including the u.s. ambassador. that the president the day after that happened flies to las vegas for a political fund-raiser. and the suggestion that anybody in my team would play politics or mislead when we ve lost four of our own, governor, is offensive. that s not what we do. reporter: that fight is likely to spill over into next monday night s debate. their final showdown, rob and paula. that one will focus exclusively on foreign policy. maybe that libya moment kind of foreshadowed what we ll see monday. that s for sure, karen. what was different about this debate compared to the first time around? reporter: that noticeably stronger tone. you had both president obama and mitt romney really going after each other. you know, we heard so much after that last debate that president obama was too passive, his performance was too lackluster,
sometimes with humor. i think the vice president very well knows that sometimes the word don t come out of your mouth the right way. but i always say what i mean. reporter: with the polls tightening, the president needs to fire up his democratic base, while mitt romney needs to try to convert 2008 obama voters. and last night here in kentucky, rob and paula, both of them got a lot of help from their running mates. and, karen, of course last night was merely the appetizer for the big entree come tuesday night. how does this set up the presidential debate a few days from now? reporter: well, the obama campaign thinks they ss they got a win last night. they think it is 1-1. if they concede mitt romney did turn in a stronger debate performance last week. next week s debate, in new york at hofstra university, is a
i think the vice president very well knows that sometimes the words don t come out of your mouth the right way. but i always say what i mean. reporter: with the polls tightening, the president needs to fire up his democratic base, while romney needs to try and convert 2008 obama voters. and, rob and paula, last night here in kentucky, both of them got a lot of help from their running mates. all right, karen. can we say that there was a winner? can we call it a draw? i was looking at several polls, three gave it to paul ryan. three gave it to joe biden. was there a winner, or was this a tie? yeah, paula. those instant reactions were showing voters were evenly split. but i think if you have to pick who really got what they wanted to get out of this debate, it was vice president biden. the democrats are very happy because he basically stopped the bleeding from last week s the president s performance at last week s debate. he did two things very well. one, he promoted the presi
middle-of-the-road voters who are disappointed in president obama but still haven t committed to romney. president obama and clinton have had a rocky history. they clashed during the 2008 democratic primary race. but with the president s popularity ratings the lowest preconvention for any incumbent since the 1980s, the obama campaign knows the big impact that clinton could have. bill clinton loves to be needed as much as he needs to be loved. he is really needed by barack obama right now. reporter: president obama will make his sales pitch to voters right here in this arena. that was not the original plan of course, rob and paula, he was supposed to do it outside. but because of weather concerns, democrats decided to move it inside this arena. they say they will not let that rain on their parade. a lot of folks thought they were going to hear the president that won t be allowed in because it doesn t seat as many people. did bill, the big dog do his job in his speech last night, k
when it happened in terms of how far into the movie. apparently maybe 20, 30 minutes into the movie. this is when it occurred. people were under the mistaken impression that it was part of a special effect, part of batman. a lot of confusion. certainly a hot of confusion here. god knows how many people were in the theater at this point. again, we know the numbers as they are now, that will rapidly change, we know that. in the darkness, in this movie, someone opens fire. this adult male has been caught. his gun has been recovered. police confirm to us an explosive device was found inside the theater. as we said several times, we don t know whether it was planted meaning this was a wildly pre meditameditated atta whether he threw it into the theater after the light went down and the movie again. utter chaos in aurora, colorado, waking up to a devastating scene at a local movie theater there. ten people known dead. 20 injured. chaos ruling in that small town this morning. and you