News. Targeted, ambushed and shot. Tonight the man shot in the parking lot after northeast philadelphia supermarket speaks out. Hes sharing his story he says he need to hear. And it is a story youre seeing first on Eyewitness News at 10 00. Good evening, jessica has the night off. Im chris may. Shooters still on the loose tonight, as this man offers up his own money to catch them. Hes now sharing his story of survival, and fear, with Eyewitness News reporter walt hunter. Walt . He fired. It was like, you know, un expected. Victim, businessman, whose identity were concealing, just pulled into a parking space when he says the robber, approached his window, and opened fire almost point blank, as he sat in the drivers seat. That robber and his partner then stealing 70,000 cash, in a bank deposit bag, from the passenger side of his van. He shot me, he thought i must have been, you know even if i die, he dont care, you know, he was looking for the monday. I luckily the bullet pierced the vic
paul steinhauser in washington. paul, rick perry s campaign is suffering a couple of big blows this weekend. so how about that unexpected victory from herman cain? yeah. and this was a big unexpected defeat, you could say, for rick perry, the texas governor, who s been the front-runner in the national polls. let s look at the results from that saturday straw poll in florida. a crucial state in the battle for the nomination. look at the top ranked there. herman cain. a distant second is rick perry, who spent a lot of time down there in florida, and pundits thought he would be the one to win that straw poll result. the other one that came out this weekend, michigan, and mitt romney is at the top. no surprise here. listen, romney was born in michigan. his father a former governor there. very popular. romney won the primary there back in 2008. he was expected to win. but perry did go up to michigan and campaign and he was a distant second. for perry, i think a lot of people are
a distant second is rick perry, who spent a lot of time down there in florida, and pundits thought he would be the one to win that straw poll result. the other one that came out this weekend, michigan, and mitt romney is at the top. no surprise here. listen, romney was born in michigan. his father a former governor there. very popular. romney won the primary there back in 2008. he was expected to win. but perry did go up to michigan and campaign and he was a distant second. for perry, i think a lot of people are saying that those uneven debate performances, especially last week and the attacks on rick perry over his stance on illegal immigration, may be taking a toll. one other thing from the debates or from the straw polls, michele bachmann nowhere to be seen near the top. remember she won the straw poll in iowa in august. but she finished very low down in both of these straw polls. one thing about those, they are important. they are a gauge or a test or a barometer of a cam
president obama will try to convince palestinian leader mahmoud abbas today to back off his bit for statehood. he ll meet separately with abbas and netanyahu after addressing the u.n. general assembly this morning. with the israelis and with the palestinians, the president will be able to say very directly why we believe that action with the united nations is not the way to achieve palestinian state. reporter: abbas has been trying to line up support before he asks the security council on friday to formally recognize a palestinian state. the u.s. would push for peace talks with israel. last year, president obama had high hopes for a two-state solution. when we come back here next year, we can have an agreement that will lead to a new member of the united nations. sovereign state of palestine leaving in peace with israel. reporter: while u.s. officials say they can t stop abbas from asking for statehood, they at least hope he ll postpone his plans. a delay could give m