fred carter here at the university. let's not bring out the president of coastal carolina university. [applause] both universities and both university presidents have been instrumental in putting on these series of debates in the primary and the general election. candidates, you have heard for a lot for tonight from the two gubernatorial candidates. now it is time to have your voice heard. be a part of your government, exercise your right, and vote in next tuesday postelection. have a great night and please vote on tuesday. [applause] >> on c-span today, "washington journal" is next, live with your phone calls. later, congressional oversight panel of the troubled asset relief program. and in about 45 minut

fred carter here at francis marion, he has done a terrific job. [applause] let's not leave out the president of coastal airline university, dr. david divicenza. both universities and both university presidents have been instrumental in putting on this series of debates in the primary and during the general election. finally to our viewers we say this. you've heard from the candidates, heard a lot from the gubernatorial candidates, now it's time to have your voice heard. exercise your right and vote in next tuesday's election. for francis marion university in florence, south carolina, have a great night and please vote on tuesday. [applause] >> just one week remains until the 2010 elections. until then, c-span will bring you political debates from key races around the country. up next, indiana's senate candidates bebait, then our interview with the chief strategist for the tea party express. later debate between house candidates from nmp's first district and pefrl's third. . the indiana debate commission hosted this debate. >> the final of three in

fred carter here at francis marion university. he has done a great job. [applause] at let's not leave out the president of coastal carolina university. [applause] both universities and university presidents have been instrumental in putting on these debates in the primary and the general election. finally, to our viewers, we say this. you have heard a lot tonight from the two gubernatorial candidates. exercise your right and vote in next tuesday's election. my name is bob juback. have a great night, and please vote on tuesday. [applause] >> thank you very much comet is a great pleasure. -- thank you very much, it is a great pleasure. >> counting down to the midterm elections, now just six days away. each night here on c-span we are showing debates from key races around the country. here's our lineup for tonight. we start at 7:00 eastern with live coverage of the candidates vying to be rhode island's next governor. at 8:00, the candidates for florida cost next senator. an hour later, the first of three house races being the focus of -- west virginia is thi

carter? >> hi, fred. yes, stocks are set to rise at the open thanks to encouraging signs here and overseas.s, the bank of japan says it has a plan to boost its economy and that includes cutting the central bank's key lending rate and then buying some government bonds. now, japan is the world's third largest economy and a big trading partner for the u.s. so what happens there definitely affects us here. here at home, we're expected to report at the top of the hour to show that activity in the service sector picked up a little bit last month. now, this area accountses for most of the nation's jobs, hotels to banks, hotels and hospitals and important. hopefully seeing the numbers rise when the opening bell rings about one minute away right now and may not be all good news today. fed chief ben bernanke sounded an economic warning bell last night speaking in rhode island and bernanke said the u.s. could take a hit if the government does not take steps to curb our huge budget deficit. right now, it's at $1.3 trillion and that is very close to the record high. but bernanke says it's a very delicat

cnn's carter evans at the new york stock exchange with more on what should be expected from this. >> hey, fred. well, we are certainly within striking distance of 11,000. may 3rd just before the flash crash, we had a huge day yesterday. the dow up 193 points. we found out that the service sector is expanding and important because the service sector accounts for about 80% of the jobs in this country. we found out yesterday that the bank of japan is making some adjustments to the lending rates to get more money out there. that was encouraging, as well. our futures were iing higher. dow futures up 45 points and would have put us right about there at the 11,000 mark and then the employment report from private payroll firm adp showing a loss of 39,000 private sector jobs. now, this is not the government job report. the government jobs report is friday but adp is an indication of what we might expect when the government comes out with the numbers, so it's not as good as many people were hoping. we were expecting to see adp say the private sector added about 18,000, 20,000 jobs. not so good. i have t