"c," princeton? or "d," brown university? >> we are going with -- princeton! >> not princeton.o. >> the author attended the university of tennessee -- >> this is the last question and the tiebreaker. >> and the tiebreaker. you'd better get this. his novel "the road" follows a father and son as they do what, head to the super bowl? flee a post-apocalyptic event, drop the son off at college or start a willie nelson tribute band? >> be careful. >> post-apocalyptic event. >> all right. congratulations! and you each win a $100 visa gift card. ♪ >> all right. stay with us, everybody. congratulations. >>> good morning. we have your look at the first week of october. soggy weather in the east. we have a system pushing through, cooling temperatures off and bringing a threat of severe weather. still in that transition season. october, november. thunderstorms are off in the forecast. so keep that in mind. back into the ohio valley with much-needed rain here across many states in drought. soggy weather down into florida. the rest of the country looking very quiet. with the exception of som

according to the princeton review, montana tech tops the list. the u.s. naval academy came in at number six. the princeton review based it on thousands of student reviews across the country. other schools include the new jersey institute of technology and the u.s. merchant marine academy. >> any storms we have this winter might be more memorable because of how they're described. the weather channel has decided to start naming winter storms. it's to help track severe weather systems similar to the way that tropical storms are named during hurricane season. the weather channel described this year's list of storms names as having attitude. some of the posibilities include drako, athena and magnus. >> and more than that, probably it's low, moderate or high impablgt. >> and a way to differentiate between the different ones. >> exactly. all right. how about tomorrow morning, and overnight, this fog is kind of dramatic. >> yeah. if i had to give that a name, it would be gotham. it's kind of like gothem city out there. when you head out tomorrow morning, what's a

i taught at harvard and princeton before that. i teach mostly writing and journalism, and how to avoid reporters. i teach few short -- future public officials how to deal with the press. that is a great reward to me. i write books. i have always got a book cooking. i was thinking about my next book. i have a pretty good balance. >> how long did this book take to write? the whole process and research. >> 3.5, four years from the time i started thinking about it to when it is sitting in your hand. >> when did you finish? >> what is finishing a book? when did i really finish? six months ago. you are fiddling with it up until the very end. i had a great editor. a really good pencil editor. he was fiddling until the end. i had a lot of friends help me carry my life was good. you are fiddling with a book until the last minute. >> you have another book you're thinking about? >> i cannot talk about it. i have not decided what it is. until i do, i do not want to talk about it. >> out of all the books you have written, do you have to have,

. >> the good news is that five different economic studies, including one at harvard and princeton, aei and a couple at the wall street journal all show that if we bring down our top rates and actually go across the board, bring down rates for everyone in america, you can remain revenue neutral. >> you cite a study. there's six other studies that looked at the study you described and say it's completely wrong. >> six different studies have said this is -- >> what gives? if you're not right about your projections? >> because first of all, i've got princeton, harvard, "wall street journal" and aei all saying actually that we can bring down the rates. >> six studies have guaranteed, six studies have verified that this math adds up. >> keeping them honest, though, not quite. the suggestion is that these are full-blown academic studies. actually, three are blog posts, one is a "wall street journal" op-ed. in the "wall street journal" piece, martin feldstein, a campaign advisor, makes the math work but only by using a different definition of middle class than mr. romney uses in his own plan.

fred greenstein sign of princeton, there are books on campbell craig, a scholar from yale, some scholars have known this for a long time but the general public have not. it is only reason in recent years and really this year in a way that people have started looking at him again and saying, oh that is not quite the guy i thought he was. >> rose: we conclude this evening with isadore scharff canadian businessman who found add very successful four seasons hotel and resort chain. >> and the employees are the key, because if we are going to have a customer service focus had to have an employee focus. because it is through them they deliver the product. >> rose: they are the interface. >> they are. they are literally the pride, their approach to their work ethics and their passion for their job. so it was a concept of, you know, we held out, you know, many years later of what i thought we had a company could do and what i could do best which was only operate medium sized hotels of exceptional quality and to be the best. >> rose: etch thomas and isadore sharp when we continue, funding for char

romney, princeton economist harvey rosen assumes the tax cuts would generate enough economic growth toe cost. but for many, that's a rather large assumption. one that's also by the way questioned by many conservative economists as well. bottom line, though, that word assume. every one of these authors in each of these studies or so-called studies is making assumptions. some may be solid assumptions, others dubious, but they are all just assumptions because neither mitt romney nor paul ryan nor any of their surrogates have yet come forward with specifics. instead, we asked the romney campaign if they would like the opportunity to respond to the program. they declined for us tonight. of course, the invitation stands. joining us is republican campaign consultant, alex castellanos and bill burton, senior strategist for the leading pro-obama super pac. alex, with all the criticism, wouldn't you expect the romney campaign to produce their own evidence to prove the numbers add up? right now, people are wondering where that 20% figure came from, whether they came up with the number for policy

the author of the study at princeton just lied. >> right. >> sean: he points out that obama purposely took his interpretation of romney's economic plan out of context, which was -- that means the president lied. >> the conclusion was, the princeton economist supports what romney says, i'm going to cut, which he said a million times in the debate, americans understand, understand he's telling the truth, no matter how much they talk about lies, cut rates across the board by 20% and eliminate deductions and exemptions, which everybody knows is a scam, and it's mostly taken advantage of by the very wealthy. he can keep the rates for the very rich the same. this lie, lie, lie business, this is exactly how the left reacted to the one issue that was the single most important issue i think in any presidential campaign, where you could point to a single issue, 1988, the willie horton ad, liberals' first reaction to say it's a lie, it's a lie, it's a lie. it wasn't a lie. then they cried racism. you're getting the same thing, lie, lie, lie. now "harper's" magazine is saying when he talked about

it happened at the corner of calvert road in princeton avenue. the students were out for a job when two people pulled guns on them. they were able to make it to a neither was hurt and the robbers ran off. police are hoping surveillance video will help them catch the gunman. >> a man is under arrest after police say he murdered his sister. police say it all stemmed from a domestic dispute. the alleged shooter, a 59-year- old charles hamilton, was taken into custody at the scene. >> some of washington's biggest names gathered today to remember the life of former pennsylvania senator arlen specter. a memorial service was held this morning outside philadelphia. vice-president biden was there. speakers at the service said specter was irreplaceable and determined. he died from complications of non hodgkin's lymphoma. he was 82 years old. george mcgovern has been admitted to the hospital. no details have been released about his health because the family has us for privacy. mcgovern unsuccessfully ran for president against richard nixon. he is 90 years o

their original plan was to go to this hospital in princeton. when their ambulance got stuck in the mud, they set off for another hospital in another ambulance. but the downed trees and fromnes prevented them making it there. finally, they wound up at a church gymnasiums, where doctors from a nearby mobile medical van baby withoutr the anesthesia. drapes and up the were like, we are doing this. >> have they ever delivered a baby? no. >> baby and mother are doing fine. 5 pounds and two ounces, little liam is already weathered one in mostorst storms people's lifetime. jersey >> .new christine and david have three other children. epidural for an except for this one, her first natural birth. a beautiful little boy. coming up -- >> we will talk about early coming up -- >>[ mitt romney ] there are two very different paths the country can take. one is a path represented by the president, which, at the end of four years, t'd mean we'd have $20 trillion in debt. i'll get people back to work with 12 million new jobs. i'm gonna make sure that we get people

where he father worked as a pump operator for the city and her mother a homemaker to the hall was princetonproudly sacrificed so she and her brother could get an ivy league education. >> i choke up when i talk about this stuff because it is why we're here. >> reporter: needless to say her own daughters inhabit a much different world. sasha is now 11 and malia, a teenager. it's hard enough to be 14 if your parents aren't the president and first lady. how do you help her negotiate that real lly frenc lly teachery of 14? >> we don't do the oh, woe is me thing, she's got a great life, she's got great friends, she's happy. it's kind of hard, especially as we point out, look around. you want to see hardship? you want to see struggle? you don't have it, kid, having the president as your father way down on the list of tough. just like, you'll be fine. >> reporter: she often refers to herself as mom in chief she comes to the role with a high-powered pedigree, graduate of harvard law school he ultimately walked way from her career so her husband could pursue his political ambitions. >> i'm his bigges

rice and princeton rounded out the top three. >>> be careful driving. new figures from the insurance information institute show deer collisions on the rise. claims are up almost 8% in the last four years costing over $4 billion in damage. >>> new york city's central park just got its biggest donation ever. $100 million from hedge fund billionaire john paulson. >>> barney's is under fire for its electric holiday ad campaign featuring a very skinny mini mouse. critics are upset the usually round mouse is runway thin in a short film where she fantasizes she's in a paris fashion show. >>> and the national retail federation estimates americans will spend $370 million bucks on costumes this halloween, unreal, for their pets. the topics, pumpkins, devils, and hot dogs. >>> coming up, eva longoria splits from her jet setting man, ozzie's millions, and is the world's fastest human making a challenge that even he can't deliver on? sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> this warm air is not here to stay. starting tomorrow the cold plunge from canada begins. your

the robbery happened on the intersection of calvert road and princeton avenue. several students were running when they were approached by a man with a gun. police say that's when another man joined the suspect and demanded the students' property. it's not clear what they got away with. >>> two hikers from virginia no longer missing in montana, and they will return home today. neal peckens of herndon and jim hiser of richmond went hiking in glacier national park last week. neal's mother says the pair hiked into the back country and fell into a ravine. they were stranded in cold temperatures and more than a foot of snow. park rangers found the men safe around 3:30 yesterday afternoon. >> when i found out that he was found, i just let go and just sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. >> peckens and hiser were taken to a hospital and given a clean bill of health. it's not clear what time they'll be arriving home today. >>> today metro officials will testify to congress about extending the deadline for cell phone service in all of its underground stations. today was actually

megyn: a top economics professor at princeton is now calling out president obama.or his comments at last week's debate and his common sense then, suggesting that governor romney's economic plan does not add up. here is what the president said. >> the fact is that if you are lowering the rates that we been described, governor, than it is not possible to come up with enough deductions and loopholes that only affect high income individuals to avoid either raising the deficit or burdening the middle class. it's math. it is arithmetic. megyn: now, this professor at princeton, upon whom the obama campaign has based its charge since then, they are citing this professor, harry rosen, to say that romney's plan is going to pinch the middle class -- he has come out and said, i have never said that and i do not believe that. joining me now is lou dobbs, host of "lou dobbs tonight" and a syndicated radio host. it's not often that you see a princeton guide defending a candidate, but he is saying that i am not saying, this will not pinch the middle class. why is that? be. lou: ba

michael oppenheimer is a professor of scientific affairs at princeton university. want to start with professor oppenheimer. simply put, when you look at hurricane sandy, which is a funny name for something hitting our beaches and causing such havoc, do you see climate change, manmade climate change in action, in the face? >> this is definitely the kind of thing we expect to see more of in the future, but in addition, while global warming didn't cause hurricane sandy, it almost surely made the impact worse, and that's because sea level has been rising for the last century due to global warming, and when this huge storm came along at high tide with a full moon with this huge fetch of water gathered up over the atlantic ocean, it was pushing on a sea level which was higher than it would otherwise have been, and it was able to push the water further and further inland. i live in downtown manhattan. i saw the damage, and i can tell you that this situation is only going to get worse over this century and over the coming years and decades because global warming will conti

the robbery happened near calvert road in princeton avant of around 9:30 last night. investigators say the students were talking when an armed man demanded the handover whatever they had. one of the victim's hand it over his cash and that is when prince george's county police said the gunman and his lookout took off. neither victim was injured. >> nearly a dozen high school students were involved in a school bus accident in east baltimore. a bus collided with a minivan about 3:00 this afternoon near ensor and madison streets. 13 people were taken to hospital. none of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening. the accident remains under investigation. >> any means necessary. that is exactly what my baby didn't. >> a chilling crime. a family of seven murdered for taking a stand against drug dealers in the neighborhood. but the legacy against violence is still going strong 10 years later. the dawson family death drove home the issue of the stop spitting culture in baltimore. a decade after the family was killed by a firebomb, city leaders are talking about the progres

. >> the professor at princeton did a very illoom nateing study.e said pick who looks more confident. >> here's how most people rank them. >> he predicted the outcome of all those races based on which candidate looked more confident. not beautiful, but more confident. 70% of the time the more confident-looking person won the election. >> candidates with more angular faces, as seen here, are seen as more competent. at the face becomes more baby-faced, people say that person looks less competent. >> people make decisions based on looks? >> looks. >> mitt romney and obama appear about equal. consultants even worry about the people who stand behind the candidate. at this obama rally, people were already seated behind the podium when a staffer, highlighted here, came on stage and got some white people to move out. >> if you look at a candidate for president, he's got a bunch of people behind him, half will be men, half will be women. >> and a certain number will be of a different race. in this case, the result is that the camera now will see some minori

lakers running the princeton offense and does not work. right here it is a dunk for howard. but this is a bad move for mike brown. he steels it away from nash and lays it in. i speak the french and i like it. inside to curry who has not done anything for a decade. lakers win it 99-91. will he play for the warriors in their opener in phoenix. he did practice today. he is coming back from a variety of injuries. he doesn't sound like jackson is ready to play him yet. >> i would love to know right now. this is what we are dealing with. and we are going to be very cautious when he steps on the floor. we are going to be smart understanding that we need him for the long haul and not just tomorrow night. >> abc7 sports brought to you by river rock casino. >> thanks, larry. >> you are french. >> i don't know. >>> "nightline" is next. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm carolyn johnson. thanks for joining us. abc news continues tomorrow morning starting at 4:30. >> we will see you tomorrow for th

elizabeth clap vanished yesterday from a care home on princeton way. clap p is 5'4," 149 pounds, with brown hair and eyes. she was last seen wearing sweat pants and a white shirt. anyone with information is asked to call fairfield police. >>> the faa has proposed 2200 dollar fine for the lodi skydiving instructor in this utube video. the agency notified dennis mcglen he violated a number of faa regulations when he accompanied 80-year-old laverne everett on her first jump last may. she said she nearly fell out of the harness when she left the plane, mcglen has until mid- october to respond. >>> oakland as fans are still beaming over their team's remarkable season finish yesterday. >> fly ball. center field, cosco, ball game. western division -- >> the as beat the texas trainingers 12-5 to win the american league western division championship. at one time the as trailed the rangers by 13 games and yesterday was the only day all season they had soul possession of first place. >> the thing we preachd from day one, you know it is installed inside of us, so

according to the princeton review, columbia managed to get 99% of its 2011 grads a job just nine monthsfter leaving school. the starting salary averaging $160,000 a year. not a decade. a year. that's getting out of law school. >> their loans will be a little steep for a while but that's unheard of. it helps the cause. >> why didn't i go to law school again? i'll tell you. >> that's a lot of reading. thanks, jess. >>> could you make the work if you only had $30 to spend on 21 meals? >> we'll take a look at some of the challenges of living on food stamps. we'll be back. >>> good morning. welcome back to 9news now with weather first and howard bernstein. we'll get right to it. game time 1:07. first pitch out there. will it be a rain-soaked game? >> not at all. if they were playing right now it would be a little damp but we'll get rid of this stuff pretty quickly the next few hours. we do start with the bus stop forecast. it's another cool to chilly morning in areas. we've got low 40s out in the shenandoah valley so a jacket, maybe glove weather with the dampness out there with patchy fog a

according to pay scale.com a princeton graduate a more likely to pull in a bigger paycheck also is annapolisu.s. naval academy other schools include west point and morning i.t. and stanford. -- m.i.t. and stanford. >>> 30 years ago today a, themusic dft try introduced the little -- industry introduced the silver disk. belly joel 50 second street album went on sell in japan hundreds of billions of cds have been sold. the number is winding down as they move to a digital realm. the first album to sell a million cd copies was 1985 and brothers in arms was by dire straight best mown for the mtv video hit, money for nothing. >>> it's been a little negotiating for the past 14 years a season you won't forget. a playoff birth for the orioles is what's on your mind as we start this monday morning. and the excitement surrounding the town is nothing short of amazing. abc2 news sherrie johnson is live with more on what fans had to say about this miracle ride. >> reporter: we are here on york road where we have been talking to fans all morning. and they are so excited for the o's. and today the team is in

i looked out graduating from princeton helped but half of the people today don't graduate even afterhey are alerted everybody has to go. make a $1 million more because it is a different population that goes to college. they would have made it any way. but you are right to. it worked out for me. >> i go to a school nearby. how to read tell the difference to help young people were it actually inflates the cost? >> it is impossible for people who want to spend their money. university's should get the money voluntarily. not taxpayers. allot have the affinity for your school and you choose. that is the best way. would be think about primary education? >> k-12 has been messed up. we spend much more than we used to. scores are flat. no surprise. it is a government monopoly and they always street customers corley corporation clap charities would help the people who cannot afford that we used to government paying k-12 education. but why not attach the money to your back? your parents could take $13,000 to any school they would compete to get you and the best teachers would compete they would

jillian tete columnist for the financial times and christopher aiken, a professor of politics at princeton university. it is so nice to have you both here. >> thank you. >> all right. yes, i did start with my favorite children's book, but it's, in part, because as i was reading it, i kept sort of thinking to myself as i was listening to them in this debate that we were in a bargain for frances' moment, we were being told something that just wasn't accurate. >> the other met for i would use apart from the children's book, is about going on a die sxet trying to lose weight. i mean, you get sold these quick-fix solutions that tell you just pop a pill, and you will lose weight and you'll be happy. the reality is anyone knows it takes a lot of discipline, it takes a lot of time, and it takes a combination of measures. that's very important. you have to watch your weight -- have to watch your food, and have you to exercise, and you have to be organized. it's like fixing the great big problem of america's debt. unfortunately, there is no magic wand. no matter whether it's a republican campaign or

lakers running the princeton offense and does not work. right here it is a dunk howard.or howard.rown. he steels it away from nash and lays it in. i speak the french and i like it. inside to curry who has not done anything for a decade. lakers win it 99-91. will he play for the warriors in their opener in phoenix. he did practice today. he is coming back from a variety of injuries. he doesn't sound like jackson is ready to play him yet. >> i would love to know right now. this is what we are dealing with. and we are going to be very cautious when he steps on the floor. we are going to be smart understanding that we need him for the long haul and not just tomorrow night. >> abc7 sports brought to you by river rock casino. >> thanks, larry. >> you are french. >> i don't know. >>> "nightline" is next. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm carolyn johnson. thanks for joining us. abc news continues tomorrow morning starting at 4:30. >> we will see you tomorrow for th [ female announcer ] now get high speed internet at home on our newly expanded advanced digital network, a connection you can count on.