j. miller joins us now live in that newsroom. >> maryland is so blue that this would have been a sleepy campaign but the big ballot question has provided a huge political wakeup call. with that comes very big money. >> that tv ads have dominated the airwaves for weeks. >> follow the money had checked the facts for yourself. >> if we don't pass question 7, we will lose hundreds of millions for our school. >> to giants have been slugging it out in tv ads at a pace maryland has never seen. and gm wants to operate a new casino in prince george's county. >> if we don't pass question 7, west virginia winds and we lose. >> nationalist trying to protect its existing casinos. >> question 7 is a massive giveaway. >> according to the latest reports, the national has spent billions of dollars trying to defeat question 7. mgm and other supporters spent $40.2 million tried to convince voters to pass it. a total of $90.1 million on the sole question of expanded gambling. that is more than half the $155 million spent in the entire 2006 election. dozens and dozens of races. >> question 6 make a lot of b

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on the cnbc news line is nicole miller regan at piper j affrey. >> good morning. >> were you lookingnumber on global? >> more over less. looking at the regions and some cases worse or better but overall pretty much in line with us and the street. i think that's why you don't see a big reaction in the stock this morning. >> yeah. people have been -- yeah. i think -- what would have been a big reaction? 84, 83 opposed to 86 and change? >> yes. i think -- i mean, i an i gree. the questions and the derivative is qsr dead? is the space falling apart? >> and answer to that is? >> i don't think so. interestingly, we have ahad a number of reports and they're all in positive comp territory and so is sonic and looking at this and say, hmm, mcdonald's suggested some competition in their press release hurting them an they don't usually call out, i think there's certain brands fundamentally better than where they were last year, five years ago like a sonic or a popeyes and those like burger king that's making fast strategic decisions and gaining awareness. >> nicole, what is your ratdi i on mcdon

miller, "n.b.r.," new york. >> tom: as you heard, for those gas stations still open, some are only taking cash. with the power outages effecting a.t.m.s, some banks have put out temporary cash machines. j. morgan chase is one of those. frank bisignano is the co-chief operating officer at the bank. frank, i want to start in lower manhattan because late this afternoon you turned back on a.t.m.s. how many are operational in that affected area still without power? >> well, we put a.t.m.s into operation at our flagship branch at it it chase manhattan plaza. that is in zone a, and zone a still does not have power. we brought generator power to our branch there, and we have that branch open and so there is cash available for the customer in that year. we are out there trying it serve our customer. >> tom: what about the entire affected area. as of today, 70% of chase's a.t.m.s were operational. >> we have more than 75% our a&ms operational. we have 80% of our branches open. we brought generator power in to our branches. we bussed employees to our branches. we're out there to serve our customers. we think having cash and the branches open is critical for our customers. >> tom: speaking of, wha

j. >> oh dear, really? >> stephanie: i mean katrina and i could have partied it up. we didn't know. we came to talk politics. we didn't get the memo. james in georgia, you're on "the stephanie millerf you heard what governor norquist said. >> stephanie: i can't keep track of every day. what did he say? >> caller: i don't know, they said some egregious things about the president but this is really over the board when he said congress should keep president obama on a short leash-- >> stephanie: he did not really? >> caller: he did. if he's good we should allow the debt ceiling be raised weekly. if he's bad we should make him wait molly. >> stephanie: you have to google that to mama. really? keep the president on a short leash, wow. let's--whew, that winded me, jim. cindy in michigan. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi stephanie. >> caller: cindy. >> caller: this point of view only works if you completely forget the crash of '08. the middle class and those at the bottom already took our haircut that was taken by those at the top with no increase for 15 years in the minimum wage. no reform going into that recession in the late 2007-2008 and then private and public pensions and