but in a game the capitals absolutely had to win, this smackdown with four goals. a share that with 42. the capitals moved from ninth to the no. 3 seed by taking over first place in the southeast division. and a fourth quarter super bowl play. hundreds of butter figger candy bars. that is not fair. there was a citation for commercial stomping. butterfingers, that is not nice. and we introduced you to the new knicks player jeremy lin. what are you bostonians doing? leave the kid alone. >> a hero. >> only in boston. >> coming up tonight at 11:00, reconnecting with old flames on facebook. some amazing stories shared by wjla facebook users about how they were able to find each other again. tonight at 11:00. >> and some wet weather. >> some rain and snow. the snow machine shows as some light patches. that will move out the sky will clear, and we have some patches of ice may be. sunshine and warmer weather. much colder over the weekend. bob ryan is in later tonight with a fresh look. it is crazy, is it not? >> "abc world news" coming up. ♪ ♪ our machines help identify ea

>> i love that, a smackdown. >> there is something going on. >> it's crazy.s the wind. we've got that all over the country, particularly in the northeast and the northwest today. a lot of people are dealing with this. it's actually dangerous to be out there from time to time when we've been seeing wind gusts around 40, 50 miles per hour. look at those strong winds. you can really see it with the radar on top of this how those winds are driving the snow showers, how the cold air is moving over the great lakes and bringing that snowfall all across parts of the northeast. the advisories are out from new england all the way down through the appalachians. this is going to start to quiet down after sundown. that's the good news out of all this for today. bad news is that it makes for an ugly day and for a lot of travel problems. this is new york city, central park looking at gusts around 30 miles per hour. that is helping to keep temperatures down today, as well. here are the delays as of this hour. newark looking at delays over an hour, about 1 1/2 hours at washin

see the smackdown turned snackdown next. >> the show would not be nearly as good if it wasn't for theeally dramatic voice of the >>> if you're a sailing enthusiast and it's the dead of winter, the only other option is rice boating. this is a cool look from canyon's ferry lake. the guy puts his go-proon his helmet and off he goes. these can go up to 90 miles per hour. all this ice boat is is a tricycle, a real sleek hull with two rails out back and one rail up front or skate. and they sail very similar to the way a sail boat would sail. you say skate, but there's no wheels, right? >> no wheels at all. if you feel like keeping your sailing skills sharp, you go out on something like this the guy is rudder steering in the front, he has the rope he's controlling his sail with. >> can you call it a boat? technically the state of the water is changed. >> i would like to see somebody go skiing behind one of these things. >> you just came up with a great idea for somebody shooting some video. can you imagine that at 90 miles per hour? >> i'm watching a new show, it has terror, intrigue and one

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primary contests, last night's debate the 20th and final debate quickly turned into a romney-santorum smackdown, each one giving as good as they got. nbc's peter alexander reports tonight from the trail in michigan. >> reporter: mitt romney wasted no time today, trying to capitalize on his rival rick santorum's performance in last night's debate. >> i don't know that i've ever seen a politician explain in so many ways why it was he voted against his principles. >> reporter: like santorum's admission that he made a mistake backing president bush's education overhaul. >> it was against the principles i believed in, but when you're part of the team sometimes you take one for the team for the leader, and i made a mistake. you know, politics is a team sport, folks. >> reporter: in phoenix today romney took a swing at that comment, too. >> he talked about this as taking one for the team. i wonder which team he was taking it for? >> reporter: riding a wave of momentum. >> i'm here to talk about a positive solution to the problems that confront this country. >> reporter: santorum who insists he's the t

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primary contests, last night's debate the 20th and final debate quickly turned into a romney-santorum smackdown, each of them giving as good as they got. nbc's petr peter alexander reports from michigan. >> reporter: mitt rom no wasted no time today trying to capitalize on sabtor up's debate. >> i don't think i've ever seen a politician -- >> reporter: he made a mistake by backing president bush's overhaul. >> it was against the principles i believed in, but, when you're part of the team, sometimes you take one for the team for the leader and i made a mistake. politics is a team sport, folks. >> reporter: romney took a swing at that comment, too. >> he talked about this as taking one for the team. i wonder which team he was taking it for? >> reporter: riding a wave of momentum. >> i'm here to talk about a positive solution to the problems that confront this country. >> reporter: santorum who insists he's the true conservative in the race mocked romney's assertion that he balanced budgets as the governor. >> michael dukakis balanced the budget does that make him qualified to be president of the

. >>> we turn to the celebrity smackdown between two grammy winners.iranda lambert on the attack from the concert stage after chris brown's big win at the grammys. >> and brown is not backing down. dan kloeffler is all over this celebrity feud this morning. >> it's definitely getting heated. lambert may have fired the first tweet. brown not letting her have the last word. he's got a problem with her bringing up his past. he's telling the world in less than 140 characters. ♪ we like a kiss sharp like a razor blade ♪ >> reporter: miranda lambert taking her fight with chris brown to the stage. >> i just have to speak my mind. where i come from, beating up on a woman is never okay. >> reporter: she's angry about this. chris brown, who pled guilty to assaulting his then-girlfriend rihanna three years ago, now getting rapturous applause at the grammys. his past seemingly forgotten. >> that's why my daddy taught me early on in life how to use a shotgun. >> reporter: it's the latest blast from lambert who spent the week tearing into brown on twitter after not

. >> that was a smackdown by the head of the tea party. the tea party, what he also said is you cannot fight romney one-on-one. he has too much money. your goal is not to simply become president. that's mitt romney's goal, you have an agenda. the problem is, it is your agenda, you need a team and a team agenda. does newt need a new team? >> he needs a team. i don't think he i see capable of forming it. he has a fundamental problem, he is out of money, he is $600,000 in debt. unless he can raise the fund, i don't see him being a viable candidate. >> adelson's don't seem they're going to put in more? >> they don't let me in on those phone calls. >> will newt gingrich rise again or will it be the rise of santorum if he is ahead in colorado or minnesota if santorum wins tomorrow does that signal he is the next person to rise in the republican primaries? >> this is one issue we'll agree. the gingrich campaign is in real trouble, trailing santorum in missouri and trails romney, too. you put that on top of the financial figures and his own person

now, governor chris christie is giving that guy the smackdown and we'll tell you about it. >> and itust yesterday i was hanging

speaking of issues that may be part of the electric con, could it be that the planned parenthood/komen smackdownsue. >> i think it will be. >> me too. >> i think it will be an issue. 300,000 abortion by an organization in the course of a year is nothing to blink at or ignore. >> i get the legitimate argument about women's health and services -- the legitimate services that are provided, but there is still that argument to be made about funding and how those dollars are spent particularly with respect to this issue. >> but very clearly, as folks pointed out. this is where it came back and bit komen, planned parenthood is very careful about thousand they spend those dwlars. those dollars go directly to women's breast health services. that politicization is what really angered people. >> can you see this issue as emerges as part of what's -- >> i think the komen issue will fade away. a lot of things will happen between now and the general election, so specifically i think komen will disappear unless something else happens. but i do think it's very interesting, barack obama, you know, held -- you kn

santorum's sensational hat trick, snatching an improbable victory in three contests, a denial of smackdownroportions in what was supposed to be mitt's fabulous february. indeed, santorum's win was very much romney's loss. representing is three battlegrounds in the heart of middle america. the most stunning out west in colorado. and that's where mitt romney proved last night that if he's awkward giving acceptance speeches, well then his concessions are much worse. let's start with his apparent disappointment at the size of the crowd. >> now, that's a little smaller than the 2800 people last night. >> the people next up, highlight your working class roots. this ought to be good. >> my father never graduated from college. he apprenticed as a lath and plaster carpenter. and he was pretty good at it. he actually could take a handful of nails, stick them in his mouth and then you know, spit them out pointy end forward. on his honeymoon, he put aluminum paint in the trunk of his car and sold it along the way to pay for gas and the hotels. >> wow, the guy with that will story could do really well

if we really do have winter this year, this has been a darwinian smackdown and the foolish ones are going warm, i think what we'll see is stink bugs earlier and perhaps larger numbers of sink bugs than we've seen let's say in 20 -- stink bugs than we've seen let's say in 2011. >> the professor believes climate change is the reason we see the bugs farther north. they used to be in the deep south. now they go up to vermont. >>> did you see it? the high speed chase that left police in australia out of breath. officers were no match for this little run-away goat. for days the animal raced in and out of traffic escaping from cops in melbourne. she got away so many times the officers nicknamed her houdini. she is now at the city found where police will try to find her a home. >>> most kids are late to school a time or two. what about 30 times? a warning for parents when it gets this far, police may be coming after you. >>> some are funny. some are sentimental. we'll tell you which super bowl ads are america's favorite coming up on the news edge at 11:00. ♪ okay, so who ordered the cereal that c

some have classified it as a smackdown on corporations closing loopholes and subsidies there, john. >> that's right. although we haven't yet seen the specific loophole closures the president would use to get that corporate rate down from 35 to 28 rather. mitt romney made -- took a shot at barack obama's corporate tax plan, his economic adviser glenn hubbard on the conference call i was on called that a full flottal attack on multinationals because the president's proposed a minimum tax for what will corporations make overseas. mitt romney would eliminate taxation on overseas profit from u.s. corporations. that will be a point of contention between the two the if romney is the nominee. >> thank you very much. joining me now, radio talk show host michael smerconish. also with us ab stoddard columnist for the hill. thank you both for joining us. michael, let me start off with the fact that you've got mitt romney talking about taxes. we're all waiting to see if rick santorum shows up at this tea party rally giving the folks there what they might want to hear regarding social issues. meanw

. >> talk about a smackdown there. >> that was harsh.yes. >> we think he's okay, yes. >> what a story. >> i've got something that is not animal related. at first i thought this was really just kind of silly, but now actually i've changed my opinion. it's a little bit moving. this is a group of accordions doing an '80s classic by a-ha. just listen for a second. >> okay. ♪ >> name that tune. ♪ take me on >> talented. bianna, sing it. that is "take on me" by a-ha. this is from north korea, people. north korea, a place where you get punished for not mourning with enough spirit and enthusiasm. so quite touching. a little bit of beauty and humor out of north korea. if you want to send us a fixation, do so on twitter, and we'll be right back with cupcakes. ♪ you're my obsession who do you want me to be ♪ sthoo fixation, do so on twitter, and we'll be right back with cupcakes. ♪ you're my obsession who do you want me to be ♪ my shins, they get it. [ female announcer ] only dove body wash has nutrium moisture and a breakthrough formula that goes

the smackdown in his home state of michigan. >>> santorum's money man tries to apologize for a bad joke about birth control. but has he already done santorum some real damage? >>> where are the women? when i look at this panel, i don't see one single woman. >> and speaking of women, the controversy rages on, an all male panel testifying about at hearing on birth control. congresswoman maloney joins us live on whether republicans have seriously alienated women voters. >>> and then, laying whitney to rest, one of the singers invited to her funeral this saturday. >>> i'm thomas roberts and we have a lot on the agenda this morning, starting with mitt romney and rick santorum. flawed candidates fighting over a state that may be the linchpin in the fight to face the president this fall. now both republicans trying to manage stumbles along the primary road. romney publicly searching to find the emotional and personal connection to energize voters. and rick santorum cleaning up a mess left by his biggest financial backer. >> people seem to be so preoccupied with sex, i think it says something a

. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," santorum smackdown. >> while i was fighting to save the were fighting to save the bridge to nowhere. >> mitt romney is all over him. >> sometim

a former competitive boxer caught the guy and put his smackdown moves to work to protect his home.se, make sure the dude doesn't have a nasty left hook. you know what i'm saying? >> yeah. >> maybe do a little recal, a little research. >> doesn't make sense. >>> but first, mitt romney passed a huge test in florida yesterday, winning the votes of nearly every group of republican voters. >> and in a state where the economy of course is still in deep trouble, his business success seemed to strike a good chord there. abc's david muir now with "your voice, your vote." >> reporter: this was a huge win here in florida for governor mitt romney, the first winner take all state so far. obviously, they have a ways to go for that delegate count to win the nomination. the campaign did not say that this would seal the deal, but they did indicate that they believe this helps propel them in that direction. >> i will make america the most attractive place in the world for entrepreneurs, for innovators, for job creators. and unlike the other people running for president, i know how to do that because

we now turn to the celebrity smackdown between two grammy winners, country superstar mi d miranda lambertom her own concert stage. >> and on twitter, of course. the dispute is with r&b star chris broub and his returning to the spotlight after assaulting his then girlfriend rihanna. it's fair to say miranda lambert is not a fan of chris brown. ♪ >> beating up on a woman is never okay. >> reporter: at her concert on thursday she pulled out this handwritten poster saying "take notes, chris brown." >> so that's why my daddy taught me early on in life how to use a shotgun. >> reporter: she then launched into her hit single "gunpowder and lead" about a woman preparing to soot her abusive husband. ♪ ♪ gunpowder and lead >> reporter: a not exactly subtle reference to brown, who plead guilty to assaulting then girlfriend rihanna in 2009. >> miranda lambert, you remember, is a country music artist whose career is built on being outspoken, saying what she thinks. but in particular her songs are all about bashing no-good guys. >> reporter: lambert has been on a twitter tear ever since the grammys, wh

smackdown. straight ahead.with a very special guest. >> indeed. looking outside. you know we have a special guest. everybody is pressed up against the window like that. we're counting down to the academy awards. joining us this morning, the wonderful glenn close, nominated for best actress in her role as the title character in "albert nobbs." a lonely woman living as man in ireland. i enjoyed it thoroughly. i watched it last night. it was so emotional. it caught me offguard how emotional abecame. it with auz passion project for you, wasn't it? >> it was. i did it a long time ago, off broadway in the beginning of my career. there was something about the character of albert that just fascinated me. >> what do you thing that was? >> i think it is her combination of brave belief and innocence. and also as an actress, i was fascinated by what would it be like to be invisible for 30 years and then try to come out of that? you know, what are those dynamics, what is that psychology? >> you said 30 years ago, you could

pan to pan smackdown. who will serve up the winning dish?putting it on the audience. >> we have a studio full of bacon right now. the aroma in here is hard to -- >> and bacon is the secret ingredient that the audience chose. >> bacon makes everything better. >> take one big whiff. >>> we have secret deals and steals this morning. tory johnson here with bargains. these are only for "gma" viewers. >> i love this song. >> josh? you're going to the super bowl? >> i am. it worries me. we'll be live in indianapolis tomorrow, the super bowl blowout. unbelievable surprises. "gma" heading to super bowl xlvi. it's going to be tremendous. >> i love how you say "gma." you're going. >> if by "gma" i mean me. and "gma" is very excited. >> we can't wait to see you there. >> "gma" better take an umbrella. >> raeally? >>> how far would you go to realize your dream in we're going talk to a woman who pushed herself to achieve her dream as a cheer leader. ♪ anna watson is your average american cheer leader. ♪ well, maybe not average. because this 21-year-old pr

. ♪ ♪ it's amazing i'm the reason everybody got up ♪ >>> i love -- >> it's like cultural smackdown. >our morning with kanye west, amazing, it is not going to be a good morning. welcome back, everybody. finally i have a little pull on my own show. >> on the radio. >> on your ipod. yes. yes. yes. >> just clarify that. >> let's talk about exit polling. the exit polls from yesterday's race really show us some interesting numbers. especially if you break down the latino vote. 54% went to mitt romney. we know that there are some interesting issues when it comes to immigration with mitt romney as a candidate and also the dream mack, etc., etc. we have a representative with us this morning. he is in -- i think you're in the rotunda if i see behind you. nice to have you, sir. thank you for being with us. >> good to be here. >> i mentioned that 54% of the latino vote went to mitt romney and you are a romney supporter, but really state of florida there's a lot of cubans, puerto ricans, not very many mexicans. in that way florida is not as representative of the united states, right? really the ov

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