. >>> so it will be close and 68 in the city, 63 concord, 6 san ohio ohio probably not but if everything came in bullish, we might get a light breeze. near 100 degrees for one more days. cooling coast and bay and we are carried into the upcoming weekend for a big cool down, pam. >>> they were shut down after a school bus collided with a van. if happened shortly before 5:00 and the driver of the van was hurt and a car crash right through the front window. yesterday it was right in the middle of the lunch hour. fortunately santa cruz are not serious -- injuries are not serious. >>> it is a case of arson. flames gutted the inside of the building and destroyed many of his records. he believes the saturday morning fire was meant to intimidate him the tactic did learn. >> now davis said he is not linking it to vandalism at his house or home and he said it may be linked to his job as mayor but he will leave the investigation to police. >>> and they have set fire to two churches and an office building. now the church and the office building are just a short distance apart nobody was was the hurt

ohio. he is scheduled to address a crowd of supporters at ohio state university later today. in san francisco, ally, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> mitt romney is also headed to ohio later dead, but made a stop in iowa beforehand. he wasted no time responding to the president's latest ad that pits romney against sesame street's big bird. >> these are tough times with real serious issues, so you have to scratch your head when the president spends the last week spends the last week talking about big bird. >> romney spoke before a community of farmers that big bird made an appearance in the skies overhead. it's the result of romney saying that he'll cut funds for public television. >>> former president bill clinton is at uc davis right now to endorse four northern california democrats. it's an event in support of congressman john of wall nut creek and jerry of stockton. also getting clinton's endorsement state, the medical doctor and nasa astronaut jose hernandez from the central valley. >>> a decision is due by the san francisco supervisors this afternoon. they are meeting in less than two hours to determine the fate of suspended sheriff ross mirkarimi. prosecutors

ohio from san fran. he will speak at a rally later this afternoon at ohio state university. after a rally in iowa in just the past hour, mitt romney headed to ohio and will spend four of the next five days there. he's trying to capitalize on the new dynamic of the presidential race following last weengk's debalt. it was like yesterday we were talking about whether governor romney was going to pull up his stakes in ohio and try to focus on a different route to the white house. now it appears that will all out the window. >> what they actually have done, tamron, is they're actually moving key staffers into ohio from pennsylvania. you are right. the wind right now seems to be at mitt romney's back, and it will be interesting to see where all the polls show the ohio race to be at a moment at which president obama is having the toughest headwinds that he's experienced the past three months and mitt romney finally has the wind at his back. it's interesting for us to see where ohio is in all of this because ohio, as you all know very well, a republican is not won the presidency without ohio. if mitt romney is unable to win it, it limits his chances to

ohio every single day. i feel like the middle child. when do you pay attention to me, because these candidates are running for the president of ohio. they're both staying out of sta san sandy's way today. he spent bill clinton and joe biden there instead. romney has canceled tomorrow's events in ohio avon lake earlier today. >> people of the entire nation are counting on ohio, because my guess is that if ohio votes me in as president, i'll be the next president of the united states. >> since the conventions romney has held 27 events in ohio over 12 days. i sent ryan there for 19 events and the president has been there seven times for 10 events. no republican has ever won the white house without ohio, no democrat has done it since jfk. ohio is an important state. when we talk about the state we haven't discussed in this table is the importance of a ground game. the having field offices throughout a state and the things that they can do getting people to the polls and getting information about the candidates. obama's lead in the ground game is massive. obama has 800 field offices throughout the nation, romney only has 300. in ohio the difference is massive, 137-39. this continues throughout the states. you see ohio, florida, colorado. obama's lead is massive. obama built the largest

ohio. the republican leaning cincinnati and its suburbs in the southwest and the working class culturally conservative appalachian communities along ohio's southeastern border with west virginia. so if this san election about the economy, it's worth noting that ohio'sopped from 10.6% in early 2010 to 7.2% last august. there is debate over who gets the credit for that. president obama points to the auto bailout for helping save and create 72,000 jobs in the state. ohio's republican donor john kasik says his policies, including bringing more businesses and manufacturing to the state, have made the difference. the obama and romney campaigns have all but suffocated ohio airwaves with more than $75 million in ads. since june the candidates, their running mates and wives have campaigned in the state 65 times. that's an average of about four visits per week. before mitt romney's well reviewed debate performances, an nbc-wall street journal poll found obama leading romney 51% to 43% among likely ohio voters. can a debate change ohio's democratic drift? the state's attorney general mike dewine and former governor ted strickland are next. there's big news. presenting androgel 1.62%. both are used to treat men with low testosterone. androgel 1.62% is from the

this morning he leaves san francisco at 9:25 and heads off to ohio. of course ohio.e so often. a big campaign event at ohio state university in columbus ohio where i was with president obama when he kicked off his 2012 campaign. he'll be back on that campus today, and that's a key state. the latest real clear politics poll shows president obama up by three points in ohio. he wants to increase that lead and we'll be going back to ohio i'm sure probably ten more times between now and november 6th. we'll come back, did mitt romney really say anything substantial at all yesterday about foreign policy? >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." [♪ theme music ♪] >> bill: good morning, everybody. welcome to the "full court press." here we go. another big day in politics here in election 2012. this is the "full court press" coming to you live across this great land of ours on current tv and giving you a chance to join the conversation by giving us a call at 866-55-press. a lot of panic today among democrats about the latest pew poll that shows mitt romney up over presiden

san francisco today with romney's poll numbers improving. >> they're looking very good. >> reporter: after the debate, romney is within two points of the president. and tomorrow, both candidates head to ohio, battleground ohio, where early voting is already under way. tomorrow is the last day to register to vote there. veronica? >> thank you. mitt romney will deliver that major policy speech before noon eastern, but the obama campaign is issuing a preemptive strike with this new tv ad criticizing the republican candidate's past foreign policy faux pas. take a look. >> reckless. amateurish. that's what news media and fellow republicans called mitt romney's gaffe-filled july tour of england, israel, and poland, when our u.s. diplomats were attacked in libya, "the new york times" said romney's response showed an extraordinary lack of presidential character. >> the obama campaign sed this will be romney's seventh speech on foreign policy. >>> venezuelan president hugo chavez gets to keep his job for another seven years, but his re-election came in the slimmest margin ever in his nearly 14 years in power. actor danny glover, a longtime supporter of chavez, was on hand for a day of heavy voter turnout. chavez's o

san francisco today with romney's poll numbers improving. >> they're looking very good. i feel very good. >> reporter: after the debate, romney is within two points of the president. and tomorrow, both candidates head to ohio, battleground ohio, where early voting is already under way. tomorrow is the last day to register to vote there. veronica? >> thank you. mitt romney will deliver that major policy speech before noon eastern, but the obama campaign is issuing a preemptive strike with this new tv ad criticizing the republican candidate's past foreign policy faux pas. take a look. >> reckless. amateurish. that's what news media and fellow republicans called mitt romney's gaffe-filled july tour of england, israel, and poland, when our u.s. diplomats were attacked in libya, "the new york times" said romney's response showed an extraordinary lack of presidential character. >> the obama campaign said this will be romney's seventh speech on foreign policy. >>> venezuelan president hugo chavez gets to keep his job for another seven years, but his re-election came in the slimmest margin ever in his nearly 14 years in power. he won just 54% of the vote. actor danny glover, a longtime supporter of chavez, was on hand for a day of h

ohio. he's scheduled to speak before a crowd at ohio state university later today. live in sanallie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the president said elmo is now on the run. >> elmo is -- has been seen in a white suburban. he's driving for the border. >> that comment is being interpreted as a reference to o.j. simpson who infamously fled police after his wife was found dead. >>> early vote fogger the november election is now underway. it's growing increasingly popular, but it is also leading it a problem. some people vote early because they will be out of town. others vote -- or don't vote at all. but some of those are rejected because the signatures -- because the signatures don't match the ones on file. but we have to be able to say, yes, that's the same person. >> the biggest discrepancies are among young voters in contra costa county, 15% of voters are between 20 and 39 years old. >>> an attack on a popular trail. pam cook is in the newsroom with a warning from police and advice from officers in the area. >> well, the warning is for people who use the delta deanza trail i

san francisco. president left bay area this morning with 4 million dollars roughly added to the campaign stash. once in ohio the president attended campaign rally at ohio state university where he your nored supporters to get out th votand directed them buses to give tem res to rly ting locations. new poll there shows the president lead narrowing in this key battle ground state. he hold as 51-47 percent lead among likely ohio vote engineers well the president is now being attacked for failing to mention the gas crisis during his bay area visit yesterday. state republican blame liberal i washinon a sacrameo r drivgrice abe 40 a gaon dav has details of this latest political attack. >> 3 gas stations that the busy san jose intersection have nearly identical prices. the customers are shocked. >> i'm just tired of paying high prices for gas. this is getting ridiculo. 4.49? >>reporter: triple a northern california sites power outage in southern cavalry finery last week as one reason. along with low inventory tied to this month switch over from summer to winter gas formula. however the california republican party is turning fuel praises into a political issue

ohio. it would be certainly going to ohio, but they would be going to new york city, los angeles, chicago, sanonio, houston. those people are as american as anyone else yet they never hear from the candid its unless they're trying to raise money from the billionaires' in those communities. host: last week, this was on the cover. republicans to cities, drop dead. they do not count any more, at least in national republican politics, talking about democrats choosing cities to visit or fund-raising ventures, not necessarily to campaign. guest: it's unfortunate. one can argue some of the major problems we have relate to the poverty that is located in a lot of these inner cities. if we do not have a political system that encourages our presidential candidates to go in and discuss those issues, then we're doing ourselves a disservice. the electoral college fundamentally distort top people campaign. host: antioch, tenn., bruce is an independent scholar. caller: have listened for years and this is a first-time caller. a couple of comments. arizona tries to enforce their immigration laws and the u.s. go

san francisco here on his way to columbus, ohio. before the day is out, romney like obama will venture into the buckeye state with 18 electoral votes there. cnn's john king is in ohiog to him a little bit later and talk about the importance of the buckeye state come november 6th. right now, mitt romney trying to ride that wave of post debate momentum, in a speech last hour, just west of des moines, a blustery afternoon there, and, a pitch to iowa farmers. >> people have been waiting a long time for a farm bill. and the president has to exert the kind of presidential leadership it takes to get the house and the senate together and actually pass a farm bill. that's something i will devote my time to make sure we get that bill passed so farmers know what they can expect. there are big differences between the president and me. he has no plan for rural america. no plan for agriculture. no plan for getting people back to work. and i do. you know i spoke about it all over the country. and i'm going to make sure i help the american farmer and i help our economy and i get america working again. >> again, mitt romney in iowa today. and now big news from the world of politica