since 2004 more than 125,000 mexican citizens have been flown back to their home country with your tax dollars paying the fare. jenna: major development in the fast and furious scandal today. mexican federal police say they arrested a man suspected in the killing of u.s. border patrol agent brian terry. his name is jesus mezsa a. one of five men can charged with killing terry in a shootout near the mexican border. doug mckelway is live with more. five men are charged. how many are in custody right now? reporter: they have two in custody in addition to jesus meza who was arrested thursday in the sonora. another suspect was wounded in the shootout and has been in custody ever since. three suspects remain at large. this recent arrest is good news to congressional investigators and the terry family but does not ease their determination to who
bounce in the polls? well it is real. the tracking polls that showed the race essentially tied have separated a little bit and president obama has moved up a little bit. talk to romney people said look, that is the definition of a bounce. a bounce something that goes up and comes back down. they re not worried about that. as far as the conventions are concerned they were right back-to-back, democrats went second and republicans say look the democratic convention stepped on any republican bounce there might have been. the fact is the president has been a little bit ahead in the race for most of the summer. it is now time if mitt romney will change the dynamic, time for them to do it. jon: this seven-day gallup tracking poll, i think we have results to put on screen, shows the president is up 49 to 44% now. that is pretty significant this close to the election, isn t it? well it is. you re going to hear a lot about the conventional wisdom that in the past the contender who
president s post-convention bounce last? byron york is chief political correspondent for the washington examiner . is it real, first of all, byron, this presidential bounce in the polls? well it is real. the tracking polls that showed the race essentially tied have separated a little bit and president obama has moved up a little bit. talk to romney people said look, that is the definition of a bounce. a bounce something that goes up and comes back down. they re not worried about that. as far as the conventions are concerned they were right back-to-back, democrats went second and republicans say look the democratic convention stepped on any republican bounce there might have been. the fact is the president has been a little bit ahead in the race for most of the summer. it is now time if mitt romney will change the dynamic, time for them to do it. jon: this seven-day gallup tracking poll, i think we have results to put on screen, shows the president is up 49 to 44% now. that
but first, the battle for the white house is heating up today in two key battleground states, virginia and florida. mitt romney is holding two events in virginia and president obama is courting votes in the sunshine state. both candidates fighting to win over undecided voters, and they have only 59 days left to do it. we start in florida, where president obama is speaking this hour in st. petersburg. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin keeping an eye on that for us. jessica, the latest polls give obama a slight lead in florida. you were actually a local reporter there, so you re pretty familiar with the voters in that part of florida. what does the president need to do to widen that gap? reporter: hi, randi. well, i was, and since i was in this local market, the number of hispanic voters here has increased exponentially. and so, one of the goals for the president, no doubt, will be to target his appeal to those hispanic, latino voters. as you know, he passed
his father about how it all went down. but first, the battle for the white house is heating up today in two key battleground states, virginia and florida. mitt romney is holding two events in virginia and president obama is courting votes in the sunshine state. both candidates fighting to win over undecided voters, and they have only 59 days left to do it. we start in florida, where president obama is speaking this hour in st. petersburg. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin keeping an eye on that for us. jessica, the latest polls give obama a slight lead in florida. you were actually a local reporter there, so you re pretty familiar with the voters in that part of florida. what does the president need to do to widen that gap? reporter: hi, randi. well, i was, and since i was in this local market, the number of hispanic voters here has increased exponentially. and so, one of the goals for the president, no doubt, will be to target his appeal to those hispani