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Yesterday was a different story. and last night, but todays been pretty uneventful. >> but it wont be uneventful for long. >> in this situation we had some ice on the line. the bigger problem was that snow and ice had collected on the limb. >> the firemen and news crew have no idea the tree limb above the power line is about to break. >> i was, you know, doing this shooting where youre looking through the viewfinder with your right eye and my left eye, im looking around, see whats going on. i se...

Is doing fine. >> we have seen layoffs, cut-backs. >> when its all said and done, im making $200 a month. >> the private sector is doing fine. the private sector is doing fine. the private sector is doing fine. >> and meanwhile, obama senior adviser david axelrod spent another day, today, clarifying the presidents remarks. >> he called a press conference to say -- to suggest urgent actions we should take to undergird the economy from the clouds that are rolling in from europe. he has said repeat...

boxing superstar manny pacquiao loose to timothy bradley but no one of the three judges seems to know why. >> i have never been ashamed much to be associated with the sport of boxing as i am tonight. these people dont know how to score. >> sports fans screaming for justice. is there any truth to accusations of game tampering? and gaffes aplenty. obama, ramny, were asking this morning what tees the shelf life of a gaffe? newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. im carol costell...

secretary john bryson is in the hospital after being cited for a felony hit-and-run. he crashed into a stopped car over the weekend twice and left the scene and hit a second car. they found him unconscious behind his wheel. brianna keeler is live at the white house this morning. what exactly happened? >> reporter: well, this happened in the los angeles area in about the 5:00 local hour on saturday. according to the l.a. sheriffs department, secretary bryson, behind the wheel of a lexus...

highly unusual. as soon as they lost contact with this drone, they sent out a manned aircraft and the pilot was able to put some eyes on the wreckage and determine, a, that it crashed and b, looked like there were no injuries on the ground. its been described as a marshy air on the eastern shore of maryland. this drone, the global hawk can fly up to 11 miles high. it can fly for 30 hours at a time. it can fly for so long and can fly above the weather. here in the united states, its bee...

course. opening statements are under way as we speak in central pennsylvania. lets get straight to susan candiotti on the ground at the courthouse in pennsylvania. now, you were just in court, susan. what did you see and hear just now? >> reporter: hala, the prosecutors just wrapped up their opening statements, and clearly the most powerful moment we have seen and heard so far involved them showing individual photographs of eight of the ten alleged victims in this case. single shots of...

Fine. the private sectors doing fine. the private sectors doing fine. >> reporter: responding to the presidents original comments, mitt romney said that barack obama wants to hire more government workers and teachers and firemen, but americans want to cut back on government. thats what the obama campaign senior strategist david axelrod jumped on this morning, saying that the private sector is doing better than the public sector. >> he said, we dont need any more teachers -- we dont need any more...

For 23 years. his math doesnt end up. we need have to less firemen and less teachers and invest in people i dont understand that math at all. i think itself the firemen, police and teachers that are delivering to the american public. they are the one that is bringing incredible service to kids, preparing the next generation and he says what we ought to do is build wealth. that is different of building wealth in a small group of people than doing it for the nation. in the last 29 years, productiv...

>> the firemen were really serious, it was no joke. they were yelling over the loud speaker. >> leave your house! evacuation! you will get burned over! you will get trapped! leave now! >> i considered leaving, but if one little ember made it here, the house would burn down. >> even though most of his neighbors leave, richard is determined to protect his home. he waters his yard and monitors the coming smoke. it puts him at increasing danger. >> i started worrying once the fire came down mcallist...

Restaurants. >> well, fighting fire with fire, the democrats seized on this line from mitt romney today where he attacks the presidents jobs plan. lets watch. >> his answer for economic vitality by the way was of course pushing aside the private sector which he said is doing fine, an instead, he wants to add more to government, and wants another stimulus and wants to hire more government workers and says we need more firemen and policemen and teachers and did he not get the message in wisconsin,...