norfolk southern. one line, infinity possibilities the >> we know why we're here.o chart a greener path in the air and in our factories. >> to find cleaner, more efficient ways to power flight. >> and harness our technology for new energy solutions. >> around the globe, the people of boeing are working together to build a belter tomorrow. >> that's why we're here. additional funding is also provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs stations from viewers like you. once again, live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. it's about 8:00 p.m. eastern time two fridays before the election and according to the app on my iphone, we have 10 days, 23 hours, 15 minutes and 53 seconds before the polls close. accord dog every one of what seems like a thousand polls taken this week, this thing say true dead heat. so what are the candidates up to? they are releasing new ads every day. it's said that character is what we do when no one is looking. mitt romney thought no one was looking when h

norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. >> we know why we're here.o connect our forces to what they need when they need it. >> to help troops see danger before it sees them. >> to answer the call of the brave and bring them safely home. >> around the globe, the people of boeing are working together to support and protect all who serve. >> that's why we're here. >> corporate funding is also provided by prudential financial. additional funding is provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. the first debate is behind us and the presidential race is tighter than ever. for different reasons, both candidates returned to the campaign trail this week with renewed vigor. >> you may know that a couple of nights ago we had a debate. you may have got an chance to see that. i got the chance to ask the president some questions i think people across the country have wanted to ask the president.

the difference between union pacific and norfolk southern, execution, execution and execution. finally honeywell and 3m, global industrials, pride themselves in developing new products. when honeywell reported its numbers the company boosted outlook courtesy of inroads it's made in aerospace, refining and earnings efficiency. these are the seeds that dave cote keeps planting, paying off. 3m slashed the forecast based on uncertainty about 2013. honeywell wasn't certain either, but it wasn't going to let the uncertainty spoil the earnings or forecasting party. here's the bottom line, you bet earnings season has been disappointing. a true mine field! it's absolutely true this has been one of the hardest periods to navigate in three years. it isn't all done in foul weather. there are still winners out there because some companies are simply executing a heck of a lot better than others. it's my job to find them for you during this moment of malaise where you may think nothing seems to be working right and nobody can make you money. brendan in washington, d.c., brendan? >> caller: bo

when norfolk southern or federal express disappoints we think what they were thinking? the realistic thinking of the market, rembrandt is far more grim and accurate than the abstract view. but when we get a robust number, that's a validation of the prices they're paying for modern art. but there's nothing they can do about it other than rail at the gains and portray them as unrealistic and unsustainable even though they take them at the bank. here's the real difficulty for the realists who are sticking to their guns. the stocks that rally tend to be doing the worst, stocks like the banks with pathetic earnings or the oils which need a much stronger global economy and higher oil prices to meet the expectations or the coppers or the aluminums. i mean, at one point that was leading us all day. unlike the art market, we can bounce back between higher values for the realistic versus the impressionists. but the one thing you need to know, there's no right or wrong. there is no judgment to be made by you about whether you hate the modern art stocks or totally embrace them. i f

. >> additional corporate funding is provided by norfolk southern. additional funding is provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, modiator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. there's this hole. your candidate dug it and it's up to the number two guy to diagnose you -- dig you both out. the other, the polls are teetening, wind at your back and up to his number two to make sure it stays that way. thasks the task facing vice president joe biden and congressman paul ryan last night. they settled on basically the same approach. arguing the other ticket is not to be trusted. in this exchange, the two sparred about medicare. >> this is a plan that's bipartisan. it's a plan i put together with a prominent democratic senator from oregon. >> there's not one democrat who endorses it. >> our partner is a democrat from oregon. >> and he said he no longer supports it. >> we put it together with the former clinton budget dir

norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. music is a universal language.i was in an accident... i was worried the health care system spoke a language all its own with unitedhealthcare, i got help that fit my life. information on my phone. connection to doctors who get where i'm from. and tools to estimate what my care may cost. so i never missed a beat. we're more than 78,000 people looking out for more than 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. >> i think one of the challenges is that they felt the administration was not as strong as it needed to be. i think they saw weakness where he expected to find american strength nl. the president campaigned and said he'd meet with the world's worst actors in the first year sitting down with chavez and kim jong-il, castro and president mahmoud ahmadinejad of iran. i think they looked at that as an unusual honor, then, the president began what i have called an apology tour governoring to various nations and criticizing america. i think that is weakness. >> welcome back to the site of the t

norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities.ic is a universal language. but when i was in an accident... i was worried the health care system spoke a language all its own with unitedhealthcare, i got help that fit my life. information on my phone. connection to doctors who get where i'm from. and tools to estimate what my care may cost. so i never missed a beat. we're more than 78,000 people looking out for more than 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. >>> wrapping it up from here, you know two words we didn't hear tonight? big bird. >> good point. one word i did enjoy hearing was tween. >> yes. and lots of laughs. that is quite something that. is it from us. for us, from here. in danville, kentucky tune in on tuesday for next debate between president obama and governor romney. in new york. >> more is coming up right here. >> and we're coming to you live from the spin room a special edition of hannity. we're loaded up tonight and have a frank luntz focus group. governor sara palin will be here tonig

i've been looking at nfc norfolk southern. romney gets elected, which might benefit better with his policy. >> if you're going to put it that way. then i'm going to give you norfolk southern that i think is trying to bottom here. if you think the president is re-elected you want to do union pacific which is the stock that has held up better than any. tim in montana, please. tim? >> caller: my oil and gas company you've been negative on in the past. have you recently revisited ioc, interoil. >> look, i know the company, it's kind of a wild card in the business. the oil business has been bad lately. that's why i'm looking for yield. i'm going for conoco. oil and gas stocks have been terrible of late. let's go to john in illinois, please, john? >> caller: big hello sandy boo-yeah to you. >> nice. >> nuan, nuance technology. >> voice recognition, maybe it's because of the herb greenberg in me. i've been suspicion and wary of voice recognition stocks. i can't get behind it. greg in alabama. greg? >> caller: what do you think about

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norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. music is a universal language. when i was in an accident... i was worried the health care system spoke a language all its own with unitedhealthcare, i got help that fit my life. information on my phone. connection to doctors who get where i'm from. and tools to estimate what my care may cost. so i never missed a beat. we're more than 78,000 people looking out for more than 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. >>> the fact is that if you're the race the way you describe, governor, it's not possible to come up with enough loopholes that only affect high income individuals to avoid either raising the deficit or burdening the middle class. it's math. it's arithmetic. >> you heard that line from the president a couple times about math. post game reaction over the spin alley behind you. david axel dgs rod said romney is a good debateor but it's not a game changer z saying if this was a game the ref would have called it. there you have it. both sides weighing in on what you're going see. >> ju

norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. >>> back now with gloria borger and ron bronstein. you just heard mitt romney everything i sense move towards the center when it comes to tax cuts. >> he has tried to frame this as something that's going to be revenue neutral and distributionally neutral. it's a very different tone and emphasis during the debate. on the day they announced it they said they were going to do those two things. they were not going to increase the deficit and reduce the people at the top of the the problem is they continue to face the mathematical challenges. >> do the numbers add up? >> they do not add up on a static basis. >> do you mean that if the economy explodes instead of 1% growth it's 4 sprs or 5% growth. >> the core question if you take all the tax credits that are available to people at the top and you eliminate all of them, it does not equal the cost of cutting their tax rates by 20%. as mitt romney wants to do. that's the conclusion of the tax policy center. s

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generally because they carry coal and agricultural products and specifically the norfolk southern gave a nasty preannouncement. you should see something that positive that happens and i don't see anything positive happening at norfolk southern. and i don't see any comeback there. not an option. that leaves union pacific. unlike the other rails, union pacific ships powder river basin western coal that's the cheapest coal. so cheap that when natural gas goes above $3 like now and it's a real beach head there, the utilities switch to this fuel. they need fuel, and they'll go with coal. tons of auto exposure and a lot of this is new. oil as it's the one rail that's really moved aggressively into the eagle patches. ones that lack much you get the oil to the market. i like that. i always like the fact that stocks come down to levels much cheaper than where it's been historically. as the company continues to reprice contracts higher that's able to raise earnings. union pacific it's open and the one i'm going to toss to. if it's down will i toss to it. lest i'm worried about one defensive back

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norfolk southern. to keep a close watch on hurricane sandy even though now you're seeing atlantic city, new jersey, looks good there. surf has kicked up, even thousandy is many hundred miles further south. it's more like hugging the south carolina coast right now. we're going to keep a close watch because new jersey, new york, a lot of those new england states are kind of in the bull's eye, the cross hairs of sandy over the next couple of days. >>> we're also keeping a close watch on the spotlight that we've been shining on the top ten cnn heros of 2012. as you vote for the one who most inspires you at cnnheros.m, this week's honoree grew up in a south african slum but when the post apartheid era didn't improve life there, he took matters into his own hands. >>s this is the kiptown has not changed. there's no electricity. people are living in shacks. growing up in cliptown makes you feel like you don't have control over your life. many children drop out of school because they don't have school uniforms

>> a train trestle and the train company, norfolk southern railroad install add crash beam to prevent this stuff in happening but if hasn't worked for everybody. like this big truck here. this camping truck, not going to exactly be the same. >> oh! >> they don't have air conditioning and satellite tv anymore. that just went off. does he even know? >> some people are asking, why don't they just raise the bridge? you're talking about millions of dollar, and i don't think the train company or the state or taxpayers really want to pay that kind of money to raise that little bridge up. >>> a baby tapir is born but can't break free. >> so the staffers immediately rush over to the baby that, as you can see, is unresponsive. >> o thda the moto-snout move >> ah! you're right. this is all kind of awesome. >>> and we've got cool video to show you straight from the navy, and the best part, it looks like -- >> "top gun" except this is real thirty-eight. schools. trouble, we all should help out. under thirty-eight they do. more a year. bucks. money for schools. every school dollar must be... spent

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