and he didn't shake sure you keep that center of the country bright red, strong conservative right here in kansas. >> now, rick santorum supporters have calling for newt gingrich to get out of the race. he is not. but,. [speaking french] >> carl cammeron is live for us tonight. no slam dunk here for anybody and nobody has left the race. >> no. but mitt romney did put a little bit more distance between himself and his rivals and he won the majority of the states and the majority. delegates. so, he is still the frontrunner and the national poll, the national gallup track shows that he is up well into the double digits. has he got some momentum. newt gingrich has some serious pressure. rick santorum and the super pac that backs santorum are sort of leading it. they are suggesting that it's time for the former house speaker to get out of race because his presence in it in the santorum view and other republicans worried about splitting the conservative base of the party think that gingrich is making it harder for santorum to really stand up and challenge mitt romney. the thinking being the two of them divide tea party and self-described very conservative republicans and make it harder to topple mr. romney. lots of pressure on gingrich who just says mr. santorum maybe you should be the one to bail out even though santorum has seven wins to gingrich's two. and of course mitt romney has won 13 states. >> shepard: mitt romney has raised a lot of then. they just announced last month they raked in $11 million. what does it tell us. >> just another category in which he has got an advantage. as the campaign goes into the rest of march it slows down a little bit. there is never going to be another day with as many delegates or states at stake as super tuesday. organization and money really matter. as a consequence raised $11.5 million last month. that's more than his rivals raised. another metric, another example of his ability to continue to keep a large established organized campaign chugging forward. there you see it outraising santorum who raised $9 million. with that organization, romney and momentum from these recent wins, romney can head out across the states where he might have a problem, you know, next, kansas this weekend followed by alabama and mississippi next tuesday. these are states in the south and central part of the country where mitt romney may not be as popular as some of the places he has won thus far. the momentum and money and organization it's going to be tough for his rivals to catch him. >> shepard: sure will. carl cammeron live in boston tonight. the president today addressed what could be a very big issue come november. gas prices as if you hadn't noticed, the price at the pump is the highest ever for this time of year. in a speech in north carolina the president urged americans to embrace more fuel efficient vehicles as well as alternative sources of energy. he called oil a fuel of the past. more on that coming up. plus, a live report on what lawmakers are doing to try to get gas prices back down to earth. also, the next time our enemies attack they may not use bombs or bullets but keyboards and computers. and today we heard an ominous new warning about what to expect from cyber terrorists. and should the united states take action. 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[explosions] i should say thousands. amateur video from the hard hit city of homs. this town has fallen by the way. mass protests against the government. [shouting] >> shepard: united nations reports officially 7500 people have died in the year long crack down there. some in d.c. are calling for intervention. senator john mccain leading the charge. the most vocal supporter for u.s. forces getting involved in the fight. but tonight the defense secretary leon panetta told him we cannot just attack syria by ourselves. >> the united states has a clear, national security interest in stopping the slaughter in syria and forcing assad to leave power. we all wish there was a clear and unambiguous way forward to directly influence the events in syria. and, unfortunately, that is not the case. that is not an excuse. that is reality. >> and in the words of the defense secretary, this terrible situation has no simple answers. jennifer griffin with the news at the white house tonight. i should say at the pentagon. jennifer, the chairman of the joint chiefs pointed out today this isn't libya. libyans air defenses were nothing compared to what syria has. >> that's right. syrians air defenses, for instance, are five times for sophisticated than libya's and are located in populace neighbors. if the u.s. unleashed its military power that could mean scores of unintended deaths. >> i want to be clear. we can do anything. the question is so it's not about can we do it. it's should we do it and what are the opportunity costs elsewhere and what are the risks? >> one of the reasons to get involved is that syria has chemical weapons. the largest stockpile in the middle east. 10 times larger we're told than libya had. >> shepard: panetta seemed reluctant to get the military involved despite what's happening elsewhere. >> very reluctant and you also had senator john mccain on capitol hill today goading him, prodding him saying you were the chief of staff under president clinton when you used the military for humanitarian reasons in bosnia. >> what doesn't make sense is to make unilateral action at this point. as secretary of defense, before i recommend that we put our sons and daughters in uniform in harm's way, i have got to make very sure that we know what the mission is is. i have got to make very sure that we know whether we can achieve that mission at what price. and whether or not it will make marries better -- matters better or worse. >> today the president met with the new libyan head of state as the joint chiefs tried to explain on capitol hill how syria is different from syria, shepard? >> shepard: jennifer griffin from the pentagon tonight. thanks. american democracy workers who finally got out of egypt last week are saying thank you. among them sam la hood, the son-in-law of the transportation secretary raleigh lahood. sam the one in the far left in this picture. egyptians accuse the americans working there illegally and refuse to let them reeve the country for days and weeks. they camped out at the united states embassy for more than a month actually. egypt let them go after their organization paid almost $5 million. that was bailed as they called it some of those workers visited capitol hill today and met with lawmakers who fought for this group's freedom. >> we're all thrilled to be home and we are thankful for all of your efforts in doing everything you did to help with our situation. >> it was good for our egyptian colleagues to see the warmth and the concern of you and congress to really raise this issue. >> shepard: sam la hood spoke first there he says he has no plans to go back to egypt. the statute of limitations on his case is 20 years. apple today unveiled the new ipad. you have seen the thing? the word is it's faster in more ways than one. has one of the sharpest screens you have ever seen, including the one on your hdtv. and it can even type for you. down sides? details on the new gadget ahead. plus, there is a storm happening on the sun right now. and it could cause all kinds of problems here on earth. planet in peril. may start tonight. hide. for events to come. well somewhere along the way, emily went right on living. but you see, with the help of her raymond james financial advisor, she had planned for every eventuali. which meant she continued to have the means to live on... even at the ripe old age of 187. life well planned. see what a raymond james advisor can do for you. >> some relief on the street today. a day after wall street's biggest nose dive of the year. the dow was up today 78. of course yesterday it lost more than 200 thanks to the economic crisis in europe. thank you again. up 25 in tech sector and s&p 500 up 9. news that the job market is improving. according to one of the biggest payroll processing firms out there. the private sector added $216,000 that's up 43,000 in january which wasn't a bad month either due to uptick in hiring. that's a great sign. americans are borrowing again, too. the federal reserve reports consumer borrowing rose nearly $18 billion in january. the third straight month of gains. to hit the highest level in a decade. most of that money going to buy cars and pay for college. apple today unveiled its much behind new ipad the third version of its tablet has lots of new features but doesn't have a name, weirdly. apple calls it simply the ipad not the ipad hd or ipad 3. boring. faster prey says sore, sharper camera on the back like the one on the i phone. biggest draw is high definition screen. they tell us its sharper than hdtvs. here is one apple executive, look. >> when you go to read a book you will see text that rivals anything have you seen in print or newspapers or magazine. everything you do is just going to look stunning, surfing the web, reading your emails and photos are just going to look amazing. >> shepard: depending who they are of. the new model said to be heavier a little bit than the last one. starting price still about 500. the biggest surprise may have been for apple shareholders. today's unveiling did almost nothing to boost apple's stock it barely broke even after ortega taking a big dip right after the announcement. the fox business network's gerri willis is with us. we get this thing, i must admit i went to the web site today so i know it delivers march 16th if you sign up early. >> preorder tomorrow. >> you can preorder today? >> can you preorder today as you just said, shep. can you preorder right it very minute if you would like to preorder the ipad you can do it. don't call it the i hd that's wrong. it's just the ipad. >> shepard: it's not joe robby stadium anymore even though joe robby is rolling over in his grave. >> well done. >> shepard: what happens if you already bought. >> mine is injured. it has a thing in it i want to trade it. in i won't get a lot of money for it there are web sites you can go to to get a price to ship it in and trade it in. get a little money back. glide.com. go zell.com. next worth.com. amazon. only give you amazon gift card as a result. i know a lot of people out there are thinking do i need this? well you can figure out what you can get for your ipad if you go on the web. >> shepard: get the ipad two the last version get it for $100 cheaper. they lowered that price. apple has been under fire for making products in china and creating a lot of jobs in china. it's come out survey that says it's created a lot of jobs in the u.s. too. >> 514 jobs they have created in the u.s. this is a multiplier effect. you know how that works. you know how economists works. they were working for apple. the number of people directly employed by apple. those who deliver apple products for u.p.s., et cetera, people driving trucks, all of these peopled a up to 514,000. get this, only 47,000 work directly for apple. about two thirds of those are in the resale stores. those are folks that can work any number. >> shepard: are the numbers reliable. this is a great question. lots of guestimates, for example, microsoft just did its own guestimate of how many people are involved in microsoft and cloud computing 14 million worldwide. >> shepard: 14 million? 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