but not long ago i was up at a place called chimney rock in southwest colorado. and it's over 8,000 feet. and you are up at the southern end ftd rocky mountains and there is this scarp of rock that rises up probably about a thousand feet out of a valley floor and right at the tip of this scarp there are two twin towers of rock. if you get to a certain place on top of this very narrow butte, you can see between these twin towers and there happens to be a great house built between these two towers and every 18.6 years when the moon goes into its northernmost point on the horizon, it rises between those two towers. i was there at the beginning of the last 18.6 year cycle and we stood up there, probably 20 of us, researchers, forest service people, all gathered at the same spot with cameras and huddled -- it was late december at 8,000 feet and we were all watching this gap. and somebody had done very intricate work to figure out exactly where you need to stand to see the light at exactly the right time. and as we were all gathered up there, i remember this older arch

i mean, to understand these, this one came out of a 13th century site in southwest colorado and i would sit with these bowls for hours and hours, drawing them into my sketch book because that was the only way i could really understand the complexity of how they got their symmetries to match up because i could never get them to match up in my drawings. i could never do a 100 percent accurate rendition of these because every line was meaningful, every line meant something about how you paint the next line, which is what it's like walking out there, looking for those shapes, looking for water, looking for springs, looking for places where the rain has fallen. it's all the same story out there. there is a 13th century or a 14th century polychrome vessel from below the mugion rim in central arizona. and this is 100 years after the anastazi supposedly disappeared, there's that story about one day this whole civilization just vanished. but if you start following the civilization, you can find where it went. you can find this culture's movement across the land. these images inside this bowl cam

in the southeast, virginia, north government, for the in the southwest, colorado, nevada. he was able to win enough young people, minorities and college educated whites, especially women to win. but in the rust belt he performed significantly better than he did nationally. among blue-collar white voters especially women. he was a refugee% among them in ohio, iowa and wisconsin. i believe that is partially the auto bailout but also largely a cultural resonance of the attacks against the story, these jobs are going and and coming back. and so he's able to put together to coalition but having said that is kind of a final point, a share of the vote declined as this county today, 45-56th overall first president since andrew jackson to be reelected in his first reelection, first elected president of the smaller share of the vote in his reelection. and, of course, at this point he was tied with george w. bush, although johnson, for the narrowest margin of victory ever for successfully reelected president all that tells us i think is that we are a very divided country to obama, de

colorado. and that's where a southwest flight that took off from oakland has slid off a portion of the landing strip. now this is a picture from twitter showing emergency crews working outside flight 1905 at denver international. airport officials tell us that the plane skidded off a snowy taxiway just after 5:00. they want to emphasize that the incident did not occur on the runway. the plane did land safely. passengers have now been taken off the plane and are driven by bus to the airport concourse and so far no reports of any injuries. >>> a man suspected of murdering his wife in san jose was found dead late this afternoon. the body of 50-year-old troy nosenzo was found in his car in the county. police believe he committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. they had been searching for him since his wife, patricia was found dead in their home early yesterday morning. >>> meantime, san jose residents are hoping a wave of burglaries will finally come to an end after a handful of arrests. a cbs 5 reporter patrick sedillo shows us police had some help in ending the crime wave. >> we have ma

southwest. >> it is warmer than usual in colorado springs. 50s in chicago and indianapolis. fargo is the cold spot today at 37. honolulu, doesn't that sound nice? will enjoy a high of 83. >> life is tough in hawaii. >>> when we come back, how low can they go? new mortgage rates like we've never seen before. >>> and the future of twinkies, hanging in the balance today. will it all end with some sweet sorrow? >>> and twihards hit the midnight showings of the final "twilight" movie. and the first fan reviews are just coming in. >>> welcome back, everybody. there is a huge settlement this morning, stemming from the gulf oil spill two years ago. bp is pleading guilty to federal charges in connection with the disaster back in april of 2010. they will now pay a record $4.5 billion and possible civil penalties that could be as much as $20 billion. on top of that, two supervisors were indicted on manslaughter charges. and a bp executive was charged, as well, with lying to investigators. >>> this could be the twilight for twinkies. hostess brand gave its striking workers until yesterd

carolina and virginia but also doing quite well in the polls coming in the southwest, as well, new mexico, nevada and colorado. >> the democrats have always believed that you have to enlarge the electorate. you have to reach out to women. you have to reach out to minorities. but more importantly, i wanted to bring this in. in 1992 in the bill clinton campaign, the white electorate, 87%, by 2000 for al gore, 81%. today, in the 2008 campaign, 74% of the electorate and today, 72%. so it's declining, the minority population is increasing. >> okay, i want to go now and give you a projection. it is north carolina coming in for governor romney. again, we had seen him a bit ahead there and there it is, it is a switch, of course, president obama won it narrowly back in 2008 but now it goes to governor romney. >> this was not a state that president obama was counting on but certainly one they were hoping for because they had invested so much time. >> convention. >> in that ground game in north carolina, also having the convention at charlotte but it was not to be. governor romney holding on to that state tonight and lo

southwest michigan. look what to our air mass in here with the cold did to colorado, beautiful scenes from jeremy swanson in aspen snow mass colorado where the skiers have to be ecstatic as many white mountain tops of the west have been widened by snow and the onset of this cold there. here are the cumulus clouds that started spitting over parts of the area late today. and it is the first official snow in seven and a half months since march 30th. the last 15 years we hunted on that has been around november 3rd look at the exponential growth and the coverage of snow across the country the snowpack has expanded 13 fold in just a last 10 days and it now covers nearly one-third of the country we will not get it to accumulate much here. here's the latest raid our view. one little corridor of snow there is the leading edge of the cold air it has been roaring east word and it is sending the cold air deep into the south tonight there are frost and freeze advisories' in this area and snow advisory is in parts of montana where up to 4 ft. of snow fell on some of the mountains. highs today near eagle alaska only ab

colorado. snow and freezing temperatures at denver international airport causing a southwest airlines jet to slidento a ditch. >> all of a sudden, there's a bunch of rumbling and the things start to go side ways and next thing we know we were off in the ditch. >> and passenger, were bused to the terminal. no one was hurt. california, a twister caught on tape. >> saw what looked like a sand devil, a dirt devil, whatever you call them and it started growing and it looked like it had kind of see that dark cloud where they kind of v down and where it touches the ground and it was off probably a mile or two and it just got larger and larger. >> harris: but in the end, the national weather service calling it a fairly weak tornado. illinois, a shooting clears out a shopping mall. >> somebody said that that, oh, my god, that sounded like a gunshot. >> police say two groups of teenagers got into a fight in a central area of the mall. they say one of the kids pulled out a gun and fired a shot, the bullet lodging in the wall. no one hurt, several of the teenagers now in custody. >> texas, designer wedding dr

three or four weeks of being in the southwest of the us have driven more than six thousand miles over six states obo won four of the states california nevada colorado and new mexico arizona soon was going to be a blue state so horribly wanted in arizona it won't want a new time well. most of the states the volt is absolutely crucial i talk to latinos trauma but well there's all of think that scars to rockabilly talk to guy who is this man and then sure printers and the art gallery owners in santa fe for instance and everybody was telling me the same saying the way the republicans tried so hard to disenfranchise poor voters black folder spending both most of all of them voters this you know the latino community you know the states and all across the west as well they look at the really hard if you were not understood as essential to the progress and for the well being of future america so seventy one percent of latinos bowled over us for the democratic and voted obama today this was the key to the victory from the beginning and the republicans never saw it coming because they never knew how to address the bush and the latino population all across th

southwest, excuse me. of these 14 states, the states everybody's going to be watching are three. colorado, michigan, and wisconsin. here's what it looks like right now in those states. polling average in the state of colorado, it's very close. president obama ahead by less than a point. in michigan, it's president obama ahead by three points. and in wisconsin, the polling average has mr. obama ahead by more, by five points. then at 10:00 eastern time, polls will be closed in all of those states and we'll be closing polls in the 10:00 eastern time in that hour in the states that you see blinking right here. these four states. of those four states, iowa, montana, nevada, and utah, two of them are going to be watched really closely. those, of course, are iowa and nevada. the "real clear politics" polling average in iowa right now shows president obama ahead by two and in nevada president obama ahead by 2.7. then later in the night at 11:00 p.m. and then 1:00 a.m., we'll have california, hawaii, idaho, oregon, washington, and then the last poll closing in alaska. unless this is a very strange

the southwest corner of the state are two other ski resort communities that tented a democrat. host: a lot of focus on early voting in this contest. does coloradoave it? what is it looking like? guest: we do, we have mailed ballots and early voting. we have already had more people vote overseas this year than all of 2008. like i said, we had 800,000 ballots returned. the republicans had a 20,000 ballot advantage. nobody knows how the unaffiliated voters are breaking. about 2 million people voted early are absentee and enter the 2008 election. that is expected to grow to 2.5 million this election cycle. keep in mind colorado has 2.8 million active voters, more when you look at inactive voters. about three-quarters of the vote should be conducted in colorado, maybe a little more prior to november 6. host: on election day, what is the voting system like? guest: we have optical scanners. we have the digital machines that are just touch screen machines. there are also hand counted paper ballots. host: could there be post- election litigation in colorado? we are hearing about that in other states. guest: there could. the clerks and the secretary of s

were so closely watching colorado and nevada, very important here in part because you look at the demographics, and this shows you the concentration of latinos in the southwestnow they're turning from red to blue. >> 71% of the latino vote. that coalition between the youth vote, women vote and minority vote held strong for president obama and could be a sign of future elections to come. thanks very much. >>> meanwhile this election $6 billion spent and still a divided government. can washington break the gridlock in the next four years? more coming up. >> i'm at one of india's outsourcing hubs where people have been following closely. this time the rhetoric hasn't been as negative as it was back in 2008 because the situation has changed. india call centers no longer provide just basic cheap back end services to the united states. they've started to provide higher value added services. as people in call centers here say, without us, corporate america would be disabled. music is a universal language. but when i was in an accident... i was worried the health care system spoke a language all its own with unitedhealthcare, i got help that fit my life. information

the southwest corner of the state are two other ski resort communities that tented a democrat. host: a lot of focus on early voting in this contest. does colorado mailed ballots and early voting. we have already had more people vote overseas this year than all of 2008. like i said, we had 800,000 ballots returned. the republicans had a 20,000 ballot advantage. nobody knows how the unaffiliated voters are breaking. about 2 million people voted early are absentee and enter the 2008 election. that is expected to grow to 2.5 million this election cycle. keep in mind colorado has 2.8 million active voters, more when you look at inactive voters. about three-quarters of the vote should be conducted in colorado, maybe a little more prior to november 6. host: on election day, what is the voting system like? guest: we have optical scanners. we have the digital machines that are just touch screen machines. there are also hand counted paper ballots. host: could there be post- election litigation in colorado? we are hearing about that in other states. guest: there could. the clerks and the secretary of state office is prepared for that possibility. in color

home to colorado state university, and as far as democrats, we will be looking at boulder and denver and getting those numbers, and the democrats have paid considerable attention to the southwestsouthwest corner of the state, as well. >> vice president joe biden and his wife campaigned today in sterling, va., near washington, d.c. speakers also included tim kaine and mark warner. >> virginia. you guys look pretty warm. how are you guys doing? are you ready to reelect barack obama and joe biden? are you ready to elect tim kaine? first of all, i know so many of you have been volunteering for weeks and weeks and months and months on end. thank you, thank you, thank you. you know, in 2008, virginia was the epicenter of the election. in 2008, it was virginia that elected barack obama. [cheers and applause] are you ready to do it again? we are back to being another battleground state, and we all want our candidates to win, but how many are not going to be really happy when wednesday, as proof enough of the television ads. getting your phone calls without somebody saying please, please, do this or do that. once again, of virginia is center, and loudoun county is ground zero. are you