john ferguson's case lawyers arguing that that he's not mentally ill in fact that they're saying that he's speaking of mental illness. now the problem of that is that in the past florida own court appointed psychiatrist have not only diagnosed ferguson as a paranoid get this chronic but before the prime in question was committed and i think seventy seven john ferguson was in the care of florida's mental health facility and court appointed psychiatrist basically were warning the court they were saying do not release this man you're not only a paranoid schizophrenic he has no understanding whatsoever of the difference between right and wrong and he's dangerous to both themselves and others. the state didn't the state didn't do that by state nor did and they were least on target than a nine hundred seventy six and less than a year later is when he committed these crimes. and over the last four decades courts when psychiatrists have basically changed their tune if it's a high time like during the trial it was the first time that psychologists were saying ok maybe you're faking his mental

john ferguson was careful to die on tuesday night for a string of killings in the 1970's, but the 11th u.s. circuit court of appeals granted a last-minute stay, accepting lawyer's arguments he is to mentally ill to be put to death. ferguson is a paranoid schizophrenic who claims he believes he is the prince of god. and those are some of the headlines. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we're at stanford university in palo alto, california, on the road in our 100-city tour. here in the golden state, a food fight has broken out -- that is, a fight over a ballot initiative that would require the labeling of genetically engineered food. on election day, californians will vote on proposition 37, which would require food made from genetically altered plant or animal material to be labeled by the summer of 2014. the department of public health would be responsible for labeling everything from baby formula and instant coffee to granola, canned soups, and soy milk. each item would be stamped with words such as "genetically engineered," or "par

john errol ferguson.ion last night but his lawyers successfully filed a flurry of last-minute appeals arguing that he is mentally insane. ferguson has been on death row for 34 years. >> an expert surfer killed in a shark attack off the coast of santa barbara in california. the victim was builten in the upper torso in the waters off surf beach at vandenberg air force base. it is not clear what type of shark attacked him. >>> convicted serial pedophile jerry sandusky is spending his first full day in a new pennsylvania prison. the former penn state coach was transferred to the state lockup at camp hill yesterday. he's going to undergo a physical and mental evaluation before being moved to another state prison to serve out the rest of his 30 to 60-year sentence. >>> an october snowstorm in the sierra nevada mountains left some drivers stranded for up to nine hours. oh! >> can you imagine that? >> this is what it looked like tuesday along interstate 80 near truckee, california. drivers had to wait until crews

john. marney bell ferguson on twitter offers this comment -- next up is a call from boston and this is anthony. anthony, you're on, republican. caller: hi. i'm a law student in boston, massachusetts, and i feel that with all the talk about balancing the budget and the economy, i feel that we need to be talking more about the healthcare plan and i would have liked to have heard more about how romney would use his version of the affordable care took cart to both provide individuals with opportunities as well as balancing the budget and how obama is going to continue to use the affordable care act to help all the -- to help the entirety of society and also -- yeah. >>. >> thank you, anthony. another massachusetts caller. we will first take a facebook comment. next, boston, massachusetts. richie is a democrat. >> i realize that both sides made clear points. but one of the insecurities i have personally about the president and mitt romney is that i feel that i cannot really trust what romney is same because he always refers to the same points about massachusetts and what he has done there. but when

first, to the current news center in los angeles california, to the brilliant lisa ferguson for current news update. >> hey johnmbers out this morning and mitt romney's world, this doesn't mean anything. in our world, it is debatable. quinnipiac is releasing its new numbers. nationally, the president is up 49 to 45% against mitt romney. he has a huge lead with women voters at 18 points and an even bigger lead among black voters at 94-2. most people also expect president obama to win the debates. and here's one other interesting fact from that poll. the president has a 22-point margin in favor of him when it comes to people who think he cares about america's problems. by comparison, most people do not believe mitt romney cares about them. and a new pew research survey is finding most people are not happy with romney's comment that 47% of people are dependent on the government. 55% of negative voter -- excuse me, of registered voters say they reacted negative to that that comment. that's not so surprising but here's what is. 23% of people reacted positively to it. of those who like that comment more than half wer

ferguson out in los angeles. hi lisa. good morning. >> hey bill. good morning everyone. john mccain is unendorsing richard mourdock. indiana senate candidate is underfire this week for calling rape pregnancies an intentional gift from god. coincidentally, mourdock is the only senate candidate mitt romney has endorse and cut an ad for this season. he just released the ad in support of mourdock monday and the rape comments came tuesday night. mccain said he will no longer support mourdock unless he apologizes for those remarks but most republicans are staying in mourdock's corner. santorum is saying it is gotcha politics and romney says while he does not agree with his statements, he supports him for senate. >>> president obama discussed the issue yesterday in an interview with jay leno. the interview was not all serious. the two took a lighter tone when discussing donald trump. >> what's this thing with trump and you? it's like me and letterman. what's he got against you? >> obama: you know, this all dates back to when we were growing up together in kenya. >> trump said he'll donate $5 million to a charity of obama'

this right now, we head over to the deep underground bunker and lisa ferguson in the current news center. good morning. >> hey johnod morning everyone. it is round two of the presidential debates tonight and president obama is under a lot of pressure. if the polls mean anything which is debatable in itself but if they do, the president has lost some significant ground after his performance in denver two weeks ago. the president did have a steady lead in many swing states including new hampshire but it seems that's pretty much wiped out. a suffolk university news poll has the two candidates tied there at 47%. and a really shocking poll coming out of gallup and "usa today," the president has consistently been well ahead with women voters but now seems he's tied up there too. the poll surveyed voters in 12 swing states and found an even split among likely women voters with each candidate taking 48%. that is pushing romney into the lead overall coming in at 50 to 46 against the president. but obama pollster joel beninson says there are some deep flaws in the polling, especially in the way gallup identifies likely vote