jonathan martin at "the new york times," cnn's peter hamby and molly ball. president obama is making his midterm pitch and he's more than a little frustrated. >> the united states has put more people back to work than europe, japan, and every other advanced economy combined. >> now, just friday, for example, the labor department announced the economy created 248,000 jobs in september. and get, this the unemployment rate is now below 6% for the first time since 2008. but many of you don't feel it or you don't buy it so the president gets very little credit. take a look at this. first, this is the nation's unemployment rate from january 2010 until now. look at that steady drop from shy of 10% to 5.9% last month. usually when that happens, a president goes up. but look again, here's president obama's approval rating over that same period. mostly a rough ride for the president and he's currently at 44%, not where you'd want to be one month from election day. he wants more credit on the economy but in trying to get it he nationalized the election. he said i'm not

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. >> standing ovation from fire officials and park rangers, ray hamby present add wards to two peoplehat saved his life. i'm trained to do cpr and never had to perform it on someone. i thought that is where i would be. >> he collapsed teaching a class here at ymca. the staff are required to know cpr. >> anyone can be a first responder. and it's very important because it can happen to you. or to the person right next to you. >> i got shocked six times but breathing on my own before emt got there. >> myself, really. >> the ceremony happened as the fire depament continued to take heat over response time. saying it wasn't the ambulance but the training of the citizens that made a difference >> it's a still that can be learned at the high school level. >> you think oh, they're going to be able to save them it's not. >> in san francisco, abc7 news. >> that is a good skill to have. >> it's fantastic. >> well, sandhya patel talking about giants and radar here. >> yes. weather is going to be terrific. if you're doing traveling, they're expecting rain and thunderstorms. 84 in san francisco. 86

. >> standing ovation from fire officials and park rangers, ray hamby present add wards to two peoplet saved his life. i'm trained to do cpr and never had to perform it on someone. i thought that is where i would be. >> he collapsed teaching a class here at ymca. the staff are required to know cpr. >> anyone can be a first responder. and it's very important because it can happen to you. or to the person right next to you. >> i got shocked six times but breathing on my own before emt got there. >> myself, really. >> the ceremony happened as the fire department continued to take heat over response time. saying it wasn't the ambulance but the training of the citizens that made a difference >> it's a still that can be learned at the high school level. >> you think oh, they're going to be able to save them it's not. >> in san francisco, abc7 news. >> that is a good skill to have. >> it's fantastic. >> well, sandhya patel talking about giants and radar here. >> yes. weather is going to be terrific. if you're doing traveling, they're expecting rain and thunderstorms. 84 in san francisco. 86

we have cnn political correspondent peter hamby and gloria borger and briana keilar.our favorite senate race is in new hampshire where the latest polls show the incumbent slightly ahead of scott brown, the republican. >> it's still as to toss-up and my favorite race is one where you can show a racy photo of one of the candidates. you know i'm talking about scott brown. there you go. there it is. this is what he is sort of famous for. we learned when he was elected in 2010 as senator of massachusetts. jeanne shaheen was up double digits and scott brown who lost in 2012 after winning in 2010 packs up and moves to new hampshire and now he's got a shot. this shows you that new hampshire may be reflecting the national mood and it often does. is it going to do the same this time? and it's really sort of making it speak to the issue that democrats can't hold on to it here. >> how can they hold onto it in arkansas or a state like that. >> a state president obama won twice. peter, your favorite matchup is in iowa where the latest poll shows joanie ernst is getting ahead of bru

and, you know, our peter hamby spoke to ann romney about it.one thing to make the mistake, correct it, but he was playing into that crowd. he should have never, ever, ever have done that. and he can't apologize enough for it as far as i'm concerned. >> i'm with you on that. >> gloria, ana, guys, thanks very much. he obviously made a major blunder. not that he had much of a chance, i think, getting himself elected. a pretty serious blunder there in handling this affair. thanks very much. that's it for me. i'll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern in the "situation room." a quick check of your headlines after a quick break. for our viewers here in north america, newsroom with brooke baldwin starts at the top of the hour. it's a fresh approach on education-- superintendent of public instruction tom torlakson's blueprint for great schools. torlakson's blueprint outlines how investing in our schools will reduce class sizes, bring back music and art, and provide a well-rounded education. and torlakson's plan calls for more parental involvement. spending decisio

politics," with me to share their reporting and insight, ed o'keefe of the "washington post" and peter hambyent hits the road today. the president is trying to convince you, the voters that the economy is doing a little bit better than you might think and that he deserves some credit. let's look at numbers as we begin the conversation. as the president goes to chicago, his personal rating on the economy, 42% of americans approve of how the president is handling the economy. six in ten americans disapprove. and yet, if you look at this timeline, over the past several months, there's no question, that the people's views, your views about how the economy is doing, are getting a little bit better. 42% in our latest poll say economic conditions are good. so ed o'keefe, what is the challenge for the president, who appears to get no credit for some increase in economic optimism. and how important is this to democrats standing mid-term day? >> absolutely essential that they remind not only their base voters, but maybe swing voters, that look at your pocketbook, look at the stock market, except maybe