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for us. it is all "happening now." >> hello, everybody, a big day on the campaign trail as the candidates square off in the key battleground states. im uma pemmaraju in today for jenna lee. jon: nice to have you here. im jon scott here is where the candidates are today. governor mitt romney is in iowa, attending a rally in bettendorf. he is expected to go after the president in health care, taxes and national debt. six electoral votes in iowa. president obama campaigning in nevada. six...

0 on our broadcast tonight, digging in and not dropping out. the congressman under attack for his words about rape, says hes in the senate race to win it and not even his party or mitt romney can talk him out of it. rough seas. 62-year-old diana nyad forced to end her marathon swim short of her goal. tonight what shes saying about her incredible sea quest. womens health. the women who dont think theyre atisk of a heart attack, but they are. so was rosie odonnell. tonight well go through what...

we are going to get into that in a moment. meanwhile, the latest federal reserve minutes show bernanke and company clearly poised to add stimulus to the economy. surprisingly, stocks had very little reaction to this. the dow fell 31 points on the day. gold and oil rallied. i dont think more quantitative easing from the fed will do any good at all for this anemic economy. meanwhile, paul ryan takes aim at obamas imaginary recovery and calls for full scale tax reform to grow the economy....

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com im suzanne malveaux. this hour in the "cnn newsroom" the president is speaking to voters in columbus, ohio. plus republican leaders asking todd akin to bow out of missouris senate race because of comments about rape. diana nyad gives up her dream to swim from florida to cuba. taliban insurgents fired rockets at the main nato air base today. martin dempsey was not on board at the time, he was not harmed. dempsey left on another aircraft but ...

im suzanne malveaux. >> i know i love soup, so i this hour in the "cnn newsroom" wanted to do a soup. when i went into a cook book the president is speaking to voters in columbus, ohio. called celebrate virginia, i plus republican leaders looked what the state beverage asking todd akin to bow out of of virginia was and it was milk missouris senate race because and the first soup that came to of comments about rape. my head that had milk in it was diana nyad gives up her dream to sw...

the noise from the redill -- derailment jolted residents out of bed. >> reporter: hear trains all the time but didnt expect it to be derailed. >> sounded like gun shots was going off and the house was shake. >> reporter: the two locomotives stayed upright. as many as two dozen rail cars overturned. some of the spilling coal crushing cars in a parking lot below and more spilling into the potastco river. at this hour, the cause of the derailment is unclear. >> i have a track expert out o...

mr. merkley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new mexico. mr. udall: thank you, mr. president. let me, first of all, just thank senator whitehouse for heading up this campaign finance task force. i think this has been a real solid effort by a number of senators, and senator whitehouse, whether its at netroots or here on the senate floor, has been participating this evening, and we really appreciate all of his help. the presiding officer, senator merkley, has also ...

men who took the cliffs. the champions who helped free a continent. the heroes who helped end war. those men are now our heroes forever a part of the greatness of america. when we gather sins for thanksgiving let us be grateful for the blessings of america and the sacrifices of those who built it and let it to us. my father was doing his part fighting the nazis working as a civil servant in western nevada. when i was 11 years old, his death came after a long and painful battle with lun...

that we can no if this remains an accurate record to refer for our children and ourselves. >> thank you for this important question. it is buying large in my judgment a reflection of gun these life and spirit quite well and quite correctly. as you know, one movie of two hours or even three hours cannot show everything that happens in the life of 78 years. so all movies are selected, very selective commend some people say that crucial parts of his life left out. others may disagree with...

of you here this evening. in honor of our men and women in uniform who defend our freedom around the world i would like to ask you to please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. thank you. please be seated. before we get started, i would like to recognize some special guest that we have with us this eve...