guillermo was training for the ing new york city marathon. i'm his coach. what he doesn't know is that i'm going to intentionally screw this commercial up over and over again so he has to run a lot. all right? send him in. guillermo? you look great. all right, so, you're going to run around me while i read this stuff, but really fast, like, as fast as you can. >> okay. >> jimmy: let's practice it. marathon training requires energy and subway is a great play to fuel up fur your workout, right guillermo? >> yes, jimmy. >> jimmy: try subway's egg white and cheese on flatbred loaded with -- oh, veggies. for lunch, subway's italian bmt packed with spicy pepperoni and black forest hat. i said hat. >> ready to eat, jimmy. >> jimmy: are you ready to eat? but you're not smiling. >> ready to eat. >> jimmy: ready to eat. which reminds me, i'm getting hungry. are you -- you're supposed to wait until i ask -- >> let's go jimmy. >> jimmy: that's not where we say it. you have lettuce on your face. is that a problem? smile. you got to smile. >> i would like to stop. >> jim

new york station has the story. >> reporter: it is often said that major sporting events have ability to unite a city or region in the wake of disastrous events. officials and runners believe the ingwill do this for the city after hurricane sandy. >> we are simply heartsick for those who have been hurt by hurricane sandy. the opportunity is for the marathon to beep our most visible step forward as a city. >> the ing marathon shows off the spirit of the city look no other. i think after tragedies the best thing we can do is come together and celebrate. >> reporter: the new york roadrunners understand the amount of work that is required to get an event of this magnitude up and running but insist they will not interrupt the city's post storm work. >> the joint effort of new york workers in the city is certainly not to distract one resource from the recovery of the city. >> reporter: at this point the new york road runners are optimistic. most of the elite athletes will arrive in time for sunday's race. but they do say it is important for all the runners to have a little flexibility. >> i think the best thing you can do is not stress. elite athlete or every athlete out there, stress d

hearts today, tonight, that we share that the best way to help new york city at this time is to say that we will not be conducting the 2012 ingw york city marathon. >> it's official. sunday's new york city marathon is off, canceled in the wake of hurricane sandy. i have two of the runners with me who would have run. michael weisman is a marathon veteran but his house was wiped out by sandy. michael, welcome to you. obviously you're looking forward to the race. you've run it four times before. but there's your wife and two children and house in manhattan beach, long island which was completely destroyed by sandy. the moment that happened on monday night, did you think and assume that the race would get canceled? >> i had to assume. first of all, i no longer have running shoes or running clothes to use. but the amount of devastation on our front porch which is about 10, 15 feet higher than the ground floor, and watching the water overlap our cars, transformers blowing and you're seeing people fleeing from porch to porch trying to help each other out, you're saying there's no way this marathon will occur because we can't recover

heart today, tonight, that we share that the best way to help new york city at this time is to say that we will not be you conducting the 2012 ing new york city marathon. >> i guess my question is what's going to happen to all the supplies? i guess those are privately owned. i'm not sure who owns them. but i would hope, and i think a lot of people here i talked to in the last hour or two, hope that those things, the generators at the very least, would be distributed, the port-a-potties would be used here. >> that's what the new york marathon is saying, they will mobilize the generators, the water, the food that was going to be used. the people need those port-a-potties. they don't have anhere to go. >> no place around here. >> the reason people are staying in their homes, that's because there's looting going on. people's homes are being robbed. so to compound the tragedy, compound the devastation, now these poor people basically, they don't want to leave. the temperatures are dropping. within the last hour or two, it dropped 20 degrees and the people here really desperately need help. imagine if they took those buses they were g

after a friday filled with fury, michael bloomberg gave into the criticism and canceled the ing new york city marathon scheduled for this sunday. let's go live to cnbc's brian shactman with the latest. good evening, brian. >> reporter: hi, larry. as late as midafternoon mayor bloomberg was adamant that the race would go on. preparations were moving forward from the equipment to people signing up. but basically the negative momentum swung actually early this morning with the publication of a front-page article in the "new york post" about the huge generators that were being used to power the new york city marathon in central park. there was actually a third generator sitting idle. all three of those could have been used for recovery efforts. well, it exploded on twitter and facebook and eventually public figures came and spoke out against this. this afternoon, later in the day there were meetings and major bloomberg, canceled, didn't postpone but canceled the marathon. here are some of the statements from the mayor's office. while holding the race would not require diverting resources from the

. >> the best way to help new york city at this time is to say that we will not be conducting the 2012 ingnew york city marathon. >> reporter: appearing on charlie rose bloomberg's police commissioner explained why the mayor changed his mind. >> he didn't want it to result in divisiveness. >> reporter: outrage has been brewing for days in print and on tv. >> we have people who lost their lives or lost their entire house everything they had, work for their whole life. >> reporter: critics charged the race was draining vital emergency resources from recovery efforts. >> bring those port-a-potties. generators. they have generateors to keep the runners warm. >> reporter: nearly 50,000 runners from 125,000 countries were expected to compete sunday in a race that generates an estimated $300 million for the city. >> we can't do this now. you should have done this at the beginning of the week. >> reporter: news of the cancellation started to spread by late evening as entrants picked up their gear. some had only arrived friday morning. >> we could have saved a ton of money. we flew from tennessee.

ing news out of new york city. mayor michael bloomberg says the new york city marathon will not happen sunday. >> i really couldn't believe it because it seemed like the mayor of the city said it was a go. >> he's a maryland runner among the estimated 40,000 runners who expected to take part in the event. harris rosenslide was planning to run with his buddy steve who is already in new york all the way from new zealand. steve is blind and running it year after year is extra special. now it will be a weekend in new york without the big race. >> maybe we'll take some run in central park or we'll try to do something or fry to enjoy new york city -- try to enjoy new york city for what it's worth. >> harris is certainly sympathetic of the criticism and the suffering. the race would have started on staten island where at least 20 people died. it would have shut down roads and bridges already congested post sandy and as many as 1,000 cops would have been deployed to keep racers safe instead of diverting those resources to

heavy hearts today, tonight, that we feel the best way to help new york city at this time is to say that we will not be conducted the 2012 inganizers and i'm sure for a lot of runners. all of the resources for the marathon including water and blankets will go to storm victims and there are websites popping up from runners that want to donate their hotel rooms to victims as well. >>> at least 20 people have died in staten island when a massive storm surge suddenly came on shore. >>> we have joined right now on the phone, is it getting any better, is the calvary there yet, claire? >> yes, wolf. lots of response teams here today. fema, red cross, the government agencies, the cry for help was he heard. >> and i assume people are relieved that the marathon is now cancelled? >> yes, there was quite a lot of opposition to it. a big e-mail campaign, and i think staten islanders were concerned it would take the focus off of what was important right now which is recovery. >>> janet napolitano spoke today and held a press conference, let me play a soundbite of what she said. >> we know that staten island took a particularly hard hit fr

dear ing new york city marathon, since i paid my entry fee for the marathon but have canceled in lightse let me know where i can pick up my gallon of water that i'd otherwise drink on the course, my apple, pet zeretzels. i'm sure there is someone who could use these items. i would deliver it to them, thank you. that is what i'm hearing. that is what the public should know is what is going on. not these people running around central park laughing and having a good time. i have run the marathon five times, i love it. i mentioned long island. i have to read this to you. check this out. the local utility, but this can go for anything in the northeast. a quote, i will advise the trustees to consider this experience and utilities past performance responding to major storms when, when the hopes to renew its contract are up for renewal. now, this is what's interesting. look at the data. that was cuomo september 2, 2011, folks. i know everybody behind me in this building who is out in long island who lives in new york and knows who cuomo is, thanks last year, nothing is changed. let's help in t

ing is also the presenting sponsor at this weekend's new york city marathon. why don't we begin there. i realize that you run the investment management division, not all of ing in the americas, but you must have a perspective. a lot of new yorkers are very concerned -- some of them are angry -- that this marathon is going to go on as scheduled. did people from your company consult with the mayor, what did they say to him, to the extent you know, and do you support the decision? >> we do. the decision was taken by the mayor and the city of new york in consultation with the new york road runners. ing is the title sponsor. we support that decision. we're proud to be the title sponsor for the tenth year in a row. the marathon is a wonderful event for new york. it really represents the vitality and perseverance of new yorkers. it also has a tremendous economic benefit to the city of new york. the estimates are that annually, it gives annomi of $340 million to the city, and about $35 million to charities each year. >> it is a wonderful event, of that there is no disp

here in new york city, the important decision has actually been made. the marathon will go ahead, the ingathon is set now. the president and ceo of the new york roadrunners who organize the event. welcome to the program, mary. hi, mary, are you with us? mary whitenberg? >> i am, i can hear you. >> hi and welcome to the show. this is an important decision made, i believe by the mayor's office, correct? how touch and go was it that we should have the marathon on sunday for so many obvious reasons? >> i think it was a very big question, you know, what is very clear here in new york is restore ration and recovery is first foremost and we have stood ready to proceed as the mayor and the city thought best for the city and the mayor's r the city was to uplift the city and move the city forward is to do the marathon, we're ready to go and do everything we can and honor those that have been hurt by this horrible storm and those lost and so the responsibility is big to ensure that this is really an amazing day for new york. >> i guess the issue for many people is the practicality when they have so

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ing of the americas. he's going to talk among other things about the wisdom of going ahead with the new york city marathons weekend. pain at the pump. we will track the path of gasoline from the refineries through the terminals to the stations and show you where the real problems are. and what the port of new orleans would tell the port of new york and new jersey about getting back into business after a major storm. scott, back to you. >> thanks so much. we'll see you at the top of the hour. in about 12 minutes time or so. we have been watching the markets today rally quite substantially. the dow's up more than 1%, having its best gain in seven weeks and industrials, one of those groups leading things higher today largely on the back of better economic data out of china, giving a nice lift to caterpillar today, up 2.5%. you can see some other names on the board today having a good session. ibm, chevron and 3m. we continue to follow the story of pain at the pump in this gas crisis we're seeing in the new jersey area. one of the state's hardest hit. you can see lines of 100, in some case, many more than tha

new polls out, show ing its a close call. it's thursday, november 1st, and "starting point" begins right now. >>> morning. welcome, everybody. our "starting point" this morning, the aftermath of the superstorm. new york city slowly getting back to normal this morning, but no heat, no power, gas running low. bumper to bumper traffic. patience is being tested. some subways are running again this morning, so many are buses. fares, free, today, as workers are trying to keep the financial heart of the country beating. rob marciano this morning at the brooklyn bridge for us. hey, rob, good morning! >> reporter: good morning, soledad. there'll be a lot of foot traffic once again over this bridge. and if you are in a car, you'll need at least three people in that vehicle. carpooling is going to be the call today, because yesterday, there was absolute gridlock across the city. we didn't have much in the way of bus lines running. these subways were still shut down. all the people that would typically travel underground were trying to get to work aboveground. and boy, some places, there was chaos. i mean, people pushing and shoving, just to try to get on a bus. many buses that were traveling past 10th and 14th stree

new york road runners association announced the race would go on. her organization along with the ing would donate money to the cleanup. fastest rates hit $340 million in tourism and tax revenue for the citydelays, flight canceled, traveling from 35 countries all 50 states, is that going to happen? requiring hundreds of police officers would be dealing with downed traffic lights, power outages and operations the five boroughs. they will not run or watch a marathon this year. we're waiting to hear from waco bloomberg heavily criticized by many local papers in particular including the cover of "the new york post" which basically said it was with regards to mayor bloomberg should not be running this maze. it is immoral and wrong. >> what we're seeing is people like this gentleman here with their own canisters to get fuel. and we are seeing people parking their cars and a shoulder to get out and come in to get gas. you have two canisters, tell us about your situation. >> i have no electricity. no electric, don't have the power or nothing. just to get two cans of gas. dennis: thi>> so this is for yor generator? >> yes. we have two kids, one in three years old, one is one years old. >> so you h

ing agents came across the jeep as it got stuck. >> all that -- >> give me a break. >> you wear a belt i'll start drawing a miss. >> -- and all that matters. >> amazing time laps video of sandy slamming new york city. >> few more days and no power new york might get weird. >> on cbs "this morning." >> speaking foreign language >> when your city is flooding that's as bad as antonio [ bleep ] banderas. >>> welcome to cbs "this morning." i'm charlie rose in new york, norah o'donnell is in washington. the extent of superstorm sandy's damage has become clearer and more alarming, five a day. this morning sandy is blamed for 75 deaths in ten states. and about 5 million homes and businesses still have no electricity. >> in new york city many subway and commuter trains are now running and the city has put restrictions on drivers trying to get into manhattan. drivers also face severe gas shortages throughout the new york metro area. this morning hundreds of thousands of people along the new jersey shore are facing months even years of rebuilding. jeff glor is in things where president obama saw the power of sandy for himself on wednesday. jeff, good morning. >> reporter: norah, good morning to you. 14 are d