george zimmerman at $1 million. you might remember he is the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with second-degree murder in the death of trayvon martin. zimmerman's earlier bond of $150,000 was revoked after prosecutor told the judge that he misled the court about how much money he had. it is not clear how soon zimmerman is going to post bond or when he will be released. a florida lifeguard has been fired after saving a man from drowning. yes, that is right. thomas lopez says he was let go from his job in hillendale eare beach when he rescued a guy outside of his area of the beach. >> i am going the do what is right and i did. >> he says that several other lifeguards have quit to protest the firing and my colleague erin burnett is going to talk live to lopez tonight live on cnn's "erin burnett outfront" at 7:00 p.m. president obama kicked off this bus tour in a politically critical state of ohio. the road to the white house has run through ohio and the president has made several stops on what he is calling their betting on america tour. right now, he is in the town of m maumee which is not far from toledo, and dan lothian is reporting on all of the stops, and you are on the phone, dan, and chugging along. what have you seen so far? >> that is right. we just hopped on tb bhe bus he in maumee, and the president is doing affiliate interviews, and he often does that with local affiliates, and we are headed to sandusky with the president will wrap up remarks at a ice cream social, and the message here that the president has is all about the economy focusing on essentially defending what he has been doing t ing thing over three years and the bailout, and the bailout of the auto industry, a nd this is a region that has been hit hard in manufacturing sector, gm, and chrysler employed a lot of people in this region and a lot of the jobs, tens of thousands of jobs in this region were lost and the president is spelling out what he has done the bring some of of the jobs back here in america and what he is going to continue to do to bring these folks back to work, suzanne. >> and dan, obviously, everything that he says the messaging is critical at this time, and they are running out of time before the voters go to the polls. he is attacking mitt romney directly here? >> yes, he did, but i expected more from the president today, but today, two occasions and perhaps three, that i will point out that the president went after mitt romney on the auto bailout and talking about what the administration had done, and this is obviously something they were criticized for investing so much money in the private sector, and the president drawing a contrast between what he did and what mitt romney would have done. take a listen. >> when the american auto industry was on the brink of collapse, and more than 1 million jobs were on the line, governor romney said, we should just let detroit go bankrupt. i refused to turn my back on communities like this one. i was betting on the american worker, and i was betting on american industry, and three years later the american auto industry has come roaring back. >> reporter: and the president went after romney for working with a private equity firm as the president pointed out was a pioneer of the outsourcing and the president telling the crowd he is working to insource the jobs and the companies that have sent the jobs overseas to provide tax breaks for the companies to bring them back home, suzanne. >> and dan, we have noted a couple of things from the president who is out there sweating and speaking with the folks and speaking in a casual way as he is known to do in large crowds, and how is he being received there in ohio? >> well, certainly here in this crowd, it was friendly territory and so he was received quite well, but what you are seeing here is a change of the face of the campaign and mostly the president has done big name and big city sessions and some rallies as well, but it is the hollywood set or the new york set of fund-raising and this is more of the retail politics and the president getting out to the rust belt and meeting the folks up close and personal and specifically those blue collar workers that both of the campaign ris trog -- campaigns are trying to get to. >> thank you, dan. i know it is awfully hot out there. take care. and the republican governor of louisiana and the former governor of minnesota are tracing the president's route and we will have more on their so-called middle-class promise gap tour. and the other story, the $1 million bond set for george zimmerman. david mattingly has been following the story of all things trayvon martin and related to george zimmerman, and this is a large amount of money that was being offered before the $1 million bond was issued. why so large? >> well, it is not how big the bond is, but it is the damage done to his credibility and to his freedom. in the room, the definition was that the defendant tried to flaunt the system when he tried to say that he didn't have the funds to meet the $1 million bond that the prosecution was originally asking for in this case. the judge also said that the defendant offered no justification for his deception. he uses these words very strong words and again saying that he tried to manipulate the system. and so now, when he gets out not only does he have to come up with 10% nonrefundable of that $1 million bond, he has harsh restriction restrictions placed on him. before george zimmerman could go anywhere to be in hiding, but now we are finding that he cannot leave the county. the judge says that you cannot leave this county, and there are all sorts of other restrictions placed on him. he cannot engage in criminal activity. he cannot have contact with the victim's family, and he will have electronic monitoring and he has to report on pretrial releases every 48 hours socht it is tight now, and tight on the freedom and something that the judge said here really jumped out at us, and he said that the defendant was preparing to flee to avoid prosecution, but plans were thwarted. >> so he actually believes he was a flight risk. >> that is what the judge is saying here, and those are his exact words and he does not offer any details about why he thought that, but now we are finding that the judge did believe that george zimmerman was a flight risk and now with a $1 million bond, a bondsman is going to have some incentive to go after him if he skips bond. >> and do you believe there is a chance that 10% will make the bond? >> he has 10% nonrefundable, and we know he has got it, because the defense fund is up to $200,000 and $100,000, he will get o get out of jail. >> all right. appreciate the update, david. here is what we are working on. two michigan auto workers who have a different opinion about the president. >> i credit president obama totall totally. >> the president wants to take us deeper and deeper into the social democratic mess that the europeans are going through right now. >> reporter: . from stockton, california, to other cities around america are going brumt. i will look at a how that impacts the people in those towns, and why the american workers are putting in the equivalent of 45 days of overtime a year. meineke's personal pricing on brakes. i tell mike what i can spend. i do my best to make that work. we're driving safely. and sue saved money on brakes. now that's personal pricing. now the aftermath of a freak storm that knocked out power to millions. six days after the storm hit more than 483,000 homes across 11 states are still without electricity. one quarter of them in west virginia where the food and the wa ter shortages are widespread in a state where a lot of folks are already struggling. the median household income in west virginia is just over $38,000 and that compares to the almost $52,000 for the rest of the country. and 17.4% persons are below the povrly level compared to 13.8% for the national average. we have more on the relief effort. >> reporter: john roberts is in a hurry, because he needs to get a truckload of food and water to a shelter soon. roberts runs a faith-based charity called mountain mission. we follow the team as they pull into the community center which is a temporary shelter for citizens who have been without power and food for days, and many of them are thrilled with his arrival. and people like wilma wilcox who is legally blind says that her family has been struggling to find food since a tree fell on the house and killed the power in her house. >> we have gone to churches and tried to get food, and it has been hard indeed, because we have to go place to place and it is hot. >> reporter: and this person tells a more desperate story. how long did you go without food and water? >> four days. very hard. very hot. we felt like you are going to pass out and got trembling and shaking. >> reporter: the state tells us that nearly every charity is dealing with food shortages as they have had to toss out perishable foods. >> we have dealt with a lot of floods and loss of power, but this snuck up on us. >> reporter: and now state officials are working furiously to head off a worse scenario. this group has distributed 4,000 pounds of nonperishable food to the residents in here, and as far as the residential response goes, a fema official tell us, this is not another katrina. they say they have learned how to coordinate with the state officials from day one and bringing in 100,000 meals to west virginia and bringing in tractor-trailers full of water, and extra generators and many of it has arrived with little time to spare. >> we thank god that it is a place to come to get food. >> reporter: one of the wiggest challenges here is communication, so many areas of west virginia live in remote areas, and it is difficult for the state officials to get word to them on where to go to get help. brian todd, cnn, charleston, west virginia. john roberts who is the head of the group featured in the report of the mountain mission, and we understand that one of the big problems is communicating with the remote areas, and you are trying to deliver to food to the places. how is that going? >> well, it is actually really going pretty well right now compared to what it was right out of the box. right after the storm, we did not see the storm coming. meteorologists did not pick up on it, and it gave us no warning. so it caught us, you know, sleeping a little bit. but i will tell you that the federal officials and the government officials here, and the state officials have all responded just great. very positively. american electric power has done good. we have gotten most of the state back on line with electric, so communications has increased. it is really getting much better. >> sounds like better than we thought. i know that the american red cross is providing up to 25,000 meals a day in the state and the federal government has sent a good bit as well, about 100,000 meal meals or so, and are they getting what they need here? >> well, it is coming. yes, there are still some rural areas that they are working on, and it's really difficult. like i said yesterday in brian's piece, the west virginia is a beautiful state, and very mountainous, and therefore when we have high winds and the trees will take out some of the power lines, it will take a little bit of time to get to back roads and things like that, but all of the emergency officials and everything are doing everything in their power to make sure that people have the medication they need, that they have the water, the food, and all of the resources they need to survive and it is really, it is tough. a lot of the grocery stores, the shelves were somewhat bare, especially of the perishable items like the dairy products and the meat and things like that, and we are really coming together and making a difference here. >> and john, i wanted to ask you about that, because the grocery stores had to dump so much spoiled food across the state, and how do they restock? are they able to get the food back into the stores? >> we have talked to a couple of local grocers, and yes, the food supplies are coming in. they are actually going awe of the shelf as fast as they come in, but that is okay, because we know it is going into the hands of the people that needs it. so outside, surrounding states have helped us, and the national guard has, the governor has had the national guard involved, and they have done a terrific job to help us raise a lot of money and food and water over the last couple of days. it has really -- i can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and in another two or three days i will see a positive move here and big impact. >> thank you. you are the third john roberts i know, and thank you. i am glad it is going well. >> thank you so much and thank you for having me. >> sure. the popular toy legos built for kids around the world for decades and now a lebanese woman says she has what is the 21st century version which is an electronic toy which fosters science and engineering. check it out. >> i'm an engineer and i'm the founder of little bits. these are little bits. the little bits of the system of electronic modules that snap together with magnets to teach kids about electronics and sips and technologies. once of my favorite things is seeing the first time people interact with little bits. they take the two pieces and snap the two pieces and a light comes on, and then suddenly, the face lights up. suddenly, you feel like the whole world of imagination opening up to them, and they are able to imagine what is possible to them. cool stuff. michigan is a big swing state, and people there are divided. we will talk to one person there who supports obama, and one who supports romney. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] what's the point of an epa estimated 42 miles per gallon if the miles aren't interesting? 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>> president obama, because when everybody turned their backs on the auto industry, he said no way to let us fail. >> reporter: mitt romney's criticism of the auto bailout does not sell well here in the home of the big three, and michigan is leaning towards obama in this election, but not all of the auto workers we met here are. >> i think that mitt romney will do a much better job managing the economy. the government needs to be out of the economy as much as possibl possible. >> reporter: you see even though brian is an auto worker, he does not think that president obama should have bailed out the indust industry. >> i think that markets need to be allowed the work, and theher fundamental problems that gm and chrysler had that were really of their own making. >> reporter: he works for ford which didn't take a bailout. >> life is a whole lot different today. >> reporter: but stacy's company did. she was laid off as an electrician in 2008 and out of work for a year. >> they started to do the restructuring after the grants and i went to work one month later and i have been working since. >> reporter: that has helped her to send her daughter to college and buy a new house. >> i believe without obama's bailout, we would not be here today. >> reporter: and brian is doing well, too, but he does not credit obama's spending. >> obama wants to take us deeper and deeper into the democratic social mess that the europeans are going through right now. >> reporter: he is working part-time for a republican state representative. >> we need fiscal responsibility, and that is mitt romney. >> reporter: why should we keep bailing out the industry? that is the feeling of the people on the road that i have talked to have? >> the big three supports the entire state of michigan and the auto lines did not help chrysler and gm, but the small suppliers and the people in the area and the citizens. >> reporter: despite the bailout, michigan has actually lost 50,000 manufacturing jobs since 2007. >> some even said that we should let detroit go bankrupt. you remember that. >> i believe that the market works better than a president stepping in to take care of his friends. >> reporter: mitt romney's 2008 op-ed let detroit go bankrupt is notorious here. >> hey, hey, mitt romney has got to go. >> reporter: president obama took 53% of the vote here in ma kocomb county, and the supporte know the uphill battle here for mitt romney. what do you believe is mitt romney's biggest challenge here in michigan? >> when chrysler and gm were grabbing for a lifeline, it came off that he did not care about the auto industry, and he cared about the auto business of a financial guy and bean counter rather than somebody's heart really there. >> reporter: a candid reflick shun of an auto worker who knows the detail of the production line and politics. >> poppy, a fascinating look there of the two sides of the topic here. are the folks in michigan still focusing on the romney op-ed let detroit go bankrupt from four years ago? is that still resonating? >> yes, i i shgs , it is and mo expected. of course, those who have seen it work for them and their jobs bring it up and say that romney was wrong and even the man on the piece, brian, he said that he treated the issue like a businessman and well, mitt romney is a businessman and he wanted a traditional bankruptcy financed by the public sector and not using tax dollars. that is key. but what is also key is that it is indisputable that the auto bailout did bring down unemployment. you had michigan with 13% unemployment in 2010 and 8.5% unemployment in the area right now. michigan is the state that has seen the biggest decline in unemployment, suzanne n the last two years. it is michigan and then ohio where the president is today. that is going to be key. that is why, clearly romney is going to have a tough time in detroit especially, but it was fascinating to find auto workers that i found more than that one, because a steel worker at a bar said that his job is tied to the auto industry, but he is supporting romney. >> fascinating support there, poppy. appreciate it. of course, tomorrow is a big day for the people in the city of stockton, california, because members of the city council will be in court after filing for bankruptcy. the city is in debt, and they want protection from the creditors and here is the important part, it is the biggest city in american history to file for bankruptcy. i want to talk about this with claude anderson. and thank you for being here. >> yes. >> and i want the viewers to look at the cities e who have filed for bankruptcy, and they are all over the country, and we are talking about new england and now the latest in stockton, california. tell us what happened in stockton? >> well s ate co, it is a combi many things and i hate to call it a perfect storm, but you had the economy