air to save innocent lives. nightly news begins now. good evening, while millions of americans are looking forward to the biden/ryan debate tomorrow night as the next big television event, the top of the world, the speech, the travels continue, mitt romney is trying to take advantage of a bounce coming off the lt debate. but it is something he said on the subject of abortion that is getting a lot of attention today and tonight. it is where we begin with peter alexander who is traveling with the ryan campaign, in sidney, ohio. reporter: good evening to you, brian, mitt romney traveled many miles on his campaign bus, making three stops trying to build on his momentum from last week and put his campaign in full swing. on the campaign trail, mitt romney stopped in mt. vernon, a manufacturing plant in a must-win state, who has something in common with his wife, ann. they are both breast cancer survivors. reporter: the romney campaign hopes this is a sign of a trend, the po
erica: good morning, it looks like we have some rain and are forecast today. during your commute you will continue to see showers into the evening and overnight hours. as we advance the clock to see scattered showers signal the heart of the bay area up into the north bay. about 2:00 p.m. it looks like everyone is betting a healthy dose of the wet weather tomorrow. i want to advance the clock to 5:00 p.m.. check this out, this is friday at 8:00 p.m.. you will certainly want to be endorsed in the thick of that read on your screen i have not seen a rainfall that heavy on our maps and a good while. everyone wants to certainly have your umbrella ready. the rain will not only stretch for the rest of the work week into the weekend as well. in terms of your temperatures right outside the door is on the mild side. that check out fairfield and apple, upper 30 s there and 44 degrees for santa rosa, a little bit warmer for places like downtown san francisco. upper 30s for haber, 36 for
herself. the news conference said to be by her family. again, we expect possibly to hear from amanda knox. these are photos of her at london s heathrow airport where she was changing planes for seattle. her trip home three years, 11 months since her incarceration in the murder of her roommate meredith kercher. days since a jury in an appeals court cleared her and her boyfriend at the time of the charge. safe to say her family has been waiting for and working for this moment for a very, very long time. working extraordinarily hard. also safe to say it was a moment that meredith kercher s family has been dreading. a very complex case. you know, there s a lot of evidence there, whether it s forensic or physical. one of the things we re left questioning is how the decision was so adamant the first time around has been so emphatically overturned. the kercher family in britain earlier today. we re waiting to hear from the knoxes themselves tonight. drew griffin reporting tonigh
still no. the new jersey governor, chris christie, in his most crowded news conference ever said today he is not running for president. the republican governor has been saying that for months now. i am not arrogant enough to believe that after one year of governor of new jersey and seven years as the united states attorney, that i am ready to be president of the united states. so i m not going to run. i said i don t want to. i m not going to. there is zero chance i will. i don t feel like i m ready to be president. i don t want to run for president. i don t have the fire in the belly to run for president. what do i have to do short of suicide to convince people i m not running? apparently i actually have to commit suicide. shep: instead he had another news conference and it was quite a show for an answer of no. after the announcement, governor christie answered more than 50 questions about his weight, about his attitude, about how he governs. he said he got calls and lett
reactors. electricity is crucial so that its cooling pumps can start operating the fukushima plant but right now only one pump in one reactor is working. hundreds of american military families from japan are expected to arrive in northern california shortly. sharon is at travis air force base where the first flight is due back right about now. i don t know if they have landed but let s toss it over to sharon and find out. good morning. reporter: good morning, frank. really, any minute now. the first flight due to arrive in about 6:05 this morning on a dc-10. in all, more than 500 military family members and their pets due to arrive at travis air force base. the second flight is expected around 8:00 this morning. all these people voluntarily evacuated from japan. they will be coming here on military charter flights. now, travis is the second arrival site for the voluntary evacuation of military families from earthquake and tsunami- ravaged japan. two flights have already t