defeat. also bishop eddie long is no stranger to controversy, but his latest move has jewish leaders outraged. we will try to get an ex-explanation in our "faces of faith" segment. are you ready for the party? these people don't even care who is playing in the super bowl. we start with the nevada caucuses, it was the first western contest of the republican presidential race. here are the results so far cnn has projected mitt romney as the winner, newt gingrich, ron paul pretty close to each other in second and third, rick santorum in fourth. cnn political editor paul steinhauser is live in las vegas, bright and early this morning. not so bright yet. paul it was a good night for mitt romney, right? >> reporter: it sure was. susan it's 5:00 in the morning right now and the lights are pretty bright here in vegas and for mitt romney his odds of winning the republican nomination are getting brighter by the day. >> romney! romney! romney! romney! >> reporter: mitt romney does what no other republican presidential candidate's been able to do so far this year, win two in a row, less than a week after his big victory in florida's primary, the former massachusetts governor won nevada's caucuses by a landslide. >> this is not the first time you gave me your vote of confidence and this time i've got toic it to the white house. >> reporter: the victory wasn't a surprise, nevada is romney country, thanks to the strong mormon population and strong organization in the state. romney use the his vid use thus talk about barack obama rather than i had oes poenents. >> mr. president, in ef neve has had enough of your kind of help. >> reporter: despite another disappointing finish, former house speaker newt gingrich vowed to carry on. >> one store somewhere i just want to put to rest hopefully for the next few months. i am a candidate for president of the united states. i will be a candidate for president of the united states. >> reporter: for ron paul, a stronger finish than four years ago, the congressman from texas spent caucus night in one of the next states to vote. >> sounds like the revolution has already come to minnesota! >> reporter: rick santorum spent the night in colorado which also votes tuesday and the former senator from pennsylvania didn't let a fourth place finish get him down. >> as i said before, this race will come toward us. we're the candidate that provides the real best perspective of beating barack obama. >> reporter: so we're packing up our bags and heading a little bit east. you've got colorado and minnesota holding caucuses on tuesday and missouri with a non-binding primary. after that a little bit of down time from contests. the next big thing will hopefully be our cnn presidential debate in arizona, then arizona and michigan at the end of the month, both states seem to favor mitt romney. newt gingrich is looking forward to super tuesday and march 6th, ten states voting including his native state of georgia and tennessee, two in the south. >> newt is saying don't count me out. paul steinhauser thanks so much. next hour we'll talk more about the impact of the nevada caucuses and what is next in the battle for the republican presidential nomination coming up on "state of the union with candy crowley" at 9:00 a.m. eastern. a resolution to condemn the brutal crackdown in syria fails at the u.n. security council. 13 nations supported the measure with china and russia, the only two countries to vote against it, ambassadors from both countries say that while they do want to stop the violence there, the u.n. resolution did not properly address that crisis. u.n. ambassador susan rice did not mince words. here she is. >> disgusted, richard, but that's not the point. the point is that the people of syria have yet again been abandoned by this council and by the international community. russia and china negotiated this text throughout the week with us. we and other co-sponsors made every effort to accommodate the concerns that were expressed by them and other members of the council, but no effort was good enough. >> the failure of the u.n. resolution has led one opposition group to call for a two-day civil strike in syria as a way to increase pressure on the government to stop the violence. this morning, there are more reports coming out of syria of deadly violence, and opposition groups says a 14-year-old child was killed when security forces used gunfire to break up a demonstration. libya says saif gadhafi could go on trial in the next couple of weeks. the international criminal court wanted to try him related to his father's attempts to put down the revolution but the libyan government wants him tried in libya now. amid rising tensions in iran over its nuclear program the country is flexing its military muscle. forces started a series of drills in an effort to improve combat ability. the war games which a senior commander calls successful follows similar actions last month. iranian warships have arrived in the saudi port of jeddah and continue to do anti-military exercises there. to europe now where they are in the grip of a deadly deep freeze, more than 120 people have frozen to death in the ukraine. another 29 people died in poland. we have also seen unusually heavy snows across that region. this picture is from rome which they haven't had their first snow since 1985. it's been that long. lots of severe weather here, too, meteorologist reynolds wolf is at our weather center with the latest. a lot of rain, right? >> a lot of rain along parts of south texas, even along portions of the atlantic seaboard, especially into the carolinas and virginia. one of the big stories we've been dealing with has been the snow especially in colorado. we have video of it. they had over 20 inches of snowfall in boulder just a few days ago. although we're not expecting any more snow you see this video is from texas. what we do anticipate is a little bit of a break in the action for the roinckies but th may see more snow next week, but even then nothing as heavy as the last 48 hours or so. we showed you the video from texas now to virginia, we see the rain forming along parts of the coast, down from the tidewater area out to the outer banks and as you head farther north, colder air, the moisture and cold air of the surface snow from new york to pittsburgh. in new england we expect plenty of sunshine for today. south texas bementioned earlier still rain event from houston to corpus christi and rain on and off through a good part of the day, the frontal boundary extends from parts of the federal atlantic to the gulf of mexico and south texas, going to march here. dry across the center of the u.s. in kansas city expect 47 degrees for a high today. 39 in minneapolis, 50 degrees in billings. 41 in salt lake city. 60s in san francisco, 75 in los angeles. 55 in seattle. 54 in portland, 51 in dallas, 53 in memphis, and miami going to 80 and 47 the high in new york, boston with 35. back to you. >> 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[ female announcer ] discover what's next in your life. get this free travel bag when you join at aarp.org/jointoday. welcome back. we want to get back to politics and the nevada caucuses. mitt romney dominated the field. that was pretty much what everyone expected. joining me now is patricia murphy, founder and editor of jane politics and contributor to thedailybeast. >> this gives more fuel to each one of their fires, everybody who says mitt romney hasn't locked this up yet they can look to see he didn't crack the 50% mark and say there's plenty of room left for me to run, if everybody else gets out of the race it's down to me and mitt romney and i'm going to beat mitt romney. >> here he is after not winning nevada, newt gingrich. >> what happens is every primary day or caucus day the romney headquarters in boston sends out the rumor they believe i'll withdraw which is of course their greatest fantasy. i'm not going to withdraw. i'm happy wheith where we are a i think the contrast between me and mitt romney are going to get wider and wider and clearer and clearer and i look forward to opportunities to draw the contrast and compete for votes >> that was more like a press conference, tone more antagonistic. is that helping him at all? >> no, we saw his message before south carolina being aggressive but positive, a happy warrior. after florida and nevada we see more of a grumpy warrior, bitter warrior and people don't follow behind that. people who really don't follow behind that are women voters, gingrich did very well among women in south carolina, very poorly in florida and nevada. he needs to turn it around to be a more positive message to win those women voters back. >> you mentioned positive, you think of ron paul, he's doing that, staying in line and staying positive, although he continues to not win, to lose, but he stays on track here. >> he is on track and consistent and that's what his supporters love about him. he's trying to stay in the gop fold, not tearing the other candidates down. he doesn't see it as a race between him and them. he's running his own race for his own purposes. >> he's a likeable guy, ron paul, he doesn't bicker like the others can do. >> yes. >> romney did really well with tea party supporters. >> it was a very big surprise to me, he did well among those who call themselves very conservati conservative. he lost them very badly in south carolina, did better in florida. he really opened up a lead among those groups in nevada, that's the momentum he needs to take. he didn't get over 50% but it was more important for him to do bet we are tea partiers and conservative voters. >> it wasn't just mormons here alone that helped him. >> colorado, lots of mormons, guess what? you're probably going to lose. there was a different religious makeup. south carolina, two-thirds of the voters were evangelical. newt gingrich is great with evangelical. only a quarter are evangelical. you can't pick and choose religions. he needs a broader base of support. >> colorado, minnesota, next two big contests here. missouri is a non-binding primary. explain that and who has the advantage there? >> colorado and minnesota, those are caucuses, those are also non-binding caucuses. it just means it's a multistep process. the results are important but they're not required. that's not exactly how many, that's not how many delegates you're going to get based specifically on the results. you look at maine, and other caucuses where mitt romney won in 2008, he has a nice broad swathe of western states, upper midwest and new england and that is where this calendar is going so he'll do very well over the next month, try to build on the momentum and close the door on these guys who won't get out. >> if it is mitt romney and president obama, do you think romney has a shot because of the situation we're now, in terms of the unemployment and people frankly out of work and losing their homes? >> well that's the big question. the big question for republicans is who can beat obama? there was a poll out yesterday that shows santorum was the only republican who was going to beat obama in a head-to-head. the way the economy goes is the way the obama administration is going to go. the economy is improving is looks like jobs numbers much better than they were even a year ago, so the obama administration is sitting back a little bit relaxing. i don't think he should feel that great when you look at state-to-state matchups, romney and newt gingrich do very well in state head-to-heads so nothing to sit back and relax over. >> you're right and we won't. patricia, thank you. we're talking super bowl today. you think you're throwing a big party? we'll show you the big, bright and colorful celebrations gearing up for this year's carniv carnivale. and ali velshi brings thus week's "fortune brainstorm." >> you may not have heard of my next guest, ancor jay, founded an organization that helps student entrepreneurs turn ideas into innovating businesses that tackle some of the world's most pressing issues, not issues would you normally associate with students,ed' called the cairo society, puts the most promising students entrepreneurs from around the world in contact with global business leaders. thanks for joining us. what do you think these group of students can do that hasn't been tackled? >> in generation is not only more interconnected than preefz one but able to look at problems in new ways. 40% of health care diagnoses are incorrect. ed kaition is not personalized to the individual. it's tailored for the masses so let's take the specific problems and take these students, put them in a room not only with their peers but with the leaders of today, so we can take the wisdom of what's happening today and merge that with a new way of thinking. >> is it just the nature of the young entrepreneurs they don't look at things the same way? >> 21 years old saying why are we treating cancer with big machines. take targeted genetic approach to individual cancer cells, identify what cancer they have. >> they're not invested in whatever system is not working as efficiently. they start with a blank slate. ankar is founder of the cairo society. i'm ali velshi with this week's "fortune brainstorm." ♪ my sunglasses. 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