wisconsin, maryland and the district of columbia. polls are closing in less than an hour s time. we have the first insight into who voted today, why they voted as mitt romney is looking to lock up the republican nomination once and for all. there have been a lot of night wheres we have said that and it has not occurred. you have been looking at exit poling data. what do you see? we have our first indication and the first and best mysteries of this election and it is right up here in wisconsin. largely a rural place and agriculture going on. biggest prize is in milwaukee. 18% of the population. let s look at the exit polls. we ll talk about the mystery here. look at how this primary worked out. it is an open primary. 58% of the people say republican. 30% say they are independent and 12% say they were democrats. i am just going to show you part of this. 12% are democrat and out of that 32% say for rick santorum. 22% for mitt romney among the democrats. you are saying how is i
getting more numbers. we re not yet able to make a projection based on these first round, second round of these exit polls. we re getting more. let me walk over to john king and explain what s going on. no projection yet. but it seems at least according to the early exit polls information, the new numbers in the exit polls are still coming in. looks like it s going to be a good night for mitt romney. every reason to believe that governor romney will win the state of illinois. if you ve been with us through past primary nights, the people who just finished voting talking to the exit polls now. santorum does better in that lastaway. and often senator santorum has overperformed his last poll numbers. we re being cautious. we d rather get it right than wrong. we can tell things if we look at the electorate today. we ve seen this in some other states. nearly 4 in 10 voters today say beating president obama is the most important quality. if you look here, among those voters,
afghans last weekend. he could be charged with those deaths as soon as this week. let s check in with dan simonen sadding by for us, live at louis mccord. that s where bailes was stationed for many years, dan. more on the attorney in a moment. you have been talking with a former neighbor, staff sergeant bailes. what are you learning about his life here in the united states? well, let me give you a little background. bailes and his wife held on to a condo that they used to live in. they were treating it as a rental property. we drove over to that neighborhood earlier today. the place is under foreclosure, we spoke to a neighbor who shared a wall with the bailes. he basically said he was aware the family was facing financial pressure, obviously because the place had gone under foreclosure, they couldn t afford their homeowner s association dues, $120 a year. the place has been in disrepair, the neighbor was with mowing the lawn, he said that robert bales was a really good guy
but the math and money and more people doubting that that may be enough as we move on your early start. good morning everyone welcome to early start i m ashleigh banfield. i m zoraida sambolin. we re bringing you news from a to z, 5:00 a.m. in the east. alabama, mississippi, rick santorum a southern sweep. a heartbreaking tragedy in switzerland, 22 children killed when a bus crashed in the wall of a tunnel. that bus carrying 46 children, and six adults was returning to belgium after a school ski trip. a total of 28 people died, police are investigating now. prosecutors in alabama plan to seek the death penalty against this woman, accused of literally running her 9-year-old granddaughter to death. the girl was forced to run around the family house for hours as punishment for lying about eating chocolate. president obama and david cameron holding formal talks at the white house with the war in afghanistan, iran s nuclear program, syrian crisis and the global eco
four contests in all tonight. hawaii and american samoa also casting ballots. most of the attention focused on alabama and mississippi. late polls in both states showed races too close to call. our exit polls also suggest a fierce competition in both states with conservative support. early exit polling, we ll bring this over for you. here we are in the state of mississippi tonight. voters were asked as they went to the polls. what s the most important candidate quality. you can see more than four in ten republican voters in the state of mississippi today say their number one priority is beating president obama in november. about 20% say they want a true conservative. 20% say strong moral character matters most to them. look at the state of alabama. same question. what s the most important candidate quality? little lower number there about four in ten say the most important thing they want is a candidate who can defeat president obama, a true conservative, strong moral charact