jenna: well, noon eastern time, and we re just hours away from the first vice presidential debate, first and only, by the way. the running mates are ready to rumble, and welcome to happening now. i m jenna lee. jon: i m jon scott. all eyes on tonight s high stakes debate as vice president joe biden faces paul ryan, the republican who wants to take his job. it promises to be one of the closest presidential elections in recent history. biden and ryan square off for their first, their only debate. it takes place tonight on the campus of center college in danville, kentucky. mr. biden is hoping to put the brakes on the campaign after governor romney s strong showing in the first presidential debate. president obama saying yesterday that joe just needs to be joe. for mr. ryan, this will be his first nationally-televised debate. the up and comer knows biden is a veteran politician with more experience at these events, but he says biden cannot run from president obama s record. a fox news p
beginning of the fourth quarter which starts october 1st. the labor department officials say we should see a bounce-back then in the unemployment claims to account for those late numbers. jenna. jenna: sounds like a pretty big mistake if that was indeed the case, peter. more or less a couple of thousand. we ll continue to watch the trend, maybe, that s what we need to lock for in employment here. thank you very much for that story for us today. we ll take a closer look at the economy and how it s affecting small businesses. we have a weekly new series called spotlight on small businesses and thomas fukes bakes house wears sold at different places across the country, including neiman-marcus. it s great to have you. we talk about small business and we oftentimes don t talk to the small business owners and it s important to do that. one of the things that gets brought up in conversation is healthcare, taxes, the fiscal cliff. awful these different things. what are you watching for in th
believe this was prompted by protest against the video. senior official number two answers: that s a question you d have to ask others. that was not our conclusion. initial assessments in the immediate aftermath of the attack in benghazi were made, and there was a government-wide assessment that was the foundation of what ambassador rice said, what i said and what others said. reporter: so this question then remains, jenna and jon, how was there this government-wide assessment that this was the outburst over a video where from the first moments of the attack washington had been notified of the, quote, attack, attack, he was witnessing. we ll get to the bottom of this over the next couple of months in hearings and other forums. jenna: we ll continue to watch for those developments, james, thank you very much. we re going to move on to an update from overseas. do you remember this incredible video that came out of egypt during the uprising? that uprising ultimately led to hosni mubar
jenna: support staff could mean more jobs. best of luck for the business. thank you for your time. great to have you. nice being here thank you. jon: the deadly men inch skwraoeut advertismening two and a half menmeningitis outbreak continues to spread. we don t have a system that allows these types of mistakes to be made. the message is, wake up america.
vice president and his entourage getting out. eight hours from now give or take a few minutes he will be debating his republican counterpart, vice presidental candidate paul ryan at center college in downville, kentucky. this is their one and only meeting, 8:55 eastern time tonight on fox. jenna: the most accomplished american psychist of all time, lance armstrong accused in the most sophisticated professionalized and successful doping program ever, at least that is how the accused put it. those are their those make the accusation i should say. rick, tell us a little bit more about what we are learning now. reporter: brand-new report is where this information is coming from, and it paints disgraced psychist lance armstrong not only as a cheat himself but someone who insisted that his teammates cheat with him. armstrong has been banned from the sport for life, his titles have been stripped. he has said that he s not fighting any of that, and this