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Patti ann: you have to wear it though in a backpack. you're wearing one right now. can you show us how that works? and is it cumbersome if you're doing downhill skiing? >> not at all. it's a backpack system. very similar to what anybody would wear for a regular backpack. incorporated in hit is a balloon system that inflates and increases your own all volume that helps keep you on top of the snow. it adds 3.5-pound to the average-weight of a backpack. patti ann: it's a twin backpack system, there are two of them on either side. >> that's correct. the industry standards is 150 liters in one sing...

Hours. adding to the ordeal, his emergency transmitter was kaput. it failed. forcing him to deploy his 10-foot long buoy as strong currents carried him away. here is how he explained it. >> it was pretty far. i was swimming like this with that sticking up. i could see individual people. i could see cars and tents and just like i could taste it. and it was just kind of heart breaking to realize, oh, man, not again. laid on my back and watched the stars and used them as a course direction and thought of my family. >> hardest part waiting not knowing where he was and that he wasn't suffering. the...

Contrast for his vision of where we're going in america and where president obama would take us i think he could use a little polish. they say the big trouble with rick santorum is that he's a sour pus, and they don't usually get elected presidents. rick santorum can be quite engaging and positive, and if i were advising him i might say, show some more of that side. i would say that of all the candidates, though, including the democratic one. bill: we will see at least on the republican side a little more tomorrow night. >> reporter: but i'm so sunshi sunshiney. bill: yes you are. see you at 5...

Think this one will too before we get to the convention. bill: dana perino cohost of the 5, former white house press secretary during the george w. bush administration. good morning to you. i think we like to talk about this. >> reporter: it would be great television. bill: also in that survey, most republicans are happy to see this roller coaster campaign continue. 57% say they are cool witness, anwith it and it's not hurting the party. >> reporter: i think it will be fine. traditionally the primary doesn't resolve itself until the late-meijer lee june time tpraoeupl any way. bill: at the min...

Governors, nebraska, the governor is proposing income cuts over three years and end the state's inheritance tax. neighboring key hailey, cutting income tax rates. kansas, similar, a pager overhaul of the state's tax policies, most of these republican governors, is this something that is catching on? >> absolutely. if you look right now in most of these right to work states, republican governors, low taxes versus the contrary, you know, forced union businesses, high taxes, the other states, california, new york, new jersey, gigantic deficits, huge unemployment levels. people are leaving the sta...