reporter: good morning, alex. hi there, everybody. first, record shattering snowstorm before halloween and silence. mild snow. new york hadn t recorded any snow until today. now the snow is on the ground. there is a bad sign to this. if you re heading up and down the i-95 corridor issues. freezing rain and sleet falling down toward philadelphia and baltimore and central new jersey and travel is discouraged at least until this afternoon. then at laguardia a ground stop until 9:45. this is a fast moving storm which means it s almost completely over by early afternoon and then we have improving conditions as we head into sunday. the good news is the kids, they finally get to use those snow tubes and new snow blower you bought in october can be taken out of the garage and some people enjoying a taste of went that took till the end of january to finally arrive. pretty as a picture, eric. thank you. back to south carolina now. a new dis for newt gingrich from
the republican party. frankly, i think, alex, that is why there has not been much excitement down here, up until the last day or so, in the republican primary. people have said these guys aren t talking about what we care about and not really excited about the field that they have and it shows. glenn, do you agree with what the former governor is saying and do you think whether it comes to jobs there is any one p. he fr i dell you that i disagree with what the governor said. it s facts. and it s truthful and it s facts that what speaker gingrich said, that s the fact. there are more people on food stamps, not even that, unemployment rates in my african-american community have done nothing and these candid e candidates have been talking about what they would do
the romney supporters are here, excited about their chances today. we ll see how fired up the gingrich folks are when they get here in about 45 minutes, alex. i ve got to ask you about this, ron. i love the behind the scenes. apparently the romney supporters have been inside the restaurant behind you. they ve been walking around to the tables of the romney sue poerts and saying, eat and get out of here because we want to have a less-dense crowd, not so many people, for the cameras like ours which will be wauching things when newt gingrich arrives. that s the mrilt cal playing going on right now. those kids behind you, aren t they college kids that were bussed in? i mean, this is what happens. reporter: right, exactly. this is what politics is all about in south carolina. it s strategizing, all is fair in love, war and politics. so these folks have come out here trying to take some of the thunder away from newt gingrich. we ll see if the gingrich folks are here while the romney folk
was talking was mitt romney exiting that place. again, just keep in mind how kind of tight things are and there s a lot of tension between the camps right now. both mitt romney and newt gingrich had been scheduled to be there around 10:45 this morning. he brought his campaign there a little bit early, got there about 10:00 a.m., now leaving well in advance of newt gingrich s arrival in 20, 25 minutes. meanwhile, ron paul has been campaigning less aggressively in south carolina than he has in the other early voting states. but it s part of a larger plan taken straight from president obama s 2008 campaign playbook. after posting strong finishes in iowa and new hampshire, the good doctor who you aren t seeing there, is now focusing on low-cost states holding caucuses that can yield a large number of delegates. i m joinled by doug wead, senior adviser for the ron paul campaign. nice to see you, doug. thanks for joining me there in t the. thanks, alex.
a particular candidate. it was frustration like you ve got to be kidding me, we are going to talk about this for two hours? so i think that s what you re seeing and i think it s interesting. ba. i m goi to say even within the newsrooms, we talked about the timing of that question. it was up for much debate so i certainly understand that. however, what about the female vote with newt gingrich? i can tell you righteous in my discussions with other women it has been very animated shall we say when it comes to newt gingrich. these are things that campaigns have to deal with, alex p.m. i m not throwing all of these things under the carpet but i think individual candidates deal with these different issues and it s their responsibility, i would say, as a candidate, to make the decisions that they make in order to decide a what and how they want to deal with these issues. i think it s up to them. as party chairman, it s not something i get in the middle of. but i will tell you, overall, to