an effort by several rural colorado counties to form a 51st state appears to have failed. here in new york, voters authorized seven las vegas-style casinos, and an effort in houston to save the famed astrodome has gone down and is defeated. new jersey s garden state plaza, one of the biggest malls in the nation reopens today. a gunman dressed in black scattered shoppers at closing time monday night. s.w.a.t. teams moved in. six hours later they found the body of richard shoop who had taken his own life. his best friend s girlfriend is one of the last people to hear from him. i really wish that i would have answered him. i just really do because i really think that maybe this could have gone differently. i m either going to go away for a long time, die, or make a run for it. cops have been watching my house for the past four days now. i only have maybe one more day before they come for me. and then the last message i got
all new in morning. president obama tweaking his message. remember his life, if you like your health plan, you can keep it? that s being changed a bit. and this is election day. from governs to mayors, high profile politics. and even today how it could give us our first glimpse of the new president alex and our 51st state. also there were boom, boom, and another boom, and right after that, glass, glass everywhere. shoppers run for cover as a 20-year-old gunman opens fire. but this time no one is hurt. newsroom continues now. good morning. thank you so much for being with me. i m carol costello. going on right now on capitol hill a senate hearing on the rollout on obama care.
want to break way and become the nation s 51st state. they d be the smallest state, but if the vote, even if they did decide to succeed, it s unlikely they would get enough voters to support the state hood for northern colorado. that would have to be approved by the colorado legislature, so it s almost certainly not going anywhere. in washington state meanwhile, a genetically modified foods on the ballot. elizabeth, how common are these foods? what are they proposing to do in washington state? they are very common. i can pretty much guarantee you you and i have eaten genetically modified foods. our soy, our corn. scientists take a gene from one living thing and put it in another, so for example, take a gene from a bacteria, put it into corn, the corn can then resist the bugs. some say this is a good thing,
day somewhere in u.s.a. folks are voteling on gambling and marijuana and even a potential 51st state. want another state? how about toronto. in toronto, we re still waiting for the embattled mayor to speak, and we have been for the past 29 minutes and six seconds. if he speaks can rest assured, we shall be there. it s half past the hour and we re waiting for the mayorment mayor. at s today? [ male announcer ] we ll be with her all day to see how it goes. [ claira ] after the deliveries, i was okay. now the ciabatta is done and the pain is starting again. more pills? seriously? seriously. [ groans ] all these stops to take more pills can be a pain. can i get my aleve back? for my pain, i want my aleve. [ male announcer ] look for the easy-open red arthritis cap.
he s wrangled support from across hundreds of acres of farmland, at least 11 rural counties north of denver threatening to secede, all set to hold nonbinding secession votes on tuesday. if they don t see a way to actually move the state back into republican control, they figured maybe just leaving it is the only other option. reporter: political science professor seth maskit says the movement is an example of republicans who are the minority in this state taking desperate measures. in colorado, democrats have control of the senate, house and governor s office. while supporters of the referendum know there s no practical implication from the vote, they say it s a sure way to get attention for their cause. but not everyone agrees with this strategy. the best strategy for dealing with political issues is through the political system. reporter: the d.a., ken buck, a high profile colorado republican, is among those frustrated. he plans to vote against the 51st state initiative. i