how does he avoid being jon huntsman of the race and instead be george bush of the race, kinder, gentler republican in the field. you got an extraordinary track record with john kasich. he s won 11 straight general elections in a tough state as a congressman and as governor. i think his consistency on economic issues on how he treats people is remarkable. i think i don t i think you make a mistake if you try to always put this race in the context of earlier races. this race exists within its own boundaries and with its own context. while the other things are stri instructive, they re not defining. tom rath, thank you for being with us. i m sure we ll see you up there soon. thank you. look forward to it. pilots, commercial airline
you re going to need a $5 gadget from a novelty store and do something really stupid with it. the laser pointers we hear so much about. sorry for sounding like a bit of a mom here. those things are not toys. if you shine one in the wrong direction, i don t know, say at an airplane that s in flight, the police and the fbi would like to have a word with you. correct that. stern word with with you. the faa says this happens almost 4,000 times just in the last year. somebody shining a laser beam at planes or helicopters in flight and it happened last night five times in one spot out on long island, new york. five commercial airline pilots called down and said they were being hit by a green laser from the ground. here s what it sounded like when they called it in. i thought it was a rogue laser but they were aiming for us a couple times.
craft bobbing in the water there. not going anywhere today. most of the entire central and north part of the state is right now under a tornado watch, not a warning but a watch. a good indication of just the breadth of this storm, tropical storm debby and how far its reach. from tornadoes to water spouts to flooding in the tampa area, to the one death in venus, florida, reported so far. heavy rainfall. maybe up to 20 or 25 inches before all is said and done. we re going to continue to get pounded for at least the next couple of days. soledad? you ll be in the middle of it. john, thanks for the update. we ll keep checking in. tornado and flood warnings are still in effect today. let s get right to meteorologist alexandra steele, in for rob this morning. he made really great points, john, did, because what we re looking at is this is the tropical storm and it is stationary. that s been the biggest problem with this thing. there s no momentum. there s no movement because t
keep us posted throughout the afternoon. the battle for election delegates kicking into high gear today in the state of maine. republican voters have been kaw cu caucusing there for weeks and tonight we find out the winner. let s go to shannon travis where mitt romney and ron paul are campaigning today. so what s the feeling as to how these caucuses just might turn out? yeah, i mean the feeling about how they might turn out, ron paul seems to have a bit of an edge there. you remember, fred, that while the other candidates a few weeks ago were campaigning in florida, ron paul packed up his v-neck sweaters, packed up and headed north. he s got a lot of young supporters here and libertarian supporters here. not so fast. mitt romney is saying obviously he s a favorite son of new england, former massachusetts governor, and he came here with an 11th hour appeal. today he did something for the first time appearing at a caucus site and has been very involved in republican circl
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