tonight s caucus, determine whether there is a path forward for myself in this race. wow. it could really be over despite all the money in his account. fox & friends starts right now. good morning, everyone. we were up an hour earlier today for an extended version of fox & friends. why? because the iowa caucus is now finish even though it didn t finish until the middle of the night with mitt romney winning by eight votes over rick santorum. 30,015 to 30,007. trotted out at about 2:45 eastern time and 1:40 local time and we did not have a winner. for a while with rick santorum on time but this is the smallest margin in the history of the caucuses. eight votes, mitt romney can say i won and rick santorum can say my miraculous turn around which is going to make political history and really has from 10 days 10 days ago, he had 3% of the vote and ends up with 25% of the vote. in third place, you had ron paul as you can see right there with 22%. who doubled his ou
can rick ride his recent wave of popularity to victory? that s the big question. he does get our writers cold open mvp, though, for that line. but for rick perry, it s back to texas. game off. i decided to return to texas, assess the results of tonight s caucus, determine whether there is a path forward for myself in this race. when you say that, there s no path forward. more on the shrinking g.o.p. field, perhaps. fox & friends starts, you ve heard me, now. hi, this is rick santorum. hi, this is newt gingrich. this is congresswoman michelle bachmann. this is herman cain. this is governor rick perry of the great state of texas and you re watching fox & friends. yep. and the during happier times, a rick perry. no kidding, they all come to fox & friends and you re here this morning. we re up early to give you the news. gretch just gave it to you. it is mitt romney by eight. amazing. when we get up to get ready, we re usually in repeats so at
can rick ride his recent wave of popularity to victory? that s the big question. he does get our writers cold open mvp, though, for that line. but for rick perry, it s back to texas. game off. i decided to return to texas, assess the results of tonight s caucus, determine whether there is a path forward for myself in this race. when you say that, there s no path forward. more on the shrinking g.o.p. field, perhaps. fox & friends starts, you ve heard me, now. hi, this is rick santorum. hi, this is newt gingrich. this is congresswoman michelle bachmann. this is herman cain. this is governor rick perry of the great state of texas and you re watching fox & friends. yep. and the during happier times, a rick perry. no kidding, they all come to fox & friends and you re here this morning. we re up early to give you the news. gretch just gave it to you. it is mitt romney by eight. amazing. when we get up to get ready, we re usually in repeats so at
last in the caucuses last night among the candidates competing there. she said on this program she was going to south carolina. she had the media advisory, a couple of events wednesday and thursday but now the news this morning she is going to suspend her campaign, at least for now. jon: you see the podium waiting for the minnesota congresswoman to make this announcement. let s go to the winners in iowa first. mitt romney, rick santorum, ron paul in the top tier. the race very, very tight. just eight votes separating romney and a surging santorum. rick did i think a heroic job going across the entire state. devoted his energies to the state of iowa. during the same time period i ve been building a national campaign team going to the a bunch of states and of course pulledding a fund-raising organization that will help me down the road and if i m the nominee. jenna: santorum says it is game on now. romney set to pick up an endorsement today from john mccain, his challenger in
frederick counties schools are closed. clark schools opening two hours late. in west virginia, hampshire, hardy, pendleton schools all closed. you can find details on our website, nbcwashington.com. and tom kierein is here to tell us about our forecast. it is really cold here. temperatures just plummeted. the bottom fell out. it s all the way down to 10 degrees throughout much of the region this morning. and those potent, vigorous snow showers were like little mini blizzards. they were a little stronger farther to our west. that s why we got the snow closings there because the snow stuck to the roads and caused a lot of accidents and things are slick. right now at reagan national temperature under a clear sky 17 degrees. the coldest morning since last february. the dewpoints zero. it s very, very dry. we are moisture starved. you ll need the skin lotion all day long. look at winchester s temperature. it s only 7 above zero. montgomery county, fairfax county, the low teens