and some of the things that i used to back that up, general ka joe bastardi i, commander in the northern command, who really has overall responsibility for a military effort with regards to domestic support to civil authorities will be here tomorrow. i think it's the first time that we've had the commander in the northern command and the three such sos that we've had, he is going to adopt a model that we employed with the immediate response assistance that i indicated to you earlier that we used earlier this year. he's going to adopt that as the model for northern command with the army and the air force to use. i think the momentum that we have gained here over the last three years, we leveraged off of that. we started a similar senior leadership seminar up in seattle, that we had the first one this year. they have some people down here from the seattle sea fair, which is the equivalent of san francisco fleet week association. they have people from the sea fair committee, board, if you l that is here observing what we do here in san francisco. and, so, those are great indicators to me th

, i heard dagen ask you last hour and-- >> i've heard talk of this since yesterday and talk to joe bastardi few minutes and i asked joe this earlier. when did you start warning the world that this thing was going to be the mother of all, you know, hurricanes or whatever it was? it was a franken-storm as he called it, he says ten days ago, they had ten days to prepare for this. not only that, 9/11 is 11 years ago and you think about it, they had 11 years to prepare for this. this is not just the new york stock exchange, it's the new york stock exchange and the wall street firms, somewhere between those two parties will be the answer and why this-- why the markets had to close for two days, and by the way, a lot of people say, so what, the markets are closed. let's be cautious-- >> no, not so what. >> this is a global market. the arca services are located in chicago. you know? they have a-- they have stuff, data center in new jersey. and that got hit a little, but wall street firms have a lot of money, they can put-- they have contingency plans to make sure the markets, you would think, the m

. >> i'm telling you when you, 10 days ago, joe bastardi who has been on the air all day predicted thise really bad and others came after that. they knew this thing was coming at them, a missile coming at them. i left dallas. i went to see the cowboys and giants. for me to leave dallas, i'm a die-hard cowboy fan is pretty bad. ashley: you're a cowboy fan. >> i'm a die-hard cowboy fan. in new york. they almost won by the way. ashley: they did. >> so the stock exchange all these buys knew what was going to come down. they knew it was franken storm, the whole thing. nicole: right. >> they lived through 9/11. i was at "wall street journal" and covered 9/11 here. i remember the talk about contingency plans the fact that we don't really have one --. ashley: pretty remarkable, isn't it? >> pretty remarkable. i'm not saying, think about it this way, all the electronic places are not located in new york. arca is located in chicago. nicole: right. >> why couldn't you, you have to ask yourself why din the firms themselves, remember, with stock exchange firms told them they did not want to put peop

joe bastardi, is chief meteorologist at weatherbell.com. how long will sandy be swirling around this country? >> well, sandy is weakening leg right now. it will be moving off to the northeast over next couple days. basically now is a regular storm. we have seen storms in this particular, this particular state where it's actually weakening like this, delivering snow shower activity and left over snows into the mountains of west virgina. certainly after the monumental snowstorm, which by the way was well-forecasted in there. we knew the very, very cold air was going to pour into the western side of this. even if sandy had not come up the coast you would still have seen a pretty big snowstorms in the central appalachians out of this pattern because there is some very, very cold air. if you look at it since the mid-july heat we've had four or five big cold air masses coming to the united states in the very area that was hottest in july and this is the latest of them. jenna: joe does this tell us anything what we should expect for the next sever