so in the last few days, jim runyon from crawford county, has organized gingrich delegate, defectinge to santorum, including in the 13th district in urbana, champagne, all the way to the missouri state border, where one of the districts where santorum didn't file, i was told by runyon last night, though gingrich delegates in 13 are now considering themselves santorum delegates. >> bret: carrie, mitt romney could run up the top on the -- the tab on the difference in the chicagoland area and the counties surrounding chicago. but in the 18 individual contest, that really doesn't make a difference if his vote total is huge in this area? >> that's right. it really -- there are 18 mini elections. i think the romney campaign will be breathing a sigh of relief once this primary is over because, in a way, the illinois campaign and the national campaign were at odds. >> bret: what is the storyline tonight. let's say the polls are right and romney wins and santorum, because of the delegate thing you talked about, probably they split the state. what comes out of the story of illinois, if that's

runyon? >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you, mr. hanson, for your service to this country. and i think many people, a lot of times, fail to recognize the sacrifice is life-long. and i think you're a prime example of that in dealing with this. another thing you touched on earlier, and going back to the v.a. stuff, the lack of being a parent. i think sometimes here on the hill, we have lack of ability to have adult conversations, a lot of times. and i think you see that trickling down ainto the administration throughout. it's -- you know, we're treating veterans, but we're not treating veterans. you know what i'm saying? >> yes, sir. >> we're not solving the problem. >> specifically, to your situation, as you said you were in the program, you know, and you're allowed to go home on the weekends, was there -- obviously, we know the mental issues are underlying. but there's also a substance issue that was there, also. was that being addressed at all on -- say you come in on a monday morning, is that being addressed? or are they just kind of saying, oh, whatever happened on the w

the company's headed by mike mellace and mike runyon, who were living good lives in the corporate worlduntil one day fate intervened in the form of a simple snack. >> he buys these cinnamon almonds that come in a bag. you see them at a lot of the festivals. i had never seen them before. and they're real big out on the east coast. and so we started eating them. he gives me some, i say, "oh, my goodness, these things are great." >> we went back, he bought a whole bunch, and so then we started talking about how cool it would be to have like a little thing on the side doing fairs and festivals to make a little extra money. > they agreed on the idea, but not much else at first. with one mike from the west coast and the other from the east coast, they quickly realized they quite possibly could be the odd couple entrepreneurs of the food world. >> i'm a happy-go-lucky kind of guy. you know, he's from new york. our families are totally different, you know. but it works out good because we look--everyone thinks we're brothers. and literally today, we dressed just alike. i go, "hey, hey, i'm glad

as for runyon santorum they've already started campaigning in illinois today the primary is set to go tomorrow is a lot of delegates. the republican national chairman said he believes the party will have a nominee within one or two months before the convention in august. did we did not it could be very interesting in tampa. >>> is the time now 612 winter is coming to an end to the this morning mother nature is packing her last punch of snow coming up and the 49ers are fighting hard to snap a commanding how they're facing pressure from their own ballot's smith. here's a look today's top stories right now all apple discusses what it intends to deal with its $98 billion cash surplus the tech giant will spend nearly have to pay added dividends to investors and buy back shares of the company their quarterly dividend his first since 1995 would be $2.65 per share a search is on for a gunman who killed four people and wounded another in front of a jewish school this is all in to lose friends. as a precaution security is being increased of jewish schools throughout the country. this morning sa