>> i called you the lovely gayle king. >> the lovely gayle king. that is really one of my favorite words. how nice of you to use it on me. thank you. i love the word "lovely." i do i love that word. we'll take you insood the u.s. con-- inside the u.s. consulate. one security agent escaped through a bathroom window but was not able to rescue the ambassador. john miller has new information about the security breakdown. can a simple breast test tell if you have a deadly disease like cancer? a top doctor from cleveland clinic shows us the new technology. he says no needles or x-rays required. those stories and more when we see you at 7:00. i think it's a shame at 57 i'm still terrifed of needles, mike and andrea. back to you. >> thank you, gayle. >> we understand. the lovely gayle king. >>> perhaps it will be a little home cooking for the washington nationals that will help them pull ahead in the national league division series. >> right now they're tied a game a piece as they host the st. louis cardinals in game three of the series. kristin fisher is

i'm gayle king with charlie rose in new york and norah o'donnell is in washington. norah when j.k.tographs for people waiting in line. they were not disappointed. >> good morning, gayle. i'm sorry not to meet her in person. big fan. i want to talk about 50 years ago this week many people were afraid that the u.s. and the soviet union were about to start world war iii and this morning some experts said the debate over iran's nuclear program has the potential to become just as serious as the cuban missile crisis. bill plante is here with me to take a look back. good morning. >> good morning. it is hard to overstate just how tense the situation was between the u.s. and the soviet union 50 years ago. and just how close we came to nuclear war. >> the purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the western hemisphere. >> when president kennedy told the nation in october 1962 that the soviets were putting nuclear missiles in cuba, the announcement came as a shock. >> remember sitting at the screen staring at it. >> me too. >> me too. >> wha

charlie rose and gayle king are in new york. good morning, guys. concerned me using the iphone as a babysitter. where was the mom? >> i was wondering that too because he was there more than a couple of seconds to bend over, take it and walk away. i thought the exact same thing. norah good to see you. remember a song called "it must have been love." from the movie "pretty woman." do you recognize it? it's from "pretty woman." the duo just wrapped up their first u.s. tour in 20 years. >> that tour almost didn't happen, the group's singer had to overcome a life threatening illness. bill whittaker has her story. ♪ >> reporter: saturday night in los angeles. more than 5,000 fans packed the gibson amphitheater to see a band most probably first heard in high school. ♪ >> reporter: they came to see roxette, the pop rock duo from swed den. the guitarest, per gessle and vocal lift marie fredriksson. her powerful voice gave the group its signature sound and a string of number one international hits '80s and 'he 90s. hits like "the look" and "it must have been

that was their improvisation, i think, lent a sense of claustrophobia and fear. >> you want gayle kingr movie premieres. i've never had so much fun at a movie. when they finally got out of iran, gayle was like yes! she was cheering from the back. >> i said why isn't this audience cheering? they're all sitting there very polite. >> you saw it with like three people, though. >> no, we saw with it 20, but they were all being very polite. >> well, that's the media. >> gayle makes a great point, that we were gripped by the movie. emotionally we felt the ups and downs of the movie. the other great thing is you tell a piece of history that many people know so little about. a lot of us know about the 52 american hostages that were there for more than 400 days, but you tell the story that was only just recently declassified, right? >> indeed. it was declassified in 1997 by president clinton and george clooney bought it and wrote a screen play and it took a long time. one of the things that i love about it is that it's a genuine american success story. we have had a lot of things that haven't go

. >>> i'm charlie rose with gayle king. is in boca raton, florida, where the presidential candidates debated foreign policy and other issues last night. cbs news took an instant poll of uncommitted voters. >> and 53% of them said president obama won the debate. 23% said governor mitt romney won. 24% called it a tie. the poll asked voters in the candidates can be trusted to handle an international crisis. 71% said they trust the president. 49% said they trust governor romney. and clearly, some people chose both. >> this debate was supposed to focus on foreign policy. however, the candidates did not miss a chance to discuss the number one issue in this election, and that is the economy. they also butted heads on several issues. >> governor, when it comes to foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s. >> attacking me is not an agenda. attacking me is not talking about how we're going to deal with the challenges

. >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king. raton, florida where the presidential candidates debated foreign policy and other issues last night after the final debate, cbs news took a poll. >> 53% said president obama won the debate. 23 prd said governor mitt romney won. the poll asked if candidates can be trusted to hand al n international president. 71% trust the president, 49% trust governor romney. clearly some chose both. >> this debate was supposed to focus on foreign policy. however, the candidates didn't miss a chance to discuss the number one issue in this election. they also butted heads on several issues. >> governor when it comes to our foreign policy you seem to want to import the forethought of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s. >> attacking me is not an agenda. attacking me is not talking about how to deal with the challenges in the middle east. >> our navy is smaller now than any time since 1917. the navy said they needed 313 ships to carry out their mis

gayle king and charlie rose are in new york.e fell to 7.8% the lowest since president obama took office in 2009. the jobs report surprised economists. it is much better-than-expected and could shake up the campaign with just one month to go before the election. bill plante is here with reaction from both candidates. bill, what are we hearing from the white house? >> norah, talk about the obama luck. the president after a lousy performance on wednesday night now has this to play with as he campaigns today in virginia and ohio. the white house already put a statement out from the chairman of council of economic advisors alan kruger saying while there's more work that remains to be done today's employment report provides further evidence that the u.s. economy is continuing to heal. it also says congress should pass another round of middle class, emphasis middle class, tax cuts. >> mitt romney we have also heard from his campaign. he's noting in a statement this is not what a real recovery looks like. if not for all the people that

. >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king, norah o'donnell is in washington.mitt romney hold their second presidential debate tomorrow. both men have been preparing for several days now. >>> a just-released nationwide poll shows the race is very tight. the president leads romney by one point, 49% to 48%. that's according to a politico-george washington university battleground poll. nancy cordes is with the obama campaign in williamsburg, virginia. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning again to all of you. well, obama campaign officials are working very hard to send the signal that the president is buckling down here in williamsburg, taking debate prep more seriously than he did the first time around when he now famously called it a drag. he's hold up at a large sprawling golf resort in williamsburg, but he's not hitting the links. officials say about the only thing he's doing besides studying are eating, sleeping and hitting the gym. he did emerge yesterday for about a half hour to visit a local campaign office and drop off some pizzas. then he went b

the lovely gayle king joins us live from new york. good morning, gayle. >> thank you, mike and andrea. we're all over this story as a cbs news poll of uncommitted voters show president obama came out on top. at 7:00 the only person at the table with the candidates will be with us. that of course is bob schieffer. we'll talk with vice president joe biden and congressman paul ryan and bill o'reily will be here in studio 57. we'll & how he thinks the final two weeks of the campaign will unfold. those stories and more when we see you at 7:00. >> we'll be watching. we especially want to larry what bob has -- hear what bob has to say. >>> the president and mitt romney went head to head over foreign policy, each trying to paint the other as less qualified to be commander in chief in a time of crisis. >> kristin fisher joins us live from the satellite center with a look at the final showdown. good morning, kristin. >> reporter: good morning. both campaigns are claiming victory this morning. no surprise there. but what was surprising at least f

gayle king joins us live from new york with a preview. good morning, gayle. >> i've got the preview now. hello mike and andrea. senior advisors from the romney and obama campaigns will be with us. we'll ask them about a controversial video of president obama that just resurfaced. how the vice presidential candidates are clashing on the campaign trail and what can we expect tonight. we were there last month as scientists caught and tagged a great white shark. remember that? we've been tracking it and today you may be surprised to see what we've learned. we'll share that with you today starting at 7:00. back to you. >> thank you, gayle. >>> this week marks the tenth anniversary of the sniper shootings which terrorized our region. ten people died, three more were hurt and the deadliest day was this date ten years ago. that's when four people were gunned down on what started out as a normal morning in our region. kristin fisher is live at one of those shootings, the leisure world shopping plaza in silver spring. >> reporter: good morning. ten

. >> gayle king joins us live from new york. we can only guess u guys are going to be discussing a little get together at hofstra last night. good morning, gayle. >> you think so? you think we'll be talking about the rumble in the auditorium? i think so too. a new cbs poll shows a narrow win for president obama in last night's contentious debate. we'll look at who landed the big e punches and we'll ask vice president joe biden and congressman paul ryan about the most heated moments including the confrontations over women and the attack in lybia. those stories and more when we see you at 7:00. >> all right, gayle. we will be watching. >>> last night's debate of course is the big story making headlines in newspapers across the country this morning. >> many experts say both candidates held their own. kristin fisher joins us live from the newseum with more. good morning, kristin. >> reporter: good morning, andrea and jessica. we've been inside the print room all morning long. now we're outside the newseum. this is where they put up a

." >> gayle king joins us now from new york. ning, gayle. >> reporter: i was listening to you talking about the small ipad. who is getting that? >> i'm in. >> i don't know. >> reporter: it's so much stuff i can't keep up. hello, frank and michelle. we'll ask vice president joe biden and congressman paul ryan about the heated debate. some say it was a doozy including the confrontations over women and the attack in libya. also lifting google's veil of secrecy. an inside look at one of the fiercely guarded areas that collect all searches. the rare footage of the rolling stones hardly ever seen. look at mick jagger. we'll have it today starting on cbs news this morning at 7:00. see you then. >> thank you. "cbs this morning" starts at 7:00. >>> mountain view is blocking a new chik-fil-a restaurant. last night the city council voted 4-2 to deny permission. two different groups filed objections against an earlier decision to allow the project to go forward. one group cited the fast food chain's support of traditional marriage. another o

. >> gayle king is in new york. she and the rest of the crew will be looking at soondzy's latest on -- sandy's latest on cbs this morning. hi, gayle. >> hi, matt and andrea. sandy has left behind a lot of problems. neighborhoods swallowed up by sand. heavy snow piling up in the mountains. we'll show you the most compelling images from the areas hardist hit by sandy. we'll take you inside united central to see how the airlines are working to get the flights on track. 20 fragile newborns are among hundreds of patients evacuated from a crippled hospital. we check in on the babies in need of special care. look at that baby's face. those stories and more when we see you at 7:00. >> thank you, gayle. we'll be watching. >>> the potomac river is expected to experience its worst flooding in 16 years because of hurricane sandy. >> ko im is live in alexandria, virginia with the very latest there. good morning, ko. >> reporter: good morning, matt and andrea, monika, by the way, i think it's the joker running around the newsroom

gayle king joins us live from new york on what's been a difficult couple of days. >> reporter: i would say very difficult couple of days. i think people are just trying to take it one step at a time here in new york. some of the sections are really, really horrible. good to see you both though. a neighborhood swallowed up by sand, new york city pardon mized, heavy snow in the mountains. of course we're talking about hurricane sandy. and we'll show you some of the most compelling images from the areas hardest hit by the hurricane. and a giant jigsaw puzzle in the sky. we'll take you inside united operations center to see how the airlines are working to get your flights back on track. they are working 24/7 on that. also, 20 fragile newborns are among hundreds of patients evacuated from a crippled hospital. dr. john lapook was there. he checks in on the babies. i love -- look at the baby's eyes in this picture. he checks in on the babies in need of special care. that and more at 7:00. there's a happy ending to that story. >> thank you, gayle. the show starts at 7:00 on cbs 5. >>> 6:51. a

it's wednesday, that means gayle king is in the big chair and joins us live from new york. >> reporter: yup, i'm in the big chair. got on my big girl pants on a wednesday. hello, frank and michelle. we'll take you to the u.s. consulate in libya about how the ambassador got trapped inside. john miller with new information about the security breakdown. can a simple breath test tell you if you have a deadly disease like cancer? a top doctor from cleveland clinic shows us the new technology and this is the best part i think. no needles. and no x-rays required. those stories and more when we see you at 7:00. >> thank you. >> back to you, frank and michelle. >> we'll take it. sounds like a good show. it all starts at 7:00 right here on cbs 5. >>> san francisco is finally getting a target today. the store is at the metreon center called city target because it's different than most of the chains' out led. it's smaller and doesn't sell big items that would be hard to carry home. some people were surprised the city allowed the store. >> i was really surprised that target was able to

. >>> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell.n anchor is make being her own news this morning by calling out a critic who said her weight makes her a bad role model. >> jennifer livingston of our cbs affiliate wkbt in lacrosse, wisconsin went on the air tuesday with this message to her viewers. >> i want to take a moment to address a situation that has become a talking point in this community over the past weekend especially on facebook that centers around me. on friday i received the following e-mail from a lacrosse man with the subject line community responsibility. and i want reads as follows. hi, jennifer, it's unusual that i see your morning show but i did so for a very short time today. i was surprised indeed to witness that your physical condition hasn't improved for many years. is yourly you don't consider yourself a suitable example for this community's young people, girls in particular. obesity is one of the worst choices a person can make and one of the most dangerous habits to maintain. i leave you this note hoping th

. >> i'm child molester roarlie r gayle king and norah o'donnell.the clock to restore power nor than 6 million customer whose have no athlet electricity. >> the new york stock exchange reopens. and the smithsonian will reopen in washington along with the national zoo. jeff glor is in atlantic city, new jersey where he toured some of the damage with the coast guard. good morning to you, jeff. >> reporter: gayle, good morning. we went up in the coast guard helicopter yesterday as they went on a damage assessment mission. but they were also looking for leaking fuel, potentially leaking fuel or ships that may be adrift. the commander did say something interesting to me when we were up. he said there was a derecho, a strong line of thunderstorms in atlantic city in june that took down many trees and that may have minimized the damage from sandy because some of those trees were already down. but it's not just here in atlantic city where we see damage, 2.1 million customers across the state of new jersey remain without power. that is more than two-thirds o

. >>> i'm norah o'donnell with gayle king and charlie rose is in los angeles.'t mean that much but tonight's debate between vice president joe biden and congressman paul ryan has become a high stakes affair as the presidential race gets tighter. this just released quinnipiac university-cbs nes-"new york times" poll of likely voters shows governor mitt romney now leads president obama by o one-point in colorado. in wisconsin the president leads by three points after leading by six points last month. >> cbs news political director john dickerson is in dayton, ohio with a look at the importance of tonight's debate. yukon, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. >> what your looking for tonight? >> reporter: i'm looking for something from either candidate that reinfors one of the main underlying story lines for both candidate. for joe biden does he reinforce this idea that the white house is tired and out of ideas. that's what the romney campaign has been pushing. does ryan underline that the ticket is basically hiding their true beliefs and true numbers.

. >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell.t's debate between joe biden and paul ryan was a slugfest from the beginning. in a cbs news poll after the debate 50% of uncommitted voters think biden won the face off. 30% said ryan was the winner. nancy cordes is in canville, kentucky where the debate was held. good morning. >> reporter: what was striking was how much of this debate was about foreign policy and in that arena vice president biden actually made some news. he became the highest ranking administration official to blame faulty intelligence for the white house's conflicting stories about what happened in that attack in benghazi, libya that led to the deaths of four americans. and in a surprise to some he said the white house wasn't aware that security officials in libya had asked for more resources to guard embassy staff. >> we weren't told we wanted more security. we didn't know. >> reporter: congressman ryan called it evidence of a larger problem at the white house. >> what we're watching on our tv screens is the unrave

. >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king in new york and norah o'donnell in washington.o you guys have the same fashion consultant? i didn't get the purple memo. we start with president obama and governor mitt romney. they go back to campaigning today after a short pause. >> that's right. they attended this catholic charity dinner last night in new york and both candidates took the opportunity to poke fun at themselves and one another. >> everyone please take your seats. otherwise clint eastwood will yell at them. this is the third time that governor romney and i have met recently. as some of you may have noticed i had a lot more energy in our second debate. i was very well rested after the nice long nap i had in the first debate. >> of course i'm pleased that the president is here. we were chatting pleasantly this evening. as if tuesday night never happened. i was actually hoping the president would bring joe biden along this evening. because he'll laugh at anything. as president obama surveys the waldorf banquet room with everyone in white tie and finery you have to wo

. >>> i'm charlie rose with gayle king. norah o'donnell is in washington.s looking more and more the stage is set for a super storm in the northeast with high winds, heavy rain, and even snow. >> hurricane sandy is already blamed for at least 21 deaths in the caribbean. david bernard is chief meteorologist for our miami station, that would be cbs 4. he's watching sandy very closely. what's happening now? >> we had a new advisory that came in from the national hurricane center. let's get to that. the winds are about where they were before, 80 miles per hour, category 1 storm. the movement is slower, only moving to the northwest about 10 miles per hour. that's about 480 miles south/southeast of charleston. but it's going to parallel the coast for the next 48 hours or so. then as we get into sunday night, early monday, monday night, tuesday morning, that's when we're expecting the bend to the west and northwest that could bring it into portions of the mid-atlantic or the jersey shoreline, maybe as far north as long island. here's a look at the computer models,

. >>> i'm norah o'donnell with gayle king and anthony mason. charlie rose is out this morning.mitt romney go back to campaigning today after last night's in your face debate. a fired up president was on the attack but romney did not back down. when it was over cbs news took a poll of uncommitted voters who watched the debate and 37% said president obama was the winner. 30% said romney won and 33% called it a tie. >> last night's debate had some very tense moments. questions about the attack in libya that killed ambassador chris stevens led to one heated exchange. >> you said in the rose garden the day after the attack it was an act of terror. it was not a spontaneous demonstration. is that what you're saying? >> please proceed, governor. >> i want to make sure we get that for the record because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in benghazi an act of terror. >> get the transcript. >> governor romney -- >> let's talk about immigration. >> i want to make sure. >> i could have you sit down governor romney. thank you. >> we produced more oil. >> how much did

. >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell.daily gallup poll tracking registered vote toers showing president obama and mitt romney tied. today as jan crawford reports romney will focus on foreign policy, he'll call for the united states to take a more forceful role in the middle east. >> reporter: governor romney will be giving a major foreign policy speech at the virginia military institute. he has tough words for the president suggesting his leadership on issues of foreign policy has bean failure, weak and passive and romney is calling for a new course, especially in the middle east. but before romney even takes this stage the president is out with a new ad, mocking his foreign trip over the summer and saying romney has already failed the commander-in-chief test. now on issues of foreign policy there's a new poll out this morning from george washington university and politico. it gives the president the edge on foreign policy, 50% to romney's 44% but this poll and another poll from gallup this morning shows this race is a de

. >>> i'm hcharlie rose with gayl king and norah o'donnell.king the blame for the security lapse at the american consulate in benghazi, libya. that's where chris stevens and three other americans were killed this month. margaret brennan asked clinton about the decision not to send extra security to benghazi. >> i don't want us to reach any conclusions about what we did or didn't do without the full context. i understand why people want to ask questions, but i just caution that we need to look at everything, and everything needs to be explained at the same time. we have 275 posts around the world. we have more than 60,000 people. we live in a dangerous, risky environment today in many places around the world, and we are constantly calculating, particularly led by our security professionals, about what needs to be done, where assets need to be. >> on monday, three republican senators including john mccain, issued a statement praising clinton for taking the blame, but they accused the white house of trying to "avoid any responsibility whatsoever.

. >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell.a and mitt romney are reaching out the critical women voters. they hammered away at issues important to women such as fair pay and planned parenthood. they are looking forward to one last debate. >> now, as many of you know, we had our second debate last night. you know, i'm until trying to figure out how to get the hang of this thing. debating. but we're working on it. you know, we'll keep on improving as time goes on. i got one left. >> i have to be honest with you. i love these debates. these things are great. and i think it's interesting that the president still doesn't have an agenda for a second term. don't you think that it's time for him to finally put together a vision of what he'll do in the next four years if he's elected. he's got to come up with that over this weekend. because there's only one debate left on monday. >> for two days now we've been talking about romney's binder full of women debate comment and as seth doane reports it's still going 0 strong on the internet a

. >>> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell.nt obama and mitt romney hold their third an final debate tonight in boca raton, florida. the focus foreign affairs. >> romney took a break yesterday to watch a touch football game between his staff and the traveling press. meanwhile president obama finished his debate preparations at camp david. he arrives in florida later this afternoon. >> this morning a "quinnipiac university-cbs news-"new york times" poll shows rom i closing the gap in ohio one of the most important swing states. in the lastonth the president's lead among likely ohio voters has shrunk from ten points to five. frank luntz is here. frank, good morning. so, is ohio in play for romney? >> ohio is in play, wisconsin is in play, and if any candidate wins both those states the next president of the united states regardless of what the popular vote does if he splits then also good news for mitt romney. it's not about 50 states. it's about two. >> and does foreign policy make a difference? >> it makes a difference in terms

. >>> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell.ast are keeping their eye on a major storm that may be coming this way. >> david bernard is chief meteorologist of our miami station cbs 4 and joins us now. david what's happening with tropical storm sandy? >> let's start with the very latest from the hurricane center. this just came in a couple of minutes ago. the position is less than 100 miles south of kingston, jamaica moving quickly to the north at 14 miles per hour. now sandy may become a hurricane later today as it approaches the southeastern coast of cuba. looking ahead as we go into the weekend, we're going to talk about what the possible scenarios are for the northeastern portion of the united states. we got a big winter like jet stream dip coming through the plains this weekend. that may capture the storm and propel it into the east coast with tropical storm, maybe even hurricane force wind conditions. it's too early to say. there's an option that it goes out to sea. now kind of a third middle of the road option is that all

. >>> i'm norah o'donnell with gayle king and anthony mason. charlie rose is on assignment. romney is trying to use his post-debate moment to make a push. this morning's poll shows 49% of likely voters favor romney. 47% support obama. jan crawford is in akron, ohio, covering the romney campaign. >> reporter: the race is really tightening here in ohio, a state that romney must-win. one poll has him up by one poipt, another poll has the president up by four. it's essentially a tie. what we're seeing here, especially yesterday the president is taking romney's point and turning it on him. romney goes on to talk about a lit any of issues facing america on the jobs and economy and also for today we have that big congressional hearing on libya. america crossroads is backing romney is out with a new ad against the president on libya. it's brutal. take a listen. >> intelligence was there, clear signs of terrorism. but campaign politics came first. >> reporter: this is against the backdrop of tomorrow night's vice presidential debate in kentucky. vice president joe biden against congr

. >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell on the morning after their first debate presidenttt romney are going back out on the campaign trail in a cbs news poll taken after the debate twice as many undecided voters said romney was the winner. >> debates are much about style and substance and bill plante is in denver. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. this was a debate about the economy. and the preside presented oppos visions on how to fix it. president obama appeared low key, mitt romney very energetic and aggressive. >> the president began this segment so i get the last word. >> reporter: romney took advantage that the format of the debate was less restrictive. frequently pushing past moderator jim lehrer's attempts to change the subject. >> have to respond to that. >> reporter: as romney pushed on the president looked down or away even as he kept a slight smile on his face. for the president accusing romney to seeking to cut money for education, romney snapped back in one of the debates few pointed moments. >> as a president you're entitied to your own airpl

. >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and nora o'donnell.y are lashing at the east coast. the storm threatens up to 50 million people here in new york city. more storm closings have been announced. jim axelrod is in the evacuation zone in lower manhattan. >> reporter: well, good morning, charlie. we are now seeing emergency management officials starting to assess a lot of the bridges and tunnels in and around new york city. for instance governor andrew cuomo announcing that the holland tunnel from new jersey into lower manhattan as well as the brooklyn battery tunnel which connects brooklyn to lower manhattan would be closed and again, bridges being assessed. governor cuomo met with reporters a few moments ago to give us an update on the situation. let's take a listen. >> the storm is as we predicted. it is going to be a lot of rain and is going to be a lot of wind. and this is proceeding. the question is the extent of the storm surge. it is already high. it is already at irene levels. and the question is going to be what level does the surg

. >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell.rst debate, president obama and mitt romney are going back out on the campaign trail. in a cbs news poll taken after the debate, twice as many undecided voters said romney was the winner. >> debates are as much about style as substance, and bill plante is in denver. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, norah. this was a debate about the economy, and the president and mitt romney presented opposing visions of how to fix it. they tossed about a lot of facts and figures, but just as important was the way they appeared, very differently. the president extremely low-key, mitt romney very energetic and aggressive. >> the president began this segment, so i think i get the last word. >> reporter: romney took advantage of the fact that the format of the debate was less restrictive than in the past, frequently pushing past moderator jim lehrer's attempts to change the subject. >> we're going to move to -- >> i have to respond to that. >> reporter: as romney pushed on, the presid

. >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell.and difficult recovery from superstorm sandy. at this hour, the death toll in the united states has reached 9 59. crews are working around the clock to restore power to more than 6 million customers who have no electricity. >> the new york stock exchange reopened this morning after a two-day shutdown. and in washington, the smithsonian museum also reopened along with the national zoo. jeff glor's in the hard-hit atlantic city, new jersey, area, where he toured some of the damage with the coast guard. jeff? >> reporter: gayle, good morning. we went out with this coast guard helicopter, a dolphin chopper yesterday, as they did some damage assessments over atlantic city. but they were also looking for any potentially leaking fuel or ships that might be adrift. the coast guard did tell me when we were up that there was a derecho here, a strong line of thunderstorms that came through atlantic city in june that actually took out a lot of trees, and that may have minimized the damage from san

. >> i'm norah o'donnell with gayle king and anthony mason. charlie rose is out this morning.g today after last night's in-your-face debate. when it was over cbs news took a poll of uncommitted voters who watched the debate. 37% of them said president obama was the winner. 30% said romney won and 33% called it a tie. >>> last night's debate had some very tense moments, a question about the attack in labia that killed u.s. ambassador chris stevens led to one very heated exchange. >> you said in the rose garden the day after the attack it was an act of terror it was not a spontaneous demonstration. >> please proceed, governor. >> i want to make sure we get that for the record. it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in benghazi an act of terror. >> get the transcript. >> we're completely off immigration. >> i thought we were talking about immigration. >> quickly mr. president, if i could have you sit down, governor romney. thank you. >> governor we have produced more oil. >> how much did you cut licenses and permits on federal land and water? >> governor romney

. >>> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell.moir is coming out today. last night he opened up to lesley stahl on "60 minutes" about his troubled marriage to maria shriver. this morning we'll have more of that interview including the story when they met which didn't air last night. >> august 1977 you meet a young woman named maria shriver at a tennis tournament. was it love at first sight? >> i was fascinated by her, i would say, because she had an extraordinary look. she had the dark hair that i always loved in women. she had this big smile. she had the most extraordinary personality, laughing all the time. full of joy, full of energy and all that. i definitely said to myself, you know, i don't remember ever having met someone like that that had this kind of package of being smart and quick and everything else. >> you tell a story about meeting her mother at this event. do you remember what you said to her about maria? >> yeah. something stupid, obviously. i think that she had a grace ass. >> that's what you said to her mother?

. >>> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell.are preparing for tomorrow night's first debate in denver. a new national poll shows the president has a four-point advantage going into this head-to-head matchup. it will focus on the economy and domestic issues. jan crawford is in denver this morning. >> reporter: both romney and the president have no more big campaign events before tomorrow night's debate. last night romney had a rally before more than 5,000 people. he picked up the endorsement of broncos legend john elway. there are less than 10% of voters who say they're undecided, they could change their mind. romney's challenge is to show why his proposals will make their life better and why the president doesn't deserve another chance. there was an interesting group last week in ohio with voters who packed the president in 2008 but aren't sold this time. it shows some think the president isn't to blame for the economy. they also don't know much good about romney thanks to the negative ads romney's campaign has been outspent two

." >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and president obama. obama and mitt romney have their third and final debate tonight. the focus is foreign affairs. >> in florida romney took a debate to watch a touch football game between his staff and the traveling press. >>> meanwhile president obama finished preparations in camp david. >>> this morning a poll shows romney closing the gap in ohio, one of the most important swing states. in the last month the president's lead among likely ohio voters have shrunk from ten points to five. cbs news political analyst and republican strategist frank luntz is here. good morning. is ohio in play for romney? >> ohio is in play. wisconsin is in play. and if any candidate wins both of those states, the next president of the united states, regardless what the popular vote does if you split. that's probably good news for mitt romney. it's not about 50 states. it's about two. >> does foreign policy make a difference? >> it makes a difference in terms of how they pivot. how do you define national security? can you d

. >>> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell.r the debate tomorrow night. the president has a four-point advantage going into this head-to-head match-up. it will focus on the economy and domestic issues. jan crawford is in denver this morning. >> reporter: both romney and the president have no more big campaign events before tomorrow night's event. last night here in denver, romney had a rally before more than 5,000 people. he picked up the endorsement of broncos legend john elway, but today they're getting ready. romney is here in denver and the president is in las vegas. less than 10% of vote who are are undecided who can say they've changed their minds. romney's challenge is to show why his proposal will make their life better. why the president doesn't deserve another chance. there was an interesting focus group in ohio this week with voters who backed the president in 2008, but they're not sold this time. and it shows some of them think the president just isn't to blame for the economy, and they also don't know a lot of good

. >> i'm chary rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell.g the damage from super storm sandy. it is now responsible for at least 17 deaths. >> forecasters told us that 17 would be historic and it was. we begin with jim axelrod in new york city. >> reporter: the first thing we can report on this tuesday morning is that high tide has come here in battery park lower manhattan, and the water out there, the hudson river, new york harbor where it's mixing has not reached the wall has not come over. and that was a big concern here for emergency management officials as the next high tide after hurricane sandy had made landfall. the big concern was whether or not there would be another breach. there has not been this morning. as i say, good news. why? that water, having come over last night, record storm surge of nearly 14 feet. that is what caused the bulk of the problems in manhattan. there are about a quarter million people without power in manhattan. why? because that water came over the wall and got into electrical substations and power stations

. >>> i'm norah o'donnell with gayle king and anthony mason.y is trying to use his post debate momentum to make a big push in the key battleground state of ohio. the poll shows 49% favor romney, 47% support president obama. jan crawford is in akron, ohio, covering the romney campaign. >> the race is really tightening here in ohio, a state that romney must win. one poll has him up by one point, another by four. it's essentially a tie. what we're seeing on the campaign trail and yesterday, in fact, is romney taking one of the president's attacks and turning it on him. he's hammering for wanting to cut public funding. romney talks about a litany of issues facing america on the jobs, the economy and also, today, we have the big congressional hearing on libya. american crossroads, a group that is backing romney is out with a new ad against the president on libya. it is brutal. take a listen to this. >> the intelligence was there. clear signs of terrorism, but campaign politics came first. >> this comes against the backdrop of tomorrow night's vice p

. >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. between joe biden and paul ryan was a shrug-fest from the e be going. after the debate 50% think biden won the face off. 31% said ryan won it. nancy cordes is in danville kentucky, where the debate was held. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it was striking how much of this debate last night was about foreign policy. and on that front vice president biden actually made some news. he became the highest ranking administration official to blame faulty intelligence on the administration's shifting story about what happened in that attack in benghazi libya, that led to the deaths of four americans. and to the surprise of some he argued that the white house wasn't aware that security officials in libya had asked for more resources to protect embassy staff. >> well we weren't told they wanted more security. we did not know they wanted more security. >> reporter: congressman ryan called it evidence of a larger problem at the white house. >> what we are watching on our tv screens is the

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