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But on this day, its the force of men, not nature, thats the biggest miracle of all. an unbelievable rescue mission to save one man who has crept dangerously close to the edge of the falls. the call comes in on march 19th, 2003, 5:08 p.m. sergeant pat moriarty is on duty. hes a 19-year veteran of the niagara falls state park police. >> our radio man yelled down the hall and said, we just got a call from the canadians. theres a man on the ice at terrapin point. >> not a safe place to be. terrapin...

Its going to be over 100 degrees in most of the country. some temperatures feeling like 115 and 112 degrees. maria, stop it! >> good morning, mike and ali and dave, this a very warm day out there across pretty much a third of the country so we do have a number of excessive heat warnings, heat advisories from the plains all the way into parts of the east coast and i guess you can call it the heat coast as well and we already have some very warm temperatures in place right now. you know its going ...

With clair mccaskill facing a difficult re-election fight, is doesnt make political sense. >> shes in trouble. i went and did some research. in 08 senator mccain won it by one tenth of a point. 49.4 to 49.3 for president obama. so close. then six or eight months ago there was the state-wide referendum and 71% of the people were opposed to the individual man date in missouri, which she, of course, was a big advocate for it and she was a big advocate for president obama against hillary clinton. so...

With clair mccaskill facing a difficult re-election fight, is doesnt make political sense. >> shes in trouble. i went and did some research. in 08 senator mccain won it by one tenth of a point. 49.4 to 49.3 for president obama. so close. then six or eight months ago there was the state-wide referendum and 71% of the people were opposed to the individual man date in missouri, which she, of course, was a big advocate for it and she was a big advocate for president obama against hillary clinton. so...

You care about which is politics. got to paw four supper now. produced a movie and promoted it rather well. let me ask you about this. you have a free trail other the air. what is this -- president have to do the way he turned people on in 08? >> one of the things i thought was funny watching a show was the best political column i read this summer, mike lupica in the daily news when he called mitt romney mute rom my when he did the "face the nation" interview. he said nothing. i love michael ste...

The president obama at that time is a candidate, about a 1-1 relationship from favorable to unfavorable word clouds like the day for romney. four years ago, about 6 out of 10 said i think i know enough about this guy, barack obama. my point is there is a similar pace to a campaign cycle. romney is the new nominee and just like barack obama in june of 08, thats what people are paying attention to. >> i want to get into the horse race because nothing change and yet a lot changed. its hard to tell ...

And a positive for the republican party. >> one counter, the strongest party performance on an issue is looking out for the middle class. there is the counter. how important is that number? >> look at it. the party in that administration is putting a lot on the fact that this is about who is for you. that involves economy and jbs and other issues to which the party has an advantage. >> the top advantages that are controlling the spending and reducing the deficit. not surprising. it surprised me ...

Now, the deadline for challenging those petitions to put the thing on the ballot was april 9th at 5:00 p.m. and, hey, on deadline day, april 9th at 4:08 p.m., in comes a challenge. the challenge says, stop there, we dont care how many voters signed these petitions. the font size on one line of the petition is too small, and because this is michigan, where democracy has gone a little cockeyed, the group challenging the font size on the petitions turns out to live inside the office of a member of ...

Court ruling. i think taught s on in dec medic republica do something about grea thi april 9th at 5:00 p.m. 9th at 4:08 p.m., in comes a challenge. turns out to live inside the office of a of the on april 26 canvassers deadlocked on party incidentally, the remaining republican says hes happy on the board, but if he, too, quit, the board would have no quorum and could not do anythin another month off the clock. in its court filings the secretary of sta out of ti the one presidential candidate tha...

On february 29th, in michigan, a group of voters drove to the capitol with more than enough signatures for a referendum on republican governor rick snyders souped-up emergency manager law. its that michigan law that lets the state install a single overseer to replace all local local elected officials. so your vote for mayor, your vote for city council, your vote for school board, null and void. the governor will put someone in charge to overrule whoever you voted for. no more local democracy. in...