heating up in new hampshire. with just one more full day of campaigning before tom s primary, mitt romney s republican presidential rivals are ramping up their attacks. nbc s tracie potts has more from new hampshire. good morning. reporter: lori, good morning. good morning, everyone, from new hampshire. where it looks like four out of five voters have made up their minds the day before this primary. romney is up by 20 pointses a his opponents are trying to cut that lead. if his record was so great as governor of massachusetts, why didn t he run for re-election. for me politics is not a career. reporter: ron paul tried to refocus on foreign policy. we can t stay in 130 countries, get involved in nation building. we cannot have 900 bases overseas. reporter: romney and newt gingrich clashed over negative ads. but i do think the rhetoric, mr. speaker, was a little over the top. you think my rhetoric was
quickly, a number of pointses. we declared this state of emergency immediately and assets were called into play and we have 250 citizen soldiers here with more coming if necessary, to back up what the highway patrol with the mobile command center that has been assisting and working. we sent out a call and had a tremendous outpouring of support of first responders, a wide area, the emergency responders from kansas city and we also had a task force one from columbia, missouri, and we appreciate them coming down and working and it has been a difficult situation here today and this morning i spoke to the president of the united states and he indicated they would provide whatever support was necessary and i spoke twice to the secretary of homeland security and we spoke to each of the governors that touch various states and each has pledged their support.
we begin this morning with heating up in new hampshire. with just one more full day of campaigning before tom s primary, mitt romney s republican presidential rivals are ramping up their attacks. nbc s tracie potts has more from new hampshire. good morning. reporter: lori, good morning. good morning, everyone, from new hampshire. where it looks like four out of five voters have made up their minds the day before this primary. romney is up by 20 pointses a his opponents are trying to cut that lead. if his record was so great as governor of massachusetts, why didn t he run for re-election. for me politics is not a career. reporter: ron paul tried to refocus on foreign policy. we can t stay in 130 countries, get involved in nation building. we cannot have 900 bases overseas. reporter: romney and newt gingrich clashed over negative ads. but i do think the rhetoric, mr. speaker, was a little over