the nancy pelosi connection. >> brown: john myers, you got a lot of big races out there. ow does the economy play into them specifically? >> it's been playing pretty well. it's interesting to hear about people talking about nancy pelosi in virginia because she represent this is area not far from here. she's not in trouble but the two races we're watching are the race for governor and the race for u.s. senate. governor's race, megawhitman, former c.e.o. of ebay who's on record here par to spend somewhere around $140 million so far on her gubernatorial effort. jerry brown, the former and hopefully... he hopes to be aspiring future governor of the state. they're talking a lot about jobs. as i said, the economy is bad here. interestingly enough, the polling we got last night showing brown is up by eight points shows that while the voters think the economy is the number-one issue, they think whitman would be better on it-- the republican-- and yet they're still picking brown by eight point which is goes to show there's something there that the voters aren't comfortable with her

does anybody think that the liberal policies of nancy pelosi, obama? and boxer, brownbe able to turn this around and get this job done? >> it was all about politics, the san francisco giants and the last postseason game. >> all of those giants? >> how about those giants? >> the national league west champs, and a great solid victory on monday night. to put us through that sweet torture. >> and she went on to answer the questions, and a fund-raiser. daniel villareal >> and he says that he knows where the money is that will save open police jobs without raising taxes. oakland mayor candid it told kron 4 yours, yesterday. the former state senator is saying that it is already on the books in city hall. >> we are spending tens of million of dollars a year on outside consultants that are flat on necessary. $3 million to every developer is used to support the police department and i would transfer another 1.5 million. the city has 56 staff, blind staff in his office and 10 managers. in addition, the mayor has 14 full-time employees. we of the office of mayors assistance. that

and we've watched, we've watched this administration and nancy pelosi and harry reid -- like james brownaid, talking loud and saying nothing. where is -- where is the strategy to empower small business owners? where is the strategy to allow our kids to afford school? where is the strategy to strengthen our communities? where is the strategy to defend our borders and protect our nation? where is the strategy? where is it? i guess it's sitting on somebody's table in washington, d.c., but you -- or a teleprompter. but you all know where the strategy first started. it started at your kitchen table. it started over a year ago when a few of you got together and started talking about what it means to be an american. that you felt that those values were being stripped away slow l but stripped away nonetheless. that you thought it was important to begin to organize yourself, to say to one neighbor to another, it's time to bring our kind of change to the table. and thus a tea party was formed. so let me -- let me clear up any confusion that may be out there that's being sewed by the other side. th

. >> couric: and perhaps senator scott brown helped pave the way for that. meanwhile, nancy, i know you'll be wielding that ipad between now and election day to give the sense of the lay of the land. tell us why so many analysts believe it's almost a foregone conclusion right now that the republicans will, in fact, retake the house. >> reporter: katie, all we need to do is take a closer look at those 77 house seats you mentioned currently held by democrats but which cbs considers to be at risk of changing hands. right now we consider nearly half of those races-- 35 of them-- to be edging republicans. and if republicans win all 35 and hold on to their own, they'd only need to win, let's see, four more of the 25 democratically controlled seats that we consider tossups to gain control of the house, katie. >> couric: nancy, no matter how they voted or where they stand, if you have a "d" after your name right now, you may be in big trouble. >> reporter: that's right. even the centrist democrats are having a hard time right now. take bobby bright. he's in alabama's second district

> brown: then, kwame holman looks at the down-to-the-wire scramble as congress pushed to adjourn just weeks ahead of the midterm elections. >> suarez: judy woodruff talks to speaker of the house nancy pelosi about the battle over tax cuts and the stakes for democrats in november. >> our members left congress last night. they are confident that they would return in the majority. >> brown: special correspondent miles o'brien reports on a mississippi community's plan to use stimulus money for mass transit in rural areas. >> suarez: betty ann bowser updates the johnson and johnson story as company executives and the f.d.a. come under fire on capitol hill for a string of recalls, real and phantom, this year. >> brown: and we visit a project in pittsburgh that offers foreign writers whose lives are endangered, a new start, and the chance to write freely. >> i think i'm writing social issues, but in burma, social issues are political issues. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> this is the engine that connects abundant grain from the american heartland to haran's best selling whole wheat, while keeping 60 billion p

brown and mrs. obama will be in california three days starting saturday where she'll campaign for house speaker nancyelosi. >> a critical reminder, today is the last day to register to vote for th november election. if you have registered or changed your name, you need to reregister. several groups and several student unions have set up registration tables at several bay area universities, malls and other public locations today. you can register in person at any county elections department or by mail. we have detailed information on registering to vote and the complete local race by race breakdown, including all the candidates' statements on ourwebsite, abc7ne.com. still ahead, our economy up next. why some airlines e now getting rid of special seating on their planes. plus the court hearing toda for the fertility doctor who helped the octomom. >> free rides. ♪ hey,t&t u-verse tv? yeah it's our new tv service. every day thousands of customers across the nation are switchin to at&t u-verse. [ female announcer ] visit an at&t store today. hurry d take advantage of our great deal on u-verse tv. just $29

brown. >>> next week first lady michelle obama is slated to arrive in the bay area just days after her husband's visit. house speaker nancy pelosi's office says michelle obama will join her at a dinner. the support is for barbara boxer who are running for reelection against carly fiorina. >>> and dozens of people were displaced when a fire erupted. inspectors have deemed it a public safety hazard. permits are being seeked to tear down the building. >>> we were going to bring you our high school game of the week tonight. but unfortunately reran into some technical issues. so again, we're sorry for that. i'm frank somerville. >> and i'm julie haener. good night.

brown. political analysts say these allegations could have an impact on changing the minds of undecided voters especially among latinos. dan carmen kron 4 news. >> nancyredo the couple of the accused of raping kidnapping j.c. do guard were indicted by a grand jury today philippa nancy each faced 18 charges that include rape, kidnapping and lewd acts on a child. today's indictment also accused the company of producing child pornography of the victim. nancy's lawyer entered a plea of not guilty or no proceedings against off has been have been suspended until is a mental competency can be evaluated. eulogy see is writing a memoir schedule this to come out sometime next year. her publisher said the guard will write the book herself it will cover her life from a reduction in 1991 to how she's doing today. we'll have much more of our special baseball coverage coming up next. b-a-c-c-a-l-a-u-r-e-a-t-e. baccalaureate. correct. [ audience groans ] since this competition has been continuing for 48 hours and we have yet to eliminate anyone, it is the decision of this board to declare all 20 contestants winners. you have all competed admirably. admirably. a-d-m-i

speaker of the house nancy pelosi and secretary mavis and all the people that helped make this day possible. welcome and thank you for your leadership and your stewardship, to mayor willie brown all of his hard work. his then staffer, now my staffer, who worked so diligently through two administrations to get us through this day. i thank you. to the development team. to the residents of this island that have been patient beyond imagination. with the hope and expectation we would get to this point. to all those that are looking forward to the ground breaking to be hosted some time next year. it is pretty remarkable -- this is a small city, and about 10% of our land happens to be on three principal areas. all three of them former naval bases. out there in hunters point. the army out on presidio, and here on treasure island. 25-plus-hundred acres in the '70s -- the 1970's, 1980's, 1990's. since then, we have been talking about revitalization. we have been talking about reconstituting these pieces of property. just two weeks ago i had the pleasure and privilege of signing 12 pieces of legislation, marking over the course of over two decades over the course of hunters point. creat

brown was also at that rally. and the president was on the peninsula. first lady michelle obama came to the bay area this week. she and house speaker nancyl hold a fundraiser at the fare moppet hotel in san francisco. -- at the faremont hotel in san francisco. >>> they visited dazzle in san jose that makes custom t-shirts. they need executive experience , the kind she and bloomberg have. >> and i think you are one of the best examples of someone who took a successful business career, stepped into public service for the good of the people of new york. >> with less than two weeks to campaign, a new survey finds wit man trailing -- whitman trailing brown. the women's successful business experience is the main reason why this year's race for governor is the most expensive general election race in state history. the california fair political practices says the candidates have spent $188 million campaigning, a big portion of that 142 million came from whitman's own money. >>> let's go back to the weather and the weekend forecast looks a little messy. >> spencer christian is here now. >> while it is calm and dry outside, the rain is not falling

gerry brown does he go back to sacramento, gavin newsom does he leave san francisco and if nancy pelosi by some fate winds up losing the house will she step down from congress and might she come back and run for mayor of san francisco. i just keep my eyes on the whole thing rolling around this is just another roll of the dice in a rather big game. >> that is true. we will have coverage here of course on cbs 5 your weather coverage for the halloween forecast. >> looking great out there only a few more days and all those ads will be gone. thankfully. clouds clearing out as we see a warming trend kicking off today continuing through the week we may be back to near normal a good 10-degree warm up that will put us back into the 80s by mid-week. golden gate a little damp left over for early morning drizzle showers high cloud across the region. the storm tracks moving north and will continue that trend through the week leaving us high and dry nice mix of clouds across the valley as well. as we get a look back at the fog and reflected sunrise i think is what we are looking at here. into the bay

brown. >>> and up next, she's a democratic republicans are featuring in all their ads. what keeps nancy pelosi going? ♪ ♪ [ growls ] ♪ ♪ [ polar bear grunting ] [ growls ] [ male announcer ] introducing the 100% electric nissan leaf. innovation for the planet. innovation for all. called the humana walmart- preferred prescription plan. it's a medicare prescription drug plan that saves you an average of over $450 a year, with monthly plan premiums less than $15 and copays as low as $2. with savings like these, you have more time to remember what it's really all about. enroll starting november 15. ♪ go to walmart.com for details. >>> that's a new ad from democratic bill owens who is trying to fend off a republican challenger in upstate new york. speaker pelosi is taking fire from both sides. democrats running away from her and republicans running against her. the latest article in "the new york times" spotlights the dilemmas facing speaker pelosi. this is tough for her. she's become the face of the democratic party. the boogie man. whatever you want to call it. it happens to speakers when

the tea party began liberal leaders like nancy pelosi dismissed it as a fringe group and that arrogance is still being displayed by democrats like sharon brown. brown equates the tea party to an extremist anti-american movement. writing: tea party populism is driven by anger at our government and country. real populism fights for all americans while tea party populism divides us. how will vicious an stacks like this play out in november? here author of "new york times" best seller 2010, take back america dick morris is back with us. welcome back. >> good to be here. i'm in indianapolis where i've been campaigning for todd young who is going to defeat baron hill as part of the gop sue nay is coming. >> sean: i'm referring you now as the optimistic dick morris. every time you are on, i get tons of e-mail people calling, commenting. they are saying you gotta tell dick morris to tone it down a hair. he's too optimistic. we are raising expectations so high nobody can meet those expectations. >> no we're not. i've been to 38 house districts. and i'm on the ground looking at the polls, meeting with the candidates. i gotta tell you, i wrote a column

republicans to work against house speaker nancy pelosi and former president bill clinton is giving a speech tonight at san jose state university, campaigning for jerry brown's bid to become california's governor. >>> busy time for sarah palin now, a rally before the gop in reno, nevada, that's tomorrow. polls show republican challenger sharron angle is neck and neck with senate majority leader harry reid. president obama will be speaking at usc, a rally there on friday, he's trying to encourage those young voters to make sure they turn out in the midterms. they were a crucial group that helped him win the white house. >>> the president was in boston last night, he was there to stump for a good friend, governor deval patrick who like the president sees his popularity slipping. polls. show the governor is in a dead heat with republican charlie baker. the president urged democrats to not let republicans take back control of congress. >> i understand that sometimes hope may have faded as we've grinded out this work over the last several years. i know it's hard to keep faith when a family member still hasn't found a job, after months of trying. or another forecl

brown and mrs. obama will be in california three days starting saturday where she'll campaign for house speaker nancyelosi. >> a critical reminder, today is the last day to register to vote for the november election. if you have registered or changed your name you need to reregister. several groups and several student unions have set up registration tables at several bay area universities malls and other public locations today. you can register in person at any county elections department or by mail. we have detailed information on registering to vote and the complete local race by race breakdown, including all the candidates' statements on ourwebsite abc7news.com. still ahead our economy up next. why some airlines are now getting rid of special seating on their planes. plus the court hearing today for the fertility doctor who helped the octotototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototototot

brown slightly ahead. >>> sarah palin picked off the tea party express today with reed and the speaker of the house. we don't work for you anymore mr. reed, enjoy your retirement. nancylosi, you are fired. >> reporter: palin also attacked republicans who have -t no come out in support of the tea party candidates and called on them to quote man up. the tea party express is a two week cross country bus tour. >>> researchers looked for figures for 2007 and took into accounted food and lodging. >>> in the back of the plane suggest the marshalls would be more useful out of first class. the air marshals objected to that change. >>> blockades of refinery are causing a fuel shortage. long lines formed at gas stations that still had gas while others were being closed. in vietnam, flooding has cost at least 30 deaths. a supertyphoon is still under way. that typhoon had gusts of 120- miles-per-hour. >>> one of the pieces of rock that the second miner brought up to the surface and handed out to the rescuers was given to the queen of england. >>> and starbucks is offering more than just it's coffee, beer and wine. it will be offering it at just one location. >>> the coffee chain

brown slightly ahead. >>> sarah palin picked off the tea party express today with reed and the speaker of the house. we don't work for you anymore mr. reed, enjoy your retirement. nancyelosi, you are fired. >> reporter: palin also attacked republicans who have -t no come out in support of the tea party candidates and called on them to quote man up. the tea party express is a two week cross country bus tour. >>> researchers looked for figures for 2007 and took into accounted food and lodging. >>> in the back of the plane suggest the marshalls would be more useful out of first class. the air marshals objected to that change. >>> blockades of refinery are causing a fuel shortage. long lines formed at gas stations that still had gas while others were being closed. in vietnam, flooding has cost at least 30 deaths. a supertyphoon is still under way. that typhoon had gusts of 120- miles-per-hour. >>> one of the pieces of rock that the second miner brought up to the surface and handed out to the rescuers was given to the queen of england. >>> and starbucks is offering more than just it's coffee, beer and wine. it will be offering it at just one location. >>> the coffee chain

nancy pelosi. also, former president bill clinton, he will give a speech tonight at a rally in -- at san jose state university. he's campaigning for jerry brown's bid to become california's governor. and a very busy sarah palin will rally the gop in reno, nevada, tomorrow. polls show republican challenger sharron angle neck and neck with a favorite republican target, senate majority leader, democrat harry reid. and president obama speaks at the university of southern california rally friday. he'll be encouraging young voters to turn out for the midterm elections. they were a crucial group that helped him win the white house two years ago. >> i want to turn to new york here for a moment, sticking with politics. turn to the race for governor. it's been an interesting one because there's a pretty interesting character running right now. the gop candidate, carl paladino. he's coming out, still trying to come back from remarks he made last week about gays. he's saying now he will be making no more disparaging remarks about gays. he's calling for no more remarks in this campaign. last week, though, he said that homosexuality is not, quote, an equally

people figured that the election of scott brown and massachusetts was a rebuke of the health care bill. suddenly, it was revised mostly thanks to house speaker nancyelosi. she pushed it through the house against all odds. then how can all these polls that because one after another, people were saying they do not like this and it was signed into law. a lot of what i heard in the campaign trail from people calling themselves independents is that they were happy with the way the bill was pushed through. it shows a remarkable aware and as a among the public about what is happening up here where normally people don't really follow the decide -- decision making. people were aware of how this moved through congress and they did not like it. host: the president woke up to this had lied. he is campaigning in cleveland later in the day. dtv attack ads are fueled by out of state cash. that is one of the issues that the next congress at least will be debating in terms of outside money and whether it should be disclosed a couple of editorials are saying it is time for a disclose act to pass congress. guest: they were trying to push it through before they left