the union controlled southern louisiana and new orleans. the union controlled eastern virginia. now, on january the 1st, he could have freed these slaves. all he could do was just not specifically exclude them. instead of freeing them, abraham lincoln unfortunately on january the 1st said i'm not talking about you. this document, you are the same as you were as though this document never existed. so, we have about 100,000 slaves in southern illinois -- southern louisiana, sorry about that, and 80,000 or so in eastern virginia, having some 275,000 slaves in tennessee who were not touched by. all across the south i give an estimate of approximately 55,000 slaves that were kept in slavery by the emancipation proclamation. >> your take. >> lincoln had constitutional constraints in issuing the proclamation. he couldn't touch enslaved people in those areas that were under union control because the constitution did not give the president the opportunity to do that. the constitution through the war powers clause gave the president the authority to do whatever he needed to do in order to

the union contrled southern louisiana, new orleans. the union controlled eastern virginia. now, on january 1, he could have freed these slaves. all he had to do is not specifically exclude them. instead of freeing them, abraham lincoln, unfortunately, on january 1, said i'm not talkg about you in this document. you're the same as you were as if this document never existed. so we have about 100,000 slaves in southern illinois -- southern louisiana, sorry about that, and 80,000r so in eastern virginia, having some 275,000 slaves in tennessee who were not touched by -- all across the south, i give an estimate of approximately 500,000 slaves who were re-enslaved or kept in slavery by the emancation proclamation. i will come back to that as i make my second point. and i will tell you the critics' response to this. the second point is that abraham lincoln was a racist. i don't have any joy in making that, but i think truth is important. he who used the "n" word habitually, who loved darky -- darkie jokes and blackface shows, who said in illinois and elsewhere that he was opposed

one of the heaviest rain event we have seen in a couple months of southern louisiana, also into the houston area. this yellow and orange, our computers are saying two to three inches of rain possible into areas of atlanta. as far as snow goings it wouldn't be until sunday afternoon, sunday evening. virginia will definitely get a lot of snow. we will have to see how much cold air is available for d.c., richa richmond and areas in between. there's all heavy rain in the deep south. we track it through the southeast on saturday. then by the time we get to sunday, that's when the storm should be headed off the north carolina coast. it could get messy in the mid atlantic. lynn, it does not look like a blockbuster snowstorm for any cities. maybe just the mountains of the appalachians. >> bill, thanks so much. coming up, socks soar. apple shines. and the starbucks drink that should take the guilt out of our early morning coffee splurge. >>> coming up, pacers turn out the lights, incredible rally by the blue devils, and jeremy lin is headed to the all-star game. you're watching first look on msnbc.

a touch of wintry precip across southern missouri but look at the rains across arkansas and southern louisiana and spreading now into alabama and even georgia seeing some rain this morning. low pressure is going to come up the coast to our east. might throw moisture back to you us early saturday but i think the one is going to miss us for the most part. here come the clouds in the afternoon and here's snow by 6:00 p.m. in pittsburgh and back to charleston and much of ohio and eastern kentucky. tonight by midnight now we've got a rain/snow mix, rain i-95 and south and east. some snow showers north and west and we could in some spots pick up an inch or two by tomorrow morning. would not surprise me. here comes the storm up the coast saturday. and then by middle of the day, rain and snow showers and look, they're going to be on and off through the afternoon and evening hours. and we might even see locally another inch of snow picked up in the evening saturday but in the mountains, some of the ski cares could get a foot. tonight rain and snow showers develop. tomorrow windy too with more rain and

look for showers and thunderstorms in the southern plains, louisiana and from south carolina to floridat will be dry and mostly sunny from the mid-atlantic to southern new england. >>> in sports this morning, it will be try try again for the first and biggest race of the nascar season. the daytona 500. persistent rain caused the race to be delayed from sunday to monday. for the first time in its 54-year history, try to get it started. noon eastern today. but there's more rain in the forecast. >>> in the nba allstar game, it was kevin, kobe and the west over lebron, dwayne. kevin durant made it look easy. in the first period on the way to 36 points and an mvp performance. kobe bryant added 27. the west scored 89 points in the first half. the fast break pass from lebron james for a big jam and then the third quarter, james got to howard for his own slam. east later closed to within one. the west would not be denied. winning it 152-149. when we come back, trouble in paradise. nearly two dozen cruise line passengers are robbed in mexico during a day trip. day trip. our new ocean spray cherr

severe thunderstorms beginning in houston this afternoon and traversing aloss i-10, across southern louisianae damaging storms with that and another batch expected tomorrow. a little bit farther east. that's a quick check on weather. 13 minutes after the hour. "early start" is coming right back. >>> good morning, new york city. >> there's a reason we're playing something from the sound track of "clueless." it's the song supermodel. i love that movie for the oodle-headed bimbo from the '90s that plagued our very thought when we thought of the valley girls. i wanted to get that word in because it was another word tweeted from us from back porch friend. that kind of egg-shaped, right, oodle? when you think of fashion week, you any of fast food? >> no. who do you think dresses people behind the counter? >> alina cho with a different twist on style. >> reporter: what does this have to do with fashion? you would be surprised. designers aren't just creating clothes for the catwalk, they're also designing uniforms. >> there was a time i walked around, had a ham bugger at mcdonald's, thank you, wore m

the remaining confederate gun boat was later captured and the southerners blew up the uss louisiana to prevent its capture. 147 wounded, farragut's fleet won a victory. that was incomplete until new orleans was in their possession. at mid morning, farragut ron ronde -- farragut decided to continue upriver and attack the city. the confederate troops that had been stationed in new orleans earlier had been called upriver to tennessee to meet the union threat there arch grant had captured fort donaldson leaving behind only local militia which fled at the approach of the fleet. the city was virtually defenseless except for two with 14 guns flanking the river at chalmette, three miles down stream from new orleans where andrew jackson had stopped the british in 1815, but nothing was going to stop faragut. five of his ships including the hartford came on firing first with their bow guns and then veering to fire crushing broad sides into the works. in 20 minutes the confederate guns were silenced. those who could run, farragut reported to secretary of the navy, were running in every direction,

the mother lode of moisture moving from louisiana to southern parts of mississippi.nly a little bit of cold air on the northern periphery. more cold air sliding down to the south. temperatures drop late tonight to tomorrow as the weather front turns the winds to the north and will funnel the cold dry air at the surface and moisture at the top. mild, sunny, 50s to near 60. clouds rolling back tonight. staying dry to noon-time tomorrow and the bulk of the snow arriving, maybe 3 to 6 inches south and west of town in and around the city, 1-2 inches of snow can't be ruled out, probably an inch or less in northern maryland. we can maybe tweak that a little bit. everybody will see some snow tomorrow but not a lot. today, sunny and mild. enjoy it while you can, 52-58 today. tomorrow, complete opposite of tod today. and chance of snow, afternoon to tomorrow night. bigger accumulations south and west of town. sunshine, clean car driving sunshine monday and tuesday and mild weather. talking about a chance for snow tomorrow and temperatures flirting with 60 degrees by wednesday

for example, president kennedy carried those southern states of mississippi, alabama, louisiana i thinkose states in '64, i suppose. i know that. from what i've been told. but that didn't deter robert kennedy or burke marshall from really leading their responsibilities with respect to the law. and even before burke was confirmed, robert kennedy had taken personal interest in the first case that we had brought in louisiana, in east carroll parish, and got involved in the first, second, third day after he took office and was on the phone talking with people down in louisiana trying to help one sharecropper, one -- not a sharecropper. one farmer to get his cotton shipped. and when -- and he sent me down there to see that the gingers in east carroll parish would come before a federal judge and tell the federal judge in a hearing, but a hearing not before the public, but on the record, that, yes, they would gin the cotton. that was our first day. >> i told you we had too much to talk about and not enough time, so i'm going to abruptly change in the last minute and ask you why did you take th

some showers in louisiana and the southern plains. up to a foot of mountain snow in the rockies. heavy downpours in the pacific northwest. >> you've got to work on your pacino impression. >> hello to my little friend. >> 55 sacramento. 30s across the midwest. 46 in boston. near 50 in baltimore. and 78 in miami. >>> it's that time of year again when the nation's top dogs get his or her due. the annual westminster kennel club dog show is under way at new york's madison square garden. this year 2,600 canines. and their very normal owners are competing in 179 breed categories. >> stop. the number of breeds is going up and could reach 240 in a few years, but only purebreds could compete. so no designer dogs like puggles, labradoodles, or -- and then there's the best in show which could be any breed that lucky dog will be named tonight. and martha stewart, she's got a chow chow. genghis won best in breed at westminster today. >> oh, good for martha. >> yes. that's a good thing, right? >> we'll be back right after this. ♪ you can have your dream ♪ you're the best ♪

southern states. i mean, that is louisiana, mississippi, alabama, and into georgia. of course here, we're talking about whether or not we get accumulating snow here on sunday. i'll be back with a full forecast and talk more about what we think will happen on sunday. >> all right, we think. >> it's always that. it's always what we think. >> i'm just messing with you. >> set in stone is not a term i know. >> especially considering the winter we've had. >> and just a quick reminder, you can check the weather any time with fox 5's weather app. you can also text fox 5 weather to 29473. >> coming up, frantically to clean up an oil spill in the mississippi river. we have the details. >> triple a raises the red flag about work zone speed cameras. wait until you hear how much they are generating in maryland. >> and if you have a story idea, we'd like you to call the tip line. 202-895-3000 or send us an e- mail to fox5tips@wttg.com.  >>> an oil spill is forcing the u.s. coast guard to close a five mile stretch. the spill happened when two barges collided 50 miles up river

some showers in louisiana and the southern plains. up to a foot of mountain snow in the rockies. some heavy downpours in the pacific northwest. >> you've got to work on your pacino impression. >> my little friend. >> 55 sacramento. 30s across the midwest. 36 in boston. 78 in miami. >>> it's that time of year again when the nation's top dogs get his or her due. the annual westminster kennel club dog show is under way at new york's madison square garden. this year 2,600 canines. and their very normal owners are competing in 179 breed categories. >> stop. the number of breeds is going up and could reach 240 in a few years, but only purebreds could compete. so no designer dogs like cockapoodles. and martha stewart, she's got a chow chow. genghis won best in breed at westminster today. >> oh, good for martha. >> yes. that's a good thing, right? >> we'll be back right after this. ♪ you can have your dream ♪ you're the best having triplets is such a blessing. not financially. so we switched to the bargain detergent and i found myself using three times more than they say to and the cloth

we have tornado warnings in southern texas and parts of louisiana. let's zoom in and show the snow. you can see it's getting itself together. this is a vigorous storm going on for the next 48 hours as it pulls out of colorado and heads spo the central plains it will be bringing behind it snow, blowing winds, winds over 30 miles per hour. ahead of it, heavy rain and thunderstorms. a possibility of tornadoes, damaging wind and damaging hail as well. snowfall amounts anywhere from a half foot to a foot and a half of snow. rainfall from parts of louisiana, mississippi up into kansas. we are talking two to four inches of rain and some of it could be heavy causing flooding. now back to ann. >> al, thank you so much. we'll get to the forecast in a moment. now back to matt in new york. >> thank you. now to the presidential race and an apology from mitt romney following his controversial remark about the poor. this as he enjoys a new endorsement from donald trump. peter alexander is in reno, nevada. good morning to you. >> reporter: it played out like a scene in donald trump's own reality sh

louisiana will deal with the storm as the sun is setting into the evening hours. early overnight southernississippi could get some of those storms including new orleans. an isolated tornado or two is not out of the question. the damaging wind with the storms. this is a march like weather pattern out there with thunderstorms and rain in the forecast. very little in the way of any snow. there's a little bit of wet, damp weather going through southern new england this morning but that will be gone for a mild afternoon. temperature 53 in new york city. that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look at the weather outside your window. warm air out there today will be responsible for those thunderstorms. look at austin today. 76 degrees. then the front will go through and cool you off a little bit after those storms blow through. temperature even warm in miami today. high of 80. once again, it's a rain forecast. >> bill, thanks so much. coming up, a small step could mean big news for the next ipad. >>> and yahoo is face insurrection. plus oprah winfrey's twitter fail that's forced h

louisiana. then you move into texas. these are southern states, the bedrock of the republican party. if you have gingrich and santorum stay in, it increases romney's chances of winning a share of the delegates proportionally and hanging in the race and winning. if one of them drops out, then you have a very different contest. newt gingrich has a lot to prove next tuesday. winning georgia alone likely not enough. does that mean he'll get out? maybe not. he says he wants to stay in it to win it. he understands the math. you have to prove you can win not only at home, you have to prove you can win other places. gingrich's challenge is similar to the romney challenge. prove you can win outside of a place that's your backyard. >> piers, i think that's a huge challenge for mitt romney. he can't give up on the south. he's got to prove he's a candidate with some breadth. that means not only inwithing in the midwest but winning in the south, which is very, very important for republicans. he's got to prove that on super tuesday somewhere. >> he certainly does. fascinating stuff. thank you, wol

louisiana. flooding concerns the. storm system down there, the area of low pressure, is what we will be watching in the southern part of the country reemerging off the coast and then redeveloping intracoastal system that will impact us this weekend. here's a picture. the storm system approaches and by sunday some oyster developing and a little mixed. there could be a good amount of snow around here and the possibility of a couple inches with a 30% chance of more. >> we will keep a close eye on it throughout the weekend. breaking news. coming from southeast d.c. one firefighter injured. others battling a fire at a high school in the district of columbia. there's reportedly fire coming from the roof of anacostia high school, 16th street southeast. firefighters have sounded a 2nd alarm and we have a crew of the way and will bring details as soon as we get them. they are battling a fire on the roofs of anacostia high school in southeast. much more coming up. that and much more coming up on abc 7 news. >> crack is cheap. i made too much money for that. >> the private life of whitney houston. a preview next. and later -- >>

and dropping southwestward, it digs down into areas around southern california not too long from now then to the gulf coast, down around louisiana texas once again, that's where we have got yet our current area of low pressure, but by friday late, it's here. this storm system tracks more northeastward, that would mean, yes, we would get a little bit of snow here, at least the higher chance of it with some rain for southern maryland. as you could see there, the storm system were to track more due eastward and off the coast, staying pretty far down to the south, we could get maybe a little bit of snow, some flurries, some light snow at best, but not much precip at all coming with this storm system if that is the track. right now, there is only a slightly higher probability that this is the track that we could see. so for right now, we are going with 50/50 odds, the computer models, they are all over the place with it now. 53 degrees where we are now, northwest wind, 8 miles per hour, 48, cool spot in gatorsburg, olney. 58, the warm spot in southern counties. overnight, tomorrow morning, drop down to the 30s, midand youer 30s. do t

. ♪ with the southern boy >> reporter: the boy from small town louisiana. ♪ and the mississippi girlll in love while touring together in 1996. >> i mean, honestly, i thought she was way out of my league. i still do. >> reporter: they got married later that year. 15 anniversaries later, they're still nuts about each >> i really melt when i see my husband. i do. i know it's going to be like, oh, so does gusting. >> reporter: when they're not on stage, they're on the farm, their 900 acres where they're raising their daughters. >> the kids love the morning time. while i've been making the record, he's been car-pooling a lot of kids. >> reporter: he's also been appearing in a string of hit movies. he says he'll never hang up his guitar. clearly, this golden couple remains country strong. are you country strong? joining us now to talk about their relationship and the wonderful things they have going on, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, faith hill and tim mcgraw. we have been looking forward to having you here. are you up now, tim? >> i'm working on it. >> he's getting there. >> he's n

missouri caucus, two-step process, give it to romney, sake of argument, give puerto rico, louisiana, another southernich for the sake of argument. here's where gingrich wants to stay in the race, wisconsin, maryland, the big prize of texas. when rick perry drop out, this to romney and newt gingrich, look what happens with texas, wolf, we could get to the point, april 3rd, romney ahead, i'll take this off, closer to the finish line, gingrich is in the ballpark and hoping to take it and make a race. keep going, we're into may, i'm splitting this essentially north-south, you could have a scenario, gingrich there, santorum pennsylvania here, we could get to june, keep going. this scenario, romney could win in june, including him winning up here. if someone else were to take a couple states, gingrich, ron paul, you knock him back, we could go to june. >> some states are not winner take all, proportionate. >> we're giving delegates, and giving the winner the delegates and basing on proportion. this is hypothetical, if you're at home, saying wait a minute. if gingrich can hold the southern states, he can st

missouri caucus, two-step process, give it to romney, sake of argument, give puerto rico, louisiana, another southernich for the sake of argument. here's where gingrich wants to stay in the race, wisconsin, maryland, the big prize of texas. when rick perry drop out, this to romney and newt gingrich, look what happens with texas, wolf, we could get to the point, april 3rd, romney ahead, i'll take this off, closer to the finish line, gingrich is in the ballpark and hoping to take it and make a race. keep going, we're into may, i'm splitting this essentially north-south, you could have a scenario, gingrich there, santorum pennsylvania here, we could get to june, keep going. this scenario, romney could win in june, including him winning up here. if someone else were to take a couple states, gingrich, ron paul, you knock him back, we could go to june. >> some states are not winner take all, proportionate. >> we're giving delegates, and giving the winner the delegates and basing on proportion. this is hypothetical, if you're at home, saying wait a minute. if gingrich can hold the southern states, he can st

louisiana state. quinton has an effect by going to harvard and committing suicide assume the burden of the whole history of destroyed world of southern slave holders. faulkner believe thad the past is in the present, and i believe the wounds to self-esteem inflicted by a north almost totally unware of its history and the political psychological consequences must be acknowledged symbolic representatives need to acknowledge its destructive behavior and accept responsibility for it. i think only the contemporary south and its transplanted aliez and unburn itself against northern liberalism and join with white america throughout the country and face responsibility to black america and i also say native america. this is a road to national reconciliation. maybe this is a way to try to address this issue before it gets to the congressional level. healing history requires healing everybody's hurts. listening, careful listening, respectful listening. not excusing human rights violations, vicious racism, behavior that is clearly immoral but there's some wonderful people whose feelings are also hurt in the white south. yankees are totally obliv

his mother was a high school teacher and served as dean of southern university in baton rouge, louisiana was eight years old his grandfather passed away and the family moved from louisiana back to philadelphia, pennsylvania. there in philadelphia, bill's father assumed his own father's position as pastor of the bright hope baptist church in north philadelphia, and bill cemented his roots in that community. he has spoken of the powerful impact of these years, moving from a region where jim-crow laws reigned to a large northern city where his family had ties to other clergy and community leaders. because of de facto segregation in housing at the time, north philadelphia was the neighborhood with african-americans from all walks of life, including many role models for the young bill gray. hobson rentals across the street was the leader of the elks. cecil b. moore, future member of the city council and head of the black naacp of philadelphia, lived two doors down from bill's family at the time. other neighbors include the renowned architect, frederick messiah and sadie alexander, the first w

louisiana state. quentin has in effect by going to harvard and committing suicide assumed the burden of the whole history of the destroyed world of southern slave holders carrying his burden to the lapsed world of emerson. and as we know, faulkner believed that the past was in the present and i, myself, believe that the wounds to southern self-esteem inflicted relentlily by a north almost totally unaware of its history and of the political psychological senses must somehow be acknowledged. after a walk threw history to document the facts, which we've been trying to do today, symbolic representatives of new england tradition need to acknowledge its destructive behavior and accept moral responsibility for it. i think personally that only in this way can the contemporary south and its transplanted allies in the west unburden itself of its resentment against northern liberalism and join with white america throughout the country in finally facing its responsibility to black america. i also say native america. this is a road to national recognition. we should address this before it gets to the congressional level. healing history requires heali

louisiana. he's red hot. if you look at where he did in the panhandle in florida where that old southern part of the state, confederacy part of the state, if he can replicate that in the south, he will have a heck of a number of delegates. >> let's take a moment to cherish newt gingrich. he's the man who brought nasty politics in the 1990s how he wishes we could be more polite. he's going to do well in the south. it's proportional voting in the south. but the numbers to get to 1144 is going to take awhile. there's no way he can get out of the race now. he's running for a tie now. if he can get to the convention close to what mitt romney has, he can make the case this was the front runner who wasn't able to close the deal and that's why you have to nominate me. >> cnn yesterday former house majority, dick army, criticized gingrich and his campaign. listen to this sarcasm coming here. >> i think he's digressed into a state of taking a second-rate campaign and turning it into a first-race vendetta. >> that's the kind of well-crafted shot that the other guy knows you thought about before you delivered it. taking a second-

. >> an alarming new report suggests louisiana coast could be under water in less than 100 years the agency in charge of protecting the southernart of the state says a sinking coast could mean a higher sea level they predict it could rise 3 feet by the year 2100. remarkable story a team of russian scientists have just drilled down to the biggest fresh water lake buried under antarctica and it has been hidden for millions of years under more than 2 miles of ice. the russians have been drilling for 2 decades to get to this prehistoric lake scientists around the world have been anxiously awaiting this moment, it could hold an undiscovered world of new life forms. >>> one of the most sought after hotel development opportunities in the nation s now the deal is just about done the old post office building is well on the way to becoming part of donald trochee's hotel collection u.s. general services add -- hotel's collection they said the plan is to convert the building into a luxury hotel with 200 rooms, fancy restaurants, a spa, a ballroom and meeting facilities, so what do people thing about this latest adventure. >> i think a sto

southern canada. the trailing cold front is bringing strong to severe weather across northern mississippi and louisiana. that line of stronger thunderstorms is aiming for atlanta this afternoon. if you have a flight change at hartsfield international airport, get ready for delays. the northern half of ohio, it changes and mixed to snow and that's the part of the cold air we will be dealing with. rain-snow line just across the pennsylvania border by 6:00 tonight. 6:00 to midnight tonight. generally light snow across southern maryland and southern pennsylvania. all this comes to an end by early tomorrow morning and by the time you move around to your super bowl parties tomorrow afternoon, the precipitation will be done. here we are 4:30 this afternoon. mostly rain in the green but snowflakes mixing in across the high spots. by 7:00 or 8:00, inching its way close tor the washington metro area, probably snowflakes mixing in. no chance of accumulation in town. you folks in northern virginia and panhandle might get an inch. clouds thickening today, have your umbrellas ready to go for this afternoon and for y

storms pulling out of texas into louisiana, another heavy batch of storms into the panhandle of florida. we'll zoom further north. southwestern virginia and extreme southernt virginia, this rain will work its way west ward overnight. kind of a quick hitter. if i had to draw a line through town like 66 and 50 south is the best chance for significant rain tomorrow. so not looking at a lot but maybe 1/4-inch to 1/2-inch of liquid precipitation, 63 rockville, 59 gaithersburg and 62 in laurel. here's the deal. it's going to be a little cooler, but still mild as we go through the rest of the week. a dry evening commute, a wet morning commute primarily south of 66 and also south of 50. still mild on thursday, though, and a very nice finish friday, not talking 60s or 70s but still very nice. by 11:00 tonight you can see the precipitation may be getting through fredericksburg and southern maryland. we get into the late night hours, early morning hours, showers back to the west and south and this kind of moves through just almost right along 60 and 66 and 50. it gets through pretty quickly. you may have lingering showers late morning in southern maryland. good news

southern end, especially for a chance for wintry weather. for today, hardly anything to worry about. all the moisture still around east texas and moving to western parts of louisiana a result, it's at least 24 hours or more away from us. saturday planner looks good. super mild. temperatures running above average, mid to upper 50s. that will be nice. enjoy. tomorrow, clouds before you get up and snow potential arrives around noon-time. if we get any accumulating snow mainly south of the d.c. metro area, noon tomorrow and by the time you get up on president's day, done? >> in and out. >> thank you, chuck. >>> new from overnight, two families are without a home after an intense fire tore through their home in prince george's county. it sparked their their home on the 7600 block of normandy road in maryland. firefighters say there were two families living in the home at the time. everyone able to get out of the house and no injuries reported. the house is a total loss. >> two firefighters are out of the hospital this morning after falling through the roof of anacostia high school. it happened at a fire yesterday. students and teachers evacuated from the building. fire

if louisiana loses part of its southern edge, we go down there. we try to help. we try to figure out what's going on. on this housing problem there has been such timid action, almost no action, by this congress. so we just let it fester and hemorrhage across the country. what an erie -- history will show this is -- -- this is one of the irresponsible periods that damaged our housing stock from coast to coast and we'll pay for it in years to come in shattered lives, in shattered communities. if i chaired the committee we would be all over the country. we wouldn't be shipping here in washington doing nothing. we would be going out to these communities. i yield to the gentleman. mr. ellison: our republican friends who are in the majority, they tell us that let laisez faire capitalism take over, let the housing market bottom out. government shouldn't do anything. just let all the houses' value go down to nothing, and eventually somebody will buy those houses that are just sitting there idle after people have been unemployed, can't afford them, and have to be foreclos

louisiana. michael, he is red hot. if you look at just where he did in the panhandle in florida, where all those people, you know, that old southernf the state, confederacy part of the state. if he can replicate that around the deep south, he's going to have one heck of a number of delegates going to tampa. >> let's take a moment to cherish newt gingrich, the man who brought nasty politics to the 1990s, talking about how he just wishes we could be more polite in the political system. he's going to do well in the south. mostly proportional voting. he's not going to be able to sweep it like huckabee swept it last time around. to get to 1144 is going to take awhile. no way he can just get out of the race right now. he's running right now for a tie. if he can get to the convention close to what mitt romney has, then he can make the case this was the front-runner who wasn't able to close the deal and that's why you have to nominate me. >> former house majority, dick armey criticized gingrich and his campaign. listen to this sarcasm coming here. >> i think he's digressed into a state of taking a second rate campaign and turning it into

southern states to gingrich. if we keep moving, split them here, give alabama and mississippi both to gingrich, give missouri to romney and that's a tough one. puerto rico. let's come through illinois, louisianar gingrich. then you get here. at this point, with a rough projection, romney has almost 2-1 in the delegate chase. so gingrich would have to do much better in the north. if we won the texas primary, if that's his definition of relative parody, okay. but that's in the ballpark of where it would be things play out with romney winning. so that ice a long haul to go. and went through a lot of states right there. that requires a lot of money and organization and when you're losing, the money doesn't keep coming in. so he's going to have to run a very disciplined campaign to get this far in and have the resources to compete not only in texas but the other places. that's april 3. >> he seemed 100% determined to do that. he's not going anywhere because you can see how angry he is at mitt romney. let's take a quick break. we'll go back to that special caucus in las vegas. we'll see what happens there. stay with us. our special coverage continues in a moment. financial advice. back then he had