election. you come in first, you, you get 30% of the vote, you don t get 30% of the delegates. it is a complicated process. it takes months to make its way out in iowa. there will be 12 delegates at stake in one weekend in new hampshire. jon: this is your place for politics. you guys help explained why. carl cameron and karl rove. thank you both. jenna: our focus remains on iowa but we have a couple stories to tell you about today. a chain-reaction accident shutting down a busy interstate. dozens of cars involved in the pileup. the dangerous weather that played a part and if it is headed toward you. that will be next. jon: a murder mystery with ties to the british royals? what police are saying about the investigation. we re live with that story. jenna: an interesting story there. much more on the all-important iowa caucuses, how they work and what it means outside the hawkeye state. rick has more on the day s coverage and our live chat. reporter: hi, jenna. nice to see you. fox news
tonight with one fairly clear-cut winner. you could come out with a treo essentially tied, right? the old saw, as carl cameron said ever time during his coverage, win, place or show in iowa gives you a ticket to new hampshire. what is interesting we may have a couple candidates who come out of here with enough resources to fight again another day like in south carolina, in perry and gingrich but without any, not, win, place or showing in iowa and that s going to make an interesting dynamic. jon: it will be fascinating. reporter: if i could just chime in on that, jon. jon: sure. reporter: we know if any candidate were to win every single state, run the table, we know that will not happen but just for purposes of discussion, were that to happen no candidate can statistically clinch the nomination until april 24th. you need over 1100 delegates to actually win it and prevent anybody from overtaking you. that doesn t happen for a bunch of months. there are no delegates really at sta
really at stake in the election. you come in first, you, you get 30% of the vote, you don t get 30% of the delegates. it is a complicated process. it takes months to make its way out in iowa. there will be 12 delegates at stake in one weekend in new hampshire. jon: this is your place for politics. you guys help explained why. carl cameron and karl rove. thank you both. jenna: our focus remains on iowa but we have a couple stories to tell you about today. a chain-reaction accident shutting down a busy interstate. dozens of cars involved in the pileup. the dangerous weather that played a part and if it is headed toward you. that will be next. jon: a murder mystery with ties to the british royals? what police are saying about the investigation. we re live with that story. jenna: an interesting story there. much more on the all-important iowa caucuses, how they work and what it means outside the hawkeye state. rick has more on the day s coverage and our live chat. reporter: hi, jenna. ni
for ron paul. rick santorum then in at 16%. but, it s very, it is too close to call. we have three contenders here. organization matters. carl cameron was absolutely right. you go into any one of these 1744 caucus meetings and somebody gets up and make as particularly good speech it sways minds. jon: organization matters. but personal retail campaigning matters as well. mitt romney has done less of that in iowa than the other major contenders. that s right but he leads in part because there is another thing there called money. interesting, but money doesn t necessarily buy you love. the guy who spent the most money there on television for example is rick perry who between his super pac and his campaign has spent five 1/2 million dollars on television, $4.5 million being spent by romney. about 2.25 million spent by ron paul and million dollars spent by newt gingrich. jon: we have roughly 120,000 voters in iowa tonight who
political panelists, joe trippi, pat caddell and mat strawn. matt, here is a question of sort of history. gail wants to know which candidates in iowa have gone on to win the presidency? it is about a 50%, 50% won-loss rate, right? sure. i think there s a couple things to remember relative to iowa starting the process. we re the first step, we re the first inning in a nine inning game as part the nomination process. we re not designed to be the predictor what ultimately happens. as my fellow panelists know there are very few things that george w. bush and barack obama have in common. one thing they have in common their path to the white house started by winning iowa caucuses. jon: this is a question from gwen. wants to know why all the fuss about the caucuss? they don t exactly have a great track record of choosing candidates.