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i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we begin with a stunning turnd around in south carolina where mitt romney has nearly downed his support in the past month to take a solid lead. in our latest cnn orc poll, 37% of likely voters are now backing romney in south carolina. santorum and gingrich are battling for second and 18% respectly. but santorum is soaring. while gingrich has dropped 25 points. paul has jumped up to 12%. perry has slipped to only 5% in south carolina. jon huntsman stands at 1%. with a look at what's behind romney's south carolina surge, let's go to j...

$6 million. mitt romney and restore our future, ws his alliance super pac, $3.9 million. newt gingrich, by the way, $473,000. i would say michele bachmann, who we don't spend a lot of time talking about, $162,000. hasn't run an ad since august. remarkable. tad devine, how much -- you're a media consultant. so i already know the answer to that. how much do ads matter? we're focusing on they're going to all these places, 44 downtowny tours, but in the end most voters are getting their messages from ads. can newt gingrich win a war in which he's being outspent 8-1 by romney or even bigger by rick...

They expect us to stand up in a time of stress and we're going to do exactly that. >> i'm sure you're going to have a lot of people. how many people do you know are homeless and without power right now? >> we know there are thousands of people without homes at this time. in terms of power, the last time i checked there were probably about 162,000 homes in the area that was without power. sna ear wo they're working feverishly to correct that. we need time to make an assessment to make a sense of normalcy back. you're talking about people who have lost everything. we're trying to get donations i...

About $162,000 of work due to the spill. he's only been paid 40% of what his net profit would have been for the year up until now. or tackle shop owner buggy vegas, he's been paid for april and may, but not june or july. he has no idea why the money dried up and gotten no answers from bp. or eileen, here she is in june, faxing documents to bp. she submitted them five times, showing earnings of $600,000 last year for her charter boat company. she's gotten just $35,000 from bp. today after coming back from yet another visit to the claims center, eileen told us the people there asked for the exac...

Paying claims and has not deposited any money into that account. tony hayward walks away free. these people have names and faces and families, they've done nothing to deserve not being paid. take charter boat captain stu scheerer, he's had to cancel about $162,000 of work due to the spill. he's only been paid 40% of what his net profit would have been for the year up until now. or tackle shop owner buggy vegas, he's been paid for april and may, but not june or july. he has no idea why the money dried up and gotten no answers from bp. eileen faxing documents to bp, she submitted them five times...