good morning and welcome to early start. i m ali velshi. zoraida is off today. i like these hours. i m eating a hot dog this morning. i love that about you, ali velshi. i m ashleigh banfield. it is 5:01. it s the holiday but this fourth of july is less about celebration and more about patience for many americans. and in some cases, even survival. because for six days now there have been many of your fellow countrymen with no power in this extraordinary heat wave. at least 20 people have now died since thursday when deadly storms slammed the east, slammed the midwest. and about 1.2 million people are still waiting to get their power back, to get a fan on, to get the ac back. this is right across the country. here are the states without power today. power companies are repairing damaged transmitters as fast as they can, but customers still could be waiting until the weekend. still until the weekend until they can get that electricity back. and all of this, while those u
well within the margin of error. what a president believes matters. reporter: today the obama campaign rolled out another ad in crucial swing states like riegtd here in ohio calling romney an outsourcer during his time running bane capital. it s part of a strategy to erode one of romney s key strengths. so far our polling shows independent voters crucial in this election prefer the presumptivive republican nominee on the economy by 11 points. part of the sale the obama campaign needs to make especially isn t the seven key toss up states is that the economy is getting better or that stagnation isn t their fault. we ve added millions and millions of jobs and the economy is moving in the right direction. not fast enough. if congress had passed the proposals the president submitted, there would be a million more jobs today. that s what we ought to be doing. of course the blame goes both ways. republican congressman pat teaberry points his finger right back at the white ho
first to our brand new cnn orc polls. this is issue number one, the economy. and a surprising jump in the number of americans who believe the economy will eventually get better. take a look at this. when asked about what economic conditions will be like next year, 60% now say they believe they will be good compared to only 39% who say conditions will be poorer. last fall when we asked the same question, those numbers were very different indeed. only 39% saying things would get better in the year to come. we sent our own joe johns to the key battleground state of ohio for a closer look at these new numbers. joe is joining us now from his old hometown of columbus, ohio. what s going on there, joe? reporter: that s right, wolf. well, things are starting to look better here in the buckeye state, but i have to tell you that cnn orc poll indicates that nationwide one thing is clear, the number one issue on voters minds happens to be jobs and the economy. the november election ma
somebody hired goes in with a camera and film is dreadful things going on. the procedure by which that had to be done, that had to be checked all along the line. different people had to sign off on it. when they came to review it, it could be justified. if not, we would be punished. that does not sound quite as bad as paying for stolen goods because the story would be in the public interest. i honestly think that if someone who brought back along we would have done it. another reason to be very wary of increasing the degree of regulation is that it is going to be impossible to subject the internet to that same degree of regulation and that will only accelerate the decline of print media. i am not sure that would be a good thing. this scandal does not really represent a failure of the press s ability to self regulate. they did not do a great job of its investigation in the phone hacking. there was an investigation? i was not aware of it. it was the guardian who broug