jeff greenfield is in the show- me state where the race features some very familiar names. >> we've got a great opportunity here, folks. >> reporter: the missouri senate race is a family affair. republican roy blunt's son was governor. so was democrat robin carnahan's father. but it is party, not family ties that are driving this campaign. the "d" stands for disadvantaged. the key to a double digit poll lead for republican blunt. you hear it from a stalwart democrat in hanabel. >> the republicans have been great about staying on message and accusing democrats of tax and spend. >> reporter: you even hear pretty the party's nominee. >> there's just no doubt, because they're in charge in washington, people want results, they haven't seen results yet. >> reporter: when the 2010 midterms began, democrats saw the open republican senate seat here in missouri as a prime target of opportunity. that target is now looking a lot more elusive. >> this is a campaign about what we do to create more private sector jobs and get the federal government under control. >> reporter: for roy blunt, a

katie. >> couric: all right, jeff greenfield, jeff, thanks. and still ahead here on the cbs evening news, everybody in the world has a story. steve hartman way bag lady who is making a small fortune. but uppings in, fallen heroes. they were friends in life. now their families find peace knowing they're together again. >> couric: all too often, american deaths in iraq and afghanistan get reported simply as numbers. but as we know, they're so much more than that. each and every casualty is a unique individual with a family and a story. today, an extraordinary service at arlington reminded us of th that. david martin has the story of two fallen heroes, one from pennsylvania, the other maryla maryland, and a friendship that will never die. >> reporter: travis manion and brendan looney-- roommates at the naval academy. close as brothers. one became a marine and went to iraq. the other a navy seal in afghanistan. today, they were reunited, side by side, in arlington national cemetery. >> that's what kind of gets me by is just knowing that they're go

katie. >> couric: all right, jeff greenfield, jeff, thanks. and still ahead here on the cbs evening news, everybody in the world has a story. steve hartman way bag lady who is making a small fortune. but up ahead, fallen heroes. they were friends in life. now their families find peace knowing they're together again. ÷ how are those flat rate boxes working out? fabulous! they gave me this great idea. yea? we mail documents all over the country, so, what if there were priority mail flat rate... envelopes? yes! you could ship to any state... for a low flat rate? yes! a really low flat rate. like $4.90? yes! and it could look like a flat rate box... only flatter? like this? you...me...genius. genius. priority mail flat rate envelopes. just $4.90. only from the postal service. a simpler way to ship. >> couric: all too often, american deaths in iraq and afghanistan get reported simply as numbers. but as we know, they're so much more than that. each and every casualty is a unique individual with a family and a story. today, an extraordinary service a

jeff greenfield, thanks for both those stories tonight. meanwhile, in kentucky, things got ugly even before republican rand paul and democrat jack conway faced off in their final senate debate and that tops tonight's campaign 2010 hot sheet. outside the t.v. studio, a liberal activist was wrestled to the ground last night by paul supporters when she tried to present the candidate with a fake "employee of the month" award. one paul volunteer even stepped on her head later saying he apologized if it appeared he was overly forceful. the woman wasn't seriously hurt. the paul campaign put out a statement calling the incident "incredibly unfortunate." in florida, both candidates for governor agreed on the ground rules for their debate, including no notes. but during a break, democrat alex sink violated that rule when a makeup artist showed her a text message from a campaign staffer offering strategy tips. right in front of republican rick scott. >> the rule was no one is supposed to give us messages during the break and your campaign did with an

jeff greenfield reports. certain. >> reporter: so how could democrats prevent, or at least minimize their losses? there are three keys. first, turn out the base. polls still show republicans much more enthusiastic about voting than democrats. that's why president obama is out trying to persuade his core backers, blacks, hispanics, the young, not to stay home in november. >> we need you to place the vote. we need you to knock on doors. we need you to talk to your neighbor. >> they can get an uptick among those constituencies you can see some candidates survive who are looking a little bit more in trouble right now. >> reporter: second, convince the voters that this election is a choice. with ads that argue the republicans are just too extreme. >> sharron angle, and she's just too extreme. >> reporter: says republican strategist david winston, that's what we tried four years ago and it didn't work. >> ultimately when you're talking about your opponent it's because you don't have anything to say about yourself.

jeff greenfield reports colorado this year reflects the mood of the nation. >> reporter: colorado was born in the search for gold and silver, but in recent years, democrats have hit pay dirt prospecting for votes. obama won here handily just two years ago. >> are you prepared to vote for the republican team? >> reporter: but this year the democrats hold on a u.s. senate seat is in real jeopardy. why? because it turns out all politics is not local. >> the dislike of congress, the unhappiness with a lot of legislation, being disappointed about this economy, absolutely. that's what's framing this election. >> reporter: colorado is part of a broad national pattern, an insurgent republican seeking to tie his opponent to washington. a democrat seeking independent votes by arguing his opponent is too far out of the mainstream. >> i certainly fit the mold of a different kind of candidate for the u.s. senate. >> reporter: 51-year-old ken buck is a career prosecutor whose tea party campaign defeated a far better-known republican. he is staunchly conservative on economic and social issues and te

jeff greenfield, cbs news, st.s. >> couric: and bleak is the way most americans view the economy, and a cbs news poll out tonight, they say it is by far their number one concern this election year. nearly nine out of ten say their own financial situation is the same or worse than it was two years ago, at the height of the recession. we have two more reports tonight from the campaign trail. dean reynolds is in chicago, but first nancy cordes is in delaware where the two candidates face off in a debate on national television. i know one poll out today shows republican christine o'donnell currently 19 points behind. >> reporter: that's right, katie, and she would have to give a transformational performance tonight to make up that kind of ground. but at the very least this debate gives o'donnell a chance to change the subject after being widely mocked for weeks for releasing an ad assuring delaware voters that she is not a witch. tonight o'donnell and her democratic challenger chris coons will be taking questions in pa

jobs- creation and the greenfield- green tech jobs. sklar, kron 4 news. >> ♪ and with a few bay area clouds and the temperatures are pretty much warmer as there were, yesterday. cooler closer to the coastline which is an indication of things to come. 69 in san francisco, and even 79 in oakland, redwood city, the sea breezes are starting to increase. the cool marine air starting to affect your forecast tonight/tomorrow. however,, left coastal fog and even some spilling talking to san francisco. that will clear back, quickly but the still the influence of the marine air. 5- 10 degrees and closer to the coastline. to take a look of the fog tracker it is going to be along the coast and spilling into san francisco. and a san mateo also seeing it and by 8:00 a.m., to the ocean beach, the city, and also later in the morning. cooler tomorrow, by 80 and the santa rosa, 77 degrees in richmond, the inland valley circle in the mid-upper 80s. a 66 degrees at half moon bay. and 85 degrees in san jose. not a bad day! as we go towards the weekend is g

. >> greenfield and i were the first writers to go to the building, i brought carol king and her -- all of the people in this were neil diamond, stole has. it was a great -- it was a great bunch of writers and we were teenage new yorkers writing for the teenagers. so, i was lucky between 1958 and 1963, i sold about 0 million records to the shock of my mother and father because i was always playing beethoven. i bought my mother a mink stole and she said, i think this is better than bait toven. they just signed elvis presley and it was a new teen age market, and our -- r.c.a. was distributed all over the world, so i got to -- to be heard and -- in every country in the world and i didn't want to be a rock and roller. i wanted to be a bobby daryn because he was the -- the epitome of the performer, the sophisticated, so i played the copa and i played all of these adult places. and i got to sing in had five different languages, all over the world. and that is what kept me alive. during those hungry years. i went all over and sang in italian, and spanish, and german, french, all over. >> wow.

in greenfield, indiana, high winds knocked down buildings, knocked out power as well. this line of storms stretched from mississippi to new york last night. >>> a veteran of the political scene will miss the final push towards next tuesday's elections but she has a very good reason. she's secretary of state and she's leaving for asia and the pacific. hillary clinton will be on a two-week, seven-nation tour intended to improve relationships in a region dominated by china. clinton will stop in hawaii today to meet with the foreign minister of japan. after that her tour is built around the east asia summit in hanoi. >>> big guns, big bucks, a lot is being spent on the election and some of the biggest names in politics busy on the campaign trail. tracie potts has a look at who's popping up where. >> reporter: heavy hitters. bill clinton in illinois. >> have you voted yet? >> reporter: john mccain in west virginia and more than three billion in tv ads by election day. >> tv ads are obviously the way that policy has now moved and campaigns are won and lost. >> 28 years in wa

jeff greenfield, cbs news, new york. >>> the search has been called off for two american balloonists missing off of italy since last week. the italian coast guard ended its search in the adriatic sea on monday. they've been using a robotic vehicle to scan the seabed for the hot air balloon and its pilots, richard abruzzo of albuquerque, new mexico and carol davis of denver. >>> there is hopeful news from chile this morning about those miners trapped underground for the past two months. chile's president says drilling has gone faster than expected, and they're getting close to pulling the 33 men to safety. he expects them to be out of the mine in two weeks or less. >>> just ahead on the "morning news," positive test results on a cancer vaccine. >>> plus scientists count every kind of fish in the ocean. the startling results of a ten-year undersea census. first, though, katie couric has a preview of tonight's "cbs evening news." >> as the health care system braces for a new wave of patients, could nurses be the answer? what the changing face of health care may mean for your next checku

here's senior political correspondent jeff greenfield. >> reporter: all across america this year, long-timeen under a wave of public disaffection with those holding power. >> remember november. >> reporter: all across america this year incumbents are struggling to survive a call to throw the rascals out. surveys suggest that voters feel their own representatives are not worthy of re-election. a record low rating for incumbents. and yet across america this year, no less than five ex-governors-- years even decades away from state house they once occupied-- have won their party's nomination to win back their old jobs. maryland republican bob erlick lost four years ago. georgia democrat bonds is seeking the office he lost eight years ago. oregon democrat stepped down eight years ago. iowa republican terry brand retired 12 years ago. and california democrat jerry browne, he was last governor 28 years ago. when f. scott fitzgerald said there are no second acts in american life, he surely wasn't contemplating this mass political resurrection. so we asked ourselves how to view all this gubernatoria

people as ghosts and goblins hoping to send people to the polls, trick or vote coordinator, ian greenfieldd, and what are you dressed as? >> i'm the bride of frankenstein. >> julie: okay. and, ian? >> classic cowboy. >> julie: all right. and you two are going to be doing a little pedaling in those costumes to try and bring in the vote. >> yeah, that's right. so, every election season there's a lot of knocking on doors, and, what is this one cultural tradition, we expect a knock on the door anyway. >> julie: you show up on anybody else's door, dressed like that any other day out of the year you might get arrested. anyway, what is the reaction when you two show up and, obviously, you are not children but you are dressed up and you are trying to get people to vote. >> we are a little bit taller than your average trick-or-treater but, reaction is actually great. we are not asking people to vote any particular way, we are just reminding them to vote. >> i've actually done trick or vote a couple of times and people think it is a hoot! >> julie: and you are a volunteer, i mean, how did you get in

. >> reporter: the powerful system sparked violent wind gusts. 80 miles per hour in greenfield, indiana. 81 in butlerville, ohio. further north, in dayton. >> we can hear the tornado warning in the distance. we're here in the middle of this system, moving through. it's coming down in sheets. >> reporter: driving was a nightmare. a chicago area commuter was impaled by a toppled tree. she survived. from tornados to what looks like a frozen hurricane, heavy snow from minneapolis into montana. winter storm warnings in the area. some places could see up to eight to ten inches of snow by the end of the day. hundreds of thousands are without power. and at the airports, gridlock. >> my next flight is after nine hours. >> reporter: 100 flights canceled at chicago o'hare. hundreds more delayed. as the storm barreled east, it drew thrill-seekers to the great lakes, looking for ocean-like sur. >> today, like this, you can go out and rock and roll. the adrenaline buzz. it's really good. >> reporter: the high surf and the airport delays will likely continue through today. and you can see why. the hea

for the russell, palmer, and greenfield proposals. dr. stein and i may agree on one thing. in western massachusetts, they seem to think that wind is a great idea for the cape. on-shore wind has a lot of local involvement, the sort of thing that happened with the project. not seven years of litigation and multiple appeals before we make a decision. so deferring to local choices, the host community and the surrounding communities, one or two levels of appeals is what the wind-citing appeal is about. >> mr. cahill? >> i hope it does not pass and i would not sign the bill if i become governor, because i do not think we should take local control away. i think people need to have some control over their lives come over their livelihoods. it is also very, very costly. it may work in some ways only because of the subsidies of the federal government and the state government, but it is not a path to energy independence. wind alone is not going to solve our problems. we have a plant in plymouth mideast to be reconditioned and read licensed. we need to look at natural gas and out-of-st

style expert stefanie greenfield came up with a concept to make sure you never get lost when it comesl, what we want to avoid is anything that's a fad. you know, don't chase a trend. don't be about the look for less because none of us want to be less. we are giving you answers, not advice, solutions. none of us have time. we all want to look good, but we don't want to look like fashion victims. the fashion roadmap is a fun way to get dressed head to toe using iconic road signs we are all familiar with. >> okay, speaking of that, let's get right to the first one. slippery when wet, perfect for a day like today. perhaps on a yucky day of fall. we have maureen modeling for us. trench coats, a key part of the wardrobe, especially for a day like today. >> what's great here is we take the classic style of a trench. it's usually more of a menswear piece. here we found one that has the ruffle detailing. we added a feminine blouse, a fit and flair skirt. there is no excuse not to be chic, even with rainwear. we have a leopard umbrella under $10 and the ballet flat. she won't slip in a simple f

for the russell, palmer, and greenfield proposals. dr. stein and i may agree on one thing. in western massachusetts, they seem to think that wind is a great idea for the cape. on-shore wind has a lot of local involvement, the sort of thing that happened with the project. not seven years of litigation and multiple appeals before we make a decision. so deferring to local choices, the host community and the surrounding communities, one or two levels of appeals is what the wind-citing appeal is about. >> mr. cahill? >> i hope it does not pass and i would not sign the bill if i become governor, because i do not think we should take local control away. i think people need to have some control over their lives come over their livelihoods. it is also very, very costly. it may work in some ways only because of the subsidies of the federal government and the state government, but it is not a path to energy independence. wind alone is not going to solve our problems. we have a plant in plymouth mideast to be reconditioned and read licensed. we need to look at natural gas and out-of-st