little over an hour from now. let s bring in anderson cooper. we are now moments away from the first results in the new jersey s governor s race. i want to check in with athena jones. reporter: hi anderson. a short while ago we spoke with a member of murphy s team, they said they were in the war room checking numbers. turn out numbers are good. rain has been a concern, but the officials said we re cold front we had a strong thorough statewide campaign with tens of thousands of volunteers canvassing the state in ponchos to get out the vote. i also spoke to the donna campaign, they also said their confident. confident our voters are motivated to get to the polls kbi despite the weather. chris kissty popularity, his approval rating in the team.
ted cruz. he s been doing it in campaign rallies. he said he was beholden to oil companies, raises the fact he s born in cuba, he s an evangelical. watch donald trump go after ted cruz hard. he s gaining on him in iowa, and across the country. finally, chris christie. i m watching the comeback of chris christie. he s back on the main debate stage, after being relegated to the undercard debate one month ago. and the issue set in this campaign is lining up nearly perfectly for chris kissty. his advisers believe. he will talk a lot about global terrorism, his experience and look for him to question the experience of senator marco rubio and senator ted cruz. those are three of the things of many things we re watching here tonight. jeff, thanks very much. a big deal for chris christie to be able to get back on to the main stage after being on the runningup stage. that of course, the first debate. coming up tonight for candidates on that stage. that s what we are getting ready for shortly.
governor chris kissty, south carolina senator lindsey graham ohio governor john kasich, florida senator marco rubio and wisconsin governor scott walker. there will be activities to try to stand out with donors. much of the republican weekend will be in south carolina trying to sell their conservatives credential in the first in the primary state. meanwhile texas senator ted cruz is coming off a strong showing in strong polls across the palmetto state last weekend. he will look to build on it. former florida governor jeb bush will be at liberty university to deliver the commencement address tomorrow and sit for his first television interview in several months with our colleague megyn kelly. as for today, chris christie is on the stump in a critical state for him, new hampshire. i ve really enjoyed coming up doing town hall meetings and meeting folks. everyone is so engaged and really interested in the process and what everybody has to say about the future of our country the kind of th
association. others have use the that as a national base as they gear up for a presidential bid. he can easily become our nominee and get this party on the right track again. reporter: now just within the last hour, chris kissty and his wife came here to cast their votes for governor. an when he came outside, he was greeted by a huge skrum of reporters. this is a little bit of inside baseball. but that s of course because everyone is watching to see what he does as he gets ready for a likely presidential bid in 2016. i asked him, is this the last time we ll see you vote for yourself? and he said i don t know if i ll ever get the chance to vote for myself again. and we ll see if jake tapper can get a little more out of him in his exclusive interview later on today. and it s great to watch that
outfront tonight arrested again. former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky arrested for the second time. police handcuffed him and charged him with sexually abusing two more boys from his charity the second mile. sandusky was arraigned in court and unable to post $250,000 in cash bail. he remains in jail tonight. sandusky is now charged with sexually abusing a tote ol of ten boys but he continues to deny all allegations. sara ganim is in state college tonight and has the latest on the story. thanks for being with us. other attorney told united states he s working on it overnight. he was arraigned too late in the day, that s what his attorney said it was a 3:00 hearing and by the time they could get something together, he was going to have spend the night in jail and hopefully post in the morning. it s $250,000 cash bail. he c put up property or put up cash. he has to post the whole amount not just a percentage. if he s able to post he is going to be out