chris: and h hello again from fox news in washington. we ll get to our coverage of the presidential race in a moment. but first that huge storm that is bearing down on the east coast threatening millions as well as disrupting campaign schedules. here is the latest on the storm from the fox news extreme weather center in new york. chris, we are looking at a storm likely that most of us on the east coast have never lived through. still a hurricane right here across area of the atlantic that is going to interact with a storm pulling offshore and going to cause an intense storm the largest probably ever to impact area of the mid atlantic into the northeast. the wind field is massive and it extends all the way into towards parts of wisconsin and illinois by the time we get to tuesday. we could be seeing winds 50 to 60 miles an hour in chicago. so far away from the land. wind advisories posted all up and down the eastern seaboard. there will not be hurricane warnings issued bec
0 and down the eastern seaboard. there will not be hurricane warnings issued because it will transition into a nor easter but expect the results to be he just the same. areas across the northeast dealing with this storm starting tonight all the way through the day on wednesday. chris: the latest on sandy from our extreme weather center. now, the campaign. with president obama and governor romney headed into the final week, we want to track where the race stands with senators from four key swing states. republican rob portman of ohio who played president obama in romney s debate prep. 18 electoral votes in play in a state obama won in 08 by 4.6 points and now leading by 2.3 points in the the latest realclearpolitics average of recent polls. republican ron johnson of wisconsin, ten electoral votes at stake. obama won by almost 14 points last time and now leading by 2.3. democrat mark warner of bit of havoc into the race. i was supposed to be with the president and president clinton on
attack. they were told both times to quote stand down and according to our sources woods and five other american heros ignored the orders and went to the consulate anyway and tracted those still in harm s way and searched for the ambassador but could not find him. the group later returned to the cia annex and requested for a third time military assistance and again were denied aboutthy administration. earlier today fox s jennifer griffin explained in detail how the heros could have in fact been saved. reporter: four separate mortars were fired at the compound. one of those killed glen dougherty directly. another one hit there was a machine gun position on the roof tyrone woods was hit at that time. but what i m told by sources who were in benghazi the night of the attack that they did have laser pointers on the mortar fire team and if special operations gunships had been september in and some were on standby and teams were on stand by just a few hour s flight away that they
attack. they were told both times to quote stand down and according to our sources woods and five other american heros ignored the orders and went to the consulate anyway and tracted those still in harm s way and searched for the ambassador but could not find him. the group later returned to the cia annex and requested for a third time military assistance and again were denied aboutthy administration. earlier today fox s jennifer griffin explained in detail how the heros could have in fact been saved. reporter: four separate mortars were fired at the compound. one of those killed glen dougherty directly. another one hit there was a machine gun position on the roof tyrone woods was hit at that time. but what i m told by sources who were in benghazi the night of the attack that they did have laser pointers on the mortar fire team and if special operations gunships had been september in and some were on standby and teams were on stand by just a few hour s flight away that they
attack. they were told both times to quote stand down and according to our sources woods and five other american heros ignored the orders and went to the consulate anyway and tracted those still in harm s way and searched for the ambassador but could not find him. the group later returned to the cia annex and requested for a third time military assistance and again were denied aboutthy administration. earlier today fox s jennifer griffin explained in detail how the heros could have in fact been saved. reporter: four separate mortars were fired at the compound. one of those killed glen dougherty directly. another one hit there was a machine gun position on the roof tyrone woods was hit at that time. but what i m told by sources who were in benghazi the night of the attack that they did have laser pointers on the mortar fire team and if special operations gunships had been september in and some were on standby and teams were on stand by just a few hour s flight away that they