they take care of you. >> he likes it in south dakota.outh dakota's governor is paying man power $5 million to try to recruit people across the country. if you got skills you want to move to south dakota get on the phone and call man power. >>> john, thanks so much. the national guard in reno nevada the republican national nominee said it's time to renew to protect america from such evil attacks. a live report ahead. americans around the globe really. that is coming up as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news on this 9-11. hey, i love your cereal there -- it's got that sweet honey taste. but no way it's 80 calories, right? no way, right? lady, i just drive the truck. right, there's no way right, right? have a nice day. [ male announcer ] 80 delicious calories. fiber one. >> i am shepherd smith. this is studio b. it's the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. there's a gather cgz in reno nevada dramatically scaled back their political attack. we must ensure that our veterans get the care and benefits they d

until he picked up and headed west to south dakota. >> there are jobs everywhere.you go down the street, everybody is hiring. mcdonald's is hiring for almost $11 an hour. >> in fact, south dakota has a ton of jobs employers can't fill. 11,000 of them. trail king, ceo hired recruiting firm to find welders. >> anybody that has got skills, if they want a job, they can get a job. tomorrow. >> the labor shortage here is so acute that governor duggard is paying manpower $5 million to find 1,000 new workers. >> colony or financial services. engineering. information technology. in the skills manufacturing trades. machining and high-skilled welding. >> it's not just south theco the. today's jolt survey on job opening and labor turnover found at the end of july there were 3.7 million jobs available across the country. >> you hear about the 8% plus unemployment rate. and we can't find enough people to fill the jobs. >> so why are the jobs unfilled? some of it is geography. people don't want to move to wide open spaces like dakotas where business is booming. then there is the

governor dugard of south dakota is spending 5 million tax payer dollars with man power to find thosece them to come to south dakota saying there are not only jobs here to pay well but it has a low cost of living low crime rate no state income tax. for abraham kirk it was a perfect fit. he was an unemployed former welder from chrysler. he took a buyout in 2009 couldn't find a good job after that but he says south dakota to him is like the promised land. >> i knew i had to make a move because there was no jobs there was a high crime rate from where i came from. the schools were in bad shape. >> state officials in south dakota are worried if they cannot fill all of those jobs kneel could stall the economic slow down and some of the companies looking for jobs may have to come out side to move outside so they can be closer to the labor pool. doesn't want that to happen. >> john roberts excellent reporting on this and in english no less. >> john roberts senior national correspondent. good job, buddy. >> they are not all like that. >> you have no style or sense of fashion. >> i think that d

south dakota has 11,313 jobs it cannot fill.s many workers don't have the skills required for those jobs. the ceo for trail kin, an industry that makes special tree trailers for construction and hauling says he'll have a couple of hundred jobs in the next few years that he'll have difficulty finding people for. >> anybody that's got skills, if they want a job they can get a job, tomorrow. they can change jobs. it's very easy. the unemployment rate is essentially zero for people who want to have a job. >> he is forced to look throughout the country for people to fill those jobs. jon: i know in south dakota they are getting workers there. what are they doing? >> the governor has instituted a program it's called the winds program. he has partnered with manpower. he's appropriated $5 million and said to manpower go out there and beat the bushes in states across the country to find those people. south dakota with its wide open spaces and tiny towns is a bit of a tough sell for a lot of people used to big city live. for abraham kirk w

south dakota 1959? >> guest: meredith.rst saw her in a trombone case at a summer camp where i was a tent maybe somebody from that town, yanking, before he moved there. thought she was really cute. and she wrote that young man a few john before the end of the summer. when i got to yanking she was in my class and she was an all-star obviously, very, very handsome and really smart cheerleader pic and then we had the lead in the play and we were the officers in our class, and we were great friends, but the phrase that young people use is the highest in the idea that guide. she had no interest in me personally because she didn't trust me, she thought i was too reticent and into many other young girls. so we went to high school with very really close friends, and then when i did begin to express an interest in her, with a kind of neighbor of mine young years, and she wrote me this devastating letter saying i didn't want to hear from you, don't show up on my door, you are not going anywhere. your friends and your family can't und

showers from the colorado rockies to rapid city, south dakota. >> mostly 70s in the heartland. 80s in the southeast. >>> when we come back, the latest on that breaking news this morning. the big deal between the nfl and its real referees. >>> plus, one of the searing images from last year's occupy protests. students being pepper-sprayed. now, they're about to see a major settlements. >>> also, tense moments on the tarmac at jfk. passengers brace for impact. and then, a sudden turn of events. >>> welcome back on this thursday, everyone. a new round of encouraging news on the housing market. the median price of a new home soared more than 11% between july and august. that's the biggest one-month jump on record against new homes. the price, $256,000 is the highest in almost 5 1/2 years. and the number of new homes on the market was near an all-time low. >>> and speaking of records, a record number of families are dealing with student debt. more than 22 million households, almost one in five, had college loans in 2010. that rate doubled in just 20 years, with college enrollment growing, t

that is a pretty good return on your investment if you went to the south dakota school of mining and technology would you be still jilted if you graduated from harvard and were even making as much as some of the paid far less for a school and with a less prestigious degree no good this just shows you got a bunch of people are going to. look we need as more people that actually go and get the grease that actually help them get a job in the real world these university agrees they pay out of that they get to take out loans to get a degree in the can get a job and their cry is with all of it i'm sorry sorry guy get a real world job get a real world experience i'm sorry i got i'm ugly i love covering the story because there's literally throws the whole thing about your universe the grease in the face of all these people who were ivy league schools or the reserve big incomes of you know well maybe dimitri people are listening to your advice because take a listen to this speaking of jobs speaking of college there has been a downtick and people applying to get their m.b.a. look at this. sixt

regulatory regime in south dakota means lots of business freedom and that helped south dakota improveseventh overall, its best ranking in two years. you can do your own slicing and dicing of your numbers, see where your state ranks, what it has the most of and least of at topstates.cnbc.com. >> what was the most surprising result out of this survey? >> well, the most surprising thing that we've seen over a number of years, we've looked at north dakota. i was surprised last year that it didn't make it into the top five. we talked about this back in july. north dakota did rank as number five this year. it has the big shale oil boom but also has a lot of areas that are -- still needs improvement on things like technology. also, texas, the top state for business this year, we talked about this with governor rick perry back in july, was way down there in quality of life. the reason -- one of the main reasons is because texas has so few people with health insurance. new statistics just out today show that texas again has the least insured population they say in texas. that's a matter of per

he releases the washington and south dakota under command of the one naval officer in the south pacific who knows how he is radar control gunfire. he comes from naval training center and helps install the hardware and ships. he wrote the first manual that had to be distributed to the fleet. and around the south pacific, blissfully, a champion pistol shooter, olympic medalist with a pistol and a rifle, master of every kind from a 45 caliber to 16 inches than anyone in command for a fight like this in to take these two capital ships into harms way. so that night, that night of november 14 to 15, blissfully goes for the washington flagship and south dakota and make sure work of the last japanese battleship and with this, the japanese psychological route is not material route entirely committed psychological route is complete from the japanese point of view. they have lost two battleships in action in close range combat this fighting range against an american squadron. and never again -- remember this is 1942. it won't be until the end of 1944, almost two years the japanese battleships come

behind ia cold front, which is producing the showers coming out of south dakota, in towards iowa andisconsin. with the cool air north of that boundary, that boundary is coming. it will be coming here late tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening. out ahead of it, the air is rather warm, a little unstable in spots. today is not bad. really, good, with sunshine. just a spotty afternoon storm is going to pop, that's it. most of us i will not be bothered by anything today. but the low 90s. it is warm for september. tomorrow morning we start fine and maybe a few clouds here and there, but the rains will have a slower time coming in and showers developing off of the atlantic here by midday. then in the afternoon, a spotty shower and storm here through 5:00. out west, we will watch the front that will be arriving in the evening hours and then coming through us with the cool air and moving behind it. that's going to change everything on the summer pattern into a fall pattern for a few days. 91 this afternoon. borderline yellow. the yellow is for anyone that may get the afternoon. tonight in t

the presiding officer: the senator from south dakota is recognized. mr. thune: mr.president, i ask unanimous consent to enter into a colloquy with my colleagues from arizona, alabama and new hampshire. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. thune: mr. president, we come to the floor today to talk about the sequestration and the looming fiscal cliff. unfortunately the white house missed an important deadline last week by failing to provide congress and the american people with the required report that details the administration's plans for implementing the $1.2 billion sequester scheduled to take effect on january 2 of next year, less than four months from now. that report on both defense and non-defense cuts came about because the administration ignored repeated requests to provide congress and the american people with details about the impact the sequestration is going to have on critical programs particularly with regard to our military and national defense. members of both parties agreed that it was necessary for the white house to produce this information

south dakota has some frost warnings. the next couple of see more of the same for us. more sunshine tomorrow. here comes a little ripple in will besphere that as we get on into friday. morning as you head out, once again temperatures e comfortable in the low 60's 250's. with the weather front approaching, by the time we get friday, some warmer air. and by late friday, some of the into therobably out of west virginia. by the time we get into saturday, we will be right back delightful sunshine. as we will tomorrow morning when up and head out with temperatures into the low 60's. a warmer day tomorrow, but still comfortable. reasonable humidity and temperatures 84 degrees. chance of showers friday followed by more dry we get on into sunday and some much cooler weather coming in early next week. come into our blog. a new things their 24-7, and a blog is about tomorrow's to be to neil armstrong. we have something else new. tomorrow morning, if you have not seen them yet, we want to tell you about the newest member jacqui jeras. she left cnn to come here. you can capture eve

when i went home from chicago to my home in south dakota on my way back to california, my dad was a life-long working-class democrat. a blue dog democrat. he wore a hard hat. carried a lunchbox. he grew up under fdr, that was his god. >> i thought he would be on the side of the anti-war protesters. he had real doubts about vietnam. he was so outraged about how the anti-war protesters had condu conducted themselves and how they had no respect for law and order. he was just in a rage. my wife remembers that my father and i had the greatest argument that she could ever remember. it was very difficult and i woke up the next day and thought, this is not good news for the democratic party if they've lost my dad, they're not going to be able to pull this off in the fall. >> it's interesting you talk about that. because this is still a big problem and maybe, difficult to quantify it the white working-class man today for president obama. >> they still are. they're still out there for him. it's hard to know exactly why in some cases. i think that there's no question, to some degree that race plays a pa

rapid city, south dakota yesterday that a record high of 100 degrees. will we get that warrant? thise but 79 degrees afternoon and cooling into the overnight, clear and cool overnight and tomorrow looking degrees and we will gradually warm-up for the rest week. no rain until maybe the weekend. it is only a 30% chance. it looks like great days in the meantime. toming up next, research says i or another if acupuncture works. >> is a treatment option? we will have the answer. there is no -- there is a new research that shows that acupuncture is a good way to get rid of pain. they looked at 18,000 patients back pain and the majority reported feeling better after getting acupuncture treatment. the researchers said the number reporting pain leap is significant in half. a star-studded lineup today on anderson." >> we will have a well-known actress and comedian as his co- host. joining us now is anderson cooper live from new york. nash is joining us as co-host. we have a surprise celebrity guest. there is a lot of stuff going on along with a human lie-detector. i was skeptical about bod

the showers in south dakota coming in to minnesota and wisconsin. this is ahead of a cold front. it is cool, i'm talking about 40s in bismarck, great falls. yellowstone right here. 33 degrees at this hour. so the cool air is coming. it will be arriving behind the front. the front is arriving tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night. ahead of it warm, muggy and humid and scattered showers here and there in the carolinas and down through arkansas and tennessee. those have fizzles. so, in the future cast in motion, quiet through lunchtime, in the afternoon pop a stray thunderstorm or two. again, fairly sparse with the coverage today. tomorrow morning, 6:00 a.m., storms approaching pittsburgh and lunchtime, out west, we will creep them east here. with a little bit of luck, with a little bit of luck much of the day dry here in the metro, cumberland lie the late afternoon, seeing the showers and storms. and here it is 8:00, to 9:00, the storms could have a punch to them. then pass over night, by sunday morning the cooler air is in place and lows by sunday morning in the 50s and 60s across

wall, south dakota. i want to read this letter. they have a farming and ranching operation they have had since 1969 near the badlands of south dakota. they farm around 750 acres of corn and wheat in south dakota and like many producers they are struggling through this drought that has afflicted our country. i want to read a portion of that letter to you. our area was designated extreme drought in early july. the corn usually yields around 60 bushels per acre in our area. after flower, 1,200 pounds per acre. this year the corn was cut for hey, not good enough for harvest. the after flower yielded half. and the alfalfa was next to nothing. we usually raise enough hey to meet our needs, but -- hay to meet our needs, but to date we spent $120,000 to buy hay and we need more. the farm bill is important to our operations in two areas in particular. number one, crop insurance that is all inclusive, hail, fire, drought. number two, disaster assistance as provided in the last farm bill, but that expired last year

situations are quite critical in montana, wyoming, nebraska, as well as south dakota. as for the highs, heat is still hanging on, down towards the south. 36 degrees in houston. and 40 degrees in oklahoma city. to the north. doo cooling down in winnipeg wednesday. finally go to europe then. we have a large low-pressure system affecting scandinavia. this its quite powerful in terms of strong wind. wind of over 105 kilometer have been reported in southern norway. then twe hawe have an alert, thh coast of finland. looks like the system will move toward the north. wet weather will continue across the west coast of the norway. downpours, upper, cold air. low-pressure system is producing severe thunderstorms and heavy rain in italy. and the system is, starting to impact the north western corner of the balkan peninsula. looking mild across many locations. 24 degrees. and 23 in london. and it looks like, nice weather will continue across london into europe friday. here is the extended forecast. >>> our top story-- the chinese suspects in an incident involving the japanese flag w

they started last friday in south dakota. i'm steve handlesman, nbc news, washington. >>> as world leaders at the united nations discuss violence in syria, rebel forces attacked the capital and reported the deadliest day of the civil war there. more than 340 people are reported to have died yesterday in fighting across the country. in damascus a white van exploded outside a military command center. a second bomb went off about ten minutes later inside the compound and gun battle went on for hours. four guards were killed and 14 others injured in that attack. >>> well, now here's a look at some other stories making news early today in america. a texas fast food restaurant became a house of horrors for one employee. the worker was forced at gun point to empty three cash registers into the masked robber's bag. the early morning robbery ended when the employee was shoved into a freezer and the suspect escaped. police have not made any arrests. >>> a special guest arrived at a hawaiian vacation resort in unique fashion. look at th

. >>> in south dakota, close to a thousand bison created quite a rumble during the 47th annual buffalo roundup. thousands of spectators from all over the world make the trip each year to watch the animals stampede across the pair ri before they are corralled into pens. roughly 250 will go up for auction. >>> finally, in utah, one farmer has put a spin on this year's presidential election. it's the faces of president obama and governor romney that have been depicted in a corn maze. guests are going to be able to make their pick by opening in the obama or romney entrance. voting will end on the election day. very unscientific poll. >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here is meteorologist bill karins who has your weather channel forecast. i'm exhausted. why did we think of doing this? terrible idea. >> yeah. i've never done a corn maze. i've never had any urge. the movie "children of the corn" never urged me. good morning, everyone. as far as the weather this morning, umbrellas are needed in many areas. we have a lot of locations that are dealing with wet weather, s

rapid city, south dakota, 63. 69 degrees in minneapolis. omaha, 68. that's where the cool air is starting. will push south into the u.s. from canada. there's a cold front that will way as the low tracks northeast it will sweep front into washington. we will get some areas of brain thunderstorms and severey strong to saturday afternoon evening. mainly after 3:00 p.m. threw mainp.m., that's the timeframe for the showers tomorrow. satellite and radar composite. drier, less humid air off to the west. you can see a little light showers and storms down into nebraska. our activity will be much more than what you see once itre currently it to the washington area atlantic tomorrow afternoon and evening. today, 90 degrees for the high temperature. about 88 by 6:00 p.m. upper 70's when you go to bed. patchy fog possible tonight with lows around 70 degrees. the weekend, morning sunshine saturday even the lunchtime. you will be just fine for the activities.g no problems. lots of sunshine. in the afternoon and evening to is when you may want to have a plan as a ligh

elsewhere in college football today, northwestern continues to roll 38-7 over the coyotes of south dakotaay with a win 24-13 as they beat temple today. over on the cbs sports network, the midshipmen get a victory for coach niumatalolo. on tap for tonight. certainly the biggest game, florida state a seminal moment for the seminoles. >> tony: clemson's got the best people in the country but the florida state defense as i said earlier in the day is too good. tay get it done at home. >> spencer: virginia tech losing to pitt opens the door for florida state to do something special along with alabama, they have a chance to record three consecutive shutouts. that's going to be impressive. >> tim: i want to talk about kansas state-oklahoma. this is a team that usually kansas state handles in short order. will they do it tonight? >> spencer: i think they will, bob stoops, i think the concept is important, they have had the bye week to prepare, oklahoma is ready. >> tony: collin klein has to complete passes. >> tim: notre dame and michigan another game to keep an eye on. we think that one will be c

south dakota.ta, the rushmore state, the state that gave us senator george mcgovern, here is the call of the next great generation of americans. we came of age in this new millennium. we elected barack obama president in 2008. we are the change we were waiting for. and this is what changed looks like. that is why tonight south dakota is proud and excited to cast all 29 votes to renominate our great president, barack obama, for four more years as president of the united states of america. >> thank you, south dakota. south dakota cast 29 votes for barack obama. tennessee. >> madam secretary, from the volunteer state, i proudly stand to nominate. tennessee, the home of former vice president al gore, and president andrew jackson, founder of our democratic party. the state where in 1920, lead finally recognized the right of our women to vote by ratifying the 19th amendment to our constitution. he didn't know that in tennessee, we have already elected to women to our major cities. our very own mayor made

expected to start in wisconsin until october 22rd, and absentee voting has already started, idaho, south dakota, by some estimates by election day 40% of voters may have already cast their ballots. so this is something we're hearing the president and surrogates stress a lot, along with registered voters, making sure they're registered, walking up and down with clip boards, energizing the base and making sure they get out and vote. >> and does the president and the team have high expectations for the fundraising today? >> well, looks like they will pull out at least $600,000 with the two fundraisers, with hank aaron, one is a lower dollar fundraiser, $250, the other $25,000, all told, given to people who they expect to come. over $600,000 they expect to raise here, which will, of course, be important when we head into the last days of the election, fredricka. >> all right, hard to believe, just 45 days, athena jones, thank you so much from milwaukee. >>> and our republican vp nominee, paul ryan, teaming up. while there, he vowed that a romney-ryan administration would be tough on fidel castro. >

thunderstorms also for parts of minnesota back into south dakota. and the other side of that front is going to be dry and windy. so fire weather for montana and north dakota during your overnight hours monday daytime should see improvement on that front. 40 degrees in oklahoma city. very hot through houston as well as los angeles. much cooler for you in vancouver. 20 degrees. as for europe, going to be very stormy for central parts of the mediterranean. and then the remnants of another tropical system in iceland. up into norway as well. and temperatures are just about on average across the continent. here's the extended forecast. >>> our lead story for this hour, surveyors from tokyo have conducted a survey of the senkaku islands. japan controls the islands in the south china sea. tokyo governor ordered the inspection. he wants the metropolitan government to buy three uninhabited islands from a japanese family. the japanese government prohibited the 25-member team from landing. so they surveyed the area from their ships. some team members switched t

they're produce near the town of heron, south dakota. they raise soybeans, beef cattle and this year was difficult for them in light of the drought situation that producers in south dakota were producing. thankfully they had programs like crop insurance that helped them manage their risk in such a difficult year. they wrote me a letter on the importance of the farm bill and i want to read a portion of that letter to you. we're experiencing a severe drought in our area this year. we put up half of the hay that we normally do, doubts are starting to dry out -- dugouts are starting to dry out. crop insurance will be extremely important to offset loss crop production and lost revenue due to poor crop conditions. crop insurance is a vital part of allowing us to stay a viable family farm, dedicated to growing a safe, affordable food supply for the growing world. they went on in their letter to describe exactly what this means to their family at home. we have a 6-year-old son and a 4-year-old daughter. we tell them daily how important our jobs

in south dakota, close to 1,000 son created quite a rumble dung thefaou saof spectators from all over the world make the trip each year to watch the animals tam speed before they are corralled in to pens. roughly 250 of those guys will go up for auion. >>> and in utah, look closely, that is the face of president obama and mitt romney. they've been depicted in a corn maze you can chooseo enter the maze by either theba ro entrance. and vote voting will end on election day. well, nofor a look at your national weather, we turn to bill karins. he has your weather channel forecast. if only it was that easy. hey, choose that entnce or that enance. and you sngou tvs, it was slightly difficult to try to make them out. >> hey, some poor guy had to -- >> yes, some poor guy had a lot of time on his hands. >> i hopes he's not watching this morning. >> no, he's out in the corn maze. he's trimmg tdg gorning, everyone. a rainy morning in many spots especially in the middle of the country. but just a murky weather pattern from the northeast today, mid-atlantic, all the way through the middle of the co

out to the west of the river, the dakota's into the 70's. 100 degrees and parts of south dakota today. all that heat will stay off toward the west for the next eight to ten days, high pressure locks in the canada air flow. really pleasant weather and a locality of sun over much of the state. couple systems to talk about. this is leslie pushing over southeast canada. right over the shipping lanes, the maritime of canada and then michael that's a storm. this is going to push toward the north and a new system starting to pop now this is a depression right now but it could be nadine in the next 48 hours. all these system that we have been looking at on the models, not indicating any kind of threat to lower 48. that's good news. look at the forecast trend temperatures, into the 40s. 50 in town. tomorrow afternoon lots of sun. get in to the 70s. that's ing for around 50 in town tonight. clear, cool and crisp, tomorrow a beautiful afternoon. lots of sunshine. 77 degrees in the city. it'll be a struggle to get out of the up 60s. 82 by wednesday. nice warming trend. 84 on thursday. friday fini

. >> reporter: early voting, they started last friday in south dakota. and voting in the first battleground state starts tomorrow, that's iowa. so weeks before november 6th. the actual election is beginning. i'm steve handelsman, news4. >>> iranian president ahmadinejad addressed the united nations today, but u.s. diplomats were not there to hear him. they boycotted that speech, in part because this is yom kippur the holiest day on the jewish calendar. danielle lee has more on the address that came with a sign of protests. >> reporter: thousands of demonstrators stood outside the united nations in new york city, holding signs that read liberty and shouting out against iran. inside iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad did not mention his nation's nuclear program, but accused the u.s. and israel of being bullies. >> translator: the threat by the zionists to resort to military action against our great nation is a clear example of this bitter reality. >> reporter: the comments prompted harsh words from israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu as he headed

. >>> a taste of the old west in south dakota. you're looking at the annual custer state park buffalo roundup. dozens of riders herded close to 1,000 buffalo, kicking up dust across the prairie. the buffalo get checkups, vaccination and pregnancy tests. those not sold are released back into the wild. >> at one point, they were almost extinct. stand back. >>> now, for a look at morning road conditions. wet highways in parts of the rockies, from new mexico to montana. a slick commute in kansas city, louisville and cleveland. showers dampening roads in florida, from orlando to miami. >> if you're flying, weather-related airport delays are possible in denver and kansas city. >>> a disturbing story from southern california. four high school students have been arrested with allegedly sexually hazing. >> the alleged incident look place at a high school near l.a. those arrested were members of the cool's varsity soccer team. they're accused of sexually assaulting new members of the team with a foreign object. the coach, who is also a teac

reported in many locations, and conditions are quite critical, particularly in montana, wyoming, south dakota, as well as nebraska. in terms of temperatures, heat is hanging on from chicago down toward houston, getting up to 31 in chicago and 40 degrees in oklahoma city, and 36 degrees in houston on wednesday. all right, finally, let's go over to europe. we have a large low pressure system affecting the scandinavian peninsula. this is quite powerful in terms of winds. winds over 108 kilometers per hour have been reported in southern norway and we have a yellow alert for high waves posted in the south coast of finland. the system will move toward the north but wet weather will continue in western norway. down toward the north, a stationary low pressure system is bringing severe thunderstorms and heavy rain in italy, and that will be affecting the northwestern portion of the balkan peninsula today. in terms of highs, looking mild across many locations. here's your extended forecast. >>> and that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks for joining us. capti

the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from south dakota, mrs. noem, for five minutes. mrs. noem: thank you, madam speaker. today i want to bring to the attention of my colleagues something that is of utmost importance to this country and to our food supply and this nation's farmers and ranchers. it's the importance of getting a farm bill done. growing up in a farm in south dakota and farming for years with my family, i certainly recognize how vital agriculture industry is. our producers invest in seed and fertilizer, they put it in the dirt, and they hope that that fall they have the opportunity to come back and harvest something that will provide for their family and provide food for this country and for this nation. the crops that are grown are relied upon to fulfill the need we have in this country and across the world. farming is risky, but because growing our food is in the interest of our national security, we provide a safety net that keeps our farmers on the land in good times and in bad times. as you can see from these maps that i have here with me today, we are su

i am proud to say that i was ranked second only to south dakota.state, run by his friends from chicago, ran second last to connecticut. i know we can do better. mitt romney will do better for america. he will do for america what republican governors have done for their states, not just here in iowa. and look at indiana and michigan and wisconsin, all elected recovered -- republican governors. all have reduced taxes and regulations and have grown our economy. a great contrast to what obama is doing at the national level. [applause] mitt romney understands that massive debt is a huge drag on the american economy and our ability to create jobs. he believes in an america that believes in less spending, less government and more economic growth. [applause] on day one, mitt romney will implement reduction measures that in this era of more and more government spending and more and more debt. as president, mitt romney will go through the budget line item by line item with two simple questions. can we afford it? should we borrow more money to pay for it? get

. >> jamie: early voting is under way in north carolina and south dakota and idaho over the next month, 34 states will allow voters to cast early ballots and they will expect tens of millions of us to turn out. the volume of election day activity could surpass 2008 when 30% cast their vote in the presidential cast all did it early. >> kelly: what really happened in libya? that question put to robert gibbs on fox news sunday today. chris wallace joins us live. >> jamie: a man finds himself inside the cage of a siberian tiger at the zoo and now he is speaking about the incident. despite the bites and bruises he is happy about what happened. >> kelly: okay? new concerns about levels of dangerous toxin in your rice. what you need to know to keep your family safe. e now. try this... bayer? this isn't just a headache. trust me, this is new bayer migraine. [ male announcer ] it's the power of aspirin plus more in a triple action formula to relieve your tough migraines. new bayer migraine formula. it's got that sweet honey taste. but no way it's 80 calories, right? no way, right? lady, i just

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. >>> this morning, plans to file a defamation lawsuit in south dakota all over that pink slime issue for a meat company. this in the wake of a publicity storm. they have blamed media reports fort closure of three plants and roughly 700 layoffs. >>> maryland public service commission is holding hearings today about how utility companies handled outages from the june derecho. the panel will hear from five major power companies including pge. the storm caused damage and left thousands not dark for weeks -- in the dark for weeks even longer. >>> today the pennsylvania state supreme court is holding a hearing on a law that's set to go into effect for the november 6th elections requiring specific forms of identification at the polls. it will be up to poll workers in individual precincts to determine how strictly to intercept and enforce the new law. >>> toys "r" us has a new way this holiday season. allowing you to make reservations for the hot toys. throughout halloween and then beyond. this is the 20% down payment. the store hopes this will entire frantic searches for parents leading up

planning to file a defamation lawsuit in south dakota today. this is in the wake of the publicity storm over the meat product dubbed pink slime. the defendant has not been named but they have been blamed for media reports for the closure of three plants and roughly 700 layoffs. >>> today the pennsylvania state supreme court holds a hearing on a law set to go into effect in november. for the elections requiring specific forms of identification at the polls. it will be up to poll workers and individual precincts to determine how strictly to interfere and enforce the new law. >>> muhammad ali is set to receive the national constitution center's liberty medal. this is happening tonight. he is going to be honored at the champion of freedom and living endowment of the constitution. as he has been an activist for religious and civil rights since the 1960s. >>> the first thursday night regular season football game is tonight. the packers taking on the chicago bears; this is happening in green bay at lambeau field but unless you have the nfl network or