october 29th, 2012. >> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden in new york. tonight, a deadly storm unlike any this city has seen before. for the first time since 9/11, all bridges and tunnels leading in and out of manhatt hathattan closed down. the city remains eerily dark and quiet tonight after a massive superstorm left half the city without power and partially under water. the historic storm continues to wreak havoc up and down the atlantic tee board from the carolinas to connecticut, claiming at least 13 lives and kaing blackouts and snow storms across the east coast and midwest. terry moran and bill weir will be joining us live from cape may, new jersey, and lake erie, pennsylvania. >>> first we turn to our colleague abc's juju chang who spent the day reporting in lower manhattan and comes to us now from the city's flooded streets. juju, what's the latest? >> reporter: i have to tell you new york felt like a city under siege. we literally had to wade through floodwaters down here in lower manhattan in the mandatory evacuation zone. this storm set the du

michael steele is here with us and cynthia tucker is here as well. thank you, cynthia and michael, there's an old tradition in politics you go to the fringe or hard left or right to win the caucuses and start to move slowly, the big battleship around so by labor day you're ready to confront the enemy at the center. he didn't do that. he stayed right through the summer and masterfully, wednesday, started to go i'm for pre-existing condition coverage, i'm for education and all this good stuff. >> i think part of that, you're right, in your analysis there. that's what happens politically. i think for the romney campaign they took that strategy, elongated it because they had shoring up to do with their base. >> can you pull it off? can you make that switcharoo in september. >> i think you can. >> or october rather. >> i think you can. number one. number two, we saw obama do the same thing. he was to hillary's left, brought it around, started quoting reagan in the fall, started sounding reaganesque. that's where the votes are. >> but your party has gotten

cynthia, i agree with you. if you stay on msnbc, the pundits will be out tonight, not tomorrow morning, saying what should have happened. >> tonight. yes. tonight. >> stay right here. >>> coming up, it's rare for these two men to be in the same room and tonight it's personal. we've seen reports of real dislike. "time" magazine's rick stingle previews the big night. and the bombshell tape from mat drudge and fox news turns out to be five years old. their playbook is tired, old, and wreaks of desperation. all of that, plus, the big question is, which mitt romney will show up tonight and you're watching a special edition of "politicsnation" as we get ready for the big debate, the big debate in denver tonight. ay with us. >> we have osama bin laden in our sights and the pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then i think that we have to act and we will take them out. we will kill bin laden, we will crush al qaeda. that has to be our biggest national security priority. ♪ ♪ lord, you got no rea

richard wolffe and cynthia tucker, thank you for coming on tonight. we have new video that shows a crane as it partially collapses, dangling 80 stories above the city's streets. more on that ahead. >>> we are also tracking the path of hurricane sandy as it heads towards the south jersey coast. it's expected make landfall any minute now. you're watching our special storm coverage here on "politicsnation" on msnbc. >>> we've been asking you to show your photos with us on your early voting days. this is a picture of a whole family turning in their ballots together in flint, michigan. and running into big bird when they voted in north carolina this weekend. it looks like the longest lines were in georgia. karen sent us this picture of the six-hour long wait and jason sent us this picture of his family who also waited in a six-hour long line to vote. that's dedication. i have more on the fight for voting rights and i'll be voting event this weekend but we want to see you cast your ballot, too. go to facebook page, which is facebook.com/politicsnation and s

october 10th, 2012. >>> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. thank you for joining us. the presidential race is tightening this week with polls shifting in mitt romney's favor as president obama's widely criticized performance at the first presidential debate. my colleague diane sawyer spoke with the president in the first television interview since that night. to find out what happened on stage. >> that debate, what happened? >> well, governor romney had a good night. i had a bad night. >> how bad? >> well not the first time i have had a bad night. but i think what is important that the fundamentals of what this race is about haven't changed. >> we are told you watched it split screen. >> uh-huh. >> did you? >> well i watched it afterward. >> was it painful to watch? >> no. look -- diane, i have got to tell you that these are marathons they're not sprints. >> is it possible you handed him the election that night? >> no. >> you are going to win? >> yes. >> you want it more than the first time? >> absolutely. >> but the race is close. and tensions are high. with 26 days

in new york city, this is "nightline," october 18th, 2012. >> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. tonight, we begin with a look at airport security and what's on the other side of those security lines. big, crowded airports like miami international, the pressure of delivering 100,000 stressed out passengers safely to their destination every day makes for no shortage of human drama, as my co-anchor bill weir discovered. >> reporter: let's say you're on a flight into miami. and the guy next to you comes completely unhinged. >> sir, i need you to take a seat right now. >> i paid a lot of money for this seat. >> reporter: while you watch flight attendants struggle for control, what you'll never see, what you ever see is an airport the size of a small city spring from defense to offense in a blink. bolds move as word spreads. >> all right, guys, go ahead. it's on you. >> reporter: from pilot to tower, where intense eyes flick past the 1,500 camera feeds to find that corner of the runway known as the penalty box. there, while engines wind, guns approach, held by miami-dade cops. >> rear

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, bill weir, and tonight, cynthia mcfadden with diane sawyer in new york city, this is a special edition of "nightline," october 19th, 2012. >> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. tonight, my colleague and "world news" anchor, diane sawyer, joins us with the latest in on ongoing abc news series, hidden america. this one, from the streets of chicago. diane, the powerful report we're about to see really takes us inside what can only be described as a hidden american war zone. >> it is true, but we want to say at the outset, as we know, chicago is simply a great city, filled with wonderful people. but as we're going to show you, there are some areas, where small children really do live, as we said, in a kind of battle zone. so, listen to this number. at least 419 people were killed this year, across a dozen neighborhoods in chicago, and that is more than all the u.s. troops killed in afghanistan this year. the cause? rival gangs, creating anarchy. and, so, "nightline" and "world news" decided to try something different,

cynthia harris 16 07 el precio de gasolina salto 47 centavos en san francisco en tan solo una semana.la situacion ha cambiado la manera de vivir de numerosas familias que guardan sus vehiculos o simplemente lo utilizan hasta donde les alcance... alejandro jimenez 3 14 antes manejaba una troca grande y la tengo parada ahorita, ando en moto aurelia gracia 4 20 ya no, ya le echo de a 10 o de a 15 de acuerdo a como va saliendo... el preciado liquido ha generado explosivas reacciones como la de la senadora ferderal diane feinstein que ordeno una inmediata investigacion al alza sin porecedentes. ... bajo la pregunta... que esta pasando, la vocera de aaa indica que el incendio de la refineria chevron junto al mantenimiento de otras refinerias encendieron el polvorin cynthia harris portavoz aaa norte de california se corto la produccion de gasolina por la refineria exon, tuvimos otra refineria que se cerro por natenimiento y un oleoducto chevron que se cerro por mantenimiento.... pero el gobernador de california jerry brown saco el as bajo la manga y dio la orden de utilizar la gasolina reser

cynthia, it always brings our spirits up seeing bill in action. he finds the joy in it.n that this guy is a bit of a con artist and he's reinvented the whole massachusetts governor for the purpose of 90 minutes. and whenever's anyone's really listening in the big crowd, he reverts to the old bad stuff the minute nobody's looking. >> and chris, he explains all that in terms that people understood. he does it with a smile on his face. he doesn't seem in any way mean or harsh or vindictive. he seems funny, which he is. it's also clear that bill clinton is having a really good time. he enjoys being on the campaign trail. he enjoys politics in a way that i don't think that president obama does. and that gives him a great excuse for the first time in four years, to be out with political crowds, which he loves. and he's having a great time doing it. >> i think the president doesn't know that there's music in politics, as well as lyrics, and that bill clinton fully, gene, fully appreciates the musical factor. listen to that voice. he even lets his voice run out of range so he ca

. >> reporter: cynthia, good morning. i want to start with a rare bit of good news from the storm zone. after we had a swift rise in the waters, things are starting to change. take a look over my shoulder. these houses behind me, a few hours ago, the base of these houses, they were being engulfed by the -- the bases being engulfed by rising waters. now as you can see the waters back down to something approaching the normal level. the big question as we go on the air here is, as the waters recede and as the sun comes up, what kind of damage are we going to find? the governor has predicted that this storm will prove to be the catastrophic, his word, a catastrophic the likes of which this state has never before seen. he held a rather unnerving news conference a short while ago during which he issued what he called a katrina-like warning. highest point in their home and try too ride it out. the bottom line here right now, the good news, the water's receding. the big question, what will it leave behind? cynthia? >> we're going

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden, bill weir and tonight, juju chang in new york city. this is "nightline," october 25th, 2012. >> good evening, i'm juju chang. tonight, it's a distressing thought. but internet porn may be replacing sex ed for kids in the digital age. a shocking percentage of pre-adolescent children are being exposed to cyber porn. it fills parents of pre-teens like me with dread. and add to that those explicit lyrics in hip hop and suddenly, the facts of life are x-rated. ♪ i can bed your rock >> reporter: it's lil' wayne in "bedrock," makes the vulgar seem normal. listen to winnifred, who is 12 years old. ♪ i can make your bedrock >> reporter: does she understand what she's singing? >> yeah, we did realize how obscene it was, but we did, we got it, we knew what we were saying. when i can reach into my back pocket and basically pull out some porn, it's so easy and you can't really blame a bunch of children for not understanding how to deal with that. >> reporter: she told us lewd lyrics are the least of it. whe

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," october 5th, 2012. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. you might find them going door to door in a neighborhood near ewe. young men in shirts and ties, hoping to convert people to the church of jesus christ of latter day saints. one of the fastest growing religions in the world. this work is part of a demanding two-year right of passage, a journey once taken by mitt romney. abc's bob woodruff brings us this look inside. [ knocking ] >> hi, how are you doing today? >> we're missionaries from the church -- >> reporter: the two-year mission is a right of passage for most young mormon men. >> have you ever seen missionaries in this neighborhood before? >> reporter: there are 55,000 missionaries, serving around the world. and the church allowed our team rare access into their world for two days. of door knocking, teaching -- >> called the vision of the tree of life. >> reporter: and community service. >> i am a mormon. >> i'm a mormon. >> reporter: morm

in new york city, this is "nightline," october 26th, 2012. >> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. tonight, millions of americans are bracing for impact, as hurricane sandy rapidly approaches, threatening to morph into a rare superstorm as it barrels up the east coast. abc's ginger zee of our extreme weather team is on the ground in florida with the latest. >> reporter: as hurricane sandy rumbles through the atlantic, just a few hundred miles from the east coast, its path of destruction has already killed at least 30 people across the caribbean. from space, you can clearly see the size of this thing. it has tropical storm force winds extending almost 300 miles. it's shield of clouds stretching almost 2,000 miles. the storm is far enough away that florida will escape the brunt of the danger, but what we can't escape is beach erosion. the search punding up and over. this should not be happening right here. the beach usually starts about 50 yards out. through the weekend, sandy will snake around the coast, lashing the carolinas with its western-most tentacles before making its dirty t

my co-anchor, cynthia mcfadden, back for that.ot a little taste of michelle obama at home, last night. tonight, you two go on the road. >> we do, indeed, bill. on the road, with veterans and their families, among the hardist hit. michelle obama said before her husband ran for president, she knew little about the struggles of military families. but people she met across the country so touched her, she's devoted to taking a difference. we went to florida with her for our series, "the contenders: family ties." we're waiting on the tarmac at jacksonville, florida. it happens, as you might expect, with military precision. >> and salute. >> reporter: a line of officers, waiting to greet her. >> i'm probably like most americans, where my connections to military life was pretty tangential. most americans, like me, they don't have a clear sacrifice these men and women have made. >> reporter: her husband is campaigning on the ending of the war in iraq. but as that happens, the war in afghanistan rages on, with 17 troops killed just last mon

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it was so perfect, cynthia, we had launched on our brothers. we stayed there for the next 3 hours, and closed the cafe. sara said this brother sister thing is huge and no one writes about it, no one talks about it, the affect our brothers and sisters has on us. this is your next book, this is what you need to write. are you kidding me, i could never write anything so personal, never. that is how it started. when you >> when you were working on this, friends, you would talk about my relationship with my difficult older brother, what happened? what doors opened up, what did you learn about what people carry around about their siblings? >> it is huge. so many share this. it is like the asian flu. the first year of trying to work on this, i couldn't do it, so i approached it like a reporter. i was dancing around what it was really about, which is the red hot emotions between the 2 of us and where it had come from. i spent a year reporting, interviewing every expert, i flew the london, and the importance of relationships and psychoanalysis. >> did y

cynthia. >> thanks to you, matt gutman.a super storm the only thing that could quiet a presidential race as tight as this one. we find out how the candidates are riding out the storm. >>> the perfect storm bears down on the east coast. millions, in its path, turn to the abc news extreme weather team for breaking up to the men out reports on super storm sandy. >> announcer: this speci al edition of "nightline," the perfect storm, continues from new york city with cynthia mcfadden. >>> well tonight the midwest is bracing for the extreme weather this storm could bring. and of course, the middle of the country is also home to many of the country's critical swing states. over the next couple weeks in the election. and with only seven days to go before voting day, this storm is just about the only thing that could slow down a race this tight. but both candidates have put their official campaign events on hold while the storm rages. abc's jake tapper reports from the suddenly quiet campaign trail. >>> good evening, cynthia. presid

cynthia joe and sue hester. >> i am cynthia joe. i was a planning commissioner from 1996 to 2002 so time flies when you don't have to listen to the fellow commissioners comments. i am here to honor linda's retirement. "i better not cry. i better not show. i am telling you why she is retiring today". well linda we want to you thank for being even handed and efficient in serving the city and we wish you god's blessing in your retirement. we love you. >> thank you. >> sue hester. i thought it was most appropriate for me to come to talk to linda where i normally am at the planning commission. 31 years is a long time. 31 years ago the plan was being developed. i lived at 20th and douglas. i didn't live in bern nal heights. we have been at least three cycles of the economy in san francisco. we have had boomer bust cycles at least three times since linda has been working here, and i am very heartened. i am disheartened by linda's retirement but hearted by the planning commission that used the services of the secretary as you heard. the com

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