david peters. >> i don't remember a time where i don't know him.robably met each other where we were like three. we took some [ bleep ]. >> yeah, yeah. took some soap and made dominos to have something to play while we're in the room. can't have cards. >> can't have nothing, radio, nothing. just me and him. we call them sominos, they're a mix of dominos and soap. >> good to see him, even under these circumstance. we're both incarcerated. >> me and him, whole city of boston basically, we all over the building. >> you get addicted to the lifestyle. you get addicted to the streets, the whole long night, fast life, money, cars, fast women, everything that comes along with it. and you just get a rush from that after a while. >> some gun -- got it on my ribs. it's an einstein quote, you have to learn the rule of the game and play them better than anyone else. applied it and took it and applied to it the streets. >> like bloodworth, peters is also awaiting trial or a possible plea deal. facing six charges including possession of a firearm, assault and bat

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david: peter is very bullish on oil, you're not, why are you not so bullish on oil? >> i think it's in a pullback in the commodity space in general. with the economic slowdown, the demand side, if you will, you aryou'reseeing the pullback in y prices and we will see supply as mentioned before but always be in the middle east and issues surrounding prices that way. real demand side is for lower prices. liz: there is the question of risk in what is going on globally that might affect them, but the fiscal cliff, are you concerned about that at all? >> in the third debate tonight, politics are centerstage you talk about financials. a mitt romney would be better for the big banks. they have been strong but from a longer-term perspective, three years, five year chart, they certainly have a long ways to go given the financial sector in favor, better real estate prices will be the real engine for the broader market as well. liz: wells fargo 30% over the last year. that is pretty darn good. look at some of these names, bank of america included. liz: the s&p up 30% in that tim

peter? >> hey, liz and david. obama stock around florida, a key swing state for a post-debate rally this morning where he slammed mitt romney on foreign policy. >> last night he was all over the map. >> so that sound bite was to set this up. we're doing fact-checking here the both candidates are all over the map this week. headed to key swing states, they feel are crucial to whipping on november 6th. obama in florida, ohio, and iowa today. then on to colorado and nevada. though he will pop into l.a. tomorrow to tape "the tonight show" with jay leno. then the president is headed back to florida and ohio thursday as well as again i can't. mitt romney is hitting nevada twice, plus ohio, colorado, and iowa. he must be feeling pretty good about florida. he did not stay there this morning. the "real clear politics" average of battle grand state polls shows up up by 1.8% in florida but the averages have the president up in ohio, iowa and nevada. colorado looks like a dead-heat. liz and david? david: peters barnes, thank

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organized religions because people are realizing that organized religion is totally useless but david i mean that peter let's let's look at the a social impact that religion has i mean it does strengthen communities and bring them together to clean up parks and run soup kitchens friend sense so we can argue that no good comes from a lesson and also instill values in people that help guide their moral compass right. no i would say no to both of those questions it provides a medium for people to do good yes it does but without that medium people still do good if you look at secular democracies like norway sweden denmark there's plenty of good solid community and charity work going on there without the need for religion and as far as the application of moral codes no what religion does is it takes credit for a person's individual moral moral judgments i am a good person and another person might say they're a good person because god tells them to be a good person we're both good people religion simply takes the credit for you being a good person but most people are good without god. that certainly are peny

brent jones, followed by peter cohan. and david schner. >>> supervisors, my name is brent jones. i'm a graphic artist who has lived two blocks away for 28 years. i also work for the giants for the past eight, so i'm a little out of it right now. but i understand that the plot has been sold and i appreciate the efforts of jay and these other people. but when i moved into hayes valley, you couldn't pay to live that neighborhood. you couldn't get cable companies to put cable in because it wasn't densely enough populated. since i've been there, i didn't do a powerpoint, this is all-new residential. there's a lot of new residential coming in. and i know that there was a hearing on this in june. it kind of went into my radar when i read bought new developments going in blocks away from me. about a month ago they cut all these trees down to build the condos, future units at grove and goff. if you've ever gone by the farm area, it in itself is an urban oasis and i understand economic development, you know, i feel affordable housing is an oxymoron in this town. anything is driven p by tha

joining us fromostoox news milita analyst, colonel david hunt a ralph peters. conel pets, in trouble foign policy wis >> the obama administration has. bill, he only had this assomentf naive initiatives poisoned by ideology, deformed by politic, driven by pitics,nd the only thing the initiives i the foren affai alm have h in comn has been their faur you look from benghazi to beijing,n this afro-asian realm of cris,here iot one troued crynt not one, not russia, not china,ertainly notran, ahanistan, pakis ceainly notisrael, not one country in which relations are healthier or more constructiv th undereorge ush, and that was a pretty low standard. >>ill: wt do you say, colol hun >> i thinkhe specificity o thpoli when u look a we wante lower american prole wi t weakest profile we've had security s 1ince97 fst ambassador we had kild fail. in afgstssan is we have people traing, killing u that is not -- and the surge wa. the cmander on the ground reports says the talan is back. he talked about alda. >> bil the taliban really we want away. let'sook at afghanistan and an

peter alexander. >> david, quickly, restore our future obviously spending a bunch of money in the last spend as much as they did in all of september. i mean, as the guy who's out on the trail right now, we're hearing pretty much the same message. do these advertisements that we're watching on tv have any impact, or what are we supposed to be keeping an eye on out there? >> i think that's part of it. i think if you're the president right now, and i've been a little surprised by this, but we'll see what happens in the debate on monday, he is still spending a lot of time trying to disqualify romney. i think their concern is that he's made gains on the sent front, as an acceptable alternative. where he feels like he made some traction in the debate chipping away at that, he's now got to balance these two things. you take down the romney record like they're trying to do on access to contraception, for instance, or abortion. and at the same time, build up what an obama second term would look like. that's what i think the close has got to be about in the final weeks. >> david, who do you have

joining us from boston, fox news military analyst, colonel david hunt and ralph peters. colonel peters, we in trouble foreign policy wise? >> the obama administration has never had a foreign policy. bill, he's only had this assortment of confused, naive initiatives poisoned by ideology, deformed by politic, driven by politics, and the only thing these initiatives in the foreign affairs realm have had in common has been their failure. if you look from benghazi to beijing, in this afro-asian realm of crisis, there is not one troubled country, not one, not russia, not china, certainly not iran, afghanistan, pakistan, certainly not israel, not one country in which relations are healthier or more constructive than under george w. bush, and that was a pretty low standard. >> bill: what do you say, colonel hunt? >> i think the specificity of the policy when you look at libya in which we wanted a lower american profile with the weakest profile we've had security since 1979 first ambassador we had killed failed. in afghanistan issues we have people training, killing us. that is n

peter and debbie mc clawlin. bill and sally newco. and now let's give it up for your giants training staff. david, mark and carl, and harold. [cheers and applause] [inaudible] your assistant coaches. shawn dun can, dave stone and the there will will clark. [cheers and applause] . and the manager for the past 54 years the legendary one, mike murphy. [cheers and applause] and we would also like to extend a warm welcome to all of the giants alumni that we have here today including former giants manager feleap laua and five of our hall of famers. gay lord perry, orlando si pirra, jaun, lily misconnie, and willy mays. [cheers and applause] we also want to acknowledge congresswoman nancy pelosi along with her husband. thank you so much for being here. we know how busy you with the election just a few days away so a round of applause for all of our vip and special guests. and now at this time we would also like to thank the city and county of san francisco and our community partners. we must acknowledge them. can't do it without them. bank of america, dignity health, miller coors, diamond foods, virgin america, pg&e, and sales for

david: you can watch it right here on fbn. peter, thank you very much. liz: take it "off the desk". world's cheapest car coming to america. indian carmaker at that time at that, is coming -- tata. this come back -- compact car is being redesigned. goes for 3500 bucks in india. david: what? liz: 3500. will cost a lot more in the u.s. expected to be about 10 grand. expected to hit our streets in three years. david: key things to watch tomorrow. housing starts. the report for august bouncing back 3.3%, following a 2.8% drop in july. that caused a real boost in housing stocks. economists are expecting a slight up tick, not as much as in the past in the tomorrow's report. liz: number one key thennto watch tomorrow is bank of america earnings. the banking giant reports ahead of the bell. analysts expect the bank to report a loss of seven cents. revenue falling to $28.9 bi

actor peter coyote is 71. david lee roth is 58. you remember him as josh on the west wing, actor bradley whitford is 53. mario lopez is 39. you know him as crowley, dan stevens is 30. mya is 33. if it's your birthday today, happy birthday. we'll be right back. >>> good morning. welcome back to 9news now. our time is 5:46. a cloudy start but a sunny finish to the day. >> even a little bit of patchy fog, spotty drizzle but it will be a good day once we get past the next several hours. i have the nats forecast coming up. let's start with the bus stop forecast because some of you are going to need a jacket. others of you can just escape with a suit jacket or a little light wrap. 40s and 50s this morning. sunrise 7:13. we've got generally cloudy skies more than anything going on right now. our day planner, we're going to see sunshine here over the next few hours. by noon sunny, 64. this afternoon 70 at 4:00. i think we'll get to 71 for the high and going to be out this evening, you'll need a jacket also with 61 by 8:00. temperatures ton

. >> and i said peter kniffin, i meant to say david nifvif. >> i live in new york and i'm stressed outog. i finally went a dog his name is caspar, he's adorable. >> you're lying. >> no, caspar, i picked him up this week, he's the smartest most lovable dog on the planet and for the next three to four months, i'll be discussing caspar on this show at every opportunity. >> oh. >> look the at him. >> he's so cute, caspar. lovely caspar. >> i have a question. do you have a sparkly backpack. >> where i keep caspar's things. >> do you remember the movie "single white female", yes, looks like it's true and two cute, cuddly stories, involving puppies. and a ten-year-old girl who lost her dog, and sad about it and she asked to give her piggy bank to get the dog back, but the dog was brought back on thursday. and she's very happy about it. and very happy. >> found 80 miles away. >> which is unbelievable, a little dog. >> i think something was involved and the second one was john dolan hospitalized last week and dog zander had to be by the owner's bedside and broke out of the home and made it to t

david: having trouble with the feed from denver there. peternes was talking about the interesting fact that there are much fewer democratic spinners than there are republican spinners whether that would happen on any debate is unknown, although, there's been some suspicion that because it seemed mitt romney was at least a bit stronger than many democrats said he would be, in fact, they decided to pull back from that spin alley routine. we have a lot more guests coming up here as the presidential debate coverage continues. we're expecting to have gary johnson, libertarian candidate, coming up, giving his perspective, and perhaps if you're looking for a nonneutral perspective, you go down the center which would be gary johnson. interesting to hear what he has to say, and peter barns himself tracking the various spins on the situation. we'll get back to neil and the situation in denver shortly. for now, we'll take a short break -- actually, do we have gary johnson? i believe we do. yes, we do have gary johnson. gary, can you hear me? david asman f

david muir. summit said that the polls are too heavily skewed towards democrats. pollsters say that it is the site of a polling methods. >> peter prada and some of the evidence seems to be that romney -- the preponderance of evidence seems to be that romney is losing tra. the rasmussen poll does not wait democrats more heavily -- >> robopolling. >> we have an expert here in mark shields. >> we are in conservative wine country now. it is a miracle that ronald reagan won 49 states without fox news, rush limbaugh, sean hannity, drudge report, with the network's dominant and "the washington post" and "the new york times" ascended. mitt romney is being undone by some conspiracy out of a 7- eleven in falls church? [laughter] >> there was no other reagan. was unique and a political actor unlike any we have seen. putting mitt against him is unfair. he is not a great campaigner. i think he would be a great president, but he is not a great campaigner. evan is right. if the polls are 0.9% in one direction, there probably true. -- 90% in one direction, they are probably true. but you have to apply a formula by who is likely to show up. if

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peter alexander live for us at olin university. >> the president has been in hard core prep mode at camp david huddled with him at the maryland hideaway base of advisers. john kerry is standing in as mitt romney. the davids, axelrod and plouffe and tom donilon and karen dunn. joining me is carol simpson the first female minority nod rate one of these head-to-heads and professor alan schroeder. he's a presidential historian and the author of "le debates 50 years of high risk tv. it's great to have you both here. carol line i want to start with you. what do you think we can expect this time around what the candidate will bring to the table for this third and final debate, where they will reach millions of americans. >> thomas i've been wrestling with this all morning trying to speculate what may happen tonight. we're not going to have the first debate where obama was asleep. we're not going to have the second debate where they were gladiators on the arena floor. tonight i don't have any idea. people are saying oh, they will be more somber and calmer and so on. bath i don't think we know. one thing i do suspect, however, is that it is go

peter king said what you said as well. it was either intentional or unintentional misleading. then david akle rod and david plouffe * contradicted each other. john kerry says he's deeply disturbed because you are putting politic ahead of fact finding on a national security matter. >> i find that unfortunate. what we want to do is get to the bottom what happened. we have spent 11 years and we have been fighting al qaeda in what we see now is rather -- when you say okay, things are under control in iraq, they are under control in afghanistan. but they metastasized in north africa. bill: we'll hear a lot of this in the debates, too. to our viewers at home. if you have questions, hemmer@foxnews.com is the e-mail. lines are open right now. 11 minutes before the hour. martha: one high school teacher is facing serious charges after allegedly trying to hire a hitman to kill a former colleague and it was all caught on tape. bill: a stunning win at the ryder cup. europe did the impossible which is what we did to europe 15 years ago. a series of missteps by team usa. they lose the ryder cup out of

peter ogborn and dan henning. >> one thing we love about david jackson.h out to david he's always around. >> there are few people more committed than d.j. >> bill: he's right there. phil backert has the phones. cyprian bowlding our individualographer on on the job as always and doing a good job. it will be interesting to see how many watched the debate last night because there was serious competition from monday night football. i don't know who played monday night football. >> the bears and the lions. >> bill: the bigger competition last night the giants and the cardinals. it was 3-3. giants had to win it and the cardinals didn't even show up. they were like president obama in the first debate. they didn't show up. here is john miller from knbr out in san francisco with the final play. >> delivers. slider. scud row at second. he's got it. giants win the pennant. >> bill: 9-0. >> in the pouring rain. we had a it on. why don't we suspend for awhile. it is pouring. >> bill: it started as a drizzle, didn't it? it picked up and in the end i guess they just fig

peters. he's protesting austerity measures in the eurozone, and there he remains at this moment. david? >> wow, michelle kosinski, thanks very much. >>> coming up here this morning, a man who got a second chance to live out his dream last night seven years after his only at-bat in the major leagues. he'll tell us what it was like in a live interview, but first this is "today" on nbc. >>> just ahead here, startling claims that the most popular kind of smoke detector may not save your family in a fire. >>> and we'll talk to the local tv anchor being praised for standing up on air to a viewer who attacked her for her weight after your local news. ♪ i'd do anything for you, dear ♪ ♪ anything, yes, i'd do anything ♪ ♪ anything for you ♪ check out the latest collection of snacks from lean cuisine. creamy spinach artichoke dip, crispy garlic chicken spring rolls. they're this season's must-have accessory. lean cuisine. be culinary chic. >> this is wbal-tv 11 news in baltimore. >> good morning. i am stan stovall here is a look at one of our top stories. more than 40 animals are in the care of a

david petraeus to members of the house intelligence committee. in that briefing, sources confirm to fox that petraeus seemed very much wedded to the administration's youtube video explanation. without discussing classified information, congressman peterg who has great respect for general petraeus says the brief was inadequate. >> especially on what we know now that there was more information available that was not told us to that day. >> the state department announced today that the service veteran who retired in 2000 temporarily assume control in embassy in tripoli, confirmation of ambassador's stephens replacement. to underscore the commitment to libya in the transition, bret? >> bret: thank you. yemeni security official who worked at the u.s. embassy in santorusanaa was assassinated t. it appears to be the work of al-qaeda. we will talk with top advisors to both presidential campaigns live in a few minutes in spin room. up next, the palace intrigue within the obama administration over libya. >>> we are walking around campus here in center college. don't know if biden or congressman ryan will see this. we came upon a statue. abe lincoln in the middle here. he is a kentucky native, actually born in this state. grew up in illinois. w

david petraeus. to members of the house intelligence committee and in that briefing, sources tell fox that petraeus seemed very much wedded to the administration youtube video explanation. without discussing classified information, petering was puzzled by what they were told. >> director petraeus gave the briefing and based on what we've learned since, really a lot of what we were told at that briefing was inadequate. i don't know the reason for it, but especially on what we know now, that there was more information available that was not told to us that day. >> u.s. intelligence officials telling fox, quote, there was and still is information that suggested the attackers in benghazi were influenced by the scenes they saw in cairo, protesters scaling the walls of the u.s. embassy. congressman king is now asking secretary of state hillary clinton to designate the al-shariah as a foreign terrorist organization. this group is sympathetic to al-qaeda and it's blamed for the attack on the consulate, shep. >> shep: katherine, thank you. the analysts are saying libya is almost certain to come up tonight at the presidential debate here. as i mentioned at the top of this newscast, the stakes are higher than usual really for ru

peter gammons who is going to be with us. we are not going to be talking about the debates or politics. we'll talk about politics in the first half of the show when david action axlerod will have writers. but we just decided with the nats going to the playoffs and so forth and the baseball season, another great season. we just take a little break and talk some baseball. so the whole second half of the broadcast, we are going to just talk about baseball. the game today, and some of the great things that happen during this season. i mean, cabrera for one thing, win the triple crown. the first time it happened in a long time. it's a lot to talk about. in addition to the nats going to the playoffs. so i'm really excited. >> it sounds like a great break from the political thing, bob, we all could use it, right? >> i can. >> exactly. thank you, bob. we look forward to seeing you on sunday. >> thank you very much. >> now we have a sneak preview today of rare objects related to the american presidency of the past. they include an original letter written by george washington and an early printing of the decloration of independence. the items include a rare dish

. >> david gurg insaid he thinks he passed an important test in this debate called the commander in chief test. >> cnn political reporter peter hammy says from 9:00 to 10:45 eastern last night, the top five rising searches on google were horses and bayonets, syria, molly, drones, and tumult. if you missed last night's debate including all the tumult, tune in to cnn noon eastern for an encore presentation. >> and president obama talking about the strength of our economy on his watch as commander in chief. >> and as a consequence, al qaeda's core leadership has been decimated. >> so is this true? we're going to go live to washington to get the real story. hmm, it says here that cheerios helps lower cholesterol as part of a heart healthy diet. that's true. ...but you still have to go to the gym. ♪ the one and only, cheerios wanted to provide better employee benefits while balancing the company's bottom line, their very first word was... [ to the tune of "lullaby and good night" ] ♪ af-lac ♪ aflac [ male announcer ] find out more at... [ duck ] aflac! [ male announcer ] ...forbusiness.com. [ yawning sound ] [ male announcer ] ...

but -- brought in david brinkley and diane sawyer. he brought peter back from overseas and had an amazing graphics on air, amazing look, and he was very, very aggressive and built it up into a real powerhouse petallides. >> what was his personality like? if you have to describe them. >> well, he was a genius. he was larger than life in his thinking, not in his demeanor. if he were here, he was a bit on the size i actually. and often totally absent. i mean, one of the running joke says he never returned phone calls, including the head of the company. in fact, throughout his life when you would call him at home at night because a news you have crises, there was an answering service. it wasn't even a voice mail. he never returned the phone calls. and after he died one of his close friends at the white said to me, you know why he never returned phone calls. why is that? because if you were calling him it was your problem, and he didn't care about your problem. he wanted to do with this problem. but he had this, i think, unique ability, besides just having

david gregory in washington. thank you very much. >> speaking of the election let's get to peter alexander.n the last hour or so we've now heard from the romney campaign that they will be cancelling events scheduled for this evening and cancelled all of tomorrow's events scheduled to take place in ohio and in iowa. he does have another event a short time from now that will take place in iowa. right now he's in ohio and just about 30 minutes ago he wrapped up an address speaking to supporters in the community of avon lake, ohio about the need to support hurricane relief efforts and about the need to win the state of ohio. >> i don't think there's been a hurricane in ohio in a long time but there's been some hurricanes that cause ad lot of damage across this country and hurt a lot of families and families in harm's way that will be hurt in their possession or smothering severe. so i would like to ask you to think about making a contribution to the red cross or to another relief agency to be of help if you possibly can in any way you can imagine to help those who are in harm's way. we're count

peter alexander in florida. first president obama's agenda with mike. hello to you, mike. how's the president breaking down his cram session there at camp david?: he is at camp david. the white house has kept this very close to the vest, the three days leading up to each of the three debates we've seen so far. he spent the previous two, alex, as you know in nevada a swing state before the first debate at debate camp there. then in williamsburg, virginia, virginia obviously another swing state before the second debate. this time he's chosen the solitude of camp david. believe me if you've ever been up there you know it's very tranquil up there. on top of a mountain not far from here. enjoying nice weather in the washington area today. yesterday he was back in virginia, another rally in purple northern virginia. this is where the swing state -- the swing voters are located in the commonwealth. he's been out there several times. at george mason university in fairfax and he joined this new term which everybody's been talking about. let's take a listen. >> he's changing up so much and backtrack inand sidestep in. we got to name this condition that

peter, thank you very much. robert gibbs is a senior adviser to president obama's campaign. robert, good to see you. good morning. >> good morning, matt. >> your colleague davidlouffe said on "meet the press" over the weekend that if the first debate fundamentally changed the race you'd start to see polling in places like ohio draw to a tie. not a tie just yet but the race in ohio has narrowed considerably. in michigan it's gone from a ten-point president obama lead down to about three or four points. can you deny that the momentum, robert, is firmly on the side of mitt romney right now? >> well, matt, we always expected this to be a very close race, and we expect it as we got closer to election day that the race would tighten even more. we've prepared for that since the beginning of this. but, look, i think it's a discussion of real issues that are going to be what separates these two candidates. you know, your piece that peter just did mentioned, you know, the fact that one more time we've got an example of mitt romney changing a position in publicven though everybody knows what he believes. yes, they are telling "the des moines register" he has absolutely

peter doocy is live in d.c. this morning with the details, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, david.e a moderator and the questions by the people, and no idea what they want to ask about, only the questions about foreign and domestic issues and the candidates will have two minutes to respond with one minute blocked for the moderator in between to facilitate the discussion. as things stand right now more voters have a favorable opinion of mitt romney than president obama, but only by a hair. and in a poll that was taken after the debate, a fox news poll. mitt romney had 52% favorability rating. one point higher than the president's 51%, but 4 points higher than before the debate in denver whereas the president's number didn't budge before and after. in the second round of debating could maybe the numbers flip again since this format leaves both candidates a lot of room to be, remember, not only for what they say, but what they do or where they stand. when vice-president al gore stood too close to then governor george w. bush and looked awkward. >> and, president obama is a few points

peter, good morning. >> reporter: lester, good morning. both of them are retreating from the campaign trail the next couple days. the president will spend his weekend hunkering down at camp david boca raton. they squeezed in one more sharp exchange. with more onstage fireworks expected next week, the romney campaign lit up the sky after laying into his rivals. >> they have been reduced to petty attacks and silly word games. just watch it. the obama campaign has become the incredible shrinking campaign. >> reporter: mr. romney was taking aim at these comments in virginia on friday, accusing the republican nominee of forgetting his own past promises. >> we've got to name this condition that he's going through. i think it's called romnesia. >> reporter: the goal for both candidates, to make their message stick in voters' minds. perhaps their last best chance, monday's final debate, that the president loosely previewed during a charity dinner this week. >> the topic is foreign policy. spoiler alert. we got bin laden. >> reporter: while most polls show president obama still holds a slight advantage on foreign affairs, governor romney sees a vulnerability in the white house's evolvi

david petraeus the members of the house intelligence committee, and sources confirmed to fox the trace was very much wedded to the administration's youtube video explanation. and without discussing classified information, congressman peter-- who says he has great respect for general petraeus -- was clearly not satisfied and puzzled by what they were told. >> director petraeus gave the briefing, and, you know, based on what we've learned since, really a lot of what we were told at that briefing was inadequate. now, i don't know the reason for it, but if -- especially on what we know now, that there was more information available, that was not told to us that day. >> reporter: congressman king is asking secretary of state clinton to designatal sharia as a foreign terrorist organization which gives the u.s. government tools to track, punish and freeze their assets. one theme really dominated at the hearing yesterday into the 9/11 attack at the consulate, and it was that official washington was preoccupied with reducing the number of american security personnel or their footprint in benghazi even after a series of attacks on dip 40 mats there. >> -- diplomats there. >> it's not the hardships u it's not the threats, it's dea