begins, and in the postshow as well, martha. you will be in st. louis come sunday debate number two for the big ticket. martha: exciting time. it gets decided in the next few weeks. these candidates give us a lot to talk about, bill. great to see the beautiful view in farmville. "happening now" starts right now. see you tomorrow. jenna: donald trump and hillary clinton are out on the campaign trail today. tonight they take a back seat to their running mates. the vice-presidential debate is hours away. what impact will it have on voters just weeks before election day? hope you're off to good one so far. i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. the stage is set. longwood university, in farmville, virginia, which will face host with two candidates with solid political resume's. indiana governor mike pence, and virginia senator tim kaine will reintroduce themselves to voters who might not be familiar with either one. they will attack each other's

running mates. brand new polls show shift in the race since the first debate. latest cbs news national poll gives hillary clinton a four-point lead. while clinton also leads in a new national poll from cnn/orc, trumping trump by five points. jenna: two critical swing states. clinton leads trump by five points in new "quinnepiac poll." bright spot for trump is ohio, of the that no republican won the white house without carrying. he leads there by five points. we have senior political correspondent for "usa today" and carol lee, white house correspondent for "the wall street journal" when you look at results of the last poll, heidi, it seemed to benefit, i'm sorry, the last polls regarding the last debate it samed to benefit hillary clinton far more than donald trump. >> well, it does. this is kind of the ebb and flow of this race that we've seen after, much like after the

convention. that benefited hillary clinton but what stood out to me, john, in all of these polls, jon, what we're starting to see is slight but erosion in trump's base support among men and whites without college degrees. so i think that is the key demographic group that the trump campaign has to be a little bit concerned about. the reason why you will probably see mike pence really go on the offense tonight. that is the traditional role of the vice-presidential nominee anyway, to kind of go on the attack but especially so given what we're seeing in these demographic shifts. jon: carol, i want you to listen to what eric trump told bill hemmer this morning on "america's newsroom." he says trump campaign is not worried about polls. listen. >> polls ebb and flow you know that i can point to 10 polls we're winning. "l.a. times," we're five points ahead. largest sample size. rasmussen we're ahead in lot of polls.

upi we're ahead in lots of polls and i could go on and on. these things ebb and flow and they will throughout election day. when i walk the streets i see tremendous love and enthusiasm. i am not seeing that on her end. jon: heidi, we'll, okay, there is carol lee. i was told we had a problem with your video shot. but what do you think about that? polls ebb and flow. they're up in some, they don't seem to be worried. >> for someone who is saying polls ebb and flow he is say paying a lot of attention to different polls. he ticked off a number of them. to go to heidi's point, it is correct, this racine a lost ebb and flow based on what happened various weeks. donald trump had a very tough week. one of the things i found interesting in the polls postdebate, hillary clinton seems to narrowing the enthusiasm gap. that is important for her.

democrats are not nearly energized as republicans and trump supporters. the enthusiasm gap is important thing she needs to work on. looks like she had some success in the last week and during the debates. jon: so, heidi, as tim kaine and mike pence take the state, take the stage tonight, one of the jobs, it seems to me, is to sort of introduce themselves to the american people because great, large percentage of the american public doesn't know either one of these candidates? >> sure. about the a quarter to be precise, in terms of the polling that we've seen. if you put up split screen of the two, a quarter of the u.s. population couldn't tell you who they are. so that is the kind of challenge that they have tonight is that, they have got to introduce themselves but they have to be most concerned about just kind of defending the people at the top of the ticket as well here. you have two nominees who are among the most unpopular nominees in the history of presidential elections here.

so they have got to, even as they're introducing themselves, really kind of go on the attack against the opposing team. and so, i don't know how much time they will really spend, kind of introducing themselves versus landing those punches. particularly for mike pence, because as you know, jon, one of the criticisms of donald trump's performance in the last debate was that he didn't take the opportunity to go in on issues where they know, issues that are clinton's top vulnerabilities like the clinton foundation. like the invision of libya. even though he wasn't asked about it, republicans say that mike pence has been really preparing for this debate, going through drills with scott walker and others and that he will be prepared to kind of go in, unprompted and make some of those attacks that the republican party thinks are essential at this point to try and at least turn some of the headline momentum back in their favor. jon: carol, typically a vice-presidential candidate is picked in part because he she

can be an attack dog and really go after the other person. according to, you know the polls, those americans who do know these two candidates, kaine and pence, they're pretty well-liked. it is kind of interesting, that the two major, the tops of the ticket are both not held in very high regard. you're looking, right now, at the favorable ratings for kaine and pence, 40 and 42%. way higher than the unfavorables. almost exactly opposite what is going on with hillary clinton and donald trump. kind of an interesting twist this year. >> it is. they haven't had kind of attention that, this will be the biggest night for both of these vice-presidential nominees. bear minimum, they need to convince the american public they can do the job of president, if that were needing to happen.

beyond that, then they're going to, it will be a night not so much about them than it is at the top of the ticket and then defending, you know, hillary clinton, tim kaine defending hillary clinton and mike pence defending donald trump and all these different policies. also the thing to look for, where the moderator might put out different places where they disagree with their running mates on issues like trade, or abortion or various things where before they became the vice-presidential nominee they may have had a little bit, there may have been a divide where the top of the ticket is and the vice-presidential nominee is. but, they are, it is a night where they will introduce themselves to the country and it is a big night for both of them, arguably the most important part of their political lives. jon: on paper, heidi, are they evenly matched? does one come into this with advantage, kaine or pence?

>> i think democrats would think they have an advantage just because mike pence, on the tax issues which you know has been dominating all of the headlines, will really, in this type of a forum, have to answer on this tax issue before donald trump himself. i would expect tim kaine to be, you know, very aggressive about going after him on the tax issue. and i think carol's right. the other thing to watch for here, just to what extent mike pence fulfills that duty of defending donald trump but also whether he, there is any daylight there. because mike pence is younger guy who wants to have a future in this party and in politics after this is all over, if they are not victorious. and so he has provided some daylight it there. for example, after the last debate on global warming he came out and said, yes, i do believe there is man-made element to global warming distinguishing himself from trump.

on the tax issue, mike pence has released his taxes. i think it will be fascinating to see how in this type of forum where they keep coming back at you, on that. what kind of an answer he gives while preserving his own autonomy on that issue. jon: that has been fascinating to watch. mike pence has been incredibly supportive of donald trump while at the same time disagreeing publicly with some of his positions on tpp and other things. so it will be fascinating to watch. heidi prysbyla, carol lee, "wall street journal." thank you both. thank you. >> jon: live coverage heeding up to the showdown in virginia. gets underway in virginia. do not miss our postdebate analysis with bret baier and megyn kelly. you can only catch it here on fox. jenna: the founder of wikileaks, julian assange vowing to release more potentially damaging documents related to the u.s. election but what we learned this morning was not the october surprise a lot of people expected, at least not yet.

chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington with more. catherine? reporter: head of wikileaks gave a news conference via video link promised to release all documents by election day. julian assange dismissed criticism he is targeting one candidate over another. >> they come about as a result basically, it seems of the campaign and -- trying to personalize application. coming publication significant in relationship to the u.s. election i think they are significant. reporter: on twitter wikileaks said it hoped to publish new documents every week the next 10 weeks, as many as million documents by end. year with the rollout starting early this week, though today's announcement short of any october surprise that would immediately impact the presidential race.

assange said the leaks quote, will contain material on mass surveillance, google, arms dealing and oil. the release on eve of democrat i can election, caused resignation of debbie wasserman schultz. the groups's -- since the group's inception 10 years ago. >> over time assange's motivations changed. in the beginning he seemed to be very idealogically motivated, idealist, who wanted to expose wrongdoing in corporations and governments. at times his motivation seems to be self-centered parochial motivation. reporter: cybersecurity experts that have said the recent documents that were leaked were stolen by russian-backed cyber militias which wikileaks denies being a pawn to moscow. jenna. jenna: we'll continue to watch that. from washington, d.c., we take to you new jersey, patterson,

new jersey, seeing the aftereffects of a home explosion. two houses were involved in this huge explosion earlier this morning. there was an investigation according to one law enforcement source of a natural gas leak in the area. so while that investigation was happening, you see what took place. two homes. there was an explosion. 15 other homes affected. we're monitoring a news conference happening right now. apparently there are some injuries involved for firefighters. firefighters are being evaluated, five of them, for minor non-life-threatening injuries. the search is still active because 15 homes have been affected. this is ongoing story and one we'll continue to watch out of new jersey today. jon? jon: setback for peace efforts in syria as talks break down between the u.s. and russia. the vow from the obama administration as the u.s. tries to figure out a way to indfighting there. plus, a semi-truck slams into six vehicles including two

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cease fire with russia have broken off. kerry accused moscow of ignoring regime attacks on its own people and rejecting diplomacy, kevin live from the white house with more on that, kevin? >> john, good morning to you, news of the breakdown and talks between the americans and russians continue all across the globe. the stake of millions of syrians who continue who suffer from russians and assad government all while international community is unwilling or incapable of doing anything to stop them at least so far. secretary of state secretary was in belgium today. he accused the russians of turning a blind eye of the assad regime's use of chlorine bombs and gas on the people. the u.s. will keep fighting for the people in the war-torn country. >> we are not give lg up on the syrian people, we are not abandoning the pursuit of peace, we are not going to leave the multilateral field and continue to try to find a way forward in

order to end this war. >> the secretary did not announce another strategy. meanwhile critics say that's because the administration really has painted itself, john, into a corner when it comes to syria with no clear way out. >> it's also due to catastrophic failure of the american world view as exemplified by the administration. >> strong words, indeed, by former secretary bolton. we continue to monitor this story all the while the people in syria continue to suffer while the international community does very little. john. john: kevin, what a mess. thanks, kevin. jenna: good perspective from kevin on that. syria is next crisis the next chief financial officer will face. we will talk about all the military challenges facing the next president. vice president joe biden slamming donald trump for controversial comments about veterans with ptsd, general jack

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jenna: right now more than 2,000 k active duty troops deployed overseas, america's role in the world takes center stage in this political season. there's a lot of debate about american boots on the ground, hundreds of additional troops are head to go iraq ahead of military battle to retain mobile from isis. it's slower than expected. nearly 10,000 troops remain on the ground there as the taliban continues to control territory. let's talk about the military challenge for the next commander in chief with general jack

keane. always great to have you general keane. you say we are going to be facing the most significant challenges after end of world war? >> we have russia, china and iran all seeking some form of region domination and the truth is they're all having success at this at the expense of the united states. radical islam which we now have been dealing with for almost a generation has morphed into a global jihad and we have no plans, no strategy, not only the united states, nor does the international community have anything to to defeat it. it's the ideological challenge of the 21st century similar to nazis and communism in the previous centuries. what makes these dangerous is we face challenges before, significant ones. what makes so dangerous we are failing, jenna. that's the awful truth of it.

our adversaries are embolden and seeking advantage over what they believe complaisant leadership in the united states and europe and our friends, they don't look at the united states as reliable ally anymore. even worse, they don't trust us. jenna: let's look ahead. by looking ahead let's look back. what have we done over the last eight years if we are going to take something away and learn from it do not repeat for whoever inherent it is next four years of the white house, what have we learned? >> when you look at the middle east and the war that is we have fought there and the treasure that is we've sacrificed in doing that, i know the american people gets frustrated by it and say, well, just let them fight it out themselves. and in a sense that has been the obama strategy. he's try toddies engage frus the middle east and try today pivot to china. did a poor job with the pivot. did poor job with reset with

russia but the middle east has gotten worse. the big lesson is, i'm absolutely convinced of it looking hardly -- looking at this closely since world war ii, when the united states of american leadership, jenna, is engaged in the world, not with muscular military intervention but engaged in a world, there's a strong reliable ally, the world is actually a safer and more secure place. when we disengage like we have been doing for eight years, it becomes a more dangerous place. new commander in chief has to recognize that american leadership truly matters in the world. other countries depend on us and it makes a difference in terms of the security and stability of the world. jenna: often times i can get frustrated without not talking enough about the future and what happened in the campaign in the last 24 hours. that's why i wanted to talk with you about american leadership and what's ahead for whoever wins.

in the meantime, there is some debate because something that donald trump said on the campaign trail yesterday and how it relates to veterans. i'm going to play a little bit of that sound, some of the reaction, i would like to get your thoughts, general keane. >> sure. >> when you talk about the mental health problems and people come back from war and combat, they see things that maybe a lot of the folks that many have seen many strong over, a lot of people can't handle it and they see horror stories, they see events that you couldn't see it in a movie, nobody would believe. general, this is what joe joe biden in the morning. >> his ignorance is so profound. how can he be so out of touch. he's not a bad guy. but how can he be so out of touch and ask to lead this country? jenna: the veteran who asked the question in town hall sort of

setting that trump responded to said this is completely over nothing essentially. i'm curious as someone who spent times serving our country and seeing the inner workings of government what what you think what mr. trump said. >> first of all, i happened to catch that yesterday because it was dealing with national security and most of the people asking questions were veterans and some of them were actually former leaders in military so it was a very good session, quite frankly and one we don't get very often in terms of the substance of the issues. you know, i think -- listen, i'm not a political guy, you know that, but -- i mean, i think we have to be a little fair here. mr. trump and my judgment post 9/11 have spoken to veterans issue in a way that no other leader seeking national office has done and i think veterans therefore have listened to him and they have -- they have been encouraged by the fact that

there's somebody speaking for them. the fact that there's a sentence in the whole context of what he was trying to say in his support and sympathy for veterans that maybe a little awkward and clumsy in impressing support, i don't think detracts from where he is and what veterans believe he stands for in trying to support them and articulate some of the issues that mean so much to them. jenna: sometimes we like to talk about what people say about veterans, a lot more than we like to talk about veterans issues because that can actually be harder. general keane, great to have you on the program, thanks for the look-ahead. we appreciate it. >> yes, jenna. john: new arrest to tell you about in a suspected murder for hire that made international news. where this man was found dead and how money could be the key to busting a killer? our legal panel weighs in. counting down to tonight's main event, the one and only vice presidential debate this

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political showdown hours from now as a small town in virginia hosts political events of the year. the only vice presidential debate between governor mike pence and senator tim kaine, the debate will be 90 minutes broken up to ten-minute segments, both kaine and pence said are ready to go. peter. peter: jenna, the clinton campaign gave mike pence a heads up, early heads up about how they plan to go after him because a few hours ago the clinton campaign manager said on cbs that kaine is going to try to get phones defend donald trump handling of taxes and 3:00 a.m. twitter posts about former miss universe alicia machado. mike pence, a divisive antiwoman, antilgbt, antiworker extremist, no wonder trump picked him. #vp debate. kaine spent over pouring big

binders of materials, we were told down in raleigh, he is coming prepared and the trump team says pence is ready as well. the indiana governor and trump running mate spent over the weekend doing mock debate with wisconsin governor scott. really something that you normally hear about an nfl quarterback doing, not a politician. this morning eric trump said on fox that his dad's vp pick is rock, solid and campaign manager kellyanne conway says he's ready to play offense and defense. >> i think you will see somebody who is able to defend donald trump, the running mate, but at the same time take the case right to hillary clinton. >> so things kick off at 9:00 o'clock tonight and tim kaine is going to get the first question of a nine-topic show and those nine topics nobody

knows what they are at least kaine or pence no advance or notice given and have to do a lot of prep to make sure they have the right stuff. jenna: fingers crossed. peter, thank you very much for that, we will watch for it. you can catch vice presidential debate tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. stay with us after post debate analysis. >> really good for him. there's no way he did this to himself. >> okay. i believe you. >> it really scares me because someone is out there willing to do this to him and i'm scared for the kids. john: does that sound real to you? that's a woman wendy talking to investigators after the death of her ex-husband daniel markel. his death may have been a murder for hire plot in the midst of bitter divorce. it comes as a third suspect has

just been arrested in the death of internationally known florida state university law professor. daniel markel was gunned down in his garage in florida in 2014. grand jury indicted two men in the murder for hire plot back in june. then in august the state attorney said there was not enough probable cause to arrest any one in his ex-wife's family but on saturday comes a third arrest, the latest suspect has ties to markel's ex-wife, her brother and the alleged shooters. joining us for mow -- more the author of a new book just out today called the candidate, analyst familiar face at fox, also eric, criminal defense attorney. wow, this one reads like a movie plot. >> it does. >> when this man was killed, everybody wondered who could

hate an international known legal professor so much that they would shoot him to death. >> right. john: it was a real mystery for a long time but then they started uncovering video tape. they saw a toyota preus. >> it's a similar vehicle. john: they started to put the pieces together. >> the murder for hire cases have elements. it's usually happens around divorces. i had a murder for hire case where the guy said i have a 5'2 problem and that was a woman named carla and that was a divorce. that's what they do. they get into a divorce situation and instead of divorcing, they hire somebody. they are usually the kind of layers, somebody within the family to go then and hire somebody else. the third person that they just arrested was a girlfriend of the brother of the victim's esm wife. you have to take a couple of layers there here.

that's right. they have the video tape and the money deposit sod they are following the the video tape, money that's been deposited and finally made the third suspect, third arrest. john: subspecialty when you were a probation reporter. >> that was my specialty as prosecutor. john: there is her picture on the screen. she is the one who has been arrested. this is about as weird as it gets, she was living with one of the two men who was arrested as, you know, one of the alleged hit man, she is the mother of his two children, apparently, but she has some kind of a romantic relationship with the brother of the grieving widow and his dental practice which is apparently a flourishing dental practice in south florida has been cutting her checks for something like 400 bucks a month

even though she doesn't work there. this is kind of interesting. what does the defense lawyer do about that? >> when we have the type of cases it's all about the money. when i saw this case, when i realized that this man was murdered. it wasn't a robbery. it had to be a hit. you have to follow the money, who got paid and what the government does when looking at cases, they see what deposits were made and for what because they trail their accounts, look at their accounts and the dental practice was actually paying this lady money and they made huge deposits of over $10,000, the business was over $50,000, what did you do for that, kill this man. they tied all pieces together and now people are going to start talking. >> exactly. that's the next step. i think we would agree on that.

you would hate it as a defense lawyer. i would go through all three of them, the least culpable person and say, you know this whole story, three of you that have been arrested, tell us -- tell me what you know and i'm giving you now to tell me and then -- >> they will offer ten years instead of life in prison. >> blood is thicker than water but when you're talking about life-time sentences, people will come clean. >> the jesus moment. that's the thing that you've got. also with murder for hire cases, it's very important to know, you should all know that people think, well, i didn't actually pull the trigger therefore i'm not going to get such a harsh penalty. that's absolutely wrong. you can get the harshest penalty if you started the chain and actually made the payoff. john: there were hundreds of cell phone calls also between the brother of the grieving ex-wife -- >> right.

john: the woman who has been arrested and one of the hit man and that suggests there was more arrest. i wish we had more time. >> there will be more arrests and we will be back talking about this in three months. john: we will hold you to that. >> thank you. john: check it out. jenna. jenna: warning for southern california as experts raise alarm of possible earthquake there. scientists say there's a bigger risk for large quake right now. pope francis visits the site of catastrophic site in italy to pray with families of victims and comfort people that lost everything

jenna: right now warning for southern california about the increase risk of a major earthquake, experts say a series of small quakes along the san andreas falls could lead to a big one. this is the area of concern as you're seeing on the screen and

no stranger to disaster. the northwood ridge quake killed people and injured dozens more. more recently the same one we are talking about was the earthquake in south napa and that happened in 2014, magnitude of 6.0. certainly caused damage as well. joining us richard alan, director of technological lab at uc berkeley. >> good to be with you. jenna: interesting to look at earthquake forecasting as we are watching a major coast in the eastern united states. is forecasting an earthquake similar? >> very similar that we sort of known on any given day there's a chance of an earthquake and associate a probability with that. when we have a swarm like this it increases the likelihood. same thing as hurricane out in the ocean and we are trying to

predict and likelihood that it will hit a coastal city. same idea, we are trying to look into the future and come with a likelihood. jenna: what about that was notable? >> this is a small swarm, a few hundred earthquake, the largest 2.3 but down in sea, very close to san andreas. there's a lot of activity close to a big and increases the likelihood and that's what gets us alarmed. jenna: walk us through the numbers. the likelihood of an earthquake on any given day is what? >> 7 days, in a 7-day period a likelihood of big earthquake is 1 and 6,000. jenna: and so this forecast suggested a heightened alert about that, probability, what

was that in. >> so somewhere in the range of 1 and 3,000 and 1 and a 100. 1% likelihood of a larger magnitude earthquake in san andreas. that's a number that means something. jenna: when you hear one in 100, for me, this sounds like that's a high probability, but for someone like you who studies earthquakes on a regular basis, how do you see the numbers? >> well, this is a big increase. i can tell you it makes the hair stick up on the back of my neck and i start to think what might actually happen if the big earthquake occurs today or the one-week period. jenna: the one-week period ends today. so far, richard, no earthquake, does that mean we are in the clear? >> well, of course we are never in the clear unfortunately. the earthquake can happen at any time on any day but it does mean that we are sort of in the end of heightened period of concern. the likelihood about big event

happening decays over a period of days and so the advisory calls for 7-day window which is now over. we have past the hump. we are never in the clear. we always have to be ready for the earthquake. jenna: we are showing images in san francisco, that's my hometown. as we finish up here we are seeing images up here as well from napa and it's easy to forget the damage that earthquakes can cause. i want to ask you before we let you go, one of the things i have seen written in articles that san andreas fault is reaty for another event, why is that? >> yeah, there's no question that san andreas is ready for a big earthquake. the last damaging earthquake in 1857. we think the recurrence

interval. so in both cases, you know, we could argue that we are due for another earthquake, again, a good reason to revisit emergency plans, make sure we have emergency kits and think about how good the buildings that we live and working are and whether they will survive the earthquake. jenna: whether it's the east coast looking at the hurricanes or the west coast thinking about earthquakes, great reminder of emergency kits. richard, a great to have you on the program. thank you very much. >> great to be with you. john: with a daughter out in la going to school, i'm paying attention. pope francis making surprise visit in central italy. pontiff arriving this morning where he started his his school at a school. he will continue his visit in the hardest-hit of the town which remains largely closed off due to security concerns. the powerful 6.2 quake hit in august killing nearly 300 people.

pope francis previously indicated he we wanted to visit but had to wait due to safety concerns. today's fights were kept under wraps so the close would be closer today affected by the disaster. wren general right now mucker matthews --

john: fox news alert, governor of florida declares state of emergency as hurricane matthews' path shifts. that storm is heading towards eastern cuba after making landfall this morning over haiti, category 4 monster, winds of 145 miles an hour. parts of the island could get more than 20-inches of rain, that will cause catastrophic flooding. the storm also expected to hit cuba and the bahamas before moving north. our steve is live in miami

beach, florida with more. steve. >> john, the south western tip of haiti got pounded this morning when the eye of that monster category 4 storm passed over the tip of haiti, 145-mile per hour winds, 10-foot storm surge and in some parts of haiti, more than 3 feet of rain, desperate efforts to try to get people to safety, volunteers going door to door to try to bring people to churches or schools. many people refuse to go leave their homes often afraid their possessions would get stolen. a lot of the homes specially in the coastal areas simple structures of wood, one dead in the run up to the storm and no telling how much this destruction has reaked on haiti. cuba preparing for the worst. 180,000 people have evacuated from the eastern part of the island. u.s., guantanamo, several

evacuated and florida in the midst as the storm has moved further to the west. tropical storm watches and hurricane watches all along the east coast of florida, governor rick scott has declared state of emergency throughout the entire state. he said things have to -- you have to be prepared for the worst for a potential direct hit in florida, he said the state of emergency will allow him to prepare for possible evacuations and activation of the national guard. john, back to you. john: that's a big storm and a scary one. steve, thank you, steve. jenna: we are monitoring three clinton events right now. former secretary set to make stops at pennsylvania with daughter chelsea, also going to be joined by actress elizabeth banks and former president bill clinton will make a bus tour stop while campaigning in ohio. quinnipiac has trump ahead in poll.

also a key battleground state. you can see where the clinton campaign is putting resources today, so we continue to watch that for news and be right back with more happening now.

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