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but the math and money and more people doubting that that may be enough as we move on your "early start." good morning everyone welcome to "early start" i'm ashleigh banfield. >> i'm zoraida sambolin. we're bringing you news from a to z, 5:00 a.m. in the east. >> alabama, mississippi, rick santorum a southern sweep. >> a heartbreaking tragedy in switzerland, 22 children killed when a bus crashed in the wall of a tunnel. that bus carrying 46 children, and six adults was returning to belgium after a school ski trip. a total of 28 people died, police are investigating now. prosecuto...

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...

Alabama. >> reporter: crunch time for newt gingrich. distant third and g.o.p. nomination delegates he said he must win alabama and mississippi. failing that, he will run to the august conference anyway. >> gingrich presidency would be very different. the reason i stay in the race is it's about more than right versus left. it's about being smart and understanding the modern world and science and technology. >> greg: but the race is about delegate math. the latest tally shows him ahead of santorum, gingrich and ron paul. alabama has 47 delegates at stake. mississippi, 37. hawaii, 17. american sa...

Delegates behind romney, so they've got to win a state like mississippi or alabama to have any viable path to victory. jon: rob, you're a constitute gingrich supporter -- newt gingrich supporter, but you're saying that this is going to be a horse race today, you're not predicting a newt gingrich sweep, another one downplaying expectations for your candidate? >> well, i do think it's a horse race, and i think henry's doing a great job of downplaying expectations. i mean, mitt romney is clearly the front runner. he's made that clear himself. but while they're running around talking about delegat...

Campaign. he's in another southern state, louisiana, outside santorum's election night headquarters in lafayette. the louisiana primary is later this month. i believe on the 24th. but still keeping a southern flavor to things tonight, kelly. >> reporter: absolutely. well, we've been in alabama, mississippi. for rick santorum, he will have his party here tonight. he has a tendency to like leap ahead a bit in the media market for the next contest down the line and it's been part of the santorum approach of sort of grinding it out and being in places where some of the other candidates are not nec...