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gingrich is now 15 points ahead of romney in a new gallup poll and mr. paul steinhauser joins us right now from washington. hello, paul. how does romney plan to handle what is shaping up to be a two-man race at this point? >> it really is shaping up. that was the national poll, don. take a look at this, state poll. iowa. two new polls in iowa. one of them, cbs/"new york times." you adjust showed the national poll. newt gingrich ahead by double digits. the frontrunner, we're less than four weeks away from the iowa caucuses. what is mitt romney doing about all this? romney was speaking...

for wednesday, december 7th. from the time warner center in new york, i'm carol costello. here are this morning's top stories. a new accuser saying former penn state coach jerry sandusky sexually assaulted him when he was just 12 and gave him booze. these demonstrators attempting to take back the capital. they're staging sit-ins in front of congressional offices and camping out on the national mall. it's decision day for seniors. it's the last time you can change your medicare part "d" prescription drug plan. let's get a check of today's weather. rob marciano with a seat in atl...

That. it had some infrastructure, had some short run things. if you look at the cash for clunkers or first home buyer tax credit. they were geared to try to shift it from 2010 into 2009. given it's taken this long, i don't think you would do that short stuff. >> just for clarity, when the administration came in and did the stimulus, however big it was, too big, too small, how much was the economy shrinking then? when folks were -- >> it was at minus 9%. at the time we thought it was around minus 3.5%. and it wasn't just us -- >> minus 3.5%. >> which would be pretty bad, but minus 9% is worse. ...

That led to unintended acceleration in millions of toyota cars and trucks and culmination conducted di the department of transportation and nasa. >> turning to our rob marciano now and keeping an eye on things for us in the extreme weather center. i don't know how to classify what this is. >> it's cold again and some of the coldest stuff we have seen so far so probably not news a lot of folks want to hear. every day into february is the day closer to what we technically get to spring. 3 in kansas city and minus 9 in minneapolis and this does not include the windchill and this cold air is drivi...

Some stuff but 8 in chicago and 3 in kansas city and minus 9 in minneapolis. all driving south and east. a lot of folks are going to get a little piece of this. a couple of storms we're dealing with. the first one moving across the northeast today and that is bringing some rain and some snow on the area and with that, we're calling for maybe 3 to 6 inches of snow across parts of the northern tier and also some snow across parts of oklahoma could see 6 to 10 inches of snow there. denver seeing some snow as well and dallas could see 1 to 4 inches of snow. the problem with the snow across the nor...