affair with world leaders friend and foe watching his every move and almost certainly looking for you haver in shlt doctor vulnerability vulnerabilities. there is of course the question of why he chose to resign now. officials tell abc news, the fbi was investigates petraeus' biographer, paula broadwell, for strange activity on the internet and then some e-mails were discovered in the course of that investigation that raised concern. diane? >> martha raddatz reporting in. and now we go to abc's white house correspondent jake tapper here to tell us what the white house is saying tonight. jake? >> reporter: well, diane, senior white house officials tell us the overwhelming emotion here is surprise and, of course, sorrow, for a colleague and his family. white house officials were told about this on wednesday, the day after president obama was re-elected. they were told by the director of national intelligence, james clapper. on thursday, president obama was informed about this situation. the entire situation, the fbi investigation, as well as the affair. general petraeus called the national se

have a listen, listen havers. >> bottom line, would raising taxes on the wealthiest americans have a chilling affect on hiring in this country? >> no. i think it would have a great affect in terms of the morality of the -- the morale of the middle class who have seen themselves paying high payroll taxes and watch guys like me paying a rate that is below that paid by the people in my office. >> was some old guy talking? meanwhile in england we are seeing what happens when you take from the well to do. 16,000 people declared an annual income of 1 million pounds. that number dropped to just 6,000 after the prime minister introduced a 50% top rate of income tax. it is believed many rich brits moved abroad and taking flight to avoid the government bite. for more, let's go live to "red eye" senior business correspondent, bathtub cat. >> john gibson. now this oracle of omaha -- now, are you sick and tired of rich people telling us how much tax we are going to have to pay? >> this is absolutely absurd. what is raising the morale of the middle class going to do for the middle class? is it goi

but for right now, the main thing we'll haver two about for this morning and into saturday morning, andut there. this was the case this morning, and basically a repeat performance for tomorrow. some patchy be, dense fog. it's not wide spread. this weekend, still a dry weather pattern. the storm track up to our north. the temperatures in the 60s to once again approaching the 70- degree mark. saturday will be the warmest day of the upcoming weekend. we trim back a little on those temperatures by sunday. as far as the storm track, it's up to the north for now, but here is our long range forecast model. you'll notice as you take this into wednesday that the chance of rain returns into wednesday, and once again into thursday. so we do have increasing confidence. not sure just yet, but we could be track something more moderate to heavy rain still next week. for tomorrow morning, some patchy fog out there, but into the afternoon hours, and temperatures for tomorrow, still very nice. lots of 60s. a fewer neighbors flirting with the 70-degree mark. oakland will go 67. gill roy, right around 70.

making making we havered on the side of not overreporting what is happening because we live here but new york has been devastated. devastated. the five burroughs, staten island has been leveled. >>shepard: so many weeks and months ahead. see you on thursday. the news begins anew on "studio b" gas short averages are serious. they are getting worse from the monster storm. some drivers are waiting in line if hours and some do not bother. the ones who try are finding the gas has run dry. now, real fears that jet fuel could run out in the nation's busiest airspace. never heard of that. millions enter day five with no power, tomorrow, running water, for some, no real place to call home, workers are setting up for the marathon, a decision world-class event, lots of money coming in. do we do it in the mayor says we do it. you might imagine, there are frustrations. we have our last economic report before americans go to polls on election day, four days away and that shows the unemployment rate has changed again as both campaigns enter the home stretch. it is a very busy day unless breaking ne

america is increasingly did i havers and republicans are increasingly homogeneous. smart republicans, we'll see if the broader party and its leaders do. he mentioned in that first debate, the president did not do a very good job. ana, sorry. >> it's early. >> we all look the same to you. >> not at all. >> i agree with her. >> governor romney did a great job. he deserves credit. i cannot imagine how daunting it must be. not only to walk out and debate a president with 70 million people watching but barack obama who is a pretty good debater. in the first debate, romney cleaned his clock. give him credit for that. another thing that ari fleischer mention. >> showed up to in the number. 70-30. 30 for republicans is a modern record. they never used to get. that. >> it would be single digits. >> i think it was good for america. >> and i live in florida. and the effort that was waged in florida for the jewish voter was very targeted. incredibly effective. a very good ad campaign. >> on the democratic side, the president gets enormous credit for this but he was able to do w

the top one or two wrongs have shot up into the stratosphere while all of t other ones haver stayed more or less in place. it's really astonish g how goncentrated the games of economic growth have been. >> you know the startling statistic that we have in the book is tha if you take all of the income gains from 19 to 2007, so all the increased household income over that period around 40% of those gains went to the top 1%. and if you look at the bottom 90%, they had less than that combined. and it's not just a one or a two-year story. i mean, we've seen a terrible economy over the last few years. and the last decade is now being called "the lost decade" because there was no growth in middle incomes, there was no -- there was an increase in the share of americans without health insurance. more people were poor, so there was a terrible ten yearsid but we actually looking at the last 30 years and seeing that the middle class had only gotten ahead to the extent that it had because of families working more hours. so this is a story that isn't just about those at the top doing much, much better,

nate siler haver is not putting money on joe biden this time around.o dominates this field, which is remarkable considering where she was in public opinion in this country in the 1990s. she was a real divisive figure, not necessarily her fault. people really made her a lightning rod for things. now she's in a place where she's the republican's favorite democrat. it's a very strange turn around. i think the democrats, as that poll illustrates, have a really weak bench right now. the democratic convention, if you look at the star speakers -- you know, if a mediocre mayor of a misgoverned town is one of your stars, you have a problem. hillary is so close to it. i have a hard time believing that not just women but men and all democrats, and maybe other people, will put pressure on her to run in 2016. the question will be is if the democrats at that point have created a situation where they can continue winning. >> perry, let's talk about some of the republican names being dropped. as we just saw in andrea's piece there, jeb bush, former florida governor, s

watching the balance of power on qulil acapitol hill an monday jafers joins us [ and i man i don't havers [ eamon javers joining us to talk about that. >> here's the balance of power. starting off with 51 democrats and two independents who typically vote with those democrats. and you've got 47 republicans. that means that republicans on election night will need a net pickup, net/net of four seats in the u.s. senate or if romney wins the presidency, they only need three seats and that's because a vice president paul ryan would be the guy to cast the tie breaking vote in the senate. in the house, the split is 240/190 in favor of the republicans. that means democrats will need a 25 seat net gain in order to break the difference. there are five vacancies in the house of representatives right now and that's why they need a 25 seat net gain in the house of representatives there you see the split 240/190 for the democrats. so i want to talk about what's going to be the big factor at play tonight. the guys from the cook political report had a great report that i saw yesterday talking about the de