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♪ ♪ good to be back with you on this second hour of "chris jansing reports." ahead, tragedy in iowa. three people shot at a high school on the first day back from winter break. law enforcement sources telling nbc that the suspect is dead. we are live at the scene. plus, the battle down in texas, the department of justice taking on the state for its brand new law allowing police to arrest migrants. also, a florida man arrested after threats against congressman eric swalwell, the chilling voice mails he left for the california democrat saying he would kill him and his family. t...

welcome to the beat weekend, let's get right into the headlines. this is a debate that certainly is memorable. but not in a very happy way. it seems to be another in a series of shared american experiences and memories that feel more infamous than famous, more traumatic than cathartic. and so tonight, together with you right now, as we are still within these first 24 hours of that face-off, we're going to take stock with the evidence, trying to look at the significance and the fallout and the actual real possibilities. we are not going to devolve into, or take too much time with the ...

In fact, there is an event planned tonight in lancaster, and he is planning to attend that. we'll just have to see what he is going to say. but mitt romney's delegate lead has continued to grow with his victories. and a lot of people including some conservatives are saying that it may be the time for the party to get together, coalesce behind mitt romney who looks like the presumptive nominee at this point, thomas. >> we'll all be paying attention, 2:00 p.m. eastern, my colleague, tamron hall, will have that. ron mott, thanks so much. nbc latino's alicia menendez, joe watkins and msnbc polit...

Question first. it could have a very big impact. as you mentioned, right now mitt romney has a 300 delegate lead over rick santorum. texas has 155 delegates. if it were winner-take-all, you can see rick santorum really starting to cut into that delegate lead. if it's proportional, even if rick santorum were able to win texas, which holds the primary on may 29th, he would get half, 80 out of 155. that could have a big impact. however, how likely it is is unlikely. i spoke with an official at the republican national committee late this past week. and they said that for texas to change its rules,...

A henderson. let's go to the gop primary in louisiana. with this delegate lead, the total number is widening and mitt romney's gap growing. how much will a win in louisiana really buy rick santorum? >> at the most, 20 delegates. he finds himself in a situation, santorum does, with this growing gap in a race all about delegate math and delegate count at this point. he is behind by about 300 delegates at this point. he sort of says, oh, this is romney math and he blames the press for buying into this delegate tally. but the truth is, as this thing goes on, this lead is likely only going to widen...