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wednesday, october 19th. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." i'm christine romans joining you live from new york. all right. the presidential candidates, the republican hopefuls declaring victory or licking their wounds this morning. all except jon huntsman took the gloves off last night at the debate in las vegas hosted by cnn. this was perhaps the most heated of the five debates held in the past six weeks. much of the focus on the three front-runners, romney, perry and cain. a heated exchange between romney and a very assertive perry. >> they're coming here because there's a magnet, ...

Compares it with recent price spikes. >> reporter: think back to july, 2008 before lee man bros. and interest rates were slashed, before the breathtaking economic crisis. crude oil was pushing to $147 a barrel, transportation costs were priced. speculations were blamed as were crops used for biofuels. >> they had it all together, demand is soaring. supply has been cut back. food has been converted into the gas tank. >> reporter: it wasn't just fuel in '508. soy doubled, and rice. riots broik out in haiti, the island coast. >> we have two problems, energy problem and a food problem. there are s...

Republicans, though. and that could be the time for some bipartisan kind of deal. >> neil: wow, that is an earthquake breaking development there. bob du cusack, thank you very much. >> neil: if the president was shy about calling the new plan stimulus let's say he is not shy any more. >> this is a second stimulus? >> everybody we have been been trying to do is designed to stimulate growth. i will keep on trying to stimulate growth and jobs. >> neil: butter. margin ringo starr. margarine. butter, margarine. ever notice that he didn't actually call it stimulus. with 508-dollars in new stimulus o...

Frustration still high over the national housing crisis, bought boston-based nonprofit is bringing home owners and lenders face-to-face to work out solutions. >> reporter: lined up, camping out, trying to save their homes. thousands of home owners from across the nation are looking for relief at this housing fair in washington. >> that would be $508 that you are working on. >> this woman from maryland is one of them. >> we have been struggling, juggling bills around because we know that the mortgage is the most important bill and we want to get help now before we get too far behind and end up ...

Mortgages are lined up for help. sandra rendell reports. >> lined up, camping out, trying to save their homes. thousands of homeowners across the nation are looking for relief at this housing fair in washington. >> that would be $508 that you're looking to put back into your income. >> this woman is one of them. >> we've been struggling because we know the mortgage is the most important bill, and we want to get help now before we get too far behind and end up losing the house. >> after an orientation with non-profit housing experts and talking with a counselor, sanders then gets to sit down fa...