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this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. substituting tonight, kate snow. good evening. three days to go until florida republicans have their say and while it is not officially a two-man race, it sure feels that way in the sunshine state. mitt romney and newt gingrich spent the day crisscrossing florida trading sharp attacks. meantime, ron paul ditched the sunshine for a snowstorm up in maine today looking ahead to that state s caucus vote next weekend. and rick santorum went back to washington, d.c. to raise some much-needed campaign cash. our political team is in place tonight. let s begin in panama city, florida. peter alexander is traveling with the romney campaign. peter? reporter: kate, good evening to you. the campaign officials believe what the campaign is doing is working. they say the candidate has a renewed focus after his loss in south carolina. and has done a better job being more aggressive, consistently against newt gingrich and emphasizing their belief
police district, sort of on the border between the 4th district and the 5th district. not much more information at this point, but that information may be forthcoming later today. again, two people dead in a horrific crash here on taylor street. three more people injured, two of them metropolitan police officers. we are live in northeast. back to you. derrick ward thank you very much. well, two days now until the florida primary, and mitt romney has established a healthy lead over newt gingrich. yeah, he has. romney now leads gingrich by 11 percentage points, 43% to 32% amongst likely florida voters. but the former house speaker is banking on a new endorsement to help him out. nbc s frances koe has that story. reporter: with just three days to go, a former rival to newt gingrich is now joining his team. i hereby officially and enthusiastically endorse newt gingrich for president of the united states! reporter: as the former speaker criss-crosses florida, gingrich
republicans have their say and while it is not officially a two-man race, it sure feels that way in the sunshine state. mitt romney and newt gingrich spent the day crisscrossing florida trading sharp attacks. meantime, ron paul ditched the sunshine for a snowstorm up in maine today looking ahead to that state s caucus vote next weekend. and rick santorum went back to washington, d.c. to raise some much-needed campaign cash. our political team is in place tonight. let s begin in panama city, florida. peter alexander is traveling with the romney campaign. peter? reporter: kate, good evening to you. the campaign officials believe what the campaign is doing is working. they say the candidate has a renewed focus after his loss in south carolina. and has done a better job being more aggressive, consistently against newt gingrich and emphasizing their belief that he is the best candidate to improve the american economy. mitt romney says he s feeling like the front-runner again.
mitt romney and newt gingrich spent the day crisscrossing florida trading sharp attacks. meantime, ron paul ditched the sunshine for a snowstorm up in maine today looking ahead to that state s caucus vote next weekend. and rick santorum went back to washington, d.c. to raise some much-needed campaign cash. our political team is in place tonight. let s begin in panama city, florida. peter alexander is traveling with the romney campaign. peter? reporter: kate, good evening to you. the campaign officials believe what the campaign is doing is working. they say the candidate has a renewed focus after his loss in south carolina. and has done a better job being more aggressive, consistently against newt gingrich and emphasizing their belief that he is the best candidate to improve the american economy. mitt romney says he s feeling like the front-runner again. i just feel that things are going in our direction. i m hoping for a big turnout on tuesday. and i think we re being to