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A man claiming to speak for the taliban splinter group says the workers have been take ton a safe place. The vice presidential candidates hit minnesota in international falls. Vice president cheney said john kerry is wrong to blame the administration for missing explosives in iraq. And that many were gone before the U.S. Invaded. John edwards in iowa right now. Earlier in duluth, he said that the president hasn't done his job. He also criticized suggestions that the troops didn't search hard enough for the missing explosives. More headlines in 30 minutes. "Special report" with brit start right now. Captioned by the national captioning institute --www.Ncicap.Org-- brit: Welcome to washington. I'm brit hume. Five days before the presidential election and average of the seven largest national polls finds president bush ahead of john kerry by a scant 2.3 pointS. 48.4, as you can see, to 46.1%. Ralph nader is at 1.3%. On the campaign trail, president bush is summing up the reasons voters should return him to office. Fox news senior white house correspondent jim angle reports.

>> With the election only five days away, president bush is beginning to summarize his case for re-election, telling an audience at daytonoohio t choice isn't just about policy positions, but also about the person who is president and his steadiness in the job.

>> I have found you better know what you believe or risk being tossed to and 'fro by the flattery of friends or the chorus of critics.

>> The president reflected on what he's learned as president, saying one of the lessons is that the world looks to america for leadership, so it's crucial the president be consistent.

>> I've learned america's president must base decisions on principle, core convictions from which you will never waiveR.

>> Naturally, he found those qualities lacking in senator kerry, and pointed to charges kerry made this week about missing explosives in iraq, though kerry called it a blunder and a scandal t facts in the matter are not clear as some of the kerry campaign acknowledge, leading mr. Bush to say, a president needs to get all the facts before jumping to what he called politically motivated conclusions.

>> The senator's willingness to trade principle for political convenience makes it clrr that john kerry is the wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time.

>> He pointed to a number of instances in which he argued kerry had shifted with the political winds saying he was all for getting saddam when the U.S. First went into baghdad, but when the going got tough, kerry decided it was the wrong war at the wrong time.

>> Think about what this says, that lack of conviction says to our enemies. That if you make things uncomfortable, if you stir up trouble, john kerry will back off. And that's a very dangerous signal in the world in which we live.

>> At the next event near cleveland, the president got some help from retired general tommy franks. The commander of the wars in both afghanistan and iraq, who questioned whether senator kerry could be an effective commander in chief.

>> He cannot lead troops to victory in a war when he has made it perfectly clear that he does not support the cause.

>> Now t president is relying on a pitch about leadership and character alone, and he told audiences at two stops in ohio that he understands there are tough times in part of the state, but also noted that the unemployment rate there last month dropped from 6.3% to 6%. And that 5,500 new jobs were created. Ohio, he tried to convince voter, is on its way to recovery. Brit? Brit: Jim, thank you. While the pentagon and the news media continue investigating those reports of several hundred thousand allegedly missing explosives in iraq, democrat john kerry continues to blame the president for the apparent disappearance. Fox news chief political correspondent carl cameron reports senator kerry took hope for his campaign today from an unrelated event.

>> In the battleground state of ohio where an average of the polls gives him a slight lead within the margin of error, presidential candidate john kerry briefly interrupted the fourth consecutive day of blasting the president for the and covered the famous hair with a hometown cap and wished aloud that the red sox championship is an omeN.

>> They said john kerry won't be president until the red sox win the world serieS. Well, we're on our way! We're on our way!

>> But kerry has been thrown a couple of fast sinking curveballs. First t iraqi explosives may have disappeared before the invasion, understood cutting the attack on the president. And this from the red sox pitching sting may have stung, too.

>> Tell everybody to vote, and tell everybody to vote president bush.

>> The president is already calling ate dud, accusing kerry of saying anything to get elected and for "jumping to conclusion without all the facts accounts." Kerry tried to turn the tables using the president's remarks and explosives as a symbol.

>> George bush jumped to conclusions about 9/11 and saddam hussein. George bush jumped to conclusions about weapons of mass destruction and he rushed to war without a plan to win the peace. George bush jumped to conclusions about how the iraqi people would receive our troops.

>> Bruce springsteen campaigned with kerry in the battleground state of wisconsin where al gore in 2000, but an average of the polls puts bush slightly ahead within the margin of error. To kerry, when the explosives went missing is not as important for the metaphor of the president's refusal to take responsibility for the problems in iraq.

>> Now george bush is shifting explanations, an effort to blame everybody except themselves, is evidence that he believes the buck stops anywhere but with the president.

>> By trying to use the missing weapons as part of a broader indictment of the president's policies on the war on terror and iraq, aides say kerry is attacking the president on his strong suit -- security. But it's a break from the advice kerry took from former president bill clinton six weeks ago when clinton advised him to focus on the domestic. And kerry did, and for a time his polls picked up a bit. Brit? Brit: Ok, carl. Thanks very much. Pentagon analysts have declassified one satellite photo of that weapons storage facility in iraq which once held the explosives. Now said to be missing. Today defense secretary donald rumsfeld weighed in a little more emphatically on the whole issue. Fox correspondent bret baier is standing by with details.

>> They released and image from the al-qaqqa facility taken two days before the war began. It is coming down on email. This is the printed version of it. You can see the red arrow is a truck, a large truck. The yellow arrow is a large transporter, called a vehicle transporter. Officials are not saying that this shows that the explosives are in those vehicles, but it does show vehicle activity at the al-qaqqa site two days before the war reafghanistan. In a radio interview, donald rumsfeld spoke out saying it's high lye unlikely they were looted after the troops arrived.

>> Picture the tractor trailers and forklifts and caterpillars wled take to move 370 tons and we had total control of the air. We would have seen anything like that, and it's very likely that just as the united states would do, that saddam hussein moved munitions when he knew the war was coming.

>> Rumsfeld, who has largely stayed away from campaigning, took a direct swipe at senator kerry for using the "new york times" and cbs report immediately.

>> First reports are almost always wrong, and people who use hair-triggered judgment to come to conclusions about things that are fast moving, frequently make mistakes that are awkward and embarrassing.

>> The last time the international atomic energy agency could definitivety say what was in the bunkers is january of 2003 when iaea inspectors logged all the explosive there is. Fox news obtained the iaea action report the inspectors filed at that time. The total tonnage of high explosives, h.M.X., And R.D.X. Logged in that report is 219 tons, not 377 tons according to the documents. An iaea spokesperson said the other 158 tons of missing R.D.X. Was stored elsewhere outside of the facility, but the organization has yet to provide documentation of those logs. In january 2003, the inspectors stated that 219 ton of explosives was stored in nine different bunkers. The inspectors then locked all the bucers attaching iaea tags and seals to the doors. But on the bottom of the first page of the action report is this warning. "Of note was that the sealing ton bunkers was only partially effective because each bunker had ventilation shafts on the sides of the buildings. These shafts were not sealed and could provide removal routes for the H.M.X. While leaving the front door lockeD." So even though iaea inspectors returned in march of 2003, they only checked some of the seals and cannot definitivety say that all or any of the explosives were inside those bunkers. Brit? Brit: Bret, thank you. Next on "special report," u.S. War planes attacked targets in fallujah apparently preparing for a major offensive.