space reaching 833 miles per hour. felix baumgartner blazes past the speed of sound and into the history books. e-refund. e-book readers rejoice. a refund check might be in the mail. and yankee pain. first a-rod. then jeter. now empty seats? it s bad when you can t sell out a playoff game. a playoff game. newsroom starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. thank you so much for being with us. i m carol costello. we start with round two. the big presidential debate. you guessed it. you will not see mitt romney or the president on the campaign trail today. because the clock is ticking. romney in massachusetts prepping for the debate. obama in virginia. it is their last full day to get ready for the big night tomorrow night. a night some say could make or break this year s election. well, the president did take time off. a half hour break this weekend to deliver pizzas to his local campaign field office. but for the most part, he s been holed up and st
. good morning i m eric thomas. cheryl jennings is off today. and i m kristen sze. the bomb squad was called out this morning they brought a robot to examine this package discovered before 8:00 near campus. some muni lines were affected for a while. the uc sf child care are was also evacuated. everyone was allowed to return. deputies will release new information within the hour concerning a murder mystery in contra costa county. a man and woman was found shot between pittsburg and antioch. amy hollyfield is live at the sheriff s office in martinez. reporter: investigators are having a tough time with this one. you would think it would be tough to shoot two people on a busy street in the early evening and not get caught. investigators are having a hard time finding people who saw anything. people living along buchanan road at the antioch pittsburg border knew something major happened but figured it was a car accident. they didn t realize two people were shot to death.
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suarez: stu rothenberg and susan page offer up other senate matchups to watch. woodruff: then, we update the conflict in syria amid reports that weapons have landed in the hands of militants linked to al qaeda. suarez: publicity stunt or scientific achievement? hari sreenivasan talks to miles o brien about yesterday s supersonic freefall. woodruff: and kwame holman remembers arlen specter, the independently minded pennsylvania senator who served as both a republican and a democrat. that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: computing surrounds us. sometimes it s obvious and sometimes it s very surprising in where you find it. soon, computing intelligence in unexpected places will change our lives in truly profound ways. technology can provide customized experiences tailored to individual consumer preferences, igniting a world of possibilities from the inside out. sponsoring tomorrow, starts today. bnsf railway.
outstanding economic engineering. a former syrian opposition leader says the u.n. and arab league envoy may take a new approach to ending the civil war. burhan ghalioun says lakhdar brahimi wants to send in thousands of peacekeepers. government and opposition forces have been fighting for a year and a half. ghalioun said brahimi hopes to deploy at least 3,000 armed peacekeepers. 300 unarmed u.n. monitors were forced to leave the country in august. government and opposition forces are fighting for control of the northern city of aleppo and the central city of homs. human rights activists say more than 30,000 people have been killed in syria since the uprising began in march of last year. they say more than 300,000 have fled to neighboring countries. brahimi plans to visit damascus this week to present his proposal to president bashar al assad. brahimi visited a longtime ally of syria to look for help in ending the crisis. he met with foreign minister of iran ali akbar salehi