Same spot. That is good for us. It to get closer but also did not get further away i dont have many changes on the impact. Heres a closeup view. Is a category 2 hurricane on saturdayfternoon. But again little ships either direction making a huge difference. Fous a continues to weaken possibly closest to our coastline sometime sunday morning. Before it loops around back down to the southeast what does that mean for we keep the clouds and cooler temperatures around for the next couple of days. The main impact the storm will be saturday. Friday could have some rain but saturdhe impact of illegal cut the area in half diagonally. South d eastf highway 1 could get one to 3 inches of rainor 20 to 30 mileperhour winds. Much less than that farther northwest to go. Another update in x hours and also have a new one of computer close watch on hurricane maw and understand governor patrory is getting another update on the storm. Reporter the state is looking at this map and as you can see as you hea
this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. substituting tonight, kate snow. good evening. three days to go until florida republicans have their say and while it is not officially a two-man race, it sure feels that way in the sunshine state. mitt romney and newt gingrich spent the day crisscrossing florida trading sharp attacks. meantime, ron paul ditched the sunshine for a snowstorm up in maine today looking ahead to that state s caucus vote next weekend. and rick santorum went back to washington, d.c. to raise some much-needed campaign cash. our political team is in place tonight. let s begin in panama city, florida. peter alexander is traveling with the romney campaign. peter? reporter: kate, good evening to you. the campaign officials believe what the campaign is doing is working. they say the candidate has a renewed focus after his loss in south carolina. and has done a better job being more aggressive, consistently against newt gingrich and emphasizing their belief
republicans have their say and while it is not officially a two-man race, it sure feels that way in the sunshine state. mitt romney and newt gingrich spent the day crisscrossing florida trading sharp attacks. meantime, ron paul ditched the sunshine for a snowstorm up in maine today looking ahead to that state s caucus vote next weekend. and rick santorum went back to washington, d.c. to raise some much-needed campaign cash. our political team is in place tonight. let s begin in panama city, florida. peter alexander is traveling with the romney campaign. peter? reporter: kate, good evening to you. the campaign officials believe what the campaign is doing is working. they say the candidate has a renewed focus after his loss in south carolina. and has done a better job being more aggressive, consistently against newt gingrich and emphasizing their belief that he is the best candidate to improve the american economy. mitt romney says he s feeling like the front-runner again.
mitt romney and newt gingrich spent the day crisscrossing florida trading sharp attacks. meantime, ron paul ditched the sunshine for a snowstorm up in maine today looking ahead to that state s caucus vote next weekend. and rick santorum went back to washington, d.c. to raise some much-needed campaign cash. our political team is in place tonight. let s begin in panama city, florida. peter alexander is traveling with the romney campaign. peter? reporter: kate, good evening to you. the campaign officials believe what the campaign is doing is working. they say the candidate has a renewed focus after his loss in south carolina. and has done a better job being more aggressive, consistently against newt gingrich and emphasizing their belief that he is the best candidate to improve the american economy. mitt romney says he s feeling like the front-runner again. i just feel that things are going in our direction. i m hoping for a big turnout on tuesday. and i think we re being to