when the senate refused to confirm her, i sent her to el salvador anyway, because i knew she was going to do an outstanding job, and she has. and i m glad to see the senate finally confirmed her last week. so she s now official. last but not least, i want to thank all of you. it s always nice to get out of washington. it s nice to get a little florida sunshine. but it s especially nice to see folks who have devoted themselves to serving their communities and their country, who dedicated themselves to making people s lives just a little bit better each and every day at every level. school board, state legislatures, county boards. you guys are where the rubber hits the road, and i ve had a chance to see many of you in
of mexican origin. 14% puerto rico and 5% cuban. in florida, cubans are 32%. puerto ricans 28% and mexicans 9%. president obama speaks to latino officials here this hour. president has a wide lead over mitt romney among latino voters. what s he plan to do? shore up the support, bring in juan carlos lopez to talk a little bit about that and jessica yellin, inside where president obama will be speaking shortly. jessica, i want to start off with you. yesterday we heard from mitt romney. he highlighted the poor economic conditions among hispanics. 11% unemployment. 2 million hispanics living in poverty. how will the president address the concerns of latino community when it comes to the economy? i expect he will draw on the same message we heard recently from the president about the two different visions for the future economy of the nation talking about how he believes he will build on the middle class and fare fair shake, fair future, building on the middle class and mitt r
florida, on the other coast sees the most thunderstorms annually of any city in the u.s. so florida sunshine, also stormy, but improvements are ahead in the forecast. we re looking at some better weather for florida, much nicer weather, actually, this weekend. highs in the low 80s, less humidity. if only it could be like that everywhere. certainly not in new england. we are looking at snow showers rumbling on through. we saw snow in western massachusetts and some of the snow continues in northern new england this morning. some of the heavier snow, seven inches hit areas in the western part of the state. two inches in the city of boston. seven inches in manchester, and we re not done yet. april fools joke, it really did happen on april fools day. there is a winter weather advisory for johnstown, pennsylvania, so we re not done. temperatures are holding steady in the upper 40s, around 51 in new york city. you ll be warming up to much nicer weather as we go towards sunday. it will still
love the florida sunshine. jess yellin, thanks. go find rick scott, maybe he ll give you a free vacation. palm trees for the weekend. quick update from a political ticker update. fox news and former senator rick santorum, they have parted ways indicating santorum may be making a run for president come 2012. he will be john king s guest tonight. don t miss jk usa 7:00 p.m. eastern. breaking developments in the shooting in germany involving the u.s. troops. also, nine afghan civilians, including children, killed in an air strike, and it s prompting general david petraeus to issue a rare apology. plus, apple introducing its ipad 2. what s new about it? how much does it cost? plus perhaps the most important item about that. someone made a surprise appearance at that event. i m sure can you guess who that was. they are lining up right now. reporter roulette next.