michigan is a heavily unionized state. one of the most unionized states in the country with 18% of the work force, they're using michigan here as their test case for this new idea that if they just go on offense, and enswine the right -- enshrine the rights in the constitution. >> if this passes, no more scat -- scott walkers. >> this is a big deal. >> i give the unions credit. they were on the back foot in wisconsin, indiana, mitch daniels took away the paycheck where you automatically, if you're a government employee, your due goes to the unions. now you have to choose. you have to -- >> by employee. >> so this is really an attempt to fire wall in michigan and try to push back. >> so, are the business groups sufficiently mobilized here to actually fight back or have they been caught napping and they could lose? >> they could lose. we suggest it would be -- issues coming up in california as well where unions are fighting initiatives to reign them in, public sector unions are the only entrenched lobby in america fighting f

michigan is a heavily unionized state. one of the most unionized states in the country with 18% of the work force, they're using michigan here as their test case for this new idea that if they just go on offense, and enswine the right -- enshrine the rights in the constitution. >> if this passes, no more scat -- scott walkers. >> this is a big deal. >> i give the unions credit. they were on the back foot in wisconsin, indiana, mitch daniels took away the paycheck where you automatically, if you're a government employee, your due goes to the unions. now you have to choose. you have to -- >> by employee. >> so this is really an attempt to fire wall in michigan and try to push back. >> so, are the business groups sufficiently mobilized here to actually fight back or have they been caught napping and they could lose? >> they could lose. we suggest it would be -- issues coming up in california as well where unions are fighting initiatives to reign them in, public sector unions are the only entrenched lobby in america fighting f

you look at michigan.ues to be in decline. >> yeah, and they've got a governor who's taking kind of an unconventional approach of trying to change things in michigan. the same thing you have going on in wisconsin, these two side-by states up there. i guess the caveat that i have with all of this stuff is that there's still an underlying feeling in the country, things are not quite right. you know. it's not magic. it's not shake and bake. we're not going to wake up wednesday morning and say oh, my god, it's nirvana, and america is a city shining on the hill again. a lot of people are still very, very uncomfortable with the direction of the country. they lack a lot of confidence in the institutions. and the fact is -- and i've had this conversation with both of these campaigns as well -- i don't think that there's a mass love affair with either one of these guys at this point. i mean, you know, they've worked out their constituencies. the ground game is going to be critical in the next several days. but it's

from michigan head to pennsylvania.tacy sending us a picture of a big ol' pine tree brought down on top of her neighbor's house. thankfully she says no one was hurt. the damage to the house, a lot less than they thought once they pulled the thing off? in northern ohio, guy sent it in to ureport. that is a church in the suburb that lost its top literally. the cries the savior orthodox church will have rebuilding to do as you can tell. in west virginia. this picture was sent in anonymously. this is scene from a mountaintop. that is tables and chairs you can see the top of. snow already more than three feet on the ground, still coming down. as always we ask that safety comes first when you're taking these pictures to us. you can do that by sending them along to foxnews.co foxnews.com/ureport. back to you. jenna: that collection shows us how widespread the storm is from so many states. >> from a big part of the country. jenna. jenna: thanks, rick. jon: millions of people impacted from record rain to record storm surges to t

four years ago we trailed in michigan by 17%. 8 years ago by 5%. right now it's tied in michigan. [applause] real clear politics has the average of all polls at less than 4% which is within the margin of area. which means all of the thousands of phone calls and door knocks all of you have made will make this a dead heat and put the victory in our court on election day. [applause] you know that one day on a saturday 250,000 likely voters were contacted, more than any state in america right here in michigan. [applause] so i say to you, do not rest, do not think for a moment we're ahead. we got to protect our country by putting mitt romney in the white house. [applause] we got to protect our country by making pete the next united states senator for michigan. we got to make sure that we keep our state house republican like john walsh in the white house. [applause] but most of all, our supreme court -- say it with me, we're sending them to the supreme court. now when we elect mitt romney next president of the united states, we know we will have a better america. we know that we will ha

for mitt romney in michigan. then a discussion on early voting in the 2012 elections. >> you consider that a while ago no one would agree to carry around a tracking device but now we carry around cell phones that you can track. and all our e-mail stored on a server like google. so it's interesting we as a society have given our information out. >> we were looking into cyber and cyber security and cyber war. the pentagon had declared cyberspace the environment of people, machines and networks as a new do main of war and we realize that maybe one in 1,000 people understood what cyberspace was and the degree and depth of the vulnerabilities and what we're trying to do is take pieces of it and explain the fundamentals and the idea is everybody from my mom and dad to congress and people around the country can understand and so maybe start the process of coming up with ways to defend cyberspace better. >> cyberspace vulnerabilities monday night on the communicators on c-span2. >> president obama was at the washington h

anything to do with this guy who is running michigan in the governor of michigan is next.en a superintendent for 30 some years at many different park service units across the united states. the only time i've ever had a break is when i was on maternity leave. i have retired from doing this one thing that i loved. now, i'm going to be able to have the time to explore something different. it's like another chapter. new pink lemonade 5-hour energy? 5-hour energy supports the avon foundation for women breast cancer crusade. so i can get the energized feeling i need and support a great cause? i'm sold. pink lemonade 5-hour energy? yeah and a portion of every sale goes to the avon foundation for women breast cancer crusade. i'm sold. new pink lemonade 5-hour energy. get the alert, energized feeling you need and support breast cancer research and access to care. >>neil: in michigan, the presidential race is tightening, over the past month, governor romney closing what was a double digit gap in the state. anything to do with the man running the state? the republican michigan gover

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michigan's governor rick snyder says how it will disrupt his state. they paid hundreds of thousands to a chicago consulting firm for training sessions where employees chant and i quote our forefathers were illegal immigrants. i think that whole story is an outrage. we begin with another monday in the red. the dow closed down 27 points. the naz was off 24. the s&p was down just 5. this morning's "wall street journal" explains in detail whether investors should care about an earnings drop in the this third quarter. it's the first time in 11 quarters should they care. joining me now is dan greenhouse and michael from forbes magazine and co-host of sports money. that's an emmy-award winning show by the way. dan greenhouse, welcome back. you're quoted in in story as saying, yeah, earnings are down but it doesn't matter. the kudlow axiom is profits are the heart of stocks. why are you so unworried about profits falling? >> the quote that the junl took me from later down in the article was simply this is a game that gets played quarter after quarter, year af

before the vice presidential debate, paul ryan has been in michigan. now conservative activist kid rock introduced paul ryan at a rally in rochester, michigan, yesterday. i think we have a shot of them hugging it out. there we go. this was paul ryan's second trip to the state of michigan as the vice presidential nominee. even though mitt romney, the guy at the top of the republican ticket has not visited michigan since august and the republican party has yet to run a single ad in michigan, at this rally paul ryan was very enthusiastic and very optimistic about his republican side's chances. >> it's getting closer in michigan. you can help push us over the top. you can deliver this. we can do it here. >> if that was the high point of paul ryan's day in michigan, the low point definitely came earlier that same day in an interview with an award-winning local report from flint, michigan. terry camp, and mr. camp introduced his interview like this. >> i wanted to ask him about the gun violence in our cities. let's listen. this did not end well. >> gun viole

four years ago we trailed in michigan by 17%. 8 years ago by 5%. right now it's tied in michigan. [applause] real clear politics has the average of all polls at less than 4% which is within the margin of area. -- margin of error. which means all of the thousands of phone calls and door knocks all of you have made will make this a dead heat and put the victory in our court on election day. [applause] you know that one day on a -- you know, that in one day on a saturday 250,000 likely voters were contacted, more than any state in america right here in michigan. [applause] so i say to you, do not rest, do not think for a moment we're ahead. we got to protect our country by putting mitt romney in the white house. [applause] we got to protect our country by making pete the next united states senator for michigan. we got to make sure that we keep our state house republican like john walsh in the white house. [applause] but most of all, our supreme court -- say it with me, we're sending them to the supreme court. .ahra, markman, o'brien now when we elect mitt romney next president of the

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the state of michigan is the exception. we had a cold front slicing through chicago last night and this is where some of the light rain has fallen. the weather map, there's not a lot of action on it. the big storm is north of the great lakes. we'll swing the cold front on through. the eastern seaboard is a little better. there's a little bit of drizzle around new york city and new jersey. the bulk of the rain be is around michigan. the cold front is swinging through indiana, southern illinois and trying to push through the state of michigan. eventually that will head all the way to the east coast by later on tonight and tomorrow morning. as far as rain, use the umbrella in detroit. rain will start shortly and through toledo. sag gi that you, mid land, all of those areas not expecting a lot of rain. still very cold morning. wind chills are in the 20s from sioux falls, minneapolis. in the northern plains it feels like a winter day. the great lakes, the cold air is what will swing through. chicago, 34 wind chill. the forecast

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and there was a couple from michigan. paula sadusky and kevin clint. down from detroit for an impulse holiday weekend. >> how did the idea of let's go to the beach brawl come together? >> paula. that was my baby. going down to south beach, that was it. >> down and back. hit the clubs, do some shopping for 2010. >> it was great. we had it all figured out. go to south beach. celebrate the new years. come in on monday. >> come monday, the live-in boyfriend and give pair were not on a trip back home. she was missing. paula, the aspiring leggy model with blond hair down to there had absolutely vanished. looking back, maybe if lady gaga hadn't been booked on new year's eve, paula wouldn't have insisted on that trip to miami and gotten separated. but paula really wanted to see gaga's midnight show. and once down in miami, kevin scored tickets for $700 each. pricey, but whatever baby wants. >> this is the hottest ticket in town. she heard the celebrities are going to be there, and she didn't want anything to do with anything else. she had to go to lady gaga. >

he knows michigan. inside michigan politics.promise has doubled my intensity. [ laughter ] i'm going to go out there and vote twice on my election day. >> bret: at that, we'll end this panel. next up, the latest on the benghazi attack that left four americans dead. new document and new developments. keep it here. everyone loves surprise parties. yeah, so last week we had a surprise party for our dear friend, lizzy. surprise! surprise! surprise! surprise! we totally got her! [ male announcer ] when you combine creamy velveeta with zesty rotel tomatoes and green chiles, you'll get a bowl of queso that makes even this get-together betr. flavor, meet food. it's time for swanson flavor boost. concentrated broth in easy to use packets. mix it into skillet dishes, for an instant dose of... hell-o! [ female announcer ] get recipes at flavorboost.com. ♪ ♪ >>> the lead township this, the event itself and the stories after -- the lead-up to this, event itself and stories afterwards show lack of competence and honesty. shocking to think the

super pacs up in michigan. ann romney campaigning in michigan. a state the president won by 16 points. not going to this time. as i told you restore our future up there as well. romney campaign released a statement indicating they intend to put real pressure on the president in these states while the obama campaign would like to wish it's 2008. the reality is they are forced to play some defense in more states that they once believed were safer for the president. the obama campaign is taking the threat seriously enough that they sent president clinton to minnesota tuesday. they're buying airtime in all three states that romney would like to make xcompetitive. but the president's campaign, they called romney's move desperate. in a video released yesterday, the race was framed to his volunteers this way. >> we are ahead or tied in every single battleground state. that means mitt romney has to win not only the tossups but a couple states where we have a clear lead to have any chance of winning the presidency. >> messina ran through the battleground

that would now be made illegal in michigan.e to collect union dues and pass them on. >> they would have to collect the union dues for political purchases did there are lots of union members that would say it is okay to collect ideas if they will be used or collective bargaining uses, but not necessarily when they will use literally hundreds of millions of dollars a year and employee dues for politics. most people understand that union members are not all democrats. in the 2010 exit polls, 42% of union households voted republican, but 93% of the dues money that the union uses goes to democrats. this would lock that in. stuart: we are out of time. this will be on the november ballot. comp tell us how that is doing. thank you very much, sir. next, we will place her maintains entire rant in defense of america. good stuff. you will not want to miss it. stay right there. stuart: government workers are among the biggest donors to president obama's campaign. government employees are in the top five among sources for cash in his campaig

. >> and there's word even from some democrats in michigan that i know the obama campaign says michigan is not in play but some democrats on the ground in michigan telling us, telling me, that it is closep. a lot closer than their xlfrts zo comfort zone and pennsylvania is not perhaps in play but closer than they expected to be. the senate candidate not doing as well as expected given his registration advantage. really risks for the casey campaign with -- up against ap candidate who is from the west which is normally a casey stronghold. so there are a number of places that are a lot closer than the comfort zone for the obama team, despite their very scientifically based huge and we see now the president coming down the steps. >> in casual attire, he will be seen and the picture right there -- >> craig fugate, head of fema, and being greeted -- >> by governor christie. >> this is not a moment, within a week, the president of the united states and governor christie arm in arm on the job together, working hand and glove here to help the people of new jersey, a day after this outspoken crit

in the michigan case justice kennedy said he had qualms will justin o'connor's decision that this was a step on the road to racial neutrality. >> she said 25 years and it would kind of phase out. >> and kennedy had his daughters they'd want to use race as a basis. i agree with justice kennedy about the university of michigan and i think that's going on in texas and suspect he's going to blow the whistle on it in this case. >> connell, what else can we briefly expect to see from the supreme court this term? >> the two big cases everyone is going to be watching are actually two cases they're hoping the supreme court is going to take one on the constitutionality of defense of marriage action and section 5 of the voting rights act is still appropriate for states that historically had discrimination and must go to the federal government to approve any changes to their voting laws. and there's a lot of scuttlebutt now that some of the those requirements are really no longer appropriate for the states and that's something that the supreme court is thought to review. >> and both of those land

out of michigan. there were no ads running there. if he closed the gap like that, he did it on his own. also 78% of independents in that pew survey thought mitt romney won the debate. and then the enthusiasm for mitt romney, a campaign that a lot of people said, joe you know, and inside republican circles, this is a loser, we're moving on to 2016. now 67% of republicans say they're enthusiastic about their candidate, that's up 15 points from the last survey. >> mika, you brought this up this week. >> i think it's really bad. >> even before the debate, you brought up what chuck todd was talking about this weekend on "meet the press." >> that's before the debate. they're engaged. >> now it's really -- and chuck todd is now saying that by looking at the nbc numbers and other numbers that the enthusiasm gap is going to cause problems for democrats down unless the president kicks it into gear. i do want to say, though, just as a caveat, let's look at the gallup daily tracking poll. chuck always says don't

louis and southern portions of michigan today. but also anywhere in the northern rockies, some stormy weather. as far as the east coast and the southern half of the country goes, what a beautiful day today. even as we go into tomorrow, not a lot changes. it will be a little damp out there in a few spots, especially the northern half of the country hit and miss, but texas at 80, kansas city at 83 tomorrow. a very warm start to this week. won't stay that way, though. end of the week looks colder. >> thanks, bill. >>> time now for entertainment news. "paranormal activity 4" pulled in a lower than expected $30.2 million this weekend. never saw any of those. >> i saw the first one. it was spooky. >> i think it's on its way out. filming for "the hang yofr 3" caused head aches for drivers after shutting down a highway. and adele and her new boyfriend reportedly have a new bundle of joy after she gave birth to a baby boy. >>> this weekend, "snl" poked fun at last week's heated presidential debate. take a look. >> mr. president, if you don

michigan fisk notre dame is 23rd.field tonight. >> i cannot wait to get it done, i am not joking. >> that means he is not going to vote good. gibson is also in the gutter. i love detroit but i am a chicago fan. that's the news for this wednesday night. this is america. we don't let frequent heartburn come between us and what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and then treats day after day... block the acid with prilosec otc and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. [old english accent] i doth declare that thou have brought overmany discounts to thine customers! [old english accent] safe driver, multi-car, paid in full -- a most fulsome bounty indeed lord jamie. thou cometh and we thy saveth! what are you doing? we doth offer so many discounts, we have some to spare. oh, you have any of those homeowners discounts? here we go. thank you. he took my shield, my lady. these are troubling times in the kingdom. more discounts than

joseph michigan. and there was a ring around the moon last night.tted about this. that is the product of high ice clouds blowing off sandy. that gives you a halo of fax. this wind has the effect of building up a storm surge. you see less of the beach in the normally do because waters are high. early this morning and the last couple of hours waves as high as 23 ft. or measured halfway across the lake. a few of these so-called wavesrogue waves give temporary spikes over 30 ft.. wind is driving this. if you take all of that wind energy and transfer it to the lake, you get big swells that common. this is where the greatest rises in lake level will occur. 69 mi. per hour wind gusts in indiana. chicago is checking in with a wind gust of 54. this storm is about 1,600 mi. across and is producing a patchwork of weather advisories. flood advisories to a winter storm warnings. wind advisories in high wind warnings here around the south and lake shore flooding advisories around lake michigan. it is windy everywhere but nowhere more so than near the lake where w

stop on lake michigan 24'. we are tracking the storm in the fox weather center right now. a massive rescue is underway up and down the state of new jersey where the pictures on the screen do not tell the whole story. in the state of new jersey, more than two million people are without power, hundreds of people are stranded right now in flooded towns up and down the jersey shore. the record storm surge flooded the barrier islands including atlantic city and seaside heights. it damaged dozens upon dozens of homes. this video is from seaside heights where a couple of seasons of "jersey shore" were filmed. travel in and out of the islands is banned until further notice. the governor of new jersey said there was not a place to land the helicopter. many streets are flooded. if they are not they filled with sand and debris and unrecognizable. in atlantic city the piers and boardwalks have washed to sea including several hundred feet of the atlantic city historic boardwalk. going north, the surge flooded four towns bre

>> a resident of ohio, she's been in michigan for a month staying at various motels and posting onlineds for sex. a quick serve of her room turns up condoms, $259 in cash, and dozens of used syringes. >> what do you use the needle for? are you diabetic or using it for other purposes? >> how many packs do you shoot a day? >> barely anything. >> you don't have any with you? >> no, no drugs, just needles. >> you have to have something here. a thorough search yielded no drugs tonight, but they think holly's supplier may also be her pimp. >> he is probably out here somewhere. >> you have pimps that will use drugs to control the girls quite a bit. they will supply her, get her hooked on heroin, cocaine, or crack. and at that point, that girl is dependent on that drug. it's like a vicious cycle where the girl is hooked, she needs the drugs, and the pimp say dos this and i will give you drugs. >> here is some of her girlfriends. >> hung her belongings are dozens of photographs that show her in younger days along with companions including an unknown male who may be her pic she is on a bed cover

michigan.s been thought to be blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, and it's got 16 electoral votes, chris. i mean if he -- if romney won michigan he wouldn't have to have all the yangst he has about ohio, about wisconsin. nobody is talking about michigan as a back up for him but look at that headline in michigan. and i want to play for the audience what a guy named bill i think it's ballager, i can't read my own handwriting. he's the politics editor for inside michigan. look what he said about michigan an hour ago on happening now. >> you still have to give barack obama a mild edge, but again, like everything that is happening nationally, it's getting very tight, and i wouldn't be shocked if mitt romney pulled off a shocker next tuesday. megyn: michigan? one poll showing it within three points in michigan. >> well, look, this is a guy you listen to about michigan. he knows how the state works. in fact this is of course the native state of mitt romney. you're right, i think that it's still the most lik