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Aurora and just to watch the news back over and over again. i would just turn it off. and i could continue my day. and that's, like erica said, we can't do that anymore. this is our life. and unfortunately, more and more people have to deal with the pain of losing someone to gun violence. >> now, "the washington post" wrote how gun control is losing badly. the article shows gun-control advocates only raised 6.5% of what gun rights v s advocates . and when it comes to federal lob lobbying, gun rights lobbyists spent over $12 million last year. gun control groups spent $1 million. we have the fo...

Derailment in new york city. at least four people are dead and 40 injured. the metro north train went off the tracks this morning at a station in the bronx. we are continuing to follow that story as soon as we have updates, we will get them there. we do know there may still be people on that train. and there are more rescue units than we can count at this point. we will keep you up to date. here in washington, administration officials say there's been dramatic progress to the crippled obama care website. are the fixes on the consumer side hiding even bigger problems on the back end? joining me...

Don't anticipate that just because the immediate storm has passed that we're not going to have some potential problems in a lot of these communities going forward through the week. >> president obama today at fema headquarters, the president again taking time off the campaign trail to focus on exactly what this storm is going bring to people along the eastern seaboard. >> joining me is kelly goff from theroot.com. you are affected by this. >> i'm an evacuee officially as of now. >> we can keep your mind off of it -- >> i'm going to be staying here after we're done. that's the only reason i agr...

For his comments and i think he was right in apologizing for them. >> let's turn to keli goff tonight, political correspondent for theroot.com and also with us tonight, republican strategist ron christie. great to have both of you with us. ron, let me ask you first. is richard mourdock an asset for the republican party? >> on a national level, no, i don't think he is. politics is about addition, rather than subtraction. i don't agree with what he said. i'm pro-life. i thought what he said was wrong. i think he should apologize. i think he should be very outspoken and say, what i said was wrong...

Position on the matter. today it was a different story, he went on a conserve ative rad talk show, and falsely claimed the indiana candidate has apologized for his comments. >> he's a gentleman. he's a class act. he's a thoughtful guy. he'll make a great united states senator. i think yesterday he apologized for his comments and i think he was right in apologizing for them. >> let's turn to keli goff tonight, political correspondent for theroot.com and also with us tonight, republican strategist ron christie. great to have both of you with us. ron, let me ask you first. is richard mourdock an ...