making news this monday morning. in spite of a whole day of campaigning in florida, mitt romney unleashing new attacks in knockout punches against newt gingrich meanwhile, rick santorum is sidelined to take care of his critically ill daughter bella. we'll have more details. plus, what caused this massive and deadly pileup on a florida highway. drivers under smoky investigation right now. good monday morning, everyone. i'm paula faris.

>> and i'm rob nelson, newt gingrich is hoping campaign appearances with president reagan and his son michael. and it may take some to overdumb the newt gingrich double-digits lead. >> good morning. it looks like newt gingrich is on the ropes with florida, a big state with lots of delegates at stake. he's up to attacks with romney. >> reporter: mitt romney maybe on the edge of a victory. one poll has romney leads by 15 points even with what looks like a big advantage, romney is not letting. you. >> speaker gingrich evening mass painfully revealed himself over these last few days. and it's sad to watch. i think unfortunately, we're see something of the qualities that got him into so much trouble

when he was speaker of the house. >> reporter: for his part, gingrich is trying to turn things around with more harsh words about romney. >> i believe the republican party will not nominate a pro abortion, pro gun control, pro tax increase moderate from massachusetts. >> reporter: the race in florida was much tighter before romney and his super pac launched a barrage of attack ads spending $13.8 million on negative ads since south carolina. >> i responded to his money power and we need people power to offset money power. >> reporter: over the weekend, rick santorum stepped off the campaign trail to care for his daughter bella who was diagnosed with pneumonia. the 3-year-old suffers from a rare disorder. she's proving. >> she's just doing great. we still got a long way to go here. she's without a doubt turned the corner. >> while he was away in

philadelphia caring for young bella, santorum's oldest daughter elizabeth took over for him on the campaign trail. >> is she well enough for her dad to get back on the campaign trail? >> well, santorum is saying that the doctors are indicating that bella should be better and be able to be leased from the hospitals in three four days. she suffers from a condition known as trisomy 18 which would make conditions more serious. but santorum says she is improving. >> thanks tahman. now, in iran, u.n. officials are now under a second day of nuclear inspections. during the stay, the inspectors are likely to visit a heavily fortified enrichment. it's actually dug under a mountain. it will help to determine the next steps under iran's dispute and highly controversial nuclear program. also, this amateur video

showing searing video tanks and soldiers as they moved against rebel fighters near the capital. violence killed more than 60 people. some of the fighting was just three miles from damascus itself. and back here at home, interstate 75 in florida is back open in grothzs this morning, following a horrific deadly pileup. >> the highway shrouded in dense fog and smoke, and a brush fire the wreckage stretched nearly a mile. involved a dozen cars and fire was so hot that parts of the road actually melted. >> unbelievable video there. and a city hall in oakland, california, was certainly somewhat of a mess as well due to occupied protesters who broke in over the weekend. she smashed glass and left graffiti behind.

meanwhile, protesters were arrested. demonstrators took to the streets in new york as well with solidarity with those in california, some were arrested but there was no major violence. well, three members of an afghan family face long prison terms in a controversial case involving an honor killing in canada. the father, mother and their adult son were convicted of murdering the family's three teenage daughters and the father's first wife. prosecutors say the victims were drowned by dishonoring the family by ignoring social rules. the father was calling his dead daughters profit tus saying nothing was more hurt than his honor. police thought they were called to a robbery, when they entered the house, they found the bodies of five young men inside. the police chief says the

horrific crime was not an act of violence. maria and sasha took a walk a few blocks from the white house to visit the gallery of art. the museum is running a special exhibit on an african artist. it looks like the obamas had the place to themselves. a little quality time. time to look at weather across the country. storming with the northern rockies up to a foot and a half of snow in idaho and montana, a light dusting from northern minnesota to the upper part of michigan. >> the u.p. up 323 inches of lake-effect snow in western new york stretching to northern new england showers from brownsville over to dallas. and 66 in dallas. kansas city gets up to 61. chicago with 44. minneapolis, 38, phoenix hit 73. sacramento, 62. and it's just 44 in salt lake city. well, super bowl fever is

taking over indianapolis as the teams arrive. we're going to take you there. >> the game around the corner now. then, also this morning, the new video from italy inside that wrecked cruise ship, early similar, to photos from the "t

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well, check out the winter x games. snowmobile competition. it went very well for rider colton moore who all but came off his sled. it flipped successfully. but it did not go so well for this dude, justin hoyer. >> oh! >> yeah, that's going to leave a mark. they eventually stretchered him off, x-rays at the hospitals. it came back negative, believe it or not, he is okay. >> oh, my word. well, for a look at morning road conditions, use on i-90 from boston to buffalo. and i-75 in michigan, and i-35 in minnesota. snow on i-84 and 94 in idaho and montana. wet on i-5 from seattle to portland. and i-35. >> it's easy going if you're flying today. no weather-related airport

delays expected across the country. >> that's the first time that's happened. turning overseas to italy where officials are saying it coo take up to ten months to completely remove that crippled cruise ship. >> slow going there. efforts to find the missing and to empty fuel from that ship are moving very slowly. meanwhile, we're seeing new and pretty hauntsing video of the disaster scene. with more on this, here's abc's jeffrey kofman. >> reporter: the images show a modern-day "titanic." dishes caught in a net. on the sea bottom, mattresses, clothes, even a black shoe. haunting new pictures captured by divers showing the "costa concordia." with 17 dead and 17 still missing, including a couple from minnesota, recovery operations were suspended because of bad weather. the situation is different in different parts says this italian police diver. some points are not acceptable, especially where the ship is on the rocks.

the immediate focus is on the environment, removing half a million gallons of diesel fuel from the ship's tank before it leaks out. and socialing news about the salvage operation. it may take ten months to remove the stricken ship from the island that doomed it. jeffrey kofman, abc news, london. well, joy quickly turned to misery for dozens of students hoping to get into new york's prestigious vassar college. dozens of students were told they were accepted into the school. they logged on to its website friday but 30 minutes later, vassar says it was a big mistake caused by a systems error. >> she went from total elation to -- the air was knocked out of her. >> i felt like i achieved something and then it was taken away with me. >> many students shared the good news with friends and family, posting it on facebook in some cases. once the error was announced some of them were distraught to even talk about it.

an ugly mistake. and a just released study says women are better at parking than men. >> not by an inch. >> british researchers observed 2,500 drivers, and they found that women are better at finding a space and putting a car in that space, however, it took them longer to do it than men. >> because we're smart enough to actually use the camera. today, the new york giants traveled to indianapolis for sunday's super bowl. quarterback tom brady and the rest of the new england patriots got there yesterday. best dressed had to go do new england linebacker branden sykes. he looks like the pink panther. good morning, my name is jorge andress. let's start with the nba. lebron and the one-hand, miami

up early. still in the first. wade, alley-oop, time to james. james elevated. 35 in the game. 11th 30-point game of the year. under a minute to play, rose and the foul. rose, trying to float it, but it won't go. bosh with the rebound. the heat go on to win, 97-93. now about the spurs taking on dirk nowitzki and the dallas mavericks. seven minutes remaining. nowitzki to jason terry. pulling up for the "j." knotted up at 91-91. half a second remaining. spurs on the inbound. danny green throws it up. it goes in! but take another look at this one. the shot will be reviewed. green doesn't get it off on

time. we have free basketball called overtime. under ten seconds in o.t. spurs down one. motto with the inbound. can't get it to go. and spurs lose 101-100. well, that was your espn news update. i'm jorge andres. for more sports and highlights tune into espn. >> one more sports item, novak djokovic was the new aussie men's winner. and boy did he earn it. >> he waited 5 hours and 5 minutes to win over nadal. he ripped off his shirt and got a little crazy on the court. that's the favorite of the day. >> him kissing the trophy, right? >> yeah. >> it was the longest ever, epic. coming up next, the winners of last night's s.a.g. awards plus the red carpet.

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updates the top news stories now. mitt romney is riding high on the polls. rochlny also leads in nevada where the next race will be held saturday. rick santorum joins the campaign after a family crisis. his daughter bella who has a rare disorder and suffered from pneumonia. and a series of accidents that left ten people dead, and also smoke from a brush fire made it impossible do see. and take a look at today's weather. heavy snow for idaho and montana. rain in southeast texas and lake-effect snow from buffalo all the way to new hampshire. and finally from us this morning, by this time next week, we will know whether the giants or the patriots are super bowl

champs. >> for now, though, there's a whole lot of buzz about that other part of super bowl sunday. not the food. the commercials. here's abc's anchor david muir. [ barking ] >> reporter: one of the first big changes here, the super bowl ads coming out long before the game begins. the minutes-long teaser of a canine chorus for the darth vader theme. and skechers opening to run away with the ad get condition even before the game. the second biggest change in ads this year, many of them will be much launch. there's a one-minute ad from audi celebrating its highlight technology. somewhat bad news if you're a vampire. and lastly, the ads this year will try to reach out to your technology. it's estimated 60% of viewers will have a screen right in

their hand. shirr ma their smartphone. viewers can hold their smartphones right up to the tv it will take it right to the smartphone's website. >> it will get anything you want. give me more doritos. >> reporter: and doritos hopes to cash in on that. and the iphone siri. >> send me three hot wild -- ls. >> no, hot girls. >> we all have that trouble, too. i do look -- love that commercial, too. actually put this question up on our facebook page as well. folks have pretty interesting comments. they're asking for the commercials or the game, they're asking are you a man or a woman. >> i like the game, what does that make me? >> that makes you one of the cool girls.