organizers of the campaign to recall california governor gavin newsom collecting 1.95 million signatures with the deadline just days away the announcement coming on sunday where there was a massive rally near the state capitol in sacramento and the campaign exceeding threshold of 1.5 million signatures as the st. patrick s day deadline nears. former vice president mike pence will give his first speech since leaving office next month. ap reporting pence will be a keynote at a dinner in south carolina. hosted by a christian non-profit group he is expected to speak on conservative values and to the the accomplishments of the trump adminitration. west virginia senator joe manchin has his mind made up on supreme court the politicoing the filibuster but is expressing an openness to making it more painful to use. we can fix everything if we just talk to each other there s no need for us to go to reconciliation until the other process has failed.
ever known how do you know it s been a bad week for the republican presidential nominee? that s when willard mitt romney wants to change the subject to his tax returns. yes, you heard me right. that s how bad things have become for mr. romney. the meeting went something like this. someone on the campaign suggested bringing out a whiteboard on an airplane tarmac. that got shot down. they ve already done the veep rollout. too late, i guess, to do that again. a foreign trip? i don t think that s such a good idea. the entire foreign front has proved a complete and utter disaster. but then came the eureka moment. one hour ago, 3:00 p.m. on a friday afternoon to be exact, the campaign decided it would finally release the romneys full 2011 tax returns. mitt and ann paid $1.95 million in taxes on his 2011 investment income of $13.7 million. an effective rate of just over
arkansas. and tornado watches still up in a number of places. cnn meteorologist rob marciano, i heard you back there. can t keep up with the board and everything else going on. what s the latest? what s eerie about this situation is that there s a path of the tornado took is a similar path to the one that hit them in april. north of tuscaloosa and northern birmingham. not similar results but still two fatalities. and i want to show you the latest on where this is all going. the most damage has been north of birmingham. and center point, paradise valley. this area here about, i don t know, maybe 15, 20 miles north of birmingham, alabama. this happened overnight when it was dark, dangerous situation. two fatalities. a tat least 100 people injured with this storm. and there was another cell south of birmingham with similar results, although it s less populated down there. we didn t have as much structural damage, but injuries nonetheless around clayton and reports of a transmi
reporter: martinez whose brother and sister wasted no time to get to lottery headquarters in tallahassee. not bad for a young man out of work and looking for a job the last year and a half. a proud dad. i m kind of lost right now. i m happen for if i him to get what he got. he deserves it. reporter: martinez chose the one-time lump sum payment of $1.95 million. what does he plan to do with the cash? buy my mom a car. make some good investments. enjoy life and marry the woman of my dreams. reporter: have you found the woman yet? yeah, i have. took the lump sum. but a lot more than he had. that s a lot of money. and he ll do the right thing with it. he wants to get married. get mama a car. doing all the right stuff. reain t see, tol we e told you. wish i had known. got be win
tmz reports bieber took the test friday night. the accuser just has to provide dna from her baby to prove the boy is bieber s as she claims. we ve got polar bears for you. migrating in canada. for years only scientists got to see the bears journey, but thanks to a vehicle called the tundra buggy with a camera, we can all catch a glimpse. more cute animals. nearly 50 penguins rescued to an oil spill off the coast of new zealand were released back into the wild. boy, were they running. each has been tagged with a microclip and will be monitored for the next year. a pine or spruce has lostity luster, look at this. it s a solid gold tree. this tree is pure gold worth $1.95 million. it s 8 feet tall, 26 pounds of glittering precious metal. police are calling this a flash mob robbery. 50 people walked into a convenience store, took what they wanted and left. none had receipts and police are