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♪ guess where that is. guess where it is. it is chicago. it is about 75 degrees on this spring day. actually not even officially spring, is it? look at that. 75 degrees, it looks like summer. we are going to have mike seidel from the wretch join us a little later on this hour to talk about incredible weather around so much of the country. beautiful day in chicago. let's talk about newt gingrich who made another contract with america. he's staying in the race until the gop convention in tampa. >> emphasize going to tampa. it is the reason we are going to go tall way to tampa. >> all the way...

Voters since the president launched his re-election in april. they are very far ahead of the republicans right now in ohio. >> okay. jim, glur chicago. that's for the president's election headquarters. you know the operation there. howard dean told me that david plouffe, president's top political adviser, knows where every vote is. is that an exaggeration? is the president's organization really that good? >> assisting david axelrod and mussina in overseeing an impressively data-rich social media savvy organization probably does know where most every potential voter is, for whom they voted and ...

Sometime this week. and even msnbc's reverend al sharpton said he will go down to orlando at some point this week to participate in the rallies that will take place. >> absolutely. which means this network is going to continue to follow this case. thank you very much. at the bought on. hour we are going to talk to the florida reporter about the controversy surrounding the police department's handling of the shooting. coming up at 1:30 eastern right here on "weekends with alex witt." let's go to front page politics now. and a bold prediction by rick santorum about tuesday's gop primary in i...

Down to the 40s. we don't think that will happen today. already, alex, today, 75. breaks the record for the 18th of march. that's the fifth record high in a row in chicago. more than likely this will end up being the fifth 80-degree day in chicago. up into international falls, the ice box of america. they have broken another record today. yesterday 77. breaking a record by 22 degrees. and normally snow and ice this time of the year. average high is 35. things are really insane here. we are going have record or near record warm notice atlanta, st. louis, cleveland, washington, and then for thos...

Thing about winning with south carolina. and it doesn't look like newt gingrich is on a path right now to win the nomination himself. unless he gets to the nomination. my reaction is simply that rick santorum wants to win i will and i will knows it would be very good for him. i don't think that means he will win the nomination by next week. >> do you see it there in chicago? how apparent is that difference? >> pretty vivid, particularly one you look at cable news television ads locally and after the flood of romney ads bashing santorum, economically -- a creature of washington, supporter of th...