30,015 votes. and rick santorum, 30,007. if you do the math, it is eight votes that separated them. and as ashleigh s been saying, you should always exercise your right to vote. that last precinct, we had to wait until they reported in order to get to these numbers. it was back and forth and back and forth. like 2 1/2 hours ago. the whole cnn team has been here. in fact, i m still wondering if they re putting their shoes back on. i saw wolf, john king, gloria borger. we asked them to say. they re, like, huh-uh. most pious among the voters would be me. i m a new american so i am so thrill when had i get a chance to vote. and i can t stress it enough today. today s results tell you, america, vote. here is the fabulous des moines register front page. of course, they go to print before they even knew what the decision was. split decision, yes. but there was a clear winner on the left-hand side of your screen. the clear winner by eight votes. mitt romney over rick santorum. go
and we are a little punch drunk, as you can tell. it s been quite an exciting night. mitt romney declared the winner here. 30,015 votes. and rick santorum, 30,007. if you do the math, it is eight votes that separated them. and as ashleigh s been saying, you should always exercise your right to vote. that last precinct, we had to wait until they reported in order to get to these numbers. it was back and forth and back and forth. like 2 1/2 hours ago. the whole cnn team has been here. in fact, i m still wondering if they re putting their shoes back on. i saw wolf, john king, gloria borger. we asked them to say. they re, like, huh-uh. most pious among the voters would be me. i m a new american so i am so thrill when had i get a chance to vote. and i can t stress it enough today. today s results tell you, america, vote. here is the fabulous des moines register front page. of course, they go to print before they even knew what the decision was. split decision, yes. but the
i m ashleigh banfield. and i m zoraida sambolin and we re bringing you the news from a to z. i m lovin it. it is decision day in iowa. will romney hold on 20 the win? what about that santorum surge? will that last? voters hear final pitches before the first real test s 2012. if you re just waking up, good news to report out of los angeles and the arson fires. they stopped. the worst string of fires since the l.a. riots back in 1992. it s a big deal. apparently that got got arrested and they re looking to it being related to an immigration beef. he s being held on bail. and found dead, facedown in a waterfall. the mountain shut down as the rangers now regroup. and it is really cold. i know it s winter. so don t call me and complain when i say there s a cold weather story. when you live in these communities, kind of around the great lakes, but down into the appalachians, it is cold. slammed with snow and cold air. one to two inches in places around the northeast an
2012. we were getting you up to speed on the bizarre fires. look at this man with the ponytail. he s been arrested. this is the worst string of fires in that city since the riots of 92. get this. there may be annism grags beef allegedly involved with this arrest. lots more to tell yu about that. that s coming up. he looked like he was kind of smirking in that video. a man accused of killing a park ranger is found dead fats down in a waterfall. apparently the exposure to all the cold there. the mountain is shut down as the rangers regroup and mourn the loss of one of their own. we don t worry so much that the sniper is out there. they ve shut down the search. they pretty much figure they ve got the guy. also, did you feel it this morning when you woke up or did you have to shovel it? it has been a serious cold day in the midwest. it s basically slamming us this weather. it s actually moving into the east as well. a couple feet of snow in some places in the great lak
going up to the top of the polls. we re going to find out on tuesday, are iowans going to pick who they would like to see be the candidate or are they going it try to send the message to the rest of the country as to who should be the candidate. if it s romney, it s who it should be. if it s iowa, it may end up being rick santorum, who they like personally and could care less what the rest of the country s going to do. lenny, 47 seconds. not 45. thank you very much. i m sorry. thank you all. you ll get plenty of time in the next half hour. thanks. it is now 6:15 in the east. time to check in on the stories making news this morning authorities in los angeles have a person of interest in connection with more than three dozen suspected arson fires in and around the city during the new year s weekend. they re looking at eight additional fires now to see if they re connected somehow. also, manhunt going on in the pacific northwest. in mount rainier national park in washington