the way to manassas on the press bus there. jim, what s the message romney and ryan are holding on to? well, we ve seen a lot of messages today from the romney/ryan ticket. we can now call it that starting this morning where mitt romney really threw down the gauntlet to the obama campaign and said this is not going to be about a personal attack in this campaign. it s going to be about the issues. and they started to get into some of those issues. paul ryan of course took the stage and talked about the need to cut the national debt in this country. and then fredricka some of that we saw at the second event in ashland, virginia which was very interesting, they started to sharpen their rhetoric on the obama campaign on the president. we saw paul ryan introduce mitt romney and say, talking about the economy, it doesn t have to be this way. we can do better. and then mitt romney got on stage and at one point basically warned the crowd, warned republicans that the attacks are goi
role at the republican national convention? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with mitt romney s preparations for what may be the most crucial week of his presidential campaign. with several new polls out including our own showing him losing ground to president obama, romney begins a bus tour on saturday through four swing states he absolutely needs to win. but he s still traveling without a running mate. dana bash is here in the situation room taking a closer look. these are going to be huge days the next week. look, the day is young traveling without a running mate as we speak. you never know what s going to happen. regardless, mitt romney is going to have several vp-buzz generating news with him. but the campaign knows it first has to do some refining about the man on the top of the ticket, romney himself. oh beautiful, for spacious skies. reporter: if you turned on your television last month, there s a good chance you saw this brutal att
from dallas, texas. we have a couple of things going on here. obviously health concerns over the people in richmond, california, near that refinery fire plus the financial hit we re all going to take if gas prices spike make above $4 a gallon. it has been going on for several weeks now. you blinked and it seems like you missed it. over the course of the last month or so gas prices have gone up about 30 cents, the national average now $3.66 a gallon, up about 30 cents and in the last month. the fire in richmond is just one of the problems. obviously there is a great deal of global issues and concerns that go into gas prices but what we have seen over the last few months is a disruption in service and flow of gas at refineries across the country from the midwest down to oklahoma where we have seen problems with pipelines and other issues and the infrastructure and this fire in california this week highlighted even bigger problem where now because of this fire many analysts ar
mayor michael nutter, more than frustrated. if you want to act like an idiot, if you want to act like an [ bleep ], if you want to be a low life in this town, we will track you down like the dog you are. reporter: nutter says they re committed, because lives depend on finding a solution. what happens next, you know, we elevate the discourse, we bring people together, we build a movement. we stop the killing. reporter: a major challenge for a city where murder has become routine. sarah hoy, cnn, philadelphia. that was our sarah hoy reporting. and to see more of the crime scene pictures from this special cnn report, go to cnn.com. now, in the wake of shootings across the country, the attitudes of americans towards guns, we ve found, has not really changed at all. now, just take a look at this new cnn orc poll. overall, half of americans don t want restrictions or only minor restrictions. the other half want major restrictions on firearms, or just make them illegal, alto
planet. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re learning much more about the shooter and the victims in the sikh temple slaughter in wisconsin. i ll speak wit oak creek police chief coming up live. we ll hear exclusively from two men who lost their mother in the killings. first, we re getting new details on the weapon. our own brian todd is joining us now live. he s in oak creek, wisconsin. brian, you ve been tracing the gun. what are you finding out? reporter: spoke to the gun store manager, wolf. new details on that weapon that authorities believe was used in this shooting. that information comes from the gun store manager who is still shaken by the experience. subject down! officers down! i need ambulance. we have one officer shot. 7512 subject with a gun, balding, white t-shirt. officer down. reporter: it was less than a week before this carnage that suspect wade michael page stopped here and picked up the .9-meter pistol. according to the mana