derek, back you. >> thank you anita. if you are planning to vote this upcomg ection, your time is most nning out. today is the deadline to register in maryland. you have to have the paperwork in by 9:00 a.m. the deadline, friday, but as of now, you have the option of registering in person down at election board headquarters, virginia's deadline was yesterday. and we have a lot more voter registration information at wusa9.com. click on campaign 2012. >>> secretary of state, hillary clinton, says she is responsible for the security where christopher stevens and three others were killed in an attack last month. as she tries to set the record straight, republicans are accusing the obama administration of sending mixed messages. >> i want everybody to know that we're going to get to the bottom of this and when we do, that information will all be public and people will draw their own conclusions. >> three separate investigations were all underway, trying to figure out what happened. republicans accused the obama administration

she had stopped by his place on her way home, after dropping off anita. later that night, it was ben who called police to angie's condo. and what got their attention was not just what ben said, but how he sounded when he said it. >> her car is here and she won't answer the door or can't answer the door. >> reporter: does he sound panicked? investigators didn't think so. >>> coming up, police start focusing on ben, but soon the list of suspects gets longer. >>> in the fall of 1984, smu college student angie samota had been found murdered. arriving officers walked in on a blood bath. >> they found one shoe in the den, another shoe somewhere else and then all her clothes stacked up all in one neat pile and then angie laying on the bed covered in blood. her chest area was pretty caved in with stab wounds. >> so this was a vicious assault. >> there were 18 stab wounds, ten of which punctured the heart, breaking the breastbone and going through the body. >> josh heely and patrick curland are assistant district attorneys in dallas. they say whoever stabbed angie

derek, back to you. >> thank you, anita. a lot of folks probably had debate-watching parties tonight and probably enjoyed themselves a great deal, quite frankly. out at the university of maryland, some students who want to make a career out of politics were watching and weighing in. deborahdebra is live on the campus. >> reporter: 40 political students met in this courtroom to watch the second presidential debate. just like they could possibly be the future leaders themselves, they used some technology that could shape the way that you and i watch debates or even 9 news in about a minute, i'm going to give our viewers a chance to do that, too. inside university of maryland, public policy grad students are watching, reacting and tapping on their smart phones. >> it's just not true. >> it's absolutely true. >> reporter: to be clear, it was a lopsided crowd. >> how many registered democrats, show of hands. anyone registered republicans? >> am i the only one? >> i'm one of the only republicans in the school. i don't know what th

i'm anita brickman. good night. >>> "entertainment tonight," the worldwide leader in entertainment news. >>> the presidential debate. hollywood takes sides. >> this guy says i'm going to do this. i want them to do it. >> do it. >> from backstage at "dancing with the stars." all of the way to denver. the stars sound off today. >> politicians would like to be rock stars. >>> plus, we have oprah's revealing new interviews with the candidates and their wives. >>> star plastic surgery. kris jenner, gene simmons, wrapped like mummies. "the hunger games'" star new look. >>> plus, jennie garth divorce diet. how the 90210 star dropped 30 pounds after the marriage fell apart. >>> jessica simpson fighting mad and ready to sue. her plan to take legal action.

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derek and anita. >> an interesting night. thank you. >>> virginia wasn't the only battle ground state that got a visit today. president obama campaign ng iowa and ohio. he talked about last night's heated debate with mitt romney and he also had some advice for his supporters. >> governor romney continues to run around talking about his plan for the economy. wait, wait, wait. don't boo. vote. [ cheers and applause ]. >> that's right. you heard the president. get out and vote this year. make such your voice is heard. 20 days left until this election. obama and romney hold their third and final debate next monday in boca raton, florida. >>> get ready for the million puppet march. more than a thousand march ers are going to be out -- marchers are going to be out on the mall next month. the rally was planned in response to mitt romney's first debate calling for the elimination of government funding for pbs which airs the popular show sesame street. >>> well, tonight we have news about george mcgovern. he is no longer responsive an

anita?> thank you. we know both presidential candidates claim to be religious men and if the polls are right it would appear it was romney whose prayers were answered in the presidential debate this week. the polls have shifted since, with romney gaining ground and leading in some polls he was trailing a week ago. both were out this evening. gary nurenberg is here with both. >> reporter: they were both in the key swing state of ohio this evening and the numbers are different than a week ago, different than before the debate. the election is four weeks from today. >> four more weeks. four more weeks. >> reporter: mitt romney was upbeat in the tuesday evening rally in ohio and with good reason shall. since last week's debate and his widely perceived win, new polls have moved his way. he's 49 and obama 47 in the polls. in ohio, 48/47, romney. a new cnn poll has obama ahead. all those polls within the margin of error is close. romney's family reportedly won a fight with campaign handlers leading

lesli. >> anita, thank you. security is extra tight at the british hospital where a pakistani schoolgirl is being treated after being shot by the taliban. the hospital's medical director says authorities turned away two well wishers overnight who were posing as relatives of malala. meanwhile, doctors say the 14- year-old activist is making some good progress in her recovery. >> she is not out of the woods yet. there's plenty that could go wrong. at this stage, we are optimistic things are going in the right direction. >> the 14-year-old is surrounded by teams of medical experts. they are starting to plan for reconstructive surgery to repair the damage to her head. >>> there was an emotional homecoming today for 70 soldiers just back from afghanistan. the d.c. army national guard unit returned from the ten month long deployment and some of those service members have been deployed. ceremony was held at the d.c. national guard armory. and d.c. delegate was among the dignitaries in attendance. >> and i know your fam

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there are many pictures of anita in those family scrapbooks. unfortunately my father hated his older sister, rather than getting to have wonderful times of gertrudestein in mexico, all i heard was she is a monster. they didn't speak. the idea of her, the largeness of her loomed large in the house. >> so you start out, you become a writer for all of these reasons and you are someone who compulsively takes notes and packages what you see in story form, as you decide you are going to climb into your own life and own family story, how did you figure out what was true? >> that was a tough one. first of all, being a reporter, so often it is about a way with of finding our own stories and the stories we write about. one of the aspects so interesting for so many of us, if you are an introverted extrovert or shy person or rather hidden asking questions is a great way to hide. if you are writing a memoir, it makes you scour because you care about being accurate. this was complicated because i worried about this for a long time, who was right? who was wro

we are back with anita, lesli, and j. c. hayward. here is governor mitt romney. >> we took a concerted effort to find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet. i went to a number of women's groups and said, could you help us find folks and they brought us binders full of women. >> sounds funny and a lot of people thought so. it had its own twitter account by the end of the night. ladies, did you think anything of the binders full of women? >> didn't bother me at all. i liked the fact he wanted to have women in his campaign. that was the important issue. i focused on that. >> i was watching the debate at u.s.a. today with the political team there. we got a laugh out of it. but again, nobody thought it was in any way trying to be disparabling to women. he didn't say it in the most eloquent way. what you see is on social media, the campaign is jumping on this and making it even bigger, like big bird. >> clearly, if governor romney had a chance to do it over, he would have chosen his words carefu

anita. >> they certainly have. gary, thank you. and wusa 9 is the place to be.us at 9:00 for the debate itself. you can watch it streamed live as well on wusa9.com. stick around for 9 news at 11:00 as we talk to usa today fact checkers about who's telling the truth, who's exaggerating and who's walking that fine line. >>> today was the last day for virginia voters to get registered. they're working to get president obama re-elected one door at a time, is lizzie. she and other campaign volunteers have already registered more than 120,000 new virginia voters. four years ago the obama campaign saw an 80% voter tourout in arlington. volunteers want to make a repeat of that. >> virginia went blue. the denothinggraphy is -- demography is good for going blue again. >> it was the first time in 44 years voters backed a democrat. volunteers are working foo to put the state back in the g.o.p.'s column. >> we got our clocks cleaned in virginia four years ago. republicans didn't put up much of a fight. they took virginia for granted. that's not happening now. >> this campaig

we've got anita brikman live with the story from mclean but begin with a preview. >> reporter: both vice president joe

>>> yeah, anita. who said that, right? some bald guy? i thank michael jordan every day for pioneering that sense of cue ball, cool, but would he shave the famous head if the top of it kept on growing hair? i think not. look, i am totally over the no hair thing now. still, doesn't this photo of me kind of resemble the great gazoo from the flintstones? yeah. we don't catch a break in the popular media either. think about it. superman, good guy, handsome, powers, full head of luxurious black hair. but his them nemesis, luther lexo rr, bald. harry potter, wizard, nice hairdo. arch enemy, a guy who takes baldness to a whole new level. dominant but surely not sexy. and we all know the guy with the good hair always wins in the end, doesn't he? now, sure, the no hair thing works well if you look like boris kojo. but sadly this guy is a closer model for many of us and he's a tad short in the leadership potential. the only good news is homer simpson's afternoon enemy is his -- archenemy is his boss p whose rocking a hairstyle that looks far, far w

andrea. >> anita, here's the deal. if you are visually impaired, there's a good chance you rely on those bumpy tiles, but not every station has them. >> you know, we have 24 people here who are blind. >> tony stevens and his colleagues at the national industries for the blind work right next to the metro stop. but the station does not have the bumpy tiles that indicate the end of a platform. >> anybody that has ever dealt with a crowded platform on the train is not just being a person who is blind. anybody, you feel it on your feet. you feel it with the cane that you have. it lets you know that you're almost on the edge. >> 65 of metro's 86 stations have the tiles already in place. ten others will have them by 2015. including the twin brooks station where the installation is underway. the 11 remaining stations need funding. >> the bumpy tiles need to be in our key stations and really, i mean, these are stations that are transfer points and stations that have the most activity. >> metro points out it is already in full

now back to anita in the studio. >> all right. we'll be hearing from you again through the night.want to hear from both parties as well on this. okay. what about the tax cut issue. that big, not that big. it was clearly a point of contention. >> president kennedy cut tax rates, more revenue to the government, fact. president reagan cut tax rates, more money to the federal treasury. fact. that's the point you just heard. that's mitt romney's point. >> the problem, though, is independent tax analysts, including a tax center run by advisors to former president bush, has accepted those growth rates and said even with that, if you do the marginal tax cut that he wants, it's a $5 trillion tax cut. even if he gets a trillion of that under corporate tax revenue, that still leaves 4 trillion left. if you close every single loophole, every single one for high income earners, which he's not proposing doing, you would still have over a trillion dollars left even with the optimistic growth rates that have to fall in the middle class, the rate of about $2,000 per middle class family. this has b

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joining me now is anita mcbride. anita is a senior adviser for the george w.tion and she was chief of staff to laura bush. anita, thanks for being with us on this saturday. i want to first focus on a "usa today"/gallup poll out this week on women voters. in swing states, it shows that mitt romney is leading over mr. obama, 50% to 46. and when we look back at 2008, it was the women vote that was a given for president obama and also leading up until today. >> mm-hmm. >> what happened? >> well, i think that we are seeing that, you know, mitt romney and paul ryan are closing this gap and this so-called, you know, war on women, that had been in the headlines for a number of months is really coming down to the reality now that, you know, women are not single-issue voters. and they are focusing on a lot of things. and they're now also having an opportunity, after these last couple of debates, where they can hear from governor romney, himself. the words are from him. and no longer the narrative is defined by a message that has been perpetrated on him. and it's startin

anita brikman has more. >> when your eyes get very dry, you start to get very tired.ou can't -- you don't want to keep your eyes open. >> reporter: beth at potomac has had dry eyes for as long as she can remember. not only do they burn and itch at times, but she gets headaches and unrerecenting fatigue-- >> relenting fatigue. >> i get very drowsy. >> reporter: dry eyes affect more than 20 million people in the u.s. and nearly 40% of those people experience symptoms on a regular basis. >> one of the biggest culprits is hormonal changes. this is a very, very common problem in females over 40. >> reporter: dr. alan glazier of rockville has a new treatment that promises to combat the symptoms without medication or constant use of eye drops. >> it's a procedure that helps people who have evaporative dry eye. >> reporter: 85% of dry eye is the evaporative type which grands in the eyelids have trouble producing the oils that control your tears. the glands can become clogged over the years. >> the scientists who invented lipiflow determined the exact temperature they needed t

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just under 15 and then the first three years of this decade 19, 18, anita, you came in talking about climate change but the president did back off because it became toxic, did it not? >> chuck todd, here is what's happened which was after he pushed very hard and we actually passed a significant bill in the house of representatives as the political climate deteriorated it became clear the president would have to do what he could on his own. i have to tell you the emissions standard that voluntarily industry agreed to is probably the single biggest thing that's happened when it comes to reduc gases in this country and will be for a while unless there is political pressure and unless everyone steps up and covers this issue. but it's not something the president walked away from. it's something congress basically said they weren't going to act on. >> it is interesting the politics in a tough economic environment, the first thing that goes is the environment. it just is, fair or unfair. >> the house of representatives under democratic control was able to pass that cap in trade legislation.

i very much agree with anita's point that a lot of the neuroscience right now works quite well at the group level and has not yet been shown to work particularly well at the individual level, but having said that, i think that there is, again, a legal necessity issue that is presented. if you go back to graham versus florida it is true that justice kennedy and the supreme court, the majority of the court said that you cannot impose life without parole for a non manslaughter offense for an add less is sent and therefore, he drew the line's did in roeper versus simmons at saying that at less sent are simply different. their brains are different than adults. they're less developmentally mature. what happened to terrence graham? he got sentenced. he didn't get sentenced to life without parole that was now unconstitutional. if you actually read what happened at the sentencing hearing for terrence graham, there was, again, dueling psychologists with a scrist and the state sigh kentucky scrist made the claim he was suffering from anti-personality disorder and in his view, no one recovers fro

anita shows distribution, most of us in here. you get anybody out here who is externalizing or anyone out here who is internalizing, as a psychologist, we try to bring them back in here so they're more healthy. that's what we study. when you're having problems in your life or any other area, if we can do something, talking to you versus talk therapy or medicine that might help you, what we're trying to do is get everybody back here so we're just kind of more balanced. with respect to the traumatic brain injuries and other types of things, that's much simpler for people to kind of understand that you had a concussive event or you had a t.b.i., traumatic brain injury, that's caused problems. we should be developing ways of helping to manage and treat those problems just like we do individuals who have the other types of problems. >> let me just add one thing there, which is it's a good question, but it highlights one of the challenges of introducing neuroscience today in the courtroom. at kent showed you some of his slides and ment

anita? >>> meanwhile in ocean city, maryland it took until 2:30 this afternoon to get things the cleaned up enough to allow evacuees back into the downtown area. sandy provided a lot of drama and let the significant -- left a significant amount of damage. our scott broom is live from his mobile newsroom at the inlet with more on ocean city's recovery. scott? >> reporter: on the dashboard camera in the inlet still covered with sand, you know, ocean city from 17th street south including here at the inlet was evacuated as sandy pressed close and as i got out and about today with this mobile newsroom, you could see why that evacuation was mandatory. >> oh, it was just here on sunday. we were out here on sunday taking pictures. >> reporter: everyone here wants a picture of this. >> you know, it's been there ever since i was a kid. >> reporter: the 100 feet of empty space where ocean city's fishing pier once stood. >> it's kind of devastating. >> reporter: but it's ocean city's back streets, those

. >> reporter: anita, heated exchanges took place on capitol hill. they were trying to get not to simple questions answered. how was the entire world so misinformed in the days that followed the attacks? >> reporter: as it turns out, the original explanation for the u.s. embassy in bengazi that killed chris stevens and others is false. it had nothing to do with a revolt from extremists opposing an antiislamic film. it was the result of a terrorist attack. now the truth is out, this committee is demanding answers. >> you are saying you got it wrong, it stayed wrong, you didn't know any better. is that right? >> reporter: the chairman and other members of the committee grilled ambassador kennedy and members of the state department. >> if any administration official, including any career official were on television on sunday, september 16, they would have said what ambassador rice said. >> reporter: the committee accused the administration of failing to provide adequate security at the embassy. the finger pointing is split down political lines. >> my go

i'm anita brikman. even though i'm on location tonight ahead of the vice presidential debate i want to keep you updated on an important health issue, that is, the safety of our young athletes. at the start of this fall sport season we told you about new rules for football players when it came to practices to get them acclimated so they could do so without injury in montgomery county. in tonight's health alert we are in virginia where fairfax county officials added medical expertise to the sidelines at the games. it was during the first game for the freshmen football squad at fairfax high school that a player from the opposing team broke his arm, a pretty serious injury, but he was in good hands. that's because the county has two certified athletic trainers at each high school in case an injury occurs. >> they're there to provide comprehensive athletic healthcare for the entire athletic population. >> as statistics point to a rise in avoidable deaths and injuries among high school athletes because of hea

. >>> we want to bring in our debate post-game power, joy reed, we have anita dunn, former white house communications director, and john baybender who served on rick santorum's presidential campaign. gang, good to have you here. julian, you were saying yesterday don't try too hard for that moment and don't get too snippy, come armed with specifics. what do you think now? president obama was not listening to that. what happened? >> well, you know what? i think ed schultz made a lot of good points but you look at his exchange with the obama campaign manager. he said everybody knows about the 47%. i think the biggest problem for the obama campaign last night was they had a presumption that everybody knows the facts so they don't have to relitigate the facts in a debate. the problem is you have to come into every debate as if nobody knows anything because what mitt romney was able to do was to present a completely different person and a much more aggressive person. and as ed said, ask for the job. so i think the next time what the president needs to do is to litigate that debate as if nobo

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anita brikman live now at usa today hq with the fact checking team. ready or nothere can only biden and ryan. >> reporter: it could be a heated one tonight, derek. yes, we are ready. the political team here at usa today is staying late to watch the debate with us and be with us at 9news at 11:00. we don't just want our viewers to watchous channel 9. we want that, but we -- watch us on channel 9. we want that, but we want you on facebook and twitter joining the conversation. here's what will happen tonight. once the debate starts usa today reporters will be live blogging what the candidates say. you can track that on www.wusa9.com and take part in conversations via our facebook page and twitter feeds. if you're not near a tv to watch the debate on channel 9, it will be live streamed on our website. then at 11:00 i'll be fact checking the debate with the usa today political team and checking back in with you, derek. it is going to be an exciting night. >> looking forward to it. thank you. >>> four people have to find somewhere else to sleep tonight beca