governor romney has an enormous amount of money but we have an enormous amount of people. mitt romney needs to drag him down. he s gone from pillar to post. a pinball machine. a two-man grudge match in a four-man race. there s a lot of folks who talk tough. what makes you tough is at your core. no way going to stop the momentum that we have started. who will return to florida this summer? as the republican nominee? i will go all the way to the convention. i expect to win the nomination. we re going to be in this race for a long time. forget everything you thought you knew about the presidential field. this is the beginning of a long, hard slog. we re going to take back the white house. we re going to take back our country. the nomination is up for grabs. the conventional wisdom is out the window. and florida will change the game again. hello from the cnn election center. i m john king. most of the polling places across florida closed about one hour f
go. we ve got the state of florida to cover for you. i want to begin with john zarrella live at a polling place not too far from where i am. john zarrella, you re talking to voters. what are they telling you? very good turnout here today, brooke. they expect maybe countwiywide, about 40% voters. a lot of them are telling me, we want the guy who will beat barack obama. but then when you get past that, we re hearing both sides, some people saying newt gingrich, others saying mitt romney. so it s going to be interesting to see how that shakes out here, and this is the largest republican precinct, precinct 701, in hillsborough county. about 3800 registered republicans here. brooke? we know that the republican party, it s penalizing florida for having its primary today, january 31st. tell me a little bit more about that as i hear you laugh, john zarrella. you know, four years ago, the state moved up the presidential primaries to january 31st, or the last tuesday in january
their ground. we re going to take you live to washington in just a few minutes. in northern florida, it looks like the aftermath of a bombing. look at these pictures. but these vehicles were actually incinerated by fire after a string of crashes on interstate 75. ten people lost their lives in the wreck. drivers say they could barely see anything because of smoke from a nearby fire. there was absolutely no warning whatsoever. it went from being just, i mean literally i don t know how far, whatever you could see as far as you could on the interstate to just nothing. rolled my window down and actually started hearing thuds and crashes and it was so thick i couldn t even tell you where they were coming from. well, almost nine months after the u.s. raid that killed osama bin laden, defense secretary leon panetta says he s convinced someone in pakistan s government knew the terrorist leader was hiding in a huge compound near pakistan s military academy. in a cbs 60 minutes
the second debate he said he didn t do well because the crowd was so loud. gingrich is expected to speak at a rally within the hour. he says that the gap is closing. i ll show you where the race goes after florida with cnn s wolf blitzer at the bottom of the hour. want to hang out with president obama? the president who held town halls on cyberspace and twitter and facebook? participants can comment in realtime. a few will be asked to participate in live conversation. it starts at 5:30 p.m. eastern and it s supposed to last about 45 minutes. almost a year after syria cracked down on protesters, a resolution would require ten security council members are on board. russia is offering to host peace talks which damascus supposedly as accepted. the opposition has not. another 50 people reportedly killed in at least four syrian cities. afghanistan is reportedly planning peace talks with the taliban. that could happen in saudi arabia separately and before the expected contract
brockovich gathers soil samples from the neighborhood. eight months after a monster tonight ripped through a missouri town destroyed homes, lives and even a hospital, today, renewal, hope and healing. all right now in the cnn newsroom. big developments in a medical mystery in upstate new york. environmental activist erin brockovich is joining others trying to figure out what s going on in the town of leroy. more than a dozen students from the same schools are suffering from uncontrollable verbal outbursts and twitching. brockovich discussed a possible cause, but dr. drew pinski friday night on our sister network hln. there was a very serious train derailment that caused one ton of cyanide to spill and 45,000 gallons of tce. the actual location of the site of the derailment is four miles from this school. four miles from the school, a massive train derailment with spectacular exposure of known carcinogen s and toxins. there is a map. how did that then become an issue f