the republicans thought they had a sure thing in north dakota. turns out the debate over health care and social security is putting them on their heels. rick burg in the congress is running against democrat and former attorney general heidi heitkamp. during a debate last week, heitkamp asked burg why he wants to privatize social security. listen to his attempt to answer. >> this is what's wrong with washington. people blame, blame, blame and don't come up with solutions. what we need is a solution to social security. >> rick burg fires back. he's trying to tie heitkamp to president obama on issues like health care. the problem is it's not working. in fact one of the republican party's top staffers admits the ads are falling short. an e-mail in which a director what we need is a solution to social security. >> rick burg fires back. he's trying to tie heitkamp to president obama on issues like health care. the problem is it's not working. in fact one of the republican party's top staffers admits the ads are falling short. an e-mail in which a direc

also from north dakota state university, a threat on campus in there.orted and it was reported dead at 10:00 a. m. there would be widespread bombings. bob a man in texas claimed to the place bombs all over hippocampus. at north dakota state university, on their campus they received a threat as well but are not giving any details. >> it could be some sort of coordinated attempts. nothing so far, but we will keep you posted. a high-speed chase from vallejo a pleasant hill and in the gunfire right in front of this elementary school. it happened last night. school was not in session at the time they are still looking to see if a gun was left behind from the encounter with police. another person who visited yosemite has been affected with the hantavirus. that brings the total number infected when to nine in 3d to have died. as a focus see delays in arriving and departing flights this weekend and for the next three weekends because of construction work they will be doing that will start friday night at pentium lasting until monday morning. >> we are continuin

the republicans thought they had a sure thing in north dakota.e over health care and social security is putting them on their heels. rick burg in the congress is running against democrat and former attorney general heidi heitkamp. during a debate last week, heitkamp asked burg why he wants to privatize social security. listen to his attempt to answer. >> this is what's wrong with washington. people blame, blame, blame and don't come up with solutions. what we need is a solution to social security. >> rick burg fires back. he's trying to tie heitkamp to president obama on issues like health care. the problem is it's not working. in fact one of the republican party's top staffers admits the ads are falling short. an e-mail in which a director wrote, no doubt, heidi's team has put out much better ads this year. while heitkamp benefits from president obama's success, rick burg is struggling with romney to get on message. joining me tonight is heidi heitkamp, candidate for senate. good to have you with us tonight. we'll be featuring all of the senate

>> when the world trade center was attacked, jeanette nelson was halfway across the country in north dakotahe horror unfold on tv. she knew that her only daughter ann, a 30-year-old bonds trader was working that day on the 104th floor of the north tower. >> i didn't dare leave the television set for fear there would be some sign of her and i would miss it. and on the other hand it was so painful to watch. >> ann nelson did not survive. when her belongings arrived home they included her laptop. >> when the laptop came home but annie did not, i could not bear to look at it. >> it took her nearly five years to open the computer. >> be a good friend. >> when she finally did. >> grand canyon. >> she found this. >> volunteer for a charity. >> her daughter's hope and dreams. her bucket list. >> buy a home in north dakota. >> or build one. this past weekend more than 500 volunteers traveled to this remote corner of north dakota to help build annie's house. in keeping with her passion for skiing and volunteer work this house will be an 11,000 square foot ski lodge built to accommodate disabled child

here you have north dakota, the economy is doing great. isn't that making it's for a democrat like heidi to do well? >> they were putting these things in place. >> do you think -- >> do get the energy going. >> do you think he deserves credit for where north dakota's economy is going? >> absolutely. he's got the track record. he's right on the issues. in the end that's going to make the difference. >> why is he struggling? why is this close? i'll tell people, hay, it has a history of splitting tickets. >> that's right. that's true. you're right about that. she's been on the bout three times -- won three times. good name i.d., well financed running the campaign. again, when it comes back to running the issues for your the country, that's where rickburg isn't. >> where are you optimitt tick? >> we're talking about doing tax reform, entitlement reform, doing the big package that will get the private economy and private investment going. >> if the president wins, then what does that mean? do you think the conversation changes? >> that's the pr

reporter: when the world trade center was attacked, jeanette nelson was halfway across the country in north dakotaorror unfold on t.v. she knew that her only daughter, ann, a 30-year-old bond trader, was working that day on the 104th floor of the north tower. >> i didn't dare leave the television set for year there would be some sign of her and i would misit. and on the other hand, it was so painful to watch. >> reporter: ann nelson did not survive. when her belongings arrived home, they included her laptop. >> when the laptop came home but annie did not i could not bear to look at it. >> reporter: it took her nearly five years to open the computer. >> be a good friend. >> reporter: and when she finally did. >> grand canyon... >> reporter: she found this. >> volunteer for a charity. >> reporter: her daughter's hopes and dreams. her buck list. >> buy a home in north dakota. >> reporter: or build one. this past weekend, more than 500 volunteers traveled to this remote corner of north dakota to help build annie's house. in keeping with her passion for skiing and volunteer work, this house will be an

. >> when the world trade center was attacked, she was halfway across the country in north dakota watchingded on tv. she knew that her only daughter, a 30 year-old bond trader, was working that day on the 104th floor of the north tower. >> i did not dare leave the television set for fear that there would be some side of her and i would miss it. and on the other time ihanded ws so painful to watch. >> her daughter did not survive, her belongings included her laptop, >> her laptop camel, but she did not, i could not bear to look at it. >> it took her five years to open the computer. and when she finally did, she found this ... her daughters hopes and dreams. her bucket list. >> buy a home in north dakota ... >> or build one? this past week and more than 500 volunteers travel to this remote corner of north dakota to help build her house. in keeping with her passion for skiing and volunteer work, this house will be an 11,000 square foot ski lodge. built to accommodate disabled children and injured u.s. troops. the organization behind andies house is a charity called " new york says thankyou ".

by the way, if you're trying to get on the web site of north dakota state in fargo, north dakota, weound the web site very slow, but it does have this urgent security alert when you get to that home page. you click on that, it gives you some more information as far as evacuations. but this seems to follow a very similar timeline to what we saw at the university of texas. apparently, the university, the north dakota state university issued a statement around 9:40 central time asking all employees and students to leave the campus because of a bomb threat. now, the university of texas we got a little more detail. apparently, someone called the campus and said that there were bombs all over the campus, the university of texas described it as somebody with a million dollar l eastern -- middle eastern accent talking about al-qaeda. we do not have those details of this threat in north dakota, but the timing is, obviously, suspect. we have two big universities under evacuation because of a bomb threat. as we learn more, we will bring that to you. jon: and more on that massive evacuation at t

indiana and north dakota going democratic. is sort of the year where the presidential race is so close that i think we're going to see senate races fall or rise on their own accord and unlikely to be really affected that much by the presidential race except in a state like new mexico where republicans had high hopes for heather wilson. the fact that romney is not doing well could affect new mexico. >> jennifer: connecticut is an interesting state because she lost by a pretty wide margin last time she ran. so let me jump states and talk about that indiana senate race. remind our viewers it pits richard mourdock against donnelly. mourdock was primaried. richard lugar -- indiana is really red. how can it be that donnelly is giving him a run for his money? >> precisely because we knocked out a very solid and very sceivetive senator lugar who had a lot of respect and a lot of credibility with independent voters and elected somebody who's much further to the right. he was a tea party candidate. and this is just -- this is an example

both here and in north dakota, investigators say they have some solid leads in both cases. but to this point, there's no clear evidence that either of the incidents are in any way connected. jay gray, nbc news, austin, texas. >>> veronica is here with a look at the weather forecast. another spectacular day. even a little warmer than yesterday, right? >> you must have been outside today. >> i was. >> and i turned the ac on in my car which is unbelievable. i couldn't believe i was doing it. >> too warm for wendy, but now we'll see a cooldown, we're talking about a lot of rain and cooler temperatures. that's something we haven't seen in a while. just rain. the all-day kind of rain. >> no thunder and lightning, no wind kind of rain? >> that's right. take this weekend to go around your house, clean out the gutters, get a lot of debris -- anything that's going to keep -- or block the drains there, to keep them from flowing. because we're talking about a substantial amount of rain. that's the way it's looking right now. the details coming up. first, look at that sky. it is gorgeou

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meanwhi meanwhile, in north dakota, they have also received similar bomb threats there.ota state university, basically, the ndsu staff is requiring the employees and students to leave the campus. this includes the residence halls they have there on the ndsu's campus and also includes different -- excuse me the residence halls and different academic buildings they have there on campus which includes downtown buildings and agriculture facilities as well. we do expect an 11:45 a.m. news conference coming out of north dakota state concerning the bomb threat that they received there. we will keep posted for that and roughly 15 minutes from now. and then as we go back to talking about what is taking place at u.t.-austin, and apparently the call came in at 11:35 this morning where they received a call from a male claiming to have placed the bombs over the campus, and he said that at the time that these would go off in roughly 90 minutes. and now, again, they evacuated the campus buildings and we are going to work to get more information and details on, that and again the two ac

than the one seen from above williston, north dakota.apidly expanding oil boom has taken root below, bringing with it widespread prosperity and an unemployment rate that sits at just 1%. this city's fortunes are in stark contrast to most of the nation. real estate is profitable. blue collar jobs are abundant. and much of the globe, including asia, the middle east and europe, is investing in the local economy. but as opportunities and new residents pour in, it is clear that williston, home to 12 thousand people just a few years ago, is dramatically changing. >> we probably have already doubled in size in the last three years. >> reporter: tom rolfstad was born and raised here and he is now in charge of the city's economic development. >> it's very conceivable that within three years well be 50,000 people and within five or seven years we could be 100,000 people. it's just incredible growth. >> reporter: however that incredible growth has brought some unexpected growing pains. the cost of local government here is up by almost $3 million an

in north dakota, just north of the capital of bismarck, there is a large electric power complex. it's the coal creek power station that's operated by great river energy, a company that operates throughout north dakota and minnesota. it's a large complex. it generates 1,100 megawatts of electricity, two 550-megawatt power plants. it employs the latest, greatest technology. so it has emissions controls that are state of the art. in fact, this plant captures waste steam, steam that was formerly exhausted in the air, it wastes steam and uses it to power an ethanol plant. so they are making renewable transportation fuel with waste steam. very low cost, very efficient. and it reuses the coal ash or the coal residuals that are produced, it recycles those for building materials. along with company called headwaters, which is a natural resource company out of utah, great river energy takes this coal ash and they make flexcrete out of it, which is concrete they use in highways, roads, bridges, anywhere you would use concrete, but they also make other building products as well like shingles

at north dakota state, a call also came in this morning. that included the threat of an explosive. classes resumed in the afternoon, after it was deemed to be safe. >> we're pleased that we're able to have efficiently gone through the campus inspected what we needed to inspect, and reopened the campus in a timely manner. >> i literally had just walked in. i hadn't sat down yet. i saw the text and looked around to see what everyone else was doing. and everyone seemed normal. so i was really confused. i people pull out their phones. should we leave? our professor wasn't there yet, but one of the t.a.s was like everyone leave. >> you just heard from the dean at north dakota state, and a student from texas. the third university to get a scare, val pa reeso in indiana. classes continued after the campus was deemed to be safe. valpo did not receive a bomb threat they said that threat was substantially different. keith russell, news4. >>> we're getting the first look at a surveillance camera set up to keep an eye on a speed camera. prince george's county police said they had to do somethi

and they are finding out north dakota state, and also evacuate.don't know of any connection between these events but breaking news. connell: coming up at the bottom of the our markets are up and nicole is with stocks every 15 minutes. nicole: we are looking at apple, andy iphone 5 to beat the capital and analysts and clearly iphone 5 fever is in full swing. and free water on the apple, the initial availability, and the new lighter swimmer, better and sexier iphone is certainly a winner, and the dow and the nasdaq, on the heels of ben bernanke who of course delivered everything on a silver platter, and extending language into low-interest rates. and buying across the board and financial leading the way as well. dagen: thank you for that. crude-oil topping $100 a barrel for the first time since the a. mounting tensions and protests throughout the middle east and the federal reserve ready, willing to pump tons of money, tens of billions into the economy. when rogers is here to way and who joins us now from los angeles. is this what we have to deal wi

it's the north dakota state of science. [ laughing ] >> cenk: okay, not guilty, we're all agreed. you got something better than this. >> eliot: i don't want to pass judgment like that, cenk, you know that, but we got a great show. starting like everybody else's, mitt romney in the 47%, is the campaign imploding on him? the craziness surrounding everything that he ever said. it's hard to figure out how he made it in politics. then we'll go from the tumultt from here to the middle east. and we'll figure out what is going on there and if we can do anything about it. interesting question. >> cenk: thank you eliot. sounds great. i'm looking forward to it. >> thank you. >> cenk: and when we come back, the elbow of the day who is it going to be? el monte kids already got an elbow. it's not them. tweet us your guess at at @tyt on (vo) this is joy. >>who the heck does mitt romney think he is? (vo) this is joy on current tv. >>if mitt romney treats his magic underwear the same way as his tax returns, then he's been going commando for the past 10 years. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> cenk: now it's

. >> threats of students on edge in north dakota and texas.at is behind the recent surge in scare's. >> what happens when hough orioles magic leads into purple friday? in the dilemma fans are dealing with coming up. >> hundreds of people have gathered for the maryland food bank's annual symposium. details coming up. >> know it 5:30 -- after yesterday's sweep of the tampa bay raise in dramatic fashion, the orioles looking playoff baseball strike in the eyes -- in new at 5:30. some fans may be going through a little bit of withdrawal. >> the orioles winning has been drawing huge crowds. it has been great for the fans, great for the businesses as well. and yes, as you were mentioning, this has been a terrific thing for the city, but one thing you have noticed -- one problem if you will -- is some ravens and orioles fans are going through a little bit of an identity crisis. it is purple friday. but what if you are also an orioles fan and want to wear orange on friday? we found a solution to that problem as orioles fever continues to catch on. >> i

north dakota did rank as number five this year.has the big shale oil boom but also has a lot of areas that are -- still needs improvement on things like technology. also, texas, the top state for business this year, we talked about this with governor rick perry back in july, was way down there in quality of life. the reason -- one of the main reasons is because texas has so few people with health insurance. new statistics just out today show that texas again has the least insured population they say in texas. that's a matter of personal choice. but it hurts in quality of life and it slightly hurt texas in the rankings. >> indeed. sometimes these headlines mask the problems beneath. thank you very much, scott cohn. >>> next up, the new most powerful women in business list. >>> then we rev up the testosterone with the most manly stocks around. jane wells was given have very special assignment. she's all over that one, jane. >> that's because i like men! and boys and their toys. some of those stocks have done very well. we look at fou

of course, in fargo, north dakota, north dakota state university, students and faculty told the samehing because of a threat that was called into the campus there, so, you know, simultaneous threats called in. campuses evacuated. a weird situation, but clearly authorities saying here at this point that all of this done out of an aindian bans of caution, and no explosive he have devices found on any of the campuses as far as we can tell so far. >> all right. ed, thank you. appreciate it. the update. >>> crowds of angry egyptians, they are fighting with police in cairo right now you have been watch this unfold for the last four days. first of all, what does it look like on the ground? we saw you earlier today reacting to some of that smoke, reacting to some of that gas. what is taking place now? >> well, what's going on now -- and we are right basically that big building behind me is the american embassy. you've got sort of several hundred basically young men who have been running back and forth fighting with the police. thief been throwing rocks and molitaf cocktails and police have b

north dakota has 2.7% unemployment. the governor of north dakota has a billion-dollar rainy day fund and they've had three tax cuts in a row. now romney should be focusing on that kind of big choice, and it's not really right or left so much as it is common sense versus fuzzy ideas they don't work. >> schieffer: they've also discovered oil out there. but i'll ask you about that in a little bit. we'll be back in one minute with a little analysis of this. it's something you're born with. and inspires the things you choose to do. you do what you do... because it matters. at hp we don't just believe in the power of technology. we believe in the power of people when technology works for you. to dream. to create. to work. if you're going to do something. make it matter. >> schieffer: we're back now to talk more about the election and these upcoming debates can marsha blackburn, bob shrum who writes for the "daily beast "the adviser and consultant of course for john kerry. and larry sabato who runs the university of virginia c

>> one thing i need to ask you about is this story in the news out of north dakota.ing there at north dakota college of science was thrown off the team by the coach after he was spotted kissing his boyfriend in the stands at an away game in colorado. jamie has since withdrawn from the school. homophobia is really an uphill battle in sports. there are no out players in professional football or baseball. do you think the times are right for that to change? is it safe for a pro sports player in football or baseball to come out? >> well, this is why we're here and why we're talking about this issue. i had a great conversation with the ravens' president and he said and i said that it doesn't matter. if you have a player, he is a great person and he is a great football player, and he can get his job done, then he can do whatever he wants to do, believe whatever he wants to believe. you need to be a great football player and a great person and we can get this done. so we'll have to come to this aid to defend this young man from north dakota and help him out in any way we ca

and north dakota state university officials received a bomb threat there.e to follow this story throughout the afternoon. >>> we have more stories that we are following for you that we'll follow throughout the afternoon. pat lawson muse joins us with a preview of things to come. >> coming up at 4:00, more on the breaking news. mass evacuations from the university of texas and north dakota state university. plus, a smash and grab robbery caught on tape. these thieves were trying to steal from an apple store. their efforts were foiled because of something they left behind. >>> an e-mail sent to all employees had statements many consider to be stereotypical and offensive. we'll tell you how it happened and how it turned out on news 4 at 5:00. barbara? >> thank you, pat. >>> time for a final check of the forecast, come keer. >>> temperatures are well into the comfort zone. we are in the mid to upper 70s. reagan national at 77. it's only going to climb up to 80 or so. briefly low 80s in a couple hours. quite a bit of cloudiness. a small chance of a sprinkle as a

north dakota is also the breadbasket for our nation.r the united states senate and our kendig for the congress of the united states. -- candidate for the congress of the united states, and ryan taylor, our great candidate for governor of north dakota. madam secretary, in north dakota, we remember that george bush brought us to the brink of financial collapse and that barack for that reason, north dakota casts a unanimous balance of 25 votes for president barack obama. >> north dakota casts 25 votes for president barack obama. oklahoma. oklahoma, you have 50 votes. >> madam secretary, chair of the oklahoma democratic party. where we proudly proclaimed that we are the home of the great cherokee philosopher will rogers. we are also proud of the great diversity within our delegation and we are also very proud of the unity of our delegation as opposed to what happened in florida last week. >> we are proud to be the home of the people -- woody g uthrie. >> madam secretary, i and the principal chief of the cherokee nation. [applause] my fellow

the most cor vets in the -- corvette in the nation are in north dakota. >> greg: that was quite informativeabout. >> greg: you get a red star on the report card. >> dana: gold. >> greg: banned phrase is actually not a phrase but a body movement. phaseer talk is what people take their blackberry or iphone and they talk in it to like this. as if on a reality show. you're not. >> dana: i agree. >> greg: dufus walking down the street looking like a freak. this isn't "star trek." shut up! [ laughter ] >> bob: i want the producers to make an announcement that the bowles is this -- super bowl is thursday, you probably know. the five will be on the air prior to the pre-game. who is playing in it again? >> eric: do your one more thing? >> bob: mitt romney and his taxes, guess w

and north dakota state, three of your biggest fans are in thompson hall floor five. >> look at north we had a couple more schools. creighton university, university of tennessee, west virginia. >> it's going to be fun. how long do they have? >> until september 17th. >> that's around the corner, people. >> it is. >>> is it okay or not okay to bring babies to fancy restaurants? >> usually they tag them for us. but we're cutting back so we don't have a tag. >> you said as long as they bring along fancy manners there is no problem. >> that's right. hoda said it's okay, as long as you bring them for the early bird special, let the grown-ups have their time later. pf. >> indeed. >>> he survived "survivor." now he tells is about his latest challenge, the drama of daytime. >> scandalous, he's eating an apple. >>> and today's ambush makeovers. and "everyone has a story." >>> when he's not hanging around the camp or tallying votes on "survivor," jeff probst will be hosting a talk show called "the jeff probst show." >> that's clever! >> it premieres on monday. >> it's funny, you do have discussi

on the other side of the coin, rick berg in north dakota running for senate, leaving behind north dakota's at large representatives seat. this is a fascinating race and that very few people are paying attention to. kevin kramer, a republican, had to basically overthrow the state republican party picked in order to win the primary with a lot of tea party support. he is the republican nominee against a former state representative on the democratic side, a strong candidate who is well-connected in the state, a very scrappy democratic tradition. that will be an interesting race to follow as well. >> jennifer and david, thanks very much. thank you to everybody showed up and if thank you to our c-span viewers. don't forget to come back for all of our events throughout the next couple days. >> that was the national journal's daily political briefing. we will be there live again tomorrow. and throughout the democratic convention. it wraps up tomorrow. there is a live picture inside the time warner cable arena. tonight the convention begins at 5:00 p.m. by the way, thursday night it will also be he

nevada continues to have the highest and north dakota has the lowest. >>> temperature wise it's comfortable. nice start to the weekend. we have a clear sky, a little sunlight and temperatures in the mid-70s. bel air upper 70s. humidity has come up in the last few hours. that's having an impact. clear now but a new front is on the board and beginning to march in our direction. it's sparking showers across northern indiana, northern ohio. as we go into the latter evening, mid-60s by morning and clouds on the increase. we'll talk about how conditions will change saturday this time, saturday evening. >>> general motors is recalling more than 450,000 cars tonight. some of them are rolling away unexpectedly. they affect the malibu g6 and saturn ora. the problem is in the transmission cable. owners will get a warning letter in the mail. >>> there will be fewer jobs at american airlines. american filed for bankruptcy last year. now more than 2200 flight attendants have signed up for severance payments. the company is trying to cut $1 billion in labor costs. >>> apple's biggest fans lined up to get

red-flag warnings for you in wyoming, montana and north dakota. there are some advisories posted from kansas down through in towards louisiana. a very big storm system, this is ex carl that came across the atlantic. along the front we will find winds up to 100 kilometers an hour have been reported in the scott issue lands. cold rain across scandinavia. meanwhile a stub around system continuing to rotate here over italy bringing potential for hail as well as damaging winds. it is heating up across the south as well. lisbon up to 34. madrid up to 31 and heading up in the balkan peninsula as well. here is your system forecast as well. >>> that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks for joining us.