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gingrich is down. let s go outfront. good evening, i m ali velshi sitting in for erin burnett outfront tonight. newt sinking and santorum rising. newt gingrich plunging from his top spot down to fourth place. former governor rick santorum doing just the open sits. he surged from single digits into third place. mitt romney now leads the pack with 25% and there s another new poll out of new hampshire where the nation s second contest in the race for the gop nominee will be held one week later on january the 10th. mitt romney dominating his opposition there. he s at 44%. rivals ron paul and newt gingrich trailing 17% and 16% respectively. let s go right to political correspondent joe johns. he s on the ground in iowa. joe, this is a bit of a shocker. santorumizi santorumize santorum rising as much as he has. this is a guy that s been to every county in the state and he still couldn t get that endorsement. what has done that this for rick santorum? reporter: ali, i ve g ....
mike osheerer around a.b. stoddard of the hill. i m candy crowley and this is state of the union. tis the season for endorsements or not. a big not this week in iowa from the family leader the influential social conservative group said it won t even consider backing herman cain, citing, in part, a narrative of questions versus clarity on the key issues of life, marriage, foreign policy, and presidential readiness. joining us now from atlanta is herman cain. mr. cain, thank you so much for joining us here. i want to show our audiences, we noted you were the front-runner in october. this is our latest cnn/orc poll which shows you running at about 17%. that s an eight-point drop since october. you have the manchester union leader coming out endorsing newt gingrich who s now first in some of these polls. you have the family leader saying they didn t want to consider you because they don t really think you are ready for it. what do you think has gone wro ....
mcclain and newt goldstein. the newt endorsement from the new hampshire union leader with editorial page editor andrew cline. and then, all things political with time magazine s michael scherer and a.b. stoddard of the hill. i m candy crowley and this is state of the union. tis the season for endorsements or not. a big not this week in iowa from the family leader the influential social conservative group said it won t even consider backing herman cain, citing, in part, a narrative of questions versus clarity on the key issues of life, marriage, foreign policy, and presidential readiness. joining us now from atlanta is herman cain. mr. cain, thank you so much for joining us here. i want to show our audiences, we noted you were the front-runner in october. this is our latest cnn/orc poll which shows you running at about 17%. that s an eight-point drop since october. you have the manchester union leader coming out endorsing newt gingrich, who s ....
i am the luckiest person in the world. my family is safe. now i need to check on my neighbors. michelle s home burned in the steiner ranch community northwest of austin. today we are reminded not all fire victims were lucky and we may not know all the dead. the biggest fire has killed at least two people, and two others, a mother and toddler died elsewhere in the state on sunday. today a 100-member search team from texas task force one plans to fan out southeast of austin where authorities fear not everybody fled when the flames approached. take a look here. this is an interactive map you can link to from the website of the texas forest service. it has burned more than 33,000 acres and is 30% contained. this time yesterday it was zero percent contained. and then another fire torched 75 homes and threatens many more. my colleague is watching the battle, and many don t know whether their homes burned or not and may now be getting some answers? reporter: yeah, author ....