in a statement, hofstra university says they have been working closely with police. all four students have been suspended from the university and the basketball, pending the outcome of their court case. dan? bianna? >> thanks. >>> now, to a terrifying survival story. a man who found himself swimming for his life after being attacked by a shark in hawaii. it happened 250 yards from shore. and the victim said the shark's head was two feet wide, with his leg caught in the shark's jaws. ron is back with this story. he's one lucky guy. >> this is a harrowing tale about a man who got away from the fish. but the fish believed to be a very dangerous tiger shark, that seemingly appeared out of nowhere. and pounced on the man snorkeling off the coast of maui. >> it didn't hurt so much. it was mostly just fear of a second attack. >> reporter: from his hospital bed, tom kennedy was able to describe his close encounter with a shark just hours earlier. one that could have cost him his life. >> i kept watching behind because i was, obviously, concerned, he might come back again. >>

. >>> good evening from hofstra university in hempstead, new york. i'm candy crowley from cnn state of the union. [ applause ] welcome to the second presidential debate. tonight's debate is a town hall,

. >>> good evening from hofstra university in hempstead, new york. i'm candy crowley from cnn state of the union. [ applause ] welcome to the second presidential debate. tonight's debate is a town hall, and our audience is 82 undecided

jill stein and vice presidential candidate cheri hot color were arrested on tuesday outside of hofstra university after attempting to join the debate. >> we are here to stand our ground, stanley r. brown for the american people who have been systematically blocked out of these debates for decades by the commission on presidential debates. we think the commission is entirely illegitimate. if democracy truly prevailed there would be no such commission. the debates would still be run by the league of women voters, the debates would be open. >> this is a series and big storm and my first message is to all people across the eastern seaboard, the atlantic, north, you need to take this very seriously and follow the instructions of your state and local officials because they are going to be providing you with the best advice in terms of how to deal with this storm over the coming days. >> help, we need help. seriously. >> what we need most right now is like. at that time, it is pitch black. you cannot even see what is in front of you. >> we are working with sandy relief and ows. people are bringing in cl

so the data is kind of inconsistent, but a couple economists have looked at that at hofstra university at what the ceos of the major big three auto companies are saying, they don't want any part of this right now. so this is an attack on worker rights at the time when the fundamental problem this country faces right now, there is one economic problem that everything we're talking about whether it's the budget or anything else is all rooted in, and that is the fact that wages in this country have been stagnant for 10 to 12 years. rather than trying to lift workers up, this is another effort by the republican party to go right between the eyes of working people. >> ant right at the moment when corporate profitts are at astronomical levels. >> and michigan is a very inhospitable state for chief executives. this governor is going to face a very, very, very tough re-election. >> isn't the giveaway here that the governor wanted to push this through during a lame duck session to seek some kind of revenge as julian just hinted at the president who won re-election? >> well, that is one giveaway

analysis here shows analysis in 2007 by hofstra university said there arless bankruptcies in right toages and overall earnings are in aggregate less. again, here, states can point to a higher unemployment rate, rather, lower unemployment rate in right to work states but it comes out of the wages. >> while we can do measurements on unemployment statistics and hard wage numbers, it's a little more tricky to find out what the benefits are of benefits and measuring benefits. >> that's exactly right. this is part of the key debate. contracts have great benefits. that's part of the pitch that's been made for generations but with those benefits come real cost, especially to private sector companies. so it's part of the competitiveness pitch. governor snyder wants more businesses to move into his state. he believes this actually will do it. what's so contentious about michigan is the huge union tradition in this state, the heart of the auto industry, so when michigan passes right to work legislation, becoming the 24th state, not only is the nation at sort of a tipping point but it is a shot a

same day making the point of all of the different presidential debates took place at universities including hofstra that have ridiculous speech codes and i have some fun pointing out that if he were to apply these to the presidential candidates by the plan language of these codes and i actually made the argument that i really wish they would enforce them against the candidates because the reason they survive is because they are sort of kept in the back door when they needed to be if they really were applied across the board they wouldn't last a day because frankly the way they were so broadly worded that devotee is guilty of violating them. i assume most of you know this but i want to be clear. the law is extremely protective of the free-speech rights of college students. extremely protective. obviously of free speech, period but on the campuses in particular the case is coming out of the 1970's. the supreme court was very clear that the universities cannot restrict even highly offensive speech on campus. this is very clearly established there's been over a dozen legal opinions and challenges to th