romney. >> if any of the three offous lose our home state, santorum loses pennsylvania, romney loses georgia. you have a very, very bad week in presidency. >> reporter: he says he was attacking the president's faith. >> trac, yerey pots. thank you. >> sus suspicions that the country is skretly launching an ie atomic bomb. >> iran remains defiant in the face of international pressure. the oil industry announced it was cutting off oil supplies to britain and france after the european union imposed saxs. there are a few signs that iran intends to back down from its nuclear path. weste western diplomats and at an underground city but lacks some of the key e kwinment. they entered the med titerranea by the suz canal. this is only the second time this happened since 19d 79. at the same time, the foreign minister resumed quickly talks with world powers after those talks collapsed a year ago. >> and that was ali aruzi in teheran. >>> a shoot out at a drive through market in cincinnati. surveillance video shows two armed men walking up to the clerk, emptying the register and then opening fire. he tol

under pressure to win in michigan, like wise gingrich says losing in georgia could be politically fatal. >> santorum loses pennsylvania, romney loses michigan i lose georgia you have a weakened candidacy. >> one candidate not dropping out is ron paul despite low poll numbers has the money and supporters to keep going. >> the system can't continue that is what american people have discovered we cannot keep borrowing spending printing money. >> voting continues a week from tuesday when arizona and michigan both hold their primaries. >>> now the four gop candidates who will debate in mesa arizona on wednesday night, and that debate is already taking on a larger importance brian it is the only one this month in the last one before ten states will go to the polls on super tuesday march 6th. >>> hundreds of ron paul supporters rallied in the national mall today including many of the nations veterans their message get the republican party to listen to troops ahead of the presidential election a vote for ron paul is a vote against the war. >> looking ahead, arizona and michigan hold their primaries next tuesday washington state holds

if any of the three of us lose our home state, if santorum loses pennsylvania, romney loses michigan or i lose georgia, you have a very, very bad candidacy. if romney cannot win in michigan t republican party needs to go back to the drawing board and convince somebody else to get into this race. but influential leaders say that ship has already sailed. >> do you think it's possible? and even advisable that someone else should get into the race on the republy can side? >> first of all, it's february. these things have a way of taking time. i assume this will drag out well into april. a group of u.n. nuclear experts arrived in teheran. the standoff has been going on for months, of course. only now, the economic imply kagss are beginning to show themselves. iran says it has stopped now, oil shipments to the united kingdom and france. they're above the nations set to impose a boycott this summer. israel says those sanctions not enough to stop iran's nuclear ambitions. israel insisting the nuclear strike may be the only effective option. >> we are of the opinion that this iranian regime is a rational actor

>> if any of the three of us lose our home state, if santorum loses pennsylvania, romney loses michigan or i lose georgia, you have a very, very bad week in candidacy. >> reporter: while santorum is surging in the poll, john mccain who won back in 2008 standing behind mitt romney. the 2012 gop nomination still up for grabs. brian mooar, nbc news, washington. >>> international nuclear weapons inspectors are in iran this morning to discuss suspicions that the country is secretly working to build an atomic bomb. the u.s. is calling on israel not to launch an attack on iran's nuclear facilities. we have more from teheran. >> reporter: iran remains defiant in the face of international pressure. the oil ministry announced it was cutting off oil supplies to britain and france after the european union imposed sanctions on iran's fuel exports. there are few signs that iran intends to back down from its nuclear power. western disemployee mats say iran is moving to expand its production of enriched uranium in the under grournd city near the hole city of guam but lacks some equipment. meanwhile its navy sent two war

georgia, citing the importance of home field advantage. >> if any of the three of us loses our home state, if santorum loses pennsylvania, romney loses michigan or i lose georgia, you have, i think, i very, very badly weakened candidacy for any one of the three of us. >> reporter: this could be a crucial week in the campaign. there is a debate scheduled for wednesday in arizona. it's the only debate between now and super tuesday, lester. >> all right, ron, thank you. >>> there's late word tonight of a deadly avalanche at a washington state ski resort. local authorities say three people were killed, several more were missing in the snow, but they have since been found. it happened at the stevens pass ski area, which is located about 90 miles east of seattle. >>> after soaking much of the southern u.s. tonight, a large winter storm has churned north into much colder territory, dumping snow across several states. weather channel meteorologist mike seidel joins us now from southern virginia. mike, how's it look out there? >> reporter: well, it's a snowy night here in southwest virginia, lester. they had more snow in an hour this morning than they

georgia, citing the importance of home field advantage. >> if any of the three of us lose our home state, if santorum loses pennsylvania, romney loses michigan or i lose georgia, you have, i think, a very, very badly weakened candidacy for any one of the three of us. >> reporter: this week could be crucial in the campaign. there is a debate scheduled for wednesday night in arizona. it's the only debate between now and super tuesday on march 6th, lester. >> all right, ron, thanks. we want to bring in cnbc's john harwin. let's talk about this home state advantage or maybe disadvantage. depending how it all slices down. romney finds himself behind in his home state in michigan. how big a development is that if he can't pull off michigan? >> reporter: lester, this is fascinating. we're about to find out in eight days whether or not mitt romney can use superior resources and negative ads to stop rick santorum's surge as he stopped newt gingrich's earlier. if he can't do that in his native state, we'll know that he is a badly weakened candidate and rick santorum has a real shot at this republican nomination. >> we heard rick santorum and a questio

romney unable to command the votes so far in his home state. newt gingrich sees opportunity. >> if any of the three of us lose our home state -- if santorum loses pennsylvania, romney loses michigan, or i lose georgia -- you have, i think, a very, very badly weakened candidacy. >> the president's campaign reacted to santorum saying that the president's faith was attacked in what's become a bitter republican race. tracie potts, wbal-tv 11 news. >> 6:07. 35 degrees on tv hill. coming up, the bloomberg business report. >> a skiing incident in washington state turns deadly. >> a final farewell to singer whitney houston as she's taken to our final resting place. >> one of the largest craft shows in the entire country and happening this weekend in baltimore. >> good morning. we're back with a live view from up skyteam 11. we have a temperature near 38 downtown. it is a quiet start to the day. we'll get to the forecast in just a minute. i'm preview at a craft show, one of the most prestigious craft shows in the entire country. it is happening in baltimore this weekend. i'm talking to one the artists. good to see you. this is incredible work. >> this is class using a technique. i begin with sheets of glass

>> if any of the three of us lose our home state, if santorum loses pennsylvania, romney loses michigan or i lose georgiaf the three of us. i was home campaigning to say to all of my friends back home georgia really matters you cannot take this for granted. >> shannon: that was newt gingrich on "fox news sunday" this morning. he said even if he loses gas it georgia it doesn't mean he is dropping out. he drove home governor mitt romney's ability to win in michigan where he is trailing santorum. santorum is also doing well in georgia where he is picking up speed with evangelical and tea party voters. as president obama's decision to shift the cost of contra septembecontraceptives settlede debate or reignited it? gentlemen, we thank you both for joining us today. i want to start with you, john. i want to make sure that we understand catholics for choice and your position. do you think the president has settled this or should go even farther? >> when the pilgrims first came to this country they were religious folks running away from other religious folks in europe trying to kill them. that is the reason we t

>> if any of the three of us lose our home state, if santorum loses pennsylvania, romney loses michigan or i lose georgia, you have a very badly weakened candidacy for any of the three of us. >> here we are getting closer. mitt romney if he loses michigan, what happens? >> that would be a huge loss for him, family history in michigan. he said himself i'm not going to lose michigan. that's setting expectations to a win. anything short of a win doesn't knock him out, too much money and contest for him to drop out after michigan, but this is a near death moment for him. he has to win michigan. >> i agree. i hate predictions, but -- >> except when you're right. >> which is most of the time. i really feel like this is setting the table for broker convention. i said this a couple of weeks. mitt romney has a lot of problems, santorum can't be the candidate with his views. >> but let's say romney loses michigan. then do you say to voters you're irrelevant because you like santorum, we don't think santorum can beat barack obama, what we're going to do, jeb bush, where are you? >> exactly. why not. >> he is not go

. >> if any of the three of us lose our homestate, santorum loses pennsylvania, romney loses michigan or i lose georgiave a very badly weakened candidate >>> >> reporter: and we have two weeks to find out if any of that comes true. melanie alnwick, fox 5 news. >>> iran is dealing a major blow to two of our nation's biggest allies cutting off oil shipments to both britain and france. it's seen as retaliation over sanctions imposed on tehran by the european union fearing that oil supplies will be choked off. >>> spring temperatures came early this year and so did spring gas prices. prices are expected to reach the $4 mark much sooner than expected. we're joined by john townsend with aaa mid-atlantic to talk about what this is all about. we're paying about 40 cents more per gallon than a year ago. what in the world is going on? >> well, the reason for that is what is going on in iran and cutting off shipments to france and great britain and all these prognostications about higher gas prices on the speculators are really running up the price, the chicken little effect, the sky is falling in and it's raisin

georgia? >> i think you would have a very -- if any of the three of us lose our home state, if santorum loses pennsylvania, romney loses michigan or i lose georgia you have a bad week in candidacy for any one of the three of us. i was home campaigning to say to all of my friends back home georgia really matters you cannot take this for granted. >> chris: willing to say if you lost georgia you would drop out? >> given the chaos of this race i don't want to say anything. i think it is important to carry your home state and also underlying impact if you don't. >> chris: you talk about the chaos of the race. some top republicans are saying if and we got to make it clear if romney loses his home state that they believe that they going to need a pull a new candidate in the race. they even talked about the possibility of former florida governor jeb bush. how would you feel about a late entry in march getting into this race? >> well, it it has happened before. i mean i remember in 1964 the establishment got so terrified of goldwater they recruited bill cranston the governor of pennsylvania at the last minute. jeb bush is

. >> for newt to say that the day a poll shows him only up by 2 on romney but if he loses georgia, it's done. the good news is coming from both polls and pauls. ron paul is going against mitt romney but they have this little bro-mans going. the two of them. and this is the ron paul ad in michigan. >> let's be serious? santorum voted to raise the debt ceiling live times. then supported the biggest entitlement since the 60s. not groovy. santorum voted for family tax dollars on people from egypt. >> that's a pretty good ad. ron paul has the best ads. >> yeah but it is helping romney. 36 -- 34% of republicans are in favor of mitt romney because he opposed the auto bailout. it worked. >> in michigan. >> yeah in michigan. and 27% said they are unlikely to vote for somebody who are opposed. >> right. remember santorum also opposed the bailout, but he is not well-known for that. >> that's exactly right. we have seen all of the money that has been raised. but i think the place we always go is to the super pac this year. and sheldon adelson seems to not be stopping giving money to newt gingrich.

. >> if santorum loses pennsylvania, romney loses michigan or i lose georgia, you have a badly weakenedandidacy. any one of the three. the home campaigning for the last two days and precisely to say to my friends back home, georgia matters, you cannot take this for granted. >> and he talks about santorum's atrocious voting record and he doesn't see how he could beat president obama in the fall. and he says he'll take his campaign to the convention in august if necessary. and the next primary tuesday, arizona and michigan. >> all eyes have been on those states. thank you. after a full day of funeral services yesterday. today the final resting place for pop icon whitney houston. earlier a hearse carried the casket to a cemetery in west field, new jersey. laid to rest next to her dad, john russell who died in 2003. quite different from the invitation only service yesterday, some tributes were the biggest names. and houston was found dead in a beverly hills hotel room. she was 48. the saga of the costa concordia got a little more intriguing if that's possible. more than a month has passed s

georgia? >> guest: if any of the three loses our home state. santorum loses pennsylvania and a lose georgia and mitt romneyichigan we have a wackened candidacy. i say to myiends georgia marries >> chris: are you willing to drop out. >> guest: i wouldn't say anything begin the chaos of the race. i think it is extraordinary important to carry your home state. and underlying impact if you don't. 92 you talk about the chaos of the race. t republicans are saying if. we have to make it clear? if romney loses his home state, that they believe that they are going to have to pull a new candidate can possibility of former jeb bush. how would you feel about a late entry in march? >> guest: it's happened before. in 1964, the establishment got terrified of goldwater they recruited the governor of pennsylvania. jeb bush is a great guy and a terrific candidate and there is a lot of good candidates. they are competent people. sure. can they get on the ballot. 92 they can in california,iers jers and. >> guest: texas is postponed. i have no problem with anybody on who runs. i do agree with what santorum said. temper myself

romney's difficulty winning voters in his own home state of michigan. here's newt gingrich. >> if any of the three of us loses our home state, santorum loses pennsylvania, romney loses michigan and i lose georgiaave a badly weakened candidacy. i was home campaigning the last two days precisely to say to all my friend back home, georgia really matters. we cannot take this for granted. >> gingrich also said that under president obama there's going to be less american oil production and higher gas prices. his comments come as "the new york times" reports republicans are preparing to use gas prices as a major campaign issue in the coming months. and candidate ron paul saying today, he's prepared to take his campaign all the way to the convention in august, if necessary. romney had no events or television appearances today. gregg? >> steve centanni live in washington. thanks. fox news is america's election headquarters. keep it here for more of newt gingrich's interview on "fox news sunday" tonight at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. >> right now, several new developments unfolding in iran. the country's revolutionary guard announcing two days of military exercises. this as international concerns mount over

romney's challenge in winning his home state of michigan. listen. >> if any of the three of us lose the home state, santorum loses pennsylvania, i love georgiaes michigan, you have a badly weakened candidacy. i was home campaigning the last two days, precisely saying to my friends back home, georgia matters. you cannot take it for granted. >> gingrich said under president obama there is going to be less american oil production and higher prices. the comment comes as the "new york times" reports republicans are preparing to use gas prices as a campaign issue in the coming months. also today, candidate ron paul was asked if he is prepared to take his campaign to the convention in august. >> yeah, because right now we don't know when the end is. may, june, july or august. so i have to assume that it will go in august because we're not going to lock it up in may, obviously. we have to wait and see. >> rick santorum questioned about his statement that president obama has different thighology. he explained he wasn't questioning his christian faith but was talking about environmental issues. >> i was talking about the radical environmentalists. thi

loses georgia? >> he also said if he would get out of the race if he loses georgia, he said, no. he clearly said it would be a weakened answer as it would be if romneytay in the race? >> look, we have seen this race go up and down. again, people have -- each candidate is going to have their scrutiny. and we've seen dramatic changes in the polls. i think gingrich has tremendous staying power. he's got bold solutions for the country to get the country working again. i think over time that message will get out. especially over energy. maybe this is filibustering. we need a dramatically better -- >> i can feel this getting into the filibustering. it's nice to have you. thanks. we appreciate your time. >>> still ahead this morning on "starting point," john glenn is going to join us live, 50 years after he became the first american to orbit the earth. >>> also, a new disney movie taking us to mars. we're going to talk to the man behind the movie which is called "john carter." also did "toy story" and "finding nemo." this is will's song again. one song. >>> welcome back. it was 50 years ago today that john glenn was the first american to orbit earth. >> th

>> if any of the three of us lose our home state, if santorum loses pennsylvania, romney loses michigan or i lose georgia, you have a very weakened candidacy for any of the three of us. i was home campaigning the last two days precisely to say to all my friends back home, georgia really matters. you cannot take this for granted. >> that's right. >> to me, the most important thing that's going to happen this week is a debate. there's going to be a debate on wednesday night. we haven't had one. i know you're saying probably goodie too shoes. for a while we were having three a week. it comes down to what happens wednesday night on that stage. will it really be now romney and santorum or will newt gingrich come back to the old newt gingrich that we saw earlier on in south carolina and will he win this debate and then put this whole race back up and running. nobody can guarantee what happens come thursday morning. >> there's a great item in "the wall street journal" over the weekend that did the numbers and it showed how, you know, in 2008, the republicans watched as the democrats became energized because the

frankly,for new to say that romney should drop out of the rays what should newt gingrich to if he loses in georgiaour best choice to defeat barack obama. he truly has the vision that we need. thank you so much. >> we are standing by to hear what jay carney has to say. he is coming to the briefing room so we will take you there. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. thank you for coming to the white house for the daily briefing. do you think these are new? [laughter] maybe. not this time. these could be old, they could be new. before i get started, i wanted to say something about two journalists who were killed yesterday in syria. last week, aboard air force one i said something about anthony shadid who died last week. these tragic deaths _ something that i think all of us in this room since we participated in this profession -- it is a reminder of the incredible risks that journalists take. in order to bring the truth about what is happening in a country like syria to those of us at

. >> reporter: while romney is under pressure to win in his birth state of michigan. likewise, newt gingrich says losing in georgia could be politically fatal. >> you have i think a very badly weakened candidacy. >> reporter: one candidate who will not be dropping out the ron paul. >> this system can't continue and that is what american people have discovered now. we cannot keep borrowing and printing and spending money. >> reporter: the voting continues tuesday when arizona and michigan both hold their primaries. tom fits gere haled, fox 5 news. >>> we still have plenty ahead. -- tom fitzgerald, fox 5 news. >> we still have plenty ahead. >>> a live look outside right there. wilson bridge, a couple of cars moving around. chilly start to the morning on the second day of the week. >> i'm sarah simmons. >> i'm wisdom martin. tucker barnes joins us with the weather. >> we need the seat warmers. >> you do. back to school, back to work for a lot of people today. >> that is true after that nice little holiday. we are off to a cold start. temperatures in the 20s for much of the area. >> i toont -- i couldn't believe how c

losing. now the romney campaign can move on to some of these big states where he'll be contesting on super tuesday, like ohio, tennessee, georgia. you may see santorum do very well in ohio, which is one of the biggest prizes. newt gingrich is concentrating on georgia. but at least mitt romney can now put michigan behind him and move forward. i'm bob schieffer, cbs news, in new york. >>> well, in a surprising move, long time republican senator olympia snow announced she will not seek reelection in maine. snow is abandoning her campaign for a fourth term because she is tired of the polarizing atmosphere in washington. now rg this is a setback for republican efforts to regain control of the senate. snow, a moderate was known as an independent voice while serving 33 years in congress. >>> now to severe weather in the plains states. a powerful storm is being blamed for a death in missouri and recovery efforts after an apparent tornado in kansas. reports have surfaced in central kansas but significant damage is reported in the small town of harveyville. that storm struck last night. at least nine people were injured. one man is in cr

romney's troubles are getting dean here. >> if newt ging witch were to lose in georgia next tuesday, i assume he would drop out of the race. those pro-newt gingrich supporters go? to santorum or ron paul? mitt romney? >> i don't make that sums, because i don't know what gets him out of the race. it's been a while since he's had a victory. there's lots of a2r5k9ive qualities, but ultimately i think thee go to the alternate tough to the romney candidate that is best positioned to take those votes. i agree with james, though, the road gets very steep, very narrow and expensive if you're going to take out mitt romney at this point. >> is it at all conception in your mind that newt gingrich could lose his home state nest tuesday? >> yeah, i've been seeing those polls numbers where he's there and the electorate is awfully conservative, but one thing about this process so far is that which you think is unconceivable becomes conceivable. the on thing to me would be the nominee, but besides predicting that, i'm going to back off here and see, because, you know, there's a lot of church people there. if they're thinking santorum has

and admits, while he served in georgia as a congressman for ten terms, he's not sure he'll pull off a victory. >> given this kind of a year, who knows? romney could lose michigan, santorum could lose pennsylvania. who knows what will happen. >> ron paul is trying to make his move for the nomination with strong showings in caucus states. he'll campaign in washington state today. >>> terrell, the next scheduled debate in georgia for march 1st has been canceled after romney and ron paul said they won't attend and santorum said he probably won't attend. terrell, so you know, we're in front of the capitol this morning. it's buried in fog this morning. >> can we take a quick look. she is there. just the weather there is a little rough. >> it's completely invisible. >> susan mcginnis in washington. have a good weekend. >> rick santorum is forced to ix explain comments. explain comments on an interview with msnbc. foster friess made light of the contraceptives. debate. >>> back in my day they used bayer aspirins. the gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly. >> rick santorum had this response to the statement. >> foster is a well-known jokest

romney will win area. if he loses michigan could it be a trip wire to waffles on the following tuesday? alaska, georgiao, north dakota, ohio, oklahoma, tennessee, he could lose all of those. >> if you think of the psychological effect of losing the three states last week, michigan, sorry, colorado, minnesota, and missouri. no delegates at stake, imagine what happens in the state like michigan which is romney's home court. he won there and is running as a native. his adds say i grew up here. i'm a detroiter. you lose on your home court to a challenger just coming off. that is bad. it resets the whole race. it starts over with santorum and romney in the same point. i think he should go along. he should go on a guy running against nothing against biography i'm a businessman and now in michigan, the ads say i grew up here. that is not it. he has to come up with an idea to rally behind opponent like reagan supply side economics. he has nothing of that sort. he gave a speech in detroit. four days before the election. it whats to be large. tax reform, entitle reform, new idea. or he is treading water. >> john

georgia, to oklahoma, to texas. >> he needs to live that long. if he loses colorado which romney won four years ago and he loses minnesota which romeny's four years ago and if he loses the straw poll which is beauty contest in missouri. >> sean: he is not the ballot there. >> that's right. he can't stay in the race. nobody will give him money and nobody will pay any attention to him. he has to win something in february. you can't simply say i'm going wait for these states. it was like rudy guliani i'm not going to run in iowa and new hampshire and not going to run in south carolina, by time he ran in florida, nobody was voting for him. they are kidding themselves if they can make it through february, lose them all and still be in the race. >> sean: look, i personally think there is a good side and bad side to the race going on longer. good side is they are testing each other pushing each other and candidates are getting stronger. you can see it. it's that noticeable. on the bad side they are spending more money, but remember this is proportional distribution of delegates up to ap