i want to start with peter hanby in charleston, south carolina. talk to me about the romney camp managing the expectations going into tomorrow s primary. yes, after a week ago when they were up for ten points in the poll, they aare bracing fora second-place finish here which is not expected. last night, romney said it is a four-person race and we never expected to win here, and sure we could lose, but we will go down to florida to where we have a organization and a lot of support. and today, he told reporters that it was an uphill battle here, and echoing the line, and look, the romney campaign wants to win here. they are spending a lot of money on television ads and in the mail, and radio, and governor nikki haley is campaigning with mitt romney, but the people i have talked to expect this to be an extraordinarily tight race tomorrow night. internal polling shows it is going to come down to the wire. it could be gingrich and romney and you are looking at santorum in third
explosion near the iranian city of isfahan. the exact location has not been disclosed. it s reported it was part of a military exercise. a uranium conversion plant is located just outside that city. earlier this month a mysterious blast damaged a missile base near tehran. a woman in the state of georgia says she had a 13-year affair with republican candidate remember man cain. she made the claim in an interview with local tv channel. cain has been married for more than 40 years, marred with a lot of allegations against him. he says he knows the woman but denies the affair. this is the fifth woman to accuse him of sexual harassment or extramarital contact. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. hello. welcome to wbt, i m andrew stephens in hong kong. i m charles hodson in london. the top stories on tuesday, november 29th. rupert murdoch squares off with shareholders as phone hacking revelations continue to rock his leadership. stock markets in europe
president obama joins european leaders all working to deal with the crisis threatening the eurozone and, of course t global economy. for the first time we re hearing from the young woman who posted a video online of her father beating her. why did she do it seven years after the fact? good morning. it is thursday, november 3rd. this is your a.m. wake-up call. it s 5:00 eastern time. breaking news out of oakland, california. major developments in the occupy wall street protests. parts of the city look like a war zone right now. police fired teargas in an effort to remove several hundred occupy protesters who said they ignored orders to disperse. we have no information on possible injuries. the protesters were the remnants of thousands who yesterday carried through a threat to shut down the city in the port of oakland, the nation s fifth busiest port. mayor time operations had been effectively shut down. the port will reopen as soon as it s safe to do so. most downtown street