team coverage today. adam klotz is in the studio tracking the storm and bringing the christmas forecast. let s start with jackie ibanez reporting on the devastating conditions. multiple families will be spending the holiday without loved ones, five people from oklahoma have died, including a 16-year-old boy. the storm is impacting nearly every state in the lower 48, mother nature unleashing fury during the busiest time of the year, leaving many with nowhere to sleep, except the floor of the airport terminal. im00 not optimistic, if it was a cancelled flight, it is not good. i got to go back down here, rebook or refund. we were anticipating the flight was going to get cancelled and rebooked on southwest and rebooked twice on united this afternoon. i contemplated driving in case flights got cancelled. 12,000 flight delays and cancellations for millions, six states are sounding the alarm calling for a state of emergency. accumulating heavy snowfall and temperatures p
that and it is tracked back to that. god forbid. these kids knew what they were getting when they signed up for the ad. so part of the program, they are losing weight. we re not finished. i have to go. thank you so much. live out of new york. now hour two. here we go. top of the hour. i m brooke baldwin. rick santorum is expected to speak live this hour. we ll take part of that for you. also a big surprise concerning jobs in america today. and prosecutors want death by for a famous expresident. time to play reporter roulette. jim acosta, let s begin with you in new hampshire. you re standing by at the santorum event. what is the buzz like surrounding mitt romney s latest challenger? reporter: rick santorum s rise after iowa has changed this campaign, brooke. you can just tell by seeing this crowd that he had earlier today, over in new hampshire, it was just filled with folks wanting to hear what rick santorum has to say about all sorts of issues. and you re also seeing
to south america. tonight mitt romney s feeling so confident about his chances here in new hampshire, he isn t even here. romney started a quick trip to south carolina this afternoon leaving his rivals to snipe at each other. newt gingrich belittled rick santorum s record going all the way back to when they served together in the house, back in the 1990s. gingrich then was speaker. if you think of us as partners, he would clearly in the historical experience would have been the junior partner. he s not a bad person, i want to be clear about this. well, senator santorum took offense at being labeled a junior partner. i was no junior partner in that. newt was not involved in that revolution when it came to the corruption and scandal. he sat on the sidelines. cnn s jim acosta keeping up with the increasingly pointed back and forth. romney s in the lead here. i assume if gingrich and santorum are going after each other, they think they ve got to fight for second or thir