actually able to be rigged i'm joined now by investigative journalist brad friedman he's behind brown blog dot com brad four and a half weeks out what do you think voters should be most aware of regarding this matter. what they need to be aware of is that these machines count our votes inside the computer we can't see them and there we remain the same serious concerns that frankly we have had now for eight years and that almost nothing been done about that effect you know we're talking right now we try to do it by skype but the computers failed so we're using the phone here but magine if the computers fail on election day that happens all the time the system simply fail and often we have no idea if they actually worked or didn't work when the election results are announced on election night i mean i think it's a really good point brad this is nothing new that we're dealing with we've seen this going on i covered this back as a young reporter back in two thousand and four why is it you know when you're three research that very little has been done to deal with what is a really big problem.

. >> thank you very much >> brown: in her weekly blog post, gwen ifill looks at how the campaigns are pitching hard to undecided women voters. and if you missed any of last night's debate, you n wah the vice-presidential match-up in full on our web site. >> woodruff: later in the program, we'll have more on the presidential race from shields and brooks. also ahead, the peace prize goes to the european union; and the pollsters, the gamblers, and the academics predict the election results. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: secretary of state hillary clinton vowed today that u.s. diplomats will not retreat from dangerous parts of the world. she spoke amid the ongoing questions about the attack in libya that killed four americans. after meeting with the italian foreign minister, clinton defended the administration's changing statements about the attack. >> to this day, to this day we do not have a complete picture. we do not have all the answers. no one in this administration has ever claimed otherwise. every one of us has made clear that we ar

brown c.d.o. four year media project free media r t v dot com. blog about the big picture rumble joining me are anthony home brian darling liz chatterton should have been different order but i think we all figured out ok conoco phillips the oil giant and ninth largest company in the world's second largest oil company the united states announced yesterday that it made one point eight billion dollars not for the year but for the last three months in fact their income for the year is seven billion dollars profit not revenue profit what's left over after after everything despite making a staggering seven billion dollars this year the company still gets an average six hundred million dollars in tax breaks every year from the federal government this whopping tax break has allowed conoco phillips i shouldn't just a lot of actual arguably have paid for you and i with our taxes paid for the twenty million dollars that conoco phillips spent lobbying congress buying people like paul ryan six hundred dollars bottles of wine so isn't this the reason that corporati

brown. however one dad says it's time to retire the cartoon. i know what you're thinking why? it turns out a blog post on a parenting website babble.com. he says the show has a taunting message. and that the kids use unkind words. he argued the part from the sense of nostalgia for parents. a charlie brown specials, they have nothing of value to offer today's kids. he says that the show's acceptance and the schoolyard teasing is antiquated. >> what do you think about this? is charlie brown inappropriate for kids? we posted the das entire explanation at our website. abc2news.com, head over to facebook and weigh in on what you think. i can't imagine charlie brown being bully. >> i know. so we -- some people have said in the newsroom, maybe lucy was a bully but is this taking the bully thing too far? let us know with you think on facebook. >>> is sandy a bulldy? >> sandy bullying. that's lynette what do you have? >> i'm going to go with a yes t especially it's bullied jamaica and cuba and we're going to see if it bullies us through the end of the weekend into early next week. so we can see hurricane

blog at ktvu.com. go to the politics page. >>> governor jerry brown had a busy weekend. coming up for you at 7:48.e just signed into law including one some say will make california streets safer. >>> well, starting today, shopping in san francisco means you have to bring your own bag or get charged for one by the store. the checkout bag ordinance takes effect today at almost all retailers. >> the stores cannot offer plastic bags and if you want a compostable bag you will be charged. >>> hot weather may have played a role in an elderly woman's death in contra costa county. the 86-year-old's body was found at an elementary school. police say the woman had been reported missing in concord a few hours earlier. the exact cause of death is still unclear. but police say high temperatures may have been a factor. >>> authorities are asking people to avoid using gas- powered barbecues and you are being asked to take public transportation or carpool. this is the third straight spare-the-air day. >>> hey sal, don't hair us. how is the macarthur maze doing? >> it's gonna be a slow. when i look at the toll plaz

. >> brown: and mark and david keep up the talk on the "doubleheader," recorded in our newsroom. that will be posted at the top of the online "rundown" bloght. >> warner: again, the major developments of the day: a deadly car bomb struck the heart of beirut, lebanon, killing eight people and wounding dozens. it raised fears that syria's civil war is spilling over the border. and wall street had one of its worst days in months after a series of disappointing earnings. the dow industrials lost 205 points. and something for political junkies-- a new e-book chronicles presidential debate moments. hari sreenivasan has more. >> sreenivasan: learn about a new series of videos and books, including an e-book we've created based on the documentary series "debating our destiny." included are interviews between newshour's jim lehrer and almost every presidential and vice presidential candidate since 1976. find out more on the "rundown." on "making sense," economics correspondent paul solman revisits presidential prediction methods. he talks to one economist who has a pretty good track record picking winners. and on "art beat," jeff talks to writer lo

brown: the full interviews with todd akin and claire mccaskill are online. plus, get gwen's take on how romney's post-debate rebound might play out in the missouri senate race. that's in her weekly blogt on our politics page. >> woodruff: and that brings us to the analysis of shields and brooks-- syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times columnist david brooks. gentlemen, good to have you with us. let's talk about the jobs report, what about that missouri senate raitt. >> it's ri remarkable race. >> hes have broken ranks and endorsed congressman akin and do-- whom claire mccaskill defeated in 2006. so republicans had expected to do a lot better, judy, this year than they are doing right now according to most estimates. the seats that they took for granted, dick lugar's in indiana, richard murdoch, the two party candidate is now behind centrist democrat joe donnelly, in maine where olympia snowee is going to walk to re-election, that the republicans are trailing badly es against an guess king. so all of a sudden republicans are looking, well, maybe we have to figure out a way to help congressman akin even though we don't want to get close to him because we could face a los