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Good morning. Aim lynn berry. Right now Hurricane Sandy looks to become a menace for folks all along the u. S. East koempts its expected to bring high winds and heavy rain, even some snow to areas. Early this morning sandy slammed into cuba as a strong category 2 hurricane packing winds of 110 miles per hour. The storm is being blamed for two deaths so far, one in jamaica and one in haiti. Nbc meteorologist bill karins has been tracking this powerful hurricane for us. Bill, what can you tell us . This is going to be an historic event but eventually all the way up into areas of new england. Let...

neck. a new "wall street journal" poll finds president obama locked neck in neck with mitt romney. nbc's tracie potts joins us with details from washington. good morning. >> hey, lynn, good morning. a lot of new foinn ie poll. let's get to the numbers because they really do tell the story here in terms of registered voters, support for president obama, he's ahead by about 4 percentage points but that's within the margin of error of this poll, 47 to 43. the president is down two points from a month ago. mitt romney in the same place as he was in april. what about the announcement of p...

this morning with the afghan shootings. the u.s. soldier accused of killing 16 people has hired a high profile attorney to handle his defense. john henry brown, the lawyer for the unnamed soldier, says his client was not happy about going to afghanistan after suffering severe injuries during three tours in iraq. brown says the decorated soldier's family was totally shocked by his actions and denied reports there were any marital problems. the attorney previously represented serial killer ted bundy and the barefoot bandit. meanwhile, a senior american official told "the new york times...

the unnamed soldier, says his client was not happy about going to afghanistan after suffering severe injuries during three tours in iraq. brown says the decorated soldier's family was totally shocked by his actions and denied reports there were any marital problems. the attorney previously represented serial killer ted bundy and the barefoot bandit. meanwhile, a senior american official told "the new york times" due to stress, alcohol, and domestic issues the soldier, quote, just snapped. the soldier told the times it came from alcohol he drank on the night of the shootings. ft. le...

republican presidential hopeful rick santorum is looking to build on momentum from a string of stunning victories last night. the former pennsylvania senator won missouri's nonbinding primary as well as the gop minnesota caucuses. he was also the apparent winner of the colorado caucuses which mitt romney won four years ago and was expected to take without much effort this year. nbc's brian mohr joins us from washington with the details. brian, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lynn. santorum had been hoping for a good night. he got a lot better. gop presidential hopeful rick s...