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around the bend ♪ ♪ big adventure or a brand-new friend ♪ ♪ when you're curious like curious george ♪ ♪ swingery day ♪ every day ♪ ♪ is so glorious ♪ glorious ♪ george! ♪ and everything ♪ everything ♪ ♪ is so wondrous ♪ wondrous ♪ ♪ there's more to explore when you open the door ♪ ♪ and meet friends like this, you just can't miss ♪ ♪ i know you're curious ♪ curious ♪ ♪ and that's marvelous ♪ marvelous ♪ ♪ and that's your reward ♪ you'll never be bored ♪ if you ask yourself, "what is this?" ♪ ♪ like curious... ♪ like curious... curious george. ♪ oh... captioning sponsored by nbc/universal narrator: it had been raining in the country a lot. rainy days were great for vegetables... and pigs. (tractor sputtering, mr. renkins grunting) but not for tractors. (sighs) i'm going to need a tow truck. (allie sighs) i wish we had something fun to do, huh, george? uh-huh. bill: whoa! whoa...! (grunts) my toss is way off since i sprained my thumb. ah. (chatters a question) thumb-wrestling injury. (sighs) i really miss it. sorry about your paper. it's okay. (gasps) hey, that's something fun to do. we could g

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coming up, the first debate between tim kane and george allen and they came out swinging. hear what they had to say about each other. >> hope for the families of missing cousins from iowa. what police believe that girls are all alive. >> we told you about security changes in bulgaria in the wake of the suicide bombing. tonight there is a >> there was a lively debate between two former governors. talking about tim kane and george allen. we have been following the story. they did not hold back. >> they did not. not only is virginia a key state in presidential politics but this match that is one of the races that could determine the balance of power. money and partisan politics emerging as the themes tonight. after smiles and a handshake the gloves came off. the tubing former governors scored off. first, alan criticized king's performance as governor. >> he tried to raise taxes by four billion dollars on people earning as little as $17,000 a year. >> kane going after his record in the senate. >> you have never governed like a conservative. we cannot afford to take a chance. >

and use his time to try to court those voters who swing in our community. george 2004 got more than 10%. john mccain got 4%. that is% that are potentially in play. when you're running for president, that actually matters. >> let's say a self-made black entrepreneurs, let's just take that group. self-made small businessmen. would they take a second look at romney, or are they just going to support president obama and that's it? >> i think if he came there today and said, for instance, this is how i'm going to solve the credit crunch for small businesses, there were a whole bunch of people who would have their ears wide open. if he came there and said, you know, this is how i'm going to open up contracting, which has really become shut down, not just to black vendors to the state governments and federal governments, but to all small vendors. people would have, you know, turn and ear. talk and small business real brass tacks. >> i like that. i'm taking notes. i like that a lot. anyway, ben jealous, thanks for your time. we appreciate it. and thanks for your honesty.

he gets john buck swings and strasbourg's six shutout innings and bryce harper at the plate and georgeave them tips at the all-star game, because ozzie guillen thought there was too much pine tar on the back and ends up accusing harper of something and had a long talk with marty foster and hoe would switch back later in the game, but forget haerp. strasbourg is the guy at the plate. top five after the marlins intentionally walk jonathan solano, and danny espinoza scores. strasbourg's fifth rbi and 52 career at-bats and it was 2-0 after five. top 6, michael morris comes up with two on and hits a seeing eye grounder up the middle that gets through. ryan zimmerman scores to second and the nats make it 4-0, so bottom nine, tyler clifford in a save situation, loads the base wes nobody out and then gets out of it. omar infante with two out. harper and steve lombardozi collide and the nats win 4-0 and stratsburg 10 and 4 in the season and afterward, davey johnson was confused and upset at the situation. >> ozzie complained that the pine tar was too high up on harper's bat, and so we changed i

swing state. of course, he is talking about the white house. 1988, george herbert walker bush. guest: that is correct. 1988. again, if you get rid of the big obama victory, interestingly enough, and this is fascinating, but you take a look at the money in 2008 spent by the presidential campaign on television advertising, from the middle of september to election day when you really get into the big spending, pa., television stations, the second most money spent in the country, $25 million. florida had more money spent. $17 million spent by the candidate, by their campaigns. pennsylvania is the third most visited state from labor day to election day but election candidates. ohio was the furthest. as you might expect, 62 visits to ohio by mccain and palin and joe biden and the president. they have seen more than 60% of the visits despite they have voted democratic for the elections. it remains a contested state. $4.50 million spent by the romney super pacs, not one nickel spent out of the campaign. the republicans have spent more money in pennsylvania. host: the present kicking of

swing inampaign virginia. said mitt romney will use old economic tactics by republicans that led to the great recession. appears the plan to bring gambling to prince george's be dead after all. o'malley says he plans to local lawmakers next about the possibility of holding a special legislative session. the plan would permit a casino the national harbor resort. >> we had some slow-moving storms move through our area today. >> it gave way to a beautiful rainbow. >> slow-moving is a little bit of an understatement. they were moving at 5 miles per hour, no joke. .hankfully all the rain is now over with. the heat and humidity, it is back. look at what is going on outside right now. this is the lincoln memorial, at capitol building, washington monument. outside, 88 was the height at reagan at national. was the high that at reagan national airport. it is a good indication of what the next few for days. in ashburn. nothing in terms of rain fall 4 chesapeake beach. cumberland, -- nothing in terms of rain fall 4 chesapeake beach. mid part of the country, still at 85.s dew point levels are in the 70's. we are not going to see it any as temperatures will above averag

swing to r. and b. to pop and beyond. and. it's a. good. laugh . hello george was with the show thank you very much for being with us today spicy by spicy with. well i want to start with a thing i just learned recently i read actually stuart held a bestselling british author said once that he started his career had the age of sixteen at a local factory but after the first two weeks of hard labor in the shop he quit promising himself he will never work and now the day life became a writer started writing books was there any similar emotion that influenced your career when you were a young guy. no not really because it's all been work even when i didn't know i was working. in a nightclub seven years old i was singing dancing and playing the ukulele and it was were i was a professional at seven so it's been work from the very beginning but there was one point in my career when i was building houses i worked were construction company not very long and we were putting up the walls in buildings and they came in panels and you had to put. on the fast you did more. and

classifying for transparency ha well george orwell would be proud abby martin are to washington. puzzle action season is in full swing negative attack ads are heating up so how do voters feel about this campaign tactic laurie harford has take that question to the streets of the big apple. this is the year of important elections the world around and many of them involve dirty negative campaigning are you ok with that this week let's talk about that john of kennywood never got to look the. today with his lifestyle a womanising enormous yes absolutely i've still is that a good thing that politicians go there or is it better we just don't know it's very don't know because it's going to do with being a politician i don't think we have to mix politics with personal. life yet but if it helps someone get elected is that ok. i don't think so if one one candidate is doing towards another i think that's a little unfair but if both are going back and forth out of which they normally are i think it's completely fair it's all a part of the game in politics and i think that it's a fair fair where point is that like that and now and

swing state. when is the last time republicans won the election there? 1988? george herbert walker bush? guest: that is correct. the elections have been fairly close. interestingly enough, if you take a look at the money in 2008 spent by the presidential campaign on television advertising, from the middle of september 2 election day when you really get into the big spending, pa., television stations, the second most money spent in the country, $25 million. florida had more money spent than any state, $30 million. of ohio was third with $17 million in television expenditures by the candidates, by their campaigns. then, if you look at pennsylvania, it was the third most visited state. from labor day to election day, by the presidential candidates. ohio was the first. as you might expect, 62 visits to all iowa mccain and palin and joe biden and the president, said those three states, ohio, florida, and pennsylvania, they saw more than 60% of the visits and 2008 and more than 60,000 of the television advertising. it is interesting that pa. despite the fact that it voted democrat for five str

george w. bush hangover and not wanting the job, she would be a surprise. the other bush brother jeb remains popular with republicans especially in swing state florida. spanish fluently and he is popular with latino leaders. there is also brother george. jeb bush has moderate views of accepting the trade of higher taxes for spending. that could hurt. and as a consistent presidential favorite, he could upstage romney. another potential surprise, marco rubio. they see him as a rock star. he could help with the latino vote and at 41 bring some youthful energy. with less than two years as senator, will he pass the heartbeat away test? he could bring unwanted attention to romney's religion and his brush with foreclosure and credit card debt. finally somebody who surprises, donald trump. very unlikely here. in trade which trades stocks has trump at one cent a share. all the rest, all penny stocks. at $2.50, tim pawlenty is a penny stock. >> let's go to rich gaylin and democratic strategist chuck roacha. good morning. >> hey, chris. hey, chuck, how you doing? >> good. >> there is a fine line between safe and boring. how does the campaign thread that needle?

george w. bush. okay, david. i'm going to let you take a swing at this right off the bat. because when i saw these numbers come down, i thought to myself, wait a second. it wasn't too long ago when i believe it was senator obama complaining that george w. bush thought 200 or 300,000 jobs added was a good number. this is 80,000 jobs. this cannot be spun as good news for americans. >> it's not good news for america. let's recall though that obama made that complaint before we suffered the biggest financial crisis in american history, you know, after the wall street crash of 1929. we lost 9 million jobs as a result of that crisis when obama took office, we were hemorrhaging 700,000 jobs a month. unemployment hit 10%. so in many ways we have come a long way. we haven't lost any jobs in the last two years. we are making progress. clearly not enough progress. in retrospect that stimulus was not nearly big enough in 2009. that american jobs act that the president tried to pass last september should have been enacted by congress. we're paying the price for that. >> laura: as far a

legal defense fund set up on the internet car george zimmerman switch to second- degree murder he said innocent. on the road again president obama campaign swing pair of battleground states first up ohio position of bailing out all the industry $80 billion criticized republican presidential candidate mitt romney for arguing administration would not have gotten involved. down the american auto industry on the brink of collapse. more than 1 million jobs were on the line. let the trabuco bank updetroit go bankrupt i refuse to turn my back down but not the only person campaigning in ohio former gop pres. candidate tim pawlenty on the far left and louisiana gov. bobby jindal on the far right down screen supporting mitt romney president obama two stops in pennsylvania tomorrow. key mitt romney been quiet about the vice presidential plans and no shortage of opinions former presidential candidate herman cain says he likes and fla congressman allen west suggest new hampshire sen. kelly ayotte said herman cain is does not think the decision should be based on gender or ethnicity last month mitt romney announced considering fla sen. marco rubio. the heat

al gore winning in iowa, george bush winning in colorado. classic swing states.andidates spending so much time there? one of the reasons they are not only toss up states, they are about as close as you can come. in the latest colorado poll about two months old we'd like to see more recent data. but look at that. a lot of money going into these states. look a this right now, yes, governor romney has been raising more money as of late, but tv ads spending just in the last month in colorado almost $500,000 advantage. $2.1 million for the president, $1.6 million spent just by the campaigns in the state of colorado both campaigns now beginning to invest in resources. 26 offices, that's a lot for the democrats and obama. four statewide for the romney campaign. that's the state of colorado. move these out of the way. come back to the state of iowa, wolf. when you bring up that state, again, you see something quite similar. the latest poll is a couple months old. we'd like more recent data. it's a toss up. both campaigns say it's very close there. slide that over, again,

george zimmerman a free man this even thing. his team dlifred a message, if you would have done what he did, send money. >>> our person of the week, swing and a miss. >> the husband and father and that dream season, his knuckle ball baffling batters and right here, his secret as he tries to teach us. >> i gave up 12 runs in one game. >>> good evening. on this friday night, we do begin here with the crippling heat, climbing higher as we head into this weekend. much of the country from kansas to new york is in for a scorcher, triple digits. when you combine the temperatures with the humidity, what it feels like, it will be as high as 110 in many parts. that buildup of heat, igniting severe storms. look at this, over 500 storms causing damage. meteorologist ginger zee is right here with us. first, our extreme weather team and the weather unleashed by the heat. >> reporter: it's tennessee's turn to clean up. this thunderstorm part of cycle storm. >> first it took the metal roof and then it took the wooden roof. this is real freaky. >> reporter: here in the smoky mountains two people were killed, 17,000 lost power. this heat means the record

george zimmerman a free man this evening. his team delivered a blunt message, if you would have done what he did, send money. >>> our "person of the week." >> swing and a miss. >> the husband and father and that dream season, his knuckle ball baffling batters. and right here, his secret as he tries to teach us. >> i gave up 12 runs in one game. >> you're just trying to make me feel better. >> that's right. i am. >>> good evening on this friday night. we do begin here with the crippling heat, climbing higher. as we head into this weekend, much of the country, from kansas to new york, is in for a scorcher, triple digits. when you combine the temperatures with the humidity, heat index, what it feels like, it will be as high as 110 in many parts. that buildup of heat igniting severe storms. look at this, over 500 storms causing damage. outbursts fueled by the record-breaking heat. meteorologist ginger zee will be right here with us. that's in a moment. first, our extreme weather team and the weather unleashed by the heat. abc's david kerley leading us off. >> reporter: it's tennessee's turn to clean up. this thunderstorm part of a cycle of storms spa

scenario for a narrow obama victory, ground out in the swing states, on a base versus base election, very kind of thing you described. very thing that got george w. bush a second term in 2004, but, if the tide goes out on the economy, there is enough fluidity, there is enough fluidity there are enough moderate voters and swing voters you could see potentially a big romney victory if in fact the economy is in the dumps. certainly you could see a big swing for romney. megyn: now they're talking about yet another round of quantitative easing which is basically fire up the money printer. we need more dough to easingis quantitatively. does that have any meaningful impact on that chart we saw between now and november? does that in any way put points on the board for barack obama, the democratic party, the american people? >> well, first we should point out they don't even bother to print money anymore. they conjure it digitally. it is made into being as pixels. megyn: getting so ex-haas tiff for the guy in the back. >> but, yes, democrats hope that if the news is bad enough and bernanke, chairman bernanke can convince the other members of the federa

george stephanopoulos. >> you saw the president as you said, he's going to aurora today, he's going to move on and continue with the campaign swing on the west coast, he'll go to nevada and washington state, he'll begin to campaign again, by tomorrow at the latest and then at the same time, mitt romney who as you said suspending campaigning on friday, is planning a major overseas trip, he's going to israel, poland and great britain. i think we'll gradually get back to full reengagement on this campaign. >> reporter: they spoke out about this massacre on friday, but neither one addressed gun control. is this going to move anything? >> i doubt it. especially as we learn more about the killer and pretty clear that is a person who snapped. as pierre thomas has pointed out had a pretty clean background. nothing in his background would have prevented him getting the guns that he sought. after these tragedies in the last decade or so, we have seen support for gun control restrictions has actually declined in the united states and neither candidate wants to talk about it. i don't expect that to change. >> mayor michael bloomberg said no

>> here is what else, george zimmerman is out on bail entree -- on trayvon martin and the medical report on his injuries. our legal debate. >> and just kept swinging and just, i kept yelling, help, help. he put his hand on my nose, other hand on my mouth. [ male announcer ] don't miss red lobster's four course seafood feast, st $14.99. start with soup, salad ancheddar bay biscuits then choose one of 7 entrees plus dessert! four perfect courses, just $14.99. come into red lobster and sea food differently. ♪ >> and welcome back, time now for a quick check of the headlines and from the heat wave from the parts of the east coast and temperatures in several states are near or topping 100 degrees today. ouch! and the weather helping firefighters gain control over fires in the west. in colorado flash flooding is now a concern for some areas. and lebanon is claiming violence is spilling across the border, shell fire killing civilians and injuring 10 others. and we're telling you about the jobs numbers, here at home, millions of americans are looking for work, trying to find what they can, during the great recession, many high end and middle skilled jobs l

george bush for that matter. cheney is seen as a controversial figure. is this about the money? it doesn't seem he'll pick up many swingotes because of this. >> that's not everything romney is doing. he's working to unify the republican party. dick cheney has an important part of the republican party for a long time now. it's understandable that romney would want to have a tie to him. a colleague of mine has a good story today in "the post" about they don't have a close relationship, but this is one fundraiser he's done a little bit with each of the bushes but not a whole lot. >> as you noted there, an important part of the republican party. and jacki, cheney just had a heart transplant in march. is this a sign cheney is trying to get back in the game and influence some of the power? >> i think that's a part of it. but ann is right. this is called the passing of the torch. mitt romney is going to be the next face or their candidate. the face of the republican party. this solidifies that. and that he's hold iing this fundraiser. this is the first time he's opened his house. that's significant. >> i want to move to the a

george w. bush was easily marked. barack obama is not as easy to caricature. when advertisement makers try to characterize -- caricature him, they offend the swing voters. the kind of run up risk of wasting their money because the ad falls flat. in this election, you are seeing the soft kill. going after barack obama in a more subtle way. the way lot of republican advertisement makers have devised their messages by trying to figure out what it is that makes barack obama a less appealing figure then he was in 2008. when you ask people that, they say he has not delivered on his promises. he was not what he advertise. i feel disappointed. it is that playing on a sense of disappointment that is the most common sentiment in a lot of the superpac ads and many on the romney side. reminding people that this guy is not somebody who is loath some or an evil politician who ruin your lives. he let you down. i think going forward, that is the narrative we will see playing out in republican ads. >> ok. when i was looking down the of different dimensions you are measuring from voters, if you have words like hopeful, have become a disgusted, angry, and worried. i'm won

swing county in the state. go back to '04, john kerry carried it barely when george w. bush was carrying it in 2000. one other key place to watch look at '08, there are many swing counties but look at this blue. cincinnati. president obama carried hamilton county. for republicans to win statewide in a close election, watch that county down there. i'll give you a highlight for it. for republicans to win in a close statewide election, they need cincinnati. that's president bush in '04. that's president bush in 2000. even in '96 bob dole won down there. you're going to see a lot of the romney campaign in the cincinnati area. they know how important it is. >> when you point out in the beginning as you accurately do, no republican has won the white house in modern times without carrying ohio. let me ask you this question, i guess it's three retically possible, but is it likely that romney could win the race for the white house even without ohio? >> that is what i'll call the big yeah, but, question in american politics. can he? yes, can he realistically? most likely no. let me show you why. map as we see