obama leads romney 48.8% to 48.1%. >> bruce johnson. four years ago when obama became the first african american to win the white house, the crowds on the street erupted and the celebrations went well into the night. >> also had to do with being able to exhale. we were done with bush. >> thousands will gather tomorrow in the restaurant to watch the results. >> i think we'll be prepared to make our toast at around 10:30, 11:00. >> other supporters are hopeful than confident >> if the younger americans don't show up to vote, then i believe that romney has a good chance. >> obama is still by far the favorite over mitt romney. >> electoral college the number of votes he will get i'm predicting he'll easily surpass 300. >> the support for the republican candidate as well and some undecided voters. >> consider this, right now there's a father and daughter in here. she's for romney, he's for obama. so much abstention in the family, won't go on camera. >> question tonight is will there be lots of celebration tomorrow or some mourning? >> that i

the president handed the phone over to christie's fellow new jerseyan, bruce springstein. >> bruce is apparently flying around today with the president on his last day of the campaign. bruce said to me how proud he was of his state and how proud he was of the people of the state and how tough they are and he'll be back to the jersey shore soon. we had a good conversation today and it was great to talk to the president and even better to talk to bruce. >> a big fan there. >>> the cast of mtv's "jersey shore" is planning to help its namesake rebuild. they will be part of a fundraising special on mtv next week. >>> now to your money. u.s. stocks edged higher monday, but what does election day hold on wall street. looking back. the dow gained 3.3% on election day 2008. the dow and s&p have performed 38% better under democrats than republicans. elsewhere, we'll see how they react after the lawsuit was thrown out yesterday hours before trial. tesla jumps 9% as it ramps up its electric see dance. suzuki filed for bankruptcy. nike is in final talks to sell its brand to a private equity firm f

in bethesda, 9news now. >> we are so happy that bruce and his family, they are okay. >>> bruce also talked to us today about the difficulties that the crew was having getting the tree out of their house. the challenges on what to do with all the other trees that they once removed. you can hear them talk about it, all of those on our website. wusa9.com. >> and that is for everybody at bruce's house is fine. >> yes. everyone is home. >> it is just a thing. >> yes, absolutely. they are safe and well. and that is the biggest blessing for all of them. >> yes, they may have a place to live in the next couple of days. >> just down the street. >>> all right, we are looking at sandy with clouds on our way. we still have breezes. but i think that tomorrow will be the sunniest day of the week. right now they look okay. it's a little cool, but it will be okay. we'll start with a live look outside. we'll be looking at temperatures in the50s. and in fact the temperatures, they have been well below average now. it looks like for the last little bit. temperatures right now, 52. the dew point is 35. winds

bruce springsteen performing at an obama campaign event last night in columbus, ohio. speaking of the boss, it was in his home state of new jersey where officials are making sure voters can cast their ballots despite the devastation from hurricane sandy. voters whose polling places were flooded were busy filling out forms yesterday to cast provisional ballots. in florida and other key battleground states with early voting there are reports of robo calls incorrectly telling voters they can cast ballots over the telephone. >>> and during halftime of monday night football espn's chris berman interviewed both president obama and governor mitt romney. he asked mr. romney what he's learned about himself and then to mr. obama who likens politics to sports. we begin with mr. romney. >> this campaign process goes on a couple of years. lots of flights, lots of trips, and what i found that surprised me is the more events i did, the more energy i seemed to get. >> in sports it's about winning championships. interesting in politics, it's not winning elections, it's making sure that

. >> reporter: bruce springsteen came and sang. ♪ no retreat >> reporter: and this time around for obama and his crowd the gritty courage, mournful determination in his song rings truer, perhaps. >> incredible crowd and it's good to be back. >> reporter: he has changed so much. he's in the fight of his life and he knows it and his hoarse voice told the tale. >> we have come too far to turn back now. come too far to let our hearts grow faint. now is the time to keep pushing forward. >> reporter: looblging at barack obama today on the last day of his last campaign, it is impossible not to think back. to what seemed a hinge of history. >> the change we need doesn't come from washington, change comes to washington. >> reporter: the crowds were bigger, more raptured, more hopeful. for so many people it was magic. but it couldn't happen again. that's not how life works. this is real. this is politics. >> listen, we know what change looks like, madison, and what he's selling ain't it. giving more power back to the biggest banks, that's not change. another $5 trillion tax cut that favors the wea

you see bruce springsteen talking there. he's ending the last political campaign of his career where it all began. first lady michelle obama is also in des moines with them. the president is expected to speak any moment. he just arrived at the event. romney has a rally of his own tonight as well. we're going to bring you both as they happen. michelle obama's comments. both candidates have been racking up frequent flyer miles. john king is going to break it down for us. >> you see these disks, they're in certain places, nevada, colorado, iowa, wisconsin, ohio, in here, you can't see it. there's so many visits here. let me stretch it out and make it easy to read. you see this is where all the candidates, they break them down by candidate. this is the state of ohio, the blue dot, he's been all around the state of ohio. what about governor romney? he too in the rural areas of ohio. also in the cities, but mostly outside. let's move the map a little bit, we'll come back out, come back in. where you see the springsteen rally tonig

bruce was at 2 of those 3 events with more. what a day. >> the candidates now in an all out sprint for the finish and it is a measure of just how critical virginia is to mitt romney easy electric for al college calculus. he has spent 3 of the last 5 days here. and the experts say that president obama might be able to assemble annie electric for al college majority even without virginia. even republican analysts say for mitt romney, the odds are almost impossible without the commonwealth. >> one more day for thousands of romney supporters jammed into the patriot center. thousands more circled outside unstable to get in. >> if anyone following american politics wants to know where the energy is, come in this room. >> that energy shows a few found momentum that will bring a route on tuesday. although the campaign has a hard time pointing to any polls that track that. >> we thank you and ask you to stay with it all the way until we win tomorrow night. >> we need you virginia. with your help we will win virginia. we win virginia, we

bruce springsteen at his side all day. the president showed a hand of nostalgia. he acknowledged that no matter what happens tomorrow, this is it. with the noticeably hoarse voice -- >> we know we have or work to do. >> reporter: mitt romney made a clean sweep. that's where he focused his energy today. >> accomplishing real change is not something i talk about but something i've done. >> reporter: the national race is tight. each campaign is projecting confidence in the ground games. >> they both believe it's all about turnout. >> reporter: both candidates are campaigning in a state with sentimental iowa. the victory in iowa almost launched his chance to the white house. karen traveers -- abc2 news chicago. >> we have more. >> it all comes down to this, the time full day of campaigning before election night. republican challenger mitt romney is on a whirlwind. >> you want four more years like the last four years or do you want real change. >> reporter: no state is bigger than ohio. >> ohio, florida and virginia. mitt romney has to basically go three for three in t

springsteen. >> bruce is flying around with the president on his last day of his campaign. bruce said to me how proud he was of his state. how tough they are and the people of this state. he'll be back to the jersey shore soon. we had a good conversation today. it was great to talk to the president and even better to talk to bruce. >> the cast of mtv's jersey shore is planning to help rebuild its namesake. stars of the mtv reality show will be part of a fundraising special on mtv next week. >>> in other news, a near fatal collision at a small texas airport was all caught on tape. it's amazing. watch this. a student pilot on his first solo flight was moments away from a smooth landing when the landing gear clips the passing suv. the video was capped captured by the pilot's wife as -- the teu dent is four weeks away from receiving his license but has decided to quit flying. you can imagine why. >>> seven people came close to drowning after heavy surf caused their boat to capsize. four adults and three children were stranded in the bay without any life jackets. they clung on t

. >> president obama got some help from bruce springstien in wisconsin. a state he needs to win. >> we've made progress the last four years. but the reason we're all gathered here in addition to listening to bruce is because we know we've got more work to do. >> also includes stops in iowa and ohio. the president is arguing he deserves four more years because he's the true candidate of change. >> governor romney is a talented sales man. and in this campaign he's tried as hard as ectorepackage the same old bad items and make them out to be new ideas. >> mitt romney is also crisscrossing the battleground states. he's telling voters president obama already had four years to prove himself. >> you hope the president would live up to his promise to solve big problems. he hasn't. i will. >> romney is wrapping up campaign with rallies in florida, ohio, new hampshire and virginia. he worked to close the deal with independent voters. >> anyone who wonders whether better jobs and paychecks are a thing of the past, i have a clear and unequivocal message. with the rig

after wisconsin, bruce and the president hopped on air force one and touched down in ohio where bruce urged ohioans to vote for the president and move forward. and this is where it gets good. the other jersey guy getting attention and praise these days for his handling of sandy is governor chris christie. but there's one person that really matters to the governor. the atlantic recently reported that the governor has been to 129 bruce springsteen shows. he knows every word to every springsteen song and dreams of playing drums in the e street band but springsteen ignores christie at shows because of a major difference in politics. so the governor of jersey gets snubbed and ignored by his own new jersey idol. but those days are over. governor christie took a call from president obama today and here's what he said happened on that call. >> he was calling from air force one and he told me that in times of real difficulty he thought that the only thing better than one jersey guy were two jersey guys and he put bruce springsteen on the phone. we had a good conversation today and it was great

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riding aboard air force one today is bruce springstein. he was at a rally with the president in madison, wisconsin, columbus, ohio. jay-z joins the van if you will. the president bringing out celebrities to draw some crowds. questions about how much enthusiasm he has out here on the ground. at the paddyson event in whiz, the president had 18,000 people. a big crowd, in 2004 when kerry had springstein. bigger crowd then. there are questions about how much support he has on the ground. they inside inside the obama catch he has enthusiasm on the ground. they believe the president will win popular and electorate vote but they suggest he may sweep all nine of the major battlegrounds from ohio to iowa, colorado, nevada. a bold prediction. he may reach 300 electoral votes. that's bold prediction for final hours. they believe he will win it. >> election ed, thank you for being here on "the five." greg, to you first. the crowd situation. i was watching romney today. people waiting in line. last night, people were complaining they got frostbit frost

. >> reporter: he is also enlisting high wattage supporters, bill clinton, and bruce springsteen rallying for him. president obama ran last time as a man of hope and change, and you hear a lot of things about how things are different, things are not different now, it is just realer, crunch time >> reporter: whatever the future holds, this is the president's last day of campaigning ever, a day mixed with nostalgia. he holds his last rally with the first lady, where it all began four years ago, with his first major victory. now obama campaign officials say they are feeling confident today based on their internal polling. once the president wraps the event here in des moines, he will head out to his home town of chicago, to watch the returns, aides say he was playing a game of basketball. and e-mailed former bodyguard reggie, asking to help set up that game. >> kristen welker, in the heart of des moines where it will get wild tonight, thank you very much and chuck, you're the keeper of the numbers, you have the last wave of polling before going into this thing, and also, what can you discern

you see some of the artists schedule to appear include bruce springsteen and jon bon jovi as well as billy joel and christina aguilera. money collected will be donated to the relief fund for hurricane sandy. the telethon will air right here on nbc bay area, starting at 8:00 tomorrow night. >>> after a three-day lull because of sandy, the presidential campaign has revved up again. mr. obama received a key endorsement today from new york city mayor and independent michael bloomberg. with five days until election day, president obama campaigned across wisconsin, nevada and colorado. mitt romney travelled across virginia today. both sides concentrating on nine swing states which could make the difference. >> the president wants to see four more years, that's his chant. our chant is this, five more days, all right? >> we know what change looks like. and what the governor is offering sure ain't change. giving more power back to the biggest banks isn't change. leaving millions without health insurance isn't change. >> and today's nbc poll, the president leads mitt romney by six points in io

and that bruce springsteen concert in upstate new york last night, where he played "my city of ruins" and paid tribute to everyone affected by the storm. good night. >> i want to send this out to all the folks who have been working so hard in new jersey. ♪ my city of ruin ♪ come on rise up ♪ come on rise up ♪ come on rise up ♪

it's bruce springsteen who will be warming up for the president. he's going to perform for about 30 minutes before the president steps onto the stage. and then we're told that he will be traveling on air force one with the president as he heads to his next stop in columbus, ohio. will also go go to the third stop in ohio. last night was stevie wonder and other performers over the last few weeks to draw the big crowds to these events but also to energize the base to make sure that folks not only get out to vote but as they've been pushing for the last few weeks, they get out and vote early. they've been using thooiz these superstars, if you will, in the music world, to provide energy to this campaign, get the voters out there, which will be critical on election day. >> people who cover campaigns for a living and there are many of us here at cnn, they get a feel on a day like today. they get a feel from the campaign themselves, made a lot of close ties within the obama campaign at this point. what is that feel when it comes to how they are doing toda

and that bruce springsteen concert in upstate new york last night, where he played "my city of ruins" and paid tribute to everyone affected by the storm. good night. ♪ >> i want to send this out to all the folks who have been working so hard in new jersey. ♪ my city of ruins ♪ come on rise up ♪ come on rise up ♪ come on rise up ♪ report. >> the governor defends the state public utilities commission but for homeowners beg to differ. >> in sacramento, most california voters know proposition 30 as governor

and bruce springsteen, all the work he's done for this campa n campaign -- the boss. he just like jay, they tell the story of what our country is but also what it should be and what it can be. and what we need to fight for. and i'm going to be flying with bruce springsteen on the last day that i'll ever campaign. that's not a bad way to bring it home. with the boss. there are few other people i want to thank before we get started. one of the toughest fighters on behalf of working families that i know. your senator sherrod brown is in the house. someone who will follow in his footsteps if you send her to congress, joyce beaty is here. your mayor, michael coleman is here. and give it up for your former governor and my friend ted strickland in the house. now, for the past week, all of us have been focused on what's been happening on the east coast. and one of the worst storms of our lifetime. and as a nation we've watched the harrowing images and we've been heartbroken by those who have been lost. and i had a chance to visit new jersey and talk to some of the families. e

today bruce springsteen joins the president on the campaign trail. >> you know where i stand. you know i tell the truth. >> reporter: the latest polls show the white house race is tied nationally. but in the swing states, the president appears to have a slht edge. pollsterbelieve the president is closer to the 270 electoral votes needed to win. that means he has to capture fewer toss ups for governor romney to take the election. romney aides dispute that claim and say their supporters have surged to the polls. >> i need your vote. i neat your help. >> reporter: an estimated four out of ten voters will have cast their ballots early. both president obama and mitt romney are counting on a big election day turnout. danielle nottingham, cbs news, the white house. >>> states affected by superstorm sandy are struggling to make sure all their residents get a chance to vote. new york has assigned 143,000 people to new polling places. new jersey is allowing voters to e-mail and faction ballots. -- and fax ballots. and the national guard is setting up mobile voting booths in disaster are

>>reporter: we can expect bruce springsteen to walk out to my right shortly. the folks believe ohio will decide whether the president gets four more years or whether mitt romney moves into the oval office. obama has been here more than any other battleground state. mitt romney will be here tomorrow. the latest poll gives the president a two-point edge in ohio now. that is not nearly as large as the lead used to be. it has gone down considerably but obama campaign officials point out that lead has never gone away. the president and mitt romney have two different messages for north and south ohio in the south which is more conservative and that is john boehner country, obama stresses bipartisanship and mitt romney talks tough and brands the presidential's first term a failure. in northern ohio where unions stronger and the auto bailout is more popular, mitt romney plays up his experience working across the aisle as governor of massachusetts and the president will flex his muscles. look for that speech today. >>shepard: what is the campaigning saying about why th

. >> earlier introduced by bruce springsteen and jay-z. >> hello, ohio! are you fired up? >> president obama held his final day ohio event in columbus. an estimated 15,000 supporters and a pitch aimed at ohio. >> i'm proud we saved the auto industry. i'm even prouder that we're making better cars now. gl the president vizzed volunteers and called an voters. >> for days republican volunteers like jeremy bosco has visited the suburbs to make sure romney backers vote. >> i'll be there tuesday morning. >> thank you so much. >> jeremy knows ohio is must win for romney. >> do you figure if i do a great job here, now, in this county in ohio, i could get my guy to the white house? >> in a small way, yes. >> ohio early voting has been busy but republican poll watchers could challenge the balance. >> if you have a tight race in the state of ohio, you could have a decision we won't know the results of for about two weeks. >> with no time to worry about that, president obama went to iowa. mitt romney to new hampshire, campaigning into the night. in a surprise move the romney campaign

>>> new jersey rocker bruce springsteen says his home state will rebound from the devastation of sandy. at a concert last night on the campus of penn state university, he thanked new jersey governor chris christie for doing a fine job. springsteen along with bon jovi and billy joel will headline a concert tonight. proceeds donated to the red cross. bruce is keeping busy, after the concert, he's setting his eyes on the campaign trail with barack obama. he'll join the president in madison, wisconsin monday, where he'll perform. then, the pair will travel to columbus, ohio, where they'll meet up with jz for an event. >>> employers added 171,000 jobs last month. however, that's not enough to keep pace with the growing economy and the unemployment rate actually went up to 7.9%. >> the unemployment report comes as the presidential candidates are in their final push before election day. wisdom martin is back in studio with more on today's events. >> always a lot of things going on as we get down to the last couple days before we decide who will be president of the united states. allison and t

. ♪ [ music ] >> reporter: today bruce springsteen joins the president on the campaign trail. >> i get to fly around with him on the last day that i will ever campaign so that's not a bad way to end things. >> reporter: the latest polls show the white house race is tied nationally. but in the swing states, the president appears to have a slight edge. pollsters believe the president is closer to the 270 electoral votes needed to win. that means he has to capture fewer toss-up states than governor romney to take the election. the obama campaign also believes they are doing better with early voters. >> you can vote early. >> reporter: romney aides dispute that claim and say their supporters have surged to the polls. >> i need your votes. i need your help. >> reporter: an estimated four out of ten voters will have cast their ballots early but both sides are counting on a big election day turnout. they both know having the most supporters isn't enough. the campaigns say they believe the election will be determined by who gets the supporters to vote. at the white house, danielle nottingham.

he brought along bruce springsteen to rally the crowd and keep the badger state blue. then it was off to columbus, ohio, where the president was joined by rapper jay-z. >> i told jay-z the other day, our lives are parallel a little bit. nobody, i think, would expect us to be where we are today when they had met us as younger men. both of us now have daughters. both of us have wives who are more popular than we are. >> president obama was having fun on the last day of the campaign. bruce springsteen drove home the point of tomorrow oes hope. >> the american dream, the american reality. our vote tomorrow is the one undenial way we get to determine the distance in that equation. >> president obama delivered his closing message to ohio. the state he's visited more times than any other in 2012. >> we've made real progress, ohio, but the reason why we're here is because we have more work to do. our work is not yet done. as long as there is a single american who wants a job and can't find one, our work is not yet done. as long as there are families anywhere in ohio, anywhere

so we want to thank bruce for everything he's done for us. and more than anything else, i want to thank you all for being here tonight. as you know, this is a pretty emotional time for us, because this is the final event of my husband's final campaign. so this is the last time that he and i will be on stage together at a campaign rally. and that's why we wanted to come here to iowa tonight. because truly, this is where it all began, right here. and i have so many fond memories of this state that the house parties in sioux city and cedar rapids, celebrating malia's birthday in pella and seeing my husband's face carved in butter. believe me we still talk about that at christmas. but i will never forget the kindness and warmth and the love that you all show me and my family. especially and our girls. that is truly what made the difference back in those early days, when i wasn't so sure about this whole process back when i was still wondering what it would mean for our girls and our family if barack got the chance to serve as president. but the t

. >> reporter: with bruce springsteen, president obama started today in wisconsin. >> you know that i'll fight for you and your families every single day, as hard as i know how. >> reporter: last night colorado, a huge rally. after a shimmy with stevie wonder in cincinnati, ohio. the president urged his backers to vote today. the lines to early voting in ohio have been long. but republicans won a fight to shorten voting hours. mary jenkins was out to get obama backers to the polls. she figured she could make the difference nationally. >> i wouldn't be able to sleep at night if i didn't put in every shift that i'm putting in over these four days. thank you so much for your enthusiasm. >> reporter: across town is a mitt romney phone bank. >> we're just calling to remind you that your vote is very important. >> reporter: ohio republicans, like democrats, figure their work could decide the presidency. >> if this county ends up red for mitt romney, it will go a very, very long way to winning this state. >> reporter: governoromney left a second virginia stop for ohio, columbus, planning to end

bruce love inside the war room, very nostalgic. tuesday, voters are going to decide not only our next president, but weigh in on some of the most important issues, one the biggest is marriage equality on the ballot in maine maryland washington and in those states, the push is to legalize gay marriage, but in minnesota, there is an initiative to ban it. now polls show that the battles are tight in all four states, but there do appear to be majority's supporting gay marriage in maine and in washington state. in maryland, it's looking really, really close because that state's governor o'malley has made a push for the effort, but the biggest hurdle has been convincing the state's large african-american community to support it. martin luther king, jr.'s niece alvita put out this ad against it. >> i understand the civil rights struggle. during the movement, we were working for taxes education housing, jobs and health care. as a minister, i believe that the naacp leadership and gay rights activists have folder an unholy alliance trying to