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Friday, October 26, 2012 – Daily News WORLD BRIEFING candidate CINCINNATI (AP) — President Barack Obama, seeking to shore up sup- port among women, intensified his pressure Thursday on Mitt Rom- ney to break any ties with a Republican Senate can- didate who said that if a woman becomes pregnant from rape it is ''some- thing God intended.'' Romney ignored the emo- tional social issue, hold- ing to an optimistic cam- paign tone as he fought for victory in crucial Ohio. Obama pressures Romney on backing of controversial contest is expected to cross the $2 billion fundraising mark Thursday. Donations supporting the candidacies of President Barack Obama and Repub- lican challenger Mitt Rom- ney have so far exceeded $1.5 billion through Sep- tember. That figure doesn't count more than $230 mil- lion flowing to independent ''super'' political commit- tees working to get them elected. Updated financial reports showing fundraising tallies are due to be filed by the end of the day. They're likely to show how ordinary citizens and billionaires alike are fueling what's expected to be the costliest campaign in history. Wealthy Americans have Obama, wrapping up a 40-hour battleground state blitz, also headed to his hometown of Chicago and cast his ballot 12 days before Election Day. The stopover was more than a photo opportunity — it was a high-profile attempt to boost turnout in early voting, a centerpiece of Obama's strategy. contributed generously this election to super PACs. Those groups can raise unlimited sums of cash and have spent hundreds of mil- lions of dollars on TV ads. The 2012 presidential contest was expected to cross the $2 billion fundraising mark Thurs- day, putting the election on track to be the costliest in history. It's being fueled by a campaign finance system vastly altered by the prolifera- tion of ''super'' political action committees that are bankrolling TV ads in closely contested states. Back on the campaign trail, the president made repeated, though indirect, references to Indiana Republican Richard Mourdock's controversial comment on rape and pregnancy. Welcome to informacion en Español, Llame Alex Para mas ''We've seen again this week, I don't think any male politicians should be making health care deci- sions for women,'' Obama told a crowd of about 15,000 on an unsea- sonably warm fall day in Richmond, Va. The presi- dent's aides pressed fur- ther, using a web video to highlight Romney's endorsement of Mour- dock and to accuse the GOP nominee of kowtow- ing to his party's extreme elements. New reports expected to show election exceeds $2 billion in Forecasters warn East Coast about settles over the nation's most heavily populated cor- ridor and reaches as far inland as Ohio. With experts expecting at least $1 billion in dam- age, the people who will have to clean it up aren't waiting. Utilities are lining up out-of-state work crews and canceling employees' days off to deal with the power outages. From county disas- ter chiefs to the federal gov- ernment, emergency offi- cials are warning the public to be prepared. And Presi- dent Barack Obama was briefed aboard Air Force One. Frankenstorm WASHINGTON (AP) — All the spare parts appear to be coming togeth- er to create what forecasters are calling ''Frankenstorm,'' a monster combination of high wind, heavy rain, extreme tides and maybe snow that could cause havoc along the East Coast just before Halloween next week. blown through Haiti and Cuba on Thursday, contin- ues to barrel north. A wintry storm is chugging across from the West. And frigid air is streaming south from Canada. Hurricane Sandy, having fundraising WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2012 presidential And if they meet Tues- day morning around New York or New Jersey, as fore- casters predict, they could create a big wet mess that holiday truce BEIRUT (AP) — The embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad promised Thursday to observe a U.N.-proposed truce during a four-day Muslim holiday, while rebels claimed major gains in the key battleground of Aleppo. Syrian regime says it will honor cease-fire taking hold are dim, given Assad's history of broken promises and the rebel momentum in Alep- po, Syria's largest city, where fighters said they advanced into several regime-held neighbor- hoods. But prospects of the international community could agree on after the fail- ure of a more ambitious plan for an open-ended truce and political transition talks by Brahimi's prede- cessor, Kofi Annan, in April. Even the current truce, to begin Friday with the start of the Eid al-Adha hol- iday, appears in jeopardy from the outset. Neither side has shown an interest in laying down arms, instead pushing for incre- mental military gains. Panetta: US military not sent into 3B ing that kind of information, the commander who was on the ground in that area, Gen. Ham, Gen. Dempsey and I felt very strongly that we could not put forces at risk in that situation.'' Panetta was referring to Gen. Carter Ham, the head of U.S. Africa Command, and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The truce plan by U.N.- Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has been endorsed by the U.N. Secu- rity Council, including Assad allies Russia and China. U.N. chief Ban Ki- moon urged all countries and groups with influence in Syria to pressure both sides to stop the violence in the civil war, spokesman said. his The holiday cease-fire was the least a divided information WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military did not quickly intervene dur- ing the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya last month because military leaders did not have ade- quate intelligence informa- tion and felt they should not put American forces at risk, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday. In his most extensive comments to date on the unfolding controversy sur- rounding the attack in Benghazi, Panetta said U.S. forces were on heightened alert because of the anniver- sary of 9/11 and prepared to respond. But, he said, the attack happened over a few hours and was over before the U.S. had the chance to know what was really hap- pening. ''(The) basic principle is that you don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on; without having some real- time information about what's taking place,'' Panet- ta told Pentagon reporters. ''And as a result of not hav- Benghazi due to insufficient scanners CHICAGO (AP) — The federal government is quietly removing full- body X-ray scanners from seven major airports and replacing them with a dif- ferent type of machine that produces a cartoon- like outline instead of the naked images that have been compared to a virtu- al strip search. The Transportation Security Administration says it is making the switch in technology to speed up lines at crowded airports, not to ease pas- senger privacy concerns. But civil liberties groups hope the change signals that the equipment will eventually go to the scrap heap. 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