since 1990, whitey herzog's last year, joe torre took over the next year. >> joe: crawford hangs on,ets the out at second, and we are through 6 1/2 on a beautiful night in san francisco. carlos have left eight and been shutout through seven. we will take you back to the all-star game in kansas city. matt cain, the starter and winner. pablo sandoval with a three-run triple. and the formally suspended melky cabrera was the all-star mvp to give home field advantage for the national league in this upcoming world series. and sandoval and cain right in the middle of all of it here in game seven, trying to get the giants there. it will start on wednesday night, and it could very well start here in san francisco. on the air 7:30 eastern, 4:30 pacific wednesday night. now we join public address announcer renel brooks moon for the introduction of got bless america. >> ladies and gentlemen, please rise and remove your caps as we honor america and our military troops around the world with the singing of god bless america. please welcome multi-platinum recording artist, 16-time grammy nominated s

since 1990, whitey herzog's last year, joe torre took over the next year. >> joe: crawford hangs on,ets the out at second, and we are through 6 1/2 on a beautiful night in san francisco. carlos have left eight and been shutout through seven. we will take you back to the all-star game in kansas city. matt cain, the starter and winner. pablo sandoval with a three-run triple. and the formally suspended melky cabrera was the all-star mvp to give home field advantage for the national league in this upcoming world series. and sandoval and cain right in the middle of all of it here in game seven, trying to get the giants there. it will start on wednesday night, and it could very well start here in san francisco. on the air 7:30 eastern, 4:30 pacific wednesday night. now we join public address announcer renel brooks moon for the introduction of got bless america. >> ladies and gentlemen, please rise and remove your caps as we honor america and our military troops around the world with the singing of god bless america. please welcome multi-platinum recording artist, 16-time grammy nominated s

i'm pleased to have back former yankee an dodger manager joe torre joining me.alk about so much. i want to get into baseball as well. let's talk about safe at home, joe. you started this foundation because of your mother. talk to us about the progress that you've seen and the issues that remain. >> well, you know, maria, this thing is this deep, dark secret. even when i was growing up in our home, you know, my dad was abusing my mom. he never touched me, physically abused me. there was fear going on. i carried it into my adult life, really never connected the dots until later on. you know, we started our safe at home foundation, surprised my wife when i said i wanted to do something with domestic violence. it was her idea to do it through education. so we have safe rooms in schools. we have actually ten of them in the new york area and two in los angeles. and we give kids the tools to deal with the abuse going on in their lives because it's such a terrible, terrible thing. as i say, to me, it's a health issue. people just don't talk about it because they don't k

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this will be an up the hill battle -- an uphill battle for joe torre. -- joe coursors. this will be a hotly contested races both at the presidential all the way down to the district. this could go either way. i give a slight advantage to his challenger. it will be people on the ground in that district. host: thank you for your time. guest: thank you. host: this part of the conversation continues as part of our 2012 series. we will have a, rick palau co -- palacio coming up next. >> i would like to ask you a question similar to that of the vice presidential candidates and their javaid. as a catholic, how has that shape your debate? >> i'm not catholic. i am the episcopalian. i guess i cannot answer the question. >> your husband is catholic. >> my husband is catholic. i am an episcopalian. we have raised our java has catholics. but i would be happy to talk about my view on abortion. my view is that it should be safe, legal, and rare. >> here is the difference. this is not manufactured. and we have babies in america, and in iowa, that are being aborted simply because they

this will be an up the hill battle -- an uphill battle for joe torre. -- joe coors. this will be a hotly contested races both at the presidential all the way down to the district. this could go either way. i give a slight advantage to his challenger. it will be people on the ground in that district. host: thank you for your time. guest: thank you. >> if i can just show you to headlines here from recent articles, the be sent insider, obama's lee has completely evaporated and the key swing states, one of them being colorado. here is another piece, election 2012. president obama was 46%. guest: we always knew that races like this would tighten up. they always do in october and november. and we have been working hard with daud. we have 60 obama offices across colorado to deliver a strong ground game. we are still sure that he will take colorado's electoral votes. host: tell us about your ground game. guest: like i said, we have 60 offices spread around all four corners, from small towns like during go and ridgway and fair play in the mountains, -- durango, ridgway, and f

. >> announcer: today on the close bell, joe torre beginning at 3:00 p.m.n cnbc. >>> welcome back to "squawk on the street." we're going to have some good data momentarily. nonmanufacturing. the service sector, the bigger part of the economy. this september number we're expecting, basically a lateral move. 53.7 was our last look and we're also coming off of several other data points. adp was better than expected at 162. high ironic, we stripped away last month's revision. we could argue about the fed in qe 3 but initially re-fis have popped and we're waiting for it, the markets are moving a little bit. equities are 55.1. they've had it. they started to rally. much better than expected. much better than our last look and it's the best number going back to march. march when you had a number of 56.0. we've pretty much taken away the down on equities and we've moved the basis point higher on tens to a middle of five-basis point closing range over the last week and that is at 163. melissa lee, back to you. >> thank you very much, rick santelli. slight pop in the

this will be an up the hill battle -- an uphill battle for joe torre. -- joe coors. this will be a hotly contested races both at the presidential all the way down to the district. this could go either way. i give a slight advantage to his challenger. it will be people on the ground in that district. host: thank you for your time. guest: thank you. >> with a week before the presidential election, the chairman of the colorado democratic party was a guest on washington journal for 25 minutes. host: back to colcolorado. if i can assure you t -- show you two headlines. president obama's lead has evaporated in two key states. the latest poll showing romney with 50% and president obama with 46%. >> what i would say is we always expected this race would tighten up. races like this always to tighten up in october. we have been prepared for that. we're working hard across the state. we have over 60 obama offices across colorado. to deliver a strong ground. we're confident that while this race is tightening up, the president will take the electoral votes. host: give us details