. >>> and more on the hand sanitizers that are popular everywhere, how could they be a bad thing? we'll tell you whathe doctors believe. >>> and making a difference, you see them at the airport, sniffing, doing their job, and in the world of working dogs, that is the big leagues. wait until you hear what they overcame to make it to the pros, nightly news begins now. this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. >>> good evening, if you were among the over 60 million of us who watched the presidential debate, then you know we saw two things that night, really, an energized mitt romney, and lackluster president obama, and tonight it appears what happened that night has the numbers on the move there was new polling when they opened up against the president, the numbers show the race trending, tightening, trending towards romney, at least right now, we begin with peter alexander, traveling with the romney campaign. >> reporter: brian, good evening to you, a romney adviser tells me that the campaign is stronger, that the candidate is increasingly confident. he tried to draw a sharp con

>> cleanser. >> then use the hand sanitizers. at least 40 seconds.f you said this pledge of allegiance or happy birthday, that's only 10 seconds. >> you have to sing it four times. >> old mcdonald had a farm and at least three animals. >> that's a long time to wash your hands. then we are looking out for the next person to touch the door notary public. >> you have probably been in a bathroom where people run their hands under the water and leave. it's a few seconds. >> good advice, especially this season as we have colds and flus. >> thank you for reminding us to take care of those hands. >> thanks a lot. >> it's 11:42. we are going to introduce you to a high school dance group preparing for a local competition, plus, what areas take away his toys and he'll play with a stick. take away their bikes and they'll still find a way to get where they're going. but if take you away early childhood education... slash k-12 funding... and cut college aid for middle class families ... they won't go far. yet that's exactly what mitt romney wants to do... ...to pa

we may want to put down that hand sanitizer. some some experts believe it is possible to be too clean. the dirty little seek that most germs are harmless and many are good for us. that's why some doctors are warning overuse of hand sanitizers might make you more likely to get that next infection that comes along. the summer, researchers found amish children raised on farms in the united states had dramatically fewer asthma and allergy problems. >> i really, really want to use some hand sanitizer right now. let's turn it over to the comcast sportsnet newsroom. >> does that add any legitimacy to the five-second rule? >> yeah, okay. >> all right. coming up in sports, both the giants and a's one loss away from being elittle natd from the postseason. up next, we'll hear from the a's. they got enough magic left for a comeback. that's next. ask me what it's like when my tempur-pedic moves. [ male announcer ] why not talk to someone who owns an adjustable version of the most highly recommended bed in america? ask me about my tempur adva

we're talking about hand sanitizer, jennifer wilcox admitted she chugged half a bottle of the hand sanitizer and blew a .17. that's half a bottle equivalent to 32 shots of vodka. who knew? >>> all right, a line of severe weather lynette was just talking about made way across the nation's midsection. this video out of the state of tennessee near the city of memphis. to tell you just how big this front is, it stretches as far south as louisiana all the way up to the northern half of michigan and the great lakes area. and in effect it dropped enough rain in detroit last night to postpone the game four of the american league championship series with the tigers and the new york yankees. >>> all right, those storms could be heading our way so for a check of what you can expected to, lynette is about the -- expect today, lynette is standing by. >> some rain in here in the afternoon, mainly the evening time though. so we can see where that cold front is back across the middle of the nation right now. the thunderstorms still stretching across tennessee valley. we have one pesky storm now pushing into

now, i say sanitized, the can urriculum that the marines walked into was soviet era can urriculum. what the soviets had done, and if you want to change a community or you want to change a country, you focus on the education system. and this was indicative in the can urriculum. you would see ak 47's and it would go through the whole nomenclature of ak 47's and it was k through 3 can urriculum. so the marines would grab that and substitute our stuff, which was focus on reading and writing. of course we facilitated the distribution of korans because this is an islamic country. initially we focused on brick and morter construction, renovation, after about a generation of violence you can beat these schools were destroyed. if we needed to build new ones, we certainly did, but we always made sure the afghans understood they had the ultimate responsibility of maintaining this once we leave. finally, girls in school. as i mentioned, literacy rate was 20 percent. that was country-wide. in southwest afghanistan that literacy rate was women was 8 percent. so you have to work very hard to get

new technology claims to sanitize your smartphone without damage from chemical cleaners.ll heard about tests that show smartphones are a breeding ground for germs and can be as dirty as a public restroom. common cleaners are either ineffective or harmful to the phone. a new device is expected to be released in january that uses u- v light to kill harmful germs and parasites. other developers are making screens and cases with microscopic patterns similar to shark skin. which is known to be resistant to bacteria. it has been stripped of his seven racing titles and has endorsement deals. new technology claims to sanitize your smartphone without damage from chemical cleaners. we've all heard about tests that show smartphones are a breeding ground for germs and can be as dirty as a public restroom. common cleaners are either ineffective or harmful to the phone. a new device is expected to be released in january that uses u- v light to kill harmful germs and parasites. other developers are making screens and cases with microscopic patterns similar to shark skin. which is known

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well, a labor union that backs barack obama has released an attack ad featuring a sanitation worker who picks up mitt romney's tbar beg. mor -- romney's garbage. the mormon garbage, i might ad. roll tape, tape rollers. >> my name is richard hayes and i pick up mitt romney's trash. >> we will call it the invisible people. >> it is a big health issue not picking up trash. residents do come out shaking their hands and sometimes they give us hugs and thank us for the job we are doing and hand us waters and gatorades and keep up the good work. picking up 15, 16 tons by hand, that takes a toll on your body. when i am 55, 60 years old, i know my body will be there. mitt romney doesn't care about that. >> my job is not to worry about those people. >> romney's campaign responded by saying, he is right. no, actually a spokesman replied, "it is not surprising a liberal special interest group is trying to distract from president obama's failed agenda with dishonest, political attacks." i think that was actually written for just about every response. you send that thing out. meanwhile, is the prospe

. >> the sure in his testimony to them minimized and sanitized his account of the events that he was not truthful or forth coming. >> the attorney represented mirkarimi sat in a corner listening intently. the punishment does not fit the crime. >> and this is the mayor never alleging he committed he fishl misconduct in performance of official duties. >> the supervisors present hopes they will vote tonight f they don't, the charter permits them to vote next week f they don't act next week, he is he reinstated back as sheriff. as you said earlier this may be a late vote because he promised he wants everyone to have a say here tonight. i talked to david wagner who said if they lose here tonight they'll appeal but there is something like 30 days to do that. if mirkarimi is reinstated i heard from an activist they'll start a campaign. at 6:00 you'll hear some of the testimony. >> this sounds like it not over yet. >> tourists got to see something they did not expect. rescue of an injuried sea sea lion. there is one team responded but couldn't help until they shot it with a tranquilizer to s

the sanitation department has so r converted 40 of its vehicles diesel to this new form of energy. there is not as much carbon buildup, the fuel is cleaner. you know how diesel is. it produces smoke. these are very clean running machines. >> the price to fill up, about $2 a gallon. the county expects to save $3 vehicles ints new years.t eight vehicles ints new years.t eight >> ahead, david smallwood: maryland money needs to stay in maryland. it's just that simple, i mean, it's a no brainer. anncr: every year marylanders spend five hundred and fifty... million at casinos in west virginia, delaware... and pennsylvania. one west virginia paper calls it a "cash cow" for them. but its cost maryland over one billion dollars. money that could have created good jobs and... better schools for us. question seven keeps maryland money in maryland. david smallwood: question seven, i think it will be a... good thing for the state of maryland. when presidt obama couldn't. first, my energy independence policy means more than three million new jobs. many of them in manufacturing. my tax reform plan

. >> take two, it was the night before christmas, more sanitized version, apparently.n author who has taken some issue with the fact that santa smokes a pipe and in the year of 2012 thinks that's time for santa to clean up his act and he's got to stop smoking. >> he also breaks and enters, but, you know, nobody is complaining about that, you know. got a fat guy with a beard coming down your chimney. >> not to mention all the other vices. apparently deletes the verses the pipe he held in his teeth and the circsmoke encircled hisd like a wreath. is this censorship, too far? >> this is wrong. these are our childhood stories. okay, he's lived this long. he's doing all right. >> his belly shook like a bowl full of jell-o. >> honestly. i didn't know santa smoked. didn't stick with me. >> you know, that's deep in the it was the night christmas poem. >> that's ridiculous. all right. take three. >> moving on. >> this is,one is for savannah? >> it is? >> yes, it is. it's savannah's worst nightmare. >> several blogs. >> two french children in the countryside. >> run, girl. >> pla

researchers advise using good old soap and water instead of overusing hand sanitizers. >>> and now here's an early hook at how wall street's going to kick off the day. the dow dropped 29 points, the s&p was down 5 and the nasdaq dropped 23. in overseas trading, in tokyo the nikkei dropped 93 points but in hong kong the hang seng gained 112. >>> well, stocks have been on a strong run but right now earnings and global growth fears have investors on edge. in tokyo this morning officials from the international monetary fund said the global economy could be skidding toward recession. just three years after pulling out of the previous one. that coupled with alcoa's third quarter earnings kickoff could be a big market driver today. yesterday intel, home depot, and walt disney all ened the day lower as u.s. driven sectors were the biggest losers. apple dragged the dow and the s&p despite denials of a strike at one of its manufacturing plants. >>> house officials are wanting u.s. companies to not deal with two of china's dealers. >>> american express and walmart are rolling out a new reloadable pr

>> well, richard hayes is a really, the sanitation worker.s he really the garbage collector at romney's la jolla mansion. also a member of as me the american federation of county and state employees. wevehement opponents of mitt romney's candidacy. they represent all the municipal workers. the people whose pensions are bankrupting cities and have been, you know, in the crosshairs of mitt romney and the republicans for this entire election cycle. so they come up with this idea in the wake of the 47% hidden video where romney said, you know, half the people in this country don't tax. they are not going to vote for me no matter what. what they are trying to do democrats and very aggressive militant group of public employees are trying to do is really portray romney as a man out of touch. he lives in a mansion with an elevator for his car. and the poor garbage man is outside. >> bill: romney never did anything with the guy. >> really low blow like the ad of romney killing the guy's wife with cancer. >> bill: romney probably doesn't even know who

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." >> i drafted the sanitation initiative. >> the internet has been ruthless on her, calling her terrible names. it has to be incredibly painful. >> reporter: but now, alison tate is leading a populist backlash. >> i felt dumpy and doubty, frustrated. >> reporter: she had just given birth to her fourth chiltd when she did something many women do every day. resisted taking a picture with her son at a birthday party. >> my 5-year-old son, who came up, said, mommy, come be in the photo booth with me, and my first reaction was -- no. because i knew that i looked awkward and tired and, so, i didn't want to do it. >> reporter: she had a lot of reasons to be confident. she had an ivy league education, happily married with four beautiful kids. what was wrong here? >> even as i said no, i also thought, i need to just do this, because i have a 10-year-old. i know they don't ask you forever to be in pictures with them. >> reporter: she wrote a blog about the experience and suddenly, the moment became a movement. mom stays in the picture sparked a viral rallying cry. thousands of women submitted thei

a small two-ounce bottle of hand sanitize cert equivalent of four shots of liquor. the cops say she drank a half of a big bottle, the equivalent of 32 shots. >> the same alcohol in beer, wine, and jack daniels but more concentrated. >> the first time i ever did it and the last time. >> police say her breathalyzer test was a .17. >> a blind man was tazered by police in england after the authorities mistook his walking stick for a samurai sword. he thought he was going to destroy error -- die after feeling the electricity surge through his body. he fell to the ground crying out he was blind but the officers cuffed him either way. they took him to the hospital after realizing they tazered the wrong man. >> and this seemed to be going on forever. unfortunately, the tazer came out. and through that very moment, i was convinced that i was being murdered in plain sight. i was being murdered. >> farmer is considering taking legal action against police. >>> thank you so much for joining us at 5. >> the news edge at 6 is coming your way right now. >>> we have breaking news of

> every 20 seconds, a kid somewhere on our planet dies because of lack of access to clean water sanitation, three kids a minute. >> what goes through the enormity of it. what does a life without access to clean water look like? >> your life revolves around skavageing for water. girls won't be in school. they will spend their entire day trying to get water for the rest of the family. also, the issue of toilets. girls stop going to school when they hit puberty if there's not a toilet there. >> they co-founded a non-profit organization, water.org. it's to end the water crisis. >> it's a gender issue, an education issue the fact that 433 million school days are lost every year because kids are sick from contaminated water. >> the water in our toilet is cleaner than the water most people are drinking. >> you have been working on this for 20 years. is it that we don't have enough water on the planet? the water is dirty? where does the issue begin? >> there's enough water on the planet. the challenge is making sure that water is clean and making sure it's where people live. you know, in the unite

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. >> the water in the sink automatically gets boiling hot to sanitize utensils, so tim's dip lasts onlyminutes. >> so i used a little towel to cover myself up. i didn't think about this part. i didn't bring anything to dry off. >> the video is posted on myspace that same morning, but tim has no idea just how much of a stir his short film will create. tim's bubble bath generates hundreds of thousands of hits on the internet. he's asked to make national television appearances. all good for his music, but not good for his resume. he and his co-workers are all fired. >> i figured i would get fired when i did it, but when everybody else got fired, that was the part that surprised me because really no one had anything to do with it, aside from the girl that filmed it. >> that girl, macy, is sorry she and tim didn't edit out their other colleagues. >> i regret that they got in trouble or had to have anything to do with it. >> manager karen craig, a burger king employee for several years, is sorry too. >> sorry for anything that they think i did. i had no part in it. i feel that burger king has

the 16th, that was a very powerful video and was more credible and more believable than the very sanitized version that we received at the hearing. >> mr. hemblig? >> i got most of that, i think in that regard, the commission did not find credible the version of incident the sheriff miss lopez at the hearing. rather the commission and that is where i ended? >> finds that the evidence contained in miss lopez' video was more credible. >> thank you. >> i think my concern with a statement like that is its breadth. where sort of in one sentence making some broad statements about a lot of testimony. not sure that there w the sheriff and miss lopez said about the incident were not credible. and moreover, that is not really a finding of fact. what i think we have here are facts, things that we say happened, that we agreed happened. rather than weighing the credibility of one witness over the other. i think the vagueness of this is problematic to me. i would not for that. welcome to views of other commissioners. >> i agree with commissioner renne. i actually think we had quite a bit of discussion a

. >> can we get some sanitizer up in here? >> oh, my god. >> thank you.ow much cleaner you're all going to feel now? i can't be the only one that goes in dirty. >> first, unpeel your wrapper. >> always a dainty procedure to begin with. >> screw off the bottom. then smush it on the top. >> i kind of see what you're going at here. >> look how cool you look. >> i don't know if it makes it cooler. just cleaner. >> pretty solid. >> i couldn't do it. thanks for the cupcakes. >> oh, eat the damn thing now. you went through all the trouble of making your sandwich. [ laughter ] >>> nick, you know i'm a huge fan of prank videos, especially when there's an elaborate set up. let me break this one down for you. the girl who's about to get pranked, right here. that's kelly. it appears as though this guy, this girl, and the camera person, they're all in on the prank. they thought this out. they're here to prank kelly. >> oh, boy. decide, we're going to do some reverse arm wrestling. never heard of this in my life. >> what do they do? >> he's trying to pull her elbows of

officials in massachusetts say they found fungus in steroids and a leaky boiler in a room supposed to be sanitized within that facility. the meningitis outbreak is blamed for 300 illnesses and 23 deaths. tonight, the hero responsible for one of baseball's greatest moments strikes out with police. the hall of fame legend placed in handcuffs and the discovery made by police that led to the arrest. >> plus, a sexual assault in falls park. who police are looking for and why it's a face you've seen before. >> i'm bob ryan in the weather center. what month is this? it's october? is that coming back? i'll tell you the details and the latest on sandy. man: to some people, social security is just a number. but to me, it's money that i earned. i count on social security. and i don't want washington politicians like geoe allen... privatizing it. if george allen wants to risk his own money on wall street... that's fine. but i don't want him risking mine. george allen just isn't watching out for us. anncr: the democratic senatorial campaign committee is... responsible for the content of this advertising. >> ha

gloves, eye protection, and masks and sanitation and hand washing and who among us don't have a nick or a cut on their hand and are you going to touch someone's blood and your in tac skin will protect you from most ilknows. however, if you have a cut on your hand you have a path for infection to get inside of you and you want a pair of latex gloves -- several pairs of glo gloves that you can put on and change as you go from patient t patient hopefully and at least wash your hands and disinfect your hands between patient contacts and the eyes are like an open wound and path to get into your body and glasses and take the old glasses and throw them in your kit and you have something to wear and face mask and of course dust and dirt and all of these disasters throw up dust and dirt and especially in a dryer season and push comes t shove a band da bandana. and after a disaster is not the time to let your hygiene slip and it's a time to tighten it u and communitycable diseases and if it's wet and not yours don't touch it. gloves and every patient contac and don't touch blood and it's good

look how it dissipates once it crosses this sanitation dam they're building in a coal mine. >> dissipates into the air. >> i like this guy's attitude filming. a jolly old time watching this. >> coming right towards us. oh! ah! >> it's not like it's going to pick him up, send him flying or anything. >> just cover him in dirt. >> here's another angle of the dustnado. you can see how massive it become, collecting all this dust. >> if i was one of these construction worker guys i would have it written into my contract if i get surrounded by a dustnado i get to go home early for the day, and then just stand in the middle of that thing. >> i wouldn't stand in the middle of it. who know what's it will pick up and het you at high speed. >> a note to everyone. the emergency room is not a dressing room, but somebody thought was the case in kokomo, ind. check out this video. car pulls up, door oerngs man slumps out to it ground and before the door's even shut, the car is driving away. >> what's this guy -- a really bad stomach ache? >> got shot. he's 23-year-old darius leaguen, before 4:30 in the af

hand sanitizer, done! hey, eric! i'm here for my flu shot. sorry, didn't make an appointment.ell, you don't need one. whether it's flu shots or prescriptions, we continue to accept express scripts and medco plans. i'm bonnie, and this is my cvs. gas prices jump nearly 20 cs overnight. whats going on and how long it will last? "...the front of the chair s moving. it was just moving" plus: american airlines scrambles to fix its slippig seats. how bay area flightse now being affected. and getting around the girdk this weekend... why you'll d to pack some patience if y'e coming into san francisco. join us for cbs 5 eyewitness news this morning... begin,, >>> here's a look at the weather in some cities around the country. mostly sunny in washington 82 degrees. mostly sunny in atlanta 84. rain in st. louis, 54 degrees. denver 48. seattle "the tourist" fired several shots. the suspect's identity and motive for the attack are unknown. police in canada seized hundreds of barrels of maple syrup that were stolen. the barrels were discovered in a warehouse in new brunswick. they are value

. >> every 20 seconds a kid on our planet dies because of lack of clean water and sanitation. three kids a minute. >> walk us through the enormity of it. what does a life without access to clean water look like? >> your life revolves around skavageing for water. girls won't be in school. they will spend their entire day trying to get water for the rest of the family and also the issue of latrines and toilets. girls stop going to school when they hit puberty if this is not a toilet there. >> matt damon and gary white cofounded an organization, water.org. it is dedicating to ending the water crisis among the poor. >> the fact that 443 million school days are lost every year because kids are sick from contaminated water or collecting water. >> the water in the toilet is cleaner than the water most people are drinking in this situation. >> you have been working on it 20 years. it is that we don't have enough water on the planet, the water is dirty? where's the issue begin? >> there's definitely enough water on the planet. the challenge is making sure the water is clean and where p

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hand sanitizer, done! hey, eric! i'm here for my flu shot. sorry, didn't make an appointment.l, you don't need one. whether it's flu shots or prescriptions, we continue to accept express scripts and medco plans. i'm bonnie, and this is my cvs. >>> here's a look at the weather in some cities around the country. mostly sunny in washington 82 degrees. mostly sunny in atlanta 84. rain in st. louis, 54 degrees. denver 48. seattle 67 degrees. >>> breaking news this morning out of israel. authorities say an american tourist has opened fire at a hotel killing at least one person and it happened in the red sea resort city of eilat. "the tourist" fired several shots. the suspect's identity and motive for the attack are unknown. police in canada seized hundreds of barrels of maple syrup that were stolen. the barrels were discovered in a warehouse in new brunswick. they are valued at more than $30 million was stolen. people will steal anything. no suspects have been arrested. in britain they are celebrating two golden nerves. first the beatles first single marks a milestone. ♪ it was 50 y