N KOREA TEST FIRES THREE SHORT-RANGE MISSILES, ACCORDING TO S KOREAN **

LATEST TEST COMES AMID HEIGHTENED TENSIONS ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA AFTER **

N KOREA IS BANNED FROM TESTING BALLISTIC MISSILES UNDER UN SECURITY COUNCIL **

RESIDENTS OF THE TORNADO-RAVAGED NORTH TX TOWN OF GRANBURY RETURNING TO **

WEDNESDAY'S TORNADO KILLED SIX PEOPLE AND DESTROYED SEVERAL HOMES IN THE **

TWISTER WAS ONE OF 16 THAT HAMMERED NORTH TX EARLIER THIS WEEK **

BOSTON POLICE AND CITY OFFICIALS WILL CONDUCT TWO SEPARATE INVESTIGATIONS **

PROBES ARE AIMED AT LEARNING FROM THE TRAGEDY **

THE BLASTS LAST MONTH LEFT THREE DEAD AND MORE THAN 260 WOUNDED **

INVESTIGATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BEGIN IN THE COMING MONTHS **

AUTHORITIES SEARCHING AN APARTMENT IN SPOKANE, WA AS PART OF AN **

NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE **

AN FBI SPOX HAS NOT SAID WHETHER AGENTS ARE QUESTIONING ANYONE IN **

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AT LEAST 16 KILLED, EIGHT COPS ABDUCTED IN IRAQ, AS SECTARIAN VIOLENCE **

IN THE DEADLIEST OF SAT'S ATTACKS, AN ANTI-TERRORISM POLICE CAPTAIN ALONG **

THE EVENTS FOLLOW THREE DAYS OF ATTACKS THAT KILLED 130 PEOPLE IN BOTH **

SUSPECTED U.S. DRONE STRIKE KILLS FOUR AL QAEDA MILITANTS IN SOUTHERN YEMEN **

UNIDENTIFIED OFFICIAL SAYS THE ATTACK TOOK PLACE SAT MORNING IN ABYAN **

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White House Press Pool Report – “plane theatrically pulled up to the crowd”

Subject: Pool Report #12

 

Pool report #12

Cleveland

Oct. 25, 2012

 

 

The smaller AF1 landed at 8:10 p.m. in full view of thousands gathered for the tarmac rally. The plane theatrically pulled right up to the crowd, taking full advantage of the power of incumbency and completing a television-perfect picture complete with a giant flag draped on the control tower and the lit-up Cleveland skyline in the background. Your pool was offloaded on the right side, opposite the crowd, so we would not mess up the picture.

 

The campaign, quoting Burke Lakefront Airport Commissioner Khalid Bahhur, said 12,000 people were on hand.

 

During the flight from Chicago to Cleveland, Potus made a call to roughly 9,000 to 10,000 early voters in battleground states, according to Jen Psaki.

 

 

Peter Baker

NY Times