speak in the republican presidential primary. at a small ham house restaurant in greenville is the center of a showdown between mitt romney and newt gingrich literally. both candidates scheduled to arrive for breakfast, a meet-and-greet at the same place at the very same time, but romney got there first. maybe he needs that head start especially after a recent poll shows a stunning turnaround, gingrich surging ahead with 450% of the vote, romney a distant second now, 26%. our jim acosta is there. so, jim, tell us what s happening at the restaurant. reporter: hey, gary, we re live outside tommy s ham house. newt gingrich is inside as part of the ham house showdown we ve seen all morning long. you can see the former speaker was hamming it up inside the restaurant. he arrived, as we all know, 30 ninlts after mitt romney left the scene and he asked the crowd inside, where s mitt, he was hoping to have a debate with the former massachusetts governor. that was not to be. we were
way ahead of mitt romney. snow flooding, wide weather across the country. we ll have a look at what else is on the horizon. captions by vitac www.vitac.com big day in south carolina as people are voting right as we speak in the republican presidential primary. at a small ham house restaurant in greenville is the center of a showdown between mitt romney and newt gingrich literally. both candidates scheduled to arrive for breakfast, a meet-and-greet at the same place at the very same time, but romney got there first. maybe he needs that head start especially after a recent poll shows a stunning turnaround, gingrich surging ahead with 450% of the vote, romney a distant second now, 26%. our jim acosta is there. so, jim, tell us what s happening at the restaurant. reporter: hey, gary, we re live outside tommy s ham house. newt gingrich is inside as part of the ham house showdown we ve seen all morning long. you can see the former speaker was hamming it up inside the restau