www.vitac.com he cheated and cheated beyond many people ee's beliefs imagination. >> a catastrophic week for a fallen hero. now lance armstrong is expected to speak out live at the livestrong event. polls say the score is 1-1. so will monday night's debate be the tie-breaker? we break it down. >> we know that planet earth is a speck of dust in a minor galaxy somewhere in the junkyard of affinity. >> doctor, philosopher and author. our interview with deepak chopra and what he means by the spiritual significance of suffering. good morning, everyone. i'm randi kaye.

it's 7:00 on the east coast, 4:00 on the west coast. thanks so much for joining us. lance armstrong is making a very public return to his charity. the embattled cyclist is expected to speak to participants in the live strong challenge. armstrong resigned as chairman of the charity last week and the appearance comes as he faces charges. arm strong is expected to speak next hour and we'll be sure to bring that to you. to michigan now where a series of random shootings has police scrambling to find a suspect. more than a dozen incidents have been reported in three counties since tuesday, and while know one has been injured, police say there have been some, quote, very close calls. authorities believe the shooter has been firing from a car at other drivers. the white house insists a report that it has agreed to direct nuclear talks with irans for the very first time is not true. the new york times says the

agreement was the result of secret exchanges between iranian and american officials dating to the beginning of mr. obama's presidency. the white house denies that but says it is prepared to meet jointly with iran and other nations. senator john kerry. he says the move by republican leaders on the house oversight committee exposes libyan nation algs working with the u.s. to possible danger and is irresponsibility. a spokesman for the committee's chairman, congressman darrell issa says kerry's trying to cree yagt a distraction to mislead the american people. lib yap and foreign policy will take center stage on tomorrow's showdown between president obama and republican mitt romney. both candidates are being prepping. cnn's athena jones takes a look

at which candidate might have the edge in the final face-off. >> reporter: the third and final face-off between president obama and governor romney will focus entirely on foreign policy. from afghanistan and pakistan to israel, iran, and the changing middle east. >> it's like they said -- >> reporter: the candidates will spar over america's role in the world, the new face of terrorism, and how to deal with a rising china. the polls have narrowed since the summer. mr. obama tried to highlight one of his biggest foreign policy accomplishments as a light-hearted charity din never the new york. >> monday's debate is a little bit different because the topic is foreign policy. spoiler alert. we got bin laden. >> reporter: he also used his speech to poke fun at his opponent. >> world affairs.

some of you may remember after my foreign trip in 2008 i was attacked as a celebrity because i was so popular with our allies overseas and i have to say i'm impressed with how well governor romney has avoided that problem. >> reporter: for his part, romney could try again to bash the president for his administrati administration's messy response to the attack in libya last month and link it to what he says is a failed approach to the region. >> this calls into question the president's whole policy in the middle east. look at what's happening in syria, egypt, now in libya. tl president said he was going to put daylight between us and israel. >> reporter: both candidates face a challenge monday night. >> the challenge for president obama is going to be defining the middle east strategy going forward. i mean he's had some successes, had some things that are still pretty murky. >> reporter: romney's task could

be bigger. >> i think for romney there's a broad challenge and that is how do you drill down into specific policies. the republican party hasn't really figured out what a republican foreign policy looks like after the bush administration. i think romney's been uneager to really delve in that. >> with mitt romney, every second you're talking about foreign policy is wasted, which might mean that romney breaks out of that and tries to bring home some of the foreign policy issues to domestic economic issues. >> reporter: with time running out, this is their last chance to make their case to millions of voters in a single night. governor romney is spending the night in florida to prepare while president obama is doing his debate prep at camp david.

>> tomorrow is the final round. you guessed it. you'll not see them on the campaign trail today. mitt romney is in florida prepping and president obama is at camp david. it's their last full day to get ready for the big foreign policy debate. that didn't stop others from getting out there. comedian name jeff fox worthy took his coddy act to. rahm emanuel went to florida to campaign for the president. >> it's not like a lot of gray area here. both president obama and governor romney have different visions of what it takes to move this economy forward. >> about a dozen people were lucky now if to ask the president and governor romney questions at the town hall

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intend to equalize the workplace. that is my next guest, katharine fenton, a 24-year-old uncommitted voter from new york who was lucky enough to ask president obama and mitt romney one of the questions she wanted an answer to before selecting a candidate and she's not alone in her indecision. with just 16 days until the election, as many as 10% of voters could actually go either way on the candidates and their votes in toss-up states from colorado to florida will probably decide the next president of the united states. katharine, good morning. thanks so much for joining us this morning. >> good morning. thank you for having me. >> all of you uncommitted voters are a pretty hot commodity. let me take you back to the town hall where you asked about pay equity and equality in the workplace. what did you think of the answers that you got? >> you know, i have to be honest, i wasn't really sat fiechld i feel like the question was posed in a way to elicit

ideas about the future and new routes they would try to take to rectify the inequality and it felt more like they addressed things that they'd done in the past to try to improve women in the workplace. they really didn't answer to my satisfaction. >> is that the problem for you? problems with politics in general? you want to be more forward looking? >> i think that is that's definitely a problem. a lot of the debate was a discussion of injustices that the candidates thought the other one had caused for the country and i think a lot of voters are looking to the future because we feel dissatisfied with the status of our country now and we want to know how they're going to change in the future to help make things better. >> on twitter and online the backlash against use on that question was pretty remarkable. what did you make of that? >> i thought it was ridiculous. i was so surprised that people tried to make it so perm and some of the things i read were

hurtful, but that being said, if you look in the past and especially recently, if people have something to say that might be eve slightly controversial, the press and everybody else loves to attack and make it personal. thankfully for me the poz activity of the people that i love that actually matter to me was so great and wonderful that it made it kind of easy to just ignore the negativity in those who don't know me. >> getting back to the response that you got, do you tlink was anything wrong with your question? >> i don't think there was anything wrong with my question and things that i read online, people trying to refute saying, it's 77 cents for every dollar and something like that. if it's not 100 cents for every dollar, then we have a problem. i think it was great question and i'm glatd started great dialogue. >> what other issues are important to you? >> i'm definitely looking forward to the next debate. i want to hear how they see the

position of america in the middle east changing. i'm very interested in iran's nuclear capabilities. i think a lot of the focus for voters is on domestic policy but we've had beating about that so i'm very curious to see what new discussions arise. >> what about the fact that bin laden has been killed by this administration? that's something that the obama administration is going to bring up. does that mean something to you? >> it means something to me but i can't say that i would base any decision on voting on that instance. i'm very proud that america has done that, but at the same time, i think like i said i'm looked forward to see how that has changed the world now and how we're going to relate to that in the future. >> so why do you think you're still undecided? >> i think because there's so many variables to consider, and on all the issues, you have to really think about how each candidate is going to change the

america that we live in now. you know, there's so many different facets of the country that each candidate has really a different opinion on. so think it takes a lot of time to consider all of those different facets of our society and think yo whou thing would--e you think would be a better choice. >> are you getting closer? do you want to share? >> a little bit closer, i don't want to share. >> progress. you only have a few days. >> i know that. >> we appreciate your time. >> thank you so much. >> do keep us posted on your decision. >> thank view very much. thank you for having me. >> thank you. and don't forget you can watch the debate live tomorrow night. it starts at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. he's called doctor, guru, and best-selling author.

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for millions around the world, deponcho bra has helped them. our nadia bilchik had a chance to ask chopra about his latest work. >> your latest book, "god: a story of revelation" explains holy people, visionary, and prophets. what inspired you to write this book and why in a novel? >> the reason i decided to do this book, nadia, is i came

across an article in "the new york times," believe it or not, that was written in 1930 and it was a meeting between gore and einstein. they had a dialogue about the nature of divine. now we know that the universe is 13.8 billion years old. we know that 99.9% of it is invisible with dark matter, inti inti int interstellar dust and earth is a speck of dust. did it have any relevance or was it all mythology. what was the thread? there is a common thread.

>> can we talk about job. job in the book, he's really the ultimate test of faith in the bible, in rereligion. it would have been so easy to give up he had be. >> we're asking the same question today. why does suffering happen to good people? good people suffer. so why is that a fact, you know? if you're a good person, you live moderately, you have faith in god, there still is suffering. is it random? is it universal, or is there a deeper comparison to suffering. >> can you briefly tell us what do the easterners know that westerners have yet to learn? >> in the east also the focus was not on what is being obse e

observ observed. and so eastern philosophy came from self awareness and self reflection. who am i. >> what do i want? what's my existence? what is the meaning of death. >> w why is there suffering. after they wejts into their domain of existence, they somehow moved into the answers. western science has always focused on what's out there and how do we measure it. but how do you measure love, compassion, tu in, insight, inspiration, enthusiasm, creativity, choice making. these are aspects of our being that are not subject to plurmt. >> one of the lines that struck me, you say the horror of a

godnessle godless world haunts millions of people. what do you say to those millions of people. >> you know, you should not lose space because science is expanding us and our vision of the world. in fact it increases our faith in the mystery of our universe. the second is we're aware of the universe. so even if the universe existed but we didn't have the consciousness or the awareness of the universe, therch it wouldn't really matter, but we do, and we have those questions and our brains, the human brain especially, is hardwired to not only ask the questions but to know the answers. and we have some sad news to report this morning from the world of politics. former senator george mcgovern has died. the former senator from south dakota, his family announcing that the former presidential candidate died at a hospice in

south dakota. former democratic presidential nominee, 1972. a this from the family we're getting this morning. at approximately 5:15 our wonderful father george mcgovern pass aid way peacefully surrounded by family and lifelong friends. he was 90 years old, and here's a look back at his life. >> george mcgovern led a fascinating life, he was an outspoken. he earned a ph.d. in history and then went on to make history. mcgovern first went to washington in 1957 representing sds in the house and later h the senate where he served 178 years. he was among the first to challenge america's involvement in vietnam i present the president the.

i don't think you ought to be playing a numbers game with human lies. >> lesser note, his work helping to reform the democratic party nomination process, significantly scaling back the party of roles and insiders an increasing the roles of caucuses primaries and delegates. it was mcgovern's own run for president in 1972 most people remember. it didn't go well. already a long shot against nixon it didn't help when his debate didn't air until 2:30 in the morning long after peoplehood gone to bed and then he had to dump eagleton after it was learned he had seek at trick injuries. nixon won by a landslide.

they boosted the careers of gary hart and a then unknown bill clinton. he would try again in 1984 only to drop out after poor primary showings but his words still resonate. >> the question is not are we better off than we were four years ago. the question is where will america be four years from now. what is the american future. what kind of america do we want to be? >> later in life, the man from the south dakota prairie refocussed on cause he worked on in the kennedy administration. using america's agricultural strength of feat families at home and eventually around the world. it would be the legacy he prided most. one expert summed it up best saying the same trait that cost mcgovern the white house would become the later one to be

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