Caribbean and could power up into a hurricane later today. This is the cbs morning news for 2012. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im terrell brown. With under two weeks to go now the race for the white house looks like it will be a photo finish. Today president obama begins a two day Six Day Campaign swing to critical battleground states. It includes his 7th visit of the campaign to ohio. Mitt romney arrives there later today. Ohio looking more and more like it might be the lynch pin of this election. Susan mcginnis in washington. Good morning. Reporter good morning. There is no denying the importance of ohio with its large number of electoral votes and right now evenly split. It looks like, you know, whichever side toes a better job of getting out the vote can go a long way towards a win. Enthusiasm for the election is building and the crowd at Campaign Rallies are getting bigger. More than 12,000 people turned out at the red rock amphitheater in the battleground state of colorado
Wehings off on the campaign trail. Welcome to the second hour of happening now. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton changing attacks. Clinton is in colorado as her campaign releases new fundraising numbers that should make her supporters happy. Meanwhile trump just wrapped up a rally in virginia, home to the democratic president ial nominee, tim kaine. Trump already taking some heat from a comment there about a gift from a veteran. Heres what he said. Something very nice just happened to me. A man came up to me and he handed me his purple heart. Now, i said to him, i said to him, is that like the real one or is that a copy . And he said thats my real purple heart. I have such confidence in you. And i said, man, thats like thats like big stuff. I always wanted to get the purple heart. This was much easier. Trump also going after Hillary Clinton, saying when it comes to her involvement with russia, she looks totally lost. Listen. She wants to play the tough one . Shes not tough. Shes not to