today the house will vote for the 31st time to repeal president obama s health care reform law. the vote comes despite the supreme court s recent landmark ruling that the law is largely constitutional, and zero chance the senate will go along. nbc s brian mooar joins us with more details. good morning. reporter: hi, lynn. it is strictly for show but plays to the base of both parties. the house is voting today to repeal president obama s health care law. we are standing here for the american people against the largest middle-class tax increase in the history of the united states, and we will not stop until we are ultimately successful. reporter: democrats point out this is the 31st house vote on obamacare. one definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. reporter: the next big fight is, who gets an extension of the bush era tax cuts? give mitt romney another tax break that would cost that would cost about a
romney. if the election were held today a new reuters ipsos poll shows president obama leads mitt romney among registered voters 49% to 43%. the president has a slim one-point lead over his opponent in the same poll back in june. the president s improved standing appears to be fueled by americans slightly more optimistic view of the future. the poll found the number of americans who think the country is on the wrong track dropped five points last month to 58%. that is down from 63% in june. last night on the rachel maddow show, james carville talked to rachel about why the issue of student loans is so important to democrats in the upcoming election. when you talk about what the middle class or how do you regrow the middle class, how do you bring it back, education is at the forefront. they understand that. i grew up you know, that was the ticket to prosperity. if you got an education, you knew that was going to pay for itself. that was the best investment that you could
martin. hundreds of students at several miami high schools walked out of class. the unarmed teen was dead at the hands of a neighborhood watchman who still claims self-defense. in ten minutes we ll take you live to sanford, florida for the latest. president obama was in the rose garden to introduce his pick to head the world bank. jim yong kim is president of dar dartmouth college. the world bank is one of the most power full tools we have to reduce poverty. we expect to see formal charges against the agent accused of gunning down afghan civilians. robert bales will face 17 counsels of murder, 6 counts of attempted murder and assault from that massacre in kandahar we ll talk more about the head of the national institute of military justice, at quarter past the hour. in health care is in the spotlight, a year after congress passed president obama s controversial reform bill, on monday the u.s. supreme court begins a long process of deciding whether the affordable care ac
imagine looking out your window and seeing this. at least eight unconfirmed tornadoes actually touched down in north carolina last night. mobile homes were tossed around, trees uproot and three people were hurt. we should know more about damage as the day goes on. and that s where our rob marciano jumps in. he s following it all for us. good morning. we re watching that certainly looked like a tornado on the videotape. and the damage we re seeing highlights that. i m checking out the latest tornado warning for miami-dade county. includes homestead and aranja and princeton. these areas are under the gun now for seeing a rotating storm that may bring some damage. here it is on the doppler. south miami heights. this is heading toward the northeast. may clip south miami itself. right now heading over toward the speedway moving northeast at about 30 to 40 miles an hour. no confirmed reports of that being having a tornado on the ground. certainly we re watching for that possibility. th
continuing the conversation on today s top stories. go to our blog at cnn.com/amfix and let us know what you think. a lot of good comments today. we ll read some on air as well tomorrow. meantime, the news continues. right now cnn newsroom with kyra phillips. good morning. and we start with the terrorist strike underground. translator: i felt scared. i have to walk to get to work because there is no way i m going by metro. exploegsions rip through two moscow stations and the percussions are felt as close to home as new york. what can you achieve in 36 hours. so little time, so much to get done. prioritizing the war in afghanistan. what did president obama tell the troops? and our inbox still jammed with your health care reform questions. we ll answer them straight from our health care desk. we begin now with women strapped to the explosives killing dozens of people in moscow s crowded subway system. russian state security says two female suicide bombers carried