be surprised if the markets were surprised so my two cents is if the state is correct and if obama ekes out a narrow victory, the markets will take it in stride, there will be little effect. i'm not a market expert so i'll defer to others. >> what happens if we don't get an outcome wednesday morning? >> well that would be bad for markets, pi we all know don't

and the range of foods -- they're not just scrounging, not just sort of eking out an existence.really living quite well. that's a monkey tail. look at that. keach: from mouse bones to axe blades, the details of daily life preserved at ceren astonished the archaeologists. but it is only a beginning. it will take several seasons to excavate the remains of an entire household and several decades to excavate the entire community. the community buried beneath the sugar cane of ceren may one day be unearthed. but other sites in the maya region offer what ceren lacks -- evidence of ancient households easily seen on the surface. mira, arturo. una, dos, tres piedras. keach: here in honduras, a survey team combs the copan valley. their trained eyes recognize mounds of grass-covered stones as the remnants of ancient maya dwellings. okay. there's the road. mm-hmm. this...here's where we came in -- a small road. and we walked around this way, and we walked over into this pasture. and so this site is right about here, right on this little hill. keach: the copan valley lies 100 kilometers nort

listen, the whole market just plunged after the speech, but, still, after awhile, the markets managed to eke out gains. dow down a point, snaps a two session winning streak. consumer discretionary and health care today's top performers and technology and energy lagged. we have lots of action in the metals today. gold giving back a little more than a half of yesterday's gains closing down $11 an ounce. other metals lower, the biggest loser today, goes into catalytic converters to convert, down 1.1%. silver down eight-tenths of a percent. here's a good sign here. new home construction soaring to the highest level in more than four years last month. jumping 3.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 894,000. october's jump pushed starts up more than 40% compared to one year ago. david: it's all covered for today's action, larry, at the cme in chicago, and we've got more than $110 billion in advice from the gurus. starting with larry at the cme. larry, did you hear anything at all from ben bernanke that was game changing as far as the markets were concerned? >> no, not at all. i mean, i think

they eke out a victory that is eked from the jaws of defeat. >> notre dame has been inefficient in this game. first time all year long the defense hasn't been there to save the game. inconsistent position from the quarterback position. golson taken out of the game and for tommy rees. the voters in the bcs poll want notre dame to be dominant week in and week out whether they are playing stanford or playing purdue or byu or today's pitt team at home. they haven't been that way and why they are number four in the human polls. >> this is not going to impress anyone so they need some help. from oklahoma state or some help from usc against oregon. oregon, marcus mayory owe take to thomas -- mariota to thompson for a touchdown. >> they march down the field and kick a field goal to answer. >> looked like they had a touchdown but it was called out of bounds. so they get a field goal. 7-3. coming up tonight lsu against alabama. third time the last year these two have met with about everything on the line. lsu, what dove to do to pull out an upset at home? >> i think the only chance to run the foo

and really only somebody with his ek appearance, both in the military and diplomatic circles can makehat happen. this is a real loss to the country, the cia. >> is our country less safe? >> well, you know, going to lose the best man for the job, but america's adaptable. put it this way, we -- anytime you lose david petraeus, the country is not as safe as it could be. >> thank you very much. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >>> and "outfront" next, why are half a million people still without power tonight? nearly two weeks after that superstorm? plus, president obama and john boehner are both drawing lines in the sand over how to avert the fiscal cliff. that combination of tax increases set to hit all of us. will there be common ground? co. call in the engineers. call in the car guys. call in the nerds. build a prototype. mold it. shape it. love it. give it 40 mpg. no, 41. give it a huge display. give it a starting price under 16 grand. take it to the car shows. get a celebrity endorser. he's perfect. "i am?" yes, you are. making a groundbreaking car. it's that easy. ♪ as part of a

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. >> good eke. a series of robberies. a high speed chase and a gun battle with police. while one suspect was arrested another armed suspect is still on the loose tonight. how neighbors helped catch one of the gunmen. >> our primary focus is getting the second guy in custody. >> reporter: this is how it ended for one of two men accused of shooting a police officer last nigh. hiding in a neighborhood that's spent two hours on lock down. >> it was crazy. it was scary. >> reporter: police say the men went on an armed robbery free hitting up businesses and people at gunpoint. police are also looking into the possibility the two were involved in a murder. >> violent suspects. both armed with firearms. we had a pretty good idea of what the vehicle looked like. >> reporter: police spotted it around 9. one of the suspects got out and started shooting at the police car. >> the officer was forced to duck down for cover. several rounds hit the car. one of the rounds struck the officer's oc canister. now the car is kohnstamm mated with pepper spray. >> reporter: another officer in a

surprising to me is that before the election you had people who were not just predicting romney will eken ohio. it's republican leaning, et cetera. they were saying we'd have a romney landslide in the swings states. and to come to that conclusion means i think you're a little bit out of touch with reality. and you better be right. we get a test. we get a test and it's the good thing about making a prediction or forecast you're called on your-- can i say ( bleep ) on tv? >> jon: not on this show you can't. on this program i believe you can only say ( bleep ). ( laughter ). i believe. if i'm correct. but that is-- what so struck me is i am not particularly versed in statistics, but as i read your blog, it was being used as a totem for the left because it was so positive for obama but the underpinnings of it were these polls statistically would not all have the same margin of error in the same distribution. >> right. >> jon: if it were not statistically provable it was moving in that protection. >> yeah, unless there were some bias in the polls. if anything the polls were a little low on so

. >>> a man has been missing for two eks. his family says he wandered off before but has never been gone so long. >>> coming up at 4:37, we are in for another chilly yet dry day. howard is back with your forecast. >> reporter: sandy being felt. >>> prices at the pump continue to fall. >> 9news back in two minutes. >>> chilly out there this morning. you'll need a jacket and gloves. we should get a good deal of sunshine today. mostly sunny, chilly though. 46 by lunch time. perhaps 51, 52 for that high. by 6:00, it will be dark already with a temperature of 46 degrees. looking at election day, got a nor'easter to talk about. right now here's monika with traffic. >> reporter: no issues to report as you come in from centerville here. traffic is moving well. i'll be back with more, coming up at 4:47. >>> jessica doyle is here and we all talk about how lawmakers won't do anything. >> wall street is not going to do anything until we know the outcome of the presidential election. tuesday night, wednesday morning, thursday in a month a

. >> president obama will eke it out barely >> a sizable romney victory 277-303 nail biter minnesotao go for romney obama wins romney by 3% it's too close to call. it's impossible to call >> jon: impossible? [bleep] what are you people doing there? just open your mouth. look at this guy. here's newt gingrich. remember him from the primaries? >> the odds are very high i'm going to be the nominee. >> jon: i don't know if you were following the election but he was not the nominee. they ended up going with the romney. trademark by the way. so that guy was way off. doesn't matter what he thinks, right? but it does >> i believe the minimum result will be 53-47 romney, over 300 electoral votes and the republicans will pick up the senate. i base that on just years and years of experience. >> jon: of being wrong. so obviously on wednesday or, god forbid thursday or december or whenever this thing is figured out, we'll know which punned is were wrong, which were wronger and which were "oh, my god, that was really wrong." i can show you a prediction that's wrong today. it comes via dick morris,

michele bachmann eked out a third term but it cost her a pretty penny, actually more than $20 million. she outspent her opponent 12-1 and she only won 50.59% of the vote. in all at least 47 tea party house remembers retained their seethes with the help of obscene amounts of money. so where does the gop go from here? tonight we're putting that question to j.d. hayworth and duf sundheim. who is joining me here in studio. i want to thank you both for bringing both ends of the spectrum. j.d. just two years ago, there were 60-newly elected lawmakers who swept into congress and now some of the most prominent among them went down in defeat so did the tea party overreach? >> no not at all. the fact is there is still a substantial majority you mentioned in this introduction jen, that the tea party is alive and well much to your chagrin. now 30 of the nation's governors are republicans. i think what we will see, both on capitol hill and at the republican national committee and across the kitchen table, is not self flagellation but a good self assessment, a healthy debate inside the party, under

and really only somebody with his ek appearance, both in the military and diplomatic circles can makeppen. this is a real loss to the country, the cia. >> is our country less safe? >> well, you know, going to lose the best man for the job, but america's adaptable. put it this way, we -- anytime you lose david petraeus, the country is not as safe as it could be. >> thank you very much. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >>> and "outfront" next, why are half a million people still without power tonight? nearly two weeks after that superstorm? plus, president obama and john boehner are both drawing lines in the sand over how to avert the fiscal cliff. that combination of tax increases set to hit all of us. will there be common ground? ♪ a powerful, fuel-efficient engine, but it's not from japan. ♪ it's a car like no other... inspired by a place like no other. introducing the all-new 2013 chevrolet malibu, our greatest malibu ever. ♪ i just finished a bowl of your new light chicken pot pie soup and it's so rich and creamy... is it really 100 calories? let me put you on webcan... ...lean

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like france, it just managed to eke out some growth. >> elsewhere in the picture, it was anything but rosy. >> people in southern europe have struggled with years of the zero economic growth -- spain, italy, portugal, and greece have seen rising unemployment and chronic budget shortfalls, but now, economic growth is also slowing in northern europe's industrial economies. in europe's biggest economy, germany, third quarter gdp growth came in at just 0.2%. it was the same figure in france, though analysts had been expecting even weaker numbers. in the netherlands, the economy contracted in the third quarter. one reason is more and more consumers are cutting back on their spending, fearing tough times ahead. another reason is that businesses are also scaling back. manufacturers also anticipate weaker demand from struggling eurozone partners. >> news of the recession did not pull down the market drastically. our correspondence sent us this report from the frankfurt stock exchange. >> of course it is bad news that the economy and the eurozone slipped into recession, but still, traders mana

stocks eking out gains as traders wait on washington. a flashing red warning sign emerging for the consumer. shares of yum brands taking a hit on the warning on the outlook for china. what does this mean for the other multinationals. this is much more than a single stock story because yum is looked at as a barometer for china growth. >> this year as mcdonald's was signaling that china was weakening we are seeing sales trends weaken. yum was doing fantastically in both regions. yum gets it disproportionate from the sales. and a lot of investors were wondering how these guys were bucking the trend for so long. to me this is a little curious. just gave guidance on october 10. to me they may have a bit of a credibility problem. the other one we were talking about is tiffany's. they have downgraded yesterday and that was also based on china. you are getting it on both sides of the spectrum. >> that is a great point in terms of their guidance. that is what caught the markets by surprise given the proximity of the most recent guidance. now they

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i think we'll eke out election day but by wednesday and thursday we'll get some clouds and rain with it. we'll fine tune that as we get closer. let's do some traffic and say good morning to julie wright. >> so far so good. also a quiet start for this friday morning drive. you'll find your lanes are open with no issues reported. headed out toward the dc line, light traffic volume continues all the way out toward pennsylvania avenue. no trouble spots to report southbound on 270. light traffic volume right now on 395 between the pentagon and tin bound 14th street bridge. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >>> prosecutors are recommending a six-day jail sentence for former d.c. chairman brown. he pled guilty to campaign finance violations back in june. his plea agreement called for a sentence of up to 6 months but although his crime was pretty serious he deserves credit for accepting responsibility and cooperating with law enforcement. >>> a new jersey lawmaker is on the hot seat this morning. the daily caller is reporting that bob do mendez says he paid two women for sex. the

they tried to eke out one more using the old formula. >> rick klein tweeted.hree-quarters of the exit polls, they blame bush more than they blamed obama. got that message across, as well. >> that explains a lot. >>> this election was also about pressing social issues from gay marriage to legalizing marijuana. >> the historic decisions made by voters across the country, coming up next on "america this morning." ♪ [ male announcer ] we all like things how we like them, even medicare drug plans. that's why walgreens pharmacists will help you find the plan that works for you. and now that we're a preferred pharmacy with four of the top medicare drug plans, you can save even more money on your prescriptions. no arguments here. stop by for your free walgreens medicare review by december 7th right here at the corner of happy and healthy. that's the sound of car insurance companies these days. here a cheap, there a cheap, everywhere a cheap... you get it. so, what if instead of just a cheap choice, you could make a smart choice? like, esurance for example. they were b

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captive population in the biggest concentration camp in the world in which almost two million people are eking out the most dreadful of existence as the hands of a foreign occupation power occupying the west bank and jerusalem and besieging gaza and that's the context in which this has to be seen the clock didn't start ticking a few days ago when some fireworks went up in the sky from gaza called rockets by israel though they haven't actually killed anyone whilst god knows how many people have been slain most of them children and women in the heavily concentrated civilian areas of the gaza strip was certainly was together we've been speaking over the past two hours or so to activists in garcia who have come out of the hospital saying that it seems to be that many children are bearing the brunt of what is or what is happening over the gaza border then again a lot of people also say. that is two sides of the story of the palestinian militants you've got the i.d.f. who are waging war ultimately with each other we're now getting reports from israeli radio about a rocket sounding in tel aviv the me