martha maccallum with you this morning. a total reversal of the numbers we had on monday. hear is the breakdown, if the primary were held today, mitt romney would win with 39% of the vote with newt gingrich s 31%. santorum and paul at 12% and 9% respectively. bill: the big story as we go through the numbers, how much the story has changed since monday, only four days ago. in words of the man who did the polling this is just nuts. scott rasmussen is the man. live with us from rasmussen reports. what is going on here, scott? bill, you have to remember a week ago we were having mirror image of this discussion. newt gingrich had gone down 14 to up two. a 16-point swing in matter of days. now gingrich down 10, romney up 17-point swing. part of it the surge is the surge and doesn t last. newt gingrich had a good week but it hasn t lasted. part of it those somewhat conservative voters now are swinging behind mitt romney. he leads among that group 50% to 29%. gingrich still does we
future benefits. jon, this is happening across multiple department, not just the military. jon: yeark the pentagon obviously is bracing for pretty veer cuts. chief white house correspondent ed henry live at the white house with the latest. what s this all about, ed? reporter: good to see you, jon. this is a regular review the pentagon does and the bottom line is what the jon i m sorry, the president has just emerged at the pentagon, along with the joint chiefs chairman. you re getting squashed, ed! let s listen to the president. good morning, everybody. the united states of america is the greatest force for freedom and security that the world has ever known. and in no small measure that s because we built the best trained, best led, best equipped military in history and as commander in chief i m going to keep it that way. indeed all of us on this stage, every single one of us, have a profound responsibility to every soldier, sailor, airman, marine, and coast guardsman
determined, also cuts of so-called next generation weapons systems, as well as future benefits. jon, this is happening across multiple department, not just the military. jon: yeark the pentagon obviously is bracing for pretty veer cuts. chief white house correspondent ed henry live at the white house with the latest. what s this all about, ed? reporter: good to see you, jon. this is a regular review the pentagon does and the bottom line is what the jon i m sorry, the president has just emerged at the pentagon, along with the joint chiefs chairman. you re getting squashed, ed! let s listen to the president. good morning, everybody. the united states of america is the greatest force for freedom and security that the world has ever known. and in no small measure that s because we built the best trained, best led, best equipped military in history and as commander in chief i m going to keep it that way. indeed all of us on this stage, every single one of us, have a profou
under control on this mission, and what a mission it was. they put a large red deceased banner under the photo of osama bin laden, leaving nine other highly souter reuss still on the list, including osama bin laden apartments chief deputy, we begin with jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. what is the latest from that building where you are? reporter: the latest we ve learned what it was that caused to blackhawk 2 to actually crash at the compound. what happened was there wasn t enough air underneath the wings. as they were coming in the seal team that was being brought in, they were rappeling out of the helicopter, we are told there, was not enough lift under the helicopter for it to take off again. it came smashing down into the compound. no one was hurt but they had to a ban tkoepb iabandon it. it was because of the walls of the compound. there wasn t enough wind, they had to detonate explosives. that fire that you see at the compound was as a result of them having to
destruction in birmingham, alabama. at this hour an estimated one million people in the state of alabama have no electricity. even a nuclear power plant lost off-site power, and generators are keeping the plant going. plant operators classifying the emergency as the lowest of four levels, but still something that we are watching very closely all things considered. here is video of the twister that terrorized the people of coleman, alabama, including this man who witnessed the tpapbl cloud heading towardfunnelcloud. i tried to outrun it. it stayed with me for about a half mile or so. it was right on my tail. i was able to get away from it. there is no way for me to imagine how much of a loss. the building over there, all the windows are out. the furniture is cut up, it s more than a loss than i can comprehend right now. jon: jonathan serrie is in berm ming ham. mark mancuso also on site. jenna: we begin with rick reichmuth. search and rescue efforts are underway right behi