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>> a win is a win. and you've watched, this is our final number, wolf. this is our final number. 30,015 to 30,007. thanks to the dpraet work of our ladies tonight in clinton county iowa helping us crack the difference. clinton county, you don't think of this as much. it's a small county. 32% to 26%. this is the county that made the difference for governor romney tonight. if you pull out this map and you look at the breadth of this, you're seeing a lot of purple. that is rick santorum doing very, very well. a lot of comparisons to mike huckabee. rick santorum, all of this purple. however, many ...

Let's take that away and come back to our map. you come in, you watch the state, again, look at this. we're waiting for this to come in. this is about as close as it gets. soledad is here. this is polk county. 12.8% of the state's population. 13% of the population. we don't say that's going to be 13% of the vote tonight. we have to see how many republicans turned out in this area. romney won that one precinct, but that's what governor romney wants to see. but that's ron paul. ron paul leading. but again 28% to 22%. we're talking fewer than a thousand votes for everybody. 27%. as that goes up, ...

Huckabee had all this orange four years ago. santorum all this purple this year. that's where you find your tea party voters. evangelical born again christians. governor romney's win, as narrow as it is, comes because he ran up he can sent margins by iowa standard in bigger placees. 12.8%. nearly 13% lives in polk county. governor romney did well there. if you come out east, cedar rapids in lindh county. santorum third there. that's one of the reasons. as you watch this now, you have the closest race in iowa caucus history. wow. governor romney wins. you want to see something eerie? 25%. 3,015...

That will lead to more protection downstream for areas including baton rouge as well as for areas including louisiana, talking about new orleans. just to give you an update on the flooding there, dealing with major flooding for many rivers. on may 19th, vicksburg river at 12.8 feet. then as we go may 21st, 12.2 for natchez. this is major flooding. down towards the south near new orleans we're talking about moderate flooding, and that is better news than major flooding. certainly everybody across new orleans needs to pay attention to this problem with the mississippi. >> they and we will be kee...

This is an estimate, not an exact science. but you can see in the atchafalaya basin, we're talking 10 to 15 feet, 15 to 20. anywhere in the gold, that's the mississippi river, anywhere between 20 and 30 feet in some locations. down towards the south, a little lesdz amount of water, zero to 5 feet, but none the less, this is going to certainly really cause havoc on homeowners down there. as i zoom out for you, i also want to give you an idea of the size of it. this area equates to about half the size of the state of connecticut. a wide area that is going to be affected by this flooding that is ...