Bush Campaigns in Florida, Kerry Stumps in Pennsylvania; Buycott Organizer Encourages Women Not to Shop.

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RICK SANCHEZ, CNN CO-ANCHOR: All right. Here we go. Here's the news.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN CO-ANCHOR: Taking a look at what is happening now in the news. British authorities today filed 16 charges, including 10 counts of soliciting murder, against Abu Hamza al-Masri. The hard line Muslim cleric has been held in a London prison since his arrest two months ago. Abu Hamza has also been indicted here in the U.S. A hearing on his extradition is now postponed. The case in Britain will be prosecuted first.

And Myanmar's military regime has forced its prime minister out of office. That word today from officials in Thailand. Myanmar, formerly known as Burma borders Thailand. Khin Nyunt, a relative moderate in that junta was placed under house arrest.

In Afghanistan, an early tally of the historic October 9 vote shows Hamid Karzai with a commanding lead. In fact, with one fourth of the ballots now counted, the interim leader may win the presidency without a runoff. For that Karzai would need a simple majority of the 8 million votes cast.

Late game heroics capped the baseball playoffs in the American League. Boston beat New York 5 to 4 in 14 innings. The Red Sox victory sends the series back to New York with the Yankees up three games to two. And let's not forget the National League. Houston's Jeff Kent hit a three-run homer in the ninth inning to give the Astros a 3-0 win and a 3 to 2 series edge.

SANCHEZ: Hence forth to be called the short game.

KAGAN: Yes.

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SANCHEZ: As opposed to the long game.

We begin this hour with politics.

KAGAN: First tell me you did not stay up for that baseball game.

SANCHEZ: I did.

KAGAN: You did. The entire 5 hours and 49 minutes?

SANCHEZ: Right at 11:00 I was ready to turn it off and go to bed but that's when they did it. The little bloop single turned it all around.

KAGAN: Sucked it in.

SANCHEZ: Oh, boy.

KAGAN: Longest game in NLCS (sic) history. We'll talk more on that, but now the other sport, presidential politics.

SANCHEZ: Presidential politics is definitely a sport these days. In fact, that presidential race has now become a sprint to the finish, with both candidates blitzing battleground states today. Right now President Bush, he's in Florida the state that decided all four years ago in the end. He begins with a rally in St. Petersburg and then he travels to New Port Richey, the villages near Ocala.

For the very latest on the push campaign, let's check in with White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux. She's in St. Pete.

Good morning, Suzanne.

SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Rick. Well, actually President Bush just wrapped up his speech just a minute ago here. Two of the three stops, interesting enough, he lost back in 2000. Those counties, they are trying to make up for lost ground.

The central theme here, the strategy of the Bush campaign now is really to try to capitalize off of what some polls are showing a 20- point lead for the president over Kerry, when it comes to fighting the war on terror. You're going to hear those lines over and over. So, new attack lines on Kerry talking about making the case that he is inconsistent when it comes to Iraq. That he is weak when it comes to fighting the war on terror.

We saw earlier today that the president was…