good morning. to our viewers in the west it is tuesday october 23rd 2012. welcome to "cbs this morning." the presidential candidates spar over foreign policy and national security. we'll show you the results of our cbs news instant poll. and debate moderator bob schieffer is here and we'll get reaction from vice president joe biden and congressman paul ryan. and bill o'reilly is here in studio 57. but we begin this morning with a look at today's eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. >> i congratulate him on taking out osama bin laden and going after the leadership in al qaeda. but we can't kill our way out of this mess. >> the candidates face off at the final presidential debate zblie know you haven't been in a position to actually execute

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>> stopped the burglary inside her own home. >> you did a very good job. >> thank you. win number five on the season for the bears. >> are you okay? >> i'm good. i'm good. all that -- -- >> soerszly, hang on. let me finish. >> did you smoke pot with tom hanks? >> i did, in this movie. >> oim going to talk to computers! i'm going to live on the mob moon. >> and all that matters. >> i have something very, very big concerning the president of the united states. >> give us a hint. >> i won't do that. >> on "cbs this morning" he said he had a very big announcement about president obama that could cost him the election. >> yeah? >> he's going to endorse him. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." i'm charlie rose in new york norah o'donnell is in boca raton with bob schieffer, the

moderator. candidates met last night face to face for the very last time. instant poll shows president obama left the stage with an advantage, 53% of undeclared voters who watched the debate said the president won. 23% called governor mitt romney the which were while 24% called it a tie. >> those voters also said mr. obama would do a better job on terrorism and national security. the margin was nearly 2-1. also 71% said the president can be trusted to handle an international crisis. 49% said that about romney. and the poll with his split 50/50 on who would do a better job on policy toward china. the men met last night with a lot on the line. before the debate the president was leading by just two points, which is within the margin of error so it is a statistical tie. we begin with jan crawford in west palm beach with the romney campaign.

good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah. good morning, charlie. good morning to those of you in the west. this was the first debate when both candidates left the stage happy. the president really hit romney hard. his supporters saw that he scored some points but romney held his own. his team told me after the debate they thought he more than passed the commander in chief test. >> i know you haven't been in position to actually execute foreign policy but every time you have offered an opinion, you have been wrong. >> reporter: president obama attacked early and often, at time sounding almost dismissive. >> you mentioned the navy, for example. we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. we have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. we have ships that go under water, nuclear submarines. >> for much of the debate, the president was on the attack and both men acted as if mr. obama were the underdog.

twice romney called him out on the attacks and instead of engaging often pivoted to the economy. >> attacking me is not an agenda. attacking me is not talking about how we're going to deal with the challenges in the middle east. america must be strong. america must lead. and for that to happen we have to strengthen our economy here at home. you can't have 23 million people struggling to get a job. >> reporter: when the two went head to head, romney pushed back. >> when you were asked what's the biggest geo political threat facing america you said russia not al qaeda. you said russia. and the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the cold war has been over for 20 years. >> excuse me. gechlt o political, i said in the same paragraph and iran is the greatest national security threat we face. russia does continue to battle us in the u.n. time and time again. i have clear eyes on this. i'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to russia or mr. puttin and i'm certainly not going to say to him i'll give you more

flexibility after the election. >> reporter: a strategic decision for romney to generally take the high road and not engage on those attacks. even on libya, romney specifically declined to hit the president. instead, putting it in a broader context calling it his failed policies in the middle east. not as heated in last week's debate. now off to nevada this morning, key swing state. he has a rally there with his running mate paul ryan. >> let's talk about the debate with the man who was in the middle moderator bob schieffer, host of "face the nation." first, bob, congratulations. it was a great debate between the two candidates where we got a full exchange of views. what was it like being there? >> it's very exciting. and it's also -- i mean, you're just sitting there, and you're so close. you feel like you can -- well, you can. you can almost reach out and touch both of them. and you get to see the reaction when they're looking at each other straight in the eye.

and in a case where they would turn to me and lock at me for a while. but, you know, i thought he came off pretty well. my objective going into this, norah was to come away feeling that people got a better understanding of who these people were and what they're all about. and i kind of felt like that may have happened last night. >> whoa get to see their demeanor on camera the way they're looking at each other in that split screen. you get to see them up close and personal. is there a lot of tension between these two men? >> i don't think they're going to be doing a lot of cookouts together with their families after the election. but, you know, i thought they handled themselves with great dignity this time around. this was spirited. the elbows were sharp. but i thought this was worthy of a debate about the presidency. and it also gives me a greater appreciation norah, of just how hard these problems are. most of the easy problems have

already been solved. what's on the plate of the next president, whoever that's going to be are very very difficult things. as you saw last night on many of these issues they're fairly close on it. but you also saw they think this election will be about the economy and both did everything they could to get it over to the economy and domestic issues whenever they could. >> bob, you prepared hard for this. that was evident. what surprised you about the debate last night that was unexpected for you? >> i was -- i mean i did know this was a debate about foreign policy. i with his a little bit surprised, you know, as i just said, about the fact that both you know really did want to talk about economic issues. and i kind of let them go on that. they got into education at one point. and they went on about that for a while. well you know, a lot of people

like stan mccrystal, who used to be the commander of our forces in afghanistan, who think that education is the basis and the beginning of our national security. and so i found that interesting, that they both wanted to talk about that. when we let that run for a while, i tried to get them back to more specific foreign policy question s questions. i found that quite interesting. to me, charlie, indicative of what they think the campaign ought to be about. this is their campaign. and i thought people ought to have an opportunity to see what they thought it should be about. >> as important as it was, some are suggesting that despite the president having won, that the governor passed certain tests he had to pass being presidential not making any mistakes and that he won in that way. and so now the crucial yes is, what do they do between now and election day? what do you think they have to do? >> well, look i think both of these men are qualified to be president of the united states.

these are two men, these are people of good values on both sides and they're both intelligent men. i'm not going to pick a president. i'm going to leave that to the people to decide that. i thought we got a good and maybe a little better sense of who each of these men was last night. and so i felt in that sense i came away feeling pretty good about it. >> bob hang with us for a bit. after the debate last night we got reaction from both running mates. first i asked vice president joe biden about romney's claim that the u.s. should do more to stop iran's nuclear ambitions. >> iran is more isolated today than it was when we took office. iran has significant influence, not only in the shia world, but in the sunni world. and cowered their neighbors. the world was split on iran. we were viewed as somehow by the rest are of the world as being too unilateral. today it is isolated. but the only thing that i

heard -- maybe i missed something -- governor romney say tonight that he would have done it sooner. when, in fact before he was -- i don't know what he was saying before. >> well governor romney in the past has been very top of your administration's handling of the security situation in benghazi libya and the protection of our diplomats there. tonight he took a pass on that particular issue. i do have to ask you about a piece in "the wall street journal" this morning. they reported that the president was told in his presidential daily briefing for more than a week after that that the assault grew out of a spontaneous protest. and they did not change that assessment until september 22nd. i read that story and thought how is it that the contents of the president's daily brief is now in the pages of the wall street journal to help explain your administration's point of view? how could that happen?

>> i don't know how that happened except i know that the head of the director of central intelligence said everything that the president said that i said that susan rice said that was stated was exactly what the talking points the intelligence committee was giving us and briefing us on. >> let's now talk about the state of this campaign. we're just two weeks out from election day. the tone has changed a bit. you guys are now using terms like romneysia and sketchy to talk about romney and ryan. what happened to hope and change? >> there's still a great deal of hope and change. we're also talking about the fact that 41 states the unemployment rate has gone down the houseing is starting to come back. we timely turned the corner. laid out a plan as to how we're going to create more jobs. the thing is that the attack ss being made by our friend seems to change every day. i mean they change their position.

they've gone from ratelling the saber to carrying you know peace -- i don't know what they stand for. >> romney and roin say these are petty attacks and they're silly word game ss. are they an indication you're worried because the polls have closed? a new poll out from cbs news in ohio that shows the president and your lead has been reduced from ten points to five points. are you worried you may lose this election? >> no. now look we knew this election -- you knew this, norah. you're one of the most sop hichlt sti -- you knew this election was going to tight enen up, no matter who our opponent was. it's totally appropriate to point out that governor romney and congressman ryan have moved their positions drastically. they probably haven't change edd them internally, but they keep running away from the idea there's not a $5 trillion tax cut. i mean these are things they've

been running on. this has been the staple of the new -- this republican party. mass massive cuts in domestic spending. significant increases in tax cuts for the wealthy and now -- now they're saying no no no. no, no no. that's not who we are. i think it's totally legitimate to say who are you? >> on that note mr. vice president, we have to go. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you norah. >> we also spoke with republican vice president vice presidential candidate paul ryan, who was also staying up late after the debate. i asked him if governor romney should have pushed harder on the libya issue. >> it's been a story of -- changing stories by the administration. we didn't want to go into all the litigation of it. what mitt romney wanted to do was lay out his vision for the country, how to have a stronger economy, which makes for a strong national defense and strong america. >> it seemed in the dough bait that governor romney seemed to be bending over backwards to agree with the president on multiple occasions, sort of saying he concurred with president obama. why did he fail to draw some of

the distinctions tonight? >> well, there are some things where we do agree. we agree with the decision to go after osama bin laden. we agree with the continuation of the bush drone policy. those things, we agree with. where we disagree is in the president's poor handling of the iranian situation. iran is four years closer to a nuclear weapon. the administration fought us on sanctions in congress on a bipartisan basis for years until we finally got bipartisan support to overwhelm the president's position. now we have the sanctions in place. we also disagree with the defense policy. this trillion dollar cut in defense will devastate our defense, make us weak project weakness. mitt romney did a great job of contrasting that. >> but on military spending that was one of the sharpest exchanges in the debate. and president obama said this is not a game of battleship. but, yes, there aren't as many ships but there aren't as many horses and bayonets. that's a pretty tough attack. >> to compare modern american

battleships and navy with bayonets -- i just don't understand that comparison. look, we have to have a strong navy to keep peace and prosperity and sea lanes open. the president's -- all these defense cuts go through, our navy will be smaller than it was before world war i. that's not acceptable. the ocean hasn't shrunk. you still have to have enough ships to keep sea lanes open to keep our strength abroad where it needs to be. >> can i ask you to talk about your position on syria? we have heard governor romney in the past say you would work to ensure that the opposition they need to defeat assad's tanks, fighter jets. does that mean you would be willing to supply the opposition with heavy weaponry? >> what we've always said is that we want to work with our allies in the region ss, the turks, saudis identifying the

good allies in syria, fighting against the b aashar al assad regime. >> i have to ask you -- forgive me. the type of arms, when he said obtain the arms they need to defeat assad's tanks, fighter jets, you need pretty heavy weaponry to defeat tanks and fighter jets. >> we already know that free syrian army -- people in syria already have the kind of weapons to do just that. here is the problem with delaying so long with going over a year and a half and not having loweredship. bad actors are joining this fight. al qaeda is coming into syria. >> what is your position on one on one negotiations with iran? you see a scenario where that could ever happen? >> sure. we've always said we're willing to talk but we're not going to take off sanctions or lessen anything. whether multilateral or

bilateral as an excuse to delay sanctions. we're going to keep pushing sanctions, have harder sanctions, all the list of thing that is governor romney said. if they want to talk, that's fine. we're not going to seize or put any kind of temporary hold on any kind of sanctions as a condition of talking. no preconditions. if they want to talk that is perfectly fine. >> congressman ryan, thank you for joining us. >> you bet, norah. bob schieffer is back with us. two weeks to go before election day. what happens in these next two weeks? or can you even focus on that? >> i have no idea. i have been so zoned in on trying to get this debate done and talking to people about it. i mean my clock kind of stopped at 10:30 last night. >> have you ever seen it this tight at the end? >> no. no no. this is going to be very close and go right down to the wire. you've got all kinds of things. there's a real possibility you might see one win the popular

vote and the other win the electoral vote. you could have an electoral tie, which means it goes into the house of representatives next year. there is just no telling what might happen. it might all come down as it did in 2000 to right here in florida. all i can say is there's not going to be a landslide this year. i would bet money on that. i'm not betting a cent on anything else. >> we'll be together on election night, following that. bob schieffer, thank you. congrats. and a good debate. >> good job, bob. two torpds ss ss ss -- tornadoes touched down northern california monday knocking down trees and power lines, another struck south of sacramento damaging some buildings. there are no reports of any injuries. we had a few showers overnight a chance of a few

more showers to come outside. a lot of clouds moving across our skies and well, some very cool temperatures to start out the day. so if you are heading around the bay area showers are winding down a little bit headed further to the south still a chance of isolated showers today. cooler temperatures though only in the 60s. expecting more rain to come overnight tonight into tomorrow morning. then we dry out on thursday and friday. this next weekend looks like a lot of 70s showing up around the bay area.

mitt romney hears from conservative critics after last night's debate. some say he didn't hit president obama hard enough on libya. this morning, we'll talk with bill o'reilly about the debate and what might happen in the next two weeks. and a kennedy in court. rfk's son douglas faces prosecutors who claim he endangered his newborn son. we'll take you inside the courtroom and tell you how the case made it to trial on "cbs this morning."

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things you don't know -- signs you know nothing about foreign policy. so mitt romney will have to brush up for his debate tonight. you think benghazi is that bald guy who played gandy. you think arab spring is a brand of soap. you think the g8 is a hot boy band. and the number one sign you know nothing about foreign policy you made it your mission to prevent iran from enriching inging geraniums. what? welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm norwich city in boca raton, florida. and charlie rose is in new york. >> bill o'reilly hosts "the "o'reilly factor"" on fox news. his latest book is number one on "the new york times" bestseller list, but get this, number five on "the new york times" bestseller list is "killing

lincoln." welcome. >> thank you, charlie. and i appreciate you buying all those books for me. >> somebody's buying them, i can tell you that. >> that's for sure. a half million sold. >> you stayed up late last night. do you agree with the consensus that president obama won the debate? >> i agree that the debate was the most boring debate that i've seen i think in my lifetime. i don't know how anybody could have gotten through 90 minutes. it was just stupefyingly dull. >> so tell me what you thought the strat the strategies of the two camps was. >> i think governor romney's strategy was to appeal to women. that's why he didn't do any libyan stuff. he didn't confront. his main mantra was well criticizing me, mr. president, isn't going to get the foreign policy job done. he wanted the come across as softer to women because that's what he needs to win the election. >> do you think that worked? >> i have no idea. i'm not a woman. so i don't know. >> i'll leave that. >> it's inexplicable that

governor romney did not question -- and neither did bob schieffer -- the president about libya, which is the hottest foreign policy story in the world, and it was just like ignored. so that's inexplicable. now, on president obama's part i think he wants to show mitt romney as an amateur. >> right. >> let's just get it across this guy's an amateur. he's a poser. so in that way, the president was effective. because he kept bringing up -- hey, you're changing your positions, you don't know what you're doing. so he really had a very sharply focused strategy much more aggressive. >> i think bob schieffer's first question was about libya. >> it doesn't matter charlie. and i'm not knocking bob schieffer here. all three of the debate moderators will not press the issue like you do on "60 minutes." >> so you want to see a more aggressive moderation. >> i want answers to the questions. if you're going to say we have

to be pakistan's friend as governor romney did, then you're going to have to explain how you get there when pakistan is actively killing u.s. soldiers. not just say well, we have to be their friend. well, how are you going to do that? when you've got a scientist in prison for helping us get osama bin laden. those questions aren't asked. >> but the moderator is trying to get something happening. he's trying to get the candidates to engage each other. it seems to me that the criticism you're making goes to governor romney not to anyone else because the moderator -- the goal here was to get them to engage each other. >> but that doesn't happen. >> that lies are governor romney. >> all right i reject that whole thesis right away. i think that the goal to engage the two candidates -- i don't think that's the goal that the moderator should be anyway. >> you're defining a different moderator. >> here's what the goal of the debate should be, with all due respect to you, to show the american public who the stronger

candidate is. and you know how you do that? by holding their feet to the fire on certain things that don't make sense. that's the goal of the debate. who's the stronger candidate? what's best for america? not to have these two guys mud wrestle. that would be fine if they did it, but this isn't a cable news program. this is a presidential debate. >> you want the presidential debate to be a cable news program. >> i want it to be more like that in the sense that i want to get some illumination. they walk in with rehearsed answers in all three debates and they get to spill them out like this. >> meaning the public can't make sense because both people are saying exactly contradictory things. >> can i ask you a question? >> sure. >> did you learn one thing during that debate last night? >> one. i learned that perhaps governor romney believes he's ahead and therefore he took an approach not to be as confrontational as some expected him to be. >> that's a perception on your part, right?

so you didn't learn anything. because i didn't learn anything. i didn't learn one thing. >> there was nothing there that they said about those issues that i did not know or have not engaged on this program and others. >> so why are we wasting 90 minutes of the american public's time if we're not learning anything. >> well, i think they probably learned something about the two candidates by watching. even though it might not have been a specific point on a specific issue. i mean there is something about demeanor, there's something about temperament. there's something about how they handle themselves under the glare. >> well then let's get dr. phil. >> oh stop that. you couldn't have done better in terms of the kinds of people who are making an analysis and assessment of this than the guys who are doing the moderation. >> i disagree. i think that the moderators of these debates have to come in with a "60 minutes" mentality and ask questions and get answers. >> let's go to the libya one quickly. what is it that you believe about libya that is unanswered for you? >> i believe that the obama

administration lost control of their ambassador in libya and then after he was assassinated tried to sell -- >> what do you mean by lost control? >> they lost control of him in a sense that they did not protect him. so there was a security issue, that he was not protected. >> big issue. >> and then after he was assassinated, let's try to sell this. >> you're suggesting that they used politics here? that they, in fact, were not listening to the cia and other government agencies that the president simply was not listening to what he received in terms of briefing from the cia? because basically the cia has said that they haven't deny whad they -- denied what they told the president. >> it wouldn't be fair to lay it at barack obama's doorstep because he's campaigning. i don't know what he knew. i just know it was a monumental screw-up that should be explained. >> and four americans were killed. >> that's right. >> bill o'reilly "killing

kennedy." what do you tell us here that we didn't know about the assassination. >> we basically tell you why lee harvey oswald did it. >> this is because of an interview that took place by somebody's wife? >> this was the fbi agent who was assigned to maria oswald. had never spoken before to anyone. we got every movement. >> what did she say that is crucial to know? >> he basically was a loser and wanted to be a great man. and when he had the opportunity to kill someone, he figured that would make him a great man. it was basically a suicide. oswald committed suicide. >> it was more about ego than it was about ideology. >> nothing about ideology. he didn't even dislike jfk. >> what is this business about the american desire to understand conspiracies and assassinations? do you believe there was a conspiracy here at all?

>> no and i think we show that beyond a reasonable doubt. there were some people around lee harvey oswald that should not have been there. i can't explain it and i tell the reader that. but he did it and he did it for his own venal reasons. the worthiness of this book is that it's not only about kennedy's death, but it's about how he governed the country. how john f. kennedy governed. in the beginning, he was bad. he was a bad president. but he became a very good president. and we take you through that and for those of us who know where we were when kennedy was assassinated, it answers all the questions. >> and you have said to me in the past you became a very big admirer of robert kennedy, his brother. >> that's right. and that's shown in the book how robert kennedy was -- john kennedy brought him in to turn his administration around, and rfk was very effective there. >> cuban missile crisis and other places. thank you. >> any time. glad i woke you up here.

>> the man who wants to be a moderator. president kennedy's nephew is in thenews. we will hear from both sides when "cbs this morning" continues.

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birth of his son bo. the incident which was caught on surveillance tape occurred when kennedy wanted to take his son out for a walk. kennedy is seen here in an elevator cradling the newborn. that's when the two nurses say they tried to stop him because they didn't think he had permission to leave with bo. kennedy then heads for a stairwell where things got physical, and one of the nurses can be seen tumbling to the ground. >> it's been very difficult for douglas and his family. so that's why we have trials and we're prepared to begin. >> reporter: in documents obtained by cbs news one of the nurses testified that kennedy "twisted my arm, causing pain." the other said that he "raised his right foot and with tremendous force kicked me in the left side of my pelvic area." but in a "cbs this morning" interview, kennedy's lawyer said that was untrue. >> the fact of the matter is both the hospital and the nurses putting the kennedys through this on the birth of their newborn baby when they did nothing wrong, when there should

have been no criminal charges has just been a disgraceful episode. >> reporter: the kennedys dispute the charges and in a statement released in february said our simple design to take our son outside for fresh air has been warped into a charge of child endangerment. charges a judge is now expected to rule on in the coming weeks. for "cbs this morning," terrell brown, new york. >> cbs legal analyst jack ford joins us now. good morning. should this case have been brought to trial? >> it's puzzling. you rarely see misdemeanor charges going to trial, especially when the defendant is somebody who doesn't have a long rap sheet. otherwise, a respectable citizen. they almost always get worked out in some way, shape, or form. it sounds like here what you're hearing from both sides is that emotion has kicked in. i spent a lot of years trying a lot of cases. when decisions are being made in a courtroom based upon emotion, you don't really make the right decisions. you would have thought that something would have been worked

out here. everybody gives a little bit, takes a little bit and you walk away and say let's put this behind us and move on but you're not seeing it. obviously they're saying let's have a judge decide. >> is it too late to have a plea? >> it's never too late. literally until the jury has a verdict, or the judge says here is my verdict, y

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francisco giants have reached the world series. they beat >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. good morning, it is i'm elizabeth wenger. the giants beat the cardinals last night in the 7th and deciding game of the national league championship series. they open the world series tomorrow against the detroit tigers. >> tomorrow the san bruno city council will consider a resolution stemming from the pipeline explosion from two years ago. the council with weigh in on a petition calling for the ouster of the president of the state public utilities commission. traffic and weather coming up in a moment.

good morning. , in the traffic center it's been busy. we are dealing with slick surface around the bay area especially in the south bay. look for trouble spots on 280 as you work your way northbound through downtown san jose.

we had an earlier accident at saratoga and it's been cleared but still slow. westbound highway 4 at port chicago highway, that wreck blocking lanes. you can see highway 4 stop and go out of antioch and a little slow at the eastshore freeway. northbound 880 starting to load up through oakland. that's traffic. here's lawrence. >> we have some rainfall early on this morning. things trying to break up a little bit. outside now we go. a lot of clouds throughout but what a neat start to the day as the storm system isn't done with us just yet. we have a chance of more showers but most of the heavy rain moving by this morning but still more off the coastline with the possibility of scattered showers today. not going to be a rainout today. chilly to start, 40s and 50s, by the afternoon let's plan on low to mid-60s. i think more rain is developing overnight tonight into tomorrow morning. and then it looks like we'll finally catch a break partly cloudy skies on thursday. by the weekend, high pressure starts to build back in. those temperatures moving back into the 70s and it should stay dry.

it is 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." there's just two weeks of campaigning left after the final presidential debate. we'll look at the uncommitted voters who will decide this election and the two brothers from that "charlie bit my finger, ouch" video are back. we'll tell you how they're cashing in on that success. first, here is a look at what's happening in the world and what we've been covering on "cbs this morning." >> attacking me is not dealing with the challenges in the middle east. >> last night the candidates met face to face for the very last time. >> i think what the american people saw is that mitt romney has the demeanor, the temperament and leadership skills to be a great president. >> are you worried you were

going to lose this election? >> no. you knew the' leaks would tighten up no matter who the opponent was. >> what happens in the next two weeks or can you even focus? >> i have no idea. all i can say is there's not going to be a landslide this year. >> at least two tornadoes touched down in northern california monday causing minor damage. >> i believe the obama administration lost control of their ambassador in libya and then after he was assassinated they went holy you know what let's try to sell this. >> you're suggesting that they used politics here, that they in fact were not listening to the cia. >> it's been very difficult for douglas and the family. >> prosecutors claim he endangered his newborn son. >> it's puzzling. you rarely see misdemeanor charges going to trial. it sound like here that emotion has kicked in. lance armstrong was formally stripped of his seven tour de

france titles due to his doping scandal. on the plus side he did just see a nobel prize in chemistry. >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king. norah o'donnell is in boca raton, florida where the presidential candidates debated foreign policy and other issues last night after the final debate, cbs news took a poll. >> 53% said president obama won the debate. 23 prd said governor mitt romney won. the poll asked if candidates can be trusted to hand al n international president. 71% trust the president, 49% trust governor romney. clearly some chose both. >> this debate was supposed to focus on foreign policy. however, the candidates didn't miss a chance to discuss the number one issue in this election. they also butted heads on several issues. >> governor when it comes to

our foreign policy you seem to want to import the forethought of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s. >> attacking me is not an agenda. attacking me is not talking about how to deal with the challenges in the middle east. >> our navy is smaller now than any time since 1917. the navy said they needed 313 ships to carry out their mission. we're down to 285. headed down to low 200s if we go through with sequestration. >> i think governor romney hasn't spent enough time looking at how the military works. you mentioned the navy and we have fewer ships than 1916. governor, we also have fewer horses and bay on ets. >> america must strong america must lead. for that to happen we have to strengthen our economy at home. >> both at home and abroad he has proposed wrong and reckless policies, praised george bush as

a good economic steward and dick cheney as someone who shows great wisdom and judgment. >> the president began what i would call an apology tour of going to nations in the middle east and criticizing america. i think they looked at that and saw weakness. >> nothing governor romney has said is true starting with this notion of me apologizing. this has been probably the biggest whopper that's been told during the course of this campaign. i'm still speaking. >> i want to make sure we make america more competitive. >> i said if 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. >> i congratulate him on taking out osama bin laden and going after the leadership in al qaeda. we can't kill our way out of this mess. >> what we can't do is go back to the same policy that is got us into such difficulty in the first place. >> that's why we have to move forward and not go back.

>> i certainly don't want to go back to the policies of the last four years. >> major garrett, "national journal" white house correspondent with us. good morning. >> good morning. commission, tear down this stage. >> speaking of tearing down there was some of that in last night's debate. president obama accusing mitt romney of having a reckless and wrong foreign policy. what about the top sound bite about horses and bay ononets, it resonated. after the debate all the president's advisers said that's his idea. i think if the president stopped right there, the point would have been made. then he went on with this gratuitous jag that we have aircraft carriers and there's these things under water called nuclear submarines. it felt as if the president was taking his sleeve and rolling it

back and saying here is my destain for you, governor rom know. i'm not sure this is the moment the president would prize the most looking back at it and one voters might say you know that felt a little harsh. >> one other interesting point that you picked up president obama on the issue of sequestration, automatic defense cuts that many people are worried about in the military community. the president said it will not happen. did he go too far? >> sequestration, sounds like latin, reads like greek, translates to money. automatic spending cuts on the defense side and pentagon. talked to obama advisers afterwards and said what do we mean? it's an interesting proposition if you're a liberal democrat to say, wait mant we're going to raise taxes on the wealthy and with that revenue we're not going to save the domestic side of our budget from cuts we'll give it to the pentagon? i'm saying that's the president's perspective. he didn't explain it. his advisors did afterwards.

politically that's going to be a tough thing for the president to go down that road. >> major, clearly most people believe the president won the debate. they also suggest governor romney executed his plan. do the romney people believe -- what assumptions were they operating on about this election, about what they had to do? >> afterwards, charlie, the romney advisors i talked to said in so many words we held our new base, not our old base of conservative republicans who were a little bit put out, if you would, by the governor's lack of confrontation with the president on a couple of key issues. they said the new base is those recently converted, probably suburban women or lightly aligned republican-leaning men who looked at governor romney in the last two weeks and found someone the romney campaign believes was presidential didn't rise to the criticism or the nagging criticism from the president on certain issues and in the main did not appear eager to launch new

american-backed military conflict, not in iran not in syria. in that level they believe they made a persuasive appeal talking about bipartisanship and the need to find consensus in foreign policy. it's a nuanced argument but the romney campaign believes in this debate they wouldn't draw any political blood at the point of a nuance. >> aids for both sides said both candidates left happy. bill o'reilly was here last hour. he called it boring. how would you characterize last night? you were there. >> i'm a bit wonkier than bill o'reilly. i thought it was great. the one thing i think romney would want to do if he had a chance he opened with a criticism in the middle east, where the arab spring is or is not going. he didn't describe where he would change the dynamic in that region in terms of policy. voters who were tuning in missed that.

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♪ come to my window ♪ ♪ crawl inside and waited by the light of the moon ♪ microsoft is launching a new operating system for personal computer this week. pc users are about to get a surprise, or maybe a shock. >> windows 8 looks nothing like the windows millions of people have become accustomed to. jeff glor has seen it and joins us with a preview. hello to you. >> hello, gayle. microsoft say this is is not a makeover, but a complete reimagining of what windows should be. we sat down with a few users to see if they were ready. >> to start with there's no start button. a tidal shift for those currently working with windows. >> start menu is not very obvious, but i assume it's here somewhere. >> reporter: microsoft ads indicate the operating system is easy to use. but whether you're currently using a pc or a mac, windows 8 can be a bit of a shock. >> hit escape?

uh-oh. i mean -- back? shift? i would think escape would be the easiest way to get out. i want to escape. why can't i escape? no hints, huh? >> reporter: at its heart it's full of touch centric tiles that guide users around not traditional lists and icons. colorful, but not catered to users of a mouse, a peek ahead to the future of tablet and mobile computing. >> how do i go back here? >> how do i open it? how do i get anywhere? oh. >> reporter: the multiple users we asked to try it all had different levels of experience. >> what are your initial impressions? >> it is clean and fast. it's less cluttered. >> i think it seems more user friendly. it's like a dock. >> does it seem like something you'd expect from microsoft? >> it's not their usual style to have colors and things. >> reporter: for the most part they like the layout but they

were frequently frustrated by how to get where they wanted to go. >> there's always that hard transition. when we went from one version to the next version. it takes a minute, but it's never been this difficult. >> reporter: microsoft founder bill gates says the new look is a look ahead to what's next. >> the rich user interface is a big step. it's key to where personal computing is going. >> reporter: with this radical redesign, the company is taking a big risk hoping it results in a big reward. >> windows 8 goes on sale on friday, the same day they release their tablet computer the microsoft surface. also the same week that apple is announcing the ipad mini. the wave of the future charlie and gayle. >> oh, boy, another new gadget. with us is brian cooley editor at large for cnet.com. good morning. >> good morning, guys. >> as we just saw, a lot of the consumers are pretty frustrated. what does that mean for microsoft and how much do they have riding on it?

>> jeff's focus group there does point out a key difference with windows 8 in that when you get there, it looks like it could also live on a tablet or a phone. a similar look is also now found on the xbox and this is going to be microsoft's reunion, if you will. they need to bring all their different worlds computers, phones tablets an consoles together so when you get in front of any of them you always know the gas pedal is on the right, if you will. you need a consistency here. this is their effort to do that and bring all their assets together in one universe the way that apple has done very well. >> so do they achieve that? >> i like the way this works, particularly on touch devices. we've had a number of early sample tablets an phones in our building for this kind of testing, and it does have a learning curve, charlie. a lot of things are not as intuitive as i think you would find on an ipad. but there's also i think in many ways a lot more going on here because this is a class of products tablets in particular

that can be both computers as well as media tablets. the ipad doesn't try to be a computer. it doesn't try to bring you the mac. it's just an ipad. some of these microsoft tablets will try to be both a windows machine and a tablet. >> big announcement from apple today with the new ipad mini. lir have the iphone thanks to charlie rose. her name is charlotte. i have the ipad. do people really now need an ipad mini? >> this is going to be an interesting question. it's a matter of your behavior. do you feel as if the phone is not enough real estate and you like to have more on the go? if you do you probably want to have a tablet. but a ten-inch tablet like a current ipad, that's a big piece of luggage to carry around. i like the new seven-inch ones that apple is interesting to respond to because they're pocketable. >> will that cannibalize the ipad as we know it? >> there's a lot of people

saying i will never spend $500 to $800 on a thing as big as my head and carry it around. this will open the market. i can't see it not cannibalizing people who are upgrading or cross grading their ipad. they may go to smaller one yet. that will be a less profitable decision for apple. >> got it brian. thank you so much. the race is two weeks away. when we come back we're talking to eight undecided voters. what do they have to say? we'll tell you after the break. >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by kleenex brand tissues. softness worth sharing. this came for you, mommy. [ female announcer ] but it takes the touch of kleenex® brand, america's softest tissue to turn a gesture into a complete gift of care. [ barks ] send your own free kleenex® care pack... full of soothing essentials at kleenex.com. kleenex®. america's

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here's a sentence you'll never hear on "cbs this morning." "charlie bit my finger." it's one of the most popular and enduring online videos of all time. half a billion people have watched charlie

five news headlines. tonight in san bruno, the city council will consider a good morning. 8:25 your time. i'm frank mallicoat with your cbs news headlines on this tuesday. tonight in san bruno the city council will consider a resolution stemming from the deadly pipeline explosion from two years ago. the council will weigh in on a petition to oust the president of the public utilities commission. oakland police continue to search a home on east 20th near 13th avenue right now. officers and a s.w.a.t. team have surrounded the area around 5 a.m. two people have been taken into custody. no word on what police are looking for inside the home. and how about the giants? they are going to the world series for the second time in three years. they finish off the st. louis cashed analysis with a 9 -0 rout last -- the cardinals with a 9-0 rout last night in the

pouring rain. tomorrow night they open up the world series tomorrow against the tigers at 5:00 at at&t. traffic and weather coming right up.

good morning. it's still a little slow and go at the bay bridge toll plaza. but i promise it's actually an improvement than from what it was earlier. metering lights are on. again, a little sluggish there as you come through the maze and headed towards the toll plaza. better off the eastshore freeway. elsewhere a couple of hot spots out there. we are seeing delays on 580

through the altamont pass. also on 880 and highway 24. heading on 101, looks like we're seeing slow conditions north- and southbound near candlestick 280 as well through daly city. give yourself some extra time. and the south bay is getting better. had an earlier trouble spot on 280 near saratoga that's clearing so we are seeing improving drive times. here's lawrence. >> we have rainfall overnight mainly into the south bay beginning to wind down now. and out toward ocean beach it will be a cool day at the coastline. a lot of clouds outside still a chance of a wandering shower and hi-def doppler picking up on some of that moisture just off the coastline but it's going to be widely scattered not a washout today. chilly, only 43 in santa rosa, 49 in san jose and 53 degrees in san francisco. a little brisk and breezy today around the bay area, highs only in the 60s. think better chance of rain tonight into tonight morning then dry out on thursday, sunshine warmer weather for the weekend. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com

that's what you call a high wire act here in boca raton. welcome back, everybody. i'm norwich city as they're breaking the set down here. charlie rose and gayle king are in new york. good morning guys. >> good morning. >> good morning, norwich city. i norah o'donnell. everyone is saying boca ra-tone. i always thought it was boca

raton. >> duly noted. >> for months now, these candidates have been foe cushion on that state of ohio. we've all talked about it. it's an important swing state again this year. we sent dean reynolds to visit with a bunch of people in steubenville, ohio, to see last night's debate and see if it helped them make up their minds. >> reporter: they were eight undecided voters in search of decision. >> i plan on leaving this hall knowing who i'm going to vote for. >> reporter: they sat and watched for the next 90 minutes studying the words, the expressions, the demeanor of the men on the screen. >> i will stand with israel if they are attacked. >> when i'm president of the united states, we will stand with israel. >> did you learn things? >> yes. >> working with israel -- >> i didn't know that obama took such a stance regarding israel. it was nice to hear him take an authoritative stance that he would stand behind them. >> reporter: others thought governor romney made some good points. >> then the president began what

i called an apology tour of going to various nations in the middle east and criticizing america. >> nothing governor romney just said is true. >> the part that got me about projecting strength over in the middle east, especially was governor romney's accusations about the apology tour. and what i didn't hear was really an answer. >> reporter: several thought both men had strikingly similar positions on a host of issues. >> i want to underscore the same point the president made. >> their plans were sort of similar in a way, but romney just reiterated that he would put a little more emphasis on what obama was saying. it seemed more like romney was the one saying i agree, i agree. >> do you think they wasted time talking about domestic issues? >> i do. i think a lot of those other main talking points any way they could segue to it, they were going to do. >> now we're going to have to get to a balanced budget. >> cutting our education budget that's not a smart out choice. >> anybody flat-out rude? >> i thought president obama was, condescending -- about the

navy remarks. >> we have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. >> several others like the civility of this encounter when compared to the town hall format. >> i thought that they both allowed each other to answer the question and i thought they were very patient with one another. i thought it was a very civil debate. >> when it was all over they were asked who won. the president got two votes. governor romney got six. all said they had made up their minds, at least for now. >> was this the deciding factor? >> i mean something can change tomorrow. >> after all they still have two weeks to really truly decide. for "cbs this morning," dean reynolds steubenville, ohio. >> well, look there guys. it looks like romney won in dean reynolds' focus group. >> and this was from ohio. steubenville, ohio. interesting. >> i always think it's very interesting to see the process

what people -- what resonates with people and what doesn't. because some people say the remark he made about the navy was dead-on. other people thought it was very dismissive and condescending. i always like to see what's going on in people's minds. >> i agree. >> norah o'donnell, don't forget to pass that remark on to bob schieffer. >> i will. i'm going to tell him. he'll be excited. >> thank you, norah. "cbs this morning reads" it's our new feature. our first book is "team of rivals: the political genius of abraham lincoln." it's published by simon and schuster which is a division of cbs. >> author doris kearns goodwin will join us here on november 15th. this morning we shared an excerpt from the book online along with discussion questions from goodwin. >> you'll also find new featured material, such as lincoln's rare manuscripts and images of his family's belongings provided by the abraham lincoln presidential library. it's all on cbsthismorning.com

because "cbs this morning" reads. and speaking of reading, we've got an author that we know you're reading already. tom wolf's new novel is about race class, and sex, with palm trees in the background. there he is in his iconic trademark white suit.

♪ tom wolf is one of the world's most recognizable authors. he's written more than a dozen books, including "the right stuff" and "the bonfire of the vanities." >> his latest novel is his first in eight years. "back to blood" takes place in present day miami and it is already getting a whole lot of attention. he is here in studio 57. we're pleased about that. welcome. >> thank you very much. >> you have made cities famous

because of "a man in full." you're also fascinated by the immigrant experience. is that what led you to miami? >> that is how it began. and this was -- actually, i was still working on my last book when i got the idea. and i would tell people -- i was thinking about something on immigration. all of that sounds great. go to sleep like a horse standing up. but it gradually got more interesting. >> and then you go to the city the city of miami. this was what they thought about tom wolf. that he would be a prima donna in a white suit that he would come into town -- because the research that you do is painstaking. you go to miami and you just sort of walk along the streets meeting and talking to people. and the thing that they were saying, charlie, is how is -- does a guy in a bright white suit blend in?

but you did. >> my approach is always the same. >> what is your process? >> i'm just going to a big room saying -- and i find people will be on guard for the first 30 minutes to an hour. because here's somebody asking them questions. but if you get through an hour or an hour and a half with somebody -- >> you spend that much time? >> well if necessary. they'll drop their guard. they're tired of keeping up the guard. it's hard to be always careful of what you're saying. >> what are you looking for? >> in this case, i really did want to see what the -- how these different races and cultures and nationalities blended together.

pieces of steel that never melted. >> can we talk about your look tom wolf? because a lot has been made about your white suit. somebody's got to get a shot of his shoes. explain the shoes, please. >> the shoes really are the last frontier. there's nowhere else to go. >> this is for men? >> for men, yeah. there's no stopping them. >> but why the white suit? why the white suit always? >> the white suit was a -- happened naturally. i had just gotten a job the ambition of my newspaper career in new york. the "new york herald tribune." it gets hot here in june. i was hired in june. and those days reporters had to wear a jacket and tie. i think if you do that today, you're fired. at that time you had to do that.

so i went into a store and i saw a white suit. so i bought it because in the south where i grew up it was nothing unusual. >> a lot of white suits in richmond. >> oh yeah. it was either white linen -- >> i have a couple of those myself. >> charlie? >> the jacket. a sport jacket. >> okay. >> let me ask you one last thing. you became part of what's called new journalism. >> yes. >> where is journalism today? >> i'll give you two names. michael lewis. >> yes. >> and mark bodden. >> michael lewis is great and mark bodden is great. but what you did and what tommy hopson way back when really redefined the way you could understand personality. and so it's good to have you here. >> well, thank you very much. i did that until i was 57.

i said i think i'll try a novel. >> the book is called "back to blood." >> it goes on sale today. one simple video has been seen online half a billion times. that's with a b. this morning we'll show you what the charlie bit my finger brothers are doing now. what's that? when i take a picture of this check, it goes straight to the bank. oh. oh look the lion is out! no mommy no! don't worry honey, it only works on checks. deposit checks from your smartphone

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ufr . ladies and gentlemen, adele has given birth to a baby boy. [ applause ] yeah witnesses say adele howled in agony for nearly ten hours, then had to cut her recording session short when she went into

labor. >> oh! not nice. i like adele. don't you like adele? >> yes i do. >> we like adele here conan. norah, you like adele? >> i absolutely love adele. i'm happy for her. congratulations. >> that's three against one for conan o'brien. now an update on a beloved online video that turned two brothers into an internet sensation. as mark phillips reports, they're back after nine years cashing in on their now famous catch phrase. >> reporter: in the youtube age, every family video is a business opportunity, especially probably the most successful family video of all. the one that stars harry davys carr and his baby brother charlie, and that produced the memorial line -- >> charlie bit me. charlie bit me. charlie! >> reporter: as enduring lines from the movies go "charlie bit me" may not be "this isn't

kansas anymore," or "frankly my dear, i don't give a damn," but after being viewed almost half a billion times in five years since the video was released it's become the catch phrase ticket for a lucrative charlie bit my finger family business guided by the boy's father howard. >> we've never gone out to look to find income from it. it's things have come along, people have suggested things and we've taken them up on that. >> charlie bit your finger. >> cue the commercial, this time for pasta sauce. now aged 8 and 6, harry and charlie may seem a little bored with celebrity. >> what was that like? >> not fun. >> about six hours for only 32 second. >> but they still know what they're there for.

some things never change. >> i know it's exciting biting a finger. >> the success of "charlie bit my finger" is reflected in download numbers and t-shirt sales. what is harder to understand is why. >> i think the whole scene is -- you don't need to understand the lang wanluage to watch it. it's something which seems to capture so many different emotions and things going on that there's something there for everybody. >> reporter: including big brands looking for new angles. nothing sells like cute says media critic barbara lippert. >> i think there's a big future in advertising mining, social media and mining youtube. the problem is if it gets overused, it's just another fad that people get sick of. >> reporter: brotherly rivalry has sold as an idea since cain and abel. but who's the star here the biter or the bitee? >> it has to be me. i'm the one that put the finger

there, and there again. >> i bite it. >> but you were a little child and you didn't know what you were doing. >> reporter: chew on that. for "cbs this morning," i'm mark phillips in london. >> i'm thinking when he said cute always works. cute always works in a video, don't you think? >> i think so. thank god for tetanus shots. parents everywhere would be getting their kids to bite each other's fingers. >> good to have you here mo. >> speaking of cute mo admits he's cute and he can't cook. >> grandmother can cook. >> his grandmother can cook. so naturally he has a new show on the cooking channel, but he will have help from experts, his grandparents. his show is called "my grandmother's ravioli." >> i'm going to put you to work and i'm going to work. can you do this? >> sure. i feel like i need to work on my

pronunciation. >> i know it's a tough word. don't spit. superb. you are the best. >> i like your grandmother, don't you? >> that's ruth. that's one of the grandmothers. what was so funny -- charlie, you started cracking up before ruth, the grandmother, who is not your real grandmother, another grandmother, before she even said anything he was laughing. i'm going to show you how to cook. there's something about seeing grandmothers in character, being themselves is really very amusing. >> yeah, it's an international language, isn't it? >> yes that's what it is. and every grandparent i'm learning from in this series 13 different episodes, has been great. i've been adopted by all of them. >> different ideas for a grandmother favorite segment? >> absolutely yeah. my grandmother passed years ago, and i never learned to cook from

her. so i'm doing the next best thing, which is i'm learning from everybody else's grandparents how to cook. >> that was your great omission you never got her to teach you to cook. >> i was very close to her, but i never showed up early for family meals to actually learn how to make her ravioli or anything else that she made. and it's been a joy just going -- this is the easiest job i've ever had, the most fun, just going into other grandparents' homes and their kitchens and not just learning how to cook but why they cook. >> because it really is so much more than about the food. as great as the food is, isn't it more than just the food? >> absolutely. these are people who are at a point in their lives where things have really crystallized what really matters. they're in a kitchen, a place that they love cooking for people that they love for their families, for their friends. every episode culminates in a family meal and i get to meet all these different family members. oftentimes you think how could these individuals be related to each other? but they're sitting around one table, which is what's beautiful about a family.

>> how did you select the grandmothers? >> well, you know, it's tricky because i'm reluctant to call it reality tv because that suggests the toxic sludge that most reality tv is. but the irony is that people that don't really want to be on tv are usually better on tv than people who desperately want to be on tv. so these are not like -- these are people who he had to find to convince to be on tv because their lives are full and being on tv is way down on the list of priorities. >> what do you find most satisfying doing on television? something where you can be involved with real people? >> yes. i find that when i can participate in a story without stepping on it and perform to some degree that's really fun. and to bring out people who aren't celebrities, and to bring out their personalities is a joy. >> what was fun was that there was a little party in mo's honor last night and a lot of the grandmothers were there. to a t, all of them said about

you that you're smart, funny, hilarious, and you all made them feel so comfortable. i asked ruth i said were you nervous with mo? she said why would i be nervous with him? she said i'm in my kitchen using my own pots and fans. >> and she taught us how to make creplak. >> it sounds like a cat with a hairball. and she goes no, it doesn't. >> it's amazing. it's not a species of fish. >> i've never had it. >> it's a combination of white fish and pike and it's poached and made into a ball. it's fluffy and wonderful. if it comes out of a jar, it's dangerous. you've got to make it homemade. >> thank you very much. good to have you here. norah, come back soon. thank you. >> great to see you. mo, i love the chemistry you have with grandmothers. >> thank you norah. hurry up and become a grandmother. become a very young grandmother and you'll be on the show. >> that does it for us. happy birthday to billy miller. up

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>> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good morning, everybody! 8:55 your time. i'm frank mallicoat with your cbs 5 news headlines. the big headline, the giants, of course. they are heading to the world series tomorrow. beat up the cardinals last night in the pouring rain in the 7th game of the national league championship series. they open the world series tomorrow at home tonight against the tigers at 5:00 at at&t. meanwhile tonight in san bruno, the city council will consider a resolution stemming from that deadly pg&e pipeline explosion from two years ago. the council will weigh in on a petition calling for the ouster of the president of the state public utilities commission. how about some weather? how about tomorrow? game one, what do you think? >> we have the big game tomorrow. i think it's going to be okay but we have showers to get through between now and then outside. still a lot of clouds streaming across our skies. we had rainfall early on today

most of that in the south bay but that's clearing out. you will notice off the coastline there could be a wandering showering in the bay area. so not entirely dry today. and it's going to stay cool. right now chilly in spots. 40s in the north bay valleys, even 49 in san jose. by the afternoon a brisk cool 60s showing up outside. winds going to be kicking up toward the afternoon. looks like more rainfall overnight into tomorrow morning, hopefully dry by the game. i think it will be. then it looks like warmer weather is expected over the weekend. in fact, the weekend high pressure builds in and those temperatures are soaring up into the 70s. we're going to check out your "timesaver traffic" coming up next.

good morning. coming up coming up has just issued a wind advisory for the bay bridge so windies across the span. be careful there. still busy on the eastshore freeway. metering lights are on. give yourself some extra time. 580 an improvement westbound altamont pass to 680 only 15 minutes now. looks like that cleared up pretty nicely but still seeing yellow along highway 24 and 880 as well as you work your way through oakland. northbound slow and go 238 to the maze about a 26 minute right ride now. now 880, traffic slow in both directions south bay still seeing delays northbound 101 through san jose as well as northbound 280 through downtown san jose. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com