he appealed for support at a gathering in the largest city, manchester. e country needs a leader who can run the economy. >> it's time for barack obama to go home and for someone who understands our economy to lead this country. he went out and said he was going to borrow $787 billion from your generation to pay back, and he was going to do that to hold unemployment below 8%. not been below 8% since. >> romney accepted the endorsement of senator john mccain, the republican nominee in the 2008 presidential election. romney enjoys a strong lead in new hampshire polls. santorum will try to build on his momentum with support from conservatives. he and others including former house speaker newt gingrich will need better results if they hope to stay in the race. >>> that's all for this edition of "newsline." reporting from tokyo, thanks for joining us. -- captions by vitac --

now the largest city to do this anywhere in the world. thank you. [applause] bu>> with leadership like a scene from the three gentlemen behind me, they have set a clear course and strong direction for us. there are a number of folks within the mta that will execute. i want to acknowledge a few of the folks at the mta that have gotten us to this point were driving the program forward. jay is the project manager for sf park. he has been a great leader setting the model. steven lee, lisa foster. george reynolds and the neter -- meters shop putting it todd monology -- putting the technology on the street. i went to acknowledge all the great staff behind the effort. it is city staff partnering with the private sector. the mayor has been strong in pushing technology and partnership with the private sector. we have a great private-sector partner here who has done the work elsewhere in the country and the world. we're pleased to have them on board with us to put into place what will be the biggest planet worldwide in san francisco. here is the man behind th

in the bay area, the largest city, that means a change in the way you shop. >>> plus, we'll take you live to new york's times will square where hundreds of thousands of people will are preparing to ring in the new year. they look like they're having fun. it's actually not that cold will there. will we'll be right back will will. ni . will >>> waiting for the right conditions. the window opens tomorrow for the famed mavericks surf contest off the coast of half moon bay. will but the contest will will be very different this year. will for the first time, fans will will be banned from watching the competition from the beach or bluffs at pillar point. the reason is in this video, the new organizers of the contest made the decision after all will those fans were injured by strong waves back in february 2010. will instead, there will be a festival will with live tv coverage of the event. will organizers plan to hold a public meeting to explain all of this on thursday. will. >>> the start of the new year brings with it new laws, including one that will will affect the biggest city in the ba

the administration has taken over these cities around the great state of michigan and now it's considering the largest city in the state. now it's considering whether to take over detroit. as noted a couple months ago by the michigan politics source, as reported by us, as noted by three members of congress, nine state senators and dozens of state representative, eight detroit city council members in a letter they wrote to the governor recently, if the governor decides in addition to these cities he has taken over he will overrule local decision making, local elections, and take over detroit, and another city, approximately 50% of all african american citizens in the state would then be living under the authority of an elected manager. think about that for a second. congratulations, michigan. you elected a republican legislature and republican governor last time around. and so now, if you are black and you live in the state of michigan, you may soon have only a 50-50 chance of your vote counting in michigan toward who represents you in your city or town. that letter that was sent to governor snyder a f

providence if the third largest city in the new england region. it is known as the creative capital. there are so many colleges here including brown university. it is a pretty town with outstanding views. there is even a federal hill here. it is where you will find some of the city's best restaurants. >> if you have chicken, the chicken was alive this morning. >> you will find a northern italian cuisine, each dish better than the last. >> we like to think of ourselves as the italian grocery store. reconsider ourselves as an umbilical cord to italy. >> he means it. he has brought in an entire staff over from italy to make every dish from scratch. from the mozzarella to the cost pasta, bianca is from aroma. >> i love it. i do it for so many years. >> so do their customers who say you will not find any were better. >> it is the best bang for your block on the hill appeared >> we are starting to see some reagan fans getting fired up for tomorrow's game. we saw a fan take a picture with let various web. that is a good thing that he was all smiles. >> g

. >> providence is the third largest city in the new england region, and it is known as the creative capital, partly because there are so many colleges and universities, including brown university. it is a pretty town with outstanding views. the providence river runs right through the city, and there's even a federal hill. it is where you'll find some of the city's best restaurants. and it is where we found constantino's. >> if you have chicken, the chicken was a live this morning. >> each dish is better than the last. >> we like to think of ourselves as the italian grocery store. we try to bring all the things from italy here. >> and he means it. the owner has brought an entire staff over from italy to make every dish from scratch. from the mozzarella to the costa -- pasta. bianca is from rome, and she makes the austin, including hundreds of raviolis and tortellinis -- she makes the pasta, including hundreds of raviolis and tortellinis a day. >> we love it. >> and so do the customers, who say you will not find anywhere better. >> it is the best bang for your buck on the hill. >> abs

it is the second largest cuban-american population in the entire u.s. there in hialeah, the sixth largest citylorida. peter hamby is there. peter, how is mitt romney crafting his message for the community there in hialeah? >> yeah, he's got a lot of support from the establishment cuban community here in hialeah, fred. he did a rally here and it is a cuban restaurant, that is usually closed on sunday. they opened it especially for this event and jammed it here. there is probably 500 people. ileana ros-lehtinen was on stage with him. mario lincoln diaz-balart, a congressman from the miami area spoke for him. craig romney, romney's son, spoke spanish and introduced his father. he said in spanish, you know, my father doesn't speak spanish but can talk about the economy. look, ron talked about how immigration may not be as big of an issue among the cuban-american set here in florida, but castro is and romney took a hard line against fidel castro as he has been this is his closing argument to the community, his last push in the cuban-american community before tuesday. he heads here to kind of -- to

. >> let's take a live look at the polling place in manchester, new hampshire on the west side of the city. the largest city in the granite state. and it is chilly under fair skies there. so the weather really should not have an effect on voter turnout. although it has been sparse. >> sounds like not a lot of traffic to the polls. susan mcginnis is live in manchester with the very latest. good morning, susan. >> reporter: good morning, frank and grace. it can't be the weather keeping people at home but we are definitely noticing a low voter turnout. at least at this ward here in manchester. polls have been open about 2 1/2 hours, and we're hearing that there is a very low young person turnout and very low turnout overall. that the voters coming in are really the regulars and it is really about voter dissatisfaction with the entire field. >> at the stroke of midnight, nine residents in the tiny town of dixesville notch cast the first ballot. mitt romney the odds-on favorite in new hampshire tied tore first place with former utah governor john huntsman each getting two votes. >> huntsman already seemed l

at just 13, talk about a vulnerable age, 13 years old, he makes his way to the second largest city in united states of america speaking only spanish, uprooted from his home country, and he comes out to this state in this nation, learns english, learns the value of hard work and discipline, works his way through college at california state university system at long beach. joins the army, makes his way as a young man to the los angeles police department and works his way up extraordinarily. in the wake of rampart, works his way up as assistant police chief in one of the largest police departments in our nation, distinguishes himself there so much so that he is recruited to facea, arizona, and then makes front-page news across this country because he has the courage, the same courage he learned as a young man to stand up and express his point of view when he stood up against the maricopa county sheriff and some of his outrageous views on immigration. [applause] >> and that's what got our attention out here where he may have taken the biggest risk of all, and that is by assuming a role of

. >> leon is the second largest city in the country -- home to some 160-thousand people. edral here is the largest and oldest in central america. the national autonomous university of nicaragua in leÓn has a long history -- today, it's a hub for research and innovation in the country. new solar modules are being installed on the roof of this building. this unit is from germany, others have been delivered from spain. the intensity of sunlight in the equatorial region is double that of germany. that's why here at the university, there's a real sense that solar energy is the future. >> nicaragua has great a potential in respect of solar power. the sun here is especially strong in the dry season. it's a thousand watts per square meter when it's not raining -- that's a lot. but unfortunately the units are still much too expensive. at most, individual houses, farms or small businesses can use them -- but we still can't afford actual power plants. >> at the market in leon, the farmers get a real sense of whether their investments in solar are worth the money. juan de dios visits

could've had a v8. >>> located nearly 75 miles to the southwest of warsaw lies poland's third largest city, lodz. on the edge of town is the nation's newest penal facility. built in 2003, it holds 619 inmates, including some of the most dangerous in poland. >> i mean, you walk through those gates, you're surrounded by just everything latest, greatest, high tech security, pretty amazing, actually. most high-tech facility i've ever been in. they were very proud of it. very proud of the technology. >> even our crew was subjected to the prison's stringent security measures. scott is our audio technician. like all visitors, he must first pass through a state-of-the-art x-ray scanning machine used to prevent smuggling. >> translator: this device is used on persons visiting dangerous inmates and inmates that were before incarceration exposed to drugs. this device is very accurate, but also very safe. it detects organic and nonorganic objects hidden on a person and inside the person, money, cell phones, drugs, in the hair, on the body, in natural cavities. we had an incident where a woman was tryi

i talked to the mayor of greenville, south carolina, today, the second largest city in the state who endorsed mitt romney and he doesn't know, nor do any other south carolina contacts know if it's going to really make a difference. from the myrtle beach debate a couple nights ago newt surged and blew away the competition. this clearly won't help, but the question is will it slow him down enough to have mitt romney emerge? >> people already knew he wasn't exactly mr. faithful, so perhaps it doesn't hurt as much. let's talk about mitt romney for a minute. we all know he's very rich, but he's handled that very poorly the last week or so and now we learn that he's perhaps got some offshore bank accounts trying to dodge taxes in the cayman islands. how big a liability is this and perhaps could this cost him south carolina? >> i don't think so. romney first of all came out today and said he's paying full blown u.s. taxes on his investments in the cayman islands, but i think the whole bain capital issue, the fact that he is a wealthy person and has been successful in the business world in t

talking about the republican primary, what about the state of play if your city and looking power ining forward general election. >> jacksonville is the largestlation wise in florida and we care about jobs and putting people back to work, education. people want to really focus on the issues and that is what i've been doing. what i came into office, i had a $58 million deficit and i had to balance the budget and i had to do it without tapping into the reserves. and i took a pay cut and i'm not taking a pension. so i am making sure the city is focusing on jobs. i think the key is making sure that we focus on the issues. i appointed the first commissioner of education in our city and focused on military affairs because we have a lot of military personnel. so i elevated that to a cabinet position in my administration. focusing to issues that unite us together, i have brought people together to take jacksonville to the next level. >> what about the unemployment rate and high foreclosure rate in florida. have you been able to make a dent in those issues? >> sure, like most cities we have our challenges, our unemployment rate now is at 9.2%. it was

des moines is the capital of iowa and the largest city in this great state but the action is spread all across the place. in living rooms. in schools. in community centers. in diners. we will speak with a former senator rick santorum about his bid for the nomination and his sudden rise in the polls. favor of the day. and gingrich's daughter is on her father's candidacy, and his struggle in the state of iowa. and the most influential political voices in iowa, radio host simon conway. you may not have heard of him if you don't live in iowa, but he is a big deal here. that is all ahead unless breaking news changes everything. this is "studio b." but, first, from fox at 2:00, in des moines, getting down to the wire, we are here in iowa and we could see a photo finish, less than 24 hours before voters head out to caucus places there is no clear frontrunner but the latest polls show three man race: congressman ron paul, former massachusetts governor mitt romney and former pennsylvania senator, rick santorum in a tie for first place. candidate santorum riding new found momentum into the top ti

. >>> and construction of a high speed rail link between the country's two largest cities. line will carry 225 miles per hour of train and shorten the commute time between london and birmingham by almost half of that to just 49 minutes. the project will cost about $50 billion and set to be finished by 2026. >>> take a look at this. this temporary snow town in russia boasts its own wedding place, and jail and more. it was presented at the youth architecture winter festival. >> so beautiful. >>> 5:17. cold enough for ice but we don't have much of that around here and we have cold temperatures. a brief warm-up. then another cooldown in time for the holiday weekend. 25 baltimore, 27 ocean city. freezing above richmond southbound. that is where the storm is coming from. so yet another storm that brings with it warm air. clouds starting to move in towards dc and annapolis. we'll start to see that creep in. the real question here will, this leading edge of cloud cover, how thin is it where we get some of the sun to go through. it's still another hour and-a-half to two hours until w

a series of attacks in the second largest city has killed more than 140 people. the radical islamic group boko haram says it was its work. eight government buildings in the city were attacked yesterday by gunmen and suicide bombers, many of the dead were police officers. two years after the massive earthquake, a new generation of doctors helps haiti heal when we return. >> pelley: of health of former penn state football coach joe paterno has taken a turn for the worse. paterno's doctors have said tonight his situation is serious. paterno, who is 85, has been battling lung cancer, diagnosed days after he was fired last november in the wake of that child sex scandal a at the scho. the people of haiti this month are marking the second anniversary of the massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake that killed 316,000 people and made one million people homeless. tonight, our medical correspondent dr. jon lapook has paid a return visit to one devastated town. >> reporter: three months after the earthquake in haiti, we visited a makeshift clinic near the northern city of port depei

a couple of world news headlines feel a series of three explosions in the second largest city the afghanistan have killed at least thirteen including a child the first blast happened as a suicide bomber attacked a police checkpoint and two other bombs then went off later the violence comes a day after the afghan taliban announced plans to open its national liaison office in qatar something that could be a step towards formal peace negotiations. thousands of people of taking to the streets in northern peru against protesting against the development of a gold mine the demonstrators say waste from the works will taint their water supplies the protests come in one of the country's most heavily mined regions it's also a history of troubled relations with neighboring farmers and ranchers. closer to twenty eight minutes past eight our moscow time in the next half hour as promised we focus in on some more of the latest developments in egypt and elsewhere in the arab world and get an expert view about what's likely to involve unfold rather bit later on this year is twenty twelve progress is how to far

at a gathering in manchester the state's largest city romney appealed for support, saying the country needs a leader who can run the economy. >> and it's time for barack obama to go home and for someone who understands this economy to lead this country. he went out and said he was going to borrow $787 billion from your generation to pay back and he was going to do that to hold unemployment below 8%. not been below 8% since. >> the moderate also accepted the endorsement of senator john mccain, the republican nominee in the 2008 presidential election. romney enjoys a strong lead in new hampshire polls. it remains to be seen how much support his conservative opponents, including santorum and former house speaker newt gingrich, can win there. >>> the top u.s. diplomat for asia has met with chinese officials to discuss the situation in north korea. assistant secretary of state kurt campbell is the highest level u.s. official to visit the region since the death of north korean leader kim jong-il. campbell met separately with china's vice foreign ministers zhang zhijun and cui tiankai in bei

host: on your screen is manchester, new hampshire, which is the largest city in that state. joining us from the center of manchester on our c-span desk is kevin landrigan will writes for "the nashua telegraph" newspaper, political reporter and columnist and longtime watcher of new hampshire politics. it is good to see you after four years. welcome back to c-span. guest: thanks so much, peter. thanks for having me. host: i want to start by asking you about your story this morning in "the nashua telegraph." you write about mitt romney coming to new hampshire after iowa, and you say he looks stuck in neutral before a relatively small crowd of supporters. guest: it is really hard for a candidate like mitt romney, who has a 30-point lead in new hampshire to maintain a high level of energy and enthusiasm. when you have such a big lead, you don't tend to get complacent, but certainly it is harder to rev up. and you can see, john -- john mccain, a veteran of all of these very close races, sensing a little lack of energy there and trying to buck is a candidate up at that event at cent