. >> short film called "maybe" written, directed, and shot by john gray posted on virgin media.hort. >> she looks like she'd be an interesting person. shows a flare girls simply don't go. maybe she's lonely, too. >> i feel like men don't think this much. >> they don't. they look straight at the butt or boobs and start thinking can i do her? >> give us a little more credit than that. >> maybe i have a chance to talk to her, through some measure of miracle she talks back, and she likes me. maybe we take a bus together and the conversation flows. maybe i ask to see her again and she bull[ bleep ] and says, yes. maybe she can't help take it quick. make look up and sap it's okay because she knows i'm with her. >> i don't know if that spart true. >> and it never felt so right. maybe she can't live without me. >> here's where the wheels go in the other direction. >> maybe she's crazy. >> maybe got a boyfriend. >> maybe holding someone else's hand. maybe i don't have the courage to talk to her and she gets on the bus and goes away, and we unstabilize. maybe she can read my mind. maybe i

john. >> reporter: scott, those toss-up states in gray are the only ones where both candidates have a shot at winning the majority of the vote. in the battle to get 270 electoral votes, in the vast majority of states you just need to win by one vote to get all the electoral votes in the state. in all the other nontoss had up states, one party dominates by enough that a candidate of the minority party would never have a realistic chance. >> john, thank you very much. at tuesday's dthe long battle over the keystone pipeline briefly came up. tonight, the owner, transcanada, has temporarily shut down the existing section which carries oil from alberta canada to illinois to oklahoma. tests show possible safety issues. you may recall president obama blocked a proposed extension of the pipeline to port arthur, texas, citing a lack of environmental studies. we go inside the cdc, as it races to stop a deadly outbreak of meningitis. "newsweek" makes some news. and we give you a close-up look at a lake made of lava when the cbs evening news continues. [ female announcer ] think you need a department

gray is over. >>> coming up, idol unrest. it's nicki versus mariah. grease's singing duo travolta and newton john are at it again. and liam neeson bears all. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus magician david blaine faces off with a 1 million volt lightning storm. you're watching "early today." >>> well, welcome back to "early today." we are watching a large storm entering the aleutian islands. we'll see the rain move towards parts of the central and southern coast. cloudy in anchorage, juneau at 48. dry in the west the next two days and still a pretty mild pattern. the exception in the northwest, closer to average temperatures. >>> if you're watching us on koti, watch it fly at the wind tunnel project at the children's museum of klamath falls. that's your early today event. >> that would be fantastic. can i stay late and have you do that for me? thank you so much >>> well now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. tmz reports trouble on the set of "american idol." new judge nicki minaj derailed auditions in north carolina yesterday after threatening

he was taken to johns hopkins hospital where he was later pronounced dead. the suspect took off in a gray station wagon. anyone with information is asked to call police. there was a shooting on friday night. police say rickey freeman faces attempted first-degree murder charges for that shooting. no update on the victim's condition. >> president obama and mitt romney are getting in some last- minute practice before they go head-to-head on wednesday night. hallie jackson joins us live with more on what the debate means for both sides. good morning. >> good morning. both candidates are working to lower expectations for themselves. they are talking up the other guy. momentum is shifting towards president obama in some key swing states. this could have a big impact on mitt romney. the debate focusing on domestic policy. mitt romney holds a rally tonight in denver. president obama is getting ready in nevada today and tomorrow and flies to colorado on wednesday. >> the vice presidential candidates have their own debate. >> we're seeing both candidates talking up the other guy. biden talks about

john mcconeghy couldn't find him. he is 5'9" and weighs about 160 pounds. he has gray hair and blue eyes. he also reportedly suffers from dementia. >>> the san francisco fire department says last week's four-alarm fire caused an estimated $7 million in damage. three buildings were damaged in that fire. one of them housed the popular squat and gobble restaurant. authorities say it does not appear that it was suspicious. >> in news of the world tonight, thieves broke into a museum and stole seven works of art that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. they belonged to a private collection and were being shown publicly together for the first time. one expert said the thieves knew exactly what they were after. >>> an accused computer hacker will not be extradited to the u.s. he's accused of carrying out one of the biggest computer break ins in 2001. he hacked into the pentagon and nasa commuters for about a year looking for evidence of ufo's and found it. >>> in cuba people will no longer need to wait in line for visas to lift the country. it can still prevent people from leaving fo

john mcconeghy couldn't find him. he is 5'9" and weighs about 160 pounds. he has gray hair and blue eyes. he also reportedly suffers from dementia. >>> the san francisco fire department says last week's four-alarm fire caused an estimated $7 million in damage. three buildings were damaged in that fire. one of them housed the popular squat and gobble restaurant. authorities say it does not appear that it was suspicious. >> in news of the world tonight, thieves broke into a museum and stole seven works of art that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. they belonged to a private collection and were being shown publicly together for the first time. one expert said the thieves knew exactly what they were after. >>> an accused computer hacker will not be extradited to the u.s. he's accused of carrying out one of the biggest computer break ins in 2001. he hacked into the pentagon and nasa commuters for about a year looking for evidence of ufo's and found it. >>> in cuba people will no longer need to wait in line for visas to lift the country. it can still prevent people from leaving fo

john allen muhammad was executed. >>> he risked his life to keep others safe. vincent gray has presented leo johnson with the first ever mayor's medal of honor. johnson was shot in the the arm last august but still tack himmed a gunman at the headquarters of the -- tackled a gunman at the headquarters of the family research council. >>> it is 5:05. time now for the latest your money report this morning. >> jessica doyle is here with today's headlines. where do we begin? >> we begin with earnings. we've been looking over all the earnings to see how companies are doing. we have a fresh crop this morning. after the closing bell, yahoo reported slightly better than expected quarterly sales and profits. texas instruments taking the wind out of those sales. -- sails. sales fell. after the bell the big one today facebook set to deliver its results, and a lot of people are going to be watching that one. checking the numbers now the dow stands this morning at 13,345 after eking out a two- point gain. better than a loss. the nasdaq was down 11. -- or rather up 11 and the s&p 500 was

johns hopkins hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. police believe that an argument broke out between the victim and two suspects, leading to the shooting could the suspects took wagonn a gray station min with tinted windows. baltimore county police arrest a suspect in connection with the shooting friday night. rickey freeman faces attempted first-degree murder charges for that shooting. he is being held without bail. police say there is no update on the victim's condition. if fire investigation in baltimore county as flames sparked arounthis morning at bea ave. one firefighter was hurt and at this hour it is condition is unknown. also unknown is the cause of the fire. fire crews in and 1 huckabee are working to determine what triggered a fire in an odenton apartment complex on sunday. we are told that nearly 23 families are looking for a new place to call home after their apartment building caught fire. red cross officials were called to the scene to assist with all those forced to evacuate. fortunately, no one was injured. >> when iame over, i saw the explosion of the flames from the upper level. the fire was explosive. it started going across. you have people who lost a

gray. norfolk mayor will join us. our correspondents, johnin battery park city in lower manhattan. in ocean city, maryland, cnn's sandra endo is reporting for us. george howell in kill devil hills in north carolina. rob marciano is live in asbury park in new jersey. let's look at this storm and where it's headed. rob? >> reporter: good morning, soledad. you mentioned the extraordinary storm this is including the cold air. we don't often talk about windchills in a hurricane. right now it feels like it's in the 40s with the wind and cool air. over my right shoulder you see the extraordinary surf that's been pounding the shoreline here of eastern jersey for the past 12 hours. we're coming up on high tide once this morning, again later on tonight. that will coincide with the expected landfall. sandy has -- let's go over the statistics. 85 mile an hour winds now. milibar pressure has tied with the lowest that we've seen in history. that of 1938 and that historic hurricane, the long island express. already historic storm and a large one at that wit

john f. kennedy airport, a short distance from here. it wasn't airborne very strong and it came straight down, nose first and crashed where that gray house is right now, 260 people on board died. >> matt lauer in belleharbour screens, where flight 587 crashed about two hours ago into a group of houses. the destruction devastating. >> reporter: it's a neighborhood that's been asked to bear more than it should have to. rockaway lost 59 people on 9/11. flight 587 crashed here soon after. and now almost every block, homes destroyed and along with them, a lifetime of memories. the owners of this house barely survived. they fled their home at 6:00 monday night. it broke apart soon after. david finds himself searching for priceless keepsakes. >> it's my childhood home and it's basically gone. the water ripped through here last night and this morning and utter devastation. >> reporter: what would you like to find for your parent's sake? >> i would like to find some photographs, i would like to find some things from my grandparents that my parents have. >> reporter: back to that harbor like pub that burned down on the corner. it was owned by bern

gray states. a wee bit confusing, but safe to say the ones that are light green and yellow are somewhat problematic for some people. joe johns, the big question is a lot of americans support having an identification in order to vote. what's the downside? why is it a problem? >> it's a very common sense idea when you think about it. you have to show some time of identification to get on a plane for a variety of things in this country. so why not show i.d. when you go to vote? simple idea, right? and that's the reason the polls say what they say. on the other side of it, there is a segment of the american public. there are students, there are poor people who don't drive, there are elderly people, there are senior citizens who can't drive because, for example, they can't see very well. they don't have any reason to get these i.d.s. and democrats have made the case that many of the people in those demographics are people who vote for democrats. and so they're concerned that by putting in this voter i.d. law you're cutting off a segment of the population more likely to vote for democrats than republicans. and by the way, that map

johns will show up. but today it only takes ten minutes for the undercovers to get their first bite. >> how are you doing? >> all right. we got a possible with the grayrius. felicia's making contact right now. >> hey, baby, how you doing? we can go wherever you want to go. do whatever you want to do. >> the small talk quickly turns from dinner to the man's appetite for sex, and a deal is struck. >> all right. there's going to be a swoop. i'll let you know when it's off. >> go back there. go in the alley. >> with a quick tug on her hair, the undercover signals there's enough to make a case, and arrest teams swoop down on the unsuspecting john. >> they got it. >> what was my time for that? >> let's go with 15:40. >> the undercover jots down the details of the day's first catch, knowing full well there will be many, many more. >> hey, look northbound on the west curb. old boy in the driveway waiting for you all. >> a few minutes later another man in the mood ducks into a nearby alley and signals the women by honking his horn. >> all right. wendy's making contact. i think he might want felicia. >> when the women approach the vehicle, they find the man mo

gray, down in battery park, lower manhattan. thanks a the lot, we appreciate it. and joining us now by phone is johnth the port authority of new york and that's the agency in charge of most interstate bridges and tunnels. john, thanks a lot for taking out the time. you know, we talk about people and we were discussing people getting to the new york stock exchange and other places in the city, and how realistic is it that tomorrow morning people will be able to travel, particularly from new jersey into new york? >> well, right now, we're assessing the condition at each of our facilities and in close coordination with power governor's offices. we did sustain significant flooding at the several of our assets overnight, but again, as i said, we have engineers on the site at each facility this morning as we speak, and hoping to -- hoping to get them open when we can and do so safely. charles: hurricane sandy has been characterized as a very unique storm in many ways. the damage that we're seeing, and we've had some of it on the screen as you were speaking. can you say that this damage is unique as well?

john f. kennedy airport, a short distance from here. it wasn't airborne very long, and it came straight down, nose first. it crashed where that graynow. 260 people on board died. i anchored the show from here the next morning. i'm matt lauer in belle harbor where flight 587 crashed into a house behind me, the destruction devastating. it's a neighborhood that has been asked to bear more than it should have to. rockaway lost 57 people on 9/11 and flight 587 crashed here soon after, and now almost every block, homes destroyed, and along with them a lifetime of memories. linda humphry grew up here. talk to me a little bit about this neighborhood. >> this neighborhood, you can't say enough about this neighborhood. we've been through a lot with, you know, 9/11 and planes crashing and we all pulled together. it's unbelievable, you know, the neighborhood feel you get in rockaway beach and belle harbor here. >> reporter: these are pictures linda took of sandy battering her neighborhood. she said she decided to stick it out despite a mandatory evacuation thinking last year's hurricane irene wasn't so bad. so did many of her neighbors. the o

john will donate the proceeds to charity. the album is due out next month. >>> well, we know he likes his hoodies. now mark zuckerberg admits he owns about 20 of the same gray doesn't have to worry about what to wear. his comments, which are going viral online, were made during an exclusive interview with matt which you'll see here tomorrow on "today." the 28-year-old facebook founder also says his wife priscilla chan takes up most of the closet space and that he gets one drawer, like men everywhere. >>> and this star-studded public service announcement is racking up the hits online. it's called vote for stuff, and celebrities are poking fun at what they would vote for this election year. >> vote yes on cats. i know they are up to; but i like them. >> vote to keep tigers out of schools. >> i vote yes to anything that zac efron said. >> seriously, dangerous. >> women should have the right to vote. >> okay, ellen, seriously. >> they do. well, that's good. women should have the right so i'll think of something else. >> and you can add your two cents on the vote for stuff facebook page or on twitter using #voteforstuff. 8:04. back outside to al with a check of

john wonderlich, policy director at all about transparency guide. that is his official title. more information about today's panel under chairs and also at transparency cockiest.org. i would like to thank representative issa andrew gray cochairs of the congressional congress for giving us the space to have >> thanks, daniel. thanks to you and the advisory committee and the sunlight foundation for having me this afternoon. i would like to talk with you about where we've been over the last two years and maybe a little bit about where we are headed in the relatively near future. you know, about this time, two years ago, our political folks were starting to make noise, but there was certainly possible if not likely the republicans were going to obtain a majority in the house again and we were sort of very quietly trying to identify issues that would come up during the transition. as many of you now, among republicans, one of the big issues is this read the bill issue. having taxed available, making sure members have the opportunity to see what it was they were voting on and i think in large part because i've be issues surrounding that and the drive to make the material available, the 112 congress really sort of march pro

it's good to be here with my friend john duke anthony, and he was very influential early in my career about twenty years ago. i'm catching up to you in gray hair. it's a privilege and pleasure to be here. i would say more but i only have ten minutes. >>> glsh i agree with much of what he said is to present a view of the world from the damascus from bashar al-assad and the leadership. some of you know i got to know got al is allah fairly well. i met with him. a good much syrian leadership during that time and thereafter. i think i have a fairly decent idea about how they view the world. i think it's important in to try to craft a policy toward the particular leadership. obviously, you know, the popular idea is become the middle east tyranted. he unleashed the horses on the own population and reminded syrians he was more like his father than the reformer including myself hoped he would be when he assumed the presidency. that's the disappoint particularly in the west what i call the gap between the syrian leadership and the western world. i think from the beginning the expectations were too high and the disappointment was all that much great

. >> john: tina fey spoke for millions of women and men when she offered this. >> if i have to listen to one more gray-faced man with a $2 haircut explain to me what rape is, i'm going to lose my mind! [ cheering ] >> john: but former bush secretary of state condoleezza rice insisted on fox news, where else, that no matter what some republicans said about women mitt romney would always sort of be there for them. >> i am not always in agreement with everything that's written in the republican platform about social issues. but i know that mitt romney and paul ryan are going to respect the views of those who may disagree on these issues. >> john: that was condoleezza rice who supports abortion rights supporting a candidate who thinks some day roe v. wade should be repealed and those people should be thrown in jail. president obama received an endorsement this morning from general colin powell. >> i voted for him in 2008 and i plan to stick with him in 2012. i think we ought to keep on the track that we're on. >> john: for more on the myth of momentum, mourdock and the numbers, i'm joineddy by tina dupuy,