bret: you are looking live outside the newtown high school auditorium where president obama will speak in just a bit once a prayer service starts there, a vigil. people are filing in. we are getting word the volunteer effort from the american red cross is spectacular. not only to help the victims and the families and also the families in the school, but, really, everyone there. i can tell you the red cross is providing crisis and grief counseling for everyone and also handling, or handing out blankets and teddy bears to kids through the town with more than 100 volunteers pouring in from all over the country to newtown, connecticut, so, just a sense of the feeling on the ground from the american red cross and i can tell you that different church services and synagogues were packed throughout the region.
travel season is getting underway with thanksgiving just around the corner. we want to ask you, are you concerned about the potential flaw in tsa s precheck program? tweet your answers. i plan to read some those responses later in the hour. they have fought in battlefields in iraq and afghanistan and now they re using their military skills to make a big difference here at home. hundreds of veterans are joining together to help victims from hurricane sandy. many residents are reeling from devastation and now these new volunteers are hoping their efforts will help communities struggle to rebuild. anna kooiman is joining us now from rockaways, new york. hey there. this volunteer effort is amazing. team rubicon has 500 volunteers, most veterans from iraq and afghanistan in the rockaways alone today. they got started about three years ago after the haiti earthquake and it helped dozens
setting up a new relief center, and a resident is a wall streeter on the phone with me saying well, a lot of show, very little help. is it still that way? not up has changed but for the fact that more and more people are needing a tremendous amount of help. some areas of the island with power, and they shut it back down because there were fire concerns, so, people got their power on. and they shut it off again. we most of the island is still in a terrible situation a lot of bureaucrats running around, but like i said, we have a huge volunteer center here and oakwood was the highest decimated areas and the petroleum just need help. we heard a lot about the volunteer effort and that superseded whatever fema was doing but fema got back to us
running. here s what he said. first of all, we ve done a whole slew of positive ads that talked exactly about how we need to change our education system, how we need to change our tax code, how we need to rebuild america. how we need to promote american energy. so those just don t get attention in the news. the president said they ve run a whole slew of ads, positive ads. we wanted to we wanted to check and see if maybe we d overlooked a slew of ads either candidate was running. keeping them honest. we checked with c-mag, the consultants who track ad spending for us. they told us last week the obama campaign aired negative ads more than 19,000 times and positive ads fewer than 150 times. less than 1% of their ads were positive. according to other reports, since the general campaign began, as many as 3 in 4 of president obama s campaign ads have been negative. 3 in 4. to be sure, both campaigns are playing hard ball. during the two weeks ending july 9th, about 89% of oba
lied about his end date at bain. in a series of interviews on friday, romney accused of obama campaign of stooping to new lows. in an interview that aired today on cbs this morning, president obama was asked about the negative ads his campaign was running. here s what he said. first of all, we ve done a whole slew of positive ads that talked exactly about how we need to change our education system, how we need to change our tax code, how we need to rebuild america. how we need to promote american energy. so those just don t get attention in the news. the president said they ve run a whole slew of ads, positive ads. we wanted to we wanted to check and see if maybe we d overlooked a slew of ads either candidate was running. keeping them honest. we checked with c-mag, the consultants who track ad spending for us. they told us last week the obama campaign aired negative ads more than 19,000 times and positive ads fewer than 150 times. less than 1% of their ads were positive