All that and so much more on cbs this Morning Saturday, saturday, october 20, 2012. Welcome to the weekend. We begin with a countdown to the pivotal final debate between president obama and republican challenger mitt romney. Monday night in boca raton, florida. Cbs news political news correspondent jan crawford isnt far from there in daytona beach. Jan, good morning. Reporter well good morning. Romney was here last night for a big rally. Its expected to be his last major event going into monday nights debate and with the polls tightening many of those National Polls showing romney in the lead. The president on a campaign trail has really sharpened his it yesterday when it got personal. President obama actually came up with a new word and last night in that rally romney had an indirect although not too subtle answer. At a rally in virginia the president introduced a new word in the political vocabulary. I mean hes changing up so much and back tracking and side stepping. We got a name th
From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a freaky friday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie, and i have to say this is a very unusual way to start the show. Theres no matt, but apparently he is on his way, and i think we do have a camera with him outside. Okay. There he is. Is that a motorized surf board hes riding in . Well be asking why does he do this . Part of a segment were doing a little bit later, and a couple of guys are responsible for videos that have more than 24 million hits online. So sorry. I am so sorry. You are late. This storm is coming. The waves on madison were huge. That was fun. I hope you dont have helmet head. Your hair is going to be a mess. How can i have helmet head . That was a blast. Youve probably seen the videos of these guys well introduce you to in a little while. They are responsible for the commute, and they are responsible for some images youll be seeing
Tonight on Nightline A Zumba and an alleged prostitution ring. Her alleged Business Partner speaks out for the first time. It is the cutting edge science that turned a piece of skin into a beating heart on this amazing breakthrough thats changing medicine as we know it. And man versus croc. The Dangerous Mission with what could be the largest crocodile on the planet, but who is the hunter, and who is the hunted . Keep it right here, from new york city, this is nightline with bill wier. Good evening. It is the sorted sex scandal that has turned a new england town upside down. An exercise instructor charged with using her latin themed workout studio for a prostitution ring whose detailed list of alleged clients name the names of over 100 local men. Now her alleged Business Partner is feeling the heat, and tonight for the first time he speaks out to abcs john. Reporter this small picturesque new england town just a few miles from the summer compound of the first president bush is at the u
Harrowing hostage situation in the african desert. This morning, we have more information about an american killed by the islamic militants. And we know several other americans are in danger right now. Abcs investigative correspondent, brian ross, has been covering this from the jump. Hes with us, now, with more. Brian, good morning. Reporter good morning, dan. The death toll continues to climb with at least 1 american and 11 other hostages reported to have been killed. The algerian military has twice stormed the natural gas facility. But Authorities Say the situation this morning, is still not resolved. And a number of western workers, including americans, apparently remain hostages. The state department has now confirmed that 58yearold Fred Buttaccio of suburban houston, was killed at some point during the attack and subsequent rescue effort. But another american, mark cobb of corpus christi, texas, is now confirmed as safe. Cobb was the senior manager at the bp facility algeria. And
8 inches of rain, that could go up and of course this is storm total now, we are talking from sunday night through tuesday night, so this is kind of the preliminary of what we are looking at, we will get into more details. Wanted you to see temperaturewise still very warm in the east coast, here comes the winterlike cold and this thing could be producing up to 2 feet of snow in the appalachians of West Virginia where winter storm watches are already posted so thats why this is a very unique situation. Gary, i know youve got the latest from the National Hurricane center on the potential track. I hope there are changes. Reporter not really. Im glad you went first because it gave us the chance to get the 5 00 update into the system and get it correct and first i want to start with a satellite here because it gives you an idea of a couple of things, sandy has really been taking a little bit of a hit today with dry air, the wind shear, those strong winds aloft continue to beat at this storm