the other issue is how big they turn out in virginia beach and hampton road area. promilitary. obama did very well down there last time. he won't do as well this time. >> eric: can i point something out?

>> i do think it is particularly compelling that we make sure south hampton has a city deal. i understand they are on the list. obviously, the news from ford was very disappointing. it was black spot in otherwise a very, very strong performance by the british automotive industry, and i know the business secretary will be working very closely with the city council to do everything we can to help people find jobs. >> mr. andrew miller. >> mr. speaker, might i ask a very straightforward question that should command a straightforward answer? in the forthcoming police and crime commissioner elections, it's predicted that the turn is going to be as low as 20%. does the prime minister think that gives democratic legitimacy? >> i want the turnout to be as high as possible, but i recognize in new elections for a new post it is always a challenge. it's even a challenge when you've got dedicated labor mps resigning from this house to stand as police and crime commissioners. but one point the crime commissioner will be able to make is to celebrate the fact that since the election crime's

is there hampton, thank you for that.bably mention as well, this is obviously purely anecdotal but one of our >> our producer who is there says he hasn't seen any of those protesters in walmart employee gash which obviously feeds back to what we were discussing earlier that amongst those protesting from walmart themselves, there are a number of people from the community, perhaps even those tho have been bussed in. >> it clearly has not disrupted shopping. that goes on, that's for sure. >>> millions of americans are hunting for bargains this black friday but are the nation's millionaires among them? wealth editor robert frank has that part of the story for us right now. robert? >> thanks, bill. turns out millionaires will not be joining jane wells on those best buy lines this morning or today. 83% of millionaires will not be doing any holiday shopping today. that's higher than other income groups. it's not so surprising, millionaires don't get quite as excited over saving $2 on a dvd. but what is surprising is that million

hampton pearson joins us outside of a walmart in woodlawn, maryland. hampton?ne, this is probably the biggest lull in the overnight shopping here at this particular walmart. we are told that busloads of about 250 to 300 pro-union protesters are on their way here within the half hour, so there's really two agendas. you've got the 4,500 u.s. stores that are not unionized, and so organized labor seeing a chance to make inroads with the 1.4 million walmart employees, then walmart looks at black friday in terms of the 35 million black friday shoppers they had this time last year, when this all comes together, basically the unions wanting to make a point that walmart employees are underpaid an don't have the greatest benefits in the world, and/or those who now may want to walk off the job for a brief period of time should not have to deal with any issues as far as retaliation. on the flipside, however, we've been here since about 4:30 this morning. we talked to some of those early shoppers, and they didn't have a lot of opinions about whether or not walmart workers a

. >> reporter: east hampton, connecticut is called belltown, u.s. at once there were 30 bell makers here. bevins was the last one. bevin brothers made the first bicycle bell in 1861. in 1923 bevince bells started calling children to the good humor ice cream truck and one of its bells had a starring role in the christmas class jic "it's a wonderful life." >> look daddy, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. >> reporter: today matt bevin is starting over. 14 of his 27 employees are back at work in this temporary factory trying to rebuild their biggest order, 25,000 bells for the salvation army's kettle ring. >> we aren't just making wishes. we're not even just in the bell business. we're in the memory business. we're making memories. >> reporter: since the fire hundreds of those memories have made their way to his mail box in the form of handwritten letters, all from people who wanted to share their own bell stories. >> i'm going to start crying. i'm glad your bells are still made in the united states of america. >> reporter: he vows to reb

hampton is breaking that story. maybe it is some place else. >> is this boilerplate, john, or bigger? >> they're not contesting it because the votes haven't been cast in ohio. we have a projection by the nbc unit. they only project when they have a very high confidence, but until the votes are counted the romney campaign can say whatever they want. >> rick, you've been the voice to such a large degree of a vocal element of this electorate over the last few years. what is your response tonight? do you feel, is there a repudiation of the things you've been breaching for the last three, four years? >> has the house changed much? >> no. >> okay. my guess is the fiscal conservatives in the house are going to be as fiscally conservative tomorrow as they were last week. i don't see why they shouldn't be. they were sent there by people. they were voted in and that is a voice of conservatism that is going to continue, in my opinion, to be a force to reckon with. >> what does that mean for the next four years for america? wha

crip reid, cbs news, east hampton, connecticut. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonightof us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> two women once roommates at bowie state university, one is dead and the other is charged in her murder. her trial continued today with explosive testimony. we were in that courtroom all day long, joining us live in upper marlboro. any word of a possible verdict tonight? >> reporter: derek literally seconds ago the jury was escorted back into the courtroom where alexis simpson has been quietly awaiting her fate, sitting alone and emotionless according to our colleague, ken molestina. the jurors went just past the allotted two hours given to them by the judge abou

chip reid, cbs news, east hampton, connecticut. >> and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight.f us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald >>> good evening, i'm allen martin. >> i'm dana king. the clock is ticking for twinkies. hostess brand's famously long shelf life could expire tomorrow taking thousands of jobs with it. cbs 5 reporter len ramirez explains it's all due to an ongoing labor dispute the iconic snack cake maker says it simply cannot survive. len. >> reporter: that's right, allen. the fires will be burning late into the night and into early- morning hours as workers plan an all-night picket line here at the hostess plant in oakland. the only question now is when the daylight comes, will they have jobs? hostess workers stayed defiantly on the picket line despite a threat from the company that it would liquidate this oakland bakeries and others if the workers didn't return to work this afternoon. you didn't seem to be scared. >> not me. not me because i

. >> reporter: we're in hampton roads. the shipbuilding capital of the world. this is a region with a huge him tear presence and a local economy -- military presence and a local economy that's heavily dependent on defense spending. >> my name is sean. i am a machinist and mechanic on the uss roosevelt. >> my name is thomas bell. i'm the business manager for iron workers local union 79. >> reporter: two men both with military backgrounds. >> i'm not afraid to stand up for my country and i put my life out for almost 20 years is i am not afraid to do it again. >> my myself am a u.s. army veteran. >> you see the island house. >> reporter: they work in related fields. >> when i was in desert storm, i guided a lot of these aircrafts in on targets when we was taking out the enemy. >> i like to say we don't build the ships, we build the shipyards. >> reporter: they support different candidates. >> president barack obama. >> i'm voting is republican ticket. >> reporter: but it's about improving a damaged economy. >> i'll ian say bush did it. president obama said that he

tel aviv well for more on this i'm joined live by james petras he's a professor of sociology at big hampton university in new york. you can hear me there . james may well thanks very much indeed for joining us well by the sounds of things it doesn't look as if all out war is on the cards why is this happening now well several reasons one is the supporters of palestine are very diminished situation the latest developments point to a major attempt to overthrow the government in syria through a combined goals in western european. and turkish sense of iran as a fact of lee a neutralized and the israelis have been gobbling up territory in the west bank and now you have. the missile attacks on. israel's feels it has a free hand today it's using bulldozers in the west bank and missiles in. fact of lee dispossessed what remains of the bar to stand colonies in among the palestinians so i think the netanyahu regime sees the western offensive against palestinian supporters in the region as the green light to move full scale the. of the west bank and the demolition of what exists in gaza can we talk ab

. >> gene robinson mentioned that end we are joined by carol hampton rasco, who is the president andceo of "reading is fundamental." give us the background, if you will, the program, "reading is fundamental." >> 46 years ago, there is a meeting that jacqueline kennedy called at the white house with all the cabinet spouses. and mrs. kennedy said that she told each spouse that we are each going to do something to make washington a better place for the people who live and work here every day. mrs. mcnamara had a great reputation as a reading tutor. she tutor the wealthier children in town and also children from poor economic backgrounds. she had found come up one day, how much it meant in the life of public school, she had bought books that her children had used before. well, one of the mothers wanted to return the stolen book. and i said no, we want the child have to have the book, and that started the tradition of when we present a book to a child, helping the child. she appeared to help children, those who do not learn to read well on time, it usually means we are here to help them s

. >> to the romney camp, hampton pearson is live in boston tonight. hampton?ust the music that has the romney headquarters here in boston rockin' right now, they like the red on the map that they've seen thus far of those four states if you will in the romney column any time projection goes their way, there's applause that goes up here in the headquarters room. meanwhile, mitt romney has only been back in boston for about an hour and a half after those last-minute campaign stops in ohio and pennsylvania. he's next door at a hotel that's adjacent to this massive convention center monitoring the returns, getting reports from around the country. elsewhere across town in boston, at the boston gardens, there's a romney war room still in operation, making calls to presumably places where the polls have not closed. i'm sure a lot of phone calls are being made to colorado and nevada to get that last-minute vote out there. but so far, anyway, mood is upbeat for very obvious reasons. the early returns, the map all red for romney with the exception of vermont thus far. b

phil you kind of got to stay home, don't you live there and poor hampton we had to send him there.ot the better deal, we'll start with you, phil. >> or not. >> we lost a little bit of phil lebeau's sound there. >> you know what, i could have gone to hampton first anyway and he's the one that traveled further, i should have just to defer to you, hampton. hopefully we can hear you. why don't you start. >> reporter: how are you doing, joe? number one the polls just opened a few minutes ago in boston, massachusetts, expecting something like a 70% turnout. governor romney wrapped up his last full day of campaigning in manchester, new hampshire, the four electoral votes are really up for grabs between him and president barack obama. romney basically reminding folks that this is where his campaign began 18 months ago, and making one last plea for their votes today. >> and tomorrow, your votes and your work right here in new hampshire will help me become the next president of the united states. >> reporter: now mitt romney literally has miles to go before we see him behind that podium on t

hampton pearson at a capital plaza walmart.walmart was the target of an incredibly well-organized protest, a black friday protest, if you will. hundreds of demonstrators taking the lead from the united food and commercial workers union along with community activists. they've been trying to turn up the heat for better pay and benefits for the 12.4 million employees. part of their organizing tactics have been encouraging workers to become more vocal, even walking off their jobs, at the same time trying to pressure walmart not to retaliate. both sides came face-to-face today. >>> can you say these employees will not be head in some type of punishment for their activities? can you say that to me, sir? >> i can say we would never retaliate against any associate. now, one of knolls walmart workers, who did walk off the job and was on strike herself today, says workers of course deserve better pay and benefits with those kinds of numbers. >> we are workers, neighbors, we are the heart of their store. we are the ones that make them gen

let's check in with hampton.joins us live with more on that and the rest of the day's business headlines. hey, hampton. >> how you doing, keith? >> the markets are in negative territory after a positive open. it's due to knews on inflation. the major averages at this hour, the dow is down 53 points, 12,693. the nasdaq is down 3.5 points, s&p is down four points. wholesale inflation eased for the first time since may. prices dropped .2 percent due to declines in gasoline and energy. food rose due to the draught. consumers cutting back on spending as well as the impact of super storm sandy. sales dropped 10% according to commerce department. auto sales dropping 1.5%. it's the biggest decline for that sector. shares of facebook dropped after the block of shares became eligible for sale for the first time today. roughly 800 million shares are available after restrictions on insider trading were lifted. it's the biggest block of shares available since the initial offering back in may. the other big stock story today,

and 40 degrees at hampton hill. and 36 degrees and the winds are still breezy out of the northwest at 5 to 10 miles an hour. and things will dive down as we head into the evening. at the surface and today and with that we're going to see plenty of sunshine in the forecast for us that the nor'easter well to the north. it is moving out and not even affecting new york and new jersey. they will be able to clean up the mess that that delivered. but here at home. we are not dealing with a lot. we'll see a few high clouds moving in here as we move through the weekend. all in all sunny and we'll have a nice warm up on the way. for today 56 degrees. mostly sunny skies and tonight the temperature and 36. mostly clear. not as cold by tomorrow 62 and sunshine and warmer. let's get a check with lauren cook. >> loving that warm weekend. 62 degrees and great weather for the ravens game as well. >> we're dealing with the massive water main break in downtown. north charles street is shut down from penn station to 21st street. and us

about -- to give you a harder number, there are some -- there are few famous nonwest pointers, wade hampton, stonewall jackson is a west pointer, two-thirds of major generals involved, are veterans at least of the regular army, and the regular army really is dominated by west point. west point is about -- it's not only that most officers in the regular army are graduated of west point. it's kind of the focal point of much of the armies professionalism. so when they do for example, review boards for things like new tactics they'll use the cadet as guinea pigs and have them march around and use thest point library. they have a -- the only historical library available where this stuff is at. but if we think of the big three, lee, grant, sherman, stonewall jackson, longstreet, all west pointers and all have gone through that experience. >> host: when it comes down to the civil war you have generals on the south, generals on the north who have been train in the same ways. what does that do to some of the conflicts? >> guest: for me the most important thing that happens -- the most important end

hampton pearson is outside of a walmart in maryland with the latest details. happening with any significant numbers? they say there's about 50 protesters involved in walkouts last night, but the story is not just about black friday shoppers, about well-orchestrated demonstrations, hundreds of protesters supporting a leading labor union's effort on behalf of wall martz, more than a million workers for better pay and benefits. the unions and community groups say they're simply basically responding to a groundswell that's building inside among walmart employees, who are speaking out and some in fact walking off their jobs in protest. walmart downplaying the participation rates, denies charges, by the way, also of any retaliation efforts. instead they're highlighting among other things what they say are the best responses to its black friday promotions ever. 22 million customers on thanksgiving day, a record 10 million transactions between 8:00 and midnight last night. keep in mind there is still a walmart claim with the nlrb that some of the practices of the unio

roads, the hampton roads area off virginia beach and the surrounding localities. host: what are the demographics of the state of virginia? guest: as with most larger population states, there are many states in one. you have northern virginia, which is about a third of the state's population, now produces 30% of the vote, if not more. that has a low-debate. that particular population is national and international in scope. it is the highest income region. it has the people with the highest educational levels in the state on average. it tends to be the most democratic region. if you go down to and tidewater, roads, that is a heavy defense industry area. it is both white-collar and blue-collar, also has a large african-american population. and it also has a relatively low nativity rate, that is people not necessarily born in virginia, due to the influence of the navy. the navy brings lots of people in from across the nation and across the world. the richmond area is an urban area, but it's probably the most conservative urban region in this area and maybe one of the

>> got it, hampton. thank you. >>> another disruption this holiday shopping season -- cheap, mobile and free. video industry's worst nightmare like the grinch stealing profits. julia boorstin is live in l.a. with more. >> there is an industry wide decline in retail sales of video games. question is how to grow profits from mobile games which are free or cost just 1 or $2 without cannibalizing sales of $60 packaged games. electronic arts is responding by slashing new console and pc games from 67 in 2009 to just 22 new releases this year. next year ea will release just 14 package titles, doubling down on digital with more than 30 mobile and social games adding to its already 500 mobile titles. ea says the price options, either free or low cost with paid extras, aims to capture the billion-plus potential gamers with smartphones. >> mobile games are as profitable as console games. the costs are actually less and the revenue can be as much, if not greater than a console product. >> reporter: ea's mobile reven

it is not the hamptons or malibu, it is close neighbors and cottages. and these days it is hard to imagine how it will be the same. it has been 18 days and folks just now are able to see the damage. nbc's stephanie gosk was there. >> reporter: these people on the jersey shore, three neighbors, their houses are totally gone. >> i got some ground here. >> my grandfather had a house for 60 years. and it was our future. but -- but it is also my past. >> this is the handle to our stove. how hard this is today. it is devastating. i don't know what else to say. the idea of rebuilding doesn't even seem responsible right now. >> reporter: people here are just trying to understand the scope of the destruction. this house is obviously off its foundation. this is also the second floor. >> even if you could wave a magic wand and everything is going to be put back, it is going to be years before some of that comes back. i worked on the boardwalk growing up. you know, i can walk the seaside. that is a steel beam, there is wood on the outside, but it is bent like crazy

these are headed down toward hampton roads and tidewater. these won't be bothering us. clouds, yes, but not much of anything in the way of a rainfall chance during the overnight hours. the clearing sky, we'll be off to a cold start on sunday morning. with a little extra sunshine tomorrow, you're really going to appreciate the way the day looks. with this area of low pressure skirting off the coastline as it pulls away, it allows more and more sunshine as the day wears along during the day tomorrow. today, most of the sunshine was in northern virginia. tomorrow, i think the old line state of maryland will get the bulk of the sunshine. high pressure settles in, another cool start monday morning. way nice quiet start to the workweek monday. the aeastern seaboard looks nice and quiet. all eyes are focused on the wednesday to thursday time frame. it looks like a low to medium impact for now, with a lot of wind and rain along the coastline, there may be a little bit of a snow chance in the high spots north and west of town. overnight, partly cloudy, don't forget to move your

hampton pearson's been digging into this. ham? >> how you doing, mandy? as you mentioned, 54 companies have announced those special dividend zips the beginning of november. that compares to 44 in all of 2011. now this is from the companies in the russell 3,000 with a market cap of over $500 million. but the politics, if there are any, may surprise you. take a look at a couple pie charts comparing those political contributions and those dividends. first of all, 67% of those special dividend companies made contributions to the romney campaign. just over $287,000. 33% to president obama for just over $143,000. now we've got a similar breakdown when you look at contributions to political candidates. 68%, just over $1.4 million to gop candidates. 32%, $690,000 to democrats. now costco, of course, making market moving news today announcing a $7 per share special dividend to be paid before the end of the year. if we go over the fiscal cliff at the end of the year, that tax rate on dividend goes from 15% to just over 43%. i think it is safe to say that there is b

he received 70% of the vote in norfolk and in hampton. the president also won the critical county of henrico near richmond, and northern virginia made a big difference. in fairfax county, he received 59% of the vote. 71% for alexandria, 52% for loudoun county, and 57% for prince william county. >>> and from virginia to maryland now, you will soon be able to get the feel of a vegas casino without having to leave the region. question seven passed, paving the way for casinos in maryland. just a few hours ago at national harbor, there was quite a celebration going on, tony. >> reporter: just a few hours ago, you're right. quiet here now, aaron, but county executive baker was on hand with former executive wayne curry all down here having a celebration, fireworks going off. an unprecedented amount of money spent on this ballot measure. over $90 million spent by both supporters and those that oppose it. guys, you will not be celebrating new year's here. you won't even be celebrating a birthday any time soon. we will not see this casino until 201

those are the population centrs of the state as well certainly here in hampton roads it's in the city of norfolke it's been a diverse popupu.oni almoston evenly split between caucasians and african-americans so that urban crescent i think was a large part of the obama strategy in 2008. it remains so this time around as well. >> sreenivasan: also taking a look at a couple of other maps we've got. we've got a population density echoing exactly what you were saying. we have one about income distribution. you see the same crescent sewems to factor in again upround louden county. the average income is $115,000. very close to washington d.c. in the southwest in dickinson county $29,000. >> it's a tremendousp disparity. so much of those jobs in that urban crescent are defense-related. that's been a particular issue in this campaign. as this state looks to what may happen after the election with regard to see questions traition of those automaticnd indiscriminate cuts that will take place in january 2 if the spending plan is not developed. here's a lot of attention, a lot of focus on what may

some students could face punishment for violating hampton sidney's code of conduct. >>> a very emotionalesponse from president obama after his victory. >> you all went to the polls. i'm really proud of that. i'm really proud of all of you. and what you've just done -- >> the president got choked up when he thanked members of his campaign staff wednesday. he told his staffers and volunteers that he is confident they will do amazing things in hr lives. >>> a traffic alert in potomac, maryland. a movie production may slow down your commute on river road. according to the potomac patch, the bbc apparently is shooting a film for a second day. this is happening at the intersection of river road and norton road between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. >> time to check the forecast now. it's pretty cold right now, but i am so looking forward to this weekend for so many reasons. >> going to be a nice little treat on so many levels. tom kierein is here to deliver the good news. >> oh, tom. >> only thing is we don't get to turn our clocks back another hour. that would be nice to do that every weekend. we do

he urged quote take a retrospect of the conduct of the british army at hampton at every bosom with closewith patriotism and virtue will be inspired. by directly invoking rape in an effort to prod them into action jackson concludes the war of 1812 was as much a fight against british sexual tyranny as a struggle for any more positive definition of liberty. in fact, jackson and eaton together helped spread a wholly false story about english to pay but he in new orleans that did much to arouse americans to patriotism in the aftermath of the war. let's talk a little bit about the spread of the story. on february 16th, 1815, when the united states house of representatives met to devise the official congressional resolution of thanks to general jackson jared ingersoll a republican from philadelphia, took to the lauren explained quote, for the first time during this long arduous and trying session we can all feel alike. we are all of one mind, all hearts leap up to the embraces of the other. why was ingersoll's heart leaping? this success have been known for a week or so but ingersoll related to

and hampton pearson in boston. and we have cool technological tricks. michelle caruso-cabrera is monitoring the exit poll and sharing important issues. plus the balance of power on capitol hill. and social media has played a huge role in this campaign season so it is sure to be a popular place tonight. you can join the conversation and tweet us, follow our coverage on twitter. this is just the beginning of our coverage tonight. >> it will be big. we have a great lineup of guests tonight including iowa governor terry branstad and chairman and national bureau of economic research president marty feldstein. and then we have former chairman and obama fundraiser robert wolf. later former new jersey governor. and then we have jim cramer with his take on tonight's election and ask what the results mean for various sectors and find out how he thinks you should be positioning your portfolio. >> we all understand the national polls would show obama and romney in a virtual dead heat. tonight it will come down to swing states. scott cohn is in columbus. >> no repub

hampton, what can you tell us? it is a proverbial morning after, and as we all watched the battle for the electoral college unfold last night, what was really fascinating was it seemed that the romney campaign really didn't have an answer for the obama strategy that almost had them, in effect, are upping the table in a lot of those key battleground states. so we saw mitt romney come here to this hall, thousands of supporters waiting to hear what he and paul ryan had to say. mitt romney basically at times congratulating the president, but also almost even apologizing to the supporters for not quite getting across the finish line, but at the same time, going out of his way to acknowledge that the american people had spoken. >> the nation, as you know, is at a critical point. at a time like this, we can't risk partisan bickering and political posturing. our leaders have to reach across the aisle to do the people's work. >> and so we're all waiting to see if that call for bipartisanship will take hold. the most poignan

in davidson vote from the john hampton highway, 424, accident activity on the right side. and continuing across the crash fromaring a side.ght northbound 95, accident cleanup continues. that was along the right side as well. you.to >> thank you. 6:50 right now. our thursday express is next. up of today'sd top stories. what you need to know before you walk out the door. first, a quick check on your forecast. >> 6:52. up with a lotrt .oundup of today's top stories is first iner stafford virginia. >> good morning. connecting and multi-state manhunt looking for the man theyart, responsible for three attacks. pipe bomb the first happening in frederick two others happening here in stafford. isey believe laurence stewart armed and dangerous. into virginiang pennsylvania and ohio. be driving aould or a whitei accent, nissan alt hammad. toone with information asked contact police. with the presidential race a final adds, it today. most recent polls showing the a slight lead in battleground states, roanokeney stopping in morning. president gets back on track wisconsin and nevada. >>

and i met him in 1989 when our boss invited us to a weekend in the hamptons, so -- but he died before we got there. so we had a good time without him. and i met him while working on adult films in the late 70s. he was the sound guy who went by the name of scotty, but now goes by bill schulz. and next to him, author and tv personality and america's bad boy, greg gutfeld. since he is letting me fill in, i will mention his book "the joy of hate" on sale. >> a block. the lede. that's the first story. >> it is like a love triangle, but with four sides. if only there were a word for that shape. the petraeus scandal may have sunk another four-star general as the american commander, john allen is being investigated for inappropriate communications with a woman at the center of this mess. allen allegedly exchanged hundreds of flirtatious e-mails with jill kelley who alerted the fbi when she received harassing e-mails from paula broadwell. and don't order yet. there is more. fox confirms the agent she notified and who triggered the investigation was removed from the case because of his behavior

. >> hampton, thank you so much.to get back to our cnbc all stars tonight. >> i was just looking at some of the exit polls. there were a couple of key differences and analysis of the campaign. what was the white share of the vote? what was the party i.d. spread? the democratic party, the campaign assumptions were much closer. first of all the white percentage of the vote fell from 74 in 2008 to 72. it continued its fall, the last generation has fallen. party i.d. spread, plus six for democrats. in 2008, it was plus seven democrats. republican optimism has been founded on the idea that was going to be much lower than that. it was not according to the exit poll so far. >> that is a really interesting fact. that was the whole basis of the debate among pollsters. >> david immediately replied. >> republicans have raised the level of their game. i don't know if they matched. the ways in which pollsters calculate who is likely to vote was cutting out some of their people. >> if there is one word that will define this campai

there is a special flavor on this federal spending this is also in hampton roads.his is also off in virginia beach. >> what are the demographics of the state of virginia? >> as with most large population states, there are many states in one. you have northern virginia which is about 1/3 of the population. this has a low rate. that population is national and international in scope. it is the highest income region. it has people with the hire education levels in the state. it tends to be the most democratic region. if the go down to hampton roads which i was just mentioning, that is a heavy defense industry area. it is both white and blue collar. it also has a large african american population. it also has a relative low nativity rate. people there were not necessarily born in virginia due to the inference -- influence of the navy. the richmond area is an urban area. it is probably the most conservative urban region in this region. it may be with the most conservative and the country. it is a traditional area of because of the west side of richmond. the east side is

ross, back over to you. >> hampton, thanks for joining us. i hope you had a good thanksgiving.preciate it. >>> still to come, research in motion shares posted a jump in trading. but blackberry can see their sales buns back. motion shares posted a jump in >>> u.s. financial back in action. indicated slightly higher. european markets trying to put in their best week for ten months. research in motion up over the launch of blackberry 10. its price tar get on the stock at $15 from $12. the new device expected to hit the shops early next year. and the u.s. postal service plans to test same day package delivery in big cities. the service will initially be offered in san francisco. pricing hasn't been announced and the postal service working out agreements with 8 to 10 large retail chains. and the government will appeal a ruling over unpaid debts stemming from the country's default a decade ago. wednesday a federal judge in new york ordered argentina to pay in full everything it owes to several u.s. investment funds. the judge also barred the country from paying other bond holders unt

host: let's go to hampton, virginia. -- vote jesus.ht host: let's go to hampton, virginia.r: i'm disappointed with president obama. the church providing birth control and morning after pill. the democrats seem to teach abortion, abortion, abortion. and teacher unions can be very greedy. host: benjamin is in wisconsin. but independent line. caller: at think mitt romney is everything that is wrong with the republican party. [unintelligible] it shows that mitt romney can buy his way into the election. host: it sounds like you are in favor of ron paul. will you write him in? caller: yes, sir. he is the superior candidate. we will show up the republican party/ they were cheating in not playing fair. host: mitt romney focusing recently in his speeches on the economy. one of the poll questions we have had on our facebook pages which candidate would do a better job on domestic policy? 275 think barack obama and mitt romney mitt139. but collecting some of the language -- mitt romney 139. some of the language of mitt romney has been using -- caller: i am impressed and excited about t

you know, our hotels, the hilton garden inn and the hampton in the same parking lot.hen the storm came a lot of people check in on sunday. everyone felt, well, monday the storm, and tuesday will be better and we will leave to zero wednesday. and obviously it did not happen. it was worse. by wednesday we said that, you know, we are not going to have a place for these people if we do this, this, this -- neil: this was stupid. it would have started in s.i. all of these supplies and provisions that were being made, it was really -- it was like people were oblivious to the very images we are showing now, which is crazy. >> well, what i said to a couple of people, especially the people that are mad because we had to make a decision on thursday. the decision was to are we going to throw these people out of ou hotel to make room for the marathon aso come in so that they can run a race on sunday and go back to their lives, these people from staten island have no place to go, and that was a kind of easy decision. we had a guy that was 101 years old whose son called me and said,

for that we go to hampton pearson. >> reporter: how are you doing, phil.ann romney voted a few moments ago here in boston. a bit of an irony. no expert or citizen expects romney to carry massachusetts, his home state. experts say he'll be lucky if he matches 36% that john mccain got four years ago when he ran against barack obama. it's not just the fact that massachusetts is a state that tilts democratic. frankly voters here have similar complaints to what has been heard nationally about the former governor. >> i don't think there's a mystery about mitt romney. i think the united states is learning what we learned here. we're never exactly sure if he means what he says and how long he's going to stick with it. >> reporter: the real action in massachusetts is the dead heat contest for the senate between scott brown, the republican, and elizabeth warren, the democrat. voter turnout could top 70%. some 3 million plus votes being cast in one of the most closely watched senate races in the country that could very well determine the balance of power in the senat

the other issue is how big they turn out in virginia beach and hampton road area. promilitary.id very well down there last time. he won't do as well this time. >> eric: can i point something out? the stock market rallied very, very strong today. a lot of people saying what is going on? obama rally? romney rally? especially virginia, for virginia, the coal industry rallied strongly. oil and coal, drilling and mining were very, very strong today. maybe virginia is, you know, will benefit from romney win. maybe that is what -- >> bob: maybe they know something more than we know at this point. >> eric: move on. north carolina, kick off north carolina? >> dana: north carolina is a state obama won last time. they admitted they weren't going there anymore on the obama campaign, they decided it was going to go for romney. a couple of main reasons. the most important one is the economy. state of unemployment situation there is very bad. i have a few friends that live there. things are rough. they don't feel like there was any way to get them going again. so wonderful state, and i think

let's check in with hampton. he joins us with that and the rest of the days headlines. >> hi, keith. the stock markets are getting a boost from a couple encouraging reports. the average, the dow is up 150 points. nasdaq up 42. payroll provider, adp says private employ years added 158,000 jobs in october. as you mentioned, the labor department telling us, the first time unemployment benefit claims falling to 9,000 to a seasonably adjusted, 253,000. tomorrow, we get the full jobs report, the last one before the presidential election. >>> exxon mobile beat earnings expectations for profits. the global refining business more than double the $3.2 billion. meanwhile, oil and gas production fell 7.5% cutting into the profits. chrysler sales fell while ford was up slightly despite hurricane sandy washing out three days of business. the headline numbers for the month, 126,000 cars and trucks, ford, 168,000. it was only a fractional increase over september. finally, for those who may want to get away from it all after hurr

think, before you will get an israeli representative in the same room with a representative from hampton, they are committed to nonviolent negotiations. >> and i'm curious, sometimes as a reporter when you interview people from various factions, you know, they kind of go into their various talking points and using a lot of rhetoric. is it that way with you, one-on-one with them? i mean, do you have to sit through a lot of rhetoric, or does everybody cut to the chase when there are notameras around? >> you have to sit through a lot of rhetoric, if you don't have patience to listen for a long period of time, don't get into the business of works with conflicts. in northern ireland, i spent five years there. sitting through thousands of many hours. and there was yelling, insults, people storming out of the room, demanding that others be thrown out of the room. there was quite a bit of that. and you have to have a huge reservoir of patience, sit through it, listen to what everybody has to say. but in the end, you listen to their sides. peace can't be imposed by the outside, unless you do it b

northern virginia played a big role in parts of the area around richmond and hampton road made a difference president obama. >> prince william county and loudoun county were the two sort of swing counties as people described it going into this race. they both pretty significantly went for president obama. so a lot of analysis we're going to see today of how the win happened and for mitt romney how the loss happened. you can expect that as we roll through the morning and on into the "today" show. >>> it is 5:57 right now. ahead at 6:00 this morning on the president's night, the surprising name that was trending on twitter.