a friend says the american convicted. killing a fellow student can barely sleep or eat this early monday morning, september 26th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good monday morning. nice to have you with us. i m erica hill. i m jim axelrod. chris wragge has the morning off. great to have with us here. thank you. a startling claim from new york city s police chief. in a interview, ray kelly tells scott pelley the nypd has the fire power to shoot down a plane. those revelations getting a lot of attention this morning. we begin this morning with president obama who is ramping up the rhetoric. last night he started a west coast trip with a blast of republicans telling big money supporters at a fund-raiser that the gop s idea of government would, quote, fundamentally cripple america. cbs senior white house correspondent bill plante has more on the president s efforts to rally the democratic base. bill, good morning. good morning to you, erica. reporter: it s