right back. and north korea at this moment getting ready to fire a long-range rocket. why that launch could set up a powder keg in one of the most dangerous corners of the world. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com let s begin with the breaking news in a case that has gripped the entire nation. a senior law enforcement source says george zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who shot dead an unarmed teenager trayvon martin will, in fact, be charged. florida s special prosecutor has scheduled a news conference two hours from now. of course, we ll bring that to you live. let s go to cnn s martin savidge. he s in sanford, florida, watching all of this unfold. set the scene for us, martin. what do we know right now? reporter: we know that sanford is, of course, the epicenter and right now there is a lot of tension in this town in the leadup to that special announcement that will come from the special pr
to leave those low-lying areas. right to kathy quiano. what are you hearing and seeing from regions most at risk? we heard that the very strong quake, a magnitude 8.1 according to officials just hit the area. now, it s not clear this is an aftershock. the area has been experiencing those after the first quake hit. some residents were told went back to their homes and shopped but again moving to safer ground after this very, very strong aftershock. authorities also say they re not lifting a tsunami watch or warning yet and still telling people to stay away from the coastline if possible and higher ground. there are no reports that a tsunami watch was from the first quake but still watching and monitoring and telling people not to return to areas near the coastline so maybe their homes and their shops. kathy, how long before they know? because we can remind folks about the 2004 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. that was a 9.3 magnitude earthquake, so we re talking about
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are not yet able to make a projection, piers. let s give it a little time for some more official numbers to come in. once they come in based on those numbers and these exit poll numbers, we ll be in a better position to make a projection. wolf acti, you re making thi sound as exciting as you always do but you are a master of this process. are we at the end game? if mitt romney was to win all three tonight, this is pretty much game over, isn t it? not necessarily. it s almost game over. pennsylvania april 23rd, if santorum loses his home state, then it s game over. if he wins in pennsylvania, you know, mitt romney still won t be at that 1,144 delegate number that he needs to officially sew up the nomination. and in may there are some states like texas, for example, kentucky, arkansas, where santorum presumably has an advantage, so he ll continue. a lot of the establishment republicans, a lot of the pundits think it s game over. let s see what the voters have to say. i don
according to our math here he s got about 77 more delegates at least on his quest to the 1,144 needed to clinch the nomination. now, that means he s halfway there according to my math. about 57% of the delegates he need. tom foreman is here, hat trick, no small feat here. how did he do it? well, you know, a hat trick you have a bunch of hats thrown on the ice. what he s got is a big number change. look at this. that was the number coming into tonight. watch it tick over here. 648 now just as importantly, rick santorum s number did not move at all. i want to look at a little of how he did. move into the national map here. that s some areas where he had some more intense wins than others. you see where santorum won down here and romney here. the darkest areas is where romney really dominated. those were the big power counties down here. milwaukee county and walkashaw county, kenosha county. that s one of the areas he did really well. one of the others is the demographics and