oh, these times are hard yeah, they re making us crazy don t give up on me, baby a little music from the script on a rainy tuesday morning here in new york city. it is october 9th, 2012. a little more music from them tomorrow here on today. one of our favorite bands around here out on the plaza. we re still spitting a little bit. i m matt lauer. what about the weather? here with savannah guthrie and mr. al roker. good one, al. coming up. a lot of people don t believe whether it exists or not. well, one young man says he knows it s for real. we re talking about heaven. colton says he s been there during a near death experience. he wrote an extremely popular book about it. he s out with a new book. we ll catch up with colton and his parents in just a little while. all right. on a little bit of a health kick this morning. five simple habits that you can change to make you healthier, and then, of course, you may have heard the news out of hollywood about dan
afternoon, there was this latest national pugh research poll. governor romney now holding a four point lead among likely voters who were surveyed after the debate. that is a big swing from mid september when president obama was ahead by eight. that was this afternoon, a short time ago, a poll running in the detroit free press shows the president s lead shrinking to just three points in michigan. mr. obama had a ten poernt lead there last month. mitt romney s running mate, paul ryan, is in michigan tonight addressing a rally at oakland university in the town of rochester just outside detroit. the question tonight, if the mood of voters is changing here, could it also be a sign that it s changing in ohio as well, another key battleground state. the poll in the free press and the pew poll not the only good news for the romney forces. they got a big boost as well in gallup s tracking poll which shows a 47-47 tie among likely voters contacted on the 4th through the 6th. in pre-deb
governor romney now holding a four point lead among likely voters who were surveyed after the debate. that is a big swing from mid-september when president obama was ahead by eight. that was this afternoon, a short time ago, a poll running in the detroit free press shows the president s lead shrinking to just three points in michigan. mr. obama had a ten point lead there last month. mitt romney s running mate, paul ryan, is in michigan tonight addressing a rally at oakland university in the town of rochester just outside detroit. the question tonight, if the mood of voters is changing here, could it also be a sign that it s changing in ohio as well, another key battleground state. the poll in the free press and the pew poll not the only good news for the romney forces. they got a big boost as well in gallup s tracking poll which shows a 47-47 tie among likely voters contacted on the 4th through the 6th. in pre-debate polling, mr. obama, president obama, led by five. now, as f
if there is any way to avoid this area. that s what we recommend. reporter: d-dot is deploying its own team of officers and crossing guards to guide drivers away from nats park after the game. we will have some of our traffic safety engineers, or draft signal engineers will be monitoring things remotely and they ll be able to change the signal timing if they need to. reporter: 40,000 plus fans leaving the stadium, mixing with the afternoon commute. it probably won t be much easier on the routes will. we will be running extra trains on the green line as we do for most nationals games. but we ll be running them several hours in advance of the game. reporter: now, obviously it will be a little more crowded than this when the game starts tomorrow. but metro says you should definitely expect large crowds. especially at the two main transfers. l enfant plaza. i m leaving early. i m not going to be around when all the madness happens. reporter: but others feel they ve
story. first, politics, down to four weeks, four weeks until the election, less than. mitt romney out of nowhere it seems, major address today on american foreign policy. take a listen. the president is fond of saying that the tide of war is receding. i want to believe him as much as anyone else. when we look at the middle east today, with iran closer than ever to nuclear weapons capability, with the conflict in syria threatening to destabilize the region and with violent extremists on the march, and with an american ambassador and three others dead, likely at the hands of al qaeda affiliates, it is clear that the risk of conflict in the region is higher now than when the president took office. so we ll hit the speech in depth here a lot on the middle east. but first, let me give you the big picture. as we mentioned, four weeks until the election, and we are seeing a possible shift in favor of mitt romney. check this out. this is what has happened since that debate last w