. >> before joining giuliani's administration as deputy mayor. >> most new yorkers are in sync with where i am. you're going to be very, very surprised tuesday night. >> if polls are correct, loda will need a miracle to win. ending republican rule and giving the democrats a chance. randall pinkston al jazeera new york. >> if you have not mailed your vote in, there's a few spots that we're going to be watching for concerns of plenty of snow coming in throughout the day of our tuesday. our voting tuesday. now, today we've got some rain coming into the pacific northwest and we've had quite a bit of rain from texas and stretching over into parts of michigan. this is a warm rain around texas but it gets colder the further north you go. at this point there's no snow coming down at ground level or at sea level but certainly we've been getting all that rain from a tropical storm, about a third of an inch nor chihuahua, texas will start to dry for election day but that's not case as that warm, moist air spreads up into the midwest. we'll have a warm rain changing over to snow, first for south dako

by then, the giuliani administration was not in charge. it was the bloomberg administration. he brought back john doherty, who had been the commissioner for several years, had retired, and bloomberg invited him back for his old job. the only commissioner to serve twice and the only commissioner to come up the ranks from the truck to serve twice. the longest-serving commissioner in department history. and john doherty brought back vito turso, and i think of them as a team. vito promoted people that i knew then. they were my hooks. if you have a hook, that is some one who can speak on your behalf and help you solve a problem. my hooks, the artist in residence and a former policy analyst with sanitation, and they talked to him on my behalf. that was the wedge. that was the foot in the door. i think that vito recognized that i was not crazy. and certainly i proved my stubbornness because it had been two years. he helped the artist in residence with some of her projects. from a bureaucratic perspective, you would never approve them. but he has a much deeper understanding of the po

unions and want to go up against the status quo and reject a lot of what the bloomberg and giuliani administrationsity. that is somewhat new to our politics. it's an important driving force and could change the face of a lot of our cities, urban populism. >> over in colorado there's a ballot initiative that would allow 11 conservative counties to secede from the state because of anger over liberal measures like gun control and gay rights. how does that fit into all of this? >> well, this is a divide -- urban/rural divide in this country is as old as the republic itself, even predates the conservative/liberal arguments we're having today. and in colorado what you have is these 11 counties that feel very much disenfranchised by an urban-based population that has the control of the state legislation on things like guns and renewable energy and they're rising up. at the end of the day, i don't think it's going to happen. if they want to secede, it has to go through the legislature and u.s. congress. that ain't gonna happen. it's another sign of how splintered we are become as a people. >> it brings up

spent years in the private sector in finance before joining giuliani's administration. >> you are goingight. >> if polls are correct, lada will need a political miracle to win. tomorrow, voters will decide if it's time to end republican rule and give democrats a chance. randall pinkton, aljazeera, new york. >> >> let's bring in meteorologist nicole mitchum. >> they say that democrats are slightly more likely to stay home when the weather is poor, so that and close elections can make a difference. the other biggest factor is when the roads are snowy or icy, more people stay home, especially seen years, so once again, something that can impact polling, in city like minneapolis, 35 people threw their name into the hat. this could be our first accumulating snowfall for the twin cities. the average date for that is november 2, for the first snowfall is november 5. we'll have a round of high pressure, all this moisture coming in from the south. all this keeps it so you had ward warm, the combination with moisture switches the day from rain to snow. we're getting snow in rapid city. this is go

. >> you had giuliani in charge because of the failures of the past democratic administrations. people had enough. and then bloomberg spent hundreds of millions of dollars to win an election. a popular bloomberg who i thought did a very good job managing the city barely wins the election where he far out spent the democratic candidate. this is a far left city. it's not shocking that bill de blasio won. >> he's be an instant national figure. he epitomizes the whole new america that obama brought to power. he's of italian american dissent. his wife is african-american america , aformer lesbian activist. you can't get much more diversed that than. in addition he has put an issue on the agenda had a wil that wit attention , inequality, between the super rich like michael bloomberg and those just scraping by. the issue of inequality has been put on the agenda, and bill de blasio will make sure it stays there. >> he's talking about stopping the stop-and-frisk policy and all sorts of other things. the reality is over the past 20 years you have to acknowledge that giuliani and bloomberg