[applause] >> how many know the song living in the city by stevie wonder. that great skit at end where stevie plays all the voices and gets arrested. new york city, skyscrapers and everything. this is a poem that reimagines that gentlemen exists the bus in that skit as john henry. this is a section of it. skyscrapers and everything. j hammer henry mallet [inaudible] could barely fit hammer poking out like natural man's skyscraper to the concrete for deep machine sleep abouts income. don't go john henry traffic man, don't go across that street. the flood song poems were poems written in reaction to katrina. how can i enter that space of writing poems about that. i'm not from there and don't have family there. who benefits from that tragedy? who benefits from that disregard for humanity and the thought animals would benefit from that. this first poem is flood songs number 4 mosquitoes drinking didy. >> drink every hour next up this hour and every hour after. was born in the river there is enough to go around. drink every hour on the hour and every hour after.

. >> i'm evan smith, his biographies include stevie ray vaughn, selena and willie nelson. his latest book the dallas cowboys, biggest, loudest, most loved, hated football team. he's joe nisconaski. this is overheard. >> mosttamericans want a good job. >> not a llt of people were writing things in my voice. i realized had to do it for myself. >> he said kid, i love you because. >> we're a better country than we used to do. we have more to do, we need to get at it. >> i would do that for the buzz you get for working at the absolute top dollar. [laughter] ♪ >> joe nick, welcome. >> good to be here. >> congratulations on the book. i may get into shape by lifting weights with it, actually. >> it makes a great door stop. >> most hated? really? you want to defend that to me? >> no need to defend. the figures speak for themselves. they are most easily the most easily hated franchise. >> how do you get to that? >> go first to the owner, jerry jones. when i was working on ttis a year and a half ago, they did a poll on the most hated sports figures. >> sports figure, not football? >>

woman: o.k., stevie, are you ready to come pick up the books now? i think you're gonna clean those up. i like that, steve. a good job. hendrick: it's important to help the child be successful when he does go back so that he has the experience of substituting acceptable for unacceptable behavior. it will probably be necessary to take a few minutes and get him really interested. be sure to congratulate the child when he's settled down, perhaps saying, "now you're doing the right thing, and i'm proud of you." i can hear you saying, "going through these steps is just fine, "but what if he goes back and does the same thing again? what then?" [roaring] well, then we have to go through the steps again. but after that, he has to choose another place to play. you may have noticed that i didn't include any timeouts as one of my intervention steps, and i'll tell you why. although i believe timeout is certainly an improvement over spanking, yelling, or worst yet, shaking a child, it still has its drawbacks. what do you think concerns me most about it? note that

the president joked about his lackluster debate performance following songs from katie perry and stevie wonder. >> they perform flawlessly night after night. i can't always say the same. >> reporter: the president also accused his opponent mitt romney of backing away from campaign promises. >> obviously the governor knows his trillion tax cut isn't too popular so a few weeks before this election he's trying to pretend it doesn't exist. >> reporter: romney is in virginia today for a rally and what is being called a major foreign policy address. excertains from the speech have already been released. romney want as change of course in the middle east including tougher sanctions on iran and he'll call on the u.s. to work with other nations to arm rebels in syria with reupons that can defeat bashir al assad's army. at a rally in florida, romney promised to be a strong international leader if elected. >> when i'm president oil take the care it takes to rebuild our principles and restore the principles that made america strong. >> reporter: the republican nominee couldn't resist taking another

you can see cars getting worse my son to stevie's paying nine grand a year in fees i work in the interest that ten legal aid is being called so we were very vulnerable people and i won't be able to get the same help from the next year they just protect the rich they protect the interests of the rich and they build out fear in the people who are it were marching against the cuts and she's marching for the future right she's worth it. and launching so my future is thanks now to salute to this person that's being neglected all started because of europe lloyd effects of the euro crisis rumbles all we see will start see i guess taking great the specially in the last month in spain and greece of course the year you say that people simply saying that they've had enough here in london i think that possibly into the hundreds of thousands maybe even more but the come out of it the most again we'll start with. one of the organizers of the massive protests paul no walk from the trades union congress says the people are fed up with the inability of their leaders to relate to their plight oh. i just do

and gone to jail for it. >> who is going to mess with stevie nicks.le better. >> well, people are coming to mariah's defense. >>> well, honey boo boo. >> okay. >> he doesn't know who honey boo boo is. well, i do. honey boo boo has her own 24-hour bodyguard after kidnapping threats. apparently, there is some sort of alleged plot to abduct the 7-year-old reality star. and there was an attempted break in at the honey booboo household august 27. believed that someone was casing the place for a future kidnap attempt by some one that may be ransom for their newest star. she gets paid $20,000 an episode. >> my goodness. >> she's fascinating to just watch, much less hear the audio. >> it's difficult to look away. difficult. >> you're right. >>> quickly, beyonce pulling out of "a star is born" with clint eastwood. too bad. would have been interesting. beyonce pulling out of "a star is born" with eastwood, the singer, due to team up. she said we couldn't get it together. >> they're big obama supporters. i wonder if that had anything to do with the empty chair.

featuring katy perry and stevie wonddr... among others.an estimated 6--housand people attended tte show. president obama and forrer president bill clinton will also meet with several high-dollar donors to attend aa 20--housand dollaa a plaae dinner... before heading to san francisco tomorrow.it's expected thh obama campaign will raise nearly 9-and-a-half milllon dollars over tto days. republican challenger mitt romney heads south today... for a speech at the virginia military institute.romney has a major foreign policy speech pllnned... focused on the middle east.he's expected to say that the u-s should take a more assertive position on the conflict in syria.... and strennthen sanctions on iran. governoo marrin o'malley and new hampshirr senator kelly ayyte battled it out on fox &pblame for the bad economy. o'malleyyargued that president obama inherited a huge claimed he's only made it o'malley says: "we still have &pa long way to go..and speakin of fdr, no president since him bigger unemployment and bigger deficits nd more w

another was an a list concert with stevie wonder and bill clinton. more details in the live report in a minute from los angeles. >>> four, three, two, one. and liftoff. liftoff of the spacex falcon nine rocket. >> that marking a new era. the first commercial flight into space. nasa has assigned spacex to a contract to ship cargo to i.s.s. live report from florida 20 minutes away. >>> the meningitis out break has grown by one-third in just 24 hours. 27 cases since yesterday. nearly half of the new cases in michigan. meningitis has been linked to contaminated steroid injections. the company issued a voluntary recall for all its products. >>> it's half 9:00 at night in venezuela where most of the country's voting places are still open right now. presidential election day and the polls will stay open as long as people are waiting in line to vote. hugo chavez is trying to win another term as president. he's been in charge for 13 years there. >>> now to some very disturbing video from the syrian war. some viewers, particularly children may want to look awa

stevie brown.he injured kenny phillips stopping him for no gain. >> cris: i like stevie brown a little bit especially playing the run. he has a tendency to not sit back on these run plays. he gets up there and fills the gap and fills it on the other side of scrimmage. >> al: the defensive coordinator who did a job last year, plenty of injuries, and this year as well, mixing and matching and pasting and gluing. and got a super bowl ring to show for it. second down and ten. and that is webster who gets to jackson at the same time the ball does. >> cris: it's so interesting for me to watch this game, desean jackson takes the slant and a shot to the back of the head and webster playing with the cast on his hand. these two teams know each other so well. if you watched the games in the past, there's an evolution to this thing. we did this the last time we played them. now we'll do this off of it. offensively and defensively. >> al: a gain of four on the last past. the ball is at the 30 yard line. and onl

. >> up next, george clooney, stevie wonder and katie perry in the audience as president obama makes fun of his own debate performance.@p@po'u]+w87@çoj >>> 30 ds to go and both candidates are enjoying new momentum tonight. governor romney is drawing his biggest crowd yet. >> 9,000 supporters jammed the town square, 6,000 last night, all ready to turn the president out of office. >> you hear hisnswers or non-answers. now, of course, days later we are hearin hi excuses and nxt january we'll be watching him leave the white house for the last time. >> team romney is feeling the momentum from his debate performance and obama campaign is admitting even the president realizes he didn't perform at his peak. >> i think you can assume he reviewed the tape and it will inform how he handled these subsequent debate. >> the unemployment rate went below 78% and he broken record by raising $181 million just in septemr. it's an issue from the debate >> governo romney' central economic plan calls for a five trillion tax cut. >> i don't have a five trillion tax cut. >> that has campaigns arguing. what

he took the stage at a gala event following acts of bon jovi, stevie wonder, and katy perry.the president then equip add quote, they just perform flawlessly night after night. i can't always say the same. the president continues his california campaign swing later today. meanwhile mitt romney is spending the day in virginia where he's set to deliver a major foreign policy speech at the virginia military institute and later he'll attend a rally at "newport news." he drew some of the largest crowds of his campaign. >>> and this week, of course, it is the vice-presidential candidates' turn to face off. one on one the candidates debate. the debate takes place thursday night. our team will be live for the debate and our own martha raddatz will be moderating the event. it all begins at 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on abc. >> now you think the pressure will be on biden even more so to try to compensate for the lack of performance of the president in last week's debate, and this will really be paul ryan's first big debate, and it's kind of like the old guard against the new guard. >>

. >> we should also point out -- what was the one -- stevie nicks is so mad. >> how mad is she, hoda? >> she is livid. we showed you the whole mariah carey, nicki minaj battle. we did the voices all by ourselves. >> recall how well that went over. >> stevie nicks decided she wants to get in the weeds with everybody and told "the daily," "if i had been mariah, i would have walked over to nicki and strangled her to death right there. >> i would have killed her in front of all those people and had to go to jail for it. >> i mean -- >> at least she is thinking it through. she is realizing that if she actually does kill someone, strangle them in front of a bunch of people, her chances of getting off are not good. so i admire that. thinking it through. >> most people say i could kill you but don't go into detail. >> strangle you. >> in front of everyone and go to jail. i mean, she did the whole -- she went down the whole road. okay, "the voice" last night. let you be the judge. >> i haven't been so great on this lately. >> again, duos, head to head and one person usually gets voted off this

to go, i got to visit the jazz club along the river and then i got to hear for the very first time stevie wonder saying my shari amor in paris, look it up, that's why of course mayor dell way has invited me to be making my first official visit some time next year and certainly charlotte and tom and others have jumped on the occasion, matt and everybody else, but it is one of those relationships that i have understood as being one of the most porn -- important in the city, one is an international status, one we hold dearly because there's a lot to learn, each of our cities as great as they are become greater as our goals of becoming environmentally responsible, creating our opportunity for our economies to fwroe and our dialog in our country is the urban cities that have to create the new jobs for the new economy. i know paris must do so as well, and if we work tokt, we can create those and instigate and innovate our new ideas for the new economy and our mutual obligations on the environment, and then there is something that paris and san francisco hold very dearly and that's an ongoing co

yesterday he spoke at a fund-raising concert with performances by john bon jovi, stevie wonder, and katy perry. he poked a little fun at himself and his recent debate performance. >> and everybody here is incredible professionals. they're such great friends, and they just perform flawlessly night after night. i can't always say the same. >> last night mr. obama also attended a $25,000 per person fund-raising dinner. tomorrow the president will hit the campaign trail in ohio. >>> virginia's u.s. senate candidates will hold their second debate today. republican george allen and democrat tim kaine will square off in richmond. a recent nbc/wall street journal/marist poll shows kaine pulling ahead of allen 49-44%. david gregory moderated their first debate last month. >>> today controversial ads will be popping up in some metro stations and on some metro buses. the ads equate muslim radicals to savages, and they'll be displayed at the georgia avenue, petworth, "u" street, takoma, and glen mont stations. the american defense initiative created the ads, and metro didn't want to post them based

earth wind and fire, bon jovi, elton john, stevie wonder. those are some of the headliners at a fund-raising concert for the president later this evening. hold on. we're live from l.a. in just a minute, the preview. >>> just 24 hours the meningitis outbreak has grown by almost one-third. the cdc is confirming now 91 cases of fungal meningitis in nine states, including seven deaths. that's 27 new cases since yesterday. nearly half of the new cases in michigan. fungal meningitis is linked to contaminated steroid injections used to ease back and neck pain. the company that contributed the steroid issued a voluntary recall for all its products. >>> it's presidential election day in venezuela. analysts say this is the strongest challenge yet to the 13-year rule of hugo chavez. his opponent is young, 40 years old, considered a moderate. many venezuelans living here traveled long distances to vote absentee. >>> people marched through ma tl drid in the video you almost saw there. opposition to spending cuts program worth billions of dollars. also pr

ryan fitzpatrick leads the league with 12 touchdown passes and leading receiver is one stevie johnsontive born in san francisco. graduated from high school in fairfield. a homecoming of sorts for him as it's the fishes game he ever played at candlestick park. 49ers don't care. looking for the fourth win looking to get it here at home. this is the first of three games they play here at home over the next 11 games. they would like to get off to a good start. kickoff 1:25. we'll be here for the entire game and bring you postgame sound on comcast sports net bay area. hope you join us then. >> we're not being bias. raiders have a bye this week. as we told you all morning long, you don't have something to do in the city, suggest that you stay far away from the city. everything getting started in about an hour. we have video shot just a few minutes ago of the a's already warming up looking good this morning. game time 9:00. the giants at home at&t park looking for redemption. that game starts at 6:37 and all day long fleet week festivities including the air show and the ships out on the bay

obama has three events in la including a rally featuring george clooney, stevie wonder and jennifer hudson. 9 of those visits on this trip. tomorrow president obama will attend a campaign fundraiser at the bill graham civic auditorium in san francisco. final bay area visit before the election. already raised more than $30 million in california. earlier in the day, he'll be in the central valley to announce caesar should have ez national -- chavez national monument. >>> battleground state of florida. he was confident he will win florida and move into the white house in january. later he stopped by a seafood restaurant to shake hands and pick up take out. >>> food labeling is the subject of a controversial initiative on the november november ballot. proposition 37 would require food -- both sides discussed the issue on cbs 5 this morning. supporters of proposition 37 say genetic engineering forces insec at this sized into food. opponents argue the fda says genetically engineered foods are safe to eat. >> genetically modified food or engineered ingredients are no different than any other type

dont feel ike you have to follow n stevie's foot steps, just be you..aaron - "do baltimore proud, on, just like you did us n'awwineans proud!" 3 3- 33 3 3 3 3 we'vv waited 15 a playoff game.... so what's a few xtra hours? hours?last night's game one yankees started late... after a nearry 2 and a half hour rain delay.tom rodgers has more on the results... and this morninn's other top ptories. the game started ith a very special first pptch... hroww out by the victim and the hero pn the perry hall high school s and ounselor jesse wasmer...... posed on the mound with the orioles' bird and some players after ttat pitch. on to the game.... cc sabathia starting for the yankees, he's always tough in the playoffs. bottom of the 3rd. o's down 1-0, but hhve two men on base...... nate sabathia...two runnerr come f - around to scorr... and the orioles take the lead!! yankeesstie it in the 4th... and then the bats go silent for booh teams untillthe 9th inning.... orioles' closer jim johnson in the game...he's been great this yeaa... but not on thii pitch. first bbtter of the inning, russell &pmart

stevie brown. people ask, how can the cowboys be now, three and four. they have a top ten offense. a top ten dechlts afen. they turn the ball over on offense. they deon't create enough take aways on defense. then they beat themselves. and the giants were not excused in that area in this game either. but that is something overall as we have talked about, the giants don't do. they don't turn the ball over. they're not penalized. they don't beat themselves. and that's why they're walking out of here once again from cow boys stadium with a victory. now they're still waiting on the spot of the ball to see whether or not, bradshaw got the first down. if he does, the game is basically over. if he doesn't, and it doesn't appear -- as though he got there. to bring up -- bring up a fourth down. weatherford is already on the field. and dez bryant is already standing -- back in his own 30 yard line. if you are wondering, steve weatherford, is entire nfl career. entire career. 472 punts. has never -- had a punt blocked. dez bryant. and all the way back to the midfield. coming after this thing.

you can see the list, jennifer hudson, stevie wonder.ge clooney a few months ago in los angeles raised $15 million for the obama campaign at an event. there will be 6,000 people at concert so you can get how much money will be raked in. >>heather: thank you, ed henry, reporting like. who would you rather see, george clooney or katy perry? >>gregg: are you kidding me? katy perry, especially with blue hair. >> the first presidential debate in the latest jobs report having a major impact on the race if the white house. according to the latest rasmussen, governor romney leads president obama with two percentage points following wednesday night's debate. also, the latest gallup poll giving president obama a slight lead over governor romney with 49 percent. now we will bring in john leboutillier, former republican congressman from new york, and pat caddell, former pollster for jimmy carter, and doug schoen, a former pollster if bill clinton. doug, the rasmussen poll is more accurate because it is strictly post debate? >>doug: gallup is seven d

. ♪ >> i only came to see stevie wonder. i just got a ticket. i am so excited.lessed out right now. >> it is amazing, i came all the way from israel to meet the people and hang out and she was amazing. >> the environment, the people, everything. it is like everyone has so much energy. >> hey, you are beautiful. and i love you. >> why? because... it is definitely a lot more fun than being inside. >> so far we have had zero problems. it is a long-step process, a lot of thinking and people involved. so we think that we got rid of all of the problems that could happen. they are doing it, and we are doing it and everybody is doing the best that they can. >> it is a wonderful out reach >> come. >> it is beautiful. ♪

he gave a nod to the performance at a star-studded event included stevie wonder and katy perry. >> they perform flawlessly night after night. i can't always say the same. >> the president is expected to raise more than $9 million during his two-day swing through california. >> and mitt romney has a big day. expected to elaborate a little more on his foreign policy, and he will speak to fill in more details as to that plan that he laid out a couple weeks ago, but that's going to happen around 11:00 eastern. >> and only 29 days left to go. but you have to wonder, too, with the 67 million people watching that debate, the race has gotten fighter and it's a fight to the finish. two weeks ago it was looking bad and bleak for romney and it is amazing how the wind has changed and romney has the wind at his back, and obama is scraping to get back into this thing, and the numbers since wednesday night have gotten tighter in thely and in the swing states as well. >> we need to play something for the debate -- >> drinking game? >> no, an eating game. >>> the vice presidential debate takes place on

he will speak at a con skert at the nokia theater where bon jovi, stevie wonder, and katy perry perform. tonight he'll speak at a $25,000 per person fund-raising dinner. that's $25,000 a person. the obama campaign is looking to build on his record-breaking month. the campaign raised $181 million in september. >>> mitt romney wrapping up a three-day campaign swing through florida where he spoke to a crowd of 12,000 today in port st. lucie. romney talked about last week's debate and said the president struggled because he can't defend his record. he's already seeing a bounce from his debate performance. a new rasmussen poll shows romney leading president obama by two machine points in that battleground state. >>> a wedding celebration takes a violent turn. a massive brawl broke out between two wedding parties at a hotel bar in philadelphia. youtube video shows a chaotic scene in which guests are seen fighting with police. four people were arrested. a 57-year-old wedding guest, reportedly the uncle of the bride, suppered a heart attack. he was taken to a hospital but pronounced dead a shor

las vegas on saturday and on sunday he's going to perform at an obama fund raiser with stevie wonder and katie peri. this always sells. the web side bat lip reading is choosing paul ryan for its next victim after previous satires of president obama and mitt romney. they reworked a ryan video substituting different bizarre words as only bad lip reading could do. take a listen. >> i went into a starbucks building and everyone started collapsing. and i went to steve-o. he said he slipped into the future. he said ask about the special because it's doughnut day. >> that will never get old. that's your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> and now here's your "first look" at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow closed at 13,482 after losing 32 points yesterday. the s&p was up a point and the nasdaq gained six. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei fell 39 points but in hong kong, the hang seng added 47. >>> a mixed day on the street could be the story for much of the week. on tuesday, material stocks stalled the dow after the country's largest fer

took the stage in los angeles at a star-studded event that included celebrities like jon bon jovi, stevie wonder and katie perry. the president march veld at their performances and even took a shot at his own debate performance. >> everybody here incredible professionals, such great friends. they just performed flawlessly night after night. i can't always say the same. >> as for mitt romney, the republican nominee is set to take aim at the president's leadership and foreign policy at the virginia military institute where he is this morning. >>> new this morning. a major milestone in achievement for a bay area scientists. uc san francisco researcher shinya yam macha has won the nobel prize for medicine, responsible for a major stem cell break through. christie smith is live at ucsf right now. christie, i guess the question is when exactly did they find out about this? >> i have to tell you, they are buzzing here at ucsf. they tell me they got the call from 2:30 this morning from the cher himself saying he won the nobel prize in medicine from a discovery he started researching in 2006. shin

president obama is raising money at a few tar-studded event, scheduled to attend a concert by bon jovi, stevie kay perry and a dinner at wolf gang pucks and the president heads to the bay area tomorrow afternoon for a series of events including a concert at the bill graham civic auditorium on monday night. the campaign has raised close to $1 billion in this election cycle. california fundraising effort is expected to raise $10 million in the next few days. more on the president's visit including a report from los angeles at 11:00. >>> the republican presidential nominee myths drew the largest crowd ever on a swing through the battleground state of florida. romney is

that included a-listers george clooney, stevie wonder, john bon jovi and i katy perry.h so many stars in the audience, he poked fun at his less-than-stellar debate performance last week. >> everybody here is incredible professionals. they're such great friends. and they just perform flawlessly. night after night. i can't always say the same. [laughter] [cheers] >> republican candidate mitt romney rallied supporters in the critical state of florida on sunday. he warned that a second term for president obama would lead to the kind of economic ruin that crushes the american dream. >> we're going to hold that torch very high on november 6. the world is going to see we're serious about coming back and strengthening the base of this great country. >> while mr. obama continues to outraise mr. romney other republican leaders insist that policy matters not money, will win this election. >> the president can't say to the country, look at what i've done, look at my record. re-elect me. >> the fact of the matter is as president and joe biden are getting clobbered on the policies th