we couldn't hear david white and what he was saying.'s over, explaining it to lovie smith right now. >> said the ball cannot be advanced on that crumble and reach the spot of the ball on the 38-yard line. carr on the move. throws in at the 10-yard line! there is a flag thrown. there was a flag dropped at the last minute by david white. mark with the interception for chicago, now let's check the penalty. roughing the passer, number 76 of the defense, a blow to the head. the penalty will be 15 yards to the previous spot, first down. >> take a look at david carr rolling out and it's actually, it looks to me like it's whiteside, number 79. on that replay, it looked like it was 79, whiteside that made the contact. we're looking there at ozougwu on the sideline. again, take a look at it. yeah, that's whiteside as he comes in. though his forearm. it's hard to see. it looked like it hit the shoulder pad, but david white was right there. if you strike the quarterback's helmet, it is roughing the passer. first down inside the 25. carr, and if you

gerry: referee david white. referee: personal foul, face mask, number 56. 15 yards from the end of the run, first down. gerry: chavis williams. stan: it is not a form tackle to duck your head and do that? he grabbed hold of it. he was getting blocked. that is not a good play. gerry: they used to have an incidental face mask as a five-yard yenlt. it is automatically 15 now. again brought down by williams, this time without the face mask. qadry: i think coaches are looking for guys who can line up there, perform their assignment, understand their technique. it is going to be the routine plays that you make, and there are also those plays where you can step up. gerry: he would like to make a big play. he made a big mistake with a late hit on a quarterback that kept a scoring drive alive for the rams. here is reynolds weaving inside the right tackle. he gets down to the 4-yard-line, enough for another rams first down. it will be first and goal for the rams in the red zone. 10th play of the drive coming up. 2:30 left

president will spend the next couple dies in iowa. 200 fund-raiser, outpacing anybody else. >> david kerley at the white house tonight. david, thanks to you. want to bring in abc's coky wants. now they have a romney/ryan ticket. does it make it izier? >> does it ever? and you know the democrats have been running against the ryan budget for a couple years now. they have made paul ryan into something of a doogie man and used his propose a.m.s as, as they put it n medicare as we know and it congressional races and they feel they have won a couple elections. they are dancing in the streets right now. >> on the flip side, we heard you this morning on "this week" saying paul ryan can address the budget with a smile on his face. that is important paint. >> absolutely. he is a happy warrior and that is why he has conservatives excitemented. is excitement now around the ticket and people are turning tout see them. and conservatives are just singing paul ryan's praises. this is a pick that obvious lip has its pluses as well as its minuses. >> reporter: all right, that to you, cokie. and last night, we toelds you

let's turn to david kerley at the white house. vid, they seem awfully happy about this choice, too. >> reporter: what does the president think of romney's choice. we have no idea. the president didn't even look towards reporters as he left for chicago but plenty of democrats are giddy, calling ryan an extreme choice. the ticket, a match made in millionaires' heaven. ryan, the author of disastrous budgets. officially, the obama campaign says the republican ticket will place greater burdens on the middle class and seniors. democrats have attacked ryan's budget. tax cuts for the rich and changes to medicare as we know it. last year, a liberal group used this ad to make the points. ♪ >> reporter: in many ways romney's choice plays into the obama campaign plan. make the selection less about the job the president has done. >> let's can clarify the choice and help them shift the election more towards the choice side and away from solely the referendum. >> reporter: tonight, the obama has already posted a web ad. >> and in rewritinging it

. >> the white house wouldn't agree with that. let's turn to washington. david kerley is there for the latest. david, the white house has been anticipating that paul ryan would be a big player here. >> reporter: they've already been talking about paul ryan, throughout the election, part of the president's stump speech. as george has mentioned, and others, this does shift this to an ideological battle. that's a battle the obama team thinks they can win. the campaign manager talks about cutting taxes for the rich, changing medicare. and he says the romney/ryan ticket would put us back, repeating the same catastrophic mistakes. this is a battle they want. one democrat did tell me, this is a bold pick. and this is a guy who is dynamic who can go out and talk about the hard choices. there's two sides to this. they think they are getting the battle they want. but they know they have a tough opponent there. and i'm sure vice president biden is thinking about how he's going to debate paul ryan. >> david, thank you. >>> well, the race for the white house comes down to a

>> david kerley at the white house tonight. david, thanks to you. want to bring in abc's cokie roberts in the washington burrow tonight. as we heard david report there. this obama campaign had long planned to tie the paul ryan budget to the campaign. now they have a romney/ryan ticket. does it make it easier? >> does it ever? and you know the democrats have been running against the ryan budget for a couple years now. they have made paul ryan into something of a boogie man and used his proposals to, as they put it in medicare as we know and in congressional races and think think they have won a couple elections just by going after paul ryan and his budgets. they are dancing in the streets right now. >> on the flip side, we heard you this morning on "this week" saying paul ryan can address the budget with a smile on his face. he got some chuckles. that is an important point. >> absolutely. he is a happy warrior and that in the mold of ronald reagan and jack kemp. and that is why conservatives are excited. that's a big plus for mitt romney, there is ex

abc's david kerley is at the white house. david, paul ryan is no stranger to this administration. >> reporter: not at all. i want to start with the democratic rapid response team, which is very quick in responding to any news. they have been silent on this so far. the only thing we have heard, i have heard nothing from the white house. nothing from the campaign, even though i've asked them. the only person who has said something is bill burton, who used to work here at the white house. he's running the super pac for the president. he says that romney would have picked one of the only people who could have an impact in the race. but not for the way he wants. and really, you're right, bianna. paul ryan is already in the president's stump speech. he talks about how mr. romney wants to change medicare as we know it into a voucher program. that's right out of the ryan plan. and the president has mentioned ryan before in his stump speeches. if anything, even though i haven't heard from the democrats, this makes good sense for this w

but president obama is not backing down on the issue and abc's david kerley is tracking it all from the white house. good morning, david. >> reporter: traditionally medicare, talking about changes to medicare is an issue that usually favors democrats. but mitt romney and paul ryan want to have this debate because it's a debate they feel they'll win. and ryan brought out a very personal weapon. >> congressman paul ryan! >> i want to introduce you to my mom. >> reporter: yep, that's mom betty, a medicare recipient. in front of more than 3,000 cheering florida seniors. >> we have a choice to make. we will lead. >> reporter: and he went on the offense. accusing the president of taking $700 billion out of medicare for health care reform. >> we'll end the raid of medicare and we'll make sure that this board of bureaucrats won't mess with my mom's health care or your mom's health care. >> reporter: romney and ryan say their plan to change the health system into a voucher program won't touch anyone over the age of 55. >> we got to change it or it's going to go broke. >> reporter: a supporter, but loo

joining me now for more on our big story is david axelrod. former white house senior adviser to the president. david axelrod, welcome back. how are you? >> good to be with you, piers. >> what is your overview of where you are right now? as team obama? we are, what, 80 or so days away from the election. the general feeling seems to be it is game on and we know where the battleground's going to be now. is that your analysis? >> like where we are. i think the president's message is getting out there. and people understand, you know, that he's fighting for an economy which the middle class can grow and get a fair shake. and the contrasts are getting out. so i like our position but i've always anticipated a close race. we're going to have a close race. >> you're going to find yourselves in unusual territory and it looks clear mitt romney will have more money to spend. we know from the republican nominee race, when he's got lots of money, he tends to spend it very negatively. are you prepared for that? what can you do about that? >> well, i don't think that i n

david kerley, abc news, the white house. >>> democrats will unveil their list of speakers today. among them, bill clinton, john kerry. >>> it's still ticking. the 215--year-old "uss constitution" set sail. nicknamed old iron sides, it's the world's oldest commissioned warship. the voyage was to commemorate the victory in the war of 1812. >>> time for the weather. cooler on the pacific coast. flash flooding in the rockies and texas panhandle. thunderstorms from new england to the carolinas. >> mostly 80s along the east coast. near 90 across much of the rockies. >>> coming up, beware what you eat. new recalls of produce that you may have in your fridge. >>> and shocking news from hollywood overnight about a successful director. >>> and a frightening crash and comments bay driver who was in the lead. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back, everyone. a question this morning, are we nearing a peak in gas prices? hopefully we have an answer for you. the national average is now $3.72 a gallon, five cents more than a week ago and up 29 cents from last month. experts say relief could be ju

. >> david, didn't the white house badly misjudge the recovery. i remember in 2010, you and vice president biden were talking about recovery summer of 2010. and your white house said if you got the stimulus, 800 billion that unemployment would stay under 8 percent in fact with the stimulus, unemployment stayed over 8 percent for 42 months. >> i wasn't running around saying anything that we have to be persistant. >> talk about recovery summer in 2010. >> you should show me the tape of me saying that. i have been consistent about the fact we need to be persistant. moodies analyzed the governor mitt romney's plan. there are not enough specifics to score it his plan would throw us back ward and might tip us back in a recession because it would ratchet down the things we need to keep the economy growing. >> if i may. >> we think that raising taxes is the way to get the moving andy cutting education 25 percent is the way to get the economy moving? i don't think most americans agree with that. >> chris: david, you talk about romney. i am asking you about

a toast in red, white, and blue. i'm davidt for "nightline" in tampa. >> thanks to david wright for that cracker jack reporting on the balloon drop. thanks for watching abc news. "good morning america" will have the latest on the storm. i'll be in charlotte next week at the democratic national convention. jimmy kimmel and up next and we'll see you he

david kerley is at the white house with the latest this morning. d, i gotta ask you, does the obama campaign really think they're going to be able to cajole romney into releasing five years of tax returns? >> reporter: they think they can keep the issue alive, dan. that's what they're trying to do. they're going to continue to do so as well. what they did yesterday was send a letter to romney and say, give us five years of your returns that's three more -- and we won't ask for any more returns. the romney campaign said no, we followed the law, we're not going to do anything further. this will stay in the news. romney has to release last year's return once it's completed. when that comes up, it all gets talked about again. the obama campaign wants to keep talking about mitt romney, he's not like you. he's a multimillionaire. that's the issue they want to frame around him. >> let's talk about paul ryan. he'll be on the trail in florida with his mom. is this about medicare? >> reporter: oh, i guess so, yeah. his mom is 78 years old. he's going to be in

. >> except top white house aide david plouffe raised money super pac priorities usa run by former whiteiginal claim it knew nothing about steelworker joe soptic story, the top romney advisor today ripped in the president. claiming mr. obama squandered his credentials as a different type of politicians. telling reporters they have gone from what started at petty distortions and up truth to unbelievable examine rations that diminish the office of the president and insult the american people. jay carney fired back the democratic super-pac ad has not even run on tv and is living off the media talking about it. the romney camp itself has an ad falsely charging the president is gutting welfare reform. >> it is being broadcast in states across the nation to the tune of millions and millions of dollars. >> the romney ad got four pinocchios from the "washington post." although that ad does not accuse anyone of being

shortly before joining the white house staff in 2010, david plouffe got a hundred thousand dollar speaking fee from a subsidiary of the mtn group, which does business with iran's government the white house insists questions about the company's ties to iran were unknown at the timecarney says, "criticism of mr. plouffe now for issues and controversies that developed much later is simply misplaced." but the republican national committee notes taht media reports dating all the way back to 2005 show the company was doing business in iran. the white house fires back that top bush officials gave speeches to u-b-s and credit suisse, companies that also do business with iran. at the white house, ed henry, fox news. we have a lot more stories about the race for the white house on our website... ...including a story about a birthday cake for the president... which the democratic national committee áreturned.áfind out why at fox-baltimore dot com... click on vote 2012 in the hot topics section at the top of the screen 3 we're learning more tonight about the man accused of opening fire at a sikh templ

. >> except top white house aide david plouffe raised money super pac priorities usa run by former whiteide bill burton. the obama campaign in chicago back pedaling on the original claim it knew nothing about steelworker joe soptic story, the top romney advisor today ripped in the president. claiming mr. obama squandered his credentials as a different type of politicians. telling reporters they have gone from what started at petty distortions and up truth to unbelievable examine rations that diminish the office of the president and insult the american people. jay carney fired back the democratic super-pac ad has not even run on tv and is living off the media talking about it. the romney camp itself has an ad falsely charging the president is gutting welfare reform. >> it is being broadcast in states across the nation to the tune of millions and millions of dollars. >> the romney ad got four pinocchios from the "washington post." although that ad does not accuse anyone of being responsible for a woman getting cancer. with the white house noting there are far more republican super-pac ads

group the firm with ties to iran that reportedly paid white house adviser david plouffe one hundred thousand dollars in speaking fees back in two thousand and ten has even deeper ties with the iranian government the firm it's been alleged was behind quote a premeditated program of corruption that included bribery and influence and corrupt and control officials and this type of in-depth reporting brings some very interesting questions to light some of which fox news seems to be more than happy to bring to the fray at the expense of the obama administration however this type of coverage is becoming scarce and it's becoming increasingly difficult to find out the actual facts when it comes to politics and our foreign policy q wiki leaks an organization without which we would not know many aspects of how our foreign governments work it was deemed cable great and it unearthed a trove of information a lot of which served as the basis for dozens of stories yet it's been criticized and persecuted for doing just that just last night the wiki leaks i was a victim of district of a distributed denial of

white house and/or the campaign. check in out. jim messina raised money for priorities usa. so has axelrod, raised money for priorities usa and they both work on campaign 2008 and 2012. daviduffe who works in the white house, senior white house advisor raised money for priorities usa. bill burton runs priorities usa. he worked on the obama campaign. he worked in the obama white house. a deputy press character of the white house he may have been the press secretary of the campaign in 2008 as well. i don't know how the obama camp can there is no coordination. there is money coordination between the two. now you heard audiotape of mr. soptic who worked for the campaign in may of this year and also with priorities usa many this last ad. now time to man up, president obama and time to demons the priorities usa ad and make the american people have confidence in you and prove there is no coordination between your group, priorities usa. >> dana: great explanation. greg, when you first saw the audio, the conference call. you said this is a big deal. what struck you? >> greg: this is like guy with pit bull who attacks a kid and says that is not my fault. this is obama's it be pull.

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up next, david gregory and nbc news chief white house correspondent chuck todd, joining us with reaction and analysis to the expected paul ryan pick. first, some extreme weather expected today in parts of the country as folks in long island, new york, cleaning up from a tornado. who's at risk today? bill karins is live with the forecast. >> good morning, a lot of breaking news and i'll have the forecast for norfolk shortly. they have a chance of rain down there this morning. yesterday the tornado, very rare event on long island. a lot of severe storms ended up rolling through southern portions of new england. there's a lot of cleanup needed. as far as long island tornado, winds were 80 to 90 miles per hour. it was not a big, strong tornado like in the midwest but did do significant damage, especially to the large trees on long island. let me take you to the forecast and show you what's going on. as far as the radar goes, here's the norfolk area and virginia beach, where the announcement will be made live on msnbc. right now it looks dry and they are pretty lucky. there's a chance of show

and your thoughts about david fluff who gave a speech before he went to the white house to an organization joint venture, something called iran's cell. >> looks bad to be cashing in with really questionable sources. this is after david plouffe runs the campaign that won in 2008. they switched off, where axelrod has gone to the re-election campaign. plouffe is in the white house now. just before going to the white house he apparently gets $100,000 for two speeches, south african company in nigeria, but it's a company that does a lot of business with iran. >> greta: you know, i actually have a different twist on it than everybody else. everyone focused the fact that he ran the campaign, in an interim time when he wasn't working at the white house, then goes to the white house a shorts time later. i don't know why any american citizen would do. we're talking about iran, which is trying to wipe -- ahmadinejad is trying to wipe israel off the map, from all we know is trying to get nuclear weapons, and this joint venture with iran's cell. it was not a mystery. in fact, the undersecretary of 2006

david curly, abc news, the white house. >> the romney campaign is giving donors a chance to go to theonvention on their dime. on the campaign website, there is an offer for two lucky supporters to win an all expense paid trip. the offer asks for a $3nter. donation to enter. tomorrow he will hit the trail and then he goes to yow yoy and then new york where he will talk to voters. >>> gas prices prices are sky rocketing after the chevron refinery fire. prices are up 30 cents in a month. but how high will prices go? there are signs tonight that we just might be nearing a peak. here is ron claiborne. >> if you think today's gas prices are high, just wait until tomorrow. >> we are not driving as much and doing as much. >> some states are seeing record spikes in the price at the pump. in california an average of $4.10, up 27 cents in just two weeks. in oregon the price of a gallon is up 29 cents. it is the peak summer driving season when high demand normally pushes up gas prices, but that alone doesn't account for what is happening. added to the mix, refinery problems and aging pipelines br

. >> you have in this white house, in this operation you have david plott, david axelrod who was in the white house, the president, the vice president. if they are confronted with a crisis of some sort they will be so swift in thinking about the politics of it from here on out that while it could be a problem for them, depending on the magnitude of it, they will not sort of rush into dealing with it and looked panicked. they will systemically say how do we address this that it minimizes our chances to win the election, and with the level and experience i think they could have high degree of confidence, what the surprise that they can face it. >> rose: thank you mark, thank you john, thank you maggie, thank you joe. i learned a lot. thank you for joining us. see you next time. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org