at first, the n.y.s.e. had planned to only shut down the trading floor; that would have meant operating as an all- electronic exchange for the first time in its 200 year history. but late sunday big board officials, consulting with other exchanges and brokerage fir, decided to close all trading s.erati e nyse said in a statement,e >> tom: meanwhile, it was a shortened session of trading for the bond market. today, the ten year note rose 8/32, the yield: 1.72%. the treasury market will close for the entire session tomorrow. seven states and the district of columbia have already been declared in states of emergency, opening the way for the federal coordination of money and resources for disaster relief efforts. at the white house today, president obama said officials are ready. >> there's been extraordinarily close coordination between state, federal, and local governments. and so we're confident that the assets are prepositioned for an effective response in the aftermath of the storm. r david paulison knows a

while main street's focused on the presidential election, here at the n.y.s.e., wall street was focused on earnings. and after the market closed, investors got an earnings surprise from yahoo. details on that and more tonight on "n.b.r."! a big splashy earnings report tonight from yahoo's new c.e.o. marissa mayer, in the top job only three months, announced quarterly profits and revenues that came in higher than analyst estimates yahoo shares surged 3% to around $16 a share in after hours trading.at here are the numbers: earnings per share of $.35, $.10 above estimate revenues came in just over $1 billion, slightly more than forecasts. while the company is still struggling, mayer said she's taking steps for to "position yahoo for long term success". joining us now with more on those yahoo numbers, colin gillis, senior technology analyst at b.g.c. >> sokolin, where they were up why date on that analyst call this afternoon, what is he going to do, and dow buy into it? >> yeah, the wheels did not come off the bus on yahoo! and that was very rs.ouraging for inves this is a company that stil

imposed a five million dollar fee on the n.y.s.e. for letting high frequency traders have information ahead of sending the information to the consolidated tape the f.c.c. wanted to create a situation where you had lots and lots of markets because they thought the competition would give you better prices that's sort of not really necessarily happening but they've they've created this monster and i think that they they they couldn't really predict the consequences of what they created remember that one of the things they wanted to do was smash down spreads to nothing we have succeeded in doing that so much that really the only people can make money in the markets are high frequency traders who are thought to be making only one basis point that's why when we talk about financial transactions taxes of a basis points or more we figure well if this is their profits then we can knock them out with a transactions tax of three basis points or as the european union is talking about ten basis points let's talk about another issue here hide not s