victims. this is truly amazing. science doesn t lie. all that and more right here, right now on cnn. hello, everyone. i m don lemon. thank you for joining us. i d like to welcome our viewers from around the world tonight. breaking political news, the republican race for the white house, cnn projects that rick santorum has won the louisiana presidential primary giving the former pennsylvania senator another victory in the south. our tom foreman is in washington. joe johns is in new orleans. crystal wright is a d.c. delegate for newt gingrich also in d.c. and we re monitoring rick santorum in green bay, wisconsin to see if he speaks live in just a moment. let s get to our tom foreman. he s been tracking the exit poll data all evening for us. tom, what can you tell us about rick santorum s win? you have been monitoring all the metrics here. we have seen you standing at the magic walls. so we want to get to our tom foreman and to tell you again, we are monitoring again gree
this is truly amazing. science doesn t lie. all that and more, right here, right now on cnn. hello, everyone, i m don lemon. thank you for joining us. i would like to welcome our viewers from around the world tonight. we re starting with breaking political news. the republican race for the white house. cnn projects rick santorum has won the louisiana presidential primary, giving the former pennsylvania senator another victory in the south. our tom forman is in washington. joe johns is in new orleans. crystal wright is in d.c. and monitoring rick santorum in green bay, wisconsin, to see if he speaks live in a moment. let s get straight to tom forman, who has been tracking the data all evening for us. tom, what can you have tell us about rick santorum s win? you have been monitoring all the metrics here. we ve seen you standing at the magic walls. so we want to get to tom forman, as well as tell you again, we are monitoring again green bay, wisconsin. rick santorum is sta
40 to 27%. and then when you talk about tea partiers specifically, santorum s lead jumps up to 17 points over mitt romney. 42 to 25. now, that base of tea party and conservative voters in the republic party certainly doesn t include the entire g.o.p. there are moderates. and where moderates are concerned romney actually jumps into the lead fully by 20 points. whichever candidate, santorum or romney win this it s in the margin of error now, it s a very big momentum builder. whoever loses it is in danger of being damaged legally crippled. shep? shepard: carl cammeron, thanks very much. we are getting word that a severe thunderstorm cell with possible rotation is working its way toward the montgomery, bam alabama area. there are concerns especially about on the lower part of that town, the southern part of montgomery, residents in that area are asked to take shelter and check your weather
brett bay are is live in washington, resident expert. how are you doing? hello. heather: let s talk about washington state. 43 delegates up for grabs in washington state, non-binding so does it matter who wins? that is what we see in the caucus states, its process. this is the first step in that process. all these caucus states go through county, state process to get to the delegates that eventually go to the national convention. still it s a momentum builder for anyone who wins this. the voting should have stopped at 4:00 on the east coast. we were told that the caucuses should be coming to an end within the past hour and we should see first results 6:00 p.m. eastern time. we ll be getting results throughout the evening. we ll have cut-ins throughout the night and full wrap-up show
candidates on what s shaping up to be a big tuesday. perhaps another game change momentum builder for mr. romney. we shall see. also this morning the miserable conditions aboard a luxury cruise liner being towed to port. no ac, no hot food until at least tomorrow. what a vacation nightmare that is. between that and costa concordia i m going to hold off on my cruise plans i think. you know? yeah. just for a little while. later this half hour, he looks like he s 28 years old, but today he is celebrating his seventh birthday. that s right, guys. of course it is leap day. wait until you hear the theme of his birthday party this year. i guess it s kind of cool to have a birthday today. it s pretty cool. forever young in a way. at least mathematically. we ll see. all right. but first the romney campaign can breathe a little easier this morning after those two victories. but some major challenges are still ahead with super tuesday now less than a week away. abc s david muir