A man loses his home to foreclosure and gets a mortgage settlement offer but its not enough to even cover his first months rent. Keith ward from michigan will join us later this hour. And tigers fans, they are no fans of kung fu panda. Gets things going with a bang. It was actually more like bang, ba bang, bang. Newsroom starts now. Good morning to you. Happy thursday. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining us. President obama is about to take the stage in tampa. And hell have some big news to celebrate with his supporters. Just over an hour ago, republican with vast crossover aappeal announced his endorsement for obama. Listen to this from former secretary of state colin powell. I voted for him in 2008 and plan to stick with him in 2012 and ill be voting for he and Vice President joe biden next month. Thats an endorsement for president obama for reelection . Yes. Jessica yellin, many say colin powell is a rino, republican in name only. Will this endorsement matter . Reporter
I am so grateful for the opportunity to serve. I promise you and im going to keep serving and fighting in the same way that you have seen in the past. Thank you. [applause] and i can tell you that one of the things as i travel across the country, everyone always wants to know how in the world we got the best federal delegation in the country. All i tell them is that South Carolina is blessed. We have a great group of legislators that fight every day, that get what we want and they fight for it. They just dont go along with the pack. They fight for it. I am so thankful that so many members came to be supportive of tim. I want to make sure that we have our senior senator speak who i often, who i enjoy working with and who has been there every time i have called him, senator lindsey graham. [applause] thank you, thank you very much. Well, tim, if you add up all of the courses that we flew together, people will begin to understand how the government works. Here is the good news. I made 80
Will the Vice President ial teller please collect the ballots from the electors hammon . The electoral votes of North Carolina have been passed on this, the 17th day of december, 2012, through the republican electors, and the result is as follows. Votes cast in the name of paul ryan. Thank you. With secretary marshall please bring forth the certificates to vote. Each elector or will have to sign six copies. I believe we are going to sign one copy, and if at the end the electors will remain seated, we will sign the other five copies. The electors having signed a certificate of the vote, at this point i would like to thank the staff of the state capital, the secretary of States Office, and the North Carolina republicans staff as well as the North Carolina Republican Party as well as the voters of North Carolina for helping make this meeting of the Electoral College of success. If there is no further business to come before us, i wish to recognize dodi allen for the purpose of making a mo
Pelley good evening. This is a spend onehour edition. Pelley good evening. This is a special onehour edition. 6 billion was spent on political campaigns and when they were over nothing much changed. Republicans will still control the house, democrats the senate, and barack obama will still be president. This was the scene tonight as the president and the first family returned from chicago aboard air force one. They landed at joint base andrews right outside washington, d. C we will have a look at what you can expect from washington many the future, but first the latest returns. We still cant project a winner the president ial contest in florida, but even without florida mr. Obama has 303 electoral votes well over the 270 needed for victory. Mitt romney ended up with 206. This is the popular vote total. Theyre still counting, but the president is ahead by nearly three million votes. In his victory celebration last night, the president said the best is yet to come. Hes been calling congr
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