the people of dayton don't forg forget. the people of dayton don't forget. the people of ohio don't forget. if mitt romney was president when the auto industry was on the verge of collapse, we might not have that today. i bet on american workers and manufacturing. i would do it again because that bet has paid off for ohio and america in a big way. >> the president released a 20-poij booklet yesterday of all his proposed policies. most reports say there was nothing new inside there. beginning tonight on "nightly news" nbc's brian williams will have exclusive behind the scenes access. a couple days with the president. the coverage continues tomorrow. the candidates out staking ground when it comes to coveted newspaper endorsements. the des moines register in iowa is set to reveal its choice this weekend. on the paper's website yesterday, editor rick green posted an editorial calling out president obama for refusing to meet for an on the record interview with that paper. the president did call in for a, quote, private conversation, specifics of which could not

i said dayton? he said where are you going? i read in the paper you love ohio. you went from dayton, ohio, to marion, ohio. >> if anyone comes to the white house from ohio, they'll get a hershey bar this big. >> pandering to ohio. the race for ohio is going to come down to the margins. mitt romney doesn't have to win these big democratic counties. he just has to hold down the president's score. george w. bush won the race in 2004 by limiting kerry's gain. something he couldn't do to barack obama in 2008. look at three of the largest counties in the state. kerry won by 227,000 votes. in 2008, fewer people voted but president obama added to his margin. he won by 30,000 more votes. in lucas county, in 2008 obama won the county by nearly 70,000 votes. and then of course there's franklin county which includes the capital of columbus. one of the faster growing parts of the state. in 2004, john kerry won it by just 48,000 votes. four years later, president obama more than doubled that total. he won by 116,000 votes. that's one way to watch this is on the margins. the t

they didn't know anything about him that he was born in 1872 in dayton, ohio, graduated. so the learned the first lesson every write er must learn, you'll learn it the hard way or start from the beginning. don't be with afraid, tear it up, start over again. or go in and say i have got to move this, i have got to change this. the formal word gets revision. you'll revise and revise until you figure, i can't revise anymore and send it to the editor, we have lots of revision with this. revising is 90 percent of writing. i wrote that very first book in 1971. it didn't get published until 1982. no i don't have to work on books that long anymore. but that first one, learn how to rewrite, restructure, move things. i have written many more biographies. i have learned the most important thing, you must tell a good story, character, setting, action, and idea. you have it in fiction as well as non fiction. some where along the line we were taught that non fiction is simply facts. it is not truth. facts wrapped around a story. facts put in a story. let's go back to that porch again, t

. >>> i was in dayton, ohio. a woman grabbed my arm. she said, i've been out of work since may. can you help me? >> all of a sudden mitt romney is concerned for middle class americans asking for help. >> they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. >> james hoffa of the teamsters on mitt romney's pandering to the middle class. >>> we'll bring you the latest on mitt romney's goal to fry big bird. >> he'll get rid of regulations on wall street, but he's going to crack down on sesame street. >>> and how did last night's big debate play in the most important swing state in the union? there is no better person to ask than state senator nina turner. follow the wings. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." well, mitt romney put on quite a dog and pony show last night for middle class voters across america. all right there. he's a different dude. during debate, he pulled a complete 180. now all of a sudden romney's concerned about the 47% of americans he trashed back in may. >> high income people are doing just fine in this economy. they'll do fine whether you're presi

and in that book they identified as the key to the election the dayton housewife. she was from the middle of the country, had a mid-level education. she was a 47 year old catholic married to a machinist, and she was going to be the key to electoral politics in ohio. she became so famous in that election cycle that dick cavett, the late-night talk show, actually sent a team of producers to ohio to try to find the dayton housewife. and after that, the dayton housewife appeared on the dick cavett show pronouncing about the election. she had a cigarette and it was really quite an experience. but anyway, we've been watching ohio for a very long time here henry, and now you can tells what it will be the dayton housewife, a cincinnati housewife, what should we be looking at? >> nowadays will probably be likely to be the columbus separated woman with one child. the end of this campaign, i'm just thinking come it's like we're at the end of long running popular tv show, like cheers. in a couple of weeks all of our favorite characters will be gone and will only have our memor

. >>> i was in dayton, ohio. a woman grabbed my arm. she said, i've been out of work since may. can you help me? >> all of a sudden mitt romney is concerned for middle class americans asking for help. >> they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. >> james hoffa of the teamsters on mitt romney's pandering to the middle class. >>> we'll bring you the latest on mitt romney's goal to fry big bird. >> he'll get rid of regulations on wall street, but he's going to crack down on sesame street. >>> and how did last night's big debate play in the most important swing state in the union? there is no better person to ask than state senator nina turner. [ male announcer ] what if you had thermal night-vision goggles, like in a special ops mission? you'd spot movement, gather intelligence with minimal collateral damage. but rather than neutralizing enemies in their sleep, you'd be targeting stocks to trade. well, that's what trade architect's heat maps do. they make you a trading assassin. trade architect. td ameritrade's empowering web-based trading platform. trade c

on our twitter page, when you were saying -- and david, dayton, ohio. supporter of the president. >> go ahead. host>> i am proud of the presid. he's the best ticket for the united states. of all the company's are shutting down and sabotaging the economy, you cannot expect a turnaround. that is what obama means by the rich helping out more. but these guys are sabotaging the economy. i am in perfect example of [inaudible] [unintelligible] guest: 84 taking my call. -- thank you for taking my call. i think governor romney has won all the debates. i have been out of work since the beginning of this year, trying desperately to get back. i am waiting for a brand new president. i believe and i know in my own heart that governor romney will help the middle class. we do not need obama for another four years. has ruined this country and like the second to last caller said, the american people need to wake up. and vote republican for governor romney. >> on our facebook page, an unscientific survey. the focus on foreign-policy. you can weigh in. cspan.com/facebook.

steve brown has an update from dayton, ohio. steve. >> behind me is the last operating delphi factory here in dayton. it used to employ 25,000 in this area now 300. back in 09 when gm was getting bailed out delphi was going through bankruptcy and there were lots of employees salaried and union who were asking nervous questions about their pensions. >> how is our healthcare looking after retirement? how is our pension looking? everything is good. pension plan is well funded. >> we were told that everything was secure in your pension, and you plan on that for the rest of your life. >> until like its dayton area plants delphi shut down the employee pension plans handing them off to the federal government. >> when my pension went from 2,500 $50 a month guaranteed to the federal government saying you'll get $385 a month. >> and you spend years and years making your financial plan for retirement and going through all the numbers and wanting to live like you wanted to live and with your children and grandchildren, and then it gets take

dayton, tennessee was a small sleepy southern town. could not even drink. it was a dry town. the town fathers one summer day were sitting around in the drug store drinking coca-cola said. one guy said, a paper that the american civil liberties union is looking for a test case on this evolution thing. the druggist happens to be the school board president. let me go get the text. i think we teach evolution in the schools. well, why don't we stays a trial here. you know, who is going to be defended? go get john scopes, young fellow. up playing tennis. they brought him in and said, this is what we want to do. you're apt to be convicted. is that okay with you? the tickets to the supreme court >> okay. i'll do that. they sent a telegram to the american civil arizona st. we have your defendant. he will be convicted and you can take the cases appear court. it was set as a publicity stunt from the beginning of three lawyers being lawyers, as soon as they get into the courtroom, they knew somebody was going to go down as the loser and of a sudden started to mysteriously inserted arguin

he's speaking right now in dayton, ohio. he's going to be introducing the president who's going to be speaking right after him. and in henderson, nevada, another key battleground state, paul ryan is speaking right now getting ready to introduce mitt romney. this hour you will hear from both mitt romney and barack obama on this important day after the third and final presidential debate. let's go to nevada right now. six electoral votes are at stake there. in 2008 they went to president obama. while he holds a two-point lead in a recent poll in that state, he's statistically tied with mitt romney in nevada right now. our national political correspondent jim acosta's on the scene for us with the romney campaign. what's going on on this day after the last debate? >> reporter: well, wolf, you might be able to notice behind me that paul ryan is on stage. he's getting ready to introduce the man at the top of the ticket, mitt romney. the romney campaign believes that the gop nominee achieved his objective at last night's debate by

bowman bridge, dayton oaks, longfellow, try del if i ya. patuxent valley, glen el high, hammond and wild oak high. if power isn't restored by 35bg tomorrow morning, those schools will close. so you have to watch tomorrow morning. >> let's check in with cheryl conner and don harrison to see how they fared. >> reporter: hey, guys, we're doing pretty well. we heard that queen anne's will start back tomorrow but they will start 90 minutes late. that's because if water comes up overnight they're hoping it will recede before the kids get out there. we're seeing water coming up. >> it did. we went down to chester river beach road where they got a lot of water during isabelle. it did come up into the house. most of the houses fared pretty well. the wind didn't push it up as far as we thought. this should be pretty good. they should be okay with this. they're going to experience more flooding. >> reporter: not bad. we talked to people and they said they're nervous as the water was creeping close to their home. the best part is it stayed outside. it

the president's first stop of the day was at del ray beach and he's on his way to an appearance to dayton, ohio with the vice president and heads back to bawd later -- washington, d.c., later tonight. >>> president obama is scheduled for an appearance in the las vegas area -- mitt romney is expected to do an appearance in the las vegas area with paul ryan and then the two will fly to colorado after that. >>> the cnn poll shows a win for president obama. 48% say the president showed the strongest performance while 40% gave the victory to mitt romney. the rest were undecided. a cbs poll on undecided voters also gave president obama saying 48% he won -- saying 53% saying president obama won and then 23% saying mitt romney won. >> they need to go through bankruptcy -- >> governor romney, that's not what you said. >> you can take a look -- >> you did not -- >> i said we would provide guarantees -- >> let's check the record. >> i never said i would liquidate. >> that was the third and final debate. you will find more analysis at ktvu.com. click on the election 2012 tab on the front page. >>> mo

ed henry is live with us from dayton, ohio. what is in this new booklet? >> shep, it's interesting. i have got it right here. it's 20 pages, as you say a plan for jobs and middle class security. the obama camp says they are going to it slide it under 3 million doors among undecided voters, key battle grounds like here in ohio as well as florida. they have been on defense over that because of the fact that you have republicans, like mitt romney, paul ryan have been hitting him saying he hasn't laid any specifics about a second term agenda. so the president puts out this pamphlet today he has a 60 second ad he looks straight into the camera and says this is what i will do in a second term. he talks about creating jobs. he talks about clean energy. he also talks about cutting the deficit by raising taxes on the rich. this is all stuff he has talked about on the trail. that's why republicans immediately said it's not really new ideas. it's just recycled, shep. >> shepard: analysts say the president is sharpening his attack on governor romney in a more personal way. >> he is. you will re

little later on, traveling to dayton, ohio, meeting up with vth biden. >>> programming note. this week, brian williams joins president obama for a series of interviews over the course of two days on the campaign trail. see them on "rock center" thursday with previews on "nightly news" and the "today" show. with our revolutionary e-trade 360 dashboard you see exactly where your money is and what it's doing live. our e-trade pro platform offers powerful functionality that's still so usable you'll actually use it. and our mobile apps are the ultimate in wherever whenever investing. no matter what kind of investor you are, you'll find the technology to help you become a better one at e-trade. >>> iran, israel, syria. there's a lot of foreign policy last night but coming to style points, who won? let mess bring in general wesley clark, obama campaign adviser and host of "stars earned stripes" on nbc. always good to see you, general. good morning. >> thank you. nice to be with you. >> i think a lot of people watching the debate last night may not be familiar with the intricacies of

they just wrapped up a campaign rally in dayton. >>> the final debate last night focused mainly on foreign policy. once again, our partners at fact check.org found many claims by both men that were false. here's nbc's dawn timmoney. >> reporter: the final battle between president barack obama and mitt romney gave voters the opportunity to hear more from each candidate on foreign policy. but fact check found several misleading and false statements. first, a claim from the president going back four years ago. >> when you are a candidate in 2008, as i was, and inif i got bin laden in our sights, i would take that shot. you said we shouldn't move heaven and earth to get one man and you said we should ask pakistan for permission. >> reporter: did romney say the u.s. should not go after bin laden in pakistan without that country's permission? >> romney said that of course, he would use any option that is available to him to protect the united states. so he would have used this as an option but he was just critical of obama for publicly speaking about it. he said we should keep our options quiet.

live coverage on c-span tomorrow as the president and vice president campaign in dayton, ohio. live coverage at 3:50 eastern time on c-span 2. governor romney and paul ryan together in colorado. coverage tomorrow evening just past 9:00 eastern time. nate silver puts it this way on our twitter page -- polls, including the latest wall street journal poll, showing this race at 47% apiece. back to your phone calls. malik joining us from philadelphia. caller: how're you doing? i am for obama because, when you hear romney talk, it sounds like a man with power. when someone is a man with power, that means it is about money and not the people. not everybody is rich and not everybody has millions of dollars. when it comes down to the people that need help, everybody else seems like they are at the bottom. i do not mean just a little bit of money -- host: thanks for the call. mary is on the phone from alaska. go ahead. caller: i am a great grandmother and i have watched obama in this past four years. our economy is not what it should be. we should not have soldiers in iraq, we should not

meantime, the obama biden team in dayton, ohio, last night at a rally. the president showing off yesterday a new booklet that he says details his plan for the next four years, one that he says where the math adds up. now he's got a huge campaign schedule over the next three days in eight states including iowa, colorado, and california and an appearance on jay leno tonight. >> all right, tracie pots there for us in washington. tacie, thanks. >>> the white house and the state department were advised that an islamic militant group was behind the benghazi attack just two hours after that assault began. this information is according to a report by the reuters news agency. they managed to obtain e-mails that described the attack as it was still underway. the white house and state department have not commented yet on those e-mails. >>> well, now here's a look at some other stories making news early today in america. we're going to begin with a deadly shark attack in southern california. a 39-year-old man was killed while surfing in the waters off surf beach. th

. >> in dayton, ohio, a week from the election, romney tried to retool a prescheduled political rally to what aides dub disaster relief event and charity concert. >> we have heavy hearts with the suffering going on. >> romney didn't mention the campaign, stayed off the main stage and spoke in front of the tables piled with donation. >> part of the american spirit, the american way to give to people in need. we have goods here. more coming in. we will box these things up. ♪ ♪ play me mountain music >> scheduled as a victory rally to inveigh rate voters for the sprint, country star randy owens performed but john mccain's appearance was scrapped. in a debate last year, romney was asked about cutting fema's budget and did not rule it out. he ignored reporters' questions about it today. romney political director has a memo suggest hag romney surge put pennsylvania in play and the president is on defense saying the expansion of the electoral map demonstrates that governor romney's momentum jumped containment from the usual target states and spread to deeper blue states that chicago neve

and in that book they identified as the key to the election the dayton housewife. she was from the middle of the country, had a mid-level education. she was a 47 year old catholic married to a machinist, and she's going to be the key to electoral politics in ohio. she became so famous in that election cycle that dick cavett, the late-night talk show, actually sent a team of producers to ohio to try to find the dayton housewife. and after that, the dayton housewife appeared on the dick cavett show pronouncing about the election. she had a cigarette and it was really quite an experience. but anyway, we've been watching ohio for a very long time here come henry, a new you can tells what it will be the dayton housewife, a cincinnati housewife, what should we be looking at? >> nowadays will probably be likely to be the columbus separated woman with one child. the end of this campaign, i'm just thinking come it's like we're at the end of long running popular tv show, like cheers. in a couple of weeks all of our favorite characters will be gone and will only have our memo

newsmakers" jim jordon, republican of ohio and chairman of the house republican committee joining us from dayton, ohio. here in washington, nicole >> at the first presidential debate, mitt romney went hard and substance. last night at the vice-presidential debate we saw paul ryan take a position on abortion that is more moderate than the one he had prior to becoming the vp pick. are you worried that this is the sign that the real mitt romney is moderate? what would you do if he embraced a simpson-bowles type plan? >> i do not necessarily think they moved from standard conservative positions. both governor romney and congressman ryan talked about the need to not raise taxes. they talked about the need to keep our defenses strong. they both talked about reducing spending. we're heading for a debt crisis. they both talked about the pro-life, recognizing the sanctity of human life and the family institution. on the four key principles that define the republican party, the defense, lower taxes, traditional values, and these guys are rock solid. americans understand this is what makes our country grea

and i said, dayton. they said, where you going? i said, marion. he said, i read in the paper, you said you love ohio. and that must be true, you've gone from dayton, ohio, to marrying ohio. i said, i never thought of it that way, i didn't think i was marrying y'all, but it's great to be here. it's great to be here. >> you're either the kind of the person who loves those jokes, or you're the kind of person who groans when you hear those jokes. but if you give it another 12 hours, we are going to be at the knock-knock joke part of the campaign. this is just where we're at how. don't worry, it doesn't last long. vice president biden today was in the ohio part of ohioa. president obama today was in the iowa part of ohioa. at least president obama was there at the very start of what turned out to be a very busy presidential day. >> this is the first stop on our 48th hour fly-around campaign marathon extravaganza. we're going to pull an all-nighter. no sleep. we're starting here in iowa, we're going to colorado. then we're going to go to nevada. then we

. >> president obama continues the romnesia theme while appearing with joe biden in dayton. mr. obama accused romney of waffling on several key issues but the obama campaign may be bracing for card from donald trump who says he will big announcement related to president obama tomorrow. details have not been released. close to the home, community and religious leaders were in silver spring tonight urging people to support question 4. >> making sure that all of our maryland youth have the opportunity to go to college and university. >> question 4 is also known as the dream act and if passed, it would allow the children of illegal immigrants to pay in of it state tuition at public colleges. there are stipulations. their parents must pay taxes and students must attend maryland high schools. nearly 750 people of diverse faiths attended tonight's rally and they will mobilize to gain support for the dream act. and an alert to women a story you need to see in a live report. also ahead unsanitary discoveries tied to the deadly meningitis outbreak. how that has led to a big decision tonig

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mitt romney appearing in dayton, ohio. so big question today is, what impact will sandy have on the u.s. economy. lots to talk about here because not only is there the damage to consider but the business disruption that it has created throughout the northeast. joining me is jared bernstein former chief economist for vice president joe biden, also an msnbc contributor. jared, as we look over these estimates and they're really rough now in the very beginning. >> very rough. >> sandy could cost when it's all said and done, the total $20 billion or more. exceeding the damage certainly from irene last year which was about 12 to $16 billion. meantime moody's an lytics estimate economic losses will total $10 billion a day, lost wages, production, sales for businesses. do you think that estimate is on target? >> yeah, i think that estimate is on target but i believe moody's said they're not going to alter their estimate for gdp in the fourth quarter because some of this will be made up and also some of this stuff that gets destroy

meantime, the obama/biden team in dayton, ohio late last night at a rally. the president showing off yesterday a new booklet that he says details his plan for the next four years. one that he says where the math adds up. he has a huge campaign schedule over the next three days in eight states including iowa, colorado and california and an appearance on jay leno tonight. >>> the white house and state department were advised an islamic militant group was behind the benghazi attack two hours after that assault began. this is information that is according to a report by the reuters news agency. they managed to obtain e-mails that describe the attack as it was still under way. the white house and the state department have not commented yet on these e-mails. >>> here's your "first look" at some of the other news going on around america today. let's begin with a deadly shark attack in southern california. a 39-year-old man was killed while surfing in the waters off surf beach. he was pronounced dead at the scene. this is the second fatal attack in two years at surf

however, she had reported in to the office to see me that day in dayton. >> mr. humphries, being that sharida didn't notify you that -- >> wilkins begins to cross-examine humphrey, but then all of a sudden he seems to be having a heart attack. >> excuse me. hold on a second. >> he had asked me, i believe, two questions at the time, and then he grabbed his chest, asked the judge if he could have a minute. >> your honor, excuse me for a second. i need -- i need some time. >> and then collapsed on the floor. >> officer humphrey takes his cue from the judge who clears out the courtroom. security sees to wilkins while they wait for medical assistance to arrive. >> once we got to him, it was obvious that he was faking this. his eyes were closed, but he was trying to peek out of the corners of his eyes. he was, like, trying to gain an angle and kind of look out the side. >> courtroom cameras stopped rolling while medical personnel attend to wilkins. >> i remember looking over, calling him by name. his eyes were kind of closed, squint, and you could see that he was blink

the republican challenger for the white house made stops in columbus and dayton today. romney is hoping his post debate momentum can help him win the swing state. >> i want you to go out there and find someone who voted for barack obama and get him to come join our team. >> we reinvented a dying auto industry that supports one in eight ohio jobs and has come roaring back to the top of the world. >> president obama reminded voters in ohio that he supported the auto industry bailout. the race is getting tighter in ohio. a new cnn poll shows obama leading romney 51-47%. the presidential candidates are answering our questions online on cbssf.com. they are tackling a different issue every day. today's topic, the urban agenda. how each candidate thinks his plan would help struggling cities. >>> the supreme court is revisiting affirmative action. the justices are hearing a case this could affect student admissions at colleges and universities all across the country. danielle nottingham has the latest. >> reporter: the supreme court is once again deciding whether race should be

today in dayton, hoirks one person saying on local tv, the g.o.p. official out there says that the romney event in dayton this morning "is not a campaign event per se". so i'm not sure exactly what he's doing there if it's not a campaign event in ohio. >> bill: if mitt romney is in ohio first of all, it is because they can't take him anyplace else. he's piggybacking on previously-scheduled paul ryan events in remote places or suburban places and not where they're going to get big crowds. wasting his time and by the way he is campaigning. so you know what? >> what else is he doing? >> bill: let's do a split screen of romney out campaigning and president obama on the white house or mitt romney out campaigning and people digging out their homes right? in southern new jersey or southern delaware. big mistake on mitt romney's part. back to the message and then back to your calls. here's what i think -- what's important to focus on here. and to understand. when you think about what the message of hurricane sandy is, it is that there are -- this sums up th