voters in crucial states. this shows you why every single vote matters. look at these numbers here. one-tenth of one percent separate the two men in the real clear politics average. that s when you put all of the polls together. here is a small taste of what voters were hearing late last night. the only thing that stands between us some of the best years we have ever known is lack of leadership. that s why we have leblgss. you saw the differences between president obama and myself we were side by side in our debates. he says it has to be this way. i say it can t stay this way. he is offering excuses. i have a plan. answer questions about the details of your policies until after the election? not changing. ruling out out compromise the tea party agenda in congress that s not change, that s exactly what we need to change. right now chief political correspondent karl cameron leads our coverage. you are not in new hampshire, you are in des moines, iowa. what s happening,
large area of high pressure producing all of this heat and around it, shannon, we could be seeing some strong showers to thunderstorms firing up from montana into areas just south of the great lakes and into the southeast. same areas that were actually hit hard already with some of these storms that produced damaging winds friday night so again looking at that possibility for more severe weather. tough news for those folks along the storm damage line. thank you very much. fox news has live team coverage of the storm and its aftermath. elizabeth is live in west virginia and peter doocy is covering the cleanup live in virginia. shannon, virginia s governor bob mcdonald said we are now in the midst of the worst nonhurricane power outage as someone honks while they re driving by. here in maryland to governor martin o malley just said that the reason things are so bad here is because there was no time to prepare. we don t have the sound from martin o malley. he said normally
news headquarters live from the nation s capital starts right now. and we begin with this alert. states of emergency have been declared in four states and the district of columbia. it could be several more days before electricity is restored to the three million people now without power sweltering in oppressive heat. maria molina is monitoring heat wave from the fox extreme weather center and has more. good to see you. it could be several days before they get power back and several days before we start to see relief from the hot temperatures across parts of the southeast, mid atlantic, through the plains and looking at very hot temperatures across parts of the desert southwest but the area of the country that s really not used to seeing this kind of heat is the southeast and also parts of the plains. take a look at some of these high temperatures anticipated for today. 103 in the city of atlanta. yesterday, we broke the all time high temperature record that at 106 degrees.
i would like to have a provision in the constitution that the age of the president and citizenship of the president and birth place of the president i would like it also to say the president has to spend at least three years working in business before he could become president of the united states. the results in texas last night. romney came in first but texas congressman ron paul came in second. the race may be decided at this point. ron paul is still in the hunt. he picked up 10 more delegates. they are planning something at the convention in florida. mitt romney big win in texas has the state s governor rick perry talking as well. romney s former competitor saying he is the man who will get the economy back on track. listen to this. quite appropriate that the state with the best economy and the country would be the one to nominate the president or i should say our nominee for president who is going to carry a message about job creation to this country. in texas
that would give him about 97 delegates. he only needed 58 to cross the threshold of 1144. he got the numbers to clench the nomination at the convention. texas was the last state he needed. he was in las vegas, nevada with you also at a fundraiser with donald trump. the democrats lampooned because of trump s position on birth place of obama. birth place is only one part of the equation. he said i would like to change the constitution. i am not sureic do it. i would like to have a provision in the constitution that the age of the president and citizenship of the president and birth place of the president i would like it also to say the president has to spend at least three years working in business before he could become president of the united states. the results in texas last night. romney came in first but texas congressman ron paul came in second. the race may be decided at this point. ron paul is still in the hunt. he picked up 10 more delegates. they are planning