. >> governor jerry brown again? >> meg whitman's nose keeps growing. >> meg whitman and jerry brown if a virtual tie tonight. >> the stage is set for a history-making moment, and it all comes down to tonight, the final debate. and you are looking live right now at dominican university's n angelical broadcast throughout the entire staff california. good evening, i'm jessica aguirre. >> i'm tom sinkovitz. the debate set to begin in 30 minutes. the audience has filed in to the auditorium now, the candidates are prepared as they're going to be. tom brokaw, the moderator, will be on stage shortly. as this final debate is taking place on this intimate campus that was founded back in 1890, today it is a place of higher learning for about 2,000 students. >> and we've got unprecedented access. we have a team inside, and on top of that we have our nbc bay area news reporters stationed throughout the entire campus covering every single aspect of what's going to be happening in tonight's debate. not only the issues and topics b

jerry brown. governor jerry brown, again?ide your wallet. >>> a couple hundred people will be in the auditorium, the candidates looking the those people hospital. will they be talking to tonight? >> tom, a lot fewer than the people statewide. we are talking about those 10 or 15% but maybe a couple of things otherwise to look at as well. look, brown, let's fire up the debate. no question about t whitman must appeal to independents there are more democrats than republicans, she has that chore. >> we are going to have predebate could havage at 6:00 and postdebate at 7:00, debate starting at 6:30. "nbc nightly news" is coming up next though. people! look at you! texting...blogging... all this technology, but you're still banking like pilgrims! it's time for new school banking, bubbie. interest plus savings at capitalone.com. why earn bupkis, when your savings can earn three times the national average!! three times the national average!!! new school banking at capital one bank. with interest plus savings, go to capitalone.com!!!!!

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. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, political editor david chalian sets the scene for this last week of campaigning. >> ifill: then paul solman looks at what happens when a government program to help homeowners misses its mark. >> it's a nightmare, just ryiong to get a simple answer. >> brown: and binyamin appelbaum of the "new york times" has the latest on the investigation into the foreclosure mess. >> ifill: margaret warner delves into what we've learned about the iraq war from the latest trove of secret documents exposed by the web site wikileaks. >> brown: ray suarez previews his series of global health unit reports from mozambique. >> ifill: and producer/director judd apatow talks about his high success rate with low comedy. >> we're all kingd if idiot kids trying to act like we know what we're doing. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by co

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, ray suarez gets a breakdown of today's jobs report, the last before the midterm elections. >> woodruff: then, margaret warner examines china's angry reaction to the award of the nobel peace prize to an imprisoned chinese dissident. >> brown: spencer mi reports on the face-off in california between former ebay chief meg whitman and former governor jerry brown. >> the california gov's race is setting records but the enanswered question whether either of the candin fix what ails this state's economy. jonathan miller of independent television news has the latest on the efforts to rescue the trapped miners as early as next tuesday. >> brown: mark shields and david brooks offer their week analysis. >> woodruff: and we close with story of a composer, a virtuoso violinist, and the pulitzer-prize winning music they create. ♪ >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of thes

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. the pentagon stopped accepting gay recruits today, just two >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the "newshour" tonight, mark thompson of "time" magazine has the latest on how the military is coping with the court-ordered back-and-forth on "don't ask, don't tell." >> brown: then, special correspondent betsy stark reports on a house contest in an ohio district battered by job losses. >> warner: we get a snapshot of how the sagging economy is playing among voters across the country. >> brown: and an overall campaign update called "political notebook" with our political editor david chalian. >> warner: paul solman looks at an effort to uncover what's really in herbal supplements. >> in one of america's fastest growing and least regulated industries-- medicinal herbs-- what you see may not be what you get. >> brown: and we close with a conversation with haitian- american writer edwidge danticat on her new book-- a collection of essays, including reflections on her homeland after the ear

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captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. the u.s. treasury and insurance giant a.i.g. unveiled a plan today to speed up the repayment of more than $100 billion in federal bailout money. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the "newshour" tonight, economic writers louisstory of the "new york times" and roben farzad of "bloomberg business week" weigh the pluses and minuses of the deal. >> brown: then, kwame holman looks at the down-to-the-wire scramble as congress pushed to adjourn just weeks ahead of the midterm elections. >> suarez: judy woodruff talks to speaker of the house nancy pelosi about the battle over tax cuts and the stakes for democrats in november. >> our members left congress last night. they are confident that they would return in the majority. >> brown: special correspondent miles o'brien reports on a mississippi community's plan to use stimulus money for mass transit in rural areas. >> suarez: betty ann bowser updates the johnson and johnson story as company executives and the f.d.a. come under fire on capitol h

. >> meg whitman habló de la educación pública entre otros temas, jerry brown habló de su experienciaa economía. >> el tema más controversial fue el relacionado con la inmigración y lo ocurrido con meg whitman . >> esto es lo que pasó, la contratamos a travñs de una agencia, ella nos dijo en 2009 que era ilegal, no quería despedirla pero tuv eq hacerlo. >> ustedes deberían estar avergonzados de causarle daño a nicky por la campaña política. >> usted señor jerry brown fue causante en alguna forma de esta controversia. >> tu no puedes ser quiñn difame a una mujer diciendo que hizo algo indebido cuando esto no es cierto. >> esto es histórico, un debate en español y hablando de temas que afectan a hispanos, estos días se enfocaron a los hispanos. >> cuál fue tu pregunta?. >> si apoyaban el dream act. >> como te sientes con las respuestas. >> de cierta forma esperaba las respuestas que dieron, me sorprendió la respuesta de meg whitman que dijo que no apoyaría el dream act no importa que nos esforcemos. >> nuestro voto latino es muy importante, el próximo debate entre meg whitman y jerry br

from the brown campaign since? >> no, i have not. >> sean: i want to follow the tape. you all of a sudden pick up your phone. you realize that he didn't hang up his phone. you've got this voice message. where do you go from there? what do you do with that next? >> i turned it over to our political action attorney, immediately. he held on to it and did the vetting process as far as the legalities of it. >> sean: from that point has been the reaction of this tape getting out and people saying why did you release that tape? >> just cooperating with the media. want to make sure that in that it is out that everybody has an opportunity to see that side of viciousness of jerry brown. >> sean: in that sense you think this reveals a lot about brown? you think this should be a big part of the campaign? >> i didn't know if it should be a big part of the campaign. that is going to be for the votest of california to decide. he i was shocked. i was appalled. the fact that an attorney general who is ed to represent all residents

jerry brow jerry brown begin by saying what he will not cut? >> we're not going to cut education or road building, or cut out high speed rail. >> when pressed he said he would cut government workers. >> the big shots, start with the governor's office, start with the pr, start with some of the lawyers. >> cutting the government work force is part of whitman's plan as well by instituting a hiring freeze until the work force is down 33,000. >> we're going to hold people accountable for delivering results based on the number of people they had five years ago. >> but none would come close to make up the projected $19 billion deficit. so where else would they cut? brown says he put that tough questions the voters? >> what is you want and how will you pay for it? i will lead the process forward. >> she says she will ferret out billions of dollars in fraud and waste. >> everybody wants to eliminate fraud and waste. >> she wants legislators focus on that by veto any bill that doesn't deal with spending or jobs or education. >> i want to veto these bills

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. there were more warnings of terrorism threats for travelers in europe today, and word came that the u.s. struck again at militants who may be behind those threats. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, a newsmaker interview with ambassador daniel benjamin, the state department's coordinator for counterterrorism. >> brown: then we look at this year's nobel prize winner for medicine, robert edwards, who developed in vitro fertilization. >> woodruff: special correspondent lee hochberg reports from seattle on the challenges for public schools in accommodating students who are homeless. >> they just don't want to be left. they don't know whether they'll disappear the next day. all of them have that uncertainty, they don't have roots. they don't have any guarantees. >> brown: ray suarez talks to historian susan reverby about her discovery that u.s. scientists performed secret syphilis experiments in guatemala during the 1940s. >> woodruff: and we have a discussion on

from the brown campaign since? >> no, i have not. >> sean: i want to follow the tape. you all of a sudden pick up your phone. you realize that he didn't hang up his phone. you've got this voice message. where do you go from there? what do you do with that next? >> i turned it over to our political action attorney, immediately. he held on to it and did the vetting process as far as the legalities of it. >> sean: from that point has been the reaction of this tape getting out and people saying why did you release that tape? >> just cooperating with the media. want to make sure that in that it is out that everybody has an opportunity to see that side of viciousness of jerry brown. >> sean: in that sense you think this reveals a lot about brown? you think this should be a big part of the campaign? >> i didn't know if it should be a big part of the campaign. that is going to be for the votest of california to decide. he i was shocked. i was appalled. the fact that an attorney general who is ed to represent all residents

brown? >> thank you. i, too, thank the sponsors of this debate and dominican university for allowing us to come into your homes and to be part of this very historic exchange of ideas. john f. kennedy did ask americans, ask not what you can do for yourselves but what you can to for your country. and i have to tell the people of california we do have to make some tough decisions. we have to live within our means. we can't point the finger. we can't scapegoat whether it's government employees or immigrants or neighbors down the street or the opposite political party. we're going to have to rise above the poisonous partnership, and our own comfort zone. our own identities, whether they be ethnic or gender or partisan or religious, and we have to think -- we really have to think for the first time as californians. as californians first, as members of these other categories second. we are a great state. we have tremendous potential. and while people on the east coast say this is some kind of faile

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. the supreme court took up a first amendment case today over a church group's right to protest at a u.s. marine's funeral. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the newshour tonight, marcia coyle of the "national law journal" walks us through the oral arguments that weighed freedom of speech against privacy rights. >> brown: then, we assess the state of u.s./pakistan relations amid a sharp rise in violence in the afghan border region. >> warner: we look at the foreclosure story as members of congress call for federal investigations now that major banks have frozen proceedings in 23 states. >> brown: and ray suarez talks to congressmen eric cantor and kevin mccarthy about their new book, "young guns," a republican manifesto for the upcoming midterm elections. >> the overwhelming number of newly elected members come january,' 11 will be members seeking reform. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> brown: a high prof

jerry brown again? he sure comes with strings attached. jerry brown again?is pushing up the punishment for flagrant violent hit. starting this weekend the league will begin suspending players for dangerous collisions particularly those involving helmets. that action comes after series of jarring tackles last sunday. several ruled in concussion. in the past players were either fined or rejected for the illegal hits. >> helmet put on for protection. it's not a weapon. you can clearly see when it is deliberate. when that happens yes we necessitated to sues pen the guys and penaltyize them. >> new rule coincide with the recent effort to crack down on concussion and head injuries. critic said nfl needs to take a long hard look at itself and stop glamorizing violent hit on it own cable network. >> now to baseball again and success of new propose that centers around giant fever. the peninsula humane society is trying to find new homes for cats. as lee report this adoption program is a strike right down the middle. >> just figure 9 lives. 9 innings. 9 players. it wo

medium build brown hair with facial hair. on saturday he was dressed in all black including a black baseball cap. the suspect description from saturday is similar to the description of the attacker from september 16th. and at that time he was passing himself off as a door to door carpet cleaner. >> hopefully that sketch will help. and maybe someone will recognize him. >> hopefully. >> robert lyles, thank you. >>> a fremont motorcycle officer is in the hospital after authorities say a driver intentionally did that. slammed a stolen van into the officer, dragging him and his bike across two lanes of traffic. witnesses say the officer's legs were pinned under the van. the driver ran off. and hours later police detained a person who is an associate of that suspect. that person was apprehended on a bart train at the south hayward station. the station was closed for 45 minutes in the evening rush hour. >>> the maid scandal got the headlines but it has not seemed to hurt meg whitman all that much. in our poll taken after the maid st

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. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, ohio attorney general richard cordray and florida real estate lawyer and author shari olefson assess the depths of the growing crisis, and measures to tackle it. >> woodruff: then, political advertising analyst evan tracey looks at how undisclosed sources of money are affecting the 2010 elections. >> brown: jonathan miller of independent television news has the latest from chile on the imminent rescue attempt of those trapped miners. reyou can never describe this as a risk-free operation. everyone is on tender hooks, tense, nervous, and i'm sure very stressed. >> woodruff: paul solman talks to political scientist robert putnam about religion in america, the subject of his new book, "american grace." >> brown: and we speak to catherine rampell of the "new york times" about the winners of this year's nobel prize for economics. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: this program was made possi

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captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. nato forces killed dozens of insurgents in afghanistan today as the war entered its tenth year. >> part of my reason for running for office is not just that i think we need another republican, i think we need reform of the whole system. >> i mean, i get that anger. i think the question is how do people want to channel that anger? do they want to be destructive or constructive? >> reporter: david fahrenholt of the "washington post" has the details of a report showing the obama administration underestimated the size of the b.p. spill. >> brown: margaret warner talks to a european union official about the health and environmental risks of the toxic red sludge in hungary that has now reached the danube river. >> suarez: from pakistan's swat valley-- jonathan miller of independent television news reports on schools destroyed by the floods and by the taliban. >> brown: and we have conversation with supreme court justice stephen breyer about the court and his new book, "how democracy works."

this time she's lying about jerry brown on taxes. but as governor jerry brown cut $4 billion in taxes and says no new taxes without voter approval. meg whitman -- her nose just keeps on growing and growing. meg whitman is lying about jerry brown again...on taxes again. newspapers have called many of her ads untrue. fact: jerry brown cut taxes by $4 billion and says no new taxes without voter approval. but meg whitman's nose just keeps growing by the millions. >> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to >>> good news tonight. chile's 33 trapped miners could be rescued by the middle of next week. the drillers cheered and sprayed champagne after a drill punched a hole into the underground chamber today. they hope to begin to lift the first miner up to safety as early as wednesday. the first leader -- chile's first lady celebrated with the miners' families. >> i have come here to personally thank in the name of the government and the 17 million chileans and the entire teamworking in this rescue and all of the differen

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