meantime, president obama planning his own trip to ohio later this week after visiting the u.n. tomorrow and tuesday. today a top obama campaign advisor criticized romney over the comments in the leaked video which romney has acknowledged as inelegant. chris, i thought the most devastating thing about the video is not just the video itself but the reaction from candidate romney which is to say that he was inelegant in what he said. chris, what is the elegant way of saying that 47% of people in this country are moochers who don t care enough about themselves and their place in life? both sides gearing up for the big showdown that begins october 3. the first of the presidential debates. it will be at the university of denver. back to you, doug. steve centanni, thank you. republicans hitting president obama s trip to wisconsin saying he has a problem in the state despite recent polls showing him with the lead. the campaign admitd that romney
dolphin? dolphin talk this morning. scientists say we may soon be able to talk to flipper! really? good morning to you. i m carol costello. millions of americans reveled in one of the warmest records on season and now a mean season. wildfires are burning in seven western states and the summer temperatures will only push the danger higher. the worst single fire is in southwestern new mexico. 225,000 acres burned, about 280 square miles. it is the biggest in the state s history and it s getting bigger. it s now only just about 17% contained. also today there are new concerns about a key firefighting tool used to combat those kinds of fires. in western utah yesterday, an air tanker loaded with water and fire retardant crashed during its second run of the day. both pilots were killed. the cause of the crash is still under investigation. also yesterday an aaron tanker had to make an emergency landing in nevada when its lappeding gear failed to lower. in this case, the crew w
hostage, jessica buchanan. she s at a hospital in italy. she s going through what s callcal called a reintegration. it requires time. it s to max mime health and welfare. the question is could she be coming home soon. wish her well nonetheless. special delivery. can you say hot sauce? i woke up to the story and thought, oh, my man, what a delivery. politic and tacos, folks. hundreds and hundreds of tacos going to the office of the mayor of east haven, connecticut. i think you know who s behind this, why it happened and what s the reaction to it. we have an amazing video. a snow blower rider fell hundreds of feet. what he did after the crash. there were three angles on that. let me tell you. it looks like he s completely busted up or we wouldn t be showing you the video. we wouldn t have be showing you the video. i like good x games, i tell you. a real daredevil. let s go to the x games of politics, shall we? it was the gop s final four, and they were pulli
slamming president obama. we preview the big showdown in iowa. the five starts right now. kimberly: another day and freefall in the stock market. the announcement that the fed will keep the interest rates low hasn t done anything to quell fears. dana you were press secretary in the 2008 financial meltdown. anything you think the white house can do now to stop the bleeding? dana: a couple of things. one is when you see a stock market fall like this, if some ways people think you can hold on and ride through it. the problem is for a lot of folks out there, their 401(k)s and pensions are tied up in this. so when you are at the white house, one thing you are thinking about is forget the bankers. okay? think about moms and dads in oklahoma, wyoming. pick your midwestern, you know, state. short of new plan or new policy, i don t know what they
administration s part. if you get to a point where is no deal or very unsatisfying deal on both parts it sticks more to the republicans than to him. that might be the calculation. shepard: that s what the polls are saying. i know hindsight is clear. when they were dealing with the extension of the bush tax cuts, which the president did to the screams and explosions from the base of his own party, why not tie some of this to that at the time. do you not remember there s a tomorrow? it is true. there had been something like 60 or 70 debt ceiling increases in the last shepard: in my lifetime. you always anticipate this is going to be the big showdown. theoretically, you could have done that he decided to tie it to the payroll tax cut which is now at least giving some support to the economy. shepard: the thinking is at the last moment they will work this out, we move forward. they are not going to give it a six month extension. he would have to deal with this again, why would h