john peters: we decided to look at children primarily because we can find them more easily. we can go to schools, and if they're young enough, they don't smoke yet. they don't have hazardous occupations, so that there are some things about them that are amenable to study, maybe not the least of which is-- at least thought by some-- that the growing lung in a young person is more susceptible to the effects of air pollution as well. plus the fact that children spend more time outdoors and they exercise more so that they would be breathing more of the ambient air and when they're exercising, even more. children in the study are periodically tested to determine if there are any long-term effects from air pollution. researchers measure each child's lung development and function in relation to the air quality at home and in school, as well as the outside environment. so if we see an effect, we'll be trying to isolate whether it's caused by particles in the air, or ozone in the air, or a combination of the two, or nitrogen dioxide, or some other pollutant. thus far, three results s

john, thanks. peter alexander is in fischerville, virginia tonight. our chief white house correspondent, chuck todd, traveling with the president in madison, wisconsin and peter, we'll begin with you. what was it like on the road today? >> well, after a brief pause for prayer here, this is going to be a party-like atmosphere. they are trying to build on the momentum from last night. a country music band will be performing here and mitt romney will be joined by his running mate, paul ryan. let's give a sense of what it was like on the plane as we flew out here on the way out today. we saw mitt romney as loose and as relaxed as we have seen him all campaign. he was all smiles and laughter, joking with his advisers in the front cabin. at one point, the captain came on and said that the denver control tower has congratulated the governor. that of course was met by applause with all the folks sitting by the governor. a top adviser told me the campaign is in a really good mood, but they're going out of their way not to be gloating. one other story from last

a nice talking point for this campaign heading into this week, john. >> peter, live in washington. sorry we couldn't be in the same room, just too much raw energy. >> me, too. >> thank you, peter. >>> moving on, the big mystery in tennessee this morning. where you two missing siblings. a 9-year-old and 7-year-old brother. grandparents killed in a house fire last week. it was first believed the children perished it's a well but no sign of their bodies found. on friday a statewide amber alert was issued for them. >>> a taliban taking responsibility for a suicide. three u.s. service members among the three killed. 50 others wounded. the bomber targeted a joint nato-afghan patrol in khost city. this after two americans died including the 2,000th u.s. military member to be killed during the war in afghanistan. >>> a judge expected to rule later today on pennsylvania's controversial voter. >> i d. law. it's estimated the law's photo i.d. requirement to exclude 750,000 people from voting. the law upheld by a lower court but the state supreme court ordered the judge to assess whether all el

>> a little. >> john: you kept your composure. i can think of peter woody johnson doubly phallic game. >> go by richard johnson. >> john: if you're a celebrity or a rock singer, you need to shut up about your political opinions but if you're in the nfl, by all means talk about who you want for president. >> maybe mitt romney wasn't bluffing when he said of some his best friends own nfl teams. >> john: he said nascar teams i thought. >> no, he said it about both. >> john: he'll probably buy the show and i will be -- >> the creator of the hit animated comedy family guy has been capped to host the next academy awards ceremony. seth mcfarlane made his debut with ted also behind american dad will take the stage at the oscars in february. last year it was hosted by billy crystal. >> you didn't say also created the cleveland show. >> sorry, the what? >> john: no one's talked about the cleveland show. are you excited about seth hosting? >> i think it will be great. it will be fantastic. >> john: he will be very funny although it is the sort of thing that seth

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and we're jews for jesus just like peter, james and john are so that's our conviction. >> what did youind, stephen, about jews and their regard jesus stemming from the famous lecture by rabbi wise in what 1925? >> that's right, i really didn't investigate jews for jesus proper, i investigated jews who don't believe jesus was the messiah. >> that stemmed from this talk by wise. >> and before the 1925 talk by wise, i found between the civil war, essentially, and the 1920s, virtually every major reform, liberal -- reformed liberal rabbi in the united states wrote something on jesus. they agree he was a great rabbi, he was a great jew and the only question was what kind of jew was he. trench reverence for jesus where he was compared to moses and amos and other jewish heroes. >> well, what distinguishes the theology of jews for jesus from christian theology? >> well, not much when it comes to the person of jesus. we would be very conventional in at rard but let me say while dr. prothero has done a good job of pointing out what the academic view of jesus is in the jewishnity, i think that th

how that stacks up against romney's predecessors the gap looks pretty good against john mccain's 13% gap. laura peter is the head of the volunteer effort. >> i think women today are more and more focused on fiscal matter asks on financial matters and of course, exelling in tos areas linda jackson is a associate professor in san jess yeah state. >> each party going to be focusing on trying to target the women. >> jackson says the campaign will focus in on white, married and older women, obama campaign, younger and single women. >> given how much information is available, campaigns are getting savvy about targeting with individual, personalized ads. >> in this debate, he was did have more than 40%. he just didn't go out and recruit them. those binders were handed to him by a woman's group that came to him before he was elected. >> interesting. thank you. >> now the third and final date set for monday in boca raton, florida with focus on foreign policy. it starts at 6:00. >> a california based company says it found a solution to a problem. >> how to keep your batteries charged when out and about. >> mic

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. >> john yang sampling the reaction in chicago and elsewhere. peter alexander is in fischerville, virginia tonight. chuck todd traveling with the president in madison, wisconsin and peter, what was it like on the road today? >> after a brief pause for prayer here, this is going to be a party-like atmosphere. they are trying to build on the momentum from last night. a country music band will be performing. let's give you a sense of what it was like on the plane. we saw mitt romney as loose and relaxed as we have seen him all campaign. he was all smiles and laughter, joking with his advisers in the front cabin on the plane. before we took off, the captain came on and said that the denver control tower has congratulated the governor on last night's performance as well. that of course was met by applause by people sitting alongside the governor. a top adviser told me the campaign is in a really good mood, but are going out of their way not to appear to be gloating. another top story, when donors were at romney's hotel last night, rob portman came by. as o

peter, thank you very much. republican senator johnccain was the gop candidate for president back in 2008. senator, always good to see you. thanks for coming on. >> thanks, matt. >> i'm going to get to that campaign ad in a second, but when you ran for president four years ago, no one questioned your expertise or knowledge on foreign policy. i mean, it was considered one of your strengths. i'd like you to compare your knowledge on foreign policy with mitt romney's. how do you think he stacks up? >> i think he stacks up very well because he has the same instincts and principles and view of america's role that ronald reagan did that came to the presidency after being governor of the state of california. mitt understands the need for american leadership. he understands that this president is leading from behind. this president says that wars in the middle east are receding, that the tide of war is receding. well, what's receding in the middle east is american leadership. when you look at afghanistan, iraq, the confrontation with iran, the

there's also the white fiat john paul ii was riding in when he was shot in st. peter's square in 1981. the collection has cars that were used privately by popes, and some that were gifts, such as the very last volkswagen beetle to roll off the assembly line in mexico. >>> that's our program for now. i'm bob abernethy. join us next week for the final part of our new miniseries, "none of the above," on the fast-growing number of americans who say they have no religious affiliation at all. you can follow us on twitter and facebook and watch us anytime on smartphones. there's much more about the religiously unaffiliated on our website, where you can take our new survey for yourself. you can comment on all of our stories and share them. audio and video podcasts are also available. join us at pbs.org. as we leave you, more scenes from the mass and pilgrimage for life and liberty at the national shrine of the immaculate conception.

poll showing mitt romney leading president obama and talk about that with senator john mccain in a couple of minutes. peterl a aal alexander is on campaign trail. >> reporter: this race is tightening with four weeks to go. on monday, mitt romney trying to present himself as a plausible commander in chief attacked the president saying the middle east has become a more dangerous place since president obama took office. the latest pit stop in president obama's effort to reach fund-raising goal of $1 billion, san francisco. >> we cannot afford to be complacent and we cannot afford to be cynical. we got to look back at the progress we have made and that should give us confidence. but we have to understand we have got a lot more to do. >> reporter: in virginia, a reinvigorated mitt romney may have been singing in the rain. a downpour. >> people wonder why it is i'm so confident we're going to win. i'm confident because i see you here on a day like this. this is unbelievable. thank you very much. >> reporter: romney may have good reason for new confidence passing out mcdonald's to reporters on his plane and greet

john bolton is here today and peter king will be here to talk about that. martha: we want to get to this breaking news. we are just getting word that a border patrol agent has been shot in arizona. the fbi and arizona authorities are on the hunt for the killer of this border patrol agent. it happened just north of the mexican border in a remote town called naco. it's known as a drug-smuggling corridor. we understand the agents were assigned to the brian terry station different was just recently named the brian terry station for the agent who was killed in 2010. william lajeunesse has been on this story. in the meantime. this for from you the business fronts. lockheed martin saying they will not issue layoff warnings before the notch election due to looming automatic spending cuts. the company saying the white house will use taxpayer dollars to pay for necessary serve even costs that arise. one lawmaker calling that something close to extortion. stuart, give us the background here. why would they call that extortion. >> it many the taxpayer getting squeeze.

i have peter welch from vermont, john a columbia university professor and rebecca of salon.com.sday night's debate. what wasn't in the debate? after the debate was done, i thought that was an in-depth look at three issues, budget and tax policy, medicare and the affordable care act and a little bit about dodd frank. those are the issue that is are central to the beltway of reporting about the economy. very little about jobs and jobs creation except how regulation kills it and small business references. there was a panel plea of domestic policy issue that is are incredibly important that were not talked about. there's only one more debate that includes domestic policy. we have thursday night's vice president debate. we are talking about what was not in there that we would like to see. we talked contraception. i talked gun control and the medical marijuana ballot initiative that is in colorado that's polling with majority support. as someone in congress, are there issues you are tracking or working on or thinking about that weren't touched on wednesday night and aren't getting tal

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toward the ultimate goal, we have the commitment of leadership from speaker john leaderr and peter eric kanter. it may take awhile to happen but to have leadership is very important. house.doc.gov has been under appreciated. it's as for each bill, it gives a different format you can download it. shares to the time of day to the minute it was posted. it is really interesting. they give you to the minute the time the bill is posted. i think that is a demonstration of good faith. they're saying we are here for you to judge us and not exactly how long the bill was on line. that in part was a response to political presser and try to come up with a better way for things to work. the documents can function with the official version. it is not everything we wanted appeared for the long time it was 72 hours for all bills. we will take what we can get. this is a really significant difference to stay in the rules, has to be online for three days. docs.house.gov is largely the way it works. it brings amendments and lots of other meetings that led to it, le. special rolu sometimes the role has been

. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: how awesome is this story, peter gabriel awesomely interrupted by johnink i'm going barf! >> stephanie: she vomited three times. >> but she worked it into her choreography. >> she is trying to outdo what's his face? >> just inbieber. >> stephanie: i might have to try that. what is going on with the yakking. stop it. >> stop it. >> this is hard. >> stop it. >> ann romney: stop it. this is hard. you want to try it get in the ring. this is hard. >> and then she barfed. >> stephanie: we made it through this show how many days without barfing once. and we have been pretty close. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: octomom, her porn days are over. she will be raking in several thousand dollars to debate twice a week with anyone who wants to challenge her about anything. the first video was her and lindsay lohan's father debating the topic do children need both parents. >> computer says naaa. [ applause ] >> who would pay for that? >> stephanie: this was jim's premise of the day americans are dumb. >> yes. >> that one guys is talk loud, the other guy

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peter doocy live with more. >>> good morning pete he. >> good morning, heather. president obama told johnw piece of information came in tied to the attacks in benghazi last month he laid it out for the american people to figure out what happened. >> it is not the optimal response. >> ears what i will say. if americans are killed it's not optimal and we are going to fix it. >> fox news has been reporting for weeks the administration knew within 24-hours the attacks was terrorism and not the result of a riot. the time line of when the administration actually declared public. i was called into question recently. he didn't know the following day even though he blamed the attack on the video two weeks later at the u.n. when senator mccain the republican heard them speak about them being murdered abroad he was not happy. >> there are screw ups. he didn't talk about responsibility because the responsibility is his. >> sources tell fox news that the leader of al shira in benghazi a libyan is one of a handful of men suspected of commanding the deadly raid on the consulate in benghazi. we don't kno

. >> clayton: i don't know that we'll see nance nancy pelosi sitting on john boehner's lap soon. >> peter role of moderators. >> clayton: and almost played the jim lehrer role at the beginning couldn't get a word in edge-wise and bill says i don't care, i'm going to give you a three minute monologue. >> peter: nobody wants to hear any moderator when you've got big, big folks like that. >> clayton: and bill turned to her at one point, are you still here. >> alisyn: she's used to that behavior from bill. and most of the proceeds went to charity. and joe biden, and paul ryan, get ready to go one-on-one in the debate. will biden be able to make up for president obama's lackluster performance? we'll ask at the top of the hour. ♪ two years ago, the people of bp made a commitment to the gulf. and every day since, we've worked hard to keep it. bp has paid over twenty-three billion dollars to help people and businesses who were affected, and to cover cleanup costs. today, the beaches and gulf are open for everyone to enjoy -- and many areas are reporting their best tourism seasons in years. we've

ending up in california for a fund-raising event including a concert with john bone jovi, katy perry and stevie wonder. >> peter alexander from virginia, thank you. ed schultz is the host of "the ed show" on msnbc. >> good morning, savannah. >> you're a supporter of the president, your viewers are a supporter of the president. i think everybody in the political spectrum believed he slipped wednesday night. >> they can't miss the mark again. the margin of error, winning or losing in this campaign or this election is so tight right now, he just can't do it. i mean, there's been such an effort to suppress the vote. those people are now energized after what they saw the other night. the president's team has to bounce back, get on message, be aggressive. you know, talk radio across america people were disappointed. they were frustrated. they saw the perfect opening. i got a phone call from a lady yesterday in pennsylvania who said that, you know, when i'm sitting at home and i know the material better than the president, something owes wrong. >> it's a question of whether he fought back on substance. there's also th

thanks again to john fugelsang and jamal simmons for filling in. peterk today. and siprion bolding still off on a special assignment. but monty is filling in as our videographer of the week. >> welcome back. >> bill: and guess who was back yesterday too on "the view." they go from barack obama and michelle obama to donald trump? i don't know. there he was last night. and new job numbers are out. great news for america, right. down to below 8% and donald trump says this is bad news. >> if you are looking for a job and you give up, they take you off the roll, do you don't count. when they saw the 7.8% every economist was shocked. because the real number is anywhere from 16 to 21%. >> bill: and if you don't believe it, ask donald trump. >> there was a time -- and i will admit to falling into some of this that donald trump was entertaining. he has always been a little nutty and kooky and entertaining, but now he is just obnoxious. >> i watched the first couple of seasons of "the apprentice." it was fun. now he has just gone crazy. >> yeah. >> bill: i thought

. >> all right, peter in ohio, thank you, this brings us to our political director and chief white house correspondent, chuck todd. so chuck, this is the field in front of us, john sununu said that colin powell endorsed the president because they're both black guys. another endorses president obama for president, by mistake, and romney talks about the piece of property, accepting help from stimulus money. beyond unforced errors, the romney's campaign is to put together the electoral and not the popular vote in the math, in the next ten days to push the victory. >> that is right the magic number, 270, here the states in yellow are the states we believe are toss-ups, the ones which we just don't know. they may lean one way or the other. let me take you through some scenarios where we think the battleground will narrow in the next week. if you talk to democrats they believe they're ahead in new hampshire. by the way, as you see me moving these states you will see the numbers above the president and above mitt romney change. so watch as i change them. they think they're a little bit ahead in wisconsin. but they also believe the democrats are a little ahead in ohio.

. >> so, john glynn birch -- limbert, what did we learn about iran and negotiating with iran in the current situation we find ourselves in with iran? >> i would like to say, peter, do we have learned something. i am not sure what we've learned. i mean, if you look at relations today, they are not very good. i know we are still a very dangerous place. there's a lot of talk of war. a lot of talk of airstrike in iranian nuclear program. being the eternal optimist that? i am, i didn't think we been such a bad place even after what happened in 1979 and 80.???? when we flew out of tehran on?? ?e science, if you asked me, i? would've said in five years,?? seven years, 10 years of the?? most, tempers will cool.???? we iranians will realize we hav? mutual interest, things to talk? about with each other.????? not necessarily as friends, tha? as countries, as states do??? because we talked to many states with? which we are not friendl? ????e to tim?e we????? ???????????????? this estrangement, this????? inability to talk to each other? ?s gone on now for 32 years an? ?spite efforts to change the?? relationship, to br

♪ john farrell their new >>> hey, how about the man responsible for making the call to sign barry zito to a seven year-$126 million contract. he was certainly loud and proud. we're talking about peteran, who was in the giants' clubhouse after the critical game that was won where zito went strong. mcgowan and others showed nothing but praise and smiles for no. 75. >> anytime any player signs a contract like that, they put tremendous pressure on them, a bull's-eye on their back. it's a lot to live up to when you have a contract like that. >> you don't just look at the statistics, how good a pitcher he was, you look at, for that kind of a contract, can he provide the leadership? >>> all right. so it will be a rematch, game 2, tomorrow. 4:45. ryan vogelsong against chris carpenter. that will be game 6. >>> the a's traded cliff to the diamondbacks. he was the opening day shortstop. the a's get a big bopper, chris young, an old fielder from the arizona diamondbacks. stay tuned. billy could be making more moves. we will see. >> it's been a while since the black hole has been jumping. four weeks ago the raiders got their only win for the season at home against the steelers. yeah. remember

and everybody looked at all the polls, peter, and they said, well, john kerry's going to win.g john kerry mr. president up in boston. never do that. never tell somebody they've got a perfect game going into the ninth inning. so what we do, it's kind of like when you have a lot of turbulence in the air. you look at the flight attendant. is she cool? is he cool? are we going down? you're with the romney people. >> yes. >> and so for those of us who are looking at these polls and are confused and say, it could be a romney landslide, it could be an obama landslide. >> is it like the flight attendant? >> what are the flight attendants on team romney looking like. >> i'm in the exit row. i think the thing that that is definitively changed is just the energy that exists within this campaign in the last couple of weeks. post-first debate, everybody who shows up at these events, the numbers have swelled to 8,000, 9,000, 12,000 people and they're now supporting romney in the affirmative. it was always anti-obama consistently as you guys have discussed routinely, but there is a genuine s