in new hampshire president obama polled at 49%, mitt romney at 47% and detroit press poll and cnn pollhowed in colorado president obama at 50% and mitt romney at 48%. tonight president obama has an 81% chance of winning re-election. alex cwagner, so mike bloomberg somehow finally made up his mind. everyone is focused on the climate change. in that article he mentions the pez's position on abortion and the health care law. so this isn't just this week. this is something that mayor bloomberg has been thinking about for some time and it is coming as the president finished the bromance tour with chris christie. it is a good week for the president. >> when you read the mayor's reasons, what was he waiting for. there wasn't a single thing that he was in line for? >> it seems to me that he is someone who has a large conception on his role on american national affairs and an early endorsement would not preserve that. the mayor's people say there is off the recoorecord reporters ae time. if you look at the economists the center right conservative publication, what you see is that the president'

i was a kid the detroit news was still in print and we used to get the detroit news in the detroit free press the free press was the business paper it had a business section they always editorialized for the republicans the detroit news was the labor paper it had a labor section didn't have a business section and they always editorialized in favor the democrats the days when every town in america had at least one newspaper that had a labor section and are gone in days when when you know. local television and radio even existed are gone and now we've got these large transnational corporations that basically run our media that in many cases themselves are not unionized or if they are or if they are they're only grudgingly and they certainly don't want to be talking about unions on the air do you see any possibility of breaking through that or have times changed so much that there is now is systemic wall to prevent what your grandfather and his brothers did you know are you right i mean i think that the brothers in the u.a.w. at that time had a tremendous spin machine too i mean they had their o

the headline for the detroit free press, four more years, and a more sobering take from the hartford current, work to do. >>> the markets took a post-election day tumble tonight. the dow was down more than 300 points. it fell below the 13,000 mark for the first time since september. the nasdaq and s&p also suffering big losses. the sell-off was triggered by worries over the looming fiscal cliff here at home. also concerns about europe's struggling economy. >>> virginia's new senator-elect tim kaine said he's ready to hit the ground running when he takes office. julie carey tells us more. >> reporter: tim kaine's long 19-month campaign may be over but in his first news conference as senator-elect, the promise to voters now he says is finding a way to work across party lines to tackle pressing issues, like the sequester and the budget. >> to the extent that i won by a couple of points, i think it was largely because people looked at me and believed that i would be able to go into the senate and just be an extra voice in the common ground caucus. we just need to add more voices to that

but a new "detroit free press"/wxyz poll has president obama leading by six points, 48% to 42%.of those polled said that the rescue of gm and chrysler was a deciding factor in their support and 2/3 of those people backed president obama. robert reich, it seems like michigan voters have figured out who they want to give credit to for the auto bailout. >> yes, they have. although romney and ryan are doing everything they possibly can, lawrence, to confuse voters, to dissemble, to claim credit for the bailout, to actually say, believe it or not, and unfortunately some people believe big lies when they're told over and over again, that romney was in favor of the bailout and that somehow, by some stretch of the imagination the president is responsible for shrinking chrysler and shrinking gm and sending the jobs out to china. that's actually what they are saying right now. i mean, it takes lies to a new height of prevarication. >> let's listen to the help president obama's getting on in from colin powell. >> he served america as a four-star general, as secretary of state. here's colin

the suspect's mother tells the detroit free press newspaper is worried her son might be mentally ill. big day in the world of weed. voters in two states have just approved legalizing marijuana for the specific purpose of getting high. that's not the only ballot issue making history tonight. voters cleared the way for the first time on a ballot initiative for same sex marriage. and it wasn't one state. it was more. we'll get into all of it next. plus, some folks with at&t phones are in for a very nice refund. we'll tell you about the mistake that's forced at&t to pay back hundreds of thousands of dollars. might you get a cut? that's ahead as fox reports live tonight. ...seems like you guys got a little gassed out there. enough already. c'mon guys. next question. mr. lewis? what's your favorite color? what's my favorite color? yes. purple. what's your favorite animal? sea turtle. what's your bedtime? do you believe in space aliens? ...i love puppies. hash browns or home fries? home fries. do you like my dress? why can't you guys ask good questions like this? [ morgan ] for a chance to i

the suspect's mother telling the detroit free press newspaper her son may be mentally ill. if the court convicts him on any of the 8 counts of attempted murder, he could face life in prison. well, the chairman of the house homeland security committee is now reacting to the petraeus bombshell. coming up, my interview with representative peter king on the cia director's sudden exit. and more than 10 days after super storm sandy struck. hundreds of thousands of people in the northeast still living a nightmare. after long lines and a ton of time just sitting, new york city and long island began rationing gasoline. we believe that we'll help mitigate the worst of our problems. >> but some people are not convinced. >> this is horrible. >> in moments, a region struggling to recover from two storms. where so many people are still living without power for heat or hot water. we're watching a controversial move to solve the problem at the pump. [ male announcer ] this is steve. he loves risk. but whether he's climbing everest, scuba diving the great barrier reef with sharks, or jumpin

his own mother telling "the detroit free press," she worried he was mentally ill but refused to get help. casteel's aunt telling "the detroit news," he was scared the government was after him. >> there were statements made by family members with respect to his mental health. we're looking into that, as well. >> reporter: the judge entered the not guilty plea for casteel. additional charges are expected. he's being held on $2 million bond. eluding investigators, the troubling question, why? what motivated the terrifying shooting spree? >> strange. all right, john. thank you so much. >>> for more on the why, we're joined from washington, by chief psychologist for the secret service, dr. rendazo. you say it's key what he told his mother. if anything happens to me, the government may be involved. you say that kind of paranoia could be a clue to what was motivating him? >> absolutely. there's so much we don't know about this case yet. and we're going to be learning as the investigation unfolds. but we've got two big clues here, with what the mother and what his aunt shared with newspapers abo

there was this response later in the day from gm spokesman in "the detroit free press" we've clearlydays not of campaign politics at its cynical worst will diminish our jobs of jobs in the u.s. and the obama campaign worked up their own response ad and the president rebutted mitt prromne directly. >> you've got folks who work at the jeep plant who have been calling their employers worried, asking is this true, are our jobs being shipped to china? and the reason they're making these calls is because governor romney's been running an ad that says so. except it's not true. everybody knows it's not true. the car companies themselves had told governor romney to knock it off. i know, you know, we're close to an election, but this isn't a game. these are people's jobs. these are people's lives. >> back with us at the table now john nichols my colleague at the "nation" magazine and betsey stevenson, great to have you back. i should note one small technicality, right, which is they are -- jeep is going to do -- open a factory to produce jeeps in china for the chinese market. so, the point is

press this button. brew what you love, simply. keurig. . >>> there was added excitement at a game last night in detroit. a fog machine for a half time show malfunctioned during a game between the pistons and the rockets. nobody was hurt and the game resumed after a brief delay. jeremy lynn had 12 points as his new team the rockets won. >>> a former san jose shark has sold his ranch to benefit a park. owen nolan's 1100-acre ranch will be added to joseph grant county park. he sold it to the parks department for $2.6 million. the former captain of the sharks said he used to hunt and ride his bike in the hills. he retired last year and lives in loss gatos. >> the police department will get a 300,000-dollar grant to help them study reports of shots fired. they say that information will analyze data from the shot spotter system to identity areas and homes with the highest concentration of gun fire. it uses sensors. it tells police with in seconds of when shots are fired in the city. they say that information could be used in the future to help police take action against homes with frequent shots fired. >>> yo