guess where that is. guess where it is. it is chicago. it is about 75 degrees on this spring day. actually not even officially spring, is it? look at that. 75 degrees, it looks like summer. we are going to have mike seidel from the wretch join us a little later on this hour to talk about incredible weather around so much of the country. beautiful day in chicago. let s talk about newt gingrich who made another contract with america. he s staying in the race until the gop convention in tampa. emphasize going to tampa. it is the reason we are going to go tall way to tampa. all the way to tampa. look forward to getting to pam pa with your help. so far he has been able to keep it going with help from a billionaire back to his super pac. it is a fact he did not mention when discussing mitt romney during his speech this past
voters since the president launched his re-election in april. they are very far ahead of the republicans right now in ohio. okay. jim, glur chicago. that s for the president s election headquarters. you know the operation there. howard dean told me that david plouffe, president s top political adviser, knows where every vote is. is that an exaggeration? is the president s organization really that good? assisting david axelrod and mussina in overseeing an impressively data-rich social media savvy organization probably does know where most every potential voter is, for whom they voted and a variety of local and national elections in recent years, what websites they prefer, do they watch weekends with alex witt, what they had for breakfast yesterday. that said, all that data in you know, treasure-trove they are seeing aside, they are not
sometime this week. and even msnbc s reverend al sharpton said he will go down to orlando at some point this week to participate in the rallies that will take place. absolutely. which means this network is going to continue to follow this case. thank you very much. at the bought on. hour we are going to talk to the florida reporter about the controversy surrounding the police department s handling of the shooting. coming up at 1:30 eastern right here on weekends with alex witt. let s go to front page politics now. and a bold prediction by rick santorum about tuesday s gop primary in illinois. this is a pledge. we are able to come out of i will will a huge and surprise win i guarantee you that we will win this nomination. santorum is trailing romney in the latest illinois polls but counting on republicans in the rural areas outside chicago to show up at the polls for him.
down to the 40s. we don t think that will happen today. already, alex, today, 75. breaks the record for the 18th of march. that s the fifth record high in a row in chicago. more than likely this will end up being the fifth 80-degree day in chicago. up into international falls, the ice box of america. they have broken another record today. yesterday 77. breaking a record by 22 degrees. and normally snow and ice this time of the year. average high is 35. things are really insane here. we are going have record or near record warm notice atlanta, st. louis, cleveland, washington, and then for those of you in the northeast where had you a bit of a break, you will get a warmup today. through the rest of the week. records will likely be set there. certainly this coming week. alex? okay. hope you have your sunscreen on, mike seidel. the latest from the gas pumps and national average for regular going up just a fraction to $3.89 a gallop. aaa says that s 27 cents higher, though, than last m
thing about winning with south carolina. and it doesn t look like newt gingrich is on a path right now to win the nomination himself. unless he gets to the nomination. my reaction is simply that rick santorum wants to win i will and i will knows it would be very good for him. i don t think that means he will win the nomination by next week. do you see it there in chicago? how apparent is that difference? pretty vivid, particularly one you look at cable news television ads locally and after the flood of romney ads bashing santorum, economically a creature of washington, supporter of the bridge and to nowhere. it is interesting on a lot of levels because in theory, this should be a state where romney does very well and precisely because of a pretty rich tradition of moderate republicans. however, the same problems