Terrorist attack of norway honors victims

Oslo, Norway (CNN) -- Norway paid tribute Friday to those killed and wounded in two terror attacks a week ago with a somber memorial service in Oslo organized by the youth movement of the ruling Labour Party.
As the service began, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg recalled the scores of young people lost to a "cold-blooded massacre."
Police raised the death toll from 76 to 77 Friday after one of the wounded died.
The shooter targeted the party's youth camp on Utoya Island, where it was holding a summer camp, after setting off a bomb that struck government offices in downtown Oslo.
"The shots hit our young people but they actually hurt the whole nation," Stoltenberg told relatives of the victims and political leaders attending the service. "It was a vicious attack on all our common values."
The prime minister urged young Norwegians not to feel alone as they struggled to come to terms with what happened, saying the party would support them.
"Out of our grief a much stronger unity will arise," he said. "We are going to honor and celebrate our heroes -- but most of all we are going stay true to our ideas and our values."
Workers Youth League leader Eskil Pedersen, who was on Utoya during the shootings, vowed that the youth movement would return to the island where it has held political summer camps every year for decades.

"Today, we promise that July 22 next year we will be back at Utoya," he said. "We will forever be the generation of July 22. That is a great responsibility," he added. "This is a watershed, a new start and beginning of something lasting and important."
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Approval numbers hit all-time low-Obama

President Obama's approval rating hit an all-time low Friday in the Gallup Poll's rolling average of his favorability numbers.

Forty percent of Americans said they approve of the way Obama his handling his job, eclipsing the previous low of 41 percent that the president had hit twice before during his administration.

Gallup, which keeps track of Obama's daily, rolling approval rating, found that Obama's job performance number had ticked downward in the last few days of polling. Obama's approval rating marks a tumble from his most recent high, a 50 percent approval rating on June 7.

The poor rating comes amidst an increasingly chaotic debate over raising the debt ceiling, as the deadline to raise it or risk the government defaulting on its debts looms.Just 41 percent of the public said they approved of the way Obama was handling the debt-ceiling negotiations, while 52 percent disapproved, according to another Gallup poll released Thursday. Nonetheless, Obama still polls better than congressional leadership. Speaker of the House John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid both received even lower approval rates.

That's a discouraging number for Obama, and comes amid the summer doldrums that include his protracted fight with Congress over how and whether to increase the nation's debt limit. A Pew poll this week found Obama leading a generic Republican candidate by one point, 41-40 percent, among registered voters.