bond zoo. the elephant can t vote. shepard: president kicked off own re-election campaign into gear with busy day of fundraising across two states. the president made a couple stops in his hometown chicago. mitt romney in illinois earlier today as we just reported. santorum is there tonight. president took note. hello, chicago! you might have noticed that we have some guests in illinois this week. apparently things haven t quite wrapped up on the other side. shepard: apparently. big money fundraisers are this evening in atlanta. the tickets, they are cheap. one private event tonight at the home of actor and director tyler perry charging the maximum allowed by law 35,$800 per plate. team fox coverage continues. ed henry at the white house tonight. i m guessing, ed, it will probably be something closer to domino s pizza for all of us. the president starting startinge on the republic candidates more directly. absolutely. he did not name those
delegates. rick santorum is right behind him with 92. newt gingrich and ron paul rounding out the 4. keep in mind these are fluid numbers right now because some of these guys have won some states tonight and some of the delegate awards are proportional. we have to figure it out district by district. 1144 delegates are needed to secure the republic nomination. bret: these are projections. this is the associated press projection as well. that s what we use. we will be changing throughout the night. team fox coverage now. our team of reporters are spread across the country. mike emanuel live in nashville at a primary party there. john roberts in atlanta with the gingrich campaign. steve brown in steubenville, ohio with the santorum campaign. and chief political correspondent carl cammeron is live in boston with the romney campaign. carl, everyone said ohio is going to be very close. it looks like it is. what can you tell us? well, the romney campaign is very confident tonight. they ar
for an hour. slammed into the state of alabama. tornado slammed trees flipped trucks over and tore homes apart. tore down a maximum security fence. officials say no prisoners escaped. tornado sirens what i would and sent people racing for cover in the hard hit town of harrisburg, illinois. folks there taking no chances after a twister flattened that down on wednesday. at least three funnel clouds reported there today. it appears this time they dodged a bullet. let s start extensive team fox coverage tonight with our chief meteorologist rick reichmuth in the extreme weather center. this afternoon on studio b you said this looks like it s going to be awful. sure enough. tracking two cells. two tornadoes just to the north of the louisville area. and that is the images that town hen hisville and the town just to the east of it.
districts. 14 of them in this state. still another hour plus before the polls close. probably going to be a late night, shep. shepard: sounds like it. carl cameron live in novi, michigan. fox news did send out exit poll coordinators. people to polling spots all over michigan to ask people when they came out of the polls what did you vote for and what are your positions on issues which will give us a very good idea of what kind of people are voting for which candidate. martha mac maccallum has been pouring through the numbers in exit polls and joins us for team fox coverage and she joins us now. how is it looking. the polls are still open as we know in michigan and arizona. what we can say so far is about how those voters what they are saying really on their way out of the polls this evening. take a look at this one from michigan. in terms of most important quality, the voters tonight say their biggest priority is a candidate who they believe can beat president obama in the fall.
tonight. of course, it s winner take all in the state of arizona. mitt romney says is he winning to easily take all 2 delegates tonight. immigration is a huge concern in arizona. voters tell us in our exit polling it is far from the only issue on their minds. team fox coverage continues, john roberts live in the valley of the sun this afternoon. hey, john. you know, shepard, when we think about arizona, immigration immediately comes to mind. it s the reason why this state is in the news almost every week. they are going to the supreme court to defend their con controversial immigration law on the 24th of april. for most people here is about the economy. the unemployment rate is higher than the national average. home foreclosure rate second or third worse in the nation. i found trey goodman trying to make up his mind who to vote for. he told me his number one issue is the economy. he is the only person new england his group of friends who has a job. most people i know want to work.