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Mission or cover for a missile test? tonight, the white house with a strong warning. and -- >> -- everyone was asking questions. oh, what happened? what did you do, jeremy? >> shepard: he grabbed the wheel when the bus driver had a heart attack. >> his eyes were bulling and he was twitching in the chair. glent, to the 13-year-old hero who saved everybody on the bus. but, first from fox this tuesday night, rick santorum is out, and mitt romney is apparently on his way to wrapping up the republic nomination. our delegate counters say it's now mathematically improbable for anybody to beat him. bu...

the next contests. >> we will compete everywhere. we will compete everywhere. the time is now for conservatives to pull together. the time is now to make sure -- to make sure that we have the best chance to win this election and the best chance to win this election is to nominate a conservative to go up against barack obama who can take him on on every issue. >> all right. let's take a closer look at the numbers in both states. you can see how tight this race was. it took awhile at cnn to make these calls. it was running as a three-man race for most of the evening. alabama, rick sant...

states. he says he's staying in. now the questions are can santorum find a path to challenge romney? it would be easier if gingrich gets out. the math, the rules, the history. everything tells you it's still romney over the long hall into may and june. but you know what? our politics have been outside the rules. we elected our first african-american president. the tea party movement came out of nowhere. so let's watch. santorum's going to puerto rico. then we have a big primary in illinois. back to the midwest where if you look at the demographics, should be a romney state. >> puerto...

alabama and hopefully the folks in mississippi did -- we did? i guess. >> how happy is he? how happy is his family? back with us right now, our expert cnn team. john, this is a very significant night for rick santorum. just when so many of the so-called experts were saying romney had it all but done, not is fast. >> could romney lock it up or another revival for newt gingrich. he loses in the two south states. he says he's staying in. now the questions are can santorum find a path to challenge romney? it would be easier if gingrich gets out. the math, the rules, the history. everythi...

Matched by optimism on the romney side? >> it is. they're a pretty cautious group in such situations. this is one of those crazy situations, you treat this like campaign a and campaign b. the romney campaign, compared to the santorum campaign, they have delegate counters and know where the vote is at. the santorum campaign is like a medium sized senate race, they don't have as good a whoeld on it, their view is not necessarily as informative as the promny campaign, which again for hours has been supremely confident looking at where the vote is at. >> it's interesting to think that the santorum...