 20 years in washington changed santorum's principles. restore our future is the responsible for the content of this message. >> the latest radio ad beginning rich, here is the latest from team gingrich. >> alabama, look, they keep trying to shove a trial lawyer from pennsylvania and a liberal governor from massachusetts down our throats. wet don't like it when someone acts one way in boston and another in birmingham. we aren't buying what they're selling. we don't get what they keep telling us. what they don't get is us. we want to beat barack obama. we want america back, strong and sane. we want it drilled here, now. we don't apologize to terrorists and we're tired of playing games. we need a president with backbone. america needs newt gingrich to beat barack obama. on tuesday, make the media eat their

san jose. >> mark, thank you. rick santorum is make ing his way through the bay area. we'll have the very latest on that tonight at the 10:00 news. thank you for trusting ktvu.

rick santorum wants to hit after this pretty hard today. we'll see what specifics he brings out. >> all right. ron mott in san antonio with the santorum campaign. thanks very much, sir. >> reporter: you bet. >>> now to mounting outrage over trayvon martin, the murder ed florida teen. the step that could lead to the chief's ousz stter. now a no confidence vote. joining amative rally, trayvon's parents. a rally in new york city last night. >> i just want new york to know that we're not going to stop until we get justice for trayvon. >> our son is your son. stand up for justice and stand up for what's right. this is not about black and white. this is about right and wrong things. >> nbc's ron allen is in sanford, florida, and, ron, in one of the more striking things over the last few days is how little we have heard from george zimmerman. what's going on on that front? >> reporter: good question, chuck. we've not heard from him, neighbors that we talked to say they asked him to move out of the townhouse where he lives. we don't know if he works. look forge family, trying to find him. he's basically disappeared a

. >>> rick santorum told a crowd in san juan yesterday if they want puerto rico to become a state, they nee make english their main language. on fox news, romney was asked about criticism that he doesn't connect. >> people ask you about football, you talk about how you know the nfl owners. they ask you about nascar, you talk about knowing racing owners. you talk about ann's two cad x cadilla cadillacs. people say, he's so rich, he can't relate. >> i've made a lot of money. i've been very successful. i'm not going to apologize for that. >>> meantime, newt gingrich says he's staying in the race. he called his effects the politics of big ideas. saying the media can't cover it. >>> a texas man is charged with murder this morning after opening fire outside a crowded courthouse. police say he was on trial at the courthouse. we have a report from texas. >> i was working at the computer when they started running, telling us to run and go out the back. >> reporter: police say granger shot four people, one of them fatally, a 79-year-old innocent bystander. >> he was on trial for aggravated sexual

he won with 577 votes compared to a couple of hundred votes apprehend for rick san form -- votes behind for rick santorumto these contests? >> i think you can read two things. the yin and the yang of this campaign. one is kansas tells you that that socially conservative, maybe rural republican voters are just not that warm to romney. and he's really having a problem winning them over. but the other result, it's just that slow slog of delegates. and the hardening cement of the delegate race if you will. as i say, if he's polling ahead of the other two candidates in mississippi, if he can hang on to that, and come out of tuesday with a few delegates, then i think he continues to say that it's inevitable. >> mitt romney campaigning, what he is calling his unofficial southern strategy in alabama and mississippi. here's one event that received a lot of attention with the former republican governor of massachusetts, born in michigan. let's watch. >> this guy, i see every day, time after time after time, and this is a guy from mississippi. and his name is garrett jackson. come over here, garrett. four years at

rick santorum and mitt romney are battling it out. >> we will be the ceo of the economy. >> why rick santorum starts out the day already behind... >> life in sanco where the mayor is set to make addition. >>> plus the search continues for a missing teen, where investigators are focusing next. >>> a look at san rafael, and also up in contra coster county stay tuned for more news weather and traffic. . >>> good morning, i am pam cook, we both have our yellow on, how is the first day of spring? >> i am all in gray. first day of spring, that is how we are starting out. it fits the mood for me, maybe a few printing kills, right now we remain dry. we may squeeze out of those clouds, temperatures will be on the cool side but not too bad slightly warmer than yesterday. we do expect some of that rain to arrive coming up in just a few minutes. commute across is looking good at this hour, at the bay bridge toll plaza, this is across the span, lights are glittering, pleasant commute, let had back to the desk. mayor ed lee shows whether he plans to launch a move to take sheriff ross mirkarimi out of office. >> reporter: right after the meeting the sheriff

it's rick santorum in san antonio, he did this. watch these guys in action on this. >> you win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who is just going to be a little different than the person in there. if they're going to be a little different we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk that what may be the etch-a-sketch candidate for the future. >> you have the ricive comment there. ann romney, they're bringing her in. here is how she responds on cnn last night, also tried to defend the remark of her husband, let's watch her attempt. >> this is exactly what happens in a campaign where you get these distractions and he was talking about how we're going to change focus and change, you know, what we're going to do, the organizational sense of changing, not mitt changing positions. >> howard, that's not what he said. that wasn't the answer he said. she's just flipping it. >> at first -- >> by the way those are her talking points. >> talking points. the one mitigati

. >>> santorum victory. rick san m wins the lisiana primary solidifying his support in the deep south. his campaign has a renewed spark, despite trailing mitt romney in the delegate count. we'll look at what this means for the gop nomination. >>> and the shooter's side. george zimmerman. the man at the center of killing a teen, we'll hear from his friend and zimmerman's legal adviser on his version of events. on this sunday, march 25th, events. on this sunday, march 25th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a sunday. i'm lester holt. >> i'm jenna wolfe and we're still talking about the fallout on the trayvon martin shooting. >> tomorrow marks the one month since the shooting and we heard from his parents and supporters in their views on what happened that night but we haven't heard much from the shooter, george zimmerman, until now. >>> plus an exclusive interview from a woman who witnessed some of that night's events. >>> then we'll dip into politics.

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rick santorum was in the area for the alamo, here is more on the visit. you can see for me, there is a private residents hosting a fundraiser for rick san tore yum. he was greeted pie hundreds of his supporters. rick santorum also compared him to wrong handheld reagan. i was out there leading the charge while gore 0 mitt romney was continuing his -- while governor mitt romney was contributing checks. and he is a strong pro choice candidate. with the president of the -- whispering about russia, about what issue, interestingly enough national interest defense, star wars, and yes in alamo, kr o n4 news. >>> and president barack obama's wife will be at the first care center and despite the strong words from president barack obama yesterday a bill is in the way to help and has hit a roadblock in the senate. a vote would have cleared the way for the senate to act on the measure and it did not get the necessary two-thirds majority. he is ending the industry. >> the building industry is doing just fine, with record rising profits and production, i am not worried about the big oil companies. >> the matter has stalled and the president has arc good, they ar

shows that president obama is holding a double digit lead over both mitt romney and rick san tore rum in hype thet -- santorum. if the general election were held today, 54% of registered voters say that they would back president obama. in a romney/obama match-up. that is compared to 43% support supporting romney. president obama would have 55% support to santorum's 42%. >>> well, it just keeps getting bigger. the largest ever mega mill johns jackpot is -- millions jackpot is up to 540 million dollars. $540 million. grant lodes is here with more on all of this excitement surrounding the lotto. >> we actually have a live picture from cavanaugh liquors and there's people all around the store. they are out the door, down the street and wrapped around the corner. you can see there as our camera pans out just how many people are there. this is the place to be if you want to win the california lottery. considers this luckiest store in the whole state. throughout the years, four winning tickets have been sold right there at cavanaugh liquor stores. so, you know why the people are there. they keep buying tickets. the

san juan. >> reporter: john, rick santorum created this controversy all on his own when he told a puerto rico newspaper that he this it should be a requirement for puerto rico to adopt english as a main language as a condition for statehood. this is a big issue on the island because puerto ricos may be going to the polls this fall to decide whether or not they would like to become a u.s. states. the reaction of santorum's comments were almost instant. one of his delegates announced he was withdrawing his support for the form pennsylvania senator in light of these comments. when we had a chance to camp up with rick santorum earlier today he did not back down from these comments, although he did say he would like to see english and spanish be the main languages for this island. the romney campaign is already drawing a distinction on this. mitt romney released a statement saying he would not insist on puerto rico adopting english as a condition for statehood. he's going to be here on the island over the next couple of days campaigning for the 20 delegates that are up for grabs on sunday. just go

san jose. thanks. >> on to the republican presidential race. mitt romney and rick santorum are focusing on alabama and mississippi today. both states will hold their primaries tomorrow. today, romney talked about eating cat fish and hunting as he stopped in support of people in alabama. santorum was in mississippi and he spoke to the gulf coast energy summit in biloxi. >> we've seen that the president has a two-letter energy policy. no. and we need a policy that says -- that doesn't say no to the development of energy. >> reporter: the latest cbs news/new york times polls shows santorum leading nationally with 34% of primary voters. compared to 30% for romney. but santorum's lead is within the margin of error. so hard to tell statistically who is in front. >> it is tight. >>> you have to forgive st. mary's students if they don't get a ton of work done this friday because the basketball team is dancing this weekend. off to the ncaa basketball tournament. they knew they had a bid but it is a threat of losing it on selection sunday. they won their championship last week with a

mitt romney was in san juan for a rally before heading to illinois ahead of tuesday's primary there. meanwhile rick santorum was in missouri where a caucus was held but the caucus results won't be release ed until the state convention. >>> a major milestone tonight for maryland senator barbaramy cull s mikulski. the democrat was elected to the u.s. house of representatives in 197 f and moved to the u.s. senate in 1986. she still has more than four years left on her current term. senator mikulski will be honored by her colleagues on the u.s. senate floor in wednesday. >>> coming up a real life drama. masked men rob an entire movie theater in arlington. >>> plus we'll tell you where a business is trying to fill 900 jobs locally. and the d.c. bar where president [ male announcer ] for making cupcakes and deposits at the same time. for paying your friend back for lunch from your tablet. for 26 paydays triggered with a single tap. for checking your line, then checking your portfolio. for making atms and branches appear out of thin air. simple to use websites, tools, and apps. for making your financial life a lit

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rick santorum 55% to 28%. newt gingrich is third followed by ron paul. >>> a woman from san jose who cares for hundreds of exotic birds at her home is facing a show down tonight with city hall. only on 2, robert handa live in san jose with a look inside the hobby that city hall is calling a business. robert. >> reporter: well we are at the house and inside a room where many of the exotic birds are kept and where hundreds have lived for the past decade. now complaints have led that woman into a battle with city hall. linda stewart has names for the exotic birds that fill her home and yard. there are hundreds of colorful birds. and she says their health proves of how well she cares for the birds. >> i have a girl over there, she's 30 years old. if i wasn't doing it right i don't think she would still be with us. >> reporter: but agencies don't agree. a bird rescue group called the living conditions filthy, overcrowded and noisy. stewart says she's had up to 400 birds here and with family support it's not too many. >> if you have enough people coming in and help you with the taking care of everything, absolutely no

rick santorum the projected winner in tennessee with 77% and the projected winner in oklahoma with 30% and san torpum is the winner of the north dakota caucuses with 40%. not surprisingly, newt gingrich took his home state of georgia with 47%. his first win since south carolina. just this morning, nbc news has called mitt romney the proneljed winner in alaska. let's get more on super tuesday and the race in ohio. nbc's tracie potts joins us from the state capital, columbus. good morning to you. >> reporter: lynn, good morning. take ago look at the numbers you just showed us, it's pretty clear that mitt romney is beginning to solidify his lead among his republican challengers. he has now got three times as many delegates it appears as his closest competitor and, like he did a week ago in michigan, he has proven he can win a tight race. it appears mitt romney eked out a very narrow victory over rick santorum in ohio, as little as one percentage point. >> i'm not going to let you down. i'm going to get this nom yain n nomination. >> reporter: romney realizes it's about delegates and it's names ga

san mateo. this was around 12:30 pm on southbound 101 just south of kabul avenue. all of the southbound lanes were closed for about two hours. >>mark: rick santorumhe deep south winning both primaries in alabama and mississippi. romney finishing third behind santorum in degree at. her romney did edge out both candidates in hawaii. >> in both states the conservative candidates got nearly 70 percent of the vote. if you are the front runner, if you keep coming in third, you are not much of a front runner. >>mark: here is a look at the latest delegate count. >>darya: is the time is 5:23 a.m., we are fashion for more than a couple of minutes. here is a live look at storm tracker 4. >>mark: we're continuing to track the storms around the bay. here is a live look from 880, went in the rain coming down here brough >>darya: aha one of the speed freak killers has sent out a third letter detailing the looking ha of the other victim. shermantine sent a letter to the sacramento television station and claims his accomplice bury a body behind his family's orchard and the town of linden. so far, deputies have unearthed more than 1000 on fragments of other victim

rick santorum vows he will fight to the end. >> the convention will nominate a conservative, not the mad rat candidate from massachusetts. >> reporter: san tom claims romney is outspending him 10- 1 ahead of the primary in illinois. >> mitt romney is systematically run a negative campaign, no positive vision for this country, and spends billionaire dollars to tear down every opponent in his path. >> reporter: the battle shaped up as a head to head fight between romney and santorum. ron paul and newt gingrich left the state to the front runners to focus on contests down the road. >>> race for the republican presidential nomination is coming here to maryland. mitt romney will be here for a series of events on wednesday. he will attend a private lunch at the naval academy and making his way to a town hall in arbutus and rally in frederick. 37 delegates are up for grabs in the primary. despite concerns about the drawnout republican primary, the chair says the excitement is good for the party. >>> funeral arrangements made for a towson high school valedictorian killed while studying abroad. she studied at boston college and moved to research

san francisco. today illinois is at the center for the battle of the republican nomination for president. mitt romney and rick santorum are campaigning hard there. it rambled kingston tell us that rick santorum is not backing down. >> mitt romney greeted voters in illinois explaining why he should win the state's gop primary >> i will get us the energy out of the ground we need so, we can keep the money that being spent buying energy, keep it here and put people to work >> he rolls into the new contest with new momentum with overwhelming victory in pr over the weekend >> all of the delegates in that contest are hours of that is good news >> he is holding on to all delegates been all his rivals combined >> his campaign has stepped up calls for other republican to step aside but his chief rival the house that he will fight until the end >> it will nominate a conservative, not the establishment moderate from massachusetts >> rick santorum claims mitt romney is outstanding in 10-1 each. it is >> is mitt romney who systematically has run a negative campaign and has had no positive vision for the country and spends billions

rick santorum from the steps of the supreme court blasted the frontrunner for the republican presidential nomination for campaigning in san diego rather than protesting the supreme court although romney says he would fight to repeal president obama's new law. >> he may say he wants to repeal obamacare but heel not have the mandates during the campaign to be able to win the art not just here in congress but across the country. >>shepard: health care is a tough issue for romney who passed a controversial law in massachusetts which is seen as a forerunner to obamacare. and now like from washington, and rick santorum is not letting this moment slide by, carl. >>carl: a good moment and a good weekend, winning the louisiana primary by a 2-1 margin over romney and spent last week talking about the upcoming anniversary of obamacare, the two year anniversary that just happened and the supreme court arguments here in washington. so, rick santorum by going to the steps of the supreme court and hammering romney he keeps that rhetoric going in hopes of trying to make romney look like an unfortunate frontrunner who should not be the no

rick san torn. >> i think it's important that gingrich's drops out it's time for the former speaker to leave. >> santorum could still walk away with an estimated 15-20 delegates. . >> . >> it's no surprise we have been talking about all evening but now it's official with more than 86 percent of the precincts reporting its lowest turnout for a presidential primary after. right now with just a small number of precincts to report they are projecting a 22-23 percent voter turnout. this is something you've been talking about throughout the day. we talk about bad weather but maybe the good weather is what kept some people away. we're joined now by cook county clerk. everything went relatively well as far as you couwork concerned. . >> things one ferry smoothly. we were concerned because there were some new precinct bounce but we did mail to everybody. some people might have been inconvenienced overall was fine. . >> there have been a few races that of them under the rider that i've been very interesting and based on the number crunching they you have done for state representative that is going to be awful clos