we have dagen mcdowell, moving a few inches away... >> no, not true. >> neil: we have ben stein. >> i'm happy to see dagen. >> neil: the next 30 minut, ou free beo you and welcome to all. ben stein, on the guy i like to call, lord faulroy. >> he's nutty as a fruit cake but he's right, our national debt is so large it is a national security threat and the reason is, one, it makes us look stupid and impott and as if we can't corol our investing and at some poinwill require us to cut or defense spending, we have to pull ourselves together an act like statesmen about it. it has gone on way too long, it is ridiculous. >> neil: dagen, he's trying deflect d, look who is judging us kind of deal and say look at these clns, rig? >> two an extent, but, if we don't heed this warning, i don't know what it will take. because as a nation, i don't think -- i've said all along, i don't think that until americans feel really pain in some way, whether it is significantly gher interest rates or double-digit inflation which we had in the 1970s and 1980s we'll decide to do something about this. i don't know

look at those numbers, is it any surprise the world has our number, to ben stein, charles payne, dagen mcdowell and adam lashinsky, dr. payne, great to have you back. >> good to be here. >> the u.s. government is flat bro, but the public isn't broke, that's the shame our average share of the debt that he government wildly throws away and spends like crazy and can't put on your, on any kind of control of, but this is where we are, this is the inflection point, where we are, at the moment of truth where we keep running this up we're asking americans you want the total to be more than that. essentiallwe've become a total welfare country, a total welfare state unless somehow the american public puts their foot down, government won't do it. >> what i don't like about it, it does put it in a darkly human maybe selfish conscious, this is our share, to folks abroad. >> just to folks abroad. but two-thirds of our debt is held by. >> we owe ourselves. you figure you owet yourself -- well, i'm not going to say it. this i have to pay. >> and what you have to pay back. goodpoint, but in order to fix it peop

dagen: dagen mcdowell. connell: connell mcshane. surprise drop in the unemployment rate. under 8%. there it is. all the talk. dagen: general electric former chief jack welch on the record saying he thinks there are funny numbers at work here and it is tied to the president's for performance. connell: californians hoping you filled your gas tank yesterday because prices spiking overnight on the west coast. we will tell you about that. dagen: stocks every 15 minutes. nicole petallides at the stock exchange with some green. nicole: this is a day on wall street. we got the monthly jobs report which came as a complete surprise to everybody on wall street as we look at the dow jones industrials which are up 65 points but the dow has moved to levels we have not seen since december of 2007. highest level for the dow since 2007 and among the dow components so many of them are hitting 52 week highs. home depot and verizon and general of dr. kent walmart and pfizer and ibm, merck and 3 m. many viewers may own mutual funds. as traders digest this monthly jobs reports some are trying to make hea

dagen: i am dagen mcdowell. vice-presidential candidates that led out in prime-time. neil cavuto and lou dobbs this hour. both with their own opinions. connell: the defense secretary on the bank cyberattacks. says it is a free 9/11 moment. dagen: a penny more for a scam. this is no answer to the debt problems at the u.s. postal service. connell: i don't know the answer to that. money and politics. a lot to do on friday but we begin with nicole petallides every 15 minutes at the exchange. j. p. morgan and wells fargo in focus. nicole: i want to focus on j. p. morgan -- jpmorgan. we heard a lot from jamie dimon on a conference call and that is why we see a down arrow. a cautionary tone going forward. jpmorgan had a great quarter. both companies, wells fargo missed on the numbers but when you are looking at the two of them both have one thing in common and that is as you see recovery in housing j.p. -- jpmorgan said their mortgage lending has been higher. lower interest rates helped that a long and wells fargo is the largest home lender and talked about banking jumped as

i can feel the blow and confidence and i'm confident because we're standing it to dagen mcdowell and mcshane. dagen: dagen mcdowell. connell: connell mcshane. stock trading for the first time this week. the northeast beginning to pick up after hurricane

charles: i had the same debate with dagen mcdowell and connell mcshane. it will continue.

connell: words by dagen mcdowell this morning. bank of america squeaking by. sports city still reeling from a management shakeup. dagen: we could have a tight in the race for the white house. a president romney would be working with vice president joe biden. and dogs and cats are in hellmac just waiting. connell: how is your cholesterol? ♪ connell: markets now. heading back to the cold. nicole: taking a look at bk. not too far off from one year highs as well. let take a look at bank of new york mellon has a comment with their numbers. fees really helped the bank along here. they reported an 11% rise in their third-quarter earnings. they did beat analyst expectations. the climate has been tough. they did see the profit margin pension by historically low interest rates. that is something they have noted. certainly a great day for bank of banc of new york mellon. dagen: you have citigroup in the middle of an executive shakeup. what is going on with the financials? hey, anton. great to see you. let's start with bank of america. if you look at their business, in ter

dagen: i am dagen mcdowell. connell: i am connell mcshane. ll he say about the spike. dagen: mitt romney. what he has to do right now to stay ahead. connell: we have an arraignment for the terrorist suspect. we also have information on the target he really wanted to go after. dagen: top of the hour. stocks

in the meantime, we have dagen mcdowell and connell mcshane taking it from here. have breaking news where we are right now as hurricane sandy

dagen: i am dagen mcdowell. connell: and i am connell mcshane. dagen: lawmakers doing nothing, it is costing you money. is washington responsible for this selloff on wall street? we asked a former senator. connell: what the white house knew about the terrorist attack in libya that took four lives. dagen: stocks now and every 15 minutes. nicole petallides with a bit of a reversal from yesterday. nicole: a little bit of a relief rally. numbers and earnings. things seem to be much better today than what we heard on friday, monday and tuesday. today you have gotten some decent news. we are seeing the market trying to make a comeback. after two of the last three days have been selling on wall street with more than a 200 drop. today, you have of arrows. there is a look at the dow which is up one third of 1%. boeing came out with numbers, bank of america, financials making a comeback. this is the environment slightly to the upside. back to you. connell: fed chairman bernanke will not be seeking a third round. at this point, the writing seems to be on the

i am dagen mcdowell. connell: i am connell mcshane. dow jones reporting one state did not report. dagen: student candidate for vice president waiting to face off. we cannot wait. who will screw up first? connell: sprint. stocks soaring today. dagen: stocks now and every 15 minutes. nicole petallides. nicole: we will take a closer look at sprint and metro pcs. sprint is jumping. we are watching at the stock right now. you can see it jumping. the bank in japan is in talks to buy a majority stake. the deal is worth more than $12.8 billion. you are seeing sprint jumping on the other hand. we are also thinking about metro pcs. there were some hopes that sprint would step in and make a counter bid. now, that has been put on hold and metro pcs is selling off. dagen: thank you. connell: the number of americans last week.employment aid down 339,000. lowest level in nearly four years. one large state did not report some of its numbers. dagen: peter barnes has the latest. peter: like the jobs report last friday, we have another positive jobs numbers just before election day. it also may be fl

dagen: i am dagen mcdowell. in this opportunity for mitt romney and last night's debate. connell: look at the stock market today. it has been in a tailspin. a bad outlook on the economy. dagen: a bad apple? maybe, maybe not. why the tech giant is pushing ahead with the ipod mini. connell: let's start with the mass of the markets. nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. it is ugly down there. nicole: it is indeed. we sell we were breaking key support levels on the dow and s&p. some technical analyst jumping in right away. when i was talking with mark newman, he was looking and saying that the parish trades pull us to the downside for these major averages. on the s&p 500 he was looking at 13,090. talking about the three names that reported without that united technologies and also dupont. you can see these names coming out and not looking too good. as we see these big names coming out, they are giving forecasts. a lot of these s&p 500 companies are giving forecasts and when they have to lower the expectations. whether it is at the top and or bottom and

i am dagen mcdowell appeared enough to ruin your weekend. sandy barreling towards the east coast. a storm like we ve never seen before. some predicting damages will top the $1 billion mark. resident obama and mitt romney storming the campaign trail raising a billion dollars a piece. how is that possible in such a lousy economy? we talk strategy and how they may spend that money, the remainder of it with monica crowley. apple's disappointment. the ceo blaming the rumor mill for killing ipad sales. could this man be our next treasury secretary? stanford professor john taylor on how to balance our nation's books. the economy in the third quarter growing just slightly better than expected, arriving at a 2% annual rate. that was up from second-quarter growth from 1.3%. how are investors reacting to that? stocks now and every 15 minutes. nicole petallides at the new york stock exchange. nicole: good morning, everybody. when you look more closely into the number and then maybe people have been doing exactly that and that is why we have a negative number here on wall street for the dow jo

dagen: i'm dagen mcdowell. connell: i'm connell mcshane. there are new warnings today about hackers attacking our nation's biggest banks. dagen: the latest pew poll gives mitt romney the edge in the race for the white house. bret baier is here to talk all about it. connell: another election game changer potentially. it could come out of the middle east. nato saying it is ready to help turkey defend itself from syria. big story for oil trading. and helima croft just back from turkey with the first word on what this means. dagen: top of the hour, stocks now and every 15 minutes. nicole petallides at the new york stock exchange on why we're seeing a sell off. nicole: we really are seeing a sell off. the dollar has accelerated here. we are seeing the markets selling off some. don't forget last week was our first winning week in three. dow jones industrials right now selling off about 1/2% ahead of earnings season which will kick off here. we are seeing banks, drugs, retailers, the transports are also lower. i'm using the major averages. of cours

dagen: dagen mcdowell. note to congress, get this fixed. more than 80 large u.s. companies putting the pressure on lawmakers to reduce the federal debt. connell: and how about this, don't care who is president so says peter fisher who only want urgency. keep us away from the fiscal cliff. dagen: buckle up and bundle up. old man winter with a monster of a perfect storm threatening to shut down businesses. what do you call it? it is going to be ugly. connell: you combine all of these things. top of the hour, more on that, every 15 minutes with nicole petallides at the stock of the new york stock exchange. nicole: i went ice skating last night. some movers on wall street, the dow up 32 points. take a look at zynga. today is a great day for zynga, although it cooled off and hit a new low yesterday, the real winners on the street, see them higher by over 10%. wynn resorts coming out with numbers expansion in, the numbers are improving year over year, but the growth is slowing. wal-mart is a winner being added. and by a jedi dec biogen idec. selling friday was a big sun

dagen: i'm dagen mcdowell. new results from last week's debate, a historic number of americans think mitt romney outdualed the president. connell: california's governor changing seasons, bringing in the winter blend to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices. dagen: why some lawmakers are calling this chinese technology giant a threat to national security. connell: we will have all those stories but let's check on stocks now, as we do every 15 minutes. nicole petallides. nicole: i'm taking a look at the major averages, the dow nasdaq and s&p all pulling back a little bit. the dow jones industrial average down about 1/4 of 1%. we're also seeing the nasdaq and the s&p down even more than that. the tech heavy nasdaq down more than a half of 1%. on a day where the vix, the fear index is one of the few up arrows on the big board. i'm seeing retailers, drugs, bank stocks, all of those indexes do have down arrows today as we kick it off. don't forget last week was a winning week on wall street. talking about looking a

connell: tony, this is dagen mcdowell. you know when they will clear the bridge to get that moving? >> i spoke with the ceo of long island power authority. their focus is going to be in the next day or two on getting the hospitals and nursing homes established and clearing the major arteries of power lines. we will not be able to get into the neighborhoods that are affected. there are dozens of neighborhoods throughout the south shore until they are able to turn off the power and work on once. several days before residents should expect to see power. they are focusing on the other institutions first. dagen: tony, thank you. >> thank you very much. connell: new york city rescue workers still dealing with this. taking a live look at the crane on 57th street in the heart of manhattan. an astonishing, horribly awful sight as it collapsed yesterday. again, how will they deal with that as it still hangs precariously in the air speech. dagen: we will talk about how the airlines are doing right now. how to get the plane off the ground. tens of thousands of flights have been canceled as a re