rate governor romney is talking about. that will create 800,000 jobs, the problem is they will be in china. or india. or germany. that is not the way we will create jobs. the way we will create jobs is not just to change our tax code, but also to double our exports. we are on pace to double our exports. that is why we have kept on pushing trade deals, but trade deals that make sure american workers and businesses are getting a good deal. governor romney talk about china. the private sector, governor romney's company invested in pioneers of outsourcing. that is not my phrase. that is what reporters called it. as far as currency manipulation, the currency has gone up 11% since i have been present because we have pushed them hard. we have put unprecedented trade pressure on china. that is why exports significantly increased under my presidency. babel helped to create jobs here. >> we had -- that will help to create jobs here. >> the iphone, ipad, they're all manufactured in china. labor is so much cheaper. how do you convince a great american company to bring that manufacturing back here? >> the answer is very straightforward. we could compete with anyone in the world as long as the playing field is level. china has been cheating over the years. by stealing our intellectual property. there is even an apple store in china that is a counterfeit to apple store but they happen to our computers. i will have to have people play on a fair basis. attrac place for people who most want to expand a business. that is what brings jobs. president characterization of my tax plan is completely false. >> let me go to the president because we're running out of time. can we ever -- >> there are some jobs that will not come back. dara low-wage, low skill jobs. i want high-wage, high skilled jobs. that is why we have to emphasize manufacturing. that is our be have to invest in the advance manufacturing. that is why we have to have the best science and research in the world. if we're adding to our deficit for tax cuts for folks to do not need them and we are cutting investment in research and science, and create the next new innovation, we will lose that race. if we're not training engineers to make sure that they are equipped in this country, companies will not come here. those investments are what will help to make sure that we continue to leave this world economy 10 years from now, 100 years from now. >> government does not create jobs. >> i think this is a tough question. what do you believe is the biggest misperception that the american people have about you as a man and a candidate? can you take this opportunity to debunk that misperception and set us straight? >> thank you. in the nature of the campaign, it seems some campaigns are focused on attacking a person rather than prescribing their own future. i think the president's campaign has tried to characterize me as someone who is very different than you like them. i care about 100% of the american people. i want 100% of the american people to have a bright future. i care about our kids. i understand what it takes to make a bright and prosperous future for america again. i spent my life in the private sector, not in government. i want to help the american people. my passion flows from the thought that i believe in god. i believe we're all children of the same god. i believe we have a responsibility to care for one another. i served as a missionary for my church, served as a pastor in my congregation for 10 years. i've sat across the table who were out of work and work with them to try to find new work. i went to the olympics when they were in trouble. as governor of my state, i was able to get 100% of my people insured. i was able to better schools ranked number 1 in the nation. -- did our schools ranked number 1 in the nation. i can get this country on track again. we do not have to settle for what we are going through. we do not have to settle for gasoline at $4. we do not have to settle for unemployment and a chronically high level. we did not have to settle for 50% of kids coming out of college not been able to get work. we do not have to settle for 23 million people struggling to find a good job. if i become president, i will get america working again. to come i will make sure we can reform medicare and social security to preserve them for coming generations. the president said he would, he did not. i've done these things. i served as governor and should like to get them done. >> mr. president, the last two minutes belong to you. >> i think all lot of this campaign may be over the last four years has been devoted to this notion that i think the government creates jobs and that is somehow the answer. that is not what i believe. i believe the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world has ever known. i believed in self-reliance. individual initiative and risk takers been rewarded. i also believe that everybody should have a fair shot. everybody should do their fair share and everybody should play by the same rules. that is our economy grows. that is how we build the world's greatest middle-class. that is part of what is at stake at this -- in this election. i believe governor romney is a good man. he loves his family and cares about his fate. i also believe -- cares about his faith. when he said behind closed doors that 47% of the country considered themselves the victims who refused personal responsibility, think about who he was talking about. folks on social security will avert all their lives, veterans who sacrificed for this country, students trying to advance their own dreams, soldiers overseas fighting force right now. people who are working hard every day but did not make enough income. i want to fight for them. that is what i have been doing for the last four years. if they succeed, the country succeeds. when my grandfather fought in world war ii and he came back and he got a gi bill, that was not a handout. that was something that advance the entire country. i want to make sure the next generation has the same opportunities. that is why i'm asking for your vote and for another four years. >> president obama, governor romney, thank you for being here tonight. we have come to an end of this town hall debates. [applause] the final debate takes place monday night at lynn university. do not forget to watch. election day is 3 vix from today. good night. -- three weeks from today. the night. -- good night. >> the two stood sometimes arms apart. they scolded each other, they corrected each other, they even played timekeeper and tried to overrule the moderator. one website called this the fight, and it was. president obama said the governor's tax plan is a sketchy and deal. governor romney told the president, do not talk over me. if you're one of those it was concerned the president was not calling out tall tales, from his perspective, and he said that governor romney was not telling the truth. five different times. if he wanted more aggressive, tonight you got it. they delivered. before the debate opened -- before the debate ended, the obama campaign rushed in here. the president did call it terrorism and that rose garden address. reporters immediately went to the transcript looking for all of that. the president did say that no active terrorism will intimidate the u.s., but he did not call the act and act of terrorism. the obama campaign is saying this is the candidate of the voters elected in 2008 and his back tonight. >> i been looking at the twitter responses from across the political universe. it looks like if you are an r, like what your guy did. if you are a d, you like what your guy did. >> this debate did not move the needle very much. it showed a liberal democrats that president obama is ready to fight. mittmitt romney was trying to py a lot of those attacks. >> our coverage continues on the fox dcasting work on beyond, right after this. we invest in them. but we can do even more. every year marylanders spend five hundred and fifty million dollars at casinos in other states. question 7 keeps that maryland money in maryland through expansion of gaming in maryland. it will mean hundreds of millions of dollars for our schools. as governor, i can promise you, that money will go to education. that's the law and that's what we'll do. vote for question seven. >> debate number 2 for the presidential candida the bucks. a decidedly different president obama tonight. democrats complained the president was a little too soft in the first and a hope he would come not aggressively tonight. if your idea of a good debate is to a man standing up sometimes in each other's personal space are doing on top of each other, sometimes with, sometimes against the moderator, tonight was a night for you. next is foreign-policy. continuing coverage on the station and your late local news. this is fox 5 news at 10:00. round 2, president obama and mitt romney going head to head with the white house on the line and the gloves came off. >> production on government land of oil is down 14% and production of gas is down 9%. >> governor, what you're saying is just not true. >> it's absolutely true. >> both candidates making a case for your vote with exactly three weeks left before election day. tonight fox 5 is giving you instant reaction and analysis. thanks for joining us tonight. i'm brian bolter. >> i'm shawn yancy. tonight's town hall format gave the audience a chance to grill the candidates and both were on the attack interrupting each other early and often. fox 5's tom fitzgerald starts off our coverage. >> you name it. at times this was fiesty, fiery, in your face. the obama campaign told us today that the president would be more engaged and aggressive and it is just what we saw tonight. the first question was about jobs. let's get to it, governor romney saying the president hasn't done enough on this subject, the president saying governor romney's jobs plan was a tax cut to the wealthy. >> the president's policies have been exercised over the last four years and they haven't put americans back to work. we have fewer people working today than we had when the president took office. >> governor any romney says he's got a five-point plan. governor romney has a one-point plan and that is plan is to make sure folks at the top play by a different set of rules. >> and that set up the first big confrontation in this debate. listen to this. the president and governor romney going at it over oil drilling permits, a subject that literally got both men out of their seats. >> in the last four years you cut permits and licenses on federal land and federal waters in half. >> not true, governor romney. >> so how much did you cut them back? >> not true. governor, we have produced more oil on -- >> no, no. how much did you cut licenses on federal land and federal waters? >> here's what we did. there were a whole bunch of oil companies. >> i had a question. how much did you cut them by? >> i'm happy to answer the question. >> that went on a while. we turn to taxes now. keep in mind this has been a big dividing point between these two campaigns, governor romney saying that his tax plan has been misrepresented by the president to confuse voters, the president returning fire saying romney's failure to spell out what he would cut to pay for tax cuts shows that his math is off. >> i'm not looking to cut taxes for wealthy people. i am looking to cut taxes for middle income people and why do i want to bring rates down and at the same time lower exemptions and deductions, particularly for people at the high end? because if you bring rates down, it makes it years for small business to keep more of their capital and hire people. >> governor romney was a very successful invest or. if somebody came to you, governor, with a plan that said here, i want to spend 7 or $8 trillion then we're going to pay for it, but we can't tell you until maybe after the election how we're going to do it, you wouldn't have taken such a sketchy deal. >> joining us now, fox 5 political analyst mark plotkin. mark, let's get to it. who won tonight? >> i think obama won tonight. he came back. he resuscitated his campaign. they said you cannot be what you were at the first week in october. you're going to lose the election. every time he says something that you don't think is true, say that's not true and go after it and be on the offensive and be aggressive and make your claim for your presidency because you're going to lose it, react the same way. so we saw a far different candidate, a far different person. >> mark, five times tonight the president said some version of governor romney isn't telling the truth. now is the headline tomorrow that president obama did better or that mitt romney here basically was trying to hold off a more aggressive debate style here? >> i think that the president came back, that he did what he had to do and i think he made a very strong performance. now maybe the strong performance is compared to what he did last time which i described i think accurately as sleep inducing. he didn't show up. today he showed up with a vim and vigor and vitality and gave people a reason to say wait a second, i'm not counting you out and to prove some of the assets that were strong and romney by comparison still is confident, still has command of the facts, but surely didn't wipe the floor with president obama like he did in the first debate. >> let's talk about the floor. there's a lot of talk on twitter tonight about governor romney walking over to the president physically, at times these two candidates could have reached out and literally touched each other, mark. what was in play there and how important was it for governor romney not to see any physical territory on that stage tonight? >> they talk about al gore going over to george bush in the year 2000 and that was considered a faux pas. i think they both decided they have to act authentically, they have to act how they feel and it was a sparring match. i mean it was great theater and you saw some authenticity. so i don't think either person was hurt by them getting up close with each other and the president did deliver some good lines like your pension, romney saying you know what's in your pension having to do with china investments and he said no. your pension is a lot larger. also things that he did not say he did say, 47%. he did say the gm bailout. all the things he said you didn't say last time, you better say this time and so he did. >> fox 5 political analyst mark plotkin, there is a lot more to talk about and what we're going to do is continue this now. my colleague will thomas has a different perspective on some people who were watching this debate tonight as well. >> we continue our coverage now with a unique perspective on tonight's debate , a view from a group of college students. we have three from american university and another right here from george mason, lindsay sandoval, nick clementi, nate farris. your future after college, who do you sold it to you better that you will be able to find a job after you graduate from american university? >> i'm kind of lucky because i still have 2 1/2 years before i graduate, but i do think that obama, when he was talking about his pell grants, i'm someone who relies on financial aid and merit aid to go to school, so that resonated with me. >> let's cut over to ryan. what do you think? >> i absolutely agree with lindsay. i think the president connects better with audiences at this town hall style debates. when he talked about those grants, he connected with a lot of students. he can talk about what he's done and that resonated with me. >> nick, you heard this. mitt romney said he supports pell grants and would continue that. >> i thought he did a very good job on his support of the pell grants for the past year and a half. i've been going around the state of virginia and talking to students our age and with 25% of our generation out of work at this time i think it's time for us to elect a new leader and head down a new path and i think mitt romney has done a very good job in the two debates. >> so you give it to romney on this. kate, let me ask you. >> i agree. give it to romney. i think that he did a great job of pointing out that we can't have another four years. i can't see what's coming down the road, but i can see what's happening the last four. >> lindsay, do you think governor romney sort of held onto that momentum that he gained from the last debate? >> i think he turned in a strong performance, but i think what's different this time is obama turned in just as a strong performance. i think he projected more confidence, a complete 180 from the last debate. >> kate? >> i completely agree. >> and ryan? >> i think mitt romney was met with a perfect storm last night. obama was tired, didn't do a great job. i think barack obama is back and wake and doing a good job. >> something i'm seeing on twitter, on some of our facebook posts, they were talking about all the interruptions, especially mitt romney and candy crowley, the cnn moderator. nick do you think governor romney needed to be strong and president obama as well because they really got into it with one another as well? >> in all honesty, i think both of them were a little bit too aggressive in terms of debating. there's common courtesy and i was a little bit upset with both of them for their lack of that. >> kate? >> i think they had to be aggressive because the moderator is unpredictable. when it comes down to it, they don't want to miss their chance to talk about that because then the entire voter group will not know any of their thoughts on it. so i thought it was important. >> some very quick comments, libya, they really went head to head on this. mitt romney said look, the president flew off to vegas for a fundraiser later that day. president obama said no, i information that rose garden addressing this and no one more than me wants answers. who won out, ryan? >> i think barack obama did and i think libya was where he had his moment of strength tonight. i think that's what won him the debate tonight. i think when he was that aggressive and angry that mitt romney would challenge him on national security. >> i think the fact that he owned up and said the buck stops with me. it's not hillary clinton. i'm her boss. i think that showed the american people that he is a strong commander in chief. >> 10 second answers, my last question. there was a talk about money, mitt romney's blind trust with investments in chinese companies, but then he turned it on president obama and said look at your pension, lots of talk about the pension. nick, why don't you take this one. >> i think in america we've been built on success and working hard and i think that the president has continually over the past four years and he proved it more today in this debate that he does not like people who are successful. >> kate, i'm going to give you the last word. >> i think it was fair lynn appropriate for this debate. i -- fairly inappropriate for this debate. i don't think it's what should have been discussed in debate. >> ryan, kate, nick, lindsay, thank you all for joining us. thank you again. this is your second trip up on the late news with us. shawn, back to you. we want to know what you think about the debate tonight. use hashtag fox 5 d.c. you decide to tweet your thoughts. we'll look at how people are reacting coming up later in the newscast. they were lost for days in the freezing cold and snow, now two local hikers are back home safe and sound. we'll hear from one of them next. >> plus d.c. drivers beware, more speed cameras going up. the fine may soon drop, though. >> we had a beautiful day here, our temperature 65 degrees. i think we can get even warmer tomorrow. we also got a few showers in the forecast. we'll talk about that and our hurricane rafael in the atlantic coming up. >> and the face of an iconic d.c. neighborhood is changing, why more businesses and restaurants are leaving georgetown coming up on the news edge. >> keep it right here. fox 5 news at 10:00 is just getting started. 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[ romney ] i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. two local hikers missing for days at montana's glacier national park are back home in virginia tonight. fox 5's lauren demarco is there as neal peckens finally arrived back home in herndon. >> reporter: dozens of searchers on foot, horseback and by air scoured the area for three days despe the wintery conditions and mountainous terrain. the men were found unharmed and have been reunited with their families. a much longer than expected journey home to herndon, virginia, and neal peckens couldn't be more thankful to have arrived safe and sound. >> overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from everyone. >> reporter: peckens and his friend jason hiser of richmond went missing in montana. they were hiking through glacier national park wednesday when an accidental fall down a steep incline separated them. the men veered off the trail making their way back toward each other. then the situation took a turn for the worse when they lost their map in the windy conditions. they did not have a gps device. family members reported the two missing on friday when they didn't make their flight home. after initial searches turned up empty relatives feared the worst. >> i think all of us felt that helpless. we were trying to do whatever we could do. >> reporter: the virginia tech grads both now veterinarians hunkered down for five nights rationing their food and drink. search crews battled 18 inches of snow on the trails, high winds and thick fog but finally on monday came the news eveone was praying for. peckens says he never gave up hope that they would be found. >> definitely, definitely. we had faith in that. >> reporter: their flight back to the east coast arrived in richmond this afternoon and peckens is now back home spending the night with his wife and daughter. >> we have the rescue teams to thank for that. we can't expre gratitude for everything that everyone has done on our behalf since we've been gone. we're just relieved to be back. >> reporter: now both men are experienced hikers and park rangers credit their survival skills for keeping them alive. they marked the trail with colored flags and although they had trouble maintaining a fire they created an sos message with logs. new tonight two people found shot in a car in silver spring this evening just after 7:00. police were called to the golden china restaurant in the 12000 block of old columbia pike. the victims were 2 miles down the road in a car. police have not figured out where the men were shot, both expected to survive. two university of maryland students robbed at gunpoint last night while jogging. this man is one of those robbers. it happened last night near the intersection of calvert road and princeton average in college park. the man here in a gray sweat shirt and another man held up the two students. no one was hurt. call police if you have information. a suspicious death in arlington county, the body of 87-year-old mack wood found in his home saturday morning. visitors were at the home today searching for clues. police caught death suspicious because they could not determine if he had been killed or died of natural causes. an autopsy is being conducted. another big story tonight, the cost of getting a speed camera in the district -- excuse me, the cost of getting a ticket from a speed camera in the district could soon drop. a d.c. council member introduced a bill today to reduce the fines. fox 5's bob barnard has the story. >> reporter: the district government has been making a mint off drivers caught by the growing number of speed cameras across the city. these two on 295 near blue plains at times nashing away of few seconds -- flashing away every few seconds. the speed limit is 50 miles per hour here. >> these things are everywhere. they're a nuisance. >> reporter: this one is in a 25 mile-per-hour zone near rfk stadium. >> come on, 2 or 3 miles over the speed limit the thing going to flash on you. that's ridiculous because i mean it's just not fair! >> reporter: the biggest beef is about the amount of some of the fines. >> yeah, i got one for 125 a couple months ago and i'm okay with it. it's for the safety of everyone, but i think 125 is a little steep. >> reporter: complaints about the steep fines led two d.c. council members to create a task force to look into the matter. >> well, the automated enforcement is ultimately and uniformly about safety and protecting the public, but because of the amount of the fines we have been worried that people are thinking that it's just a money grab. >> reporter: the plan would be to lower fines to $50 for violations up to 20 miles per hour over the posted limit. that would be more in line with maximum fines of $40 in maryland. there are no speed cameras in virginia and despite the fac d.c. traffic fatality rates have dropped about 75% during the past 11 years of automated speed enforcement council member tommy wells says complaints have also been about the bigger picture. >> i hear about it from all over the city that it really undermines the kind of relationship between the governed and the government and we really need to restore that and really be responsible about it. >> reporter: but council member mary cheh says the changes may be just temporary. >> because believe me, we find out that by lowering the fines we get less compliance, we're going to revisit this. >> reporter: council member cheh says those $150 fines issued when drivers get caught by red light cameras in the city, those will not be changing. in northwest bob barnard, fox 5 news. another d.c. council member introduced emergency legislation to essentially pry open the doors of the city's chief financial officer. councilman david catania wants d.c. lawmakers to require more transparency from c the cfo. the ledge -- from the cfo. this would require the cfo to turn over all the internal city audits. this comes after the chief tax assessor was found to be lowering tax assessments apparently without cause. >> i think they owe this office of internal investigations that will conduct these internal reviews of policies and procedures and when they see things that may or may not be what they want the public to see, they just don't move them. they don't finalize it. >> questions have also been raised about information on the now former chief tax appraiser's resume. his hiring is considered another stain on the internal workings of the cfo's office. another death in virginia linked to the nationwide meningitis outbreak. >> and later daring heists overseas, thieves stealing paintings worth hundreds of millions of dollars. 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[ romney ] i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. the virginia health department is reporting a second person in the state now has died from fungal meningitis. right now there are 233 reported cases in 15 states nationwide. 35 are in virginia, 16 in maryland. the latest death at virginia now brings the nationwide toll to 15. criminal investigators and the fda visited the new england compounding center today. several state and federal agencies are investigating the contamination in that company's medications. >> never dream anything like this would happen and i'm sure none of the other patients who have had this happen to them ever thought it could happen either. >> a tennessee couple has filed a $15 million lawsuit against the compounding company. their attorney expects to file dozens more cases. seven months after receiving a full face transplant a virginia man is doing well. take a look. one picture shows richard norris before the surgery, the other six days after, the 3rd what he looks like 114 days after search. he had the replacement of both jaws, teeth, tongue and skin. norris can eat primarily by mouth, taste and smell and is also regaining his speech and can smile and show expression. norris was hurt in a gun accident back in 1987. coming up going back to social media reaction with tonight's presidential debate. we'll also look at some of the top trending moments tonight. >> she's under fire and suspended from her job for signing a petition on gay marriage. now the professor at galludet university is giving her side of the story next. >> if you see a story we should look into, call us 202-895-3000 or send an e-mail fox5tips@wttg.com. we're back. pump it up. maryland schools are n number oe in america because we invest in them. but we can do even more. every year marylanders spend five hundred and fifty million dollars at casinos in other states. question 7 keeps that maryland money in maryland through expansion of gaming in maryland. it will mean hundreds of millions of dollars for our schools. as governor, i can promise you, that money will go to education. that's the law and that's what we'll do. vote for question seven. under the president's policies, middle income americans have been buried. they're just being crushed. middle-income americans have seen their income come down by $4,300. this is a tax in and of itself. i'll call it the economy tax. i'm not going to raise taxes on anyone. my plan is to bring down rates to get more people working. my priority is putting people back to work in america. i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. who move our country forward, work hard, raise families, and keep america strong. but mitt romney's budget plan will hurt the middle class, raising taxes on the average family by up to $2,000, while giving a tax break of $250,000 to multimillionaires. doesn't mitt romney understand we can't rebuild america by tearing down the middle class. priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. this is fox 5 news at 10:00. i want to take you back to tonight's top story, presidential debate round 2. the gloves came off tonight as president obama and mitt romney taked off yet again. they sparred over energy policy, taxes and the economy. in tonight's town hall style debate the candidates fielded questions from the audience at hofstra university. it was made up of 80 undecided voters. fox 5's will thomas is following online reaction to the debate live in our web center. >> we are trying to get instant reaction here on fox 5, what you liked, didn't like, caught in the middle still like a lot of the independent voters in the audience tonight? let's get right to it. we asked you to post comments on our facebook. you can find us at my fox d.c. here's our first one. christopher white writes president obama is carrying himself better yet i think mitt is just a better economic person and that's what we need in the long run. amy gomez says president obama, of course. when you tell the truth, there is no way you can lose, president obama all the way. yoni rush says he who talks the loudest usually has the least to say. if romney wanted to sell me on his plan, could have presented it a lot better, one word, humility. tanya redding posted god help fuss we have to deal with another four -- us if we have to deal with another four years of this administration. romney is a successful man. the president can't stop blaming bush. a few of your tweets addresses some of the agrees since that we saw tonight in the debate. here's three. one says the format a disaster, candidates in each other's faces and spaces. another one, there's only one way for obama and romney to set this, walk it off. here's another one. all terrible joking aside until both sides learn how to play nice i don't think it matters which guy wins. we all lose. we want to hear from you. post your comments on our facebook page. you can find us at my fox d.c. and on twitter. it's at my fox d.c. >> we will be using some of your tweets and facebook posts for a brand-new show debuting as election day approaches. fox 5 news edge you decide 2012 will focus on both local and national candidates and the issues during the final two weeks of the campaign. it begins next monday at 6:30 p.m. here on fox 5. the chief diversity officer at galludet university demand be to be reinstated. dr. angela mccaskill was suspended last week several months after signing a petition asking for a referendum on gay marriage in maryland. here's what the chief university officer is saying tonight. >> reporter: there is turmoil at the moment among students and alumni of galludet university, the nation's preeminent post secondary institution for the hearing impaired and depending on who you ask the university administration is primarily at fault or the chief diversity administrator, angela mccaskill is at fault. mccaskill who has been suspended from her job has now broken her silence. >> i was shocked, hurt, insulted. i was humiliated. >> reporter: here's the background. after maryland's legislature narrowly passed a law which would legalize gay marriage opponents circulated petitions to stop the legislation. upon hearing a sermon on marriage at her charge dr. mccaskill signed one of the petitions upsetting some in the university community. >> then she of all people should be open to any person of any diverse background. so signing something like this is against a group of students where she's supposed to be supporting students as opposed to doing things that really undermine them. it just doesn't make any sense. >> reporter: the administration at galludet suspended with pay its chief diversity officer and that upset others in the university community. >> well, i don't think that she should have been suspended. i think that it is her right and her freedom of speech to believe whatever she believes and sign what she wants to sign. >> reporter: mccaskill says when a lesbian faculty member demanded the administration reprimand her, she proposed another path. >> i offered to have a campuswide dialogue on this very sensitive issue. i believe in civil discourse. >> reporter: dr. mccaskill says she is not anti-gay. she is simply pro-democracy and she has declined to publicly say which way she will vote on november 6th on the issue of gay marriage in maryland. her suspension from her job galludet has been condemned from many directions including the very conservative family research council to the rather liberal pro gay marriage governor of maryland, martin o'malley. a group of black legislators also condemned the suspension saying people's livelihoods should not be jeopardized for exercising the right of referendum. galludet released a statement characterizing the suspension as prudent but also inviting mccaskill back talking about how she might return. mccaskill's attorney said his client has been harmed by the ordeal, but willing to talk. john henrehan, fox 5 news. he wore two hats as a member of the d.c. city council and the metro board, but did jim graham mix his roles to squash a land deal? the city's board of ethics and government accountability says it will begin an investigation of graham to see if there was any wrongdoing. a metro board report issued last week alleges graham violated conflict of interest rules. gram says he's done anything -- graham says he's done nothing illegal. prince george's county police officers on trial accused of beating a university of maryland student. did one of the officers later apologize to a colleague about the assault? the courtroom play-by-play is coming up. >> and paintings worth millions of dollars stolen, what we've learned about the daring heist still ahead tonight. shoppers still can't catch a break at the checkout counter, a surge in gasoline prices driving consumer prices higher in september. they're also paying a little more at the grocery store led by a hike in dairy items. meanwhile social security checks are getting bigger but not by month, starting in january monthly payments increasing by 1.7%, one of the lowest increases since automatic annual adjustments began in 1975 and amazon expecting a lot of clicking and buying this holiday season, the online retailer adding 50,000 temporary holiday workers up from last year, but not a lot of holiday cheer for citigroup, the bank's ceo resigning abruptly tuesday, citigroup stock down 90% in his time running the bank and forget about the volt. gm plans a luxury electric ride. it wants to make an electric version of its iconic cadillac. production starts next year. that's business. i'm dennis neil. investments, personally, about paid 14% in federal taxes, is that fair to the guy higher rate than you did? romney: "yeah, encourage economic growth." us. is that the way to grow america? this message. day two of testimony in the trial of two prince george's county police officers accused of assaulting a university of maryland student in 2010, today the state called four police officers including two from internal affairs to testify about the investigation and the behavior of the accused officers. fox 5's paul wagner has the story. >> reporter: two of the officers who arrested john mckenna in the minutes after he was struck by shield and riot batons testified for the prosecution today. victor dobroegh told the court he did not hear the striking officers make any commands for mckenna to show his hands or get on the ground before pushing him up against the wall. another officer, sergeant dexter mckinney, told the court he got a phone call from baker after this video was made public. mckinney said baker apologized saying he was remorseful, sorry it happened and not proud, but on cross-examination defense attorney william brennan asked mckinney what baker was sorry for. the sergeant replied baker was sorry mckinney and others were being investigated by internal affairs. a third officer, internal affairs lieutenant charles wall, told the court when he questioned james harrison seen here on the left leaving court and showed him the video, harrison said he was only a witness and not one of the striking officers. the next day wall said harrison called him back wanting to know what equipment to turn in feeling his suspension was imminent. the state's last witness was an expert in the use of force, a retired maryland state trooper who told the court in his opinion baker and harrison used excessive force against john mckenna noting the maryland student was not aggressive and kept his hands up when the police approached. mckenna was arrested that night, but all charges were dropped. the expert witness, the retired maryland state trooper, was questioned extensively by the defense about the proper use of a police baton. the prosecution will have some followup questions wednesday morning and then the defense will begin its case. in upper marlboro, paul wagner, fox 5 news. tonight the president faced the man fighting to take his job. coming up on the news edge we'll take a closer look at some of the take-away moments tonight from the debate and get reaction from both political parties. >> reporter: businesses coming and going in georgetown. i'm beth parker. i'll tell you what it all means coming up. paid 14% in federal taxes, is that fair to the guy