welcome to the election hq on election night. we ll be here all night watching the big races on air. the big news at this hour, eight durham precincts extending voting hours, some 15 minutes, some a full hour to 8:30. several precincts had problems with the check-in system. they went to paper books. because of the decentralized nature of our american election system, it is hard to get a nationwide sense of exactly which parts of our election system got hacked, got attacked in this russian effort last year, and how successful those attacks were. the anecdotal information we re starting to pull together so far doesn t give us any systematic look of how the russians targeted their attacks. maybe they were just lucky to target that one democratic county in texas and not the republican counties next door, we don t know. maybe the failing of the poll book software in durham, north
politician and may have to assume that role to have a chance. it wasn t all heavy topics of conversation on friday night. an interesting and really fun thing with the envelope round and tried to get to know them better. listen to bernie sanders grapple with that. pick one. how many pair of underwear do i have? i would never ask if you care to voluntary the information am i really larry david? what do you most miss that technology made obsolete? whoops. paper books. paper books. i miss the fact that when i m in a car or at home there are not all kinds of buzzes and noises going off making me a nervous wreck. i miss peace and quiet which i
way ahead of mitt romney. snow flooding, wide weather across the country. we ll have a look at what else is on the horizon. captions by vitac www.vitac.com big day in south carolina as people are voting right as we speak in the republican presidential primary. at a small ham house restaurant in greenville is the center of a showdown between mitt romney and newt gingrich literally. both candidates scheduled to arrive for breakfast, a meet-and-greet at the same place at the very same time, but romney got there first. maybe he needs that head start especially after a recent poll shows a stunning turnaround, gingrich surging ahead with 450% of the vote, romney a distant second now, 26%. our jim acosta is there. so, jim, tell us what s happening at the restaurant. reporter: hey, gary, we re live outside tommy s ham house. newt gingrich is inside as part of the ham house showdown we ve seen all morning long. you can see the former speaker was hamming it up inside the restau
newt gingrich is creeping up in the polls after this week s debate, but mitt romney is still the national frontrunner. today, the two battle it out over breakfast. both candidates will be in the same diner at the same exact time. see you at tommy s ham house. tommy s ham house, newt gingrich didn t know about it until we talked to him. we talked to tommy of tommy s ham house live this morning. here s what he has to say about the excitement in his restaurant. i told you here s what he has to say, i want to tell you stay tuned and we ll tell you what he has to say. you want to hear tommy because it s really interesting. two possible presidents, one possible president, with two presidential candidates in his restaurant at the same time in less than three hours. we start this news cast in south carolina where polls opened one hour ago. voters there are choosing a republican presidential nominee. let s get right to the palmetto state. don lemon is at a polling place in lexin
thanks so much. just hours from now, eight presidential candidates will square off in tampa, florida. rick perry the front-runner and also the main target of his fellow republicans. and perry may have made the bull s-eye even bigger by attacking social security, a program considered sacred by millions of older americans. jim accosta is in tampa. and let s begin with word of a new endorsement we re hearing about this morning. reporter: that s right. if mitt romney was looking for a spark to help his campaign, he may have gotten it this morning. former minnesota governor tim pawlenty has announced that he is getting behind the former massachusetts governor. so that is good news for mitt romney. but this debate comes this evening, kyra, as a new cnn/orc poll shows that there is a big lead for rick perry. the race is basically boiling down to rick perry and whoever can keep up. texas governor rick perry has ditched his cowboy boots for his running shoes, staying far ahead of th