good morning to our viewers in the west. it is thursday, october 25th, 2012. welcome to "cbs this morning." hurricane sandy brings death and destruction to the caribbean. forecasters say it could hit the u.s. in a big way. as the candidates sprint across the country, a new poll shows the gender gap is nearly gone. former secretary of state colin powell breaks his silence about who he is endorsing for president. we begin this morning with a look at today's eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. hurricane sandy made landfall in southern cuba this morning, already passed through jamaica and haiti with deadly results. >> powerful storm intensifies over the caribbean. >> strong category 2 sandy looks to become a menace for folks all along the u.s. east coast. >> we will see a lot of problems

with wind, rain and maybe even snow. it will go down in the history books when it's all done. i know it's been tough these last four years but things are about to get better. >> it is crunch time for the white house. president obama is in the midstative 40-hour coast to coast campaign marathon. >> no sleep. if you're not going to sleep you may as well be in vegas. wildfire tearing through southern california has destroyed at least 14 homes. hundreds of residents were forced to evacuate as the flame spre spread, fueled by winds nearing 80 miles an hour. a man has been arrested over last month's attack on the u.s. consulate. >> e-mails -- >> officials knew that a terror group had claimed responsibility on terror and on facebook. >> posting something on facebook is not, in and of itself, evidence. pablo sand dbls oval with a three-homer game. giants win game one. social media, monkey of tampa bay on runt for three

years is now in custody. all that -- >> employees at a jackson, mississippi, business had an unexpected visitor drop in. trump will give $5 million to obama's charity of choice -- >> if he releases his passport. >> what do you attribute this to? >> this all goes back to when we were growing up together in kenya. >> the records must be given by october 3 st at 5:00 in the afternoon. >> he has to have it by 5:00 on halloween. because that night he's renting out his enormous orange head as because that night he's renting out his enormous orange head as a jack-o-lantern. captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs "cbs this morning." the atlantic hurricane season has been very quiet this season until now. hurricane sandy is lashing the caribbean this morning as it moves north. it has the potential to become a super storm for the eastern

united states. sandy is a powerful category 2 storm with sustained winds of 105 miles per hour. as of this morning, the storm is blamed for at least two deaths, one in swra majamaica, one in h. it is in cuba this morning. it could affect the eastern coast by the weekend. and sandy could combine with weather systems to pose a threat to the entire northeast coast. >> overnight sandy slammed eastern cuba with 110-mile-per-hour winds. this morning, the situation there is described as grave. one witness said that sandy was worse than the hurricane back in 19 1963, one of the deadliest hurricanes ever. thousands were forced to evacuate. widespread power outages, including at the u.s. base at guantanamo bay. sandy hit jamaica and haiti. in jamaica, a boulder slammed into a house, killing one

person. and in hateiti a woman was swep away as she tried to cross a river. david, talk about the size and strength of this storm. >> well, norah, overnight this storm got really strong, pictures from the caribbean, from cuba just proved that. here is the latest information we have this morning. we are talking about a category 2 storm, emerging from the cuban coastline now, about 185 miles south of the central bahamas. the thinking is today, tonight and tomorrow, the storm will maintain hurricane intensity aas it moves through the bahamas. that's why we could see tropical storm force conditions in south florida. but beyond that, as we go into the weekend, we're going to look for this storm to continue to parallel the east coast and then possibly be somewhere off of the new england or northeastern coastline, maybe just east of the delmarva as well sunday night into monday. that's when things could definitely get a little bit

tricky. >> david, how bad could it get? >> well, charlie, we are talking about a confluence of events here. a powerful hurricane, as we've mentioned, category 2 storm in the bahamas. that is a lot of warm air, a lot of heat. a lot of energy. of course, we're deep into fall now and we have aan unusual strong jet stream dip with winter-like cold air. and you put those two things together, that's the possibility that's on the weather maps right now. and that can lead to a powerhouse low pressure forming sunday and monday. you have storm force winds, coastal flooding, very heavy inland snows could be possible through parts of the appalachians and western pennsylvania. and, of course, with that heavy snow and strong winds at the coast we could be looking at significant power outages as well. so it's kind of the worst of everything coming together. winter and what the tropical season has to offer. there is still a possibility this low stays out to sea. right now we're thinking there's a good chance there could be -- >> worst case scenario?

>> it is if that low forms and it sits right off the coast and back from the ocean, back into land. we saw kind of a similar thing with with the perfect storm in 1991, how it moved from east to west in portions of new england. we could see something similar with this. >> david bernard, thank you. everyone can follow progress of hurricane sandy around the clock at cbs news.com. now to the race for the white house, the presidential election is 10 days away. president obama crossing the country on aa campaign trip, visiting florida, virginy, illinois and ohio today. governor mitt romney is holding three events in ohio. >> new press poll of nearly 2,300 people shows romney in front among likely voters. na nationwide poll also shows romney has wiped out the president's double-digit advantage among women voters. the two men are now tied in that category. closing the gap among male

voters, romney leads now by just five points. nancy cordes is in tampa florida. >> reporter: after pulling an all-nighter, flying across the country on air force one. in fact, his voice has gone somewhat hoarse, but he has several more campaign stops to do today. he was on "the tonight show" with jay leno last night, asked about those controversial remarks by the indiana senate republican conditioned date who said babyies born of rape are part of god's plan. >> seems like we're back to todd akin. >> let me make a very simple proposition. rape is rape. it is a crime. >> reporter: reacting to comments made by indiana state treasurer richard mourdock in his senate debate tuesday night. >> even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape that it is something that god intended to happen. >> reporter: governor romney has released a statement saying he

disagrees with mourdock, though he did not pull his endorsement of him. campaigning in iowa and nevada, romney says the president has no second-term agenda. >> it's been tough these past four years but things are about to get better. >> reporter: getting backup from clint eastwood, back in the g gop's good graces and narrating this new tv ad. >> obama's second term would be a rebound of the first and our country just couldn't survive that. >> reporter: what he he's describing as a -- >> campaign mayrathon extravaganza. >> reporter: flew first to davenport, iowa, to denver, on to los angeles, topping off the day with a late-night rally in las vegas. >> worry pulling an all-nighter. no sleep. and if you're not going to sleep, you might as well be in vegas. >> reporter: he flew overnight to tampa, florida. from here, he heads to richmond,

virginia, on to cleveland, ohio, with a quick side trip to his hometown of chicago to cast his ballot, the first sitting president to vote early. >> i can't tell you who i'm voting for. it's a secret ballot. but michelle said she voted for me. >> reporter: this is the kind of campaign swing you normally see right at the end of a race. the goal is to try to convince the president's supporters to get out and cast their ballots now if they can. early voting is already under way or about to be in all but one of the battleground states the president is visiting. and it is key to the obama campaign strategy. in fact, a new "time" magazine poll shows the president with a 2-1 advantage over governor romney when it comes to ohio voters who have already cast their ballots. for "cbs this morning," i'm nancy cordes, tampa, florida. >> haley barbour joins us now, who served as chair of the

national committee. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> the question arises, could this mourdock controversy impact the election? >> people in america are focused on jobs and the economy, men or women. that's what's affected their daily jobs, seeing their children not being able to get a job, seeing their children coming home to live with them. when the president says now he has a job plan and the front page of the washington post says obama to focus on the debt? you can see why the american people are shaking their head about the last four years. jobs and the economy are what are on people's minds, and they know that the huge deficits over $5 trillion added to the debt under obama has made it harder to grow the economy in the united states and made the future much less bright for america. so it doesn't surprise me that women are just as focused on the

economic security of their families as men are. >> but, governor, do you think, as senator mccain suggested, that mourdock should apologize for his comments? >> well, i don't agree with what he said. i thought that what he said was -- sounded crazy. but having said that, this election for president is not about that. this election for president is about obama's failed economic record in job creation, in exploding debt, sky rocketing spending, terrible health kir reform that's already costing the american people money. that's what families are talking about, noraah at the kitchen table. they're not talking about some guy who is secretary of state in indiana. >> if you think it was crazy, shouldn't he be in a position to consider apologizing to set the record straight? >> look, he has to decide that. it's not what i think is -- i wouldn't have said or how i

wouldn't have characterized something. but i can tell you, barack obama loves it when cbs news or cnn or fox news is talking about what some guy running for senator said instead of what the american people are really concerned about. because the more this election is about the economy and jobs, the worse obama does. >> let's turn now to the latest "time" magazine poll that shows the race in ohio is very close. obama leading by five points. but the president has a 2-1 advantage when it comes to those who voted early. are you concerned that republicans may have been out organized on the ground? >> well, not because of that data. first of all, polling not being very reliable but historically in ohio and some other states, cuyahoga county, franklin county, cleveland, columbus, the democrats turn out there early voting, very early right from the beginning. yet for what we see on the

actual data of party registration, they have less an advantage this year than normal. republicans have turned out at a higher than normal percentage in those two big democratic counties as well as in republican counties. so, i actually am optimistic about the ground game that the republican national committee and the obama administration has -- i mean the romney campaign has. the obama people go on muscle and manpower, driven by the labor unions. for us it's energy and enthusiasm. right now it looks like energy and enthusiasm is keeping up pretty good. >> we just showed a graphic that shows that the atlantic magazine that obama and their campaign has three times as many field offices in ohio as mitt romney and also in florida, and in virginia. how do the republicans counter that? i know the republican national committee, which you once headed, has great practice at

the ground game. how are they being out manned, out officed, if you will, by the democrats? >> good news for the republicans is that it's not about how many offices you have. it's a matter of how many voter confidence you make. you can manufacture yourself in to lots of little offices or bigger with more outreach but the question is, how many voters do you contact? how compelling is your message? and what kind of job do you do, getting those voters to actually go to the polls and vote? and so the number of offices, to me, is irrelevant. >> governor barbour, thank you very much. >> thank you, charlie, norah. questions are still flying over when u.s. officials knew the attack on the u.s. consulate in libya was terror related. a suspect in tunisia claimed responsibility on facebook hours after the attack. deputy director john miller is

here. what do we make of this arrest in tunisia? >> this is an individual who was in custody a couple of weeks ago in turkey and the fbi was actively trying to get an interview with him in turkey. and the turks deported him to tunisia. now they're negotiating with the tunisian government. he is reportedly behind that post claiming responsibility. the question about him is that probably doesn't make him a leader of ansar al sharia, claiming responsibility but he may have access to leaders who instructed him. they're anxious to talk to him. >> what about the -- >> i should also add in, they believe he was there at the scene of the attack, not just posting in information. >> what about these e-mails that have been obtained? many say that they are a smoking gun. hours after the attack, we have this group claiming responsibility on facebook. we heard secretary clinton say posting something on facebook is not in and of itself evidence. what do you think?

>> based on the number of terrorist attacks we've seen, the early claims of responsibility are often inaccurate. sometimes one group will try to claim responsibility for somebody else's attack. when you see a claim you make note of that. it's certainly a good indicator but not evidence, certainly on facebook. what's happened since -- this is of significance -- they've gotten intelligence, intercepts, human source information, and video of the group on scene. now they can lay a lot more evidence on top of that claim saying it's probably correct. >> sharyl attkisson of cbs was the first to report on these e-mails, we should say. what about the fact that there were terrorists claiming responsibility? was it wrong for the administration to go out with talking points provided by the intelligence community and say that it was based on anti-islam film on youtube? >> if it were in a vacuum,

that's true. but they were already reporting on protest that is got out of hand. i've been through dozen of crises where you're watching real-time intelligence come in, flash points, and you get that information, analyze it. you get new information, reassess. you're constantly updating. the only difference is that the crisis i was running and taking intelligence in weren't happening in the hotly contested presidential election. everything here is always the way it goes, it's just being distorted. >> john miller, thank you. the government is suing bank of america for alleged mortgage fraud. countrywide financial, which b of a bought in 2008 just before the banking meltdown. countrywide made loans without making sure borrowers could afford them, then sold those loans to fannie mae and freddie

mac. the bank has resisted buying back the bad mortgages. b of a spokesman says that is simply false. time to show you this morning's headlines from around the globe. britain's guardian interviews the new ceo of the "new york times." he was head of the bbc when it killed a story allegedly of a star sexually abusing children. they say that the company should think again of putting thompson in charge. >> wall street journal says the ceos of more than 80 companies are pushing congress to reduce the federal deficit using tax revenue increases as well as spending cuts. the ceos say any plan has to limit the growth of health care spending and keep social security solvent. san francisco's pablo sandoval, nicknamed kung fu panda, hit three home runs last

night. only three other players have done that in a world series game. we have the rally monkey at the san francisco zoo. we have cloudy skies around the bay area. we are seeing some raindrops showing up outside right now so if you are heading out there the roads are slick. but the skies are going to part as we head throughout the day today. hi-def doppler picking up some of that moisture a lot of low level hit and miss out there but as we head toward the latter part of the day we are expecting clouds to break up a bit.

temperatures running in the 50s now. by the afternoon hours, we are planning on those highs soaring up to the 60s, maybe some low 70s. this national weather report sponsored by citi private pass. get more access with a citi card. four years ago general colin powell supported barack obama for president. the former republican secretary of state has not yet endorsed anyone this time. so we'll ask him this morning about the candidates and who

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. >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald hi, good morning. 7:26 your time. i'm frank mallicoat. get you caught up with some bay area headlines right now. two women under arrest after a third was shot and wounded in a san jose shopping center parking lot this morning. the suspects and the female victim knew one another. there is one arrest after shots were fired at a san francisco police officer this morning. a search for two other suspects in the mission district has now been called off. the officer by the way is okay. and how about the giants taking game one of the world series? pablo sandoval hit three home runs against the tigers tying a record. san francisco wins it 8-3. game two starts at 5:07 at at&t park. traffic and weather coming up. ,,,,,,,,

good morning. well, traffic is still slow through walnut creek. they just cleared an accident southbound 680 right there approach treat boulevard. but as you can see, our traffic sensors are still backed up towards 242. elsewhere, if you are crossing the nimitz 880 through oakland not too bad right now past the coliseum. at the bay bridge it's stacked up about a 20-minute wait through the macarthur maze. that's traffic. here's lawrence. >> still wet outside around the bay area. the last gasp of the storm system moving by and then clouds parting a bit. hi-def doppler picking up on all that low-level moisture. you can see it's hit and miss but very damp on the roads. by the afternoon, though we'll sneak some sunshine in between the clouds. we are planning on 60s even some 70s. the next couple of days the ridge builds in 80s by the week and rain on halloween. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com ,,,,,,,,

♪ welcome back to cbs "this morning." we know that -- you know him he was the former secretary of state general colin powell broke with the republican party in 2008 to endorse barack obama for president. he called him then a transformational figure. >> the former national security adviser and former chief of staff is this morning. his memoir is called "it worked for me in life and leadership." good morning. >> will you endorse president obama this race? >> well, you know i voted for him in 2008 and i plan to tick with him in 2012 and oil vote for him and vice president joe biden next month. so that's an endorsement for president obama for re-election. >> let me say why. when he took over the country

was in very, very difficult straits, we were in one of the worst recessions we had seen in recent times, close to a depression. the fiscal system was collapsing. wall street was in chaos. we had 800,000 jobs lost in the first month of obama administration and unemployment peaked at 10% a few months later. we were in real trouble. the you a is to industry was collapsing. the housing industry was starting to collapse. we were in very difficult straits. i saw over the next several years stabilization come back in the financial community, housing is now starting to pick up after four years, it's starting to pick up. consumer confidence is rising. so i think generally we've come out of the dive and starting to gain altitude. it doesn't mean we are problem solved, there's lots of problems still out there. the unemployment rate is too high. people are still hurting in housing. but i see that we are starting to wise up. i also saw the president get us out of one war, start to get us

out of a second war and did not get us into any new warriors and finally i think that the actions he's taken with respect to protecting us from terrorism have been very solid. so i think we ought to keep on the track that we're on. with respect to governor romney i have the utmost respect to him but as i listen to what his proposals are especially with respect to dealing with our most significant issue the economy, it's essentially let's cut taxes and compensate for that with other things. but that compensation does not cover all of the cuts intended or the new expenses associated with defense. new said you have listened to governor romney. have you talked to governor romney about this? did you give him an early notice that you plan to endorse the president again? >> no, i didn't give anybody an early notice. i have spoken to governor romney. we had a very good conversation a few weeks back. >> did he ask you for an endorsement of him back then?

>> no. >> and how far spoken with president obama? >> i speak to the president on a regular basis. he didn't ask either. this is my decision based on my looking at it as a citizen. i think this is an exciting race between two very capable men, and i signed on for patrol with president obama and i don't think this is the time to make such a sudden change. and not only am i comfortable with what governor romney is propose for his economic plan i have concerns about his views on foreign policy. the governor who is speaking on monday night at the debate was saying things that were quite different from what he said earlier. i'm not quite sure which governor romney we would be getting with respect to foreign policy. >> what concern do you have about governor romney's foreign policy? >> well, it's hard to fix it. it's a moving target. one day he has a certain strong view about staying in afghanistan but then on monday

night he agrees with the withdrawal. same thing in iraq. on every issue that was discussed on monday night governor romney agreed with the president with some nuances. but this is quite a different set of foreign policy views than he had earlier in the campaign. my concern, which i've expressed previously in a public way is that sometimes i don't sense that want he has thought through these issues as thoroughly as he should have and he gets advice from his campaign staff that he then has to adjust to modify as he goes along. new year concerned about the people that are advising governor romney. >> i think there's some very, very strong neo-conservative views that are presented by the governor that i have some trouble with. there are other issues as well. i'm more comfortable with president obama and his administration when it comes to issues about what will we do about climate and immigration. what will we do about education. lots of things like that.

i don't want to see the new obama care plan thrown off the table. it has issues, you have to fix some things in that plan. but what i see when i look at that plan is 30 million of our fell fellow citizens will be covered with insurance. that's good. we're one of the few nation in the world that does not have universal health care. >> you know the criticism about the president is they do not know how the second term will be different and he hasn't laid that out and that's some concern. >> i think it is a concern. i think the president has started with a plan he issued yesterday, that he's going to focus on the economy, focus on debt. regardless whether you focus on debt and jobs they are interlinked. the major jobs faced by governor romney or president obama, whoever should win the election is going to be what to do about the fiscal cliff we're about to fly over. this is something that was put in place by congress and while

we're talking about the two candidates for president, let's not forget that congress bears a lot of the responsibility for many of the problems that we have now. they are the once that write the appropriations bill. they are the ones that pass the legislation for more spending and for the various entitlement programs that people have trouble with. and so i think it's a close race. i think every american should look at both candidates carefully, measure them against your own personal views. i really am pleased the way the president saved the auto industry and i think that brought a lot of jobs back to ohio and michigan and other parts of the northwest. >> you blame the failure to find a grand bargain on the congress and not on the president? >> the failure to find a grand bargain, why do we need a grand bargain? why do we need simpson-bowles? this is work congress is supposed to be doing opinion you don't need special committees. we have a congress of 535 people with dozens and dozens of committees. why can't they up on the hill start talking to one another,

reach across the aisle but it will take greater presidential leadership and i think what the president said in one of his remarks yesterday is that he intends to spend more time trying to bring that leadership up to the hill and get both parties both sides start talking to one another. but every candidate can say i'm going to do this, i'm going to do that but in reality it's the congress that actually does it or doesn't do it and i don't think congress has been meeting its responsibilities. >> general you worked for several republican presidents. are you still a republican in >> yes. i think i'm a republican of more moderate mold and that's something of a dying breed i'm sorry to say. but, you know, the republicans i work for are president reagan, president bush 41, howard bakers of the world, people who were conservative, people who were willing to push their conservative views but people who recognized at the end of the day you got to find a basis for

compromise. compromise is how this country runs. >> general your then saying you may have to leave the republican party? >> no. i didn't say that at all, charlie. but nice try. i said i'm a moderate republican and there are fewer of us. what party are you in, charlie? >> i'm an independent. general powell any time you want to come and make news please come here. we love having you here to talk about important issues because of the number of important roles you have served so thank you very much for this. >> thank you, charlie. i'll call you, maybe. [ laughter ] >> a song in your heart. >> gayle wants you to come back on set so we can enjoy that. >> thank you, again. a florida man loved collecting autographs and using that valuable memorabilia for a purpose. we'll show you why he's selling everything and not thinking tw

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diskoifrs like this one signed by nelson mandela. >> how much did you pay for it? >> jumped up and down when i got this one. two bucks. >> $2 for a nelson mandela book. >> reporter: his sports memorabilia includes thousands of rare baseball cards, virtually all of them sign. this one is the hall of fame placard of yogi berra. now it's all going up for auction and experts say the sale may be a record breaker. >> i believe that once the books change hands it will be the largest personal collection of books autographed ever changing hands. >> reporter: for kallin, getting rich isn't his objective. he's hoping to save his daughter's life. she suffers from a rare auto immune disease. >> i want to sleep all day but i still get up, i have a 17 and a 15-year-old that i'm trying to raise and two women to be productive women and so i have to be there for them.

>> reporter: at her skyrocketing medical bills mounted her father decided the best way to help is to sell his prized possession. >> i was amazed. i sat there for probably about 30 minutes just looking and

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♪ it is 8:00. welcome back to cbs "this morning." hurricane sandy tears across the caribbean, how soon could it affect the united states? and donald trump offers a $5 million challenge to president obama, but nobody seems to be taking him seriously. but first, here's a look at what's happening in the world and what we've been covering on cbs "this morning." we are talking about a category 2 storm. it's emerging from the cuban coastline now. >> the hurricane is blamed for at least two deaths. >> sandy has the potential to become a super storm for the eastern united states. >> it's the worst of everything coming together, winter and with what the tropical season has to offer. >> will you endorse president obama? >> i voted for him in 2008 and i plan to stick with him in 2012.

>> president obama is crisscrossing on a 7600 campaign trip. >> we are pulling an all-nighter. >> a new associated press poll shows romney in front. >> for us it's energy and enthusiasm and right now it's keeping up pretty good. >> his collection is now worth millions. >> he's selling it all in a bid to save his daughter's life. >> i was amazed. my father, you know, this is it for him. >> i know last year michelle gave out fruit. >> it is true. michelle takes this healthy eating seriously but it is an election year so candy for everybody. >> only two members of 'n sync were invited to justin timberlake's wedding but the other two appeared as caterers. >> millions of people on the east coast are on alert because of hurricane sandy. >> david bernard our chief

meteorologist for our miami station, cbs 4, is tracking sandy right now. david, what can you tell us? >> this can be a real problem. right now this morning sandy is still a category 2 storm as of 8:00 this morning. it's emerging off the cuban coastline, moving through the bahamas over the next 24 hours or so and then the big question is where does it go from here? i thought we would take a look at our latest computer guidance that came in. we have two camps of models. the first one bends the storm back into areas of the delaware coastline or as far north as southern new england as we go into early next week and only one other model is turning this potential storm out to sea. so it seems like it's becoming more likely that we're going to have to contend with sandy in the northeast and mid-atlantic as we go into late in the weekend and early next week. here's what's happening. the tropical storm hurricane is moving from the south, very warm air.

winter-like cold that's now coming in through the midwest. those two are going to combine and we could be looking at a nor'easter/hurricane situation with heavy snow, storm force winds and potentially a lot of power outages. coastal flooding could be widespread. we could see hurricane force gusts up to new england if this forecast pans out. >> david bernard thank you. president obama is making a marathon cross country campaign swing. he'll visit four states today including ohio where governor mitt romney will also be campaigning and in a just a released poll shows romney has erased the president's advantage with women. they are tied. the president has erased romney's advantage with men. with 12 days to go the candidates are hitting the battleground states hard. >> we don't turn backwards. we look forward. we look forward. we look forward to the distant horizon.

to new possibilities. to new frontiers. that's what we believe in. that's who we are. our destiny is not written for us, it's written by us and we can write the next chapter together right now. that's why i'm asking for your vote. >> they have been unable to lay out an agenda for what they will do to help america. they have been unable to defend and describe what they will do to get our economy going. with a president out of ideas and excuses why on november 6th make sure we put him out of office. >> and earlier this morning retired general colin powell revealed to us he's supporting president obama again this year. >> you know i voted for him in 2008 and i plan to stick with him in 2012 and i'll be voting for he and vice president joe biden next month. >> after making that endorsement powell met up with governor haley barbour the former

chairman of the republican national committee. barbour didn't endorse romney but didn't endorse in 2008 either. general powell is leaving our studios in washington. >> donald trump promised a huge announcement wednesday that he would change the presidential election so did he deliver? mo rocca is here with the answer. >> good morning. yes. so great. ever since donald trump announced his upcoming announcement, speculation swirled but as it turned out trump didn't have any dirt on the president. just a bizarre deal that leaves many on both sides of the aisle wondering if trump has jumped the shark. >> i have something very, very big concerning the president of the united states. >> give us a hint. >> donald trump's big announcement arrived yesterday via youtube. >> i have a deal for the president. >> billed as a bombshell but more of a bust. >> if barack obama opens up and gives his college records and

applications and if he gives his passport applications and records, i will give to a charity of his choice inner-city children in chicago, american cancer society, aids research, anything he wants, a check, immediately, for $5 million. >> first of all $5 million that's chump change to you. you are a very rich man. >> he's never going to do this. what was the primary -- >> others couldn't resist the punch line. >> he has to have it by 5:00 on halloween. because that night he's renting out his orange head as a jack-o-lantern. >> we have footage of the announcement. >> the president joined in. >> what's this thing with trump and you. me and letterman. what does he have against you here? >> this all dates back to when we were growing up together in

kenya. >> trump typically has been a friend to the republican party. in february mitt romney sought his endorsement for president. >> governor romney, go out and get him. >> this latest move has many on the right feeling a little wronged. conservative writer of the national review tweeted, if at any point you seriously considered donald trump for president, please study the error of your ways in quiet, private contemplation. fox news' bill o'reilly had this to say to david letterman. >> was it ever important? >> it's not important. he's the president of the united states and what's important is whether he can turn the economy around. that's what's important. >> hopefully this puts all doubts to rest. >> last year president obama even released his birth certificate in an effort to silent people like trump. >> nobody is happier or prouder to put this birth certificate

matter to rest than the donald. and that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter. did we fake the moon landing? what really happened in roswell. and where are biggy and tupac. >> as the presidential election approaches it's 11th hour trump is looking for any way to move the needle no matter how far he has to reach. i can't tell if i'm on cbs or comedy central. the world has turned upside down. that's the kind of behavior that would get one of the contestants on his show fired. >> so what do you make of this? all of us are responding to this in humor or observation of the humor. >> yeah. i wonder -- you know it's like the last days of reality show. in this case it's the campaign where this desperate, crazy behavior is coming out. it's like he's doubling down on

stupidity. maybe just because he's embarrassed about what happened last time with this issue. the birther thing is so early 2012. it's done. >> i remember that white house dinner that night and donald trump did not think the jokes were funny and i'm wondering do you think he's operating from any publicity is good publicity? what is his strategy? >> we couldn't find that, but whoever said it, this puts that to doubt now because i'm not sure that it is. >> to be continued i'm sure. >> yeah. >> i don't think he's done. thank you. tampa bay elusive wild monkey has finally been captured. he had been on the loose for nearly three years. on wednesday trappers shot it with a tranquilizer dart. the monkey had bitten and scratched a local woman two weeks ago. they are now trying to find a safe home for the monkey. any takers? no one is signing up for that job.

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>> i'm dying and i'm having fun. and i'm going to keep having fun every day i have left. because there's no other way to play it. >> boy i remember that. that's from professor randy pausch famous last lecture. he was open and up front sharing the life lessons he's learned from dying. it inspired millions of people. >> now a study in the new

england medical journal said the health care system would benefit if all of us could be more honest. dr. thomas smith is the leading expert on health care for the dying and he wrote a commentary published along with the study. good morning, doctor. >> thank you. >> let's talk about the study. i want reveals about misconception about life threatening illnesses. what are they? >> these researchers interviewed 1,200 patients who had colon rectal cancer or lung cancer which couldn't be cured and almost three quarters of the patients thought a person like themselves could be cured of their disease when essentially none of them will be. that's a major change in what we would expect people to think. >> so how do you need to improve the communication then with those people facing these life threatening illnesses. >> we start when you're well. but when you're faced with a life threatening illness, don't be afraid to get information. people who plan, people who make

their choices known so that we as health care professionals can follow their choices, do a lot better. their families do better. in fact in one study where patients got care along their usual care, that's honest and open communication, goal set, careful attention to symptoms, people had less depression, less anxiety, lived longer. >> it's such a difficult conversation to have though, doctor. how do you sit down and tell someone and keep it positive that you're not going to live much longer. how do you do that? >> the first thing is to ask permission. we do ask, tell, ask. what do you want to know about your illness? 90% of the pambts and will say tell me everything. in need to know so i can plan. a few won't. then tell people in very understandable terms. none of us know exactly when someone will die but we can say you have weeks or months based on people like you.

>> everybody feels i can be the one that beats it. i have a positive attitude. i have faith. what do you say to those people? >> i say that's wonderful and we promise not stand in the way of any miracles. but we can hope for the best but we need to plan for the worst. >> doctor, one of the important things about this conversation is how much of our medical dollars are being spent at the very end of life. what is that figure? i've been told it before. it necessitates that people be responsible including doctors about end of life decisions. >> yes, it is. about 25% of medicare dollars are spent in the last year of life and 9% of medicare dollars is spent in the last month of life. this really isn't about saving money so much as honoring people's choices. we have to know what people's choices are by having these difficult conversations so that we know what people want. most people really want to focus on being at home. they don't want to be in the hospital. so if you can be at home, have

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>> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good morning, everyone. 8:25 your time. let's get you caught up with some of the bay area headlines now. shots fired overnight at an undercover officer in san francisco. at least one suspect is under arrest right now as many as two still at large this after multiple shots were fired from a moving car at bryant and 23rd streets. there are no reports though of injuries. two women under arrest after a shooting outside the plant shopping center in san jose. police say two men and a woman were in the parking lot when a silver car pulled up, a fight ensued and a woman in the car opened fire. the woman in the parking lot was hit and now has nonlife- threatening injuries. and cal-osha is looking into the death of a mechanic in the crane accident at the port of oakland. the 52-year-old man was crushed yesterday morning as he was

inspecting the crane. cal-osha says the victim had head and chest injuries and died at the hospital. traffic and weather coming right up. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,

good morning. we are watching a multi-vehicle crash blocking several lanes northbound 880 approaching whipple. it is stop and go from dakota road. you can see the red traffic sensors. those are live drive time sensors showing speeds below 25 miles per hour. once you get past whipple it continues to be heavy all the

way up past the oakland coliseum and towards downtown oakland. there was an earlier crash on northbound 880 by high street. that's now cleared to the right- hand shoulder. let's get a quick look at what we can see anyway at the bay bridge toll plaza. obviously it is going to be slick this morning for the start of your morning drive. it's backed up through the macarthur maze. that is traffic. for your wet forecast here's lawrence. >> that's a very artsy looking shot. we have had a lot of moisture around the bay area this morning. this is the last gasp of that storm system moving on by. clouds continuing to move across the bay area with some light sprinkles but things beginning to wind down already. in fact, high pressure building overhead. you can see hi-def doppler showing you that moisture tailing off somewhat. throughout the morning hours, the skies going to part. by the afternoon, partly cloudy skies, 60s, maybe even a few 70s. and then the next couple of days much warmer weather, some 80s possible over saturday and sunday at least in the valleys. but we could see rain on halloween. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com when i take a picture of this check, it goes straight to the bank. oh.

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today -- >> we're mixing this together. ♪ welcome back to cbs "this morning." dallas mavericks owner mark cuban often gets in trouble defending his nba team but off the court he's an angel investor with a devilish side. >> he owns magnolia. of all those things which one brings you the greatest satisfaction? >> i'd say the mavericks just

because one of the things when i bought the team i don't own the team the community owns the team and there's no other business in the world where somebody calls you and says, you know, my son is ill and, you know, will somebody from the team come visit or even worse, you know, my son just died and his dream was to be buried in a mavs jersey and can we get it signed. you realize very quickly the community owns your team and that's just a sense of joy you can't give in any other type of business. >> you clearly have a passion for the team. there was a time when you were fined close to $2 million because you disagreed with the referee. >> over a period of time. >> you're very outspoke. do you regret those out bursts? >> no. i was improving the product. that's the goal. >> have you mellowed in time? one of your players said the owner shouldn't eclipse the team. >> that was six or seven years

ago. i've had kids and that changes your perspective. when i came home after i lost a game it would take me all day to get over. now when a 3-year-old or 6-year-old climbs in your lap it changes your perspective. at the same time i always looked at it in every business you have to strive to be better. because it's a visible sports team mean you shouldn't change. you can argue about my tactics but can't argue about my intention. >> remember when he sold his company to yahoo! that made him a billionaire. what's going to happen to yahoo!? >> it will be fine. marissa mayer is smart. you can always see in the last quarter much better. to be honest when i heard she got appointed ceo i bought a bunch of stock. so far a good investment. >> when you look at what happened to yahoo! and zynga, are you worried about some bubble? >> no. i'm not worried about a bubble

in the internet sector for public companies. but where there is a bulb simple in evaluations in silicon valley for private companies because what's happened in the stock market is there are companies raising $15 million or less, the number of companies going public in that range has decline by 60% to 80% in the last 15 years. since those small to medium size companies can't go public they've to raise private money and those valuations have gone through the roof. >> look at groupon. and the facebook stock is way down. was it over valued? >> those are individual -- those companies -- that's more a reflection of what's happening with the private company valuations. they had to go public. that bubble, when they were private actually impacted negatively the public's shareholder. i wouldn't call it a

>> the mavs were the first team to sign him as a free agent. we loved him. he was smart. he went to harvard. he was a lot more athletic than people expected. we signed him for summer league. we wanted to sign him to a contract for the mavs. but he wanted to play close to home. he grew up in the bay area so he went with the golden state warriors. >> can he be another steve nash? >> absolutely could. but part of what made steve nash great -- when nash went from the mavericks to the suns and became mvp, it was a system that he just excelled at. so jeremy's got to play in the right environment with the right players and he can be a star. >> i've heard you say you never invest in businesses, that you don't believe in yourself. >> right. >> i heard that you recently invested in a guy who does cat drawings. what do you know about cat drawings?

>> absolutely nothing. but every now and then you have to invest in the person. where the company is almost a sideline to the skill set of the individual. so steve, the guy who runs this company, is crazy. but he's also technological. he's got great tech skills, great marketing skills a great sense for p.r., obviously. to get the opportunity to work with somebody like that, if i had to invest in his company to do it, it was a cheap way to do it. >> does crazy and offbeat appeal to you? >> yes. >> because? >> to be incredibly successful, i think a lot of people think, i'm going to do the next great version of something, when in reality the big hits always come elsewhere. i always tell people, if you look where people are looking, you're never going to find the next biggest thing. let me look over here. >> president obama was endorsed

by general powell on this program this morning. have you made an endorsement? >> i haven't made an endorsement. but i'm leaning towards obama. enough credit for having drawing us out of the doldrums four years ago. i don't think people realize our back was against the wall. four wears ago we were having the five worst days in the stock market we ever had and to try to recover in that type of an economy and to get to us this point where we're continuing to grow is a major accomplishment. when people look back we'll get a lot more credit. right now we're in a bipartisan world that nobody wants to give credit to anybody. >> does politics fascinate you >> scares me. you can't be honest. everything is talking point. everything is driven by consultants. neither candidate wants to say what they think or feel. they just do what their consultants tell them. it's a poor reflection on this country. at the same time i think it's an

obligation to vote so i'll pick somebody. >> think about sports, think about business, think about all the things you've done. who is the most impressive person you've ever met? >> that's a great question. most impressive is my dad for a lot of different reasons. his best line to me is today is the youngest you'll ever be. live like it. that's my motto. in terms of really smart people, you know, i don't know. it's hard. i would have to think about it. >> do you still want to come back as you? >> absolutely. in a heart beat. i have to be the luckiest guy in the world and i'm glad it's me. >>t' not easy to get 45 minutes to talk to the president especially during campaign season. but douglas brinkley did that. he'll tell us about the president's road map for t,,,,,,

>> i got to ask you about this. what's this thing with trump and you? it's like me and letterman. what has he against you? i don't get it. >> this all dates back to when we were growing up together in kenya. >> yeah. >> how did you come up with romnesia? >> well, obama care covers pre-existing conditions. >> well for weeks now governor mitt romney has told voters president obama has no agenda for a second term. bri douglas bringly interviews president obama in the new edition of rolling stone magazine. welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> what did you find? >> well, i interviewed him october 11th, shortly after

denver. he was very buoyant. it's amazing to go into the oval office and turn on the tape recorder and ask anything you want to ask. he's starting to play to the base heart and will use the overturning of roe v. wade as a possible incentive to make sure he keeps women on his side. it's been a year of women in '12 and pushing that hard. >> what will he do in the next four years if he wins. do you have some firm sense of what he wants to do, what is his great ambition? >> what he hasn't mentioned or never came up in the debates is climate change and how freakish the weather has been. he talked about a green grid of wind and solar and how to get a new energy infrastructure. i think in the second term he'll push for that hard. it will include oil, natural gas

and all the rest but i think he sees that as a big part of his second term legacy. >> he's self-reserved by nature. do you feel you saw real moments with him when you spent time with him? you observed him for quite a length of time. >> a very natural person. barack obama -- he's over written about how much he's like dr. spock. as you saw on the jay leno clip he lays back and talks. some of the off time when we weren't with the tape recorder out and more fun showing me different artifacts around the white house. he's a warm and genial person. he exudes family values. he's a great father. he has his mother-in-law around all the time. he's a great husband. >> were you on the campaign trail? >> i grew up in ohio. i was at put-in-bay. i went to where the president was and i brought my three kids and a story i tell in here is

there were two children behind me and one was 11, one was 14 screaming for the president. i pulled the one 11-year-old to the rope line and then the 14 so they could go meet the president. he got a sharpy and signed the shirt of one who was 11 but when he went to the 14 he said how old are you? she said i'm 14. he said you're too old for your clothes to be ruined, i'll give you a fist pump. it's mayhem around him and he does this thing between an 11 and 14-year-old. >> you spent 45 minutes with him at the white house. what did he say about governor romney and i know he even use ad word in talking about governor romney that we can't say on television. >> bser, he thinks he's full of it, romnesia. working man's romnesia. >> you've studied a lot of presidents.

you're a historian. is it unusual to have this kind of dislike for your opponent or is it natural? >> it depends. certainly barack obama had a lot of respect for john mccain last time around. after all remember that famous moment mccain said no he's a great man. >> they served together in the senate. >> mccain is a war hero. mitt romney comes from a whole different cut, barack obama was a community oregon -- >> what's the state of politic? shouldn't you at least respect your opponent or have some respect for them? i'm just wondering where this fits in the history of challengers? >> i could pick you different place. there's no love between john f. ken dean and lyndon johnson let alone harry truman who once said about eisenhower he knows no more about politics than a pig knows about sunday. there was no love between trueman and ike. we can go true and find good and bad relationships. >> one thing the president said is how much he respects governor

romney and his own family values. why do you think this race is so close? >> well, i think each have an albatross. president obama's albatross is by saying unemployment would be down to 5% and it's down 7.8%. mitt romney has a big problem with saying let detroit go bankrupt. no one wants to hear bankrupt. detroit is not just detroit it's ohio, toledo akron, dayton. if president obama wins it's going to be because of the fire wall in ohio and the saving of those electoral votes. >> if you had to rate president obama on one term where would you put him? >> a lot of accomplishments. it's a difference of two terms in his case. one term the killing of bin laden will live on forever. the gm bailout. >> bill clinton? >> first term. he had a lot of accomplishments

but it's key for him because if he loses it's going to be the fire, progressive fire wall. >> with old ideas. designee needs a bold idea in the second term. unlike bill clinton there aren't moderate republicans in congress and the senate to negotiate with. it's over. i was with lowell whittaker last night they are a dinosaur breed. >> thank you douglas brink lie. new issue of rolling stone is on sale right now. melissa etheridge has had a fascinating journey from kansas to superstar stardom. she's here to talk about it, her home town, her career and her new album coming up next on cbs "this morning". ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

♪ "falling up" first single for melissa etheridge. the oscar and grammy winner from kansas. >> she was here in january for our first broadcast. i remember that day well. do you? >> i do. >> we were excited to have you. you say about this album it's the most favorite enjoyable time in the studio. you believe in yourself and this album ever before. you hit your creative stride. wow, what does that mean for you >> it's been 25 years now i've been doing this. the music business is so, gone like this. it always does. and making this album, i had a certain self-confidence, a certain understanding that i had a fan base that wants to hear

the music that i want to make and that i love. and so it was my responsibility to go into the studio and make the music that it love and just have a good time with it because that's what's going to be on the recording. that was my whole purpose. >> you're incredibly prolific. how do you keep staying creative? >> life is what is inspirational. certainly my life -- i've had many journeys. and it's rich and ripe. that's what i do. i just did a show last night here in new york city, and performing these songs live and performing my, you know, the greatest hits along with it i'm able to tell a story of my life and say this is what i've been going through. maybe you might feel this way. maybe we can celebrate this work this out. i just feel very fortunate to be able to do what i do. i love doing it. >> up say in rock and roll me i

think i'm ready to try my hand at love again. you had two ex's. four children. i wonder how you navigate having two exs. are you reluctant to open up your heart now? how do you navigate two exs? >> they are wonderful people and the thing that makes it doable is that the kids come first. i have children two with julie and two with tammy. the priority is the children and how do we -- you get them through. childhood is hard no matter what. but with two households it really takes cooperation. >> yours and tammy's was a little messy. >> it was messy. but also to her credit, she kept that outside. the kids didn't know. >> good.

>> so, that is the most important. yeah. >> october is breast cancer awareness month. you are a survivor. tell us about that. >> well, i was diagnosed in october. so it kind of -- so breast cancer awareness comes around oh, yes, now i'm going on my ninth year cancer free. totally. >> you don't worry about it. do you still think or do you think you're out of the woods. >> that's part of the -- that's part of the acidic behavior is what i say. my understanding of health now is we are, we are these amazing bodies that can do anything if we put the correct stuff in it, it's about food. i am what i eat. stress is going to kill me. those things. to keep that going and also the not worrying but believing that when i put the things that need to go in me it will be ,,,,,,,,, ,,

>> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good morning, everybody. 8:55 your time. i'm frank mallicoat. authorities have at least one suspect in custody after shots were fired at an undercover officer. this is in san francisco. police say the shots came from a moving car about 1:30 this morning. the officer was able to dodge the bullets and capture one of the suspects. a former police officer in san jose says time sheet fraud is rampant in the department. in a lawsuit against the city, he says he refused to take part in the fraud and was then forced to retire after 27 years on the force. the suit claims the time sheet abuse is especially bad in their airport division. a superintendent is commenting on reports about a so-called sex fantasy league at piedmont high school. principal informed parents about the existence of the league and asked them to talk

to their children. and now that superintendent says the district does not condone the students' alleged behavior but has no information of criminal conduct. how about a little traffic and weather? weather, we have a big world series game tonight, lawrence. >> yeah. i think it's going to work out okay. very damp if you are heading outside this morning. we have some light sprinkles and light showers but the clouds are going to part. and then it looks like more sunshine by the afternoon. in the meantime, though, if you are heading out, hi-def doppler still showing some of that moisture in the bay area but starting to dissipate somewhat. this afternoon partly cloudy skies, temperatures warming upper 60s and 70s. next couple of days we'll heat things up even some 80s returning to the valleys over the weekend then the possibility of more showers as we look toward halloween. we are going to have a look at your "timesaver traffic" coming up next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,

. good morning. we're still watching hot spots across the bay area. it is slick out there. so be extra careful. you're looking at the san mateo bridge westbound 92 stop and go from the toll plaza all the way out towards the high-rise. elsewhere if you are heading out of walnut creek southbound 680 still backed up down through the san ramon valley because of a couple of earlier accidents. and if you are going to the giants game tonight, bart is running longer trains. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com ,,,,,,,,