-- tampa and coral gables. his running mate paul ryan plans appearances today in wisconsin and thursday in colorado. both campaigns are trying to make up ground after having to take time off due to hurricane sandy. what we know so far is that mitt romney will return to virginia on thursday after canceling events there over the weekend. in washington, i'm torre dunham, back to you. >>> we are getting new video in overnight from new york to show you of just how bad the flooding is in the big apple. this surveillance video from a railroad tunnel just under the east river. it connects long island to the mainland. if you look to the left of your screen, you can see torents of water pouring into that tunnel. this is going to be a big problem for days to come and transportation in new york has ground to a halt. millions of people who use the subway system daily, most of that is under water. all that water now needs to be pumped out and there was no drainage system for those tunnels, this story will likely continue for

the president will leave the white house this afternoon and travel to courtroom gables where he willak to sue -- travel to core roll gables where he will speak to supporters. -- mitt romney moves his campaign from ohio to north carolina today, staffers say romney is scheduled to attend a flee asheville where he will be joined by country singer ronnie millsap. >>> ross mirkarimi's job may not be -- [ unintelligible ] according to the chronicle, kim said her faith in mirkarimi as a person and sheriff has diminished and she would support a recall effort. >>> peninsula assemblyman hill and some san bruno residents plan to appear at a meeting to demand -- the commission is holding proceedings to determine how much pg&e should be fined for the deadly pipeline explosion in 2010 and how much rate payers would have to pay to fix the system. those meeting -- those meetings were put on hold so a judge can consider a request that pg&e conduct negotiations behind closed doors. >>> interesting weather yesterday. >> yes. >> thunderstorms, hail, of course a's fans are wondering if they need to worry

carl cameron is live in karl gables florida.l: they are back, mitt romney's hiatus ended after hurricane sandy and he has been cautiously but ramping up the rhetoric. there have been plenty of references to assist and encourage people to make disaster relief donations but the rhetoric has increased. he has not mentioned president obama by name on the campaign trail but the message is pretty clear, the choice is only six days away, and in romney's view the nation has an opportunity at hand to change direction for bold reform. watch. >> when you take a new course, we have 47 million people on food stamps. think of that. richest country in the history of the earth, largest economy in the world, and, yet, 47 million people need food stamps. so, i believe this is the year for us to take a different course. i will bring real change and real reform. >>carl: he is swinging through the sunshine state beginning in tampa and now here in coral gables and university of miami, and then wrapping up in jacksonville headed north. there is a whir

earlier he was talking to the crowds in coral gables. >>> today police identified the man shot in the 1100 block of eighth street northeast, his name? gregory darnell troxler, so far no suspects or motive in the case. >>> two of three suspects charged in the beating of a capitol hill man will be in court tomorrow, tommy branch and sonny kuti charged in the attack of tommy maslin. a third suspect waived his right to preliminary hearing. >>> news today of a huge development deal near nationals park. according to the prince of petworth blog, the mixed use project will include 650,000 square feet of offices, retail, hotel pace and residences just north of the stadium across from the navy yard metro station. there's no word yet when that work would begin. >>> coming up at 7:00 we'll tell you why you may see big bird a whole lot more towards the end of the month, that and much more at 7:00. >> we thought bing bird just hung out on sesame street. -- big bird just hung out on sesame street. >> i think it's a political thing. >>> coming up these little birds have something to brag about not ma

the gabled portico reminds us of the pantheon.he columns suggest trajan's column in imperial rome as well as the bible's description of solomon's temple. the dome is like the domes of papal rome. towers at the ends of the building suggest an imperial fortress. begun in 1716, the charles church is the work of fischer von erlach, who studied works of bernini and borromini in rome. it's dedicated to charles borromeo, one of the great counter reformation saints. it's not a coincidence that the austrian emperor at the time was also named charles. for in the lands where absolute monarchs ruled, architecture was part of the vocabulary of royal power. the belvedere palace in vienna was built in 1721 for prince eugene of savoy, the general who led the austrians to their victory over the turks. the architect was lucas von hildebrandt. the belvedere actually consists of two palaces set at opposite ends of an enormous formal garden in which nature has been completely subdued. the design is based on a simple program. the two palaces and the ga

. >> you'd have to move everything around, changev your whole roof ferment a different gable probably. okay, i understand that. okay, dr requester, one question for you. i sympathize. i really don't see the difference here because it looks like, unless i'm reading these plans wrong, right now you have a four-foot separation all the way along. there's two lightwells, two windows on your property. one window has a four-foot lightwell matching it which will remain. that is not changing any. and then they have created essentially almost an eight-foot lightwell for the other one. so, i'm not quite sure what the difference is. it seems like all you're having is you're looking at a structure that wasn't there before out the window. >> that structure is imposing on the light that shines into the lightwell. * as i said, it's a three-sided lightwell. it's not totally enclosed lightwell. so, they are taking the open space and putting the wall there. i wanted to also say in response to the earlier discussion you have with the architect, we are not architects. when we drew this green diagram, it w

clearly says that the shadow impacts of the project are significant and unavoidable as well as unmitt gabl except for the numerical compensation. i went back and i would really like this project to succeed, but i personally do not have the tool tos do so at this very moment. i went back to what city attorney george agnos wrote in august, 1984 where he gave clarification to the board of supervisors to act to administrator pass more and explained very clearly what the obligations under prop k are for people like ourselves. at that time, there was ongoing discussions about the uncertainty of what it makes, significant, insignificant, in the following years including the memo which was added to what we have today, there were further attempts to more clearly and physically define of what significant and what insignificant shadow impacts are, so the most significant thing is this particular study, i assume mr. switzky recognizes it from here which basically describes in a written description as well as in simulated shadow fans of what the already existing condition relative to shade on already e

we have interrogated not less than 6 different designs, hipped roof, pitch roofs, dormers, gable roof, we've been engaging trying to come up with a design trying it take into account the comments from our neighbors, we understand that. what we're trying to do is get a plan that is approved so that we can go forward and so that we can discuss the plan with our neighbors with a section 311 notification. quite candidly, that is a single roof. it's not two roof forms, with all due respect, in our opinion. it's the cleanest, it's the most aesthetically desirable as opposed to coming up with all sorts of things it try to meet some sort of calculation. we think it's a good design and we want to work with that design with our neighbors to take into consideration their concerns. with all due respect, we blaefrb the zoning administrator erred in the way that he's interpreting the planning code so we really respectfully ask you to find a path for us one way or another to move forward, either one roof, it's two roofs, if we do the whole thing is a one roof? we just want to get some plans that we

at that point that clark gable leaves. >> right. >> neil: scarlet wonder what is the heck happened?der if we're at that point. >> guest: look at the history of last summer when they raised the debt ceiling. it didn't play out with standard & poor's which lowered america's credit rating. we hope it doesn't happen with fitch and moody's the other rating agencies. it affects the federal and state government. we could have default and start global recession. real implication of us not getting the fiscal house in order to affect people on global level. national and state level. >> neil: a very good points, all. very much. to put this in perspective, when you talk about a downgrade -- a lot of people say what prompts a ratings agency to say, all right, u.s., you will get downgraded? even if you get a deal, lousy deal or structured in a way that the agencies don't feel you have gotten a good deal, not worth the paper it's printed on, they will downgrade you anyway. with the rating agencies have been saying is we are beginning to think the sust a joke. not targeting one party over the other

the pair will travel to coral gables and jacksonville for two morallies later day. janice dean mentioned we are less than a week away from election day. chief political correspondent carl cameron is live in tampa with it all. hey, carl. >> reporter: hi, jenna. romney is eager to get back in the campaign saddle after day and a half lull for the sandy disaster. mr. romney has three events here in florida, a key battleground state where the polls continue to tighten. we've been telling everybody for year-and-a-half this is likely to end up close in a number of key battleground states as well as national polls. the national polls have been within the margin literally for weeks. in florida the latest quinnepiac survey, president is up two points. well within the margin and basically reflection of rcp average which shows romney up a point. it is all so close because it doesn't mean heck of a lot in terms of differences. go to virginia where a state mr. romney is closing the gap and says president obama is up two points in the quinnepiac poll, but there is the average from

. >> down to florida now, governor mitt romney in coral gables with senator marco rubio. romney did not mention the president by name but said the country needs to change direction. >> we face some challenges and as a result of that, it is my view we should not continue along the same path but it is time to take a new path. bold aggressive change. >> staying in florida now, vice-president joe biden back on the campaign trail telling supporters he was proud of leaders of different parties in the northeast pulling together. >> we are all better off when everybody is in the deal together. we are all working together. so hopefully when this god all of storm and its aftermath is dealt, hopefully when this election is over, we will do what we do as americans, work together along party lines. l eliminates. >> finally head to green bay, wisconsin, where congressman paul ryan, the vice- presidential candidate rallied with his supporters inside his home state. >> really comes down at the end of the day whether or not we will pass on the american idea to our kids and our grand kids.

insurmountable odds i mean i think coming into this it would have been highly unlikely that he being gable to get as much done as he had has gotten done and i'm of course all for him i adore him and i want him to be our president again yeah you you work to uphold voting rights and segregated mississippi fast i did ask forward to the day and voting rights are under attack all over the united states you know with these words suppression idea was beautiful it's i can't i can't believe it it's very hard to believe i i don't understand it and i mean i do understand it you know i understand that. eliminating the ease with which we vote that is breaking the law i mean the right wing breaking the law and putting barriers in the way of people's votes you know i went to mississippi and sixty four during the mississippi summer i traveled with fannie lou hamer who was such a what a powerful woman and she would come out on the in front of a neighborhood where people were kind of hiding in. not really knowing what they could do and she'd she. settle herself in and get her feet settle on the ground and t

. >> mitt romney resuming normal campaign activities today. , in tampa,in florida coral gables, and jacksonville. had a storm relief effort in ohio yesterday. >> we want to get a look at what happening outside, with jacqui jeras as we're watching the river levels and flooding. >> that will continue to be a concern. goose creek in northern virginia go down now.o the monocacy river is one of our because it's as be receiving bye in frederick tomorrow. in there. late this week, i think be back in good order. the monocacy river should be receiving -- receding by tomorrow. washington, d.c., has received 5 inches of rain in the last two days. the system is no longer a closed low, so it will continue to weaken. that's the good news. widespread. is less have a few sprinkles this morning. take a look at that on the live doppler. is very light rain. a lot of what we are seeing be reaching the ground. u awake in fauquier county culpeper, let me know if you any light rain or any snow flurries. 43 degrees desired temperature. cool at reagan national. in the 30's especially off to and then a little warmer towa

so just shy of gables, that's the best chance of rain. we'll continue to see the rain move through to the evening hours. it's going to stay chilly. just getting up to 56 for a high. that is it. >> i guess a lot of folks glad they're getting to stay home today. >> yeah, i would be. let's talk about folks who didn't get to stay home. the folks who are busy on those roadways. >> it's not too busy on the int interstate. we do have a problem between the legion bridge and gw parkway. causing a slight delay each way. all metro line trains on the weekend schedule. if you're taking a red line, single traffic between judiciary square. you will see delays between stadium armory and chevorily. >> nearly half of all children with autism have run away from home. the researchers found in most cases the kids were not confused by where they were. they typically ran off to find a place they enjoyed or avoid a situation that made them anxious. doctors say this makes sense given that autism patients often lack the social skills to effectively communicate the

mitt romney is back on the trail with three stops in florida, tampa, coral gables and jacksonville.ing out about 100 surrogates through friday for a huge push. the editorial board in new hampshire writes we are confident that romney is the candidate who would tackle the soersz issues facing this nation, starting with jobs, the economy and the debt. in the end we couldn't say the same about the president. that is an about face. the telegraph endorsed then senator obama in 2008. >>> disney is taking over the star wars business, the company shelling out more than $4 billion to buy lucas film from star wars creator george lucas. this is really big but what got everyone's attention is the news of a star wars trilogy beginning with star wars vii. presumably this picks up after the ewoks. the emperor dies and we'll pick up with this new trilogy. >> i think it's awesome. >> it's basically good for the force. disney churns movies out and don't make terrible mistakes. >> it's good for the force unless the movies are like the first three. >> they don't make mistakes that bad. >> i'm happy abou

governor romney today in coral gables, florida where we are await his remarks. we find carl cameron. >> reporter: hi, megyn. the university of miami for mitt romney. he has begun to jump-start the campaign after the lull that took place in the wake of sandy's devastation. mr. romney began the rhetoric and amping it up though he didn't mention president obama by name. he's making references to the disaster relief effort. you can see on the jumbo screen this started early yesterday morning. the red cross with a text to make donations. earlier today mr. romney started the campaign trail in tampa. he will have three events in florida today. on this first day back on the trail's a combination of messages. one, sympathy for those in the storm's path and two, anticipation in a get out the vote effort which he hopes will be a big victory. >> please make sure you go out and vote early. tough a dollar extra send it to the red cross for our friends in harm's way. i love, i appreciate it and together we'll win. thank you, guys. thank you. >> reporter: romney aides came back

it's challenged by this white student, gable fisher from texas. the university has an interesting program, chuck. it grants admission automatic will toy the university of texas in austen for the top 10% of every high school class. the whole goal is racial diversity. that gets them some diversity. the question is whether they can take the extra tell to round out the race of the other applicants. >> it means it happens before the election, not the decision, and the argument and it means it will at least get into the presidential debate. pete williams. it's october 1st. where else is he going to be. >>> up next, florida, florida, florida. it's a state with an inauspicious history when it comes to ballots. governor charlie crist will join me next. >>> plus, the united states relationship in the middle east are being tested. we have reporters on the ground across the region. >>> but first a look ahead at the schedule of president obama and mitt romney. president obama in las vegas. don't be surprised if you see him. he has no public events but bet we s

. >> they learning hard to win on the fly and we're learning to play championship gable on the -- baseballn the fly and this is a huge accomplishment and we're ready to take the next is step. >> and is they enjoyed the moment. the team with the best record gets homefield advantage throughout the play-offs and they scheduled to go tonight at 7:00 unless rain plays a factor, of course. >> hope it doesn't. scott, thank you very much. >>> hours after the nats clench the division, fans could grab their championship merchandise. modell stores in our area opened at 8 this morning toup pack the shirts, hats, and more. i don't know how she pulled that off. >> she's the franchise. >> i guess so. the fans were ready to show their support after so many years of waiting, somewhere up late at last night's game and came out early to get their gear. >> it was wild. the weather didn't interrupt anything at all. >> unbelievable. he's done a exceptional job and -- to where they are. >> they expect to get shipments as weeks go on. >> still time. >> and they wanted, she walked on the air with the gear on. >> a

he's about to speak to supporters in coral gables, florida. stand by for that.ll bring you some of what he has to say. here is mitt romney this morning, his first official campaign event since the arrival of hurricane sandy. now in the shadow of the natural disaster, here he is paying tribute to the idea of personal sacrifice. >> i think of the moms and dads who have two jobs right now, or one has a day job and one has a night job, they hardly see each other. and why? so they can buy the clothes for their kids that won't make their kid stand out at school. i think of all the parents at christmas time last year and probably this year who are saying to each other, let's not exchange gifts so we have plenty to give to our kids. this is the american character, to live for things greater than ourselves. and this is a time when the people of america are going to have to do that. i'm convinced that you here in florida have very clear eyes when it comes to an understanding of what america faces right now. >> as we said, we're awaiting romney's appearance in coral gables

at the university of miami in coral gables, watch. >> our thoughts and prayers go to them.ve the capacity to send a dollar or two or more to people there, you can send that to the red cross or salvation army or any other group but i want you to know that that's one of the great characteristics of our people we come together in times of trial. that reference to unity in times of natural disaster mr. romney has used to dove tail into a plea for bipartisanship. arguing that for him to accomplish some of the goals that he has laid out in terms it of balancing the budget and trying to deal with the nation's economic challenges, it will take by part san coochings. he has been promising to reach across the aisle and giving examples in massachusetts capacity to do that making the argument without naming the president that his promise of hope and change northwesterly materialized. >> shepard: change in the works here. either the romney campaign sees an opening in three states that look like obama states or trying to get obama campaign to spend money in those states or maybe both. wh

coral gables and jacksonville where he'll be joined by former governor jeb bush. with the president in new jersey, romney's returned to the trail is tricky. romney suspended campaigning tuesday. he did hold what the campaign billed as a relief event but it was in the battleground state of ohio where the governor encouraged donations to the red cross. >> i've had the chaps to speak with some of the governors in the affected areas and they've talked about a lot of people having hard times, and i appreciate the fact that people right here in dayton got up this morning. some went to the dproeshry store, i see, and purchased some things that these families will need. >> given how close this election it, it won't be surprising if the losing side ends up blaming sandy. whether that's fair or not you can argue sandy has elevated the president, stopped 0 the momentum for romney. you could argue that sandy has kept the president off the trail for at least three days. just like the bush folks blame the story, partisans blame the bin laden video in 5504. sandy will get the bl

from coral gables, florida, i'm jim leery, thank you and good night., i'm jim lehrer, thank you and good night. ( applause ) >> good job. >> good job, john. >> woodruff: that interview with jim and kate leerir was record last fall. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day: president obama and mitt romney prepped for their face-to-faceÑi meeting tonight in denver, where they will square off in the first debate. and the syrian civil war threatened to boil over, after mortar fire from syria killed five people in a village in turkey. the turks fired back at targets in syria. and in a new project launching today, the "newshour" is allowing you to make your own political ads. kwame holman explains. >> holman: gwen, the adlibs mozilla game let's the viewer be the candidate. you can mash up your facebook photos to make personalized political ads. find that on our home page. today in making sense, with millions of americans still outr of work, economics correspondent paul solman explains how the jobless numbers are tallied. pulitzer prize winning jour

he starts off the date in tampa and then heads to coral gables and jacksonville.ryan will be campaigning in wisconsin. some are calling the pair's reemergence on the campaign trial after supposedly taking time out out of respect for the hurricane victims. romney's official reason for the event yesterday was to collect donations for storm victims, but it sure looked a lot like a campaign, a big american flag on the wall campaign music, crowds and the press were invited. voters had to wait to drop off their donations until romney arrived to collect them himself. john mccain even went as far as to blast president obama on the benghazi attack. one other issue is romney's thoughts on fema. here he is yesterday. >> [ inaudible ]? >> romney: why -- >> why don't you answer any questions about fema. >> nothing to say. more bill coming up after the break. highest priority on election day. besides, you can always dvr my show. you really cant' dvr the future of the country. to help you make informed decisions, watch current tv's politically direct lineup. only on current tv.

the gabled portico reminds us of the pantheon.ns suggest trajan's column in imperial rome as well as the bible's description of solomon's temple. the dome is like the domes of papal rome. towers at the ends of the building suggest an imperial fortress. begun in 1716, the charles church is the work of fischer von erlach, who studied works of bernini and borromini in rome. it's dedicated to charles borromeo, one of the great counter reformation saints. it's not a coincidence that the austrian emperor at the time was also named charles. for in the lands where absolute monarchs ruled, architecture was part of the vocabulary of royal power. the belvedere palace in vienna was built in 1721 for prince eugene of savoy, the general who led the austrians to their victory over the turks. the architect was lucas von hildebrandt. the belvedere actually consists of two palaces set at opposite ends of an enormous formal garden in which nature has been completely subdued. the design is based on a simple program. the two palaces and the garden pre

gable fisher wasn't admit birthday u a black student didn't talk her place. it was. her place.il fisher and you, justice thomas, are poised to take the places of countless future students of color. so let's be clear. it's not a legacy of affirmative action. it's a legacy of racism that continues to con found and challenge our nation, to change it we need more than months or even years. we need generations to break down barriers that divide us. and do you know one of the important places where that work begins? in college classrooms, diverse classrooms, the kind of classrooms that affirmative action has created. and here's something i learned as a cljt professor. the measure of merit isn't the test you take to get into school. it's what you learn after you've been admitted whabd do you with that knowledge once you left. just look at your african-american classmates from yale lal skew in the early 1970s. you remember them, the ones tainted by affirmative action. four are now federal judges. one became a college president. there are partners at the countries top law firms and two

coral gables, florida. let's listen. >> too many families who can't pay the bills. are still under water. too many young people still burdened with debt when they graduate from college. but if there's one thing i know, florida, it's this. we have come too far to turn back now. the american people have worked too hard to get to this point after all that we've been through together, after all that we fought through together. why would we go backwards? the last thing we can afford, florida, right now is four years of the very same policies that got us in to this mess in the first place. i won't let that happen. we can't let that happen. that's why i'm running for a second term as president of the united states of america. >> four more years four more years. four more years. four more years. four more years. >> florida, i have seen too much pain and too much struggle because of bad economic policies that happened before we got elected to let this country go through another round of top down economics. the centerpiece of governor romney's economic plan is a new $5 trilli

from coral gables, florida, i'm jim lehrer. thank you and good night. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [applause] >> he said he was the ideal candidate for the tea party. now he is saying what, who me? he is forgetting what his own positions are and he is betting you will too. he is changing so much, sidestepping, we have to name this condition he is going through. i think it is called "romnesia." >> at this election is a choice between an american where government makes the rules and the government is larger and larger, where it runs more of our businesses and runs our lives. or instead an america where we restore the principles that made the nation that it is. that we bring back the principles of the declaration of independence and recognize god gave us our rights and they include a life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. >> watch engage a president obama and mitt romney meet in their final debate in florida. our previous starts at 7:00 p.m. eastern followe

romney's first in tampa, then coral gables and jacksonville.ill be rallying in sarasota and later in ocala. president obama will stay off the campaign trail for another day. he will, instead, tour storm damage in new jersey. mitt romney is campaigning, but sensitively. it's less than a week before the election. how do candidates balance politics in the face of disaster? during a natural disaster. joining us now is thomas whalen, history professor at boston university, also offering commentary on the current campaign. thank you so much for being with us, thomas. >> my pleasure. >> there is a real danger p in how a president handles a natural disaster because it can sink a presidency, right? >> it could, potentially. what you're really talking about here is the political narrative people have about a particular candidate or president. a natural disaster, at least how presidents respond to them basically can reinforce or under d undermine that narrative. in the case of george w. bush in 2006 with hurricane katrina, he campaigned as basically a com

from coral gables, florida, i'm jim lehrer. thank you and good night. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [applause] >> tomorrow on "washington journal" a look at the presidential campaigns and where they stand in battleground states. first we'll discuss the latest developments in presidential campaigns with abc news political director amy walter. then a look at the political race in virginia with political talk show host joe thomas out of charlottesville. followed by a discussion on what the presidential candidates are doing in florida. we're joined by news director and host mark simpson with wmfe radio in orlando, florida. later we'll talk about the battleground state of ohio with host michael alwood. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> it showed from all over the world, from the united states, england, india. to me it symbolized the resilience of the country and the openness of the country in spite of all the violence the people have suffe