The president campaigned in florida and ohio, pushing a new 20page summary for a second term. Its not the okey doke. Debate experts agreed they won on substance. Big deal. Lance armstrong won on several substances. Yesterday as major selloff, the dow plunging 233 points. We obtained email alerts put out by the state department as the attack unfolded in benghazi, libya. The email showing that Ansar Al Sharia claimed responsibility as the assault was ongoing on the u. S. Consulate. Another Republican Senate candidate sets off a firestorm about rape and pregnancy. Even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape that it is something that got intended to happen. A deadly shark attack in southern california. A 39yearold man was killed while surfing in the waters off surf beach. Two teenagers steal a pickup and drive it in the front of the gas station. Korean pop star met with secretary general moon. You are required to wear a seat belt. Put your damn seat belt on. All that do i get to answer or do you want to go on your own personal jihad there . Youre accusing me of jihad . Do you think it is now more of a campaign for undecided voters . I think there are about six undecided voters left in the entire country. Undecided voters, we know that theyre out there. These campaigns have spent billions of dollars trying to capture them with lawn signs, tv ads and for some lucky ohio voters an amorous David Axelrod ads and for some lucky ohio voters an amorous David Axelrod with a rose in his teeth. Captioning funded by cbs welcome. Welcome to cbs this morning. President yl candidates are focusing on the battleground states that will decide the election. President obama has rallies in nerve vada, ohio and iowa an mitt romney will be covering nevada and iowa as well. Jan crawford has details. Reporter mitt romney is getting ready to head back here to nevada later today, two of the ten battleground states that could well decide this election. At a rally last night near denver, romney made sure to mention what everyone knows, the debates have fueled his surge in the polls. They have supercharged our campaign. Reporter with the final debate behind them, the candidates took their arguments on the trail in key battleground states, romney in nevada and colorado and the president in florida and ohio. Romney said his new momentum has come in part because the president has no new ideas. He has become a president of status quo. And the policies of the president are the continuation of what weve seen over the last four years. Reporter to enforce that message in ten swing states, the main outside Group Supporting romney announced a 17. 7 million ad buy. We never go forward by settling for the status quo. Reporter an outside Group Supporting the president also unveiled aa new ad hammer iing line of attack that was successful for democrats over the summer over romneys tenure of a private equity firm bain capital. Mitt romney and bain capital have turned it into a junkyard. Reporter in ohio, a state that could well decide the election, president obama stayed on the offensive, arguing the debates had gone well for him. I hope i made clear that theres a big difference between me and mitt romney. And its not just that hes got better hair. Reporter reacting to criticism that he has yet to release specific plans for a second term, mr. Obamas campaign also released a 20page booklet of his proposals. Its not a sketchy deal. Its not the okey doke. Reporter and continued to hit romney for what he said was his constantly changing position. We had a severe outbreak last night. It was aat least, at least phase three romneysicha. Reporter celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred reportedly has new information on governor romney and billionaire donald trump says hes got something to share on the president. We dont know what it is, if its a publicity stunt or as trump says, something that could change the race. Charlie, norah, im sure youre on the edge of your seat for that. Really . Jan crawford, thank you. Cbs news political director John Dickerson is covering the Obama Campaign in dayton, ohio. Good morning. Reporter good morning, charlie. What are the Closing Arguments as these two campaigns come down to the wire . Reporter you know, i was with the president yesterday. His Closing Argument has two prongs. One is that hes disqualifying governor romney, basically saying you cant trust him. Forget the economy. Forget foreign policy. Trust is at the center of this and the changes in position on mitt romney means that he is disqualified. Then the president had a new pamphlet with 20 pages of his policy saying ive got a plan and vision for the future. Governor romneys closing aargument is basically do you want four more years of the sluggish, weak economy weve had . The president is out of ideas. Thats his argument to disqualify president obama. Then his argument for himself is i was a business guy. I know how to turn around the economy. And the polls in ohio, as we know them today . Reporter they are very, very close. You can look at the average. The president is up just a tiny bit in the average. Both campaigns feel like this is a dead locked race here in ohio. The president is talking a lot about the auto bailout and you saw mitt romney from his Fast Response on that in the second dough bait third debate, excuse me, that he doesnt want to lose any ground on that question of the auto bailout here in ohio. Thats the big issue here. We talk a lot about the importance of the womens vote. Lets talk about the mens vote. Gallup has some interesting numbers. Comparing where we are in the state of the race in 2008, where barack obama and john mccain were even among men and this year mitt romney has a huge lead among men. Does that matter . Reporter it matters a lot. President obama cannot make up with women the deficit he has with men. He has to fix that problem. Also, his lead with women isnt what it used to be. Why is it going down with men . What it looks like is happening is that those male voters who are more sort of focused on the economy, less interested in the social issues really are buying this aargument that romney has put forward that four more years of president obamas policies just wont work. It will be interesting to wuch that. John, hang on just a moment. Theres another political story making big news this morning. As jeff glor reports, indianas republican u. S. Senate candidate is in hot water over xhepts he ma ma comments he made. Reporter none of them went as far as the states current treasurer last night. I, too, certainly stand for life. Reporter the remark came during the end of tuesdays final debate for indianas open senate seat when Richard Mourdock was asked about abortion. Even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape that it is something that god intended to happen. Reporter after the debate, mourdock clarified his comment saying god creates life. And that is my point. God does not want rape and by no mean means with his i suggesting that he does. Rape is a horrible thing. And for anyone to twist my words otherwise is absurd and sick. But democrats were quick to capitalize. Senior Obama Campaign adviser David Axelrod tweeted mitts man mourdock aprils akin in indiana debate, reflecting a gop that is way out of the mainstream, a not so subtle reminder during the Missouri Senate race two months ago. First of all, from what i understand from doctors, thats really rare. If its a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. Reporter just three days aago, governor romney endorsed mourdock in a new ad. This fall im supporting Richard Mourdock for senate. Last night the campaign distanced itself saying, quote, the governor zbraes with Richard Mourdocks comments and they do not reflect his views. Richard luger in an upcoming primary earlier this year. He and his opponent joe donnelly had been locked in a very tight race up until this moment. Norah . John, could this cost republicans their chance to reclaim the majority in the senate . Reporter republicans need three or four seats to take control of the senate. And the Vice President can break the tie. This is a safe president seat in indiana. Its a problem here. The question, though, is whether these comments are ones mourdock can fix. Suburban women is what he would have to worry about to the extent that mitt romney has tried to distance himself from these remarks, moved back to the middle. This would be something if it became a firestorm in a National Story it would reassociate him potentially with the very conservative parts, the socially conservative parts of the party, something he has tried to stay away from in the general election, focusing on the economy when it comes to womens issues and not the social issues, which are harder for him and for republicans more generally. John dickerson, thank you very much. Wall street is up this morning after the 243point loss on tuesday. Dow jones industrials have lost 200 points twice in the past three days of trading, once more a reminder that the economy is still the number one issue in the election. Rebecca jarvis is here. Good morning. Morning. Whats happening in the market . Whats happening in the markets right now, 500 billion in value has been wiped out in just the last three days as far as the stock market is concerned. At the root of this is earnings. Its earning season. Number of Major Multinational Companies from dupont to United Technology technologies, 3m have come out recently and said were not doing as well as we thought we were doing. 90 of the companies that have looked at what was going to happen in the future have given negative guidance about the future. At the heart of that negative guidance is this fiscal cliff, in tax hikes and spending cuts set to come at the end of this year if congress doesnt act. Those things are hanging overall of Corporate America because they cant plan for the future. They cant determine with that level of uncertainty what happens next for them. Were show iing you what thi fiscal cliff means for everybody, 2,000 more for family, Government Programs cut, the jobless rates go up. Thats the uncertainty that also is hanging over wall street. Can it change things . We know congress isnt going to do anything until way after the election. Exactly. Thats part of the issue. You heard it from jp morgan, goldman sachs. With 2,000 coming out of the average american familys pocket in terms of their tax burden next year if we go over that fiscal cliff. People are already cash strapped in this economy. If that money goes out, all of a sudden they dont have the aability to buy the things that are helping to generate business and jobs in this economy. And theres a general global slowdown in the economy across the globe. Absolutely. You have it in europe, china. Those two factors you look at the companies that have come out and been particularly negative, they are the multinationals that need to see growth elsewhere to recover fully as well. Rebecca jarvis, thank you very much. In the caribbean, Tropical Storm sandy is expected to become a hurricane later today, headed toward jamaica, cuba and could affect the east coast of the u. S. This weekend. Cbs 4 is watching sandy. David, tell us whats happening with this storm. Here is the latest. Youre right, sandy is very close to hurricane with 70mileperhour winds, just south of jamaica this morning, moving quicker to the north at 14 Miles Per Hour. Lets look ahead as we go into the the weekend and early next week. By the weekend sandy is predi predicted to be north of the bahamas. Here comes a big wintertime jet stream dip with a lot of cold air. The question is, does this jet stream dip kpture sandy and pull it toward the east coast or does sandy just go out to sea . However, there is a third possibility. And that is the storm goes out to sea but all the warm air associated with the tropical system merges with the cold air in this joem dip and forms a new low, which could be a major noreaster. That could mean extremely heavy snows well inland, across the appalachians, western pennsylvania, very heavy rains along the coast and, of course, some very strong winds. Its an interesting setup and one that will have to be watched very closely. Thank you, david bernard. Hour by hour picture of the attack that killed the ambassador in libya. State Department Email alerts that were sent while the attack on the u. S. Consulate was under way. Four americans died, including ambassador christopher stevens. The first alert was sent that afternoon. It read u. S. Diplomatic mission in benghazi under attack. It was sent to the white house situation room and the government offices. The next email read the firing has stopped, attempting to locate embassy personnel. Two hours after the first email a third alert reported an islamic military group had claimed responsibility. This is the earliest record so far showing u. S. Officials were told it could be a terrorist attack. It became a Campaign Issue as republicans criticized the Obama Administration for not calling it terrorism sonner. Massachusetts officials are beginning to shut down the pharmacy blamed for a nationwide meningitis outbreak. Aas of this morning, 23 deaths have been reported around the country. 308 patients in 17 states have been infected with the virus. Jim axelrod is in massachusetts. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Leaky boiler, black spots of fungus visible to the naked eye at the necc. The board of pharmacy has voted permanently to revoke neccs license to prit in massachusetts. Reporter state Officials Say their preliminary investigation revealed a failure to follow the most basic laboratory standards. Examination of necc records indicated a failure of the facility to sterilize products for even the minimum amount of time necessary to ensure sterility. Reporter trouble d by the very steroids suspected in the outbreak. Before receiving their own test results confirming that those lots were sterile. Reporter necc released a statement saying they always cooperated with the state pharmacy board and, quote, it is hard to imagine that the board has not been fully apprised of both the manner and scale of the companys operations. There was a long history of complaints against the company, dating back more than a decade. In 2006, the fda sent a warning letter that some of their procedures could lead to, quote, potential microbial contamination. Former chief counsel of the fda. The company made a clear conscious decision to disregard that letter. Only a few years later they were engaged in the very behavior that the fda warned them about. Reporter as a result of the investigation, massachusetts is now conducting unannounced inspections at other compounding facilities. Charlie, norah . A beach near santa barbara, california, is closed this morning after a deadly shrk attack. Pulled from the water and pronounced dead at the scene. The attack happened off surf beach which runs along the edge of Vandenberg Air force base. It is believed to be a great white, the same area where another surfer was killed by a shark just two years ago. It is time to show you this mornings headlines from around the globe. The Washington Post reports the Obama Administration is secretly skr developing a new plan to hunt down terrorists, database called the disposition matrix, contains potential terrorists and the ability to track them down. Usa today says College Costs are going up at a slower rate. A new report says Public University costs rose much less than previous years but federal grant money also seems to be leveling off and average tuition is still rising a lot faster than family income. New York Daily News says Hedge Fund Manager has donated 100 million to new yorks central park, largest gift to the city ever made. Paulson s were starting out a little wet around the bay area. The skies trying to part somewhat. A lot of clouds and scattered showers if you are headed out the door especially as you make your way in along the peninsula and the south bay. You can see that next batch of moisture moving onshore. Things will tend to setting down into the afternoon. Well see those skies becoming partly cloudy, still a chance of a wandering shower, temperatures mainly in the 60s, 50s and 60s coastside. Looks like well be mostly dry for the game tonight. Drier weather on the way. Heres a look at the weather in some cities around the country. This National Weather report sponsored by party city. Nobody has more party for less. T sponsored by party city. Nobody has more party for less. Las vegas police say this man stole 1. 6 million worth of chips from a wellknown casino. The problem hell have to go back there to cash them in. Its one of the dumbest crimes you can possibly make. This morning well show you how other crooks tried and failed to profit from casino crime. 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