Important lesson about friendship. All that and so much more on cbs this Morning Saturday, saturday, october 20, 2012. Welcome to the weekend. We begin with a countdown to the pivotal final debate between president obama and republican challenger mitt romney. Monday night in boca raton, florida. Cbs news political news correspondent jan crawford isnt far from there in daytona beach. Jan, good morning. Reporter well good morning. Romney was here last night for a big rally. Its expected to be his last major event going into monday nights debate and with the polls tightening many of those National Polls showing romney in the lead. The president on a campaign trail has really sharpened his attacks and we saw it yesterday when it got personal. President obama actually came up with a new word and last night in that rally romney had an indirect although not too subtle answer. At a rally in virginia the president introduced a new word in the political vocabulary. I mean hes changing up so much and back tracking and side stepping. We got a name thats a condition that hes going through. I think i think its called romnesia. Reporter later in the day the Vice President never afraid to throw a punch reinforced the attack. The president has a new term for this sort of ability to change your mind so quickly. He calls it romnesia. Reporter its the latest missive in an increasingly negative campaign. Last night before huge crowds in daytona beach, florida rommyney answered back. They have been reduced to petty attacks and silly word games. Just watch this. The Obama Campaign has become the incredible shrinking campaign. This is a big country with big opportunities and great challenges and they keep on talking about smaller and smaller things. Reporter now, Romney Campaign adviser told me yesterday he was stunned by the romnesia remark. It wasnt president ial. The Obama Campaign say they believe it will rally their base and help them with turnout on election day. The Romney Campaign says they are not buying that. They think this could come back to haunt the president , especially with those undecided voters who could well decide this election. But well know in 17 days rebecca. It is incredible just 17 days. Jn crawford in daytona beach. Thank you. Joining us with more as campaign 2012 heads into those final 17 days is frank luntz a cbs news political analyst and republican strategist. Welcome. Great to have you here in the studio with us. Hard to believe its all coming down to one final debate and the problem we have now is finding those undecided voters. In our polling its down to 3 . Even half of those actually have an inkling, a leaning. Peggy noonan talked about how much these debates mean. Nobody trust these ads. They are object expensive. In ohio you can go through ads in four minutes you got advertising, all eight ads political and no one knows what to believe so these debates are the only chance you get unedited unfiltered ideas and communication from these candidates. This last debate is on Foreign Policy. A lot will be centered around libya, i think. How much of an impact do you think the issue of libya will have particularly with the 1 undecided. If youre undecided and the president and the governor dont agree on anything. If you are undecided its about character and attributes not about issue. Obama has had an advantage on Foreign Policy because of the killing of bin laden. Republicans have advantage on National Security. But its hard for a governor to claim credit. This is mitt romneys opportunity to prove hes president ial and this is obamas last chance to answer these questions that still remain about libya. When you look at the undecideds, the women voters both of these individuals have gone after the female vote in recent days. What case needs to be made in order to secure that vote . Its not a month nolithic block. The key is 30 to 49yearolds, married and they approve of mitt romneys Economic Policy but they think that barack obama understands them more. Thats the battle. Is it going to be who can solve your problems or who understands your problem and both candidate have a weakness there. If youre those two candidates what do you do . Im using the fraporeign policy debate to link the economic issue. The debt. How can you have a strong Foreign Policy how can you have National Security when you have a 16 trillion debt. So i would expect mitt romney to bring Economic Issues into the Foreign Policy debate. This campaign right now is basically a dead heat. You look at these polls. Within the margin of error. Mitt romney has a slight advantage on the popular vote. Barack obama is leading in ohio. I remind viewers the fact is you can win by 2 of the popular vote and still not become president. The whole country is now focused on cleveland, cincinnati and columbus and what happens there. Both of these campaigns will be focused on the question of benghazi its come up in the debates already. What might we hear thats new. Dont know if youll hear something new. Mitt romney had the right point and wrong language. When he challenged barack obama, yes, the president had called it a terrorist attack but he continued to make the claim for the next ten days. It was based on a video. When romney said he never said it was a terrorist attack romney was wrong but on the overall romney was correct the administration got it wrong. So who is best to handle a crisis. Who do you want at 3 00 a. M. To pick up that phone as Hillary Clinton claim in 2008. The single best line of the campaign so far is gm is alive, bin laden is dead and romney has to challenge that. Bid ensaid that. Thanks so much for joining us. Joe biden said something intelligent. Thank you, frank. Thanks. As rebecca pointed out the closer we get to the election the harder republicans in congress are pushing for answers to a big question what really happened in the attack in benghazi libya last month that killed the u. S. Ambassador and three other americans. Sharyl attkisson has been looking into this and what she found raises new questions about whether the u. S. Military could have done more to save the four men. She joins us from our Washington Bureau. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Some in congress are asking why u. S. Military help from outside libya didnt arrive as terrorists battered more than 30 americans over the course of more seven hours. The assault launched by an armed mob of dozens that torched buildings and used ak47 rifles. Cbs news had been told hours after the assault began an unmanned predator drone was sent over the u. S. Mission in benghazi. It and other aircraft apparently observed the final hours of the battle. The state Department White house and pentagon declined to say what military options were available. A white house official told us that at the start of the attack chairman of joint chiefs Martin Dempsey and defense secretary leon panetta looked at available options and the ones we exercised had our military forces arrive in less than 24 hours. Well ahead of timelines laid out in established policies. But it was too late to help the americans in benghazi. The ambassador and three others were dead. Gary burnside believes help could have come much sooner. He commanded Missions TargetingOsama Bin Laden and led a team on the Embassy Bombings in east africa. You find a way to make this happen. Theres not a plan for every single engagement. Sometimes you have to make adjustments. They made zero adjustments. They stood and watched and our people died. Reporter the pentagon said it did move a team of special operators from Central Europe to sigonella, italy, a large air station an hour flight from libya. Other nearby bases inclouded aviano and souda bay. Resources included fighter jets and gun ships. Which the sources say can be extremely effective in flying in and buzzing a crowd to disperse it. Rick nelson a former navy pilot who worked in counterterrorism said such missions are very risky. What would be the concerns as they are trying to decide whether to send force in quickly . As we saw with the bin laden raid it was a very successful event but high risk activities like this a lot can go wrong as we saw with the iranian hostage rescue decades ago. Reporter and to the controversy the fact the last two americans didnt die until more than six hours into the attack and the question of military help becomes very important. This question of diplomatic concerns as we understand it plays insending u. S. Military into another countrys airspace that can be a sensitive issue. Reporter that was likely part of the discussion sending military into another country can be sensitive and delicate. Weve been told mrs. Clinton sought clearances from libya to fly into their airspace but the administration wont say anything further what was said or decided on that front. And you cant help but notice when you pull up to the gas station were finally seeing some relief at the pump. The National Average for a gallon of regular has fallen more than ten Straight Days and its now 3. 69. Tom is here to tell us why this is happening now. How long we can expect it to continue. All of the questions weighing on consumers minds. Tom, great to have you with us. Nice to be here. We typically around August September start to see oil prices fall. This year they started dropping a little bit later. Why . We had that hurricane isaac which came in september. Then we had a rash of refinery incidents, glitches fires, you name it and we struggled to make enough fuel so there was a lot of panic buying sent wholesale prices through the roof particularly in california. But now thats giving way to panic selling, wholesale prices are down anywhere from 50 cents to as much as a 1. 40 in the last 2 1 2 weeks. Tom i think the president will be glad to hear the prices are falling pretty rapidly in the battleground states arent they . Actually they are falling in the battleground states. They are falling in all 48 states in the continental u. S. But the biggest declines and the places youll most likely see less than 3 is in the southeast and some of the red states. But ohio right now, for example is somewhere between 3 and 3. 20 a gallon. Hell get a little bit of benefit from that. Last year at this time the National Average was 3. 47. How long before we see that price . Well i would say the odds are probably 5050 we might see it by election day. I think theres a good chance and these prices are going to be very similar to what we saw last year. Five to 15 cents lower every week for the next three weeks. In the debates, tom, its come up a lot of discussion about gas prices. Is there actually anything that the white house really can do to control the price of gas . I dont think so. I think they can do some things that would help the impact of price of gasoline three, four five ten years out. Better mileage standards. But theres not anything one can do to do a quick fix. Its a global market. Were the beneficiaries of the fact that our crude oil is 20 below the price of crude in every other continent in the world right now. Thanks tom. Malala yousufzai, the pakistani teenager shot by the taliban has come out of her coma and was able to stand yesterday in her hospital room in england. She was described as looking bright and alert. Word of that set off celebrations in pakistan. The daughter of the late pakistani leader tweeted miracles of today, Malala Yousufzai able to stand. Joining us now from washington our Washington Bureau is gayle lemon, Deputy Director of women policy program and author of the best selling book on life under the taliban. Thanks for being with us. To begin with how big a symbol has Malala Yousufzai become in pakistan . I tnk this is a story that really has galvanized both that country and the world. And shes a symbol of so many other young girls you never meet who danger acid attacks every day just for the simple act of going into a classroom and sitting and learning. I think you may able to shoot a 15yearold girl but you cant kill an idea and shes become only more powerful, a symbol of the right to go to cool every day. The taliban said when she comes back or if she comes back they will kill her. Do you think theres any chance this incredibly strong woman will be backing down . Look if they threateneder and he had didnt give up before she shot her. You can imagine after they shot her she wont be quiet. She said in 2009 they cant stop me. I cant believe that now the word has been forced to Pay Attention to these girls in their drug told go to school. What kind of reception she will get when she returns home . I think she will be greeted with a heros reception because really there are so many young women who have the same story. You know they fight all the time with the support of their father just as Malala Yousufzai did. Yet almost no one pays attention to their struggle until something this extreme and this awful forces the world to Pay Attention to these home grown role models. You have written about the Malala Yousufzais youll never meet. I spent years interviewing women that braved real danger and girls sitting there. Is this a western import or foreign import. The truth is even when the world forgets these girls they fight themselves for the right to go to stool. What this story has done is made it impossible to look away. Have you seen much progress in the schools in pakistan . You know in afghanistan particularly you see a lot. 2001, less than 1 of the countrys girls were in school and now close to 3 million are. And every day they go out and battle. All kinds of threats just to sit and learn. Their battle is really everyones fight because if you look at the world, 40 million of the 70 million children who arent in school are in countries that are struggling against war and there is no better correlation to predicting violence than education levels. Thanks so much for being with us this morning. Great to join you. Police in lebanon opened fire and injured two protesters who were blocking a road on what is supposed to be a national day of mourning in lebanon. Protesters burnt tires in the streets to express their anger over fridays car bombing in beirut that killed a top security official and seven other people. The fear among lebanese is that the attack may be tied to the 19 month long civil war in ne hboring syria. Lebanons government is scheduled to meet today in emergency session. One person was killed and several were injured when a tour bus crashed in northwest arizona. The bus careened off the road and plunged into a ravine in willow beech on friday night 40 miles southeast of las vegas. Police say the driver may have suffered a medical problem. Most of the 45 people on board were injured. Six who were seriously hurt were flown to a hospital in las vegas. Investors this morning are trying to recover from a knock out punch on wall street. Dow fell 205 points on friday on a string of disappointing Third Quarter corporate earnings. It was the worst day in four months. The huge sell offoccurred on the 25th anniversary of black monday. That is the 1987 crash when the market plunged more than 22 in just one day. For the week the dow is just slightly. The National League championship series is headed back to San Francisco. Facing elimination last night the giants barry zito pitched a 50 shutout. The winner will play the Detroit Tigers in the world series which will begin play on wednesday. Its about 18 after the hour. Time to go to lonnie for our first check of the weather. Good morning. Lets get right to the big picture sheer i can show you what Mother Nature is offering up. First thing that will catch your attention, see that swirl here around the great lakes, also a front here offshore. The front thats offshore thats got the brightest colors thats going push offshore. Ill focus more on that swirl i was showing you because this is serving up some less than wonderful weather. Yes its a low pressure system not the strongest system in the world but im calling it not a good day outdoors so its a good movie day four. Thats how we put it on the board from flint, michigan to the less do to buffalo. A lot of clouds out there. Rainfall, look its not the biggest storm youll get all year long. Maybe half an inch three quarters of an inch. Temperatures in the 50. Make it a great saturday nonetheless. Thats a quick look at the National Picture. Heres a closer look at your weather for your weekend. All right, guys. Make it a great saturday. Over to you guys. O inspiring story a young boxer will step into the ring tonight here in new york to do what hes been trained to do. Not really a big deal or it is . In fact it is. Its a surprise this athlete has even walked again and even tonight the three doctors who saved his life will be rooting for him at ring side. Michelle miller reports. Reporter bust engineer Daniel Jacobs is the picture of a prize fight ear middleweight standout with 22 wins one loss and 19 knockouts. Its that record he hopes to reclai when he steps into the ringing tonight at brooklyns new barclay center. But hes already beaten the odds. Here i am a 24yearold man at the time. World class athlete. So for notice have this in my body how could this happen to me . Reporter in april of last year doctors discovered a mass the size of a baseball. It wrapped its way around his spinal cord pressing him into slow paralysis. By mid may the doctor re