upgrading it to a seat on a charter flight. now as you might imagine that doesn t even begin to cover air force one costs in the neighborhood of $180,000 an hour to operate. do the math. $1.5 million, has covered about eight hours of flight time, barely one roundtrip flight to the west coast. that s not counting the cost of security, the motorcade are or other planes associated with the campaign. joe carney says that s the way it s always been done. and with regards to the way every president who has been running for re-election in our lifetimes deals with these matters, i mean, it is by the book, very carefully done, and appropriately done. and he s right. presidents have been doing it the same way for decades, although this president appears to be picking up the pace. according to the president s official schedule so far in 2012 president obama has traveled to at least 39 campaign events. another name for fund-raisers, by the way.
hampshire. but rom think fell short of the second test for any challenger which is making the persuasive argument why he is the guy to replace the president. he formally declared an end to the primary process in the state where he announced his bid for president last june. after 43 primaries and caucuses, many long days and more than a few long nights, i can say with confidence and gratitude that you have given me a great honor and solemn responsibility, and together we are going to win on november 6th. romney swept primaries in pennsylvania, delaware, rhode island, connecticut and new york. he won no less than 56% of the vote in all five of the states. and delaware where newt gingrich declared his last stand, custer failed the christine test. and moments ago beginnigingrich crowd in north carolina that he thinks it s pretty much clear that romney will be the nominee. he said, quote, i think obviously that i would be a better candidate but the objective fact is the voters
last night. early this tuesday morning, december 20th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs it sort of looked like that last night at the game. very, very tough to control your offense with no lights on. it definitely is. good morning, let s begin this morning with a deadly blizzard. it s terrible. it s causing a major problem for travelers in the southern plains because of high winds and more than a foot of snow in some areas. new mexico had to shut down highways. hundreds of drivers are stranded there and one driver said he hasn t seen a storm like this since the 1970s. cynthia, good morning. reporter: good morning, chris. i m in salina, kansas, where smart people are hunkered down. half a foot of snow is forecast for this city and that may end by the end of the day. blizzard like conditions were brought to places that don t normally get it like new mexico and the texas panel handle. fast-falling snow whipped by furious. 40-mile-per-hour winds made a dangerous situa
rail s original construction. employees are working days, nights, weekends, and holidays on equipment and infrastructure that is being rehabilitated. many people we talked to today outside the metro on u street say they don t see it. i m looking at these numbers and all our bus fares going, but at the same time i m not seeing any improvement. i m seeing more improvement than anything. metro insists its hiring more people. metro would not release the names of those employees. in arlington, i m lindsey mastis, 9news now. metro officials said that construction inspectors are permitted to work more than eight hours a day. the council is trying to share the pain of a tough budget. rejected a series of union contract proprosals that would have raised contributions by $# 3รก ,000 a year or more. 2/3 of county employees work for the schools and they may have to pay more to ease the burden on everyone else. we could keep the increased cost, for example, to the hundreds of
our very first huckabee show. and tonight, we ll be paying tribute to geraldine ferraro, ed rollins will join us to talk about it. [applaus [applause] also, it s the president s decision to get our troops involved in the libyan conflict without congressional approval an impeachable effect. texas congressman ron paul thinks so and i m going to ask him why and what is america s role in libya and how has the president done in explaining our goal there? we re going to grade him on our report cord. you ll get to watch tonight. [applause]. and he s the star of limitless, it s a number one movie in the country right now, my exclusive interview with bradley cooper, the great actor. that s also on our show tonight. [applause] and you know, you love them, and they are back. with our very own kelly wright, our fox news band, the little rockers, you ll get to hear them on our show, all of that and more on tonight s he disof huckabee. america s involvement in libya have left a lot of