surveyor at a time with no trained or experienced jerns, but it was interesting to discover that before eri eric wright had been fired by a land development company for failing to lay a road to the property, and more importantly, he was nearly fireed from the erie job. he was pursuing other surveying work, and on state time, and also avoiding hazardous erie field work in unhealthy terrain where the line were laid. he was close to getting fired a couple months after construction had begun. in 1839, the first attempt to create a professional society of american engineers with wright at its head failed when a majority voted against the society's proposed constitution, effectively, a rejection of wright himself by the peers. the present american society of civil engineers, formed after wright's death, proclaimed him the father of american civil engineering in 1969. a well-deserved honor for the ultimately successful erie project and later cam and railroad work, but not an honor that his peers would have given a man who many perceived as a flatterer of his employers and a credit stealer from subordin

erie. i'm gabe spiegel. eric, back to you. >> eric: thank you, gabe. so let's throw stats out here. we have just been updated. a.p. telling us at least 40 died because of the hurricane sandy or storm sandy. in ohio, literally, feet of snow being dropped. red house, maryland, 26 inches. west virginia, if inches. it goes on and on. but the point is, kimberly, this thing is nowhere near being finished with the havoc. >> kimberly: it isn't. we're getting updates, you know, every ten minutes what about is going on. different developments. havoc, devastation. in queens, we found one area. 80 homes destroyed. 40 dead so far. the numbers keep mounting up in terms of the economic crisis and fall-out from this. it's significant. so many people displaced without homes. >> eric: shoiz in the path. a lot of people are expecting hurricane sandy, or storm sandy. will it affect early voting, voting, will it affect the election? >> dana: bob, you want to jump in? >> bob: next block. i want to talk about that. >> eric: i want to talk about the storm on the election. >> bob: on that one, there are 8 m