he won a special election in upstate new york. many democrats oppose the bill because it allows federal money to support abortions. >> no federal funds used to pay for abortions. that means no federal funds used to pay for abortions in the public option, no public funds used to pay for abortions for people receiving subsidies on the exchange. >> or your vote is no. >> right. >>> last night, democratic leaders struck a deal with those conservative democrats. they agreed to add tougher restrictions to the bill. democratic officials are now optimist eck they've lined up enough votes. all of the republicans are expected to oppose the bill. >>> a computer error nearly wiped out the bank accounts of 60,000 retired new york city teachers. yesterday morning, $189 million was withdrawn from retirement funds by mistake. many retired teachers are worried about scheduled payments and getting through the weekend without any money. new york mellon says most of the money will be returned by today and the rest should be in accounts by monday. >>>

new york 23. that special congressional election in upstate new york that provided one last twist in a wildly dramatic campaign. bill owens will represent the congressional district. he defeated conservative republican nominee that quit the race last weekend. >>> their son was beaten to death by a college roommate. if that's not upsetting enough. why these grieving parents were sent a bill for $29,000. by the hospital that treated their son. >>> days after a california state student was beaten to death in his dorm room his parntds got a shock when they opened the mail. gerald and elizabeth got a $29,000 bill from the hospital even thoer their son was fully insured. also a detailed letter explaining doctors' efforts to revive their son. they say that forced them to relive their tragic loss. >> barely enough energy to finish your sentences having to sit down and actually deal with something like this out of the blue. is extremely difficult. >> i honestly don't think that there's any civilized country anywhere in the world that would allow parents of a murdered boy to receive a letter like this. >> the h

he won a special election in upstate new york. many conservative democrats oppose the health care bill because it allows federal money to support abortions. >> no federal funds used to pay for abortions. that means no federal funds used to pay for abortions in the public option, no public funds used to pay for abortions for people receiving subsidies on the exchange. >> or your vote is no. >> right. >>> last night, democratic leaders struck a deal with those conservative democrats. they agreed to add tougher restrictions to the bill. democratic officials are now optimistic they've lined up enough votes. all of the republicans are expected to oppose the bill. >>> police shot and wounded a person of interest in the killing of a seattle cop on halloween. a police spokesman says the officers wren to check a car that looked similar to the one that was seen right after the killing and when they approached a man, he pulled a gun so detectives shot him. a seattle hospital says that he was critically injured and had surgery last night. yes

endorsement of christie used in automated phone calls. >>> the most dramatic race may be in upstate new york. rural new york. a third party conservative candidate, doug hoffman has a chance to win because the republican nominee abruptly quick the race last weekend. the gop candidate endorsed bill owens. today's special election will fill a seat that's been in republican hands for a century. >> and we're getting a lot of submissions from i-reporters. it's one of several contests that could have national implications. we were sent this from virginia beach, where he reports he hasn't soon a huge turnout yet. >> people across virginia are going out to vote for who they want to be the next governor. it's not just a governor that people are voting for here in virginia. it's also, you can vote for lieutenant governor and several city and area councilmen. this is where you vote. it was early this morning. there are -- nothing like the election of last year where you had record turnout. >> what's the hot race where you are? have you already voted? what's your experience? you seeing long lines? send y

. >>> so the really victories may be tempered by the big loss of a congressional seat in upstate new york that we've been watching. the race turned into a vicious internal battle between gop conservatives and moderates. democrat bill owens beat conservative doug hoffman, nationally known conservatives including former alaska governor sarah palin chimed in on this rice. they had big problems with hoffman's republican opponent dede scozzafava. she withdrew from the race and the gop held this congressional seat since the civil war going back to 1872. we'll have more on the election and why it matters to you coming up. >>> a convicted robber who is in prison is being allowed to sue the store he held up. plus, he's suing its owner and three employees as well. he was shot twice during this robbery and says he was beaten excessively. he wants $125,000 and there's a catch, though, the judge saying he has to come to -- he has to come with -- he has to go to this with $10,000 for the store, and employees' legal fees in case he does lose. he's got to put some cash up fro front. >>> i guess you can a

richard, the republican victories, they may be tempered by the big loss of a congressional seat in upstate new york. tell us what happened there? >> well, in a tanatasha, the ra turned into a vicious internal battle between gop conservatives and moderates. bill owens is projected to beat doug hoffman. former alaska governor sarah palin chimed in on this race. they had big problems with hoffman's republican opponent dede scozzafava and her views on same sex marriage. she withdrew from the race saturday. the gop held the congressional seat since the civil war, 1872. >> wow. all right, richard, something else. we'll talk to you more later. >>> so a florida man was ready to celebrate winning $166 million on a slot machine from the seminal hard rock casino. they said it was a mistake, the machine spun out of control. its top prize was supposed to be $99,000 and since it was broken they won't even pay him that amount. >> they make you think you won and everybody around you that you won and an hour after it, oh, wow, we have to investigate this and it's probably a malfunction. >> gaming commissioners and

did and the team manager had them travel upstate new york and they were in upstate in 1937. walker smith, jr. did not even have a uniform. he was trying to get on a team. he was the last man on the football squad only this was like a 10 member a a you boxing program. he had been training and helping at some point* he would get a chance he was 16 one day in watertown york one fighter did not show up or make the trip ray robinson and the coach did not want to miss that fight and wanted to have four bouts and ray robinson was not there. the more he thought about it he had young walker smith was harassing him saying. come on. please buckling let me have a chance. i just want to show you what i have been doing in the basement. police. sowed george said okay. go downstairs and put on some gloves. walker smith, jr. came back up and fought and knocked the guy out. of the sports editor, a gentlemen by the name of jack case ast george what is that fighter's name? he had the card he had given walker smith, jr. that said ray robinson and he told a box saying it officials his name is ray

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>> born and upstate new york where my father had was a professor and working in research in the ibm town at the time very much a mathematical type of family with a lot of work with numbers from a very young age and it ultimately wanted to go to a state school little closer to york city and closer to wall street wary studied mathematics but my father said nablus the way to have a decent living and find a job and as it turns out that was true because ultimately that is what was hiring on wall street at the time is what the street was looking for so i just wanted to move to new york as you do when you graduate college and i wound up getting my first job at chase manhattan before was jpmorgan chase when night graduated or before i graduated i was 19 years old. [laughter] they were doing a lot of analysis and computer work. >> host: why? how did you end up on wall street? [laughter] >> i had a sense of responsibility and financial independence. i figured out i would only be there for it a year or two and work in musical theater and as it turned out i wound up staying there a very long time th

upstate new york. the race there turned into a vicious internal battle. democrat bill owe weapons beat conservative doug hoffman. they had big problems with hoffman's republican opponent, that was dee dde scozzafava. she brew from the race on saturday and endorsed owens. >>> we'll have more on the weak voter turnout from one group in some of yesterday's races in about 20 miptss. >>> more folks are sick e. coli from a massive recall of ground beef. this time half a million pounds of ground beef in question. >> that's a massive amount of beef. be and also this one is kind of scary because it's not -- i can't just give you one word and you can go say i don't have that in my freezer. it's a little more harder for you to root out this beef. but it's dangerous. the cdc says 28 people are sick, two died after eating the contaminated beef. now it can from fair bank farms, new york, but it was sold to many grocery stores. that's not the label you're going to see. and they packaged it as store brand meat. so you could have about if you shopped at bjs, giant, trader

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>> i was of born in upstate new york in poughkeepsie. it was very much an ibm town at the time. we were very much a mathematical family. work with numbers from of very, very young age. i. altman the wound up going to going to a state school. of the little closer to new york city, getting closer to wall street to some extent where i studied mathematics. my father said that is really the way to get of a decent living and find a job. as it turned out that was true because ultimately that is what was being hired on wall street at the time. so what i've really wanted to do was move to new york, as you do when you graduate college. i wound up getting my first job at chase manhattan bank before it was part of j.p. morgan chase when i graduated. actually before i graduated. >> you were 19? >> yes, i was. i started there during a lot of analysis. computer board and numerical work. >> when others are partying habit. >> i was way too serious. i was the oldest child in the family. that might have had something to do with the. this sense of responsibility and financial independence. i figure

. >> i was born in upstate new york. my father had at one point been a professor. he was very much with ibm at the time. a mathematical type of family. a lot of work with numbers from a very, very young age. i wound up going to a state school of little closer to new york city. getting closer to wall street. my father said math is the way to get a decent living and find a job. as it turned out, that was true. altman lead that was what was wt was being hired on a wall street at the time. a lot of math and the engineering and computer science. so what i wanted to do was move to new york. i wound up getting my first job at chase manhattan bank before it was part of j.p. morgan bank. i did a transition. >> nineteen. >> yes, i was. i started there doing a lot of analysis and computer work. >> what was it like? other than the parties. >> i was the oldest child in the family. i think that might have had something to do with it. a sense of responsibility and financial independence. i figured i was only going to be there for a year or two. work in a musical theater. new york

i think the race upstate new york has been a republican seat for, like, 100 years, right?s going to be a barometer of where the republicans are heading, not a barometer where people are thinking about obama. i think virginia is crazy. the guy is a right winger to the whatever and running as, like, a little sheep. you notice palin, they don't want palin in there which is interesting. he's running as a problem solver. new jersey is where corzine, who knows what will happen in new jersey. i think he's run a race where he's bringing out the base, the liberal base, african-american base, labor base. >> rush limbaugh is saying obama will be a one-term president. agree or thisdy gree? >> nobody knows. >> what do you think? >> don't know. depends on how he governs. the point is he -- he wrote a book called "the audacity of hope." david plouffe has a book coming out tomorrow called "the audacity to win" yet they're governing very timidedly. he needs to discover the audacity of governing. >> it's always the alternative, who's the alternative? >> sarah palin. thanks, ladies. >>> up n

i think the race upstate new york has been a republican seat for, like, 100 years, right?s going to be a barometer of where the republicans are heading, not a barometer where people are thinking about obama. i think virginia is crazy. the guy is a right winger to the whatever and running as, like, a little sheep. you notice palin, they don't want palin in there which is interesting. he's running as a problem solver. new jersey is where corzine, who knows what will happen in new jersey. i think he's run a race where he's bringing out the base, the liberal base, african-american base, labor base. >> one question before we leave? >> yeah. >> rush limbaugh is saying obama will be a one-term president. agree or disagree? >> nobody knows. >> what do you think? >> don't know. depends on how he governs. the point is he -- he wrote a book called "the audacity of hope." his campaign manager, david plouffe has a book coming out tomorrow called "the audacity to win ,"yet they're governing very timidly. he needs to discover the audacity of governing. when he discovers that he will win

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in a congressional race in republican lish upstate new york, third party candidate conservative doug hoffman and democrat big owens are duoh -- >> they may not have room for moderate views in the republican party upstate anymore, but let me assure you, we have room. >> reporter: however the vase played out today, the white house is already softening what could be a political blow if democrats lose key races. and there are several may oral races taking place as well in atlanta, new york city, houston and boston, and given this is an off election year, turnout is key. especially among independents who could really sway the vote. rirnl? >> thank you for that wrap-up, sandra. appreciate it. >>> new numbers show a slight majority of americans approve how president obama is shandling his job. the new cnn opinion research corporation poll finds 54% of people surveyed give him a thumbs up. but they're not at happy about hue he's handling the economic crisis. 46% approve of how he's handling the economy. most americans also disapreof how he's handling iraq, afghanistan, health care, the defic

. >>> right now in upstate new york.olice are trying to find out why a man walked into a school building with a rifle and took the principal hostage. after a standoff that took two hours the gunman surrendered. no one has been hurt. they are 90 miles north of manhattan. a sheriff identifies the suspect as a man in his 40s who attended that school in the '80s. the gunman's sun was recently suspended from school. >>> three florida teenagers accused of setting a 15-year-old boy on fir will be charged as adults. all three were charged with one count of attempted second-degree murder. 15-year-old matthew, directed 15-year-old jarvis to pour rubbing alcohol all over him last month. the 16-year-old lit him on fire. two other teens are being questioned. the boy has burns over 65% of his body and remains in critical condition. >> we can come in each day or get a phone call at any time that things are getting a lot worse or getting a tiny bit better. people get sick real fast. they get better slowly. right now with him we're getti

i just came home from upstate new york from serving a prison sentence of two to four.is is how i'll get my life back on track. i'm on my way to work. every day i work up at 5:30, i'm out the door by 6:00. so starts my day. my biggest fear. it's being asked that question, what crime did you commit? how can you sugar-coat criminal sell of a firearm? $40 a day hardly seems like enough. but you know what? i'll take working making minimum wage any day now as opposed to prison and death. it's almost 9:00 a.m. rough commute. about to start my work site now. basically anything that's going to pay the bills right now, help me get on my feet. right now, i'm the trash man. >> reporter: he may be the trash man and he may just be making $40 a day. but you know what? he tells us he wants to go to college and he wants to work at that nonprofit that helped him get this job. it's certainly better than hitting the streets and committing crimes. >> is he considered one of the lucky ones who found work? i'd imagine most of the people in his situation are pretty much out of luck. >> report

>> guest: of i born in upstate new te new york in poughkeepsie where my father had at one point been a professor and was working on research at ibm there. very much an ibm town. we were very much a m athematical-type family. a lot of work with numbers from a young age. i ultimately wound up going to the state school to study a little closer to new york city. getting closer to wall street to some extent where i studied mathematics and minored in music. my father said math is the way to get a decent living and find a job. as it turned out, that was true because ultimately that was what was being hired first. a lot of math and engineering and computer science really was degrees that wall street was looking for. so what i really just wanted to do is move to new york, as you do when you graduate college. about getting my first job at chase manhattan bank before it was part of j.p. morgan chase when i graduated -- actually before i graduated. i was 19. >> host: 19. >> guest: yes, i was. i started there doing a lot of analysis and computer work. >> host: what was wrong with you? the partyin