our latest polls on the republican race, they are just coming out this minute andy sho stunning change in fortune for two of the republican hopefuls. mitt romney still plead leads in iowa with 21%. ron paul is right behind at 22%. but look at this. rick santorum has jumped into third place with 16%. tripling his shows just three weeks ago. meantime, newt gingrich has fallen off a cliff. at least it seems like it now. he s at only 14% down from 33% in our last poll. rick perry is at 11%. michele bachmann, still in single digits, followed by jon huntsm huntsman, who has written off campaigning here in iowa. there s less drama in romney s backyard of new hampshire. he s at 44% there, followed by paul at 17%, gingrich at 16%. the rest of the poll in single digits. joining us now from des moines, candy crowley. candy, i guess the headline here is not necessarily that mitt romney is number one in iowa, although he is even though he really hasn t spent a lot of time here. but all of
thank you for waking up with us. i m live in new york. let s start in texas, shall we? it s a dry, scorched burning place this morning. its wildfire problems are getting worse. more than 60 new fires broke out over the weekend. the biggest and maybe the most dangerous is the one you re looking at in bastrop county, 30 miles from downtown usa. p let s go to atlanta and check in with rob marciano. we re going to get to chris welch who s in texas just a bit. i wanted to talk to you first about the dry conditions in texas and if they re going to get any relief from mother nature. we don t see a whole lot coming down the pipe there, carol, and what s the good news today, is that lee, or what s left over of lee is pulling off towards the north and east and that really, the past two days, has what s been causing the biggest problem ironically. we were hoping to get lee s moisture over there. it didn t. it missed it to the east. it got the back side, the wrap around dry air winds t