mta does use switch backs and interestingly enough their head is the former employee of muni, michael burns, who was a former employee and went to work for them. as you supervisors may remember he was the one that took bonuses for all sorts of things he really wasn't able to do for muni and increasing time and got these bonuses. what also struck us was the amazement of the operation officers if they employed switchbacks? what we heard over and over again are the comments that swism backs were an insult to riders. they also pointed out that switchbacks couldn't speed up traffic because of the time boarding and deboarding. what struck home was the attitude of the managers in their own system. in virtually all cases they took responsibility for ensuring the responsibility of the system and work improve their services and rider surveys and constantly adjusting their schedules. i under line that. constantly adjusting their schedules. virtually everyone told us schedules was the most effective tool and many felt the additional time to load and unload vehicles slowed service. the managers that we

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. >> yes, while romney did not get the endorsement of mayor michael bloomberg, he did get the backing of one montgomery burnsnd a confident endorsement at that. >> there's only one thing that might deny us the presidency that is the god-given property of the republican party. >> the 47% tape? >> nope. >> the empty chair? >> nope. >> cayman islands? >> not a problem. >> swiss bank accounts 10000 bet, i like to fire people, forcible hair cut, the tax returns wesley snipes would call suspicious. >> no, no, no and no. >> none of that. it will probably just be let detroit go bankrupt. before we get to our panel we want to listen in to the president who has taken the stage for a third campaign event of the day this one in lima, ohio. let's listen. >> we were in the middle of two wars and the worst economic crisis since the great depression. today our businesses have created nearly 5.5 million new jobs, and this morning we learned that companies hired more workers in october than in any time in the last eight months. home values are on the rise. housing construction is moving up. we're less dependent on foreign oil

. >>> americans burn through a staggering amount of batteries, several million a year, aa most popular. michael finney tells us which brand performed best. good morning just in time for the holiday -- crunch, consumer reports results are in on which lasts the longers. melissa was given batteries as a baby shower gift. >> my friend who had kids before said you have no idea how much you ing to need these, all the time. >> reporter: two boys later, melissa is constantly buying batteries. aa are the biggest sellers, commonly used in flashlights, digital cameras, remote controls and toys. consumer reports tested a dozen, including big names like energizer and wall manhattan and cvs. testers used this rack to evaluate performance programmed to mimic digital camera and flashlight the test turned up big differences. ever ready gold the worst took only 50 to shots before dying. energizer lithium, the best took 682 shots. they are expensive, more than $2.50 per battery. >> lithium batteries cost more but they can be worth it for cameras. >> reporter: among alkaline batteries, duracell ultra power. >> the

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i don't think it was a burned on her part or his part, but nevertheless, doesn't make for a more honest, open kind of biography. >> we had a fascinating debate you michael hastings came on from buzzfeed and "rolling stone" and hammered petraeus there is a real school of thought now that whilst he is every man's hero on one side, and a lot of people say what happened in iraq and afghanistan, these weren't the acts of military heroism. they all went pretty horribly wrong, another view. >> and it's a legitimate view. but it's a view that also should be taken by the mainstream media. >> i met him at party earlier this year and he was extremely charming and willing to talk and i was quite surprised he talked. >> that openness. >> applauded him for. that is how he managed to control the mystique, if you like. >> he brought great credentials to the table. he was the intellectual general, right? he was schooled at west point. had a ph.d. from princeton. >> i'm a big fan of petraeus, a brilliant general and a tragedy for him. what would have happened, for instance, jfk, what would have happened to jfk if e-mail and text messaging had existed? >> yes, although i

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burn cream later. oh, somebody out there's saying now i get it! take beano before and there'll be no gas. >>> welcome back. michaelky had this prediction before the election. a post-election gop freak-out if mitt romney loses. michael is back now. now mitt romney has lost and did we see a freak-out as you suspected, and first of all, how did you define a "freak-out"? >> people can define it however they want. it was a pretty easy prediction and it starts with the candidate himself being shell-shocked, as was reported yesterday, which i found pretty astonishing, that he could have lived inside. all campaigns are bubbles, but to have lived inside such a severe and con stricting bubble that he couldn't see the possibility that he was going to lose or could lose even could lose he was shocked at the possibility. that's freak-out number one. i think we saw karl rove freak out, the dog ate my exit polls, karl rove. if you've been listening to any rush limbaugh over the last few days which i have i can still only take small doses but it's been awfully fun to listen. yes, the easiest prediction in the world, and it has co

burning. the middle-east is in flames and obama is hold egg news conference with cupcakes thrown by magnolia bakery. how could this be worse for barack obama? how could it be any worse? michaelplain to me. >> i imagine the president's pretty happy that he won re-election, 7 days ago. clearly, some of these challenges are still on his to-do list. he has a lot of work to do. but the american people have spoken. so even with all the propaganda that your side of the aisle tried to spit out on president obama, he was able to survive. not just survive. he won -- >> i think it was 51% -- >> i understand you are upset. look, i understand you are upset. but it's time to move on-- >>> all right. -- [overlapping dialogue] >> start to figure out to change the mission statement and let's get things done. >> sean: what would you like to ask about benghazi? >> what about obama know? when did he know it? he seemed to say today, he did all he could do. what did he do some when did he do it? when did he learn about petraeus? whenever the senate starts to talk about watergate, what did you know and when did you know it? beginning a second term scandal, impeachment, scandal-- >>> michael brown,