most incumbents of a situation like him they will have a few surprises in districts like this. >> scott and mike nice to see you both. few races we haven't been paying attention to it will be fascinating as we are a little over a week away. see you back here sunday night. >> unlike anything ef ever seen before. i have been on the fire pelosi bus since november 15th. we have been off the bus on october 30th. in that time what i have seen is consistent ground as well of excitement and energy towards this election. >> from this point forward it's all about turnout and ground game. we are seeing good early voting

trends. we have work to do but we think we can do it. >> hello i am kimberly guilfoyle and this is a fox news alert. nine days to go until election day 2010 and today party leaders came out swinging as hundreds of candidates start their home rundown. dnc chairman tim cane and michael steel played the role of political forecaster. each leader predicted two very different outcomes. we have the latest on the key races coming up. geraldo rivera with the troops of the 101st airborne. geraldo? >> hi kimberly. welcome to bagr back ram airfie. it was a rundown facility left over by the russians it changed a lot since then. it is the home the heart of the surge in this country and it is being head by the men and women

of the legendary 101st airborne. they are taking the fight to the enemy. we are here celebrating not only their fully deployed surge but they are doing great work in afghanistan and they want very much for their folks back home to know that. we have really important questions to ask these soldiers and are going to do it right now. >> first of all can you give me a ho ah. >> can you tell me whether or not you want to go home? are we going to win this damn war? it is amazing how they have turned the momentum around here ladies and gentlemen. before we were hunkered denver in our bases when the taliban had momentum and the government was in disarray. now the soldiers these troopers are making the fight. there is no longer a safe haven in this country.

when you hear the energy and the courage and the broedz of these screaming eagles legendary 101st airborne division you know that our best and braverest are fighting this fight. these are our rock stars ladies and gentlemen. these are soldiers who will get us out of this mess. their leader is major general john f campbell he's the man i met in this country. way back in 2003 when he was a mere coloncolonel. general, some big questions. you took me out on a tour we went to the taliban hometown. that's changed a lot. do you think, do you sense a change in momentmomentum? >> absolutely. for the last four months 86th, the 173rd, all of the units

joint task force have been here. we are turning this thing around. we have great soldiers here. we are glad to showcase them today. >> let's see some of what general showed me. >> a british watch tower from 150 years ago. fighting over this turf since then. can't give you any sense of optimism we are going to make a historical change here. it is incremental do you feel we are making a difference? >> every single day we are making progress. we have had a surge brigade come in. >> are you up against an ideological colonel here or the mafia? >> primarily the mafia. here in hosts specifically it's acani. it is more mafia than movement.

we are on what we consider to go his home base. we kicked them out of here and he wants this back. for him it is about territory than it is ideology. >> business is good and security is good as well. >> once a hotbed of insurgents once the market is relatively secure. it is bizarre almost eager having americans gone. >> the only thing people don't like is u.s. forces conduct operation alone without afghan security forces. we have government here and security forces. we should have security forces not americans alone. >> we hear that every once in a while. we don't do patrols unless it is joint. we are up ticking the mentors and advisors in all different levels prefr ven shall level district level we are using armored vehicles so they

can do patrolling. treat district with people a di respect. they walk around add night and 3 is make sure they go around in the polish portions and protect the district center. they are out in the remote areas they get attacked they throw down arms and run off. water then power is another concern we have to get out of that now. >> you want to be in control of your country but i am sure they appreciate americans are helping you get to a place where you can do it on the run. with the help of god you will be able to secure the department very soon. but we are very happy that we have the u.s. forces with us. the big achievement that we have here that the local people are

supporting us here whenever somebody in our enemy infiltrate into the districts or the city the people quickly report to us there is something going on. that's why we have a big achievement for coalition forces and we are very happy. >> that's like the tipping point isn't it? >> it will take the people turning. just like iraq people are turning in id's coming forward with tips you made a huge difference. people in afghanistan are the solution for the future. >> are the eyes and ears of the people of host coalition has finally realized sometimes the media is the message. funding radio and tv stations tv hosts are finally able to fight the propaganda war with the taliban on a more equal basis sis. >> insurgents get out the message very good. every 20, 30 minutes they get it

out. they don't have to put out the truth now. they have working hard to make sure we get out the word with the truth very quickly. we are getting much better at that. >> will they ever the afghanis be competent enough to take care of their own problems, their own nation? >> it will take some time. the army just like iraq is much much better than the police. we put more effort on the army. we are going to this year focus on police. with giened action day in and day out they get better all of the time. it will take some time. absolutely we are building the trust and confidence in the afghan arm me and police with the people of afghanistan. >> you pay a bitter price and we will get into that as the program progresses do you sense i trust you emphatically and i am police italy do you believe momentum has hifted in this fight in>> i wouldn't be here if i didn't think we could get this done. we have great support for this

to get done. we are going to return this fight through the winter throw the spring. are we going to win this damn war? >> image if you were the bad guys looking at them you would be trembling in your boots. trembling in your boots. they call it bad nuts. i give you a little background as we go to commercial. the battle of past tone the battle of the bulge we had is 01 01st -- 101st airborne units. the commander with the german ultimatum that word is nuts that band is nuts. play us to commercial, nuts. [ male announcer ] what if we told you there's a new utility vehicle o there

with the most advanced engine in its class? that it has three cylinrs with dual overhead cams? that it has 50 horsepow? and intense acceleration? now what if we told you it was a john deere? prepare to have your expectations shattered by the all-new gator xuv 825i. go to johndeere.com/gator tsee what makhis the fastest, most powerful gator yet.

>> welcome back everyone. getting down to the wire only 9 days until the election. there are many key races that can balance the power in congress. in the florida senate race republican rubio leading charlie crist by 12 points 42-30 percent. the hard fought battle for pennsylvania senate seat has republican pat to toum me leadi sus tech by two points 22.4 percent to 24-8 percent. republican grat gist and joe trip pee. good evening to both of you. i am excited to talk to you i am excited to see the key races in

the last week. how do you see it shaping up? >> the next election kris, rubio and meeks in florida happened down that will go to rubio. you can attribute it to several things. number one is the fact that he's received almost every endorsement to everybody concerned the tea party the club for growth which stands for lower taxes and less government. rubio is their darling. think about it kris which had no, i don't even know why he entered into the race as an independent. he had embraced the obama stimulus plan which was totally wrong and made himself into a career politician when he should have stepped down and endorsed rubio. california that's a big range where you can see meg whitman and jerry brown that will be very close. it's meg whitman can saturate the message with what she can do

to turn california around or fix california you may see a flight intick in the polls. that's one race i feel passionate about. poor pat to toomey he ran again arlen specter he was running in a primary and president bush got in the middle of the primary and basically toomey was under the bus. once again toomey who was the president did a wonderful job running and he had to deal with sestak and the white house bribery case and in the turncoat of arlen specter who was a big proud republican turned around put the blue jacket on and switched parties into being a democrat. >> toomey is the only stable thing in the pennsylvania

pennant race. i look for toomey to win it. >> i think joe will see it differently. he has a lot of experience in the campaigns. you have seen them all. lit me tell you something have you seen troubled waters like this before, joe? >> definitely a tough year. rubio is probably going to win not because he's -- the poll you showed about 42 percent of the vote. the reason he is going to win is because chris a kris and meek t democrats are splitting the rest of the vote the 58 percent that doesn't want rubio. that is clearly the case. neither will get out of the race for the other. looks like a train wreck that rubio will win. up in pennsylvania i will admit it. democrats are giving up on that

seat the polls showed them up 9, 10 points. that changed dramatically in the last two weeks. the energy district all across the country between democrats and republicans have closed throws a lot more energy on the democratic side still hasn't closed the gap completely but enough it closed races like the one in pennsylvania down to a few points and momentum right now with joe sestak. >> the gop with the polls the way it's going except for a couple close races we will see how balance of power shifts. i will ask the two of you to stick around we will pick it up later in the program. we have more coming up later. first military helicopter crash that occurred back in september. that occurred back in september. take a ñ÷lédététttws m2gwtu@c@ú8

getting an amazing like discount on a hotel with travelocity's top secret hotels.

ahhh... the easy way to get unpublished discounts of up to 55% off top hotels. your fingers are quite magical. this is what it's like ahhh... getting an amazing discount on a hotel with travelocity's top secret hotels. the easy way to get unpublished discounts of up to 55% off top hotels. harpist not included.

>> (inaudible)

>> president of the united states of america awarded the purple heart to establish why general washington new york august 7th, 1782 private first class. wounds received in action on 23 october, 2010 in afghanistan given under my hand in the city of washington 21st day of october, 2010. signed secretary of the army. that's why they say war is hell. >> i go to the hospital and purple hearts on they have made a great sacrifice. >> this is one of the hardest things we do every night we have soldiers and we have people that see them. the soldiers in the field and attitude they show and the work ethic they have the medical providers best medical care our soldiers can severe. it's amazing to see what comes

out on the other end. our soldiers make it much, much better than what they used to. >> one of the worst inincidents terrible helicopter crash. >> it is dating back to the vietnam area. one incident that occurred on december 21st touched the hearts of many in the entire city. >> improvised explosive devices littering roads and taliban hiding in rugged terrain made helicopters an essential weapon in the afghanistan war just like it was in vietnam. >> i think aviation assets are as critical as anything we have in order to support the guys doing the dirty work on the

grounds. >> the operating base in the combat zone these helicopters are guarding them flying at low altitudes looking for bad guys. >> dangerous covert operations the strong holds are the lifeblood of the 101st airborai. it appears this dangerous mission ended in tragedy. staff sergeant joshua powell, lieutenant colonel robert baldwin, chief officer matthew wagstaf malvin calhoun junior and jonah mcclellan were the crew. >> it broke my heart when the commanders gave me the news we lost those three brothers. >> the friends dedicated to mare mission.

♪ >> he was a good guy. >> you try to pull them off the plight to give someone else the hours, correct? >> correct. he didn't want to take off. >> i left them on and... it wasn't destiny. all these good men on the same mission what was it like for the company? how do you get your men past it? >> i think the most important thing for the company following the accident they come together take a moment to remember them and honor their sacrifice but then do what they would have wanted us to do that is continue to execute the mission. journal baldwin was for father of jonah mcclellan father of

three his youngest born just this past june. calhoun was a proud father of one and matt wagstaffe was a newly we had back in january. the most important thing we can do other than continue to execute the mission is to make sure we don't forget the families we take care of them. >> geraldo despite initial taliban claims there is no proof that it was brought town by enemy fire. there is no harsher environment in the world than flying the extremes of afghanistan, by they say the tough legends make their pilots the best in the world. geraldo, back to you. >> craig, thank you. when we come back we take you to the loanyest out post in the campbell jurisdiction. the pakistani border the general and i and some of the troopers

of the 101st will talk about how hard it is to stop the taliban through the pakistani border one of the poorest borders on earth. there is no tense fence there. we will talk a bit about the oil tankers that went up in flames why? was that for real or an insurance scam in we will meet more of the men and women of the 101st. these fine soldiers doing their these fine soldiers doing their best for their country

investors are demanding more for their money. good. this time, i'm watching fees like a hawk. i hate hidden fees. why should i have to pay for something that i shouldn't have to pay for? td ameritrade's pricing is clear and it's straightforward... it's spelled out upfront. no hidden fees... no bait and switch. no gotchas. and there's one flat rate for online equity trades... for big accounts... or small ones. that's the way it ought to be. call, click, or come in to td ameritrade.

from america's news headquarters i'm marianne rafferty. tornadoes ripping through north texas sunday evening. the twisters causing several injuries and damaging five homes. one of them tore through a high school football field and another damaging an elementary school roof. the winds also derailing a freat train and flipping cars over. hurricane richard making landfall in l belize a few hous

ago. packing 90-mile per hour winds. tourists evacuated and an estimated 10 thus people in shelters. hurricane richard expected to weaken as it heads over guatamela and mexico on monday. the nikkei is up. dow jones futures at 11,173. for more business news tune to the fox business network, giving you the power to prosper. i'm marianne rafferty. now, back to "geraldo at large". blams now on a much more serious note

back to geraldo and the troops at the airfield. >> this isn't too serious. who is this beautiful baby? >> anali. >> have you seen her yet? >> just on scrape. >> do you want to hold her? >> i would like to hold her. >> when will you be home? >> march. >> march of next year. >> skype, that's an incredible technological evolution. these guys are here but they use skype and other technological marvels. he has never held her. congratulations. >> thank you. >> the disposition of the forces here is suv such that they are trying to keep the infill ration

of the pakistani based taliban out. it is very, very difficult because of that long border. how do you stop them? there's a wall there a fence there all of the attention being paid. no wall on the border. >> i was in pakistan this past week talking communication is the key every single day. they have rat lines through pakistan and afghanistan soldiers every day trying to defer the courses>> the connie network has sanctuary inside of pakistan coming into afghanistan. great soldiers the ana and anp and border patrol trying to keep them from going across. >> show your loneliest post spira is it? >> you tored it and it's all alone. >> we are on the pakistan ou can see behind me the far ridge line is the pakistan

border. it's less than a kilometer away. welcome. >> thanks. >> you ever take fire? >> yes. >> the combat operating post is general campbell's command. it's a stone's throw from the infiltration route from pakistan. lieutenant paul cochran is the officer in charge. >> i want to know how often are you fired on? >> at least once a week at least. >> given the pore russ nature of the border given the fact that it is unlimited reservoir of fighters against it how can we ever really stop it? >> there is no fence along the border at all. if somebody wants to come from afghanistan to pakistan or pakistan to afghanistan we are never going to be able to do it. we can never stop everybody from come can bag and north. they have sanctuary and limitless recruit am pool over there. we have killed a lot of people along this border and we can't

kill everybody. >> staff sergeant bozel was back in port tuck et rhode island. now a very modest and dangerous home away from homes. >> pretty elementary? >> yes, very elementary. enough for the soldiers. >> what about incoming are you protected from direct fire or mortar fire? >> not really from a direct hit. >> you feel relatively safe? >> one of the best places. >> how do you feel out here? >> a lot of soldiers really enjoy the basic living gets you away from aloft of the bigger tick tour. >> i have a really tough question for you. >> army notre dame what with is it like? >> my father is a west point

grad i am irish catholic. we are both notre dame. i would have to say notre dame. >> i thought you were going to make captain, dude. >> army notre dame. big issue. they play yankee stayed dwrdium november. as he taken his new career on notre dame? >> go army. they are going to wear 101st patches on their arm at yankee stadium. >> one of the big news items when we hit the ground here on our 9th trip was negotiations. secret negotiations going on between our forces are facilitating the negotiations but the discussions are between the taliban enemy and kabul central government of hamid karzai. that and the fact that the people of afghanistan doesn't know what the hell is it that is being negotiated does not sit

well with the man who lost the election to hamid karzai dr. abdullah, abdullah the former foreign minister here's that interview. >> talks about the negotiations with the taliban. if the people (indiscernible) what is going on or not going on and what will be the state as it develops. that has created apathy, confusion among the people. >> so it seems to have had a negative effect even the hope of negotiations? >> because the message is very confusing here in kabul as well as giving. the taliban are emboldened they think this is a sign of

weakness. those who want the taliban to stand up the majority of the people absolute majority of the people they are resentful. >> if the west continues for example to build schools for children to encourage universal sufficient raj in terms of the right to vote democratic elected government and all of the rest how can that coexist with taliban in the government. they don't want girls in school. >> the two things ideology of taliban and democracy, they both go together at any stage. it doesn't match in any case. so the consolation process has to b a transparent one so people should know that what we

are talking about is stop taking guests to the taliban or part of the country to the taliban. that was rejected. >> it would really be a great let down if the way we went home was to yield back to the taliban barbaric form of government where women were stoned or beheaded or alleged adultery where kids couldn't go to school kids couldn't fly kites or play marbles. i am sure that would not sit well with the screaming eagles and yet there seems to be some discussions going on with the taliban and you as the commanding general of the superb fighting force how do you feel about that? >> we are here to help facilitate. we are here to build up the afghan army and the police. our leadership are doing the right thing working with car sgliechlt in the end it will be an african solution. we cannot kill our way out of

this thing. the afghans haven't figured this thing out. >> you cannot kill your way out of here. >> absolutely. we have been doing this for ten years. our building the capacity of the afghan security forces will continue to do that. every die they get better. we are working on governance and development. in the end it's an afghan solution. >> let me put a more positive spin on it is it likely because of the increased military pressure you are putting a word of hurt on these people. you have lost over 100 and u.s. coalition troopers just since the spring. they have lost a hell of a lot more. is it possible they are driving them to seek negotiations? >> mid level leadership are going away every single day. their moral is down. we are going to continue to pound them 103 soldiers from the coalition has given the ultimate

sacrifice. that pressure every single day combined with nsf partners on them will do the thing. that will force them to come back to the babl. that is what reintegration has been. >> i feel like i have been at war. give yourselves a round of applause. we are going to go back to kimberly. we will say good

i have asthma. and when my symptoms came back i'd get this tightness in my chest. so i went back to my doctor again. we chose symbicort to help control my asthma symptoms all day and night. [ man ] symbicort improves my lung function, starting within 15 mutes. symbict will not replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. it is a combination of two medicines and should not be taken more often than prescribed. symbicort contains formoterol. medicines like formoterol increase the risk of death from asthma problems, and children and adolescents mahave an increased risk

of being hospitalized for asthma problems. symbicort is not for people whose asthma is well controlled with a long-term asthma control medicin like inhaled corticosteroids. once your asthma is well controlled, your doctor will decide if you can stop symbicort without loss of control, and prescribe a long-term asthma control medicine. be sure to see your doctor if yoursthma does not improve or gets worse. symbicort is a good choice to help control my asthma all day and night. [ inhales ] [ exhales ] ask yr doctor if symbicort is a good choice for you. [ male announcer ] if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. with the most advanced engine in its class? that it has three cylinrs with dual overhead cams? that it has 50 horsepow? and intense acceleration? now what if we told you it was a john deere? prepare to have your expectations shattered by the all-new gator xuv 825i. go to johndeere.com/gator tsee what makhis the fastest,

most powerful gator yet.

>> with midterms nine days away and many races too close to call it's time to bring out the big guns. democratic national committee chairman tim cane and gop chairman michael steel hit the airwaves firing shots at each other areas parties. still with me noel nick ford fox news contributor joe trip pee. joe a lot of people saying maybe the dems have momentum now are you optimistic positive about this? >> i think three no doubt the democratic side has sur surged little there's an increased vote that sounds like it's coming in on the democratic side. that closed both of the races tremendously. even with nine days to go it's hard to hi tell how the races w turnout.

many impose a 12, 3 pointz on either side it could go either way. >> it will be tough to call. a lot of people don't want to go out on a limb and say who is going to take it in this race especially whether -- where it is tight. if you are leading the gop strategy with nine days left what is it all about? get out the vote basically? >> i think it's a get out the vote. i will tell you one thing the fact that they are pulling out the big guns for the republican party there's nothing but a big pep rale low and motivator. the fact that they are pulling in the big guns with obama and pelosi making appearances that could do more tharm than good. even "saturday night live" gets it when they open up a skit with harry reid and barack obama acting like they don't know each other. go figure. >> that's what it is. it's a lot of this right now. nancy pelosi what i voted gents her every time. there's commercials like that

joe. >> she was in california and you couldn't find carlie around here. you have scheduling conflict sz. you are seeing this on both sides. all of this big guns increased and energized the base but have problems in a broader section including sarah palin. they have to plan that the best they can. >> if you had to pick one race that you think has been the biggest surprise in the election season what would it be? oo i think the florida governor's race which is the way it turned out between rubio, kris and meek really switched -- governors sitting governor

popular governor leave the his own party because he thinks that's the way to get elected. that's really the shocker so far. see how it turns out next tuesday. he did it rightable to get the tea party support while staying true to the base. nice maneuvering on his part. i wish we had more time this evening but we will be seeing a lot of both of you as we continue our election coverage on fox news america's election headquarters. coming up the hero soldier who helped stop terrorists from a deadly suicide attack. yellowbook has always been good for business. but these days you need more than the book. you need website develoent, 1-on-1 marketing advice, search-engine marketing, and direct mail. yellowbook's got all of that. yellowbook360's got a whole spectrum of tools.

tools that are going to spark some real connections. visit yellowbook360.com and go beyond yellow.

>> what is out there specifically that you are

illuminating? >> we call that taliban hill. we put the information over the enemy's head. >> you had the close call august 28th. you had them cutting your wire over there and making it this field. describe what happened how the men here spotted the insurgents and opened tire? >> first man-made his way through the guard here and the tower spotted him with night vision devices opened up the 240 here injured back to the breech point continued to open fire on what were 15-20 more insurgents behind that. >> they end of the day after an hour's worth of fighting we killed 47 insurgents 15 were with suicide vests. it was a significant attack against this. >> 47 confirmed dead and 15 of them had suicide vests on? >> 15 were fully rigged with suicide guests fully loaded ak 7 magazines and outfitted in the uniform i am wearing right here

right now. >> that is commander rick yuling talking about 47 enemy dead. >> why don't we hear that news? >> it is not about body count. on that action 47 killed we found one b bid. any time they want to mess like that -- >> any time they want to stand and fight you welcome that? >> absolutely. we are doing politics a lot every news network is doing politics. everybody is consumed with politics and every survey indicates the interest in the war has dropped to historic lows. 7 percent in the crew i saw 7 days ago. does that impact public moral when they are thinking about other issues focused on positive politics and not thinking about the sacrifices of the men and

women here? >> the reason we can talk politics back here is the men and women here give us an opportunity to do that. they are rock stars as you talked about. we owe them a great deal. we have jobs to do we are here to do that. >> you come over here and show the great soldiers we have 101st jersey we would like you to wear here. >> hold on. this is great. >> oh ha. >> i will proudly wear this. i just want to say one of the things about this endless war is the bonds that have been forged amongst your force and the

people i have met over the years 2003 we were in kave capped h . 6 years later you are still fighting the good fight. you have had ennum merable you and your men and women close calls the casualties that we all know about it hark ens back to a easier time when it was not right or left or democrat or republican it was honor and patriotism. i am still so proud to be close to you and to them and for the fact that you opened up and allow us to see uncensored what goes on. i want to report back home they really have an amazing united states military the army united states airborne an amazing

entity to be proud of and you carry that flag in a way that i want my sons and daughters to appreciate and i am sure they do and everybody in every town every hamlet it is something extraordinary. >> we can never forget the great sacrifice the great soldiers we appreciate the great support we get the job done and look forward to getting back home. >> who wants to go home again? (cheering) >> we are going to win this war again? >> i want to be there the metal ceremony i was there when he got the command i want to be there when you will march and pass your families when you get off the plane. i want you all to be there every single one of you. remember we love you and respect you and admire you and again it's not about politics. it is about patriotism love of

country and love of the service that you really provide for all of us so we can debate all of these endless issues. just one more time general. just need to know can we stay the course here? can we effect this ancient culture where war and conflict has been there since the very, very dawn of time? >> since alexander the great. >> that will take together with nsf partners. we will do that every day. we are going to work through them and take a look at this. all volunteer service 35 years we continue to have great men and women who sacrifice knowing they are going to go to a war zone continue to form form up and come in. i am proud to have the opportunity. >> take it away sing us off the air. we really appreciate everything your music as well. thank you very much for watching. we will see you next time. ♪

[ male announcer ] five colleges. focused on today's most relevant areas of study. like business. technology. healthcare. with bachelor's degree programs and specializations covering 34 different career fields. all designed to help you move up in a career. and move ahead in your life. ♪ devry university. discover education working at devry.edu.