people making free choices for their own healthcare. chief political correspondent karl cameron joins us by phone from kampa tonight. the polls now showing at this hour mitt romney with a sizable advantage just two days out. what did he have to say today? well, it s a sizable advantage, indeed double digits in the latest policy and double digits in the most recent follows. and romney is playing like a frontrunner coast to go victory. he s been working it awfully hard, trying to make sure all his voters are ready to get to the policy on tuesday. on the sump, and shaking hands, he s been counterattacking newt gingrich s assaults on his character, his record, and hiss trust worthiness, having been in gingrich s words a massachusetts moderate. there s been debate audiences and they talk about the campaign attacks. today romney called gingrich out on it. listen. so mr. speaker, your trouble in florida is not because the
a s.u.v. collided with a light rail train in sacramento, florida. the train was going 55 miles per hour. the force of impact scent that s.u.v. flying some 30 yards before it landed upside down. two adults and that baby died after a woman suffered serious injuries, as well. six people on board the train also hurt divers looking for any more sr. drivers or remains in the cruise ship disaster off italy s coast. they suspended their work for today, and this after officials said rough seas and strong winds caused the ship to shift suddenly and quite noticeably. they are saying it could take a very long time, a year, to move that ship. you will recall the ship hit rocks two weeks ago, autofew feet from shore. more than 4200 people on board. divers found the body of the wreck s 17th victim yesterday. a crewmember, at least 15 people still missing. there s also the matter of all that diesel fuel in that ship. that s why they want to move it
you can hear the crunching sound of car after car hitting each other. that s how a horrible crash is being described in florida and the human toll heartbreaking. taking the lives of at least ten people. it happened along a stretch of interstate 75 near gainsville. we are told the visibility at the time was zero. there was a brush fire leaving drivers virtually blind. the crash closed down both sides of i-75 with wreckage spread out over an entire mile. joining us by phone from gainsville florida, florida highway patrol ltd. patrick. are you with us. i am. i understand when responders got there they could only hear screams because they couldn t see anything through the haze. i wasn t there initially, but it was definitely the conditions were very murky. the fog, there was a fixture of fog and smoke from that marsh fire that made visibility bad, real bad. you know, we wanted to talk
thank you for joining us by phone. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum staying in his home state tonight, cancelling his campaign trip to florida today. his three-year-old daughter, bell law, hospitalized with pneumonia and he s by her side. she has a genetic condition caused by the presence of all or part of the presence of an extra chrome sown. she was not expected to live past 12 months old. santorum hopes to return to the campaign schedule soon. two of his events in florida were not cancelled today. his 20-year-old daughter, elizabeth, taking his place. meanwhile, texas congressman ron paul left florida days ago to focus on main where caucuses will begin next weekend. in an earlier interview earlier today paul was asked if he thinks he can win maine. i really do. we did pretty well three years ago and we weren t nearly as well-organized. i don t know how many candidates really like to say i am going to be in first place. most of us don t do that. i guess some do, it but
and i said i don t know where i am. and then i saw the light, and i was so happy. and i saw him he saved my life. you bet he saved your life. the local sheriff calling it incredible one of his deputy just happened to be near the car and could see it in the water. if he hadn t been there, the women likely would have drowned. he ought to get a christmas gift every year from now on from those women. i m just saying. well, we are going back to florida. campaign karl is following the candidates in the sunshine state. he is going to open up his reporter s notebook to give us some deeper details about how tuesday s primary is shaping up. and the italian cruise ship in the water off the coast for two weeks now on its side. they really want to move it. wait until you hear how long that is going to take. the details next. [ male announcer ] in 1894, a small-town pharmacist