iowa performs a very good function, which is, it whittles the field down from multiple candidates to a smaller number. >> when you look at this image, we pulled it up, the last abc news debate. you predict the next abc news debate, less than a week from now, we may not see the same people standing there? >> it will be a less crowded stage. one or two of the candidates probably won't be there. >> now, the white house surely watching iowa, whether they say they are or not. and what is their strategy at this point, their possible path to victory, given the field as it stands? >> they are in an incredibly vulnerable environment. the president's job approval isn't very high and consumer confidence is low. so, they know this race shouldn't be about them. they want it to be about whoever the republican nominee is. if it's mitt romney, they want him to emerge beaten up. so far, he hasn't, but as soon as this thing is over, they're going to start their campaign in earnest. >> all right, matthew dowd tonight, matthew, thank you. and matt will be here tuesday night with diane and george, follow

chiseled, whittled and manicured to pretty much picture perfect as the best it can be under these conditions. it's cold, it's icy. we've got the best halfpipe skiers in the world getting set to tackle it. >> what's up? i'm tucker perkins with your halfpipe preview >> todd: 21-year-old tucker perkins is used to these conditions. this is what it's like to be on a superpipe >> luke: a great angle of it indeed. look at that cork right there. that's him going inverted. spinning a 900 right there. just to see it from up high, get to check out this pipe in a little bit better light as it was when this was filmed, a beautiful thing. he's way up there, look for big stuff from him throughout the day. tucker perkins, looks like he qualified in second -- not in second place, right around fifth place mark. >> todd: our thanks to tucker perkins, giving us a beautiful shot of the 22-foot superpipe here at killington, vermont. well, the women's competition took place earlier with heavy hearts. as all of our six finalists remembering sarah burke and what she means and what she meant to sports. but in the end

attorneys in the case tell us there are as many as 1300 potential jurors in the pool and they started to whittle down the pool this morning. when we got here at 9:00 a.m., some were waiting to clear the security. the first of the jurors for this case entered this morning. another group is coming in this afternoon. once they are selected, they will decide the fate of edwin ramos. he faces three counts of murder for the 2008 shootings of tony bologna, his 20-year-old son michael and his 16-year-old son mathew were shot and killed in 2008. ramos was charged in the killing the -- killles. prosecutors say he shot the three mistaking them for a gun rival. ramos was a minor but he was not turned over to immigration. san francisco has changed that policy. >> this case not only impacted the victim's family but also had a tremendous impact on the community. i think many of you know there were a lot of emotions that were brought out as a result of this case. we want to make sure we bring justice, not only for the family but for the community. >> reporter: the jury selection process, an attorney told us, co

>> you know, it's a tall order to beat romney, but i will say they will whittle him down and that's the intent of every one of them, including ron paul who has a solid base of supporters in the state and is erotting eroding part of romney's appeal for independents. i think you'll see romney's fall to earth. he is capped at 25%. 75% of conservatives do not like mitt rom any. i talked to a number of conservative activists in new hampshire today where i'm heading tonight to join you up there, and i do think that the catholic vote means something, chris. 60% of new hampshire is catholic. rick santorum is catholic. rick santorum has a great story. he has a personal narrative. if newt gingrich goes negative, rick santorum stays positive, you've got a one-two punch, you've got people pressing the indies on the side of ron paul and huntsman, and you could see romney fall to earth. >> let me ask you about the people up here. my old boss tip o'neill when i worked for him has decided new hampshire is so conservative and so anti-government, they don't like taxes, taxachusetts, don't like the parks

i believe staff come in many ways, has been whittled down to the bare necessity. we have been getting information from the director and finance departments that the workload is actually increasing. we have been hiring people back to do the inspections and permitting. this is the support staff that is needed. we need to do this simple project simple -- not so simple, but it is very much contained. we know what it is, we have all of the information. i do not think it is unreasonable to ask for staff to do it in a timely way, that makes us able to respond. i support it. i think we have to do this, in order to deal with the issues the commissioners have brought up. quick response to records requests, accurate data on all our requests. quick response to the public about information on the buildings they are interested in. i think it is a product that needs to happen. i think we need to find a way to prioritize and effectively staff this and get the rfp done. commissioner hechanova: commissioner lee? commissioner lee: digitizing these records, it is it for the benefit o

. >> a crowded field of republicans could soon be whittled down. the contender coming out ahead in the early return. >> also a father and two sons gunned down by a gang member -- the questions asked of potential jurors today in the came. >> back here in just about ten minutes we have the forecast. we go to the five day. we will look for rain and talk about very dense valley fog tomorrow. . >>> not to fast about a plans for a high speed rail system. the current plan was isn't feasible. the group said lawmakers should not approve the plan. >>> the tip triple murder trial is just getting underway. david stevenson is live in san francisco with why the case is raising questions about the city's handling of criminal youth. >> reporter: we are told this trial may take up to five months and as many as 1300 jurors may be interviewed for the case that is shown a hard spotlight on a san francisco program. the triple homicide trial started a steady parade of jurors in and out of this courtroom. 25-year-old ramos an alleged back member is a ceused in the shooti

- you'll have to ask the fella who whittled 'em for me. ♪ - it's her, isn't it?on't kiss and tell, jack. - ahh, because you're a gentleman, danny. it's good to finally have another one of us around here. - i'm just happy to be here. a month ago i was doing a robot act on the street, so i know my place. i want to be tgs' steve nash. come down from canada, work hard, make the black guy look good. - did you just make a sports reference? you know how little of that i get here? - look at me in the black light. it's tron. watch out, sark. it's me, flynn. [imitates light cycle] [chuckles] light bike. good job tonight, danny. robot lorenzo lamas was funny. as was robot ryan seacrest and david hasselbot. - hey, it's the writing. - it's really not. so now that danny's here, you actually come to the after-parties? - it's nice to have another man around for once. - oh, there are other men-- ♪ oh, boy. - it's not what you think! it's something i need to wear to support my breasts! - lemon, i have season tickets to every sports team in new york. so close to the action, you'll

that resolution is to look at everything that is on the books and try to get our arms around it and whittle it back if we do not need it. there's a lot aside from the charter and the administrative code. do we need these reports? how frequently do we need them? and work from that perspective in terms of the number of meetings we have. the third comment is we take what we are mandated to do and on top of that, we put on other policy and discipline matters that come up. or that simply come out. a lot of stuff comes up. are we going to be meeting twice a month here until 10 and 11 pm vs getting out at 7:30 p.m.? that is something to weigh. i would rather meet more frequently and get out earlier. there many things i would like to do. i lean toward more meetings but last amount of time then very long meetings. and the additional consideration that i am throwing out, as the rule changes proposed, it is saying holding a community meeting every fourth wednesday. i am all for that. it is a terrific idea. every month be out in the community. on the other hand, over the year and a half i have been on

the guys did manage to whittle down the final deficit to a respectable 20 points. and blatche and the wizards with another fruitless effort tonight. first possession of the game really told the story. rashad lewis over to nick young. he lugss the ball. iguodala comes up about it and gives it up to elton brand for the dunk. not a great start tonight. second quarter, wizards down by 21. bright spot here. mcgee challenges the shot, gets the block. jordan crawford scoops up the ball. he's going the other way. i'm going to keep it. a pass intended, but it's going fob a turnover. scoop it up and in. he had a team high of 17. the wizards trail by 30 at the break. third quarter off the with his sfla -- wizards mixes. he's one of six 76ers in double figures. they fall 103-83. they're 2-15 on the season. >> what i was disappointed is i thought we would have came out with a better energized effort early. we fell behind, and the heads went down. this is a team that's beaten us a lot. whether we lack confidence against them or whatever, to their credit they executed and shot th

reporter: caucusgoers signaling their choice in less than 24 hours possibly whittling down the field. >> we would the to see the leadership and people answering specific questions about what they intend to do, how they intend to work with congress to get this country back on pace of. reporter: months of campaigning leading to this, iowans ultimately picking a candidate they feel is in line with their state's values. >> the one thing about the people in iowa is common sense. they can see through the bull crap and all. basically that's it. reporter: iowa caucuses typically near the field but could be different this year with the cluster of candidates polling so close together. 41% right now said they could change their mind before tuesday's vote. craig boswell, fox news. >> the fox 5 storm force tracking a bitter blast of winter air, taking a live look outside. the mild temperatures that kicked off the new year, gone. now it feels like it should, january. just the beginning. sue palka with an update in the weather center. >> this is the coldest day since last february. i just checked th

it whittles the field down. >> when you look at this image, we pulled it up, you predict the next abc news debate, less than a week from now, we may not see the same people? >> it will be a less crowded stage. one or two of the candidates probably won't be there. >> the white house watching iowa, whether they say they are or not. what is their strategy at this point, given the field as it stands? >> they are in a vulnerable environment. the president's job approvaal isn't very high and consumer confidence is low. they know this race shouldn't be about them, but who the nominee is. if it's mitt romney, they want him to emerge beaten up. so far, he hasn't, but as soon as this thing is over, they're going to start their campaign in earnest. >> matthew, thank you. you're going to be here foul loafing the caucus results. bull we're now just six days away from the next abc news debate, just before the new hampshire primary. diane sawyer, george stephanopoulos moderating. we'll all be there in new hampshire next saturday night. >>> the republican candidates have been critical of the white ho

take them separately because a lot of the profit the private debt problem has been substantially whittled away i wouldn't say it's all gone by a more conservative behavior given the catastrophic we still have a huge drop out of this is your right and some defaults mortgage that has partly that's not the way you like to get rid of it but partly we've got rid of it through the fall so they're going to be more of those government debt of course keeps mounting. and eventually we need to take care of that now eventually to me if i had a magic wand which i don't and neither does anyone else in washington i would like to see the congress. lock in today as soon as possible very substantial deficit reduction down the road not now we don't need a fiscal contraction now with the economy still on its knees but we need it some time later because ron explosive that path it's not it's not sustainable and eventually we need to get off of that path so in a well ordered world congress would be legislating now things that happen in the future of course they're not doing that i guess i just don't see how we

i had to whittle it down from the 25 why i wanted to insert sir tint clauses that illustrate the keynis points about our government or thev democratic functions in very specific ways that i thought were interesting to read about and read about.i' i will tell yom u those pretty quickly.ed t the incompatibility clause that says if you're a memberm of congress you could also be the executive officer of which mary -- farewell could exclude scott down fromi being in the end negative of god also weights and measures the congress has thels power to set the weights and measures so if you are mad we don't have the metric system blame congress. the recess appointments sayss the president can use recess of the senate to appoint somebody without senate confirmation and what counts as a recess? just tiebreaker any time they got for a cigarette? the original jurisdiction clause et win one state suessume another state go straight to the supreme court which would hold a trial and it has done that a few times but when mr. reit wanted to sue illinois because they change thel direction of the chicago rive

field of candidates is whittled down all the scandals of these candidates mitt romney's bain capital problem the fact they only pay fifteen percent in taxes there's a serial flip flopper romney and gingrich tearing each other apart and tax about who suddenly hates super pacs more and the question is always how will this help the obama campaign but should they have been astray ssion actually start hearing its own base as well so it's no secret there is why discontent on matters of immigration policy not prosecuting wall street and worst of all in my mind an assault on civil liberties what will be left for give obama and all of his faults to forego the threat of this. my view on other social issues such as the gay marriage i've always opposed gay marriage i believe that we should provide equal rights to people regardless of their sexual orientation but i do not believe that marriage should be between two people people of the same gender the idea that the catholic charities cannot take money or with the federal government this administration won't give them those dollars for sexually tr

gave the proposal a thumbs up when taking a look ats the picture long term because it continues to whittleficits. it's a short term, he believes the governor overestimates tax revenue. >> we're concerned about capitol gains aassumptions that the administration is making is off the issue. >> tailor believes the state will take in $3 kbrinl less than what the governor predicts. the disagreement mostly over how much wealthyest californians will bring in. richest 1% pay 40% of the state total intake of personal income tax. boosted by capitol gains. brown administration believes numbers are correct. >> there is revenue forecasting that is challenging. particularly owe for those high income, high wage californians whose behavior can swing number autos a game changer can be the offering of facebook this year, neither lao nor governor accounts for butld

california state republican party chair says usually iowa whittles the candidates down to two or three but not this year. >> consider ron paul won't drop out for a long time, gingrich can be in for a long time, perry has money, romney and now santorum. . >> reporter: james taylor see itself differently. >> part of this iowa process is for the purging process. probably loose two or three candidates even if they don't acknowledge it. >> reporter: who are the likely losers in. >> i think michelle bachmann and rick perry. >> reporter: and who wins in. >> i think ron paul or santorum. >> reporter: what about the man who leads in the national polls in romney? >> he is the one candidate who everybody thinks is formidable to challenge obama next year but he is the only one who hasn't had a surge. >> reporter: how will he do? >> i'm sure better than paul. >> reporter: we didn't find a lot of passion. >> not excited about what i'm seeing. hoping someone will change course a little more and pull it together. >> reporter: if there is no clear front runner by the super tuesday elections in february

licenses, it started with nearly two dozen applications for just the cultivation centers and recently whittled new list along with all the maps created where they want to set up shop on our website. >> thanks. >> very interesting. >> it's a debate. >> thanks, tisha. >>> lindsay lohan is on track to complete the terms of her 3r0 base. that's according to the superior court judge today. a judge told her she received favorable reports from probation officials. lohan's probation includes cleaning dudeties at a morgue and therapy sessions. the punishment is for a drunk driving case and the theft of a necklace from a jewelry store. she could be done with her probation by the end of march. >>> anticipation is soaring. the new george lucas movie red tales opens on friday, it's about the tuskegee airmen during world war ii. >> we have the right to fight for our country, the same as every other american. so you shut us down or you let us fly. >> evelyn johns isn't widow of raymond johnson. he was drafted out of rotc at howard university. she's grateful their story will finally be told on the big screen.

over a long discussion over a couple of years, the article was renamed and whittled down. >> what is it now back skype i believe it is called "campaign for santorum." what is it now? >> i believe it is called "campaign for santorum." >> if you type in rick santorum, what comes up first? >> at the moment, you would see his article and campaign site. you also see the campaign for santorum. it has a lot of links. google has decided that it matters. >> the wikipedian, you have to type in wikipedian.net. >> it is mine blog. i have run for a few years. i will continue doing it. >> we only have 10 seconds. will wikipedia be around in 10 years? >> almost certainly in 100 years. >> thank you. >> for a dvd copy of this program, called 1877-662-7726. for free transcripts, visit www.q-and-a.org. they're also available as a c- span podcast. >> this morning, a look at the republican presidential campaign in iowa and we will speak with the campaign chair for the brick barry campaign. after that, in discussion about the new gingrich campaign strategy in iowa. strategy in iowa.

over a long discussion over a couple of years, the article was renamed and whittled down. >> what is it now back skype i believe it is called "campaign for santa came -- what is it now? >> i believe it is called "campaign for santorum." >> if you type in rick santorum, what comes up first? >> at the moment, you would see his article and campaign site. you also see the campaign for santorum. it has a lot of links. google has decided that it matters. >> the wikipedian, you have to type in wikipedian.net. >> it is mine blog. i have run for a few years. i will continue doing it. >> we only have 10 seconds. well wikipedia be a run in 10 years? >> almost certainly in 100 years. >> thank you. >> thank you.

california state republican party chair says usually iowa whittles the candidates down to two or three this year. >> consider ron paul won't drop out for a long time, gingrich can be in for a long time, perry has money, romney and now santorum. . >> reporter: james taylor see itself differently. >> part of this iowa process is for the purging process. probably loose two or three candidates even if they don't acknowledge it. >> reporter: who are the likely losers in. >> i think michelle bachmann and rick perry. >> reporter: and who wins in. >> i think ron paul or santorum. >> reporter: what about the man who leads in the national polls in romney? >> he is the one candidate who everybody thinks is formidable to challenge obama next year but he is the only one who hasn't had a surge. >> reporter: how will he do? >> i'm sure better than paul. >> reporter: we didn't find a lot of passion. >> not excited about what i'm seeing. hoping someone will change course a little more and pull it together. >> reporter: if there is no clear front runner by the super tuesday elections in february, look f

these two early contests get so much attention and play a huge role in whittling down the field. as a comedian told it the last time so few people decided a presidential race they were all on the supreme court. which brings us to our talk back question -- do early primary and caucus states have too much influence. i'll share some of them later in the hour. >>> some of the other stories that we're covering. a family, the family of the alleged of the florida a&m hazing victim are going to speak about his death. that's going to happen this hour. >>> and the decision by mississippi governor to pardon four convicted killers has outraged families. >> is governor barbour going to pardon for the aches and pains that we have to suffer? >>> in a rare speech, the syrian president said he never ordered forces to fire on troops >>> later, an extreme effort to dig out an actian town buried under 18 feet of snow. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last thr

. >> to unprecedented degree, the republican presidential primary field now whittled down to five mitetheir 50s, # 0s and 70s focused their attention on woeful might of the young black man. >> they are tried disproportionately and suffer consequence of the death penalty disproportion nately. >> they met on martin luther king junior day at a moment when african-american unemployment is 16%, nearly twice the national average. discussion of race was triggered by an attack ad, supper pac supporting mitt romney and targeting rick santorum. >> he even voted to let convicted felons vote. >> do you believe convicted felons that exhaust their sentence should they give a right to have a vote? >> i don't think people committing violent crimes should be allowed the vote again. >> when juan williams confronted newt gingrich over his labeling president obama as the food stamp president, he was upraided by the audience. >> the twitter account is inundated with people from all races asking if your comments are not intended to beit will the poor and racial minority. we saw some of this reaction in your

. >> iowa is always whittle the fields. it's about beating expectations here. think you have three contenders that are going to go out of iowa, if you're not in the top three in iowa, you're making a big mistake. jon huntsman made a big mistake by not coming here and co campaigning here. ron paul, i think, deserves credit for putting a strong effort in here. lot of resources and lot of time in. people like the fact that he's been consistently against this deficit spending and manipulation of the monetary system in this country. i think people have some misgivings about his positions on foreign policy and i think that's something that people are starting to focus on here. >> all right, governor branstad, thank you so much for joining us and happy new year. >> thank you, same to you. >>> let's bring in two reporters in the hawkeye state. abc's political correspondent jonathan karl and o. kay henderson. >> jon, what strikes you as different about this one? >> we have never seen one that's been so up and down. look back, six different candidates at one point or oth

sounds as though rick perry may be whittling in the field. you don't believe the playing field when there is still time left on the clock there. is a clear sign this may be the end of the road for them. it's worth voting he started late in the game and his aide said that he said then, they said then they had to figure out how to raise money, build the organization, and get the governor of texas ready for national debate. there is a rhetoric. there is an issue set z there is rival that's have you to know. know their moves and how to play against them. four months isn't a lot of time to learn that. clearly mr. perry is doubting he has the opportunity to learn it fast enough for remaining states. so there is iowa leading for rick perry. and where does that leave bachmann? then newt gingrich we know is going to go to new hampshire owe to take on mitt romney tomorrow. and this is a two-person race. the conservative majority of the republican party now has to take a look at mitt romney and his record and measure that against rick santorum who will

the plan was to whittle the field to show consensus, to throw collective weight behind somebody and thus make it possible for the republican party to nominate somebody not named mitt. it has gone wrong. the first thing we heard the big announcement, they said they endorsed rick santorum, okay. so far, so good. kind of how we expected it to go. then, rumblings of discontent. i have to pause here to let you know some of this reporting is from the washington post, a good reporter with sources on the right. i would trust her to the end of the earth. some of the rest of the reporting comes from the washington times. the washington times is a conservative paper for conservatives only and the times can get a little batty at times. not a particularly credible news source, except when their stories are about internal feuds on the right. then the times is often dynamite. when there was an insurgency to get right of michael steele, most of the quotes that came from people willing to talk about that fight was within the republican party, most of those showed up in the pages of the washington times.

now live in south carolina, you can see them there there are only four of them, the field has been whittledown after texas gov. ray carried out out earlier today. >> i have come to the conclusion that this is no viable path forward for me in the 2012 campaign. therefore, today i am suspending my campaign and endorsing new gingrich's for president of the united states. >> i was very honored about endorsing me a few minutes ago as he withdrew from the campaign. >>reporter: the news is not good for newt gingrich, one of his ex-wife's is talking. marianne gingrich. she said back when they were married, his former wife asked to have an open marriage. >> he was asking to have an open marriage and i refuse, that i accept the fact that he has someone else in his life. >> and you said? >> no. >>reporter: now new gingrich and marianne gingrich were married for 18 years, he and his third marriage is with kalista the rich. he called--meanwhile, we learned that the central and won the iowa caucus, votes from missing three scenes have been tallied in be tallied, the iowa gop said today that rick santorum

is by the time you get to south carolina, iowa's done, new hampshire's done, the field has been whittled a bit, so as much as there's been attacks we'd like to forget, the candidates attacks against each other become more focussed, so it's a lot more confrontational primary environment you have here in south carolina just by nature of where we are in the process versus what you had in new hampshire and even iowa. >> when you see stuff used against john mccain, this flyer against rick santorum's wife, who deserves none of this. what kind of effect do you think it has in the campaign? obviously, it gets picked up and covered. what do you think the effect is? >> sure. you know, ultimately i think it depends on how much money is behind it. what you saw against john mccain in 2000 was a coordinated effort with a lot of time and a lot of money put behind it. you know, here quite candidly what happened to santorum, not taking anything away from its despicable nature, it was flyers on cars in an event in the upstate where the media's coverage on the event has had more impact than the people that