shannon bream was there and she has the story. vice president joe biden has been prepping all we week with congressman ryan. senator ron johnson from a strong supporter of governor romnee's and congressman paul ryan joins us. to tell us whether the would-be vp is ready. he is so excited for that debate, he is already in that email marketing from constant contact reaches people in a place they're checking every day -- their inbox. and it gives you the tools to create custom emails that drive business. it's just one of the ways constant contact can help you ow your small business. sign up for your free trial day at constantcontact.com/try. lou: in the vice presidential candidate debating the one and only time in this election cycle tomorrow night in kentucky. we will be joined by ron johnson, a senator to get his entirely objective view of how congressman ryan is likely to do. we have had to offer his perspectives on this race. first, we want to turn to wall street where stocks extended the losing streak. the dow jones industrial av

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shannon bream is here with a report on red storm rising. a rising star in the republican party supporting limited government and fiscal discipline in this state of utah. she is ahead in the polls. is this a national trend? mayor mia love is our guest next you see us, at the start of the day. on the company phone list that's a few names longer. you see us bank on busier highways. on once empty fields. everyday you see all the ways all of us at us bank are helping grow our economy. lending more so companies and communities can expand, grow stronger and get back to work. everyday you see all of us serving you, around the country, around the corner. us bank. lou: president obama's underperformance on the national stage, republican utah congressional candidate mia love will join us in just a moment to talk about the challenges of this election year. first, on wall street, stocks closing lower of what end of what is expected to be a weak earnings season, and beginning to rip, at least. perhaps some volatility. the dow jones industrial is down 26

shannon bream is here with a report on red storm rising. a riing star in the republican party supporting limited government and fiscal discipline in this state of utah. she is ahead in the polls. is this a national trend? mayor mia l lou: president obama's underperformance on the national stage, republican utah congressional candidate mia love will join us in just a moment to talk about the challenges of this election year. first, on wall street, stocks closing lower of what end of what is expected to be a weak earnings season, and beginning to rip, at least. perhaps some volatility. the dow jones industrial is down 26 points. the s&p fell five points, the nasdaq down 34 points. third-quarter ckoff tomorrow. companies in the s&p expected to post overall a decline in profits for the first time in nearly three years. about 2.5% lower of the previous years. meanwhile, the world bank slashed its growth outlook for the developing economies of eastern asia and the pacific region. about 7% down from an earlier projection of more than 7.5%. the wea

shannon bream life in washington with more. shannon?ll, jon, in september, president obama enjoyed a 14-point advantage among likely women voters. but that lead has evaporated. there is now just 1 percentage point separating the president and governor romney among likely female voters in swing states. democrats have invested heavily in the so-called war on women narrative painting romney and republicans as some thing given romney's performance in the past two debates may have back tired. care about him. actual alternative. they over demonized him. >> last night's rough and tumble in your face showdown left many wondering how the combative tone would play with women. conservative pundit monica crowley think the candidates' fichty tone will be a positive among undecided women. most voters including women respond to strength. the world is a dangerous place. america has very grave problems. we don't want any kind of wimps. nobody who is going to sort of sit back and take the punches and not fight back. though romney has been taking heat bin

shannon bream in d.c. shannon, thanks. new accusations tonight that the justice department is spying on a lot more americans these days. that's according to the american civil liberties union. the aclu reports that from 2009 to 2011 orders for warrantless telephone surveillance went up 60%. emails and network data increased by 361%. this kind of surveillance doesn't involve monitoring the content of conversations they tell us. that is the government is keeping tabs on to whom people are talking but not what they are saying still an aclu representative says a rise in surveillance is some cause for concern. >> the people have a right to know how these extremely invasive surveillance powers are being used and if there is nothing to hide, if they're not being abused where is the harm in letting us know. >> shepard: federal judge authorized every instance of surveillance and a smokesmanned as as criminals use more and new sophisticated technology the use of orders issued by a judge and explicitly authorized by congress to obtai

shannon bream in washington. will get before the ruling. >> the investigators won't hear this case until after the election. what they decide could impact elections for decades to come whether or not a state can require people to prove they are citizens before they can register to vote in federal elections. i reached out to arizona's state attorney general for reaction to the news that the high court is going to take up his appeal he says quote: arizona has a right to ask people for evidence that they are citizens when they register to vote. if someone is willing to vote illegally. he or she is willing to sign a false statement regarding citizenship. by the way the obama administration has been arguing that the arizona law be struck down, shep? shannon, there is another case pending at the high court election, which is the status? >> repeated fight over state law give military members and their families extra time to vote early. so far the courts have sided with the obama campaign which asked that the law be bloc

shannon bream just outside d.c., arlington, virginia tonight. what kind of damage there shannon? a couple of miles out from washington, d.c. it's a scene we have seen repeated over and over again in this neighborhood. this is a house that i talked to the owner, he is the childhood owner of this home. grew up here. now owns the home. a tree that he says has been here since the civil war fell from its neighborhood's yards into his house. they were actually there in the bottom floor where the tree fell. they just finished dinner, were clearing the dishes when this tree came crashing in last night. can you see into their home, into their ait particular, into the bedroom. clothe hanging there suitcases, all kinds of personal items. i talked to him today. he was very upbeat saying the crews will get out here and work when they can. they did start tonight on tree removal. may give us a chance to rebuild our house the way we have wanted to. is he looking on the bright side. many neighbors coming to help each other out. all across the neighborhood there are trees just like that one down.

you washington now with shannon bream. >> shannon: hurricane sandy is the real deal. the monster storm already responsible for nearly 5 dozen deaths in the caribbean. it is expected to affect most of the eastern u.s., upwards of 60 million people. we have got fox news team coverage of the storm and a new concern, the vote. some speculate sandy could disrupt the election, something neither campaign wants to hear. it's forced both candidates to cancel events in crucial swing say thees. we will talk to governor bob mcdonnell. i'm shannon bream, america's news headquarters live from the nation's capitol starts right now. we are nine days away from the election and the candidates are focusing on the battleground states. voting is rounder way in florida and several other state, so what will it take to sway the undecided voters who have yet to commit? joining me, a romney supporter, congressman, thank you for your time today. >> hey, glad to be with you. >> reporter: stephanie cutter said this morning, they have momentum, they are racking up a number of key editorial endorse

shannon bream. thanks very much. live in washington.an update on a very important story we told you about last week. fears of a world-wide bacon shortage. gregg: say it isn't so. jenna: well the warnings echoed across grocery store isles last week. the truth next. gregg: i love bacon. well, if it isn't mr. margin. mr. margin? don't be modest, bob. you found a better way to pack a bowling ball. that was ups. and who called ups? you did, bob. i just asked a question. it takes a long time to pack a bowling ball. the last guy pitched more ball packers. but you... you consulted ups. you fod a better way. that's logistics. that's margin. find out what else ups knows. i'll do that. you're on a roll. that's funny. i wasn't being funny, bob. i know. jenna: well, some new information on a story we brought you last week that really, really concerned gregg. gregg: yeah. jenna: some folks calling it bacon jageddon, a worldwide bacon shortage due in part, we should mention, to the effects of the drought in the united states. pork supplies will decrea

i'm shannon bream. america's news headquarters live from the nation's capitol starts right now. with questions mounting about the benghazi crisis, advisors to the president and top republicans staked out their positions on the sun morning talk shows. steve sensteve centanni has the. >> no doubt critics continued to hammer away of the obama white house over the terrorist attack in benghazi. they're suggesting a politically motivated coverup aimed at bolstering the president's foreign policy credentials. >> they're trying to sell a narrative, quite frankly, that the middle east, the wars are receding and al-qaeda's been dismantled and to admit that our embassy was attacked by calculate o operaives were at work. congress was out of session and this caught up with them. i think they've been misleading with them, but it finally caught up with them. >> the administration said at first the attack was a spontaneous reaction to that anti-muslim video. then later they said it was a terrorist attack. now, at a hou

shannon bream is liv d trgts tup c. reerjo,le i just stepped out the arguments ran very large amount over time because the justices had so many questions. it was a very heated verbal sparringmatch today between th justice and all t ateyhrfhe arg t c tdsy. t t ey let in top 10% of all high school graduates in the state regardless of race. there is another tier, those admissions folks who applied who don't fit into the first cagory and race is one of many factors tatsse magspdinwhge abigailisher, you mentioned. argued because she was white prevented her from getting one of the additional spots. the attorney was repeatedly was pressed how do you know when y get to en deprco mbenou tha a university's attorney simply argued that you reach critical max. number of justice pushed what is critical mass? how do you draw the line? how do you kn you g ehtoadmd opngace ait students are automatically, claimed as they say frozen out because they aren't minorities? the justice to watch was anthony kennedy. they had a lot of skepticism

correspondent shannon bream looks at the new case an old policy. >> what do we want? diveity. >> reporter: today the supreme court was asked with deding how far colles a whtes tacng i the admissions decision. abigail fisher sued when she didn't get in the university of texas at austin claiming the lesser qualified minorities given preference over here because she i white. sh ne cde wapng tvey of texas. >> the case was marked by relentless verbal sparring. sonia sotomayor pushed her to explain how the university of texas policy that admits the unpt.t fheduatg inhe t% irra a l as i understand their position, race is balanced against other issues like socioeconomics the strength of the classes people took. never a stand-alone. >> we have made a great deal thho tnitethis need to make sure the campuses and military and businesses are diverse. >> under current supreme court precedent colleges and iversities can consider race. but only as up with of a host ofac areuse a randoi u thing that the university struggled to identify today despite numerous questions like this one, b

shannon bream live from washington with more on this. shannon some of those items sound pretty egregious. i'm sure there are a few others though. >> reporter: a few ways to look at it. fraud and waste are highlighted. here is an example, the government spending $2 million a year of your tax money to maintain grant accounts expired and dormant. according to the "wastebook", the agency responsible for the accounts has to submit a account to be closed but thousands have never been closed out so the monthly fees keep racking up. here is another. another $70 million loss for pricing pennies. according to this report the cost to produce a penny in 2012 is more than two times its actual value. so after the pennies are manufactured and sold at face value and taxpayers are left to cover the $70 million loss. senator tom coburn says he puts together the annual report so taxpayers know what happens to their hard-earned dollars. >> reason we put the "wastebook" out because every day americans making tough decisions seeing the federal government is no

shannon bream, live in arlington for us. > reporter: well, jon, this is the scene as rain and winds continue here. this is just a little bit of the aftermath in this one neighborhood, a tree that has been standing here since the civil war we're told. well it fell from one neighbor's yard into the other. you can see it basically sheared off the front corner of the house. you can see all the way up into the attic. personal items there, clothes hanging there. a suitcase. there is even a picture that survived and is still on the wall. the family was right in the path of where that tree fell, all four of them did get out safely. they've been taken in by neighbors for now as they assess and figure out what to do next. that is the scene in block after block in this arlington neighborhood, a couple miles out from downtown washington d.c. a lot of flooding in this area as well. north of here in maryland you can see that it's going to create real problems as it continues to rain here the pa tomorropoepa stomach i potomac, one of the to

shannon bream is live to boil down those arguments from the supreme court. shannon. >> reporter: jon, while i just stepped out the arguments ran very large amount over time because the justices had so many questions. it was a very heated verbal sparring match today between the justice and all the attorneys, three of them arguing about this case. the university of texas has a tiered system. first they let in top 10% of all high school graduates in the state regardless of race. there is another tier, those admissions folks who applied who don't fit into the first category and race is one of many factors that is used ultimately deciding who gets remaining spots. abigail fisher, you mentioned. argued because she was white prevented her from getting one of the additional spots. the attorney was repeatedly was pressed how do you know when you get to enough minority students? under supreme court precedent you can't have a goal and a number. university's attorney simply argued that you reach critical max. number of justice pushed what is critical mass? how do you dra

i'm shannon bream.mber two of america's news headquarters live from the nation's capital starts right now. >>> we begin with news on the unemployment rate. down to the lowest number since president obama took office. his campaign says that proves the president's policies are working. republicans argue the numbers are down because people are just giving up. doug mcelway with details of the latest disagreement. doug? >> the controversy surrounding the release of the september unemployment numbers continues to it swirl after one of america's most respected ceos took to twin citieser to find up off this tweet. "unbelievable jobs numbers. these chicago guys will do anything. can't dewait so change numbers. peacing a torrent of criticism for the defeat. welch struck about the criticism of the number. >> who is participating. who is not working. who is trying to work but has dropped out. all of these things. it just raises the question i think there ought to be a good discussion about how this number is calcul

correspondent shannon bream looks at the new case an old policy. >> what do we want? diversity. >> reporter: today the supreme court was asked with deciding how far colleges and universities can go if at all when it comes to factoring race in the admissions decision. abigail fisher sued when she didn't get in the university of texas at austin claiming the lesser qualified minorities given preference over here because she is white. >> i hope the court ruled that a student's race and ethnicity should not be considered when applying to the university of texas. >> the case was marked by relentless verbal sparring. sonia sotomayor pushed her to explain how the university of texas policy that admits the students graduating in the top 10% of their grass and looks to other factors for the remaining spot is unacceptable. as i understand their position, race is balanced against other issues like socioeconomics the strength of the classes people took. never a stand-alone. >> we have made a great deal of process on our campus and throughout the united states. there is a need to m

correspondent shannon bream is following that story. >> we need it in the federal prison system. >> today, the federal government spent $165 million to buy a correctionm facility in illinois that for years has been at the senator of contentious debate over bringing terror detainees from guantanamo bay, cuba, to the united states. in presidential penal ran dumb, president obama direct -- memorandum, president obama directed eric holder to prepare it to house detainees. sparking backlash on capitol hill. lawmakers sought to block any funning to transfer suspects from gitmo to the mainland. they vowed not to place any detainee at the illinois facility. >> we will not move people from guantanamo regardless of the state of law to thompson. that is my penal as attorney general. >> skeptics including one of the vocal critics of the original plan, congressman frank wolf remained doubtful. >> you can't take the attorneyien at his word. >> that is not world's only objection. >> as of now you are fined violation of the senate earmark been a, if you have an earmark been a, i think the american people

correspondent shannon bream stels us tonight there seems to be a lot of that going around lately. >> that is just a sign of poor leadership. >> republican senator coburn says the annual waste vote proves politicians haven't learned to cut back. american families are familiar with doing just that. as the national debt skyrockets, taxpayer dollars are spent on projects like $325,000 grant to build robo squirrel. robotic rodent designed to test the interaction between live rattlesnake and robot squirrel. although nasa has no plan or budget for manned space flight to mars, the agency spent $1 million developing the mars menu. effort to come up with a variety of foods that human could eat if they were on ma mars. then there is the nearly $700,000 grant for development of musical about global warming. when it opened in kansas city, a reviewer said he learned nothing new about the topic, the song sounded like wikipedia entry set to music. >> we're proud it's in kansas city. we are. >> burn says there is no way to justify the expenditures. >> the money you're spending, you're borrowing again

correspondent shannon bream reports it's just the late esturn in what has become in the minds of manyga in this race. >> you may be used to seeing him hanging out on a quiet neighborhood street. but since being mentioned in last week's presidential debate -- >> i like pbs. i love big bird. it actually like you, too. but i'm not going to keep spending money on things to borrow money from china to pay for it. >> big bird has gone big time. from the campaign trail to network television and new a campaign ad. >> i'm going to stop the subsidy to pbs. >> mitt romney taking on our enemies no matter where they nest. >> pbs reacted staying as a stated supporter of education, governor romney should be champion of public broadcasting. the sesame workshop has had enough of the political back and forth. today calling itself nonpartisan and issuing this statement. "we have approved no campaign ads and is as the general practice requested that the ad be taken down." obama campaign says it is considering that request but insist the topic is fair game. >> somebody is cracking down on big bird. he is g

tonight correspondent shannon bream looks at how that's working out. >> reporter: although president a 14-point advantage among likely women voters in september, following the first debate that gap evaporated, at least in swing states where a gallup "usa today" poll released this week shows one percentage point separating the two between likely female voters. democrats invested heavily in the so-called war on women narrative, pinning romney and republicans as extreme on everything. >> when he came out and it turned out he wasn't this really evil guy and he actually did to seem sort of care about them, they were able to look at him as an actual alternative. i think they over demonized him. >> in their second debate, the president focused on his successful effort to pass legislation giving women more opportunity to sue over unequal pay. >> that's the kind of advocacy we need because women are increasingly the bread winners in the family. >> reporter: while romney touted his hiring record as governor of massachusetts. >> i was proud of the fact that after i staffed my cabinet and my sen

shannon bream tells us it's not about money as national security. >> today, leaders of the house intelligencertisan report following a year long investigation in to two chinese telecommunication company working to expand the presence here in the u.s. lawmakers troubled by intellectual property theft say the two companies refuse to answer corn certains apt how they might access and misuse information from private medical records to military secrets. >> we were disappointed by the incomplete and contradictory evasive responses we received by both countries. >> they were allowed to provide information they obtain, lawmakers urge public and private u.s. entities not to do business with them. >> if you look at what is at stake. what infrastructure we open up to the threat of cyber espionage and the potential of cyber attack if the adversaries desire no, other conclusion. >> spokesman for one company says this administration and report are nothing more than a politics exercise that has ignored technical commercial and cultural reality. it's played out against backdrop of the two presidential conten

shannon bream is live in washington with a look at that. shannon?> reporter: well, jon, teresa wagner, who once worked for the national right to life committee and the family research council, says that conservative background cost her a job not once, but three times at the university of iowa law school, something school officials deny. wagner, who is a graduate of the school, was working as a part-time instructor there in 2006 when she first applied for a full-time position. she went to the job went to a lesser-qualified, but more liberal candidate, and she believes her personal politics were used against her. an e-mail from one law professor to the school's dean saying, quote: >> reporter: school officials say that wasn't the case, that wagner bungled her interview and said during that presentation to the faculty that she wouldn't teach legal analysis, something she has denied now under oath and that a number of professors have testified they do not recall her saying. that interview was videotaped, but was somehow erased and no longer exists. >> t

bill: shannon bream live in virginia for us there. martha become to you in new york.to give you a sense of how much devastation there is and how long it's going to take to get people on track we are getting word that the path train which is the main way to get to work for most of the folks from the new jersey side across the hudson river into manhattan at least in the hoboken area for sure, look at that's hoboken in terms of the path train, that will be closed seven to ten days we are now being told. very few ways -- if they are going to drive in they could do that, there is a ferry that may reopen earlier than the train would be my bet. we'll see. it's an indication of how rough it will be and for quite some time, bill. we'll take a quick break and come right back with much more in "america's newsroom." [ mother ] you can't leave the table till you finish your vegetables. [ clock ticking ] [ male announcer ] there's a better way... v8 v-fusion. vegetable nutrition they need, fruit taste they love. could've had a v8. or...try kids boxes! actually... th way i could spl

shannon bream, thank you so much for in $19 billion wasted.y wounded warriors between 25 and 30 million. between 25 and 30 million. we spent $19 billion on related coming up, more live from the scene of the second presidentil debate and that is why the next. 95% of people who tried it agreed that it relieved their headache fast. visit fastreliefchallenge.com today for a special trial offer. or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. megyn: new questions for the white house after secretary of state hillary clinton volunteers to take the fall for the security leading up to the murder of our four americans in benghazi on september 11 of this year. welcome to a brand-new however this special edition of "america live." we are livem in hempstead, new york, on long island which is the site of the second presidential debate. secretary clinton's comments suggested that she is to blame for the deadly terrorist attacks that killed our

i'm shannon bream. america's news headquarters from the nation's capitol starts right now. the deadly consulate attack in benghazi is sure to be a featured topic in tomorrow's final presidential debate. surrogates from both sides are heating up saying their candidate will be the better commander in chief. john roberts is live in boca raton, florida, the site of the debate. >> reporter: good afternoon. i have never seen a series of debates in my political history that have been as important and moved the numbers like these ones have. tomorrow night, it will be for all the marbles. it is foreign policy, so a lot of topics, expected to come up, iran, china and libbia. the president will be under more pressure to fully explain the shifting positions that his administration took in the days, actually weeks, following that attack before declaring it an act of terrorism. the obama campaign says they are going to contrast the president's record on foreign policy in the past four years, with governor romney's trip overseas this past summer. here's david axelrod from this morning. >>

shannon bream following all of this live in washington. >> reporter: this new report is shining a spotlight old problem for the campaign. in 2008 "the washington post" ran a lengthy article outlining a number of problems with obama campaign donations including an absence of basic security barriers. that loophole could allow foreign and other illegal donations to slip through the cracks. fast forward to 2012. not much has changed. the campaign web site's store section does require you to provide a security code from your credit card like you would for buying something on amazon. that's apparently not the case on the section of the campaign web site that's used to take in donations. >> if you look at the last monthly statement filed by this campaign with the federal elections commission they admittedly accepted millions of dollars in donations where there was no zip code or there was only four of the five digits. i think that evidence is irrefutable. it's based on their own data. >> reporter: the obama campaign is firing back saying the report is politically motivated. saying we do not step d

shannon bream joins us now outside the supreme court. w is the university defending their policy, shannon? >> reporter: well, martha, first of all the university says it is in compliance with the current law as it stands under the supreme court rulings that are now in place, that are good precedent. they say the policy they put together respects that, reflects that. also they want to make sure they have a student body that is diverse, or reflects exactly what is going on in texas, the makeup of the demographic there. supporters with the chief council of constitutional accountability center explained it this way. >> what the university of texas is doing here is looking already highly qualified pool of students and then when deciding which students to admit they're looking beyond test scores to many of the things that you mentioned but also, as one of those factors, just one, taking race and ethnicity into account. >> reporter: there are dozens of universities all across the united states who have joined here with the university of texas to

shannon bream live in washington with a look at that piece of t the stakes going into the election. >> reporter: with issues from gay marriage to affirmative action on the court's radar these days, every appointment or nomination has the power to shape the supreme court and the country for decades to come. there are now four justices in their 70s, route bader ginsberg and steven breyer were appointed by president clinton. scalia and kennedy are both 76 appointed by reagan. when asked they say presidential politics do not impact their decisions about when they will retire but it's highly likely the next president is going to have the opportunity to make multiple nominations. weeks ago governor romney said this about the supreme court, quote i hope to appoint justices for the supreme court that will follow the law and the constitution and it would be my preference that they reverse row v wade. many watchers say a second term for president obama would reach further left to future nominees. >> he may reach out for someone who doesn't have a track record for judicial opinions. someone who