as we have been saying, esident obama has beenri tout ng new jersey to see the devastation for himself. for more on the government response, i spoke a short time ago to the u.s. congressman who represents atlantic city. i asked him what he needs the most. >> we need to get set up because of the devastation that it has caused so many people and this loss, as your reporter described. parts of north jersey, this is the lowest 1/3 of the state. there are parts of north jersey that have lots of structural damage. this has come into homes and businesses that will just be devastating. if you could imagine attempting to clean up without power, how much more difficult that is. getting power restored is of a primary concern, especially along the coast. >> i know it has only been a couple of days, but do you have any sense of how long this will take? the president has said that they will be with the residents of new jersey for however long it will take. >> it will be quite a while. i had an aerial tour with the coast guard this morning and we stressed from the delaware bay which is essentially th

esident obama and mitt romney argued about the best way toe bring back jobs to american factory floors. many manufactures say they need workers, but can't find them with the right skills. but now, some companies are joining forces with community colleges to change that. diane eastabrook has details.g >> reporter: a couple of years ago, acme industries was in a dilemma. orders for precision parts used in oil and gas drilling n uipment were flooding into the suburban chicago manufacturer, but c.e.o. warren young was ving trouble hiring new employees for the extra work. >> they didn't have the kind of skillsrohat we needed, and ourha mode was not to hire somebody who didn't know hardly anything. >> reporter: acme's problem led to unique partnership with nearby harper college.t c.e.o. young helped the college develop its new advanced manufacturing program, which trains students for high-demand jobs in automation, machining, metal fabrication, and supply chain management. 23-year-old marc bonfiglio is among the first students. he was a struggling musician who's found a new passion, welding.

debate on stark display, what he really needed to push heallh care over that fal finish line was re esident obamawould decide i need to do another speech and it isn't th case. he is not that compelling a figure any longer, and i think that is part of the problem. lou: it was in august he went out to campaign for obamacare. the result is week after week after week he drove down both himself and obamacare. now, speaking of preparation, governor romney may forgo his debate preparation to exnd a paul ryan event. is this stuff catching, do you suose? >> he thinks he is the man. i don' know, the one thing we know about mitt romney is he has been prepared for a long time. somebody who started his debate preparations in formally back when the republican primary was in effect in april he was doing this kind of study and had already been through nearly two dozen debates in the republican primary, somedy w did wel in those debates, i thought he usually de them in a reasonable way that suggested he uld do well. hhe's going into this tomorrow confident. i don't think he is cocky, but that is a risk. lou: at l

. >> the jobs, where are the 9 million more jobs the esident obama promised his stimulus would have createdaking in native tongue] there in china, mexico, canada, countries that have made the sales more attractive for trepreneurs and business and investment. even as president obama's policies have made it less attractive for them here. thing. gerri: and we have one more jobs report to come. what do you expect? is it going to help romney or the president? >> i don't think it's going to make much difference at all. if you look at the picture that the economy has been traveling through for the past three years now, basically we're in a situaaion where we have continued slow growth. we have growth at about 2 percent per year since the turnaround in june of 2009. i normal recovery should have doubled that, and unless we get to double that kind of growth are not going to have significant job growth. one of the things that -- go ahead. i'm sorry. gerri: i was going to make the point that obama makes that it was bush's fault a we have some sound on that. here's the president. >> what he did with wh

they don't want esident obama's adto continue to run and they are asking for it to come down. >> briana people are thinking about it >> maybe that is because it was panned by both sides of the aisle. >> brian: we listened to it on radio yesterday. it sounds like steven colbear or jon stewart it sounds like a total comedy nothing to do with either side. >> steve: they feature three people from wall street, evil villians. >> brian: madav and ken lay. >> steve: all indicted and dealt with by the bush administration. >> brian: i clicked on the wall street scandal cards. >> gretchen: one word. distraction. maybe that's why they are doing? >> brian: i whan you mean. i wasn't paying attention. >> gretchen: looking at your ties. >> steve: all for breast cancer awareness month. october. >> gretchen: let's get headlines. a man wearing a bullet-proof vest and flame retardant pants. arrested in the los angeles international airplane. he was stopped by custom agents after arriving from a flight from japan. they found smoke grenade and hatchet and body bag and knifes and more. he was heading home to

obama to come join our team. we need ohio. >> reporter: maybe not. >> he can probably win the esidency without ohio, but i wouldn't want to take the risk. no republican has. >> reporter: romney's done 34 events in ohio since the republican convention, 11 since his last debacht his campaign says they've signed up thousands of volunteers there. polls show president obama's lead in ohio narrowed to just over one point on average, but reuters reports the president's got a big advantage, 18 points among early voters. and expect more star power on the campaign trail. the boss, bruce springsteen, expected to be campaigning for the president, performing at a campaign appearance in ohio and iowa on thursday. >> tracy, thank you. a reminder, our coverage of the second presidential debate begins tomorrow night at 9:00 eastern right here on nbc. >>> this is one of the most talked about stories on the planet. fearless felix baumgartner is back after the ultimate leap of faith. on sunday, he became the first sky diver to break the sound barrier, plummeting through the sky at super sonic speeds, reaching 833 miles an hour, or mach 1.24. baum

barack obama returned to the campaign trail.. himself changed. >> a difficult road ahead for the esident... >> i think you see today a president obama with a thicker skin, more jaundiced eyes,t. has grown more skeptical, even cynical perhaps, about washingt. >> no president has been reelected with this type of economy since franklan roosevelt. >> i think he has become more cautious, more cagey, and i would have to say, maybe with some deserved... more ill-tempered. >> narrator: n, as he makes the case for reelection, the man who promised to transcend, differences emphasizes them. >> the last thing we can afford is a return to the policies that got us here in the first place. >> then he becomes tougher in his public rhetoric. he would rather go out on the campaign trail, even, and hold out the republics for being obstructionists than try to sit bewn with them. >> if i said the sky was blue, they said, "no." if i said there were fish in the sea, they said, "no." they figured, "if obama fails, then we win." >> it's hard to believe that this is the same person who was talking about bringing

>> coming atup how a new law could i'm barack obama and i approved this message. [ mitt romney ] there are 47% of the people who will vote for the esident no matter what... who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a respsibility to care for them who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, thousing, to you-name-it... and they will vote for this president no matter what... and so my job is not to worry about those people. i'll never convince them they shohould take personal responsibility and care for their lives. >> 7 is on your side with a honda recall. honda is recalling 573,000 accords from 2003-2007. they have a defective power steering hose. the new part will not be available until 2013. >> if you are afraid your children watch too much television according to a new study, you are probably right. >> the problem could be worse than you think. we have the big picture on the small screen. >> children love their cartoons, and there are plenty of programs that help them learn, but a new study published in the journal pediatrics say that children are exposed to m

think that the obama-romne debate, romney came across as somebody witsome stature and you cou visualize him in the white house. fast f forward to the debate between paul ryan and vice esident biden and uc paul ryan not as vice president, but perhaps the head of the office of management and budget. [crosstalk] >> the girl wants to say something. >> why should she be allowed? >> well, because she should. >> i thohought it was interesting that, paul ryan, who was talking about the economimic stuff you know, he h has in his own band some of you can criticize him for his veracity, but he did fine. when it c came to foreign policy, you can almost see the flip cards in his brain. it had no similitude to real knowledge of the then having crammed for the exam -- real knowledge other r than van ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] combine the pnc cashbuilder viscredit card with a quala ifying pnc performance select checking account and earn 75% more than cards earning 1% cash bk on almost everything. >> we did not know they wanted more security. >> what we are seeing as wturn on their televisio screens these days is the absolute unraveling of the obama foreign policy. >> mart raddatz bega

obama wants political success. and his wife wants a normal life. i asked the esident andirst lady how long it had taken them to recover from that period? they said two to three years. so this is a serious toll on their relationship. >> woodruff: the choice: 2012 >> woodruff: "the choice 2012" airs on most pbs stations tonight. >> ifill: next, our series on "coping with climate change" looks at how the city of chicago is dealing with ever warmer temperatures, by trying to cool things down with changes to its landscape. we turn again to hari sreenivasan, who traveled there recently. >> that's your grandfather. >> sreenivasan: 15-year-old janell coleman only knows her grandfather through the photographs that her grandma, luxora coleman, shares with her. >> what i could remember about 1995 is that my husband passed in his apartment. he was on the couch, and sitting up, and his room was extremely hot when i arrived there. and only thing that was going was a ceiling fan. >> sreenivasan: that july in chicago, the heat index reached 120 degrees for four straight days. thousan

obama's credibility for not coming clean with the american people. lou: we're asking tonigh has america made upits mind on who will be the next esident, what do y think? >> i thi a lot of americans have made up their mind, i think that group of undecided voters is increasingly decided, but is still is not done. it's not all in. there's still some cows outin e field, not all of them are in the barn yet, lou. we've got a few still to bring home. lou: all right. governor, good to have you with us. >> thanks a bunch lou: please take a minute toog on to the lou dobbs tonight facebook page, who do you think will w monday's final debe? go tofacebook.com/lou dobbs tonight. >>> disappointg earnings on wall street today, stocks poing the worst single-day cline since june and adding to the drama of the big selloff, today is the 25th anniversary of black monday back in 1987 when stocks fellearly 25% in a single session. nothinis shocng today -- as shocking today, i'm pased to tell you, but the dow did lose two-and-a-half points, the s&p down 24, the nasdaq tumbled 67 points, down more than 2% on the day. microsoft, google, apple, all part of a broad selloff in t

obama care on hiring plans. and three quarters of them said, it makes us less likely to hire people. i just don't know how the esidentcome into office facing 23 million people out of work, rising unemployment, an economic crisis at the kitchen table, and spent his energy and passion for two years fighting for obama care, instead of fighting for jobs for the american people. it has killed jobs, and the best course for health care is do what we did in my state. craft a plan at the state level that fits the needs of the state and then let's focus on getting the costs down for people, rather than raising it with a $2,500 additional premium. >> mr. president, the argument against repeal? >> well, four years ago, when i was running for office, i was traveling around and having those same conversations governor romney is talking about. and it wasn't just that small businesses were seeing costs skyrocket, and they couldn't get affordable coverage even if they wanted to provide it to their employees. it wasn't because this was the biggest driver of the federal deficit, but it was families, who were worried about going bankrup

esident. it's the age of his ideas that i question. >> my hero is a guy named teddy roosevelt. teddy roosevelt used to say walk softly -- talk softly, but carry a big stick. senator obamatalk loudly. >> senator mccain, this is the guy who sang, bomb, bomb, bomb iran. who called for the annihilation of north korea. >> all right. it's a delicate line you've got to -- these candidates will have to walk next week with a live studio audience right near them. >> sure. it just changes the vibe completely. because you know and i know that they don't have any problem kind of challenging you, challenging a reporter, somebody that they're familiar with, you know. they can be really tough on you and say, hey, that's not true. they don't have a problem shouting you down. when you have a bunch of undecidevoters watching you, first of all, you can't be too hot, can't be too aggressive. that vibe is bad in the room. second of all, there's all the theatrics of it for them, which is kind of the, you have to talk to them and seem you're relating to them. i think it adds a whole other level of performance, if you will, to what they're saying. and it's also very hard to evade a question th

esident counting o womput him b. crowley and colmes on that. then imu thisorning o the fox business channel. might enjoy this one, upcomg >> bill: rock in a hard place segment. new poll has president obama leading mitt romney 49 to 45. the president's lead is primarily due to women voters. they're breaking for him 56-2 right now. while men favor romney 52-42. no question the obama campaign is targeting the ladies. >> i find such a champion in president obama and which is why i passionately support him, specifically because i'm a woman. >> he also has the story that i can tell my daughter because it shows that no matter where you start out, you can work hard and you can do whatever you put your mind to. >> it's a story that touches me and one that is very familiar to me with how i was raised, you know, and our mom was a single parent. she had spectacular dreams for herself and us girls. >> bill: with us now, fox news analyst monica crowley and alan colmes. where are women breaking for the president? >> barak obama is leeing hugely among unmarried women, but among married women, romney is actually leading by 6 to 8 points. that being said, the president does have overall a big lead among

esident joe den nd wisconsin congressman paul ryan. we'll have live coverage of the remaining presidential debates here on pbs. next week president obamaand former governor romney will meet for the second time at hoster university in hempstead, new york. cnn candy crowley will be the moderator for that evening. >> we will see you then and right here tomorrow night at our regular newshour time. but our debate analysis continues on-line with political editor christina on our after-hours live stream. for now, i'm judy woodruff. >> and i'm gwen ifill. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions

obama says all of the above. he put a fortune of our money in to try to develop clean coal technology, but he wants to make wind and solar competitive, wereh esident romney, wher he elected, would repeal all of that. now, let me give you an example. most americans admire what germany has done. they are frugal, have the highest percentage of their work force in manufacturing, the best job training programs in the world -- day, on a bright, sunny day last spring, generated 66 megawatts of electricity from the sun in a country where the sun shines on average as much as it does in london. that is the equivalent of 20 nuclear power plants. deutsche bank, and not bring peace, not the sierra club, -- not greenpeace, not the sierra club, deutsche bank, said they got one quarter of 1 million jobs out of that. our capacity is twice there's, our population is three times theirs. if we did what they had done, we would have 3 million jobs in this area. we cannot afford to walk away from a modern economy. obama says forge ahead, romney says get rid of it and walk away. in iowa, republican farmers like the fact we help people build windmills. it supplements thei