of kentucky. from team obama, we ll be speaking with martin o malley and campaign spokeswoman, jen psaki. plus, obama s former economic adviser, austan goolsbee. first, though, a look at the instant reaction from the debate in the cnn/orc poll, of debate watchers taken right after the debate, 67% say they think romney won. 25% only thought the president won. cnn s dana bash joins us this morning to go over some of the hits and some of the misses. good morning. good morning. well, i m here in new york, so maybe we should talk about what happens, how you get to carnegie hall, practice, practice, practice. and is that clearly is what helped the mitt romney. he spent a lot of time practicing, really for the past month doing these mock debates. and when it comes to the president, he was rusty. right out of the gate, it was clear. mitt romney came to play. the president has a view very similar to the view he had when he ran four years ago. that a bigger government, spending mor
what a moment. huge show today. take a look who will be talking to. former new york city mayor rudy giuliani. also current mayor, michael bloomberg. homeland security chairman congressman peter king. homeland security adviser to president bush fran townsend. and author and actor and apparent teacher of at least a year, tony danza. it is tuesday, september 11th. starting point begins right now. and good morning to you. thank you so much for being with us here. our starting point here, no signs of progress. but no deal yet. we say yet, for these 30,000 teachers just about on strike in the city of chicago. which means, 350,000 students have yet another unscheduled day off. we are the union. the teachers want what they consider to be a fair contract. casey wian is at manuel perez junior elementary school in chicago. and casey, depending on who you listen to, there was some movement toward a deal overnight. but there are still some sticking points. that s right, john
homeland security adviser to president bush fran townsend. and author and actor and apparent teaer of at least a year, tony danza. it is tuesday, september 11th. starting point begins right now. and good morning to you. thank you so much for being with us here. our starting point here, no signs of progress. but no deal yet. we say yet, for these 30,000 teachers just about on strike in the city of chicago. which means, 350,000 students have yet another unscheduled day off. we are the union. the teachers want what they consider to be a fair contract. casey wian is at manuel perez junior elementary school in chicago. and casey, depending on who you listen to, there was some movement toward a deal overnight. but there are still some sticking points. that s right, john. there are absolutely some sticking points. the two sides both say that a deal is within reach. but two major issues remain. and they weren t even talking about those issues last night. the first one is
residual effect in the negative or in the positive. reporter: well, we re still trying to weigh that, ashleigh. when i was watching it, it felt like one of those reality tv shows where the candidate on stage either lives or dyes by boos or applause. he was booed when he mentioned obama care which was a little surprising, because the people at naacp, it s not surprising that he is opposed to obama care. he got booed when he said he was a better president for african-americans than president obama is. last night at a fundraiser in montana governor romney basically played up the fact that he was booed. i m going to read you this quote from a report that we have. i m quoting here. this is governor romney, quote, when i mention i am going to get rid of obama care, they weren t happy. that s okay, he says, i want people to know what i stand for and if i don t stand for what they want, go vote for someone else, but i hope people understand this, your friends who like obama care, y
sambolin. monster wild fires still burning completely out of control. this is in colorado. the high park fire near fort collins, colorado, is blamed for one death. it has exploded insize, scorching 64 square miles since the weekend. thousands had to evacuate their homes and the fire destroyed at least 100 buildings. the justice department moving ahead with plans to sue the state of florida in an effort to stop the purging of voter rolls. rick stot wants all noneligible residents barred from voting. the state argues the florida program fails to follow proper legal standards. governor scott says up to 100,000 names need to be purged from its states rolls and now plans to sue the department of homeland security for access to federal citizenship database. we ll ask the governor about that and the timing of all of this when he joins us live at 8:00 a.m. eastern. it s still not clear why police in alabama left a home in montgomery where the auburn triple murder suspect was be