remember also, that there is a seasonality, behind christmas and after school sales halloween has third largistse, that will add additional volatility and skew the numbers. neil: or delay pent-up buying for christmas. >> for halloween candy, you know right, could you arg wha argue t i mised in halloween i want to make up for. >> we could see that there, and housing starts and rebuilding, but whether or not this contributes to growing the economy that is the big question. neil: laurie you sound optimistic on overall economy environment. >> when like to major retailers that reported in october, that ended saturday, they actually had a better month than september, up 5%, retailers from target, and nordstroms, it seems to be confined to two week, i think it will be a bit of destruction, and a blip, but i think they will come back just given improving strength we've seen over last few months. >> all right, ladies thank you all, great, perspective, remember what i said there that world. >> when we come back. a lot of you keep tweeting us, and say, neil, you never post our tweets, we're getting tweeti

the country's largist organic peanut processor shut down.rst time, the f.d.a. used new power grants bid the 011 food safety law and closed the plant in new mexico. it planned to reopen today until the f.d.a. suspended its license. now the company will have a hearing to prove the plant is clean enough. it's actually reopened. >> steve: a mexican beauty queen gunned down in a shootout between drug traffickers and soldiers. police say maria gamez was riding with suspected members of the sinola cartel when they opened fire on soldiers. when the gun battle was over, five people were dead. police say gamez's body was found lying next to an assault rifle, but they don't know if she participated in the shootout. >> brian: cars damaged in super storm damage with up for sale. what do you need to do to make sure you're not buying a car that was under four feet of water? >> inside, i'm going to go inside and i'm going to pull up the carpet. i'm going to see as much as i can underneath the carpet. even before that, i'm going to smell. does it smell musty