by jonathan alan from politico. s has theleague ha story. abela adsers to mitt romney being frustrated with -- about advisers to mitt romney .eing frustrated >> he has done what? >> for instance, he had a signed the a person to write for the mitteech romney. -- he wrote it himself with somebody else at the last minute. though,is interesting, are of the republicans blame on mitt romney himself. >> he is ultimately responsible for what ever happens. he has that same position on his campaign. things obamathe said in 2008. >> most recently, the way he has everything in libya, egypt. republicans are saying that he stumbled. >> there is always a danger in criticizing us sitting president policy.gn you look like you're undermining .he president way, it is a position we have seen in the past. that has been a strategy. the long bear this goes on in north africa and across the the longer you have the worseoing on, is for barack obama. if all that comes down quickly, romney, it will be a problem for him. >> thank you for your insight. could soon be aut

washington correspondent jonathan alan joins us by skype to talk about the pressure out there on.n 2008, candidate barack obama delivered this and aspirational message. will we see that same type of force this time around? >> i do expect the president will try to recreate a little bit of the magic. that he did at the denver broncos football stadium four years ago, now at bank of america stadium in charlotte. but the campaign so far has been more purely negative this time around. last time he got a lot of points for some of that aspirational rhetoric that you are talking about that also threw some pledges. this time a lot more punches -- less aspiration. and what time of negativity do you expect to come out of that? a lot of people from the democratic party are saying they hear mitt romney pointing arrows at barack obama. what exactly is his plan, though? >> i think democrats have been arguing that the republicans at their convention in essentially white washed the truth, put forward a foot that was not necessarily come toward the way that democrats -- contoured the way the democra

in palo alto, jonathan bloom, abc-7 news. >> alan: in southern california, police searching for the vrabels -- vandals who destroyed a pumpkin patch belonging to a little old lady from pasadena. memay powell says the large pumpkins in her large are usually the talk of the town but she was howeverred to find her prized pumpkins in pieces. she wanted to enter her 300-pounder at the mania contest next month. it's the biggest one she has ever growngrown but she had to lit go of the green when -- dream when she saw it in pieces. >> i loved all my pumpkins, and they were very pretty. how can somebody be so destructive? >> alan: she says the incident won't keep her from growing a pump kick patch next year but she may move it to her backyard, she is offering a 1,000 decide reward for any information about the vandalism. it's hard to believe but pumpkin growing contests are just around the corner. >> leigh: certainly is, and todaymarking the first day -- check in one more time with live doppler 7hd, we have clear skies across much of the bay area right now but you can see the wall of fog and low clo

alan. -- jonathan allen. bob woodward talks about his book. in less than three weeks, the first of the presidential debates. watch and the gauge. next, a house hearing on oxygen problems on ba'ath-22 is -- f- 22's. retired general gregory martin says researchers are unable to determine specific cause as to why f-22 pilots were experiencing -- while in flight. there was a hearing about the fight to jap lost oxygen issues. the report outlines ways to reduce risk. >> the hearing will come to order. f-22 pilot physiological issues. the committee's concerns include the impact of these issues to the pilots. and the operational capability of these valuable aircraft. the committee also remains concerned that after the study of the issue, we need to understand what the level of competency is. their 06 f-22 and physiological and -- there were six f-22 physiological instances. in may of 2011, the secretary of the airforce directed the scientific advisory board and make recommendations to address concerns. for may-september of last year, there was an upwa