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Other candidates failed to do so. >> i want to see how republicans feel about their candidates. you call this the positive intensity scores. heres the read. they represent the percentage of strongly favorable opinions of each candidate, minus the percentage of strongly unfavorable opinions there. thats how the math works. here we have newt gingrich and herman cain tied at 17 each. but while newt is up four points from last month, cain is down 17. >> he dropped in half. he was the highest we had ...

The richest nation on earth can afford to win it. we cannot afford to lose it. >> that was president l.b.j. nearly 50 years ago, declaring a war on poverty in america. since then weve spent billions battling it and what do we have to show for it? this week, the u.s. census reported a record number of americans, 49.1 million, to be exact, are living below the poverty line. thats the highest since recordkeeping began 35 years ago. so what are we missing here? with us today is ester duflow, the aut...

captain dennis davern was one of those people. in the past he said that woods death was a direct result of a fight with wagner onboard his fight. listen to what davern told "today" show this morning. >> youre saying that wagner did not do everything he should have done to look for her after she went missing. >> exactly. >> was he responsible for her death in some way? >> well, like i said, i think we all made mistakes that night and -- >> that wasnt my question. was he responsible for ...

By 60, 70, 80 points and it all happened at 8:30 this morning eastern time when we got the jobless claims came out which showed there were 388,000 new jobless claims. it doesnt sound like a great number but it is the best number in seven months and it is key improvement that brought the futures back at that point. 400,000 has been the level. anything above 400,000 shows we arent really making much improvement at all in terms of the jobless outlook. if we get below that number it says we can star...

Wall street movement been effectively crushed? half to halfton pearson is here. >> she is a tough act to follow, but lets look at the stocks with 15 minutes left in the trading day. the dow is down about 197 points and the s&p down 26 and the nasdaq down about 59. the number of americans seeking unemployment fell by 5,000 last week. the fourth decline in five weeks and the number of recipients at the lowest self since early april. people are predicted to travel this thanksgiving and according to...

good morning to you. this is your a.m. wakeup call for thursday, november 17th. from the time warner center in new york, im carol costello. here are this mornings top stories. new questions about what police knew and what they knew about it in the penn state child abuse sex scandal. a coach whos taken a lot of heat for witnessing the alleged sexual assault on a little boy and not reporting it says he went to the cops years ago. but two law enforcement agencies are now saying thats not ...

In iowa, herman cain has to feel decent about this. they did a poll, the bloomberg people it and they said what do you think, iowa, if it was today, cain would win by one percentage point. ron paul 19 points. mitt romney 18 and newt gingrich 17. can you say too close to call? >> yeah. >> can i make a point? mitt romney has avoided all the scrutiny and all the attacks. yet, he only gets, depending on the poll, 24%, i think the highest is maybe 26%. i got to tell you, there are conservatives out t...

Climate. look what we saw last couple days in investment in this country a firm, transcanada, wants to build a $7 billion pipeline that would create thousands of construction jobs here in the united states. it has been ebb zooing to do this for three years. the obama administration bureaucracy has been gumming it up and now the president says, actually, no were not even going to make a decision until after the election because his environmentalist base oppose this is pipeline. martha: that is a ...

Well im out of the parking lot. thats a good start. geico, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent, or more on car insurance. in todays politico briefing, another poll indicating that the president is vulnerable on the economy, and that is if republicans, of course, could settle on their candidate. john harris is new politico in chief. it shows real vulnerability there. hey, john. >> there is no question these really underscore both the challenges of the economy, andrea, as you mentione...

second mile announced an internal investigation today and its ceo for the past 28 years has quit. plus tonight, new questions about the judge who over the objections of prosecutors, okayed sanduskys release on bail. get this. her biography lists her as a volunteer at sanduskys second mile charity. joe paternos name is being taken off the championship trophy. he was fired last week after he was told about one of the rapes in 2002 but apparently never told police, although he did tell ...