are now fighting, ashleigh. >> last issue very quickly. i want to put up a map we've compiled of all the different states that currently have the voter identification requirement. it's a little tricky to look at, but basically the photo is the light green and the photo i.d.s are the yellow. no photo in all those blue states. so you can identify where you live and no photo i.d. law either in the gray states. a wee bit confusing, but safe to say the ones that are light green and yellow are somewhat problematic for some people. joe johns, the big question is a lot of americans support having an identification in order to vote. what's the downside? why is it a problem? >> it's a very common sense idea when you think about it. you have to show some time of identification to get on a plane for a variety of things in this country. so why not show i.d. when you go to vote? simple idea, right? and that's the reason the polls say what they say. on the other side of it, there is a segment of the american public. there are students, there are poor peo

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he faced 442 years, ashleigh.judge clearly went well below that, and that doesn't have merit either. >> the option -- the request for the defense to at least lower the number of years that he is facing because it's cruel, don't see it happening? >> not at all. don't see it happening at all. if there were errors made in the trial, was the outcome determinative? i don't think it was. it was harmless error. >> if he gets a new trial, does he get out on bail while he awaits the new trial? >> i think based on the nature of this offense, it would be tough for a judge to justify releg

i'm ashleigh banfield, welcome, it's 8:00 on the west coast. they are in final preparation for the presidential debate, president obama and mitt romney are going to see the first one right here on wednesday. that debate is coming. and you're going to see where they are in the process of preparing in just a moment. the debates and the election, of course, are serious. and that would be our first story. serious. until we discovered this video, stunning video shot from the helmet of a u.s. soldier, it seems like a video game. but this is not xbox which you're about to see. it is real. the pentagon is telling us it happened, it happened in afghanistan in april. afghanistan is a place we have not heard these candidates talk about much, have we? nothing from romney during the republican convention, very little from obama, especially at the u.n. this last week. the debates will likely be a different story because this weekend the death toll for americans in the war surpassed the 2000 mark. the soldier who made the helmet cam video suffered only minor

he faced 442 years, ashleigh.judge clearly went well below that, and that doesn't have merit either. >> the option -- the request for the defense to at least lower the number of years that he is facing because it's cruel, don't see it happening? >> not at all. don't see it happening at all. if there were errors made in the trial, was the outcome determinative? i don't think it was. it was harmless error. >> if he gets a new trial, does he get out on bail while he awaits the new trial? >> i think based on the nature of this offense, it would be tough for a judge to justify releasing him. >> so he is where he is at least for the time being? >> i think he stays. >> it's good to have you. >> that's my prediction. >> thank you. you're always so smart expo factor or not. >> it's a pleasure. >> thank you. have a great weekend. thank you for watching. stay tuned now for "newsroom international" with michael holmes sitting in for suzanne malveaux. >> and thanks to you, ashleigh. welcome to "newsroom international" and i'm

"cnn newsroom" continues now with ashleigh banfield. >> hi, everybody. i'm ashleigh banfield. nice to have you with us. it is 11:00 here on the east coast and 8:00 on the west coast. so u.s. coasters and all you late sleepers on the east coast, you are not, in fact, waking up in a time warp this morning. though you may wonder when your eyes fall on this. the u.s. jobless rate for september. that's not a typo, folks. no way, no how. 7.8%, .3% lower than the number back in august. and the lowest number since january '09. the month president obama took office. actual jobs added, less of a bombshell here, only 114,000. most of them in health care, transportation, financial services. manufacturing jobs actually took a hit last month. 16,000 of them gone in the manufacturing sector. but why would i crunch these numbers when we have the expert in the business, ali velshi, joining me live. let's leave politics out of it. let's talk numbers, facts, sheer numbers and what they s about our economy today. >> you actually put the perfect point on it. 114,000 jobs created doesn't blow the l

ashleigh, that's within the sampling error. guess what?he polls done before the debate had the president with much larger leads. let's go to colorado. here's an american research group poll. you can see mitt romney with a four-point advantage, again, within the sampling error. but you go back a few weeks, the president had the advantage in colorado. similar with other polls in other states that have come out over the last 48 hours. so yeah, it looks like mitt romney has gotten a bounce, but hey, you said it and i'll say it as well, polls are a snapshot of how people feel now. the election is 27 days away. polls change all the time, ashleigh. >> or the president would be up against herman cain right now. it's a perfect example. >> reporter: there you go. >> which would be so fun to cover. i just want to have that out there. i think jon stewart of "the daily show" would agree. quickly, you mentioned ohio and that poll is closing. there's a great stump effort today with chris christie, the new jersey governor, who's so exciting on the trail.

i'm ashleigh banfield. nice to you have with us. it's 11:00 on east coast, 8 oh clock on the west coast. where we begin today. from the day they join the ticket or lose the election, living in the shadows except for one big night. foe joe biden and paul ryan, tonight's the night. the one and only vice presidential debate at the 2012 campaign season. we'll spend much of this hour on the race, the impact such as it is for sond banana's. cnn's john king is counting down to the big event from his post in washington, d.c. dana bash join us. john, you write that the vice president debate "no game changer but could shift momentum." how joe. >> reporter: look what happened since the first presidential debate. governor romney has momentum. moved ahead of the president by a smidgen in the national polls. caught up or gained ground in several key battleground states, ohio, virginia, florida, colorado, and a built of a breeze at his back and republicans think they have momentum. in this debate, americans pick presidents, not vice-presidents. no

>> absolutely, ashleigh. it's day 11 from out in the election, and the battleground states could not be tighter. >> i mean, really tied up. couldn't be closer. obama -- president obama's firewall seems to be ohio, the buckeye state. as you know, no republican had ever been elected to the white house without winning ohio. he is also trying to represerve leads in nevada. huge hispanic population. they've been able to keep an edge. it really becomes a mostly mathematical issue for mitt romney. other states to watch, wisconsin, paul ryan's home state. also very crucially the home state of the rnc chairman rex friedman. iowa, the hawkeye state. new hampshire. really this race could not be tighter right now. romney has had momentum the last couple of weeks, as you know. there's some sign that that is slowing up. both candidates hitting the campaign trail are racking up those frequent flyer miles trying to hit as many of them as possible over this crucial weekend. >> that's if hurricane sandy doesn't change all of t

>> reporter: yeah, ashleigh, we're having a little trouble hearing you. i know you're talking to us here at breezy point. right now let me just bring you up to date a little bit because it looks like some of the reinforcements have arrived. members of the national guard who are here, some ambulances, firefighters are on scene, the nypd's emergency services units also now. they're sending divers just to scour some of the homes closest to the water to see if anybody is inside and just to sort of assess the damage. a lot of people have arrived really within the last 45 minutes to an hour. as you see this wind and this rain that's just kicked up, this is what's so crazy about it. you almost feel like this superstorm just keeps kicking and kicking and kicking. i don't know if we have enough cord, you can see boats, they're planning on putting some boats in the water. we shot some video earlier, i don't know if you've got that, but it really looks, ashleigh, as if this storm just took a massive sledgehammer and just started pounding away at the homes. some of t

ashleigh? >> this is even more sort of secret and stealthy for those who don't know what they're about to walk through. new yorkers, all 400,000 of people who have been ordered to evacuate are a hearty lot and don't heed the warning. what do we know about where you are, where the mayor's threatened to shut off the power down there? have they left and gone anywhere? >> reporter: most of the people i've seen here are tourists. they aren't native new yorkers. they're people who may be in hotels nearby and they just came to get a look here. you can see the police are walking down here right now and telling people to get out of here. it's not a good place to be. i'm telling people that i see here, they should get in, hunker down, it really only started to happen about half an hour ago where people started to come out. earlier this morning, it was a ghost town. that's what new york should feel like today. it is a very good day to be at home. >> i'm glad to see what i'm seeing behind you, the police o

ashleigh? >> thank you, paul. as we continue to look at all the states we look a lot at ohio, both the candidates stumping in ohio today, mitt romney on that stage in ohio, the rally in worthington will be later on today. just looking at my map. i think it's at 3:10 eastern time. you can bet your bottom dollar lot of folks getting out ready to watch the governor come into their state and do his blitz. back in a moment. if we want to improve our schools... ... what should we invest in? maybe new buildings? what about updated equipment? they can help, but recent research shows... ... nothing transforms schools like investing in advanced teacher education. let's build a strong foundation. let's invest in our teachers so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> in virginia the son of a long-time congressman has resigned from his father's campaign after an undercover video allegedly shows him dolling out some advice on how to commit election fraud. patrick moran, son of congressman jim moran, was ta

that's the popular refinancing tool, ashleigh. 2.7%.etimes i can't believe these numbers are coming out of my mouth. they are so low. >> might those numbers go lower? >> oh, my gosh. they're going to keep interest rates low as long as they can with or without another qe, quantitative easing. >> real quickly, i can't let you go before i ask about the citigroup ceo today. what the heck happened? >> are oh, the drama. decent earnings report yesterday. vikram pandit ceo yesterday and today he is not. he took over in 2007 and since then citigroup stock down 80%. he's had some setbacks this year, $15 million pay package turned away by shareholders, wouldn't allow it. he had some trouble, wasn't allowed to have a share pibuyba. >> that's not a good graphic. >> no, he rode this stock -- this company during a very dangerous and tumultuous time. speaking of dangerous and tumultuous. a lot of people on wall street are saying, you have a decent earnings report one day, the next day you're gone. what's going on between you and your board? so there's

>> absolutely, ashleigh.d this is -- owe the ground game is key, an election this tight comes down to ground game, early voting. and the numbers this terms of local headquarters are stunning. nationally, obama has a clear edge. 750 local campaign offices compared to around 280 for the romney campaign. so almost a 3-1 split. in the state of florida, tighter. 2-1, advantage obama, 102 to 48. local headquarters. this is just one metric. local headquarters is a question of real estate. what really matters is those voter engagements. it's the phone calls they've made, the ability to get people to the polls. it's the ability to get people to vote early. that is particularly key in a state like florida. but ground game is a critical measure in a race this tight, everything matters in the final sprint. and this -- in the case of headquarters, it's advantage obama, no question. >> you know what, just as you were saying that, we popped up a graphic. and i want to look at those numbers again, because i couldn't believe

it's been planned down to the "t," ashleigh.s like conditions are favorable for a launch. >> i just think it's great that there is this suborbital bailout science we will get from this as well. so his sheer will and fortitude could benefit the rest of our space program. brian, stand by for a minute because i know weather has been the issue today. chad myers has been watching this very carefully. chad, just take me to roswell for a moment. i think i had heard something along the lines of just a couple miles per hour of wind and this thing is scuttled, right? >> it's really because this baoon is so large. when it gets up into space at 23 miles high, it will fill six madison square gardens of volume. >> whoa. >> that gives you an idea of how much helium is in this thing. and when the balloon goes up, i'm just going to dro it here, when the balloon goes up, if there's wind at the top of the balloon glowing it down range 50 feet high, they will never be able to catch up. they will be down here and the balloon will just keep blowing a

ashleigh, the economy is number one with american voters going back to late 2007.ou know what, also tonight, the role of government will be one of those six segments and take a look at this number. it i fascinating. we asked registered voters is the government doing too much. it should be left to businesses and individuals. look at that answer. yes, over 6 in 10 said yes. this could be a number that helps mitt romney. go to the next screen, we asked about whether the government should be promoting traditional values and look at this for the first time in our cnn polling, the answer is below 50% on yes. 54% say no. only 41% say yes. ashleigh, that number could help president obama. >> all right, so big government, no, but traditional values, not so much. i was fascinated not on the list, immigration, only 2% of respondents thought that was the most important issue facing the country. paul steinhauser, again, for you too, another long day. talk to you tomorrow. thank you. >>> here you go again, folks. if i say it too many times, my apologies, this is important. debat

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>>> hi, everybody, i'm ashleigh banfield. it's 11:00 on the east coast and 8:00 a.m. on the west coast. we begin here, debate night in america. it's the final face-off between president obama and governor romney but is anyone actually going to be watching? competing for the eyeballs on tv tonight, if you didn't already know it, monday night football, bears and lions, game seven of the baseball playoffs, giants and cardinals. look, we've seen the debates really do move the needle, but can a foreign policy debate compete against major sporting events? for the sports fans out there, we have some stats for you. how is this? our new cnn poll of polls shows it's a dead heat, 47/47. a let me bring in brianna keilar, live from boca raton, florida. the president admittedly took a bit of a foois in debapass in d one, really feisty in debate number two. which one are we going to see tonight? >> reporter: i think what they would say we're expecting to see is someone who is in command, and they're going to obviously sort of position him and they have throughout debate prep, he's t

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cnn continues right now with ashleigh banfield. >> thank you, carol. it's 11:00 on the east coast, 8:00 on the west coast. we begin with a plot to blow up the federal reserve foiled. nafis was here in the united states on a student visa and he was studying cyber security. this is not the first time people hell bent on killing us have used us to hone their craft. terrorists from 9/11, we effectly taught them how to pilot their planes. luckily this time the bomb in this suspected deal was a fake, part of an elaborate sting operation by federal authorities. the prosecutors say this person was motivated by al qaeda. ali velshi joins us now to tell us how far the plot got. >> he was recruited in a sting operation. he expressed interest in committing these acts. it turns out he was working on his own. he did think he was working with other people. they happened to be informants and fbi sources. he gathered the materials to make the bomb, a thousand pound bomb, got down to new york in the financial district, parked his bomb there and attempted to detonate thi

go salsa dancing, ashleigh. >> i was thinking about anchoring news while kayaking. do you think it can be done? >> sure. anything can be done while anchoring the newscast, don't you think? >> i will if you will. all right. alison, it's good to see you, my friend. great advice. do appreciate it. >>> thanks for watch oig newsroom." i'm going to be back here an hour from now. thought i would do double duty tonight -- today. tonight. it's already showing. newsroom international starts right now with my friend michael holmes. >> ashleigh, thanks for that. welcome to "newsroom international." i'm michael holmes filling in for suzanne malveaux who is on assignment in south africa. you'll hear about that later. we are, as always, going to take you around the world in 60 minutes, and here's what's going on. >> more explosions rock syria amid new accusations from the international community. this time the syrian air force said to be dropping deadly cluster bombs in the populated areas. human rights watch has released video of the russian-made bombs. the group says those bombs

chad myers on my right, ashleigh banfield in lower manhattan. let's bring ashleigh up.at this picture of this collapsed crane, how bad are the wind gusts right now where you are? as people jog by you, again. >> reporter: i know. it's crazy. we're getting about 45-mile-an-hour gusts right now. all i can tell you is [ inaudible ]. >> ashleigh banfield, can i get you to do me a favor and put that microphone closer to your mouth? i want to hear you. >> reporter: this wind is so strong. i can't believe people are out here jogging. especially where i'm standing is in an evacuation zone. we're fine, but all of the buildings that are around me, 400,000 people have evacuated inside boroughs. why people are out is beyond comprehensi comprehension. 1.1 million school kids are hunkered down somewhere and riding out this storm with their parents because there is nothing open at this point. take a look at this water here. i'm probably 8 feet to ten feet up, okay? they're expecting in a worst-case scenario -- >> ashleigh, i'm going to pull away. i apologize. i'm having tough time hear

ashleigh? >> it's like a moving museum.old me it stopped and i was watching it at 5:00 a.m. that it was slowly inching behind you and zarrella, great assignment and great work. thank you, john. have a great weekend. >> you got it. bye. >> if you want to track what john sees, we've got it on our website and you can track the progress of endeavour all of the way down the streets of l.a. just go to nasa.gov. that's true. ...but you still have to go to the gym. ♪ the one and only, cheerios anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating? yeah. one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. approved! [ female announcer ] live the regular life. phillips'. [ female announcer ] live the regular life. why they have a raise your rate cd. tonight our guest, thomas sargent. nobel laureate in economics, and one of the most cited economists in the world. professor sargent, can you tell me what cd rates will be in two years? no. if he can't, n

"cnn newsroom" continues right now with ashleigh banfield. >> thank you so much. it's 11:00 on the east coast. 8:00 a.m. on the west coast. recovery is a word you are going to be hearing a lot of in the next few days. the word normalcy, not so much. in the wake of superstorm sandy, normal life is a far off dream for so many millions in the northeast corridor and points west. worst of all, a still growing toll of lives lost. at least 40 in the u.s. one so far in canada. more than 6 million homes and businesses still don't have electricity but that is a big improvement from yesterday. and while floods and surges with some exceptions have gone down, that just makes the devastation all the more apparent. you are looking at point pleasant beach halfway between new york and atlantic city on the new jersey shore. president obama visiting these scenes this afternoon. the final day in full-on disaster mode before he gets back to the campaign tomorrow. a little global perspective for you right now, though. the scope and the magnitude of hurricane sandy from the satellite im

ashleigh, where are you and how high is the water now?the flooding is down there? >> reporter: yeah, let me give you an idea. i'm in battery park city and you're right, it's dark everywhere. one of the very eerie things is we're seeing a lot of transformers going off. if you see flashes of light behind me, it's transformers over on the new jersey side and over here on the manhattan side. we will pan over to see how dark it is real quickly. you can see the buildings over there are dark. the ones that are light likely have generators on. as for the actual water level, i have been here all day and i spent most of the day over by the seawall fence over here, and i'm walking in about a foot and a half of water, it's about knee deep right now, and i think you've got video of my earlier live shots where i looked over the other side of this railing and i looked down ten feet to see the hudson river. well, now i'm walking in the hudson river and all along this promenade that i'm pointing to was actually people running and just out having a look-se

ashleigh?reporter: just to add to that, the mayor allowed the taxis in this city to pick up multiple fares at a time. they don't usually do that. they know in an emergency a lot of people need to get around. so couple of people going to be sharing cabs for the foreseeable future. i want to show you the building behind me. it looks like a dollhouse because you can see across the street and into the facade. that happened yesterday afternoon in the highest of winds. the new york post is reporting this is actually an illegal hotel. but i can tell you right now there is no one staying in that building now. you see the debris is just where it fell on that sidewalk. and there is no one clearing it away at this time because there is so much more to do in this city, so much more work ahead. i can tell you, you said central park is closed, a lot of things is closed, transportation, look around, i'll show you the people that have come out, whether they're tourists or new yorkers, they're very interested i

ashleigh banfield is joining us now. in case you didn't hear that, the new york stock exchange has not taken on three feet of water. there were earlier reports that that had happened. >> we have seen those reports. we didn't report them. and sure enough, they didn't come true. but here's something remarkable, anderson. i can see the edge of this boardwalk again. this water is receding before our very eyes. i want to tell you, about ten minutes ago, this was still ankle deep. i'm going to walk right up to the staircase. five minutes ago it was right up to here. check this out. so that is a solid foot and a half to two feet that receded in just 15 minutes. when chad said this tide is going out, tide is going out. and here's another bizarre thing, anderson. it was so much windier and so much more brisk and difficult to report five, six hours ago than it is now. i did talk to chad about that earlier and he said, don't get too confident. but it is remarkable the difference and how quickly this water's going away. >> that is c

stand by for a moment, ashleigh. bit why it is like that, god forbid, that crane collapses and hits the street, west 57th between sixth and seventh in manhattan, that could be a disaster right there. >> it is all blocked off. the police have it completely cordoned off. they know where it is above it. the problem is if it does break off in a gust of wind, it will go with the gust of wind a little way. does it go left or right as it's swinging there, probably losing some of the strength in the material above it. the more it sways, the more likely it is to come down. that broke when only a wind gust at jfk was 66 miles per hour. we do expect wind gusts to go higher from here, wolf. >> chad, hold on a second. rick knabb is joining us right now, the new director of the national hurricane center. rick, thanks for coming in. when do we expect landfall? >> it could be within the next couple of hours to few hours. we've been seeing the center of circulation accelerate during the day today. the pressure has been dropping but t

as they are at our second look at some and turn ashleigh markets. and with asia which is the only one trading right now and we're seeing emek specter the next case shedding one person and it's in fact one of the major losers this hour the japanese market and in general we have concerns over growth not stamp in the seismic technology and still firms are among the worst performers let's move on here and russia it's about two hours ahead of the opening bell we're seeing the performance on choose there was the make spectra as well even though we had higher oil prices that didn't seem to change the day for my sakes and when the cars butterfly picture more lies from moving on to currencies that see what's happening there when it comes to the euro that is weakening against the u.s. dollar and then the ruble makes paper for the performance all of that she states now let's move on to well prices are always very important for russian investors of course we see that all prices are dropping after one week and that's after we're expecting the reports of shell th

ashleigh banfield. ash, you there?i, don. >> so, ash, you sent me a note and said i drove down the northside highway and you said it is very eerie and tell me about the tankers and the freighters head haing up river. >> yeah, listen. so i just left connecticut having hurricane-proofed the house, and saw the streets are barron everywhere i was leaving connecticut down i-95, a trip that would normally take me an hour or hour and 15 and maybe in bad weather two hours, and took me 35 minutes there. is no one on the road. i saw almost no truckers which is also very unusual late at night, and certainly on a sunday night. and then as you mentioned it as i came down the west side highway, the hudson river was very busy with what looked like tankers and freighters heading rapidly upriver and look g fing perhaps water that was calmer, certainly riding out the storm in the water, but in better waters than in the atlantic. it is not something that you normally see that much traffic at night, you know, on the hudson. but the street

i'm ashleigh banfield, sitting in for suzanne malveaux.equel. can mitt romney keep up the momentum? can barack obama get back on track? that is what a lot of people are going to be watching to see tonight when these two meet for their second showdown. town hall debate at hofstra university set to be moderated by our on candy crowley. at this hour, reporters and analysts are looking ahead at what's at stake and also what to expect tonight. we're going to have live reports from dana bash with the obama campaign, also jim acosta is covering mitt romney and his team. we're going to get insight on how the female vote is shaping the race from a republican strategist anna navarro and democratic strategist, donna brazile. we are exactly three weeks away from election day. it is handy to have smart folks to help weigh in on this. the second presidential debate, it will be a lot different from the first one. particularly in terms of the format. and you can bet that president obama's hoping for a different outcome this time around, too. he spoke with

we continue now with ashleigh b banfield. >> thank you, carol. let's bring in paul steinhauser, who is in hampstead, new york, the site of the second presidential debate. the numbers start today, a fresh new week. what do they tell us? >> the horse race, right? this is a brand new cnn poll. there have been seven surveys since that first presidential debate. we average them all together and there you go. there's about as close can you get. 47% likely voters for the president, 47% supporting mitt romney. you look at new national polls that have come out in the last day and you see other numbers behind the numbers. mitt romney's favorable rating seems to be rising a little bit. that's very important as well. the battle for the white house is not a national battle. it's a race for the states and their electoral votes. if you look at the states polls, it's pretty tight as well in the states. >> they say they don't necessarily pay attention to all the polls. they say they do their internal polls but my spidey senses say they look at all the polls, thos

we continue now with ashleigh banfield. >> same players, same issues, absolutely different format, whole new ball game. what a show at hofstra university as president obama faced off with mitt romney for what you might call 90 minutes of political fireworks last night. you can be forgiven if you thought you were watching a showdown because the second presidential debates was worlds away from the first one two weeks ago. this time the president and the governor brought intensity and energy unlike the first time around. the exchanges were bruising. both candidates taking every opportunity to go on the attack. president obama more aggressive, out to make up ground after a flat first performance and mitt romney standing his ground, hoping to keep his momentum going. take a look. >> i don't think anyone really believes that you're a person who is going to be pushing for oil and gas and coal. you'll get your chance in a moment. i'm still speaking. and the answer is -- >> if you're asking me a question -- >> that wasn't a question. it was a statement. >> and the suggestion that anybody on my te