Im candy crowley. And this is state of the union. Hurricane sandy has sidelined the president ial campaigns in some spots. Both candidates have canceled events in critical swing states, and a more a surprise nonetheless, the Des Moines Register endorsed mitt romney for president. The first time in 40 years the newspaper picked the republican nominee. While the editors praise president obamas early efforts to revitalize the economy through his stimulus plan, it concluded his record on the economy the past four years does not suggest he would lead in the direction the nation must go in the next four years. Joining me now for the politics of weather and Everything Else is Obama Campaign Senior Advisor David Axelrod. Good morning, david. Let me start here with the storm. When you look at virginia where this is likely to be the swing state most affected, does mying worry you about that state being more or less paralyzed by weather for a couple three, four days . Well, the first thing i thin
Good morning, everyone. Im christi paul in for randi kaye. So glad to have your company. 10 00 on the east coast. 7 00 on the west. I want to begin with suhurrican sandy, which has regained strength. One area thats really starting to feel the effects is the coast of North Carolina and thats where we have George Howell. In the last couple of hours, have you seen conditions change there, george . Christi, good morning. Were starting to feel a little bit of the rainfall from this system. A lot of that rainfall has remained offshore, but here where we are along the outer banks, we are in position to feel those first bands as they move closer to shore. Also the winds are picking up out here. The winds have been right around ten to 20 Miles Per Hour, not too bad, but that situation will change and the best evidence of that just take a look out there. You can see whats happening there on the waters, getting rougher and rougher as the storm moves closer to us. Right now, this area remains unde
That america has had. Hes a great friend, hes been working his tail off on behalf of the campaign. I couldnt be prouder hes working with us, james taylor. Give him a big round of applause. I love you back. Ten days, New Hampshire. Ten days. Ten days and youll be stepping into a voting booth and making a defining choice about the future of our country. Not just a choice between two candidates or two political parties. Its a choice between two fundamentally different visions for america. We believe in the value of the largest middle class, the strongest economy the world has ever known. The promise that hard work will pay off, the promise that responsibility will be rewarded. The idea at the core of this nation that no matter who you are, no matter where you come from, no matter what you look like, this is a country where everybody gets a fair shot, and everybody does their fair share. Everybody plays by the same rules. Thats what we believe here in america. We believe that we are endowe
Im Ashley Banfield and were tracking breaking news. We start in wilmington, delaware. A shooting at a courthouse. This is the scene currently as we look at it. There are two women who have been killed and the alleged gunman also killed in a shootout with officers there. Two officers also hurt in this incident. The details of who the alleged gunman is and why he may have opened fire still not known to us. But were following this very carefully, two Capital Police officers theyre called there in delaware. Delaware Capital Police officers injured. And were watching to see the significance of their injuries, as well. Well update you as we got more information. But there you have it, three dead in a courthouse shooting there. And now to a shocker out of vatican city. Pope benedict xvi stepping down. Hell retire at the end of the month in order to late younger man take over as pope. Here is part of the resignation letter. I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age
And so we cut spending. We actually reduced the amount of money government was spending. And then we cut taxes 19 times. We made our state more businessfriendly, the result of all of this was or job growth went from the basement up 20 points, up 20 states, that is. And we were able to balance the budget. And by the way, the 3 billion budget gap turned into a rainy day fund. Hi, everybody, im don lemon, well let you continue to listen to mitt romney, well watch coverage politics and Hurricane Sandy, back in a few minutes with mitt romney. Let me tell you, im confident in the future. Look, i know these have been tough years and were tired of being tired. Yeah, the democrats chant four more years, we chant ten more days. Righ right . Ten more days, ten more days, ten more days, ten more days. You are right, ten more days, ten more dayss were changing our chant tomorrow, they keep saying four more years, we got a new chanlt, ten more days. Let me tell you why im so confident. I have seen t