with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor. you notice is relief. aspercreme. >>> earlier this morning i spoke with romney advisor ed gillespie. >> thank you for joining us. when you are headed into a debate after such great reviews for the first debat what's your goal? >> our goal is to continue letting the american people see mitt romney, to hear his plans to turn our country around, to see the very clear choice put before them in terms of the direction governor romney would take the country, by reducing taxes on the middle class, by moving us toward a balanced budget, by getting jobs to young, versus president obama, which would be four more years like the last four years chshgs we just can't aforward. >> you know that you are going to face a president different this time. i mean, he has said it. his campaign aides have said it. this will be in certainly in style. a president different from the one faced in early october. how do you plan to have romney respond to a more aggressive president? sfwloot president can change his

aspercreme. >>> bottom of the hour now, and welcome back, everyone.kaye. >> i'm victor blackwell and thank you for staying with us this morning. here are five stories we are watching this morning. >> with the second presidential debate a few days away, mitt romney will be preparing but not until after he and paul ryan stop in keystone state of ohio. and paul ryan will be in youngstown and both are hoping to capitalize from the momentum of the first presidential debate. speaking of momentum and check out the new cnn poll of polls, and you can see that mitt romney has a two-point lead over president obama this the national poll, but as far as in ohio where the president holds a three-point lead there now. >> 12 miles, 2 days at 2 miles per hour, and that pretty much sums up the space shuttle "endeavour's" final journey. it is inching along through the street s of los angeles to its home at the california science center. once there, it will go on display on october 30th. >>> h shocking allegations for a zumba instructor who is accused of running a prosti

with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor.all you notice is relief. aspercreme. >>> america chooses a president in 24 days, but before that we have two more presidential debates, the next this tuesday at hofstra university in new york. it's a town hall debate moderated by our own candy crowley. i asked her how this format will influence the tone of the debate with the audience asking some of the questions. >> i think it will in this way, it is very hard to be overheated when answering a question be a nice woman, a nice old man, whatever who asks a town hall question. which generally begins something like, you know, mr. president, or governor, i lost my job, blah, blah, blah, to then have the two of them engage in a knock down dragout, tends to be something they don't do in a crowd that that's close to them. but you know they would run over me in a second. they would really sort of push the envelope with a member of the media, because they're used to us, but it is very hard to do that to an uncommitted voter. >> in the meantime

with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor. so all you notice is relief. aspercreme. >>> america chooses a president in 23 days, but before that we have two more presidential debates, the next one tuesday night at hofstra university in new york moderate bid our own candy crowley. i talked with candy and asked her how this might influence the tone of the debate. >> i think it will in this way, it is very hard to be overheated when answering a question from a nice young woman, a nice old man, whatever, who asks a town hall question, which generally begins something like, you know, mr. president or governor, i lost my job, blah, blah, blah, blah. to then have the tools to engage in a knock down dragout tends to be something they don't do in a crowd that's that close to them. and you and i know that they would run over me in a second. you know, would really push the envelope with a member of the media, but it is very hard to do that to an uncommitted volter. >> our colleagues have given you some advise for these debates. >> i have

aspercreme. >>> you have heard this before, a law enforcement officer gains the control of a terroristust. some believe that these terrorists would never have done anything had they not been befriended by the police officer h. >> breaking news, the fbi says it's foiled a plot. >> the man did not know he was being tracked by an fbi sting. >> the suspect faces charges of attempting to use a weapons of mass destruction. >> an allegationed plot to set off a car bomb, the accused, a manage in bangladesh who brought in -- on his own, could the student have pulled off his alleged scheme to, quote, destroy america? the justice department stands by its use of an informant charging that he claimed al qaeda connections and actively sought recruits. ron gooby questions informants in this investigation and others. >> prosecutors would say we're not building the bomb, they're going out there and buying the ingredients, they're the ones that are taking the active roll in this? >> but that's not true, these people for the most part lack any capacity to carry on to craft these evil things they want to

with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor. so all you notice is relief. aspercreme. >> reporter: even in death, there was little peace for jean mcconville's family. she was buried in a quiet cemetery outside belfast. the family say the i.r.a. wanted her funeral kept low key. yet, another cruel blow for jean's daughter, helen. >> after the bureial, there's all different sorts of emotions going through your head. you get angry and mad at people. >> reporter: nothing can bring her mother back, heal the pain of lives soured by suffering. it's when you walk the streets here that you realize just how locked in the past these communities are. constant reminders, these murals, just when they walk to the shops of everything bad that happened before. it seems no one here really wants to let go of the past. helen needs a way to move forward to understand the past. just as this man hopes to do. three years after the good friday deal brought peace to northern ireland, anthony mcintyre tried to make sense of what happened. >> immaterialed t

call or click today. [ grunting ] with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor. so all you notice is relief. aspercreme. >>> well, we have now officially gotten the big debate prep from brianna keilar for us, there in danville, kentucky. now we want to talk ryan and for that we go to jim acosta also in danville, kentucky. what are we, jim? looking at the clock. less than seven hours away from the big sparring. >> reporter: yeah. >> and you know, we know the romney campaign got a tremendous lift from the first debate, the presidential debate last week. what are the expectations for paul ryan going in to tonight? >> reporter: brooke, it's good to be with you. i got stuck in joe biden's motorcade coming in here. on the ground here in kentucky. brooke, i did talk to a senior romney adviser about their expectations for paul ryan later on this evening. as you will recall, mitt romney told wolf blitzer on qu"the situation room" he thought that paul ryan didn't debate before, perhaps last time was in high school. we wen

aspercreme. >> i'm going to move on to the closing question. we're running out of time.tainly known, you've said it here tonight, that the two of you respect our troops enormously. your son has served, and perhaps some day your children will serve as well. i recently spoke to a highly decorated soldier who says this presidential campaign has left him dismayed. he told me, quote, the ads are so negative and they are all tearing down each other rather than building up the country. what would you say to that american hero about this campaign? and at the end of the day, are you ever embarrassed by the tone? vice president biden. >> i would say to him, the same thing i say to my son who did serve a year in iraq. we only have one truly sacred obligation as a government. and that's to equip those we send into harm's way and care for those who come home. that's the only sacred obligation we have. everything else falls behind that. i would also tell him that the fact that he, this decorated soldier you talked about, fought for his country, that that should be honored. he should n

aspercreme. >>> tonight, justice scalia took me on a walk and talk tour of the supreme court.alked presidents and pastor. so we're now in the bowels of the supreme court. >> the bowels, do you have to say -- >> do you still get a little thrill when you come in? >> no, i've gotten used to it by now. it's a nice place to work. >> who's been the most impressive president for you personally? >> most -- what, in history? in -- >> no, no -- >> in my lifetime or what? >> in your lifetime, yeah. >> i guess ronald reagan. i mean, i'll be an ingrate if i didn't say ronald reagan. >> what made him special, do you think? >> he had a way of -- he was the great communicator. he had a real way of making important and complex ideas comprehensible to the people. >> did he -- did he give you any advice? >> no. >> did he make any requests? >> no. >> did he say anything? >> no. >> would you tell me if he had? >> he almost got my name right. when we went out to the press room in the white house and one of reagan's aides says to me, "well, we think -- we think he'll get scalia right. but we don't k

aspercreme. >>> men booted from the boy scouts accused of child sex abuse.urs, more than a thousand of them are set to be identified. that's because more than 20,000 documents are about to be released by court order. these are confidential files, folks. they've been kept over a 20-year period. they were files kept on the men in this organization who were believed to be preying on young boys. bits and pieces of them you've probably heard about. they've leaked out because of lawsuits since they were uncovered last month, but today a really big chunk of these files are going to be made public for the first time. the attorneys who are suing the scouts say that the secrecy that these files have had in them for so long has allowed thousands of child molesters to roam free and offend again. >> reporter: 18-year-old keith early joined the boy scouts at 12, recruited by nick price miller, a married father of three and volunteer firefighter who led scout meetings in this washington state church. >> he was building a boy scout, like a big huge boy scout camp because he

aspercreme. >>> with the economy front and center, president obama and governor romney are each makinge case that they can create jobs and get people working again. as we know, it is easier said than done, laura tyson, of the henry jackson initiative, laura is also a member of president obama's council on jobs. welcome to you both, ladies. you apparently have the answer to all of our economic and jobs woes in america. linn, tell me what this initiative is about. >> well, it is bipartisan, trans-atlantic, and private. so we are outside of the political realm, dealing with what we think is an important situation in america, where the american dream defined as work hard, play by the rules and anything is possible, is kind of in a little bit of ill repute, a bit. larry katz at harvard has a metaphor, for it, saying that america was like the beautiful apartment block years ago, everybody loved it. the beautiful apartment block. now in the apartment block you have the great, beautiful rich, the people up above. the middle floors that are cramped. the lower floors, water-soaked. and the eleva

aspercreme. so all you notice is relief. then don't miss sleep train's wbest rest event.st ever?nd sleep train's very best mattresses at the guaranteed lowest price. plus, pay no interest for 3 years on beautyrest black, stearns & foster, serta icomfort, even tempur-pedic. and rest even better with sleep train's risk-free 100-day money back guarantee. get your best rest ever from sleep train. superior service, best selection, lowest price, guaranteed. ♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >> i'm going to move on to the closing question. we're running out of time. certainly known, you've said it here tonight, that the two of you respect our troops enormously. your son has served, and perhaps some day your children will serve as well. i recently spoke to a highly decorated soldier who says this presidential campaign has left him dismayed. he told me, quote, the ads are so negative and they are all tearing down each other rather than building up the country. what would you say to that american hero about this campaign? and at the end of the day, are you ever embarr

aspercreme.ful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor. so all you notice is relief. aspercreme.

aspercreme. has just arrived in england for medical treatment.looking at pictures of her plane arriving. the reason this is such a critical story is she was shot by taliban men who boarded her school bus. she had been defending the rights of girls to simply go to school. she left on a flight this morning bound for england. dan rivers is now outside of that hospital. when i say better medical care, there is excellent medical care in pakistan. why is it going to be better where she's arriving in birmingham? >> reporter: i think just because they've got the level of expertise that they can provide long-term care that they wouldn't be able to provide in pakistan for an extended period of months. this is a center that specializes in trauma and particularly in treating soldiers who are shot and injured in afghanistan, for example. this is where the royal center is based, they have a lot of soldiers flown here for afghanistan. they're used to dealing with head trauma, gunshot wounds and with the logistics of getting people and transferring them to the a

aspercreme. >>> i'm candy crowley in washington.reed zakaria gps" returns shortly but first a check of the top stories. a new poll shows a tight race to the white house in a. according to a rocky mountain high likely voters obama has a 44% edge over mitt romney. only one has won arizona in the past 60 years. bill clinton in 1996. the romney campaign has a new ad out today featuring joe biden lafrg as his republican challenger congressman paul ryan talks about the struggling economy. the contrasting foot amg was from thursday's vice-presidential debate. a cnn/orc poll shows us. >>> a dangerous and daring effort to break the sky. today felix bottom guarder? is making an attempt to jump from the edge of space. brian todd is here with details. >> right now they're going through to process of inflating felix baumgartner's balloon. it could take as much as an hour. the launch of the balloon and capsule may not occur for at least another hour. from that point it will take two and half hours to three hours for him to ascend 120 feet above t

aspercreme. >>> big ideas from my all-star panel.incess, will.i.am, dee pock chopra and they are up on health, you are about health and wellness. that's important. having this population, if they are not healthy, not >>> if you want to go today, you can check out the well-being of any country in the world as of this moment. so the united states is number 13 at the moment. number one is denmark. number two is canada, and then -- >> why are the danes so healthy? >> because they have social security and they are not worried about health insurance and they are looked after, and they are not greedy and they all don't want to become billion airs. here is what we found. this is very important. we classify people on a scale of 1 to 100. if your score is over 70, you are thriving. if your score is 40 to 70, you are struggling. if it's less than 40 you are suffering. when the country starts to suffer, you are going to see revolution, social unrest, and break down of leadership. so we knew what was happening in libya, and we knew what was going

aspercreme. >>> hulk hogan's latest release is a sex tape. he didn't even know about it and didn't leak the tape. hogan says the woman was the wife of his best friend t time, and he was cool with it. earlier, i asked comedian dean obadal if he thought it was a stunt. first, here's how hulk hogan described the mess to howard stern. >> this is the worst thing that's ever happened to me. it's really turned my world upside down. >> well, i don't think it's a stunt. i think he had sex with that woman. what's this country coming to when an ex-professional wrestler can't have sex with his best friend's ex-wife and have it videotaped and not be on the internet? what kind of country are we getting to where you can't do this? the most bizarre thing to me honestly isn't the tape, it's the fact how it became to the public. his best friend's ex-employee was angry and uploaded it. >> i heard him saying, he was contrite like, you know, this is the worst thing to happen to me. and he's saying he doesn't actually know, he doesn't know who's behind the tape. a

aspercreme. >>> president obama and mitt romney, round two.ne be any different than the first one? i talked about tuesday's night big event with will cain and they think the town hall format will be a better venue for president obama and i asked him why. >> because he'll be able to have the audience there to gauge. he can understand more about the energy level that he has and he'll be able to understand the way he's answering questions have an more immediate impact on the audience and, perhaps, the nation. >> he's getting vibe off of the audience, you agree with that? >> absolutely. >> i agree but for a different reason. i was reading a review of the 2008 town hall debate that barack obama had with senator john mccain at the time. and here are the words they used to describe it. he was dispassionate. he kind of amabled when he chose his words. sounds familiar. i don't know how high his bar on ratcheting up his energy is. i'll say i agree, the town hall format lowers the bar. that confrop terrible aspect becomes more sensitive. people feel that

aspercreme. >>> half past the hour. right now let's take a look at your headlines.meningitis outbreak continues to spread. the cdc says these two strains of fungus are part of the outbreak. it has infected 205 people in 14 states. 15 people have died. victims received tainted steroid injections commonly give ton relieve intense neck and back pain. >>> they are working on the stage for tuesday night's presidential debate. at hofstra university, this time it's a town hall style format. president obama's aides say he will be ready and energized. mitt romney's aides say he can change his approach but he can't change his record. >>> america has lost one of the giants of the u.s. senate. arlen specter died today after a long battle with cancer. specter represented pennsylvania in the senate for 30 years. president obama said specter was "fiercely independent, never putting party or ideology ahead of the people he was chosen to serve." arlen specter was 82 years old. and just ahead this hour, a side of the former senator you may not have seen before, stand-up comedian. >>>

aspercreme.werful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor. so all you notice is relief. aspercreme.

aspercreme. so all you notice is relief.rsity understands back from rough economic times. employees are being forced to do more with less. and the need for capable leaders is greater than ever. when you see these problems do you take a step back, or do you want to dive right in? with a degree in business from capella university, you'll have the knowledge to go further in your career than you ever thought possible. let's get started at capella.e >>> it is an inspiring story of someone making their mark and getting thousands of views on cnn ireport. it happened in pensacola last weekend. an 11-year-old boy's prosthetic limb broke in half. a local marine who volunteered to help monitor the course picked him up and ran with him the rest of the way. hln's kyra phillips talked with the pair. >> i asked him, hey, do you need some help? he looked at me and was like, no, i'm going to finish. and after another moment he was continuing to try to fix his prosthetic and knew that, you know, he couldn't fix it. so looked at me again and i

with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor.all you notice is relief. aspercreme. >>> for instance, when he says your is a $5 trillion cut, no, it's not. i'm offsetting some of the deductions and withholding some of the deductions. >> governor, i understand the stakes here, i understand both of you but i will get run out of town if i don't allow -- >> i just described to you how do i it, with a single number that people can put and they can put their deductions and credits. >> mr. president, we're keeping track, i promise you. >> did you catch that? did you see what happened there? that's something we saw a lot of last night, a lot of like, what? what the heck was going on there? president obama and mitt romney talking over each other, talking over the moderator, nobody can hear a thing. turns out people don't like that. you see those squiggly lines that show on the bottom of the screen that show how people feet about it, in those moments the lines were flatlining. in the moment, in the effort to be heard, the exact opposite was

aspercreme. so all you notice is relief.eep train's best don't miss your chanceoon. to get sleep train's very best mattresses at the guaranteed lowest price. plus, pay no interest for 3 years on beautyrest black, stearns & foster, serta icomfort, even tempur-pedic. and rest even better with sleep train's risk-free 100-day money back guarantee. but the best rest event ends soon at sleep train. superior service best selection, lowest price, guaranteed. ♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >>> half past the hour. right now let's take a look at your headlines. a meningitis outbreak continues to spread. the cdc says these two strains of fungus are part of the outbreak. it has infected 205 people in 14 states. 15 people have died. victims received tainted steroid injections commonly give ton relieve intense neck and back pain. >>> they are working on the stage for tuesday night's presidential debate. at hofstra university, this time it's a town hall style format. president obama's aides say he will be ready and

with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor.o all you notice is relief. aspercreme. >>> we're getting to that time where folks are making up their minds. just the other day, honey booboo endorsed me. that's a big relief. >> the remarks tonight are brought to you by the letter o and 16 trillion. >> both candidates poking a little fun at each other. this weekend, a big weekend for both of them. president is going to be at camp david. he'll be doing debate camp, debate prep. governor romney has the same weekend plans, except he'll be doing his prep in florida. wolf blitzer joins me now. this is the final debate so it really matters, maybe more so than the last two. in debate one it felt as though, correct me if i'm wrong, that the candidates were trying to appeal to the undecided voters. debate two it seemed they were trying to get to their base and get those people out to the polls. what's the mission of debate three, the final debate? >> if they can, they'd like to get their base, energize their base. turnout is going to be criti

aspercreme. >>> there is no shortage of numbers in any presidential race.m come from polls. we just saw eye-popping jobs numbers less than a week after a stunning drop in the jobless rates. christine romans gave us the economics. wolf blitzer joins me with the politics of the economics. no other election issue is as important to people, bar none, than the economy and jobs. the unemployment rate stands where it did back when president obama took office. first-time claims for the jobless benefits, saying i'm out of work and need help, at its lowest in 4 1/2 years. does the president get to spike the football on this or something dangerous in doing that when you still have millions of people out of work? >> very dangerous to spike the football right now. this is by no means mission accomplished yet. a lot of people are suffering. millions and millions of people still unemployed, still millions more under employed. a lot of folks whose home mortgages are still under water. this is not time to gloat by any means. yes, the trend seems to be move income the right

with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor.o all you notice is relief. aspercreme. >>> famously known for switching political parties late in his political career, former senator arlen specter leaves a lasting mark on pennsylvania and the country as a whole. the 82-year-old specter died today after a long battle with cancer. senator specter's former communications director john elliott joins us from washington. john, sorry about the loss. >> well, don, thank you so much. our hearts go out to his family and his wife, joan, but really the senate has lost a true statesman, one of the last statesmen that was in the senate. there are others. it's very hard to come by somebody of his independence and his ability to work across party lines, and so if you think about a career that he had, which was five-term career, and the way that basically the senate went from being really a debating place to now where it's tough for things to get done, he almost -- i think even if he had won re-election he would have found the last couple years a l

with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor.tice is relief. aspercreme. >>> it will be felix baumgartner's second attempt to jump from 23 miles in the air. he is trying to become the first man to break the sound barrier without the help of a vehicle. baumgartner's first attempt was scrapped because of strong wibdz. today's launch could come as early as 9:30 a.m. eastern time. be sure to keep it here on cnn. >>> on to another galactic story, the space shuttle endeavour continues to creep through l.a. towards its retirement home at the california science center. endeavour is several hours behind schedule as the shuttle and its transporter have had to creep around buildings. and through crowds, actually, that have lined the street. endeavour is expected to arrive later this morning. >>> the los angeles clipper has knocked off the -- the victory evened the score on the team's two-game exhibition road trip to china. former houston rockets all-star yao ming sat courtside. his popularity helped make china the nba's biggest market outsi

aspercreme. >>> i will never get tired of watching this, people.ttle endeavour in the streets of l.a., and even though you can't tell, it really is inching along at a rapid rate of 2 miles an hour and it's on its way to the california science center. by the way, when it flew it used to fly at 17,000 miles an hour, so this is pretty awesome, but to me, this is awesome. we've seen it riding with a rocket booster on the back of a 747, it will be pulled by an teeny, weinie toyota tundra. the idea of the difference between them. adorable. the whole thing weighs over 292,000 pounds. the endeavour alone weighs 150,000 pounds and that's a lot of carrying devices, et cetera. we looked this up, a toyota tundra has a maximum towing capacity of 10,000 pound, but when it pulls this spacecraft it's 282,000 pounds over its capacity. our john zarrella who gets everything science joins us from l.a. because you've had this fabulous assignment the whole journey. tell me where we are in the journey and how we're doing today. >> reporter: okay, where we are, ashleigh i

aspercreme.icine relieves pain fast, with no odor. so all you notice is relief. aspercreme. so all you notice is relief. at the guaranteed's lowest price.attresses plus, pay no interest for 3 years on the best brand-name mattress sets. get your best rest ever from sleep train. ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >>> you've seen obama vs. romney and biden vs. ryan. tonight, a debate you won't see anywhere else. two presidential candidates not afraid to speak their minds about the issues that matter most. gary johnson, libertarian nominee, and jill stein, green party nominee. they weren't allowed in the debate so we brought them here to add their voices to the national discussion. we'll cover a lot of topics from the economy to social issue. but as third, even fourth party candidates, i decided to start with the obvious question, though -- why are you running? >> i'm running as a mother and a medical doctor really concerned about the direction we're going. and what propelled me into this race