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a man loses his home to foreclosure and gets a mortgage settlement offer but it s not enough to even cover his first months rent. keith ward from michigan will join us later this hour. and tigers fans, they are no fans of kung fu panda. gets things going with a bang. it was actually more like bang, ba bang, bang. newsroom starts now. good morning to you. happy thursday. i m carol costello. thank you so much for joining us. president obama is about to take the stage in tampa. and he ll have some big news to celebrate with his supporters. just over an hour ago, republican with vast crossover aappeal announced his endorsement for obama. listen to this from former secretary of state colin powell. i voted for him in 2008 and plan to stick with him in 2012 and i ll be voting for he and vice president joe biden next month. that s an endorsement for president obama for re-election? yes. jessica yellin, many say colin powell is a rino, republican in name only. will ....
this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story tonight, big changes. that s what mitt romney s promising, just 12 days to go before election day. listen to what he told the crowd a little while ago in perhaps the aptly named defiance, ohio. this is a time when america faces big challenges. we have a big election. and we want a president who will actually bring big changes and i will and he won t. the new cnn poll of polls has romney with a one point lead over the president. other polls have romney and obama tied in colorado and the president up three points in nevada. meanwhile, president obama s got at least one vote in the bag, his own. he voted for himself, taking a brief break from his battleground state marathon to cast his ballot this afternoon in chicago s martin luther king community center. joining me now, a man who knows more than almost anybody else about running against barack obama, senator john mccain. senator, how are you? fine, pie ....
good morning, everyone. i m christi paul in for randi kaye. so glad to have your company. 10:00 on the east coast. 7:00 on the west. i want to begin with suhurrican sandy, which has regained strength. one area that s really starting to feel the effects is the coast of north carolina and that s where we have george howell. in the last couple of hours, have you seen conditions change there, george? christi, good morning. we re starting to feel a little bit of the rainfall from this system. a lot of that rainfall has remained offshore, but here where we are along the outer banks, we are in position to feel those first bands as they move closer to shore. also the winds are picking up out here. the winds have been right around ten to 20 miles per hour, not too bad, but that situation will change and the best evidence of that just take a look out there. you can see what s happening there on the waters, getting rougher and rougher as the storm moves closer to us. right now ....
i have not heard anything of substance. i m looking for more. i mean we re talking about another four years. the questions are all about the economy. i m not up at the white house. i don t see rich people all the time but i see a lot of poor people. microcosm of the issues we re facing in america. you can find every one of the major issues that were involved in the great recession. housing. when the whole mortgage debacle happened the banks weren t lending any more money. social security, medicare. it s a life saver for me. i want medicare preserved. cut other things besides medicare. this is a state where a quarter of the population is over the age of 60. that s the biggest proportion anywhere in the united states. so these people are concerned about every part of the economy. they want answers as to who is going to be best for them. that s breaking my chops just thinking about them. i think the american people are going to pick it up and i ac ....
americans want to see changes. four years ago people voted for a partisan president and washington is in gridlock because of it president obama reminds us that he inherited a terrible economy. it s not what he inherited but with the misguided policies that slowed the recovery and caused millions of americans to endure lengthy poverty. eliot: with change in the latest theme for the drive to the white house smith fired back saying, the only ching romney is offering is to take us back to the same failed policies that crashed our economy in the first place. president obama made a similar observation a little more colorfully when he said, kids have have good instincts. they look at the other guy and say well there is a bser, i can tell. president obama is rattled on the defensive. he s running on empty and has nothing left but attacks and insults. with just 11 days ago before election day both camps feel the pressure. likely voters favored romney over the president by one ....