today, erika miller spoke with jonathan corpina, a trader at the new york stock exchange. >> to the presidential election is only about six weeks away. how are traders in general viewing the election? >> it's a very interesting time right now. and if you look at our current election and the process, it's a tight race. every week the numbers cope changing. but not by that much where there is an outright expected winner at this point right now. so the uncertainty of how this election is going to pan out is somewhat helping this market. i think it's keeping more people in this market. >> reporter: you were on the floor four years ago. how does the mood today compare to back then. >> you know, the mood, i think, is a little bit different. the times are different, times have changed now. i think now it's more of there is that light at the end of the tunnel who is going to get us down there. back then i think we were still just digging out of the holes that everybody was in. >> what do you think is factored into the market right now, an obama victory or a romney victory? >> i think it is either presid

>> it was jonathan corpina, who is one of your frequent guests. >> yes, he is. >> get back in the elevator by himself, the first tower had not got hit yet. got back in the elevator, comes up, sticks his head in my office, like 8:20. i looked at him, said, jonathan what are you doing? come on, kenny, come to breakfast with us it is a beautiful day we will come back at the end of the day help you clean up the work. you know what i spun around in the chair and i looked out the window and it was just spectacular, right? i thought to myself, you know what, i'm gonna go for some reason, i just said i'm gonna go i picked up my smock and i walked out the door, i left everything else behind. and really, the rest is history, right? we came over here and we were having breakfast upstairs and i had no clue whatsoever what had happened. >> the timing, did you not have that much time before the first tower was hit? >> we got downstairs and out by about 8:30. then we walked over here. i must have just sat upstairs for breakfast when the first plane got hit, the first one hit way up -- way up high coming