>> certainly not the media in northern ohio. toledo papers, the akron papers, the cleveland papers. they are all pounding mitt romney for that. and here's the thing, chris. northern ohio, especially cleveland and toledo, will go very heavily for president obama. cincinnati, where i am sitting right now, will go heavily for mitt romney. what we need to watch on election night is columbus, where franklin county is, because we've been seeing the romney campaign, campaign very heavily in central ohio, in and around columbus. we'll see president obama go there on friday. that's the area that could make up the difference come election night. >> okay. james peterson, last thought here. there is a pattern now of real dishonesty on the part of the romney campaign ads. they're out there saying that romney's been accused of outlawing birth control, contraception. nobody's ever accused him of that. they've said that he's not supporting the right of women to have it covered in their health plans. why are they putting out these desperate ads,

to beat the weather, he made stopings to florida and northern ohio. mitt romney also cancelled his virginia stops and rerouted himself to ohio, where he joined running mate paul ryan. >> today, when we get home, put into the prayers the people in the east coast in the wake of the big storm that's coming. >> let's not forget the fellow americans of ours. at a second rally in finley, romney talked about the storm. >> i know some people around the country are about to be nervous about the storm. thoughts and prayers of people who fought themselves out of harm's way. >> with the race in dead heat, most candidates plan to hit as many battle grounds as possible. the storm will determine exactly when and where they will get there. drew levinson, cbs news. >> good evening. , everybody. sure, we made it all the way to 85 degrees in brentwood. now high doppler and search of raindrops. the day the rain arrives as "eyewitness news" continues right here on cbs 5. ,,,, ,, ,,,,,,,,,, >>> things will change, right, roberta? >> today, earlier at christy field, we have

attorney in northern ohio to investigate. these are hardly the only allegations of political pressure employers are applying in the workplace. two weeks ago, employees of koch industries received voter information packets full of company-endorsed republicans warning that "employees and conctractors may suffer the consequences of voting for president obama and other democrats." "realistically, the best they could do is file a complaint with the nlrb under nlra to voice their right as a unified group of employees." labor attorneys say this trend will likely lead to modifications on how the citizens united decision is applied to employees in the workplace. the ruling is only two years old. until then, private sector employees have far fewer protections against management retailitation than their public sector counterparts. as the presidential candidates warm up for tonight's town hall style debate, there is already a clear winner: broadcasters. more than $2.5 billion has been spent on political ads airing on television this elec

from toledo to cleveland, probably one of the wettest drives out there is interstate 80 across northern ohio. forecast for the northeast after the cold start this morning, a pretty nice afternoon. slightly warmer and a few more clouds. mid-60s isn't bad for this time of year. florida could get complete rain ap shower light rain and showers, but it's the middle of the country with windy conditions and thunderstorms late today. western half the country is look at a nice day. 94 in los angeles today. some areas still dealing with summer heat in the west. >> thanks so much. >>> let's turn to sports. this is the daily news. quitting time for the new york yankees. and the big chill. they were in detroit, desperate for a win in game three after falling down two games to none at home. they face the unenviable task of trying to get that win against justin verlander, the reigning mvp. yankees benched a-rod again. didn't much matter. new guys didn't do any better. verlander looking good. did not allow a base runner until the fourth inning. young puts the tigserses on the board with a solo home run. sev

way to the north, in upstate new york and northern sections of pennsylvania and coming across northern ohio. more sunshine as you head south. we are sitting on the warm side of a front that has pushed up into new england or close to new england. south of there, it is unseasonably mild. college park has been running about 80 degrees for a good part of the day. fredericksburg right now at 77. baltimore right now is well above normal, mostly in the mid to upper 7's 4 highs around the region. clouds will hang around for a good part of the night and clear out at times. 51 in the suburbs, 59 downtown. normal lows are in the low 40's. high pressure to the south is pumping in the warm air. is due to stay in place for another day or so. the year andn of 80's well to ourself. dallas into memphis in kansas city is at 79 degrees. we can break out of the cloud cover early enough to potentially hit 80 degrees in a lot of areas tomorrow. there is cold stuff behind this front. cold, wintry conditions, snow and rain covering much of the pacific northwest and the northern rockies. that may be a help to us. t

northern ohio is very democratic. southern ohio is very republican.n central ohio, we're very independent. and i can tell you that both candidates have been here, in columb columbus, so much, i'm thinking about charging them income tax. [ laughter ] >> i fully expect president obama to win the state and also to win central ohio. >> mayor hall rj, can i come ba to you, sir? >> sure. >> it looked like president obama was ahead, six, seven, eight, nine points. now it looks like ohio is a toss up. what has changed? >> well, i truly think governor romney is getting out and people are really learning the man. they're learning that what he has to offer. he came the our community of newark about two months ago. really touched well to the residents. they were able to talk with him, reach out, understand what kind of man he was instead of just maybe the pre-conceived notion that he's untouchable. a good guy. a good business-minded guy. we're running government, from my perspective, the chair that i sit in, as a business. and it surely has that strong touch to t

now families in northern ohio have not forgotten what the rescue of the automobile industry did for theirtate. one in eight ohio jobs are about the automobile industry. this is why mitt romney is doing everything he possibly can to down play the impact of the auto rescue. his political director says the obama campaign dropped the auto bailout on us, but there's only so long you can ride that one trick pony. you think getting a paycheck is a one-trick pony? romney called last night's event a victory rally. today romney gave a standard stump speech in iowa, but his campaign called it a victory event. so if you believe mitt romney, heck, he's already won the election. the auto rescue was no big deal and ohio jobs are getting shipped over to china. you can't believe a word this guy says. one no knows this isn't true is rob portman. portman knows romney is toast without ohio. >> if we don't win ohio, it's stuff to see us winning the election nationally. it's possible, but it's difficult. >> along with all of that, we have said that mitt romney is a candidate who is really lacking in e detail o

. $177 million buying television time, much of that money spent right here in northern ohio. we should point out in the cleveland market in 2008, total campaign ads, television time, $36 million. in 2010, it was up to $44 million spent. so far, we are at $88 million in cleveland alone. some say it's closer to $97 million and we've still got a way to go. 400% increase over two2008. the cost of a commercial in the 6:00 news is up over 400% in this market. i'll leave you with one other fascinating fanth. if you took all the political commercials that ran in the cleveland market since the beginning of october and ran them back-to-back you'd sit down and watch them for four and a half days straight. back to you, victor and christi. >> thank you. >>> speaking about polling, that could even be impacted by the storm. gallup editor in chief ed newport says if people cannot be contacted because of large power outages and disruptions, they "might have to stop polling for the days when the storm hits." >>> president obama is going to lose florida hands down. that's the claim our next gue

and in fact, jobs are going to be created at that jeep facility in north toledo and all across northern ohio. great cities like parma and cleveland benefitting because of the leadership of barack obama. >> it seems like there's no embarrassment on the part of the romney campaign to come back and say, we were wrong. the people who were actually running the company are telling the truth. they have no boundaries. but what about norm coleman, former senator of minnesota. he told a group of voters romney wouldn't reverse roe v. wade. >> women should not fall for it. he was interviewed where mike huckabee. he called it judicial activism. women are not falling for it. in the state of ohio, 55% to 40%, women are in support of the president. we can't go backwards and we can't allow women to be treated like second-class citizens. you have a running mate of the governor that identified rape as a method of conception. they are absolutely insane. they have lost their minds and it is up to the voters in this state and this nation to find their minds, but find it somewhere else. it's despicable. the whole

president or get coverage for what sounds con voe luted and more disappointing to those folks in northern ohio? this is about winning toledo, youngstown, akron, and guess where president and vice president biden are today? ohio. uncommitted voters picked the president by a two to one margin in a cbs news poll. rather than argue that their candidate won the night, what was interesting is team romney is persuaded romney cleared the only bar he needed to, that he proved he is a viable commander in chief, that he passioned the class. maybe he didn't ace the class. here was congressman paul ryan on the "today" show this morning. >> you know, what we saw with this debate? we saw mitt romney is ready to be a great president. we saw a man with command of the facts, the temperament and demeanor that makes for a great president. >> in his morning show round-robin, as it's called in tv language, ryan was asked why romney failed to take an obvious opportunity to criticize the president on libya. >> it's been a story of changing stories by the administration. we didn't want to go into all the litigation of

jobs are going to be created at that jeep facility in north toledo and all across northwest and northern ohio. great cities like -- great cities like parma and toledo benefiting because of the leadership of barack obama. >> seems like there's no embarrassment on the part of the romney campaign to say, we were wrong, the people who are actually running the company are telling the truth. i mean they have no boundaries, but nina, what about norm coleman, former senator of minnesota. he told a group of ohio voters romney wouldn't reverse roe v. wade. what's your reaction. >> laughable. this governor is already on record interviewed by mike huckabee where he declared he would get rid of it calling it judicial activism. women are not falling for it. in the state of ohio 55%/40% women are in support of the president. we cannot allow women to go backwards and certainly cannot allow women to be treated like second class citizens. you have a running mate of the governor that just identified rape as a method of conception. they are absolutely insane. they have lost their ever loving minds and it is to t

up to the north, northern ohio, there's a few showers right now. it will really fall apart as it comes over the mountains and should arrive here about 4:00 or 5:00, right around the time when the game is ending. it's going to turn a little breezy later today. really nice. again, feeling like october, seasonable sunshine. 69 to 73 degrees, the temperature. for the evening, we're partly cloudy, breezy, 52 to 59 degrees, and it gets cold again during the overnight. i know, just what you wanted to hear. it's kind of hard to figure out what to wear in the morning, the jacket or coat. we fall back to the 30s and mid-40s. the remainder of the week, we're drying in the 60s. then we'll see temperatures head back up again on sunday into the mid-70s. still dry conditions going into next week. let's get another look at traffic with danella. >>> looking like a slow wednesday in our area. still watching i-66 heading eastbound at sudley. big delays. as you make your way toward sudley road, you're going to see the right center lane blocked by a disabled vehicle. l

ohio except for the cities. you have the suburbs of northern virginia where obama got 60 percent of the suburbs of ohio around urban concentrations aren't as favorable. i'll repeat. ohio, no republican has ever been elected there. they've elected eight presidents and they've all been republicans and clinton won there twice. gore, and carter lost in the second term. if barack obama wins ohio they'll be very, very happy and they'll think they're on the way to 270. >> mark, thank you for your time tonight. brian we have preview into the romney campaign this weekend. announcing that both mitt romney and paul ryan will campaign together in virginia this weekend. >> a news alert involving local politics from virginia. a short time ago congress man jim patrick's son retired as field director for his father's campaign. he had been caught being told how to commit voter fraud. james o'keefe did the undercover acorn videos back in 09. take a look. >> the name and the address on it. >> there will be a lot of voter protection. if they have a utility bill or a bank statement. . >> the statement from congress man moran or his cam

most importantly, here in cleveland and across northern ohio, because he saved the auto industry. and one of eight jobs in ohio relates to that critical industry, which by the way, has had the highest level of sales since february of 2008 last month. so -- >> let me ask you about that, because i think that is an important point and it's something the president has talked about repeatedly in his list of accomplishments. but let's take your neighboring state of michigan, the other state where the auto industry is so critical. the president was leading by ten. now his lead has been cut to three. and i'm wondering, when you look at the polls tightening little bit in ohio, tightening for sure in michigan, are you worried that some voters are saying, yeah, but what have you done for me lately? >> well, if you look at the last several presidential races going back to 1976, after the first debate, the non-incumbent had a little bit of a surge. so, i think what we're seeing is normal. but here in ohio, on the ground, you can feel an obama victory. people sat here in cleveland for three hour

all the way down here into the florida panhandle with rain reaching up into basically the northern part of ohio and indiana. so that is a large swath of precipitation. the situation will move slowly from west to east bringing with it a change in temperatures but a slight change as we go through mid-week. we'll cool thingings off as we go toward the weekend as well. we'll look for a second cold front. that will drop temperatures sunday and monday. in the meantime this system will in the cool us down tremendously. it will bring the chance for rain. so 58. mostly cloudy. there will be scattered showers. tomorrow 77. rain likely but not an all day steady rain. it would be hit and miss rounds of rain with some scattered storms lingering into tomorrow night. should see it tape are off late tomorrow night. as we break down the first part of your seven-day forecast, 83 wednesday, briefly warmer. drier on thursday. the sun dak in force by late wednesday into thursday. friday stays sunny, warm, what a beautifulled to the week. dry cool front, breezy, barely out of the 60s, saturday. you see the temperatu

ohio and eastern kentucky. that's all part of the problem with what we're going to be facing tomorrow. and cold, too. frost and freeze advisories out from western pennsylvania and northernalf of ohio. so turning colder overnight tonight into tomorrow. the clouds in place. if not when you get up, shortly thereafter. cold and on the wet side all day long tomorrow. if you're going to the redskins game, take your mid winter gear. lit be wet and cold. the rain should be pulling out of here not long after the sun goes down tomorrow. dry tomorrow night into monday. monday, another partly cloudy day. temperatures again will be stuck in the 50s. so be ready for cool stuff after four days in a row of 80 or higher. starting off temperatures generally in the 40s and tomorrow, cold and get, showers likely off and on, starting at 9:00, 10:00 in the morning. highs tomorrow will struggle to get back above 50 degrees. so that will be a real turn around from the weather we've been enjoying. if you're headed to the game, prepare for about 51 and drizzle and rain out there. if you're a baseball fan, you know now that we've head the postseason, there's more fans in town. game one between th

the deep south will be stormy and very windy from the northern and central plains to the ohio valley and northern and central rockies. >>> on the cbs moneywatch a sign of recovery for the housing market. and some tax troubles for starbucks. ashley morrison is here in new york with more on that. >> reporter: good morning. asian markets rallied this morning after china's gdp figures suggest the worst of their economic slow down may be over. housing construction surged and that could give the weak economy a needed boost. the commerce department said on wednesday groundbreaking on new single family homes and apartments started at the fastest rate in more than four years. the increase is driven partly by low mortgage rates. >>> despite the strong housing report wall street stocks closed only modestly higher. the dow jones industrial advanced five points while nasdaq increased two points. american is in bankruptcy but needs to fill jobs. 1500 jobs will be filled. salaries for the new hires will be less than the $45,000 average paid to current flight attendants. in britain two parliamentary

ohio. thank you. northern part of ohio is very democratic and obama.anies, tire companies up there. southern part being republican. you want to go for the middle piece of ohio. if romney doesn't win ohio, gets iowa, wisconsin becomes the in play state. >> eric: wisconsin and you need to win two other states. >> bob: i'm giving him right now florida, north carolina, and virginia. >> eric: because he's lea leading. >> kimberly: you think it's better than the margin of error? >> bob: i get a sense they're falling back. he still needs to win -- without ohio he needs to win at least three states that obama won. iowa, wisconsin, colorado and -- >> eric: that's it. >> dana: some places you don't have papers anymore. in colorado "rocky mountain news" has shuttered. that was a paper that typically would endorse a republican. >> bob: new hampshire is the other one. >> dana: in some places i don't know if papers matter much but des moines was big. i admit it, i was wrong. i thought that the "register" telegraphs that they were going to endorse obama regardless. >

. >> reporter: earlier in the day in northern ohio romney struck a somber tone. >> a lot of people ared our prayers go to them as we think about how tough it's going to be there. >> reporter: he also asked supporters to help those along the east coast with donations to organizations like the red cross. but the storm is taking romney off the trail at a critical time after a rise in poll numbers and surging momentum. he canceled rallies in swing states like ohio iowa wisconsin, new jersey and virginia states where a bipartisan message could appeal to independents and the few remaining undecided voters. with the hurricane lashing the east coast, romney toned down his criticism of the president. but he also continued to push a theme that if elected, he would reach across the aisle. >> i'll meet regularly with democrat leadership republican leadership, work for the common interest of the people of america, put the interest of the people ahead of the interest of the politicians. >> reporter: cleveland took a real hit from this storm's very high winds last night. wind gusts up to 60 miles an

avon lake, northern ohio there. now we're into the final push for the presidential race.ht days ago, we talked with our senior political analyst, brit hume. a bit of analysis about the new economy, and that is coming up here. martha: we have an update about the president's travel in wisconsin. we are moments away from an update from andrew cuomo. many people will be impacted by this storm. as the president faces question about the death of four americans in libya, we will look at one lawmaker's new quest for answers. in a personal letter that he has sent to the president. we will ask them if the administration did all that they could to protect lives on september 11. >> requests percolate up from the ground. we have to see what the answers are to those questions. ve latel. but because of business people like you, things are beginning to get rolling. and regions is here to help. making it easier with the expertise and service to keep those wheels turning. from business loans to cash management, we want to be your partner moving forward. so switch to regions. and let's get

ohio big. here in the northern part of ohio, the recovery in the auto industry the hiring that's happening in the steel industry the work that's happening in energy exploration and natural gas, driving steel production all the investment we have seen in manufacturing, this president has made a big difference across ohio. if he can a congress that worked with him -- >> so you believe the president will win big. >> i believe he will win big. i certainly do. you can feel it when you're with the people. they're disgusted with the ads. people are sick of what's been happening, they know how hard he's working. they respect governor romney but they believe that for ohio president obama has made the largest difference. he's taken us forward from the bush years. we don't want to go back to the policies that got us to this point in the first place. when mitt romney said he wanted detroit to go bankrupt let the auto industry go bankrupt, our people heard that. one of eight jobs in ohio are connected to the auto industry and all the related industry that is feed into it. >> congresswoman marcy kaptur and cat

>> two representative groups of voters in northern ohio and northern virginia where we actually contractedcalls america speaks who specializes in citizen education engagement to recruit a demographically representative group of voters who gave up four hours on a saturday and came with us, alice rivlin did one with me in northern virginia, belle sawhill in ohio, we got unbelievable response. it's not just the fiscal cliff. it's the fiscal abyss. we have to address both in an integrated fashion and we need to do it. >> the fiscal cliff, we're now talking back to the abyss. we probably don't have time to do a massive restructuring and tax reform, and we have to deal with that and om stop gap way. >> we need to make sure the economy, jobs and fiscal responsibility are the top priority, they're all important, they're all interrelated, they will determine our future. tonight we need more specifics with regard to taxes, with regard to health care, with regard to defense than we're getting. we need make sure in the lame duck session we avoid the fiscal cliff but realistically we're going to defer

in northern ohio, guy sent it in to ureport.hat 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 the massive snow fall rick was showinging us. superstorm sandy has everything. we'll take you to one of the hardest hit regions coming up. jon: a fox news alert now and startling new numbers coming out of europe and they are not good. unemployment in the 17-countr

>> the bellwether region of this state is northern western ohio, cities like akron.more. >> for decades, economic news here has been bleak. once the bread basket and manufacturing backbone of the nation, ohio's been hit hard by outsourcing. family farms have been fighting for survival. but a bright spot is emerging here. a boom brought on my natural gas and oil wells. carol and her husband roger have been dairy farmers in carroll county for decades, raising five kids and working around the clock. >> the farm is around here. we didn't have -- to work together, our bills were paid and we couldn't do anything. we couldn't go anywhere. everything went back into what we were doing. to make our payments. >> then, opportunity knocked. rex energy wanted to lease their land for oil and gas exploration. suddenly, local farmland that would be worth $15 per acre is now valued at 5800 and lisa's allowed farmer to keep a portion of the profits in oil and gas are found. >> in 2009, did you ever have a thought that might be this would happen? >> no. never. and when that check came,

much of northern ohio is dependent upon the success of the auto industry, which is why 's statementney about letting detroit go bankrupt and has had ramifications for ohio as well. host: let's go to mark joining us from ohio. a democrat. caller: i wanted to talk to you guys about the environment and something that was set in the debate last week. the president had the lead on energy and he said we were dealing now more than ever for gas and oil and he's right. then mr. romney came back with our bottle saying, mr. president, are drilling more for gas and oil, but it's not due to your policy. then he went on to say that because we are not drilling on federal and. why the president did not jump on that, i don't know. all the president would have to have said, was, mr. romney, do you think the american public would condone drilling in yellowstone? do you think the american public would condone drilling in yosemite? i just sat back from fly-fishing in montana and i was on federal land fly-fishing. i was on federal land where nothing is going on and i enjoyed that. i don't want to be fly-fis