. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the "newshour" tonight, we get the latest on the college debt burden and examine what the presidential candidates plan to do about it. >> woodruff: then, we look at the stepped-up cyber attacks on u.s. banks by iranian hackers. >> warner: we have a battleground dispatch from new hampshire, where the focus is on women voters and women candidates. >> it does seem striking, having all women, potentially, be the representatives to washington, and also potentially sitting as the executive of the state. >> woodruff: on the daily download, ray suarez talks with lauren ashburn and howard kurtz about debate watchers using twitter and other social media. >> warner: and gwen ifill sits down with author ted widmer. he's been listening to once-secret tape recordings by president john f. kennedy. >> it's really a remarkable chance for the american people to hear what it is like to be president in a very visceral way. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pb

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. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the newshour tonight, we get the latest on the explosion that killed a senior intelligence official and at least seven others from abigail fielding smith of the "financial times" in beirut. >> brown: then, freezing human eggs is no longer considered an "experimental treatment" for infertility. we assess the medical and ethical implications. >> warner: from ads and social media outreach in spanish to appearances on univision, ray suarez reports on an all-out push by the presidential campaigns for a key voting bloc. >> suarez: although latinos make up the country's largest minority, about 9% of the u.s. electorate, in a tight election, these voters could end up providing the winner with the margin of victory. >> brown: judy woodruff gets an inside view of the financial crisis and the government bailout from former fdic head sheila bair. >> warner: and mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs

margaret warner has our report. >> warner: last night's final presidential debate took on a lo questions. and the answers at times raised further questions. as we did last week, today we reviewed some of what was said and how it matches the record. starting with mitt romney's charge that from the beginning of his term, president obama was apologizing overseas for america's actions. >> the president began what i've called an apology tour by going to various nations in the middle east and criticizing america. i think they look at that and saw weakness. >> nothing governor romney just said is true. starting with this notion of me apologizing. this has been probably the biggest whooper that's been told during the course of this campaign. every fact-checker and every reporter has looked at it. the governor has said this is not true. >> mr. president, the reason i call it an apology tour is because you went to the middle east and you flew to egypt and to saudi arabia and to turkey and iraq and then in those nations and on arabic tv you said america had been dismissive. you said america had dic

margaret warner has that. >> warner: to get a sense of where the race stands after the first presidential debate, and expectations for this week's face-off between vice president biden and congressman paul ryan, we're joined by three newshour regulars: stuart rothenberg of the "rothenberg political report" and "roll call"; susan page, washington bureau chief of "u.s.a. today"; and andrew kohut, president of the pew research center. welcome back to all of you. before we leap into the polls and the upcoming debate. stu, why would with just a month to go why would the romney campaign decide to give yet another speech on foreign policy. >> the campaign has changed this a number of ways. the focus on foreign policy has changed. margaret, a month ago we were still talking almost entirely about jobs and the economy. now we've had a u.s. ambassador murdered in libya. there's been general... much more attention to foreign policy. i think we had good jobs numbers as well. remember that. >> warner: last friday. the romney campaign is looking to go where the ducks are. at this moment the economic num

thank you very much. >> woodruff: and for more debate reaction, we turn to margaret warner. >> warner: for that, we turn to our regular look at the campaign as it plays out in social media and on the web. for that we're joined again by two journalists from the website "daily download." lauren ashburn is the site's editor in chief. howard kurtz is "newsweek's" washington bureau chief and host of cnn's "reliable sources." how did last night's debate play out in social media? >> it was a big hit on twitter, that's for sure. there were 10.3 million tweets in the 90 minutes of the debate. that's more than all of the democratic national convention. so we're really seeing an increase in people's political interest on twitter >> what i felt fascinating is usually partisans choose up sides on twitter and in this case you had republicans who were very pumped up about mitt romney's performance. one guy wrote "who says romney doesn't know anything about domestic work? he just mop it had floor with obama." democrats were dispirited. so one african american gentleman wrote "for the first time in my

jeff. >> warner: and that's the newshour for tonight.we'll talk to voters in florida about what they want to hear in the third and final debate between present ama and mitt romney. i'm margaret warner. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. "washington week" can be seen later this evening on most pbs stations. we'll see you online, and again here monday evening. have a nice weekend. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: bnsf >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live healthy, productive life. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh aess.wgbh.org

margaret warner reports. >> warner: turkish military jets forced the syrian passenger plane to land last night at ankara, after it entered turkish airspace enroute from moscow to damascus today, turkish prime minister recep tayyip erdogan said his government, acting on a tip, had found the plane was carrying russian-made munitions and military gear to aid the assad regime, in the syrian civil war. >> this was equipment and ammunition that was being sent from a russian agency to the syrian defense ministry. this equipment is now being examined by relevant units. o under no circumstances, can this and something like this happening on a passenger plane is a violation of international flights. >> warner: russian authorities had disputed earlier reports that military equipment was on board the plane. and moscow accused the turks of endangering the roughly 30 crew and passengers, many of them russian. the plane was allowed to fly on to damascus without the disputed cargo. but the syrian transport minister condemned turkey's actions. >> ( translated ): what happened could be described as turkis

margaret warner has more. warner: the attacks that killed american ambassador chris stevens and three colleagues in benghazi was first described by u.s. officials as an eruption of anger at an anti-islam film. the obama administration has since reversed that appraisal and now calls it a well coordinated terrorist attack. but questions have mounted over the shifting assessments. and today two republican congressmen, oversight committee chairman darrell issa of california and jays leveled new allegations. in a letter to secretary of state clinton, they charged washington rejected multiple requests for security improvements at been gas emission. they base their assertions on unidentified sources described as multiple u.s. federal government officials. the state department spokeswoman said the secretary would respond in writing this very day. >> her response is going to be relatively succinct today, as i said, expressing her complete commitment to work with the congress to get fully to the bottom of this. but i do

margaret warner has the story. >> warner: when a critically ill infant is rushed to the neonatal intensiveake weeks for doctors to determine which genetic mutation may be endangering the baby's life.ñr but today researchers announced they've developed a new way of testing an infant's d.n.a., that can scan for hundreds of genetic disorders and get results in just two days. the research was published in the journal, "science translational medicine." the paper reported the tests of just six newborns in neonatal units, but the implications could be widespread. roughly 20% of infant deaths in the u.s. are caused by inherited genetic conditions, according to the study. doctor stephen kingsmore led the research team at children's mercy hospitals in kansas city. he's the director for the center for pediatric genomic medicine there. dr. kingsmore, welcome, and thank you for being with us. first of all,-- >> thank you very much. >> warner: how big a breakthrough is this? >> this is a big breakthrough. we've been working toward this goal for a coup of years now. there has been a big gap between the k

and for more on the money being poured into the presidential contest, we turn to margaret warner. >> warner: if you live in a battleground state, chances are you've already seen the ads we just showed, probably more than once. ad spending by the presidential campaigns, the parties and the outside groups supporting them continues to far exceed the pace in 2008. combined, they've reportedly spent upwards of $900 million on tv ads, much of it in nine battleground states. according to the ad tracking firm kantar media c-mag, at least $44 million has gone to iowa, $45 million in nevada, $101 million in virginia, and, in ohio, a whopping $116 million. the newshour is partnering with kantar media c-mag and n.p.r. to sort through these numbers, and we're joined by mara liasson of n.p.r. to look at what the ad spending figures tell us about the shape of the race. mara, so nice to have you. >> nice to be here. >> warner: so what do these ad spending numbers if you look at the breakdowns tell us about the strategy each camp is pursuing now this close to the election? >> what's interesting about