Have you ever been stuck in rush hour traffic . Have of course, you have. If you commuted at all, you certainly have. So can a man out run, the morning commute, on the schuylkill expressway. What man shall we choose. How about quincy harris, he is training for a marathon. He said he can run from lets say manayunk to olde city faster than a card. I would put my money on him. It depend on the morning of course. And the the timing of the morning. We will try that at 7 00. We have all thought it. I betty could get out of the car and just run. We will see what happens. It is 6 01. Our number of the day is an eight out of ten once again. Bus stop buddy with his polo shirt on, today. Warm and humid. Not expect ago lot of thunderstorm activity this morning or this afternoon but we will get cooler temperatures by this time tomorrow. Cloud around this morning and widely scattered showers, you can see sunshine burning through these cloud 68 degrees right now. And it is a humid morning. So maybe n
Home runs. Pablo sandoval helps the giants tame the tigers in game one of the world series. Will detroit even things up tonight . And her tv career has spanned decades. Melissa joan hart will join us live to talk about her latest projects. Its thursday, october 25th, and starting point begins right now. Welcome, everybody. Our starting point this morning, the high stakes struggle for eight mustwin swing states. The president obama and governor romney tapping into their travel budgets, both men crisscrossing the country, targeting those tossup states that will decide this race. Ohio could be the most critical. And a new time poll has the president ahead there by five points, largely on the strength of early voting in his favor. But the Romney Campaign has something to celebrate this morning as well. Cnn shifting the state of North Carolina from a tossup to a leaning romney column. Lets get right to cnns chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin. Shes in tampa, florida, this mornin
Today for thursday, august 22nd. Disturbing images out of syria of a suspected deadly gas attack. They are doflt watch but Syrian Rebels say they are important to show. Its alleged evidence of what may be the worst chemical weapons attack anywhere in more than 20 years. The Syrian Government denies using the chemical weapons and its something president obama warned against a year ago. We have communicated in no Uncertain Terms with every player in the region that thats a red line for us and there would be enormous consequences if we start seeing movement on the chemical weapons front or the use of chemical weapons. Nbcs yousef gamal eldin is in cairo. Good morning. Reporter betty, a tough few days ahead for syria and the International Community as they try to grasp the extent of the tragedy that happened outside a damasc damascus. Analysts believe it might have been a chemical weapons attack based on the symptoms exhibited by victims in the footage that has emerged. We cannot independe
10 00 american jet fighters in drones conduct four more air strikes today. On islamic militants in iraq taking out armored carriers and trucks that were firing on civilians. Good evening, everybody, im joyce evans, the thirds round of air strikes against Islamic State forces since president obama authorized the strike. Foxs doug mc elway is in washington with the very latest on the conflict. Reporter today we learned both humanitarian air drops continued as did air strikes. The pentagon today released video of both saying there were at least three more rounds of strikes targeting convoys, artillery, mortar positions. The strikes were performed by f18 Super Hornets flying off. George h bush aircraft, and by president ton drones. Before his de power tour for marathons vinyards, the president was asked directly if he expects this unnamed operation to continue months or even years. This was his reply. I dont think were going to solve this problem in weeks if thats what you mean, i think th
On the phone. Jack, repeat the question, how could this possibly happen . The child was wading in less than a foot of water, in a rather crowded commercial area. Well, stewart, the thing is ive never seen a gator there. However this time of year the gators are looking to mate. They are not there encouraging gators, trust me. A gator can go down streets at night and go through pipes, come through all kinds of swamps around that place. And by the way, obviously the person the gator wants to go for theyre afraid. If it was hungry, and there was ankles splashing around that to the gator is something that gator might want. Follow me . So the terrible thing is the gator is like the little eyes stick above the water to come towards that source of noise. They can pick up vibrations in the water. He runs like a bullet and hes there and what happened is a tragic thing. Thats a large lagoon. 17 acres. Is it difficult to keep them out . Its almost keeping a bird of prey. I had to get them inside o