good morning, it s thursday, april 19th, 2012. mitt romney is spending his week on a tour of the battleground state that is will be crucial to this election. the message summed up. the fall election to be a referendum on what he calls the president s failing economic policy. hees the guy to right the ship. even if you like barack obama, we can t afford barack obama. it s time to get someone that will get the economy going and put the american people back to work. in north carolina, romney offered what the campaign said was a prebuttle that won t happen until september in charlotte. delivering a point-by-point rebuttal on promises obama made to revive the economy. what you won t hear at that convention is that for the last 38 months unemployment has been above 8%. there have been 50,000 more jobs lost this year in north carolina. more than twice that fit in that stadium. romney is trying to capitalize on polling. the cbs poll had a third of voters saying the economy is
even if you like barack obama, we can t afford barack obama. it s time to get someone that will get the economy going and put the american people back to work. in north carolina, romney offered what the campaign said was a prebuttle that won t happen until september in charlotte. delivering a point-by-point rebuttal on promises obama made to revive the economy. what you won t hear at that convention is that for the last 38 months unemployment has been above 8%. there have been 50,000 more jobs lost this year in north carolina. more than twice that fit in that stadium. romney is trying to capitalize on polling. the cbs poll had a third of voters saying the economy is improving. many are falling behind financially and concerned about paying their mortgages. half say the next generation will be worse off. our poll will be released tonight. we have detail ons a number of points. the republican talking point has been the white house failed to deliver on holding unemploymen
roadaways this morning. doppler shows a few lingering showers over the eastern shore and bay bridge. but basically southern anne arundel county a teeny sprinkle. and 75 in austin hill. 72 in montgomery village. on our way to the mid 80 s with some partial clearing into the afternoon hours. we ll see a lit of sunshine and maybe a rogue sprinkle or two. lisa? hey. more traffic starting to hit the road. in virginia starting to build in volume, but everything is open on areas of wet pavement. inside and outside of baltimore and we are good on i-70 and 270 southbound. pamela and scott? thank you lisa. new this morning, a prince george s county police officer shot and wounded in the line of duty. it happened late last night in capital heights. details are still coming in. good morning, scott. so far we don t know very much. but according to police, that officer is expected to be ok. all the result of police patrolling the area of the capital oaks area. this all unfolded at ab