business correspondent ashley webster live in spring hills, florida. and ashley, it is the calm before the storm where you are in spring hill right now. it is indeed. good morning, steve. it s a very mild, pleasant morning. but that s going to change quickly over the course of the next 48 hours. i m in front of a gas station here in spring hill. we are about 50 miles north of tampa. everything looks fine, right? not so much. this gas station ran out of gas about 4:00 yesterday afternoon. you can see the sign no gasoline of any grade, including non-ethanol. in fact we were noticing the last person to use this particular pump managed to squeeze out 18 cents. but it s not just the gas that s a problem and the shorts damage as we see people driving around early this morning looking for a pump that actually has gas. but the supplies are starting to go down. batteries, flashlights and water in particular. it s hard to find right now. you can t find a isca of water anywhere. i wan
really focused on during the comments in that crowded field in davenport, the crowded room reporter: right, katty. mike pence wasn t worth a mention from the stage he was just shy of two hours here in davenport in this inaugural iowa kick-off event for him. ron desantis, if we want to continue the baseball analogy here in iowa, you know, ron desantis can only hope that he s the ray consoella he has to make a sell to the iowans because donald trump owns the bank donald trump is the front runner according to the reception he got in the state of iowa he was on stage at the same time ron desantis is trying to sell a book donald trump went after ron desantis on ethanol, referring back to a 2017 piece of federal legislation in which it was ron desantis trying to end the renewable fuel standard. it s helped to fuel and
business correspondent ashley webster live in spring hills, florida. and ashley, it is the calm before the storm where you are in spring hill right now. it is indeed. good morning, steve. it s a very mild, pleasant morning. but that s going to change quickly over the course of the next 48 hours. i m in front of a gas station here in spring hill. we are about 50 miles north of tampa. everything looks fine, right? not so much. this gas station ran out of gas about 4:00 yesterday afternoon. you can see the sign no gasoline of any grade, including non-ethanol. in fact we were noticing the last person to use this particular pump managed to squeeze out 18 cents. but it s not just the gas that s a problem and the shorts damage as we see people driving around early this morning looking for a pump that actually has gas. but the supplies are starting to go down. batteries, flashlights and water in particular. it s hard to find right now. you can t find a isca of water anywhere. i want to talk
trump is often telegraphed punches before him and not swung through. theft out to the campaign trail. it s an interesting dynamic throughout the campaign. there s no question donald trump is going out to ted cruz on ethanol. you look at the speech yesterday he went after cruz consistently over and over again. the polls tell you why. cruz 27 and trump 23 and rubio at 15, carson at 7. if you re donald trump and your brand is winning. cruz is starting to move in iowa. if you re trump, you re close enough still. the idea is keep cruz from growing. is trump looking for a win or keep it close? he s a very he wants to win iowa. he s trying to win there. i think that s why he s going after cruz so aggressively. if he was playing for second place, i don t think he would have shown up in iowa and taking on methanol and the issue of cruz s birthplace.
for gasoline seemed to shift his stance in front of that crowd. it s something i m willing to go forward on continuing the renewal fuel standard and pressing the epa to make sure that there s certainty in terms of the levels set. thanks. so bring the panel back in here. we ll talk about this. who sort of stood out at this thing. this is one of the things that i thought was noteworthy about this. scott walker on ethanol, starting to shift his position there. not everybody is doing this. we always hear the story about iowa. in iowa you have to be for ethanol. you re not going to win the caucuses. you might not win the state in the fall unless you re for ethanol. ted cruz was up there yesterday. i don t think he will win the presidential election but ted cruz the voice of the gop base was up there saying no i m against the subsidy. i m wondering if that s something one of those truism about iowa we have to start revisiting. iowa is having a terrible effect on republican party when