charles: we're awaiting new york city mayor mike bloomberg to begin his news conference.it does we'll bring it to you live. now, we're going to switch to the election, president obama, well, he took virginia in 2008, but you know, signs are starting to point to governor romney taking that battle ground state in this election. the latest fox news poll shows romney leads the president 47-45 in virginia. and joining us now, fox news contributor, of 2012, pete snyder. and what are your polls and your internal polls showing you guys in virginia? >> charles, we feel very good right now. and that said, we have a week to go. sandy has hit virginia fairly hard. we have about 200,000 people without power, if not more, including the snyder house old in fairfax county. so we're focused on taking care of our friends and neighbors right now. and that said, for the past four years we've built the largest grass roots army in the history of virginia and had electoral success over the past three years and going to culminate next tuesday. charles: are you confident? it sounds like you're co

we are waiting for mike bloomberg to you a dress the impact on the city. we will have that right after this. [ male announcer ] the markets keep moving. make sure the news keeps coming with thinkorswim by td ameritrade. use the news links breaking stories with possible breakout stocks, options with potential opportunity, futures and forex with in-depth analysis. it's an all-you-can-eat buffet for all things trading. thinkorswim by td ameritrade. it doesn't just deliver news. it's making news. trade commission free for 60 days, plus get up to $600 when you open an account. >>> we are -- again in the briefing room at the office of emergency management. you want to bring you up to date on the storm's progress, first of all, thank you, lydia, and -- as everybody knows, we are already seeing significant impacts from the storm and the worst of it is about to hit. i think we have done all we can to prepare this afternoon i spoke with president obama, treasury secretary geithner, and governor cuomo, all whom offered their support and coordination with the federal

. >>> we are awaiting comments on hurricane sandy from new york city mayor mike bloomberg. you those comments as soon as they begin. major issues in new york city from power outages from 3th street and south and restoration of mta or subway service. hurricane sandy one of a number of major storms that hit the northeast recently. take a listen to what new york governor andrew cuomo and former governor christine todd whitman had to say about the weather pattern. >> anyone who says there's not a dramatic change in weather patterns, i think is denying reality. >> clearly, when we see two 100-year storms within 14 months of ooeach other we know things e changing. we have to start to address that. >> hmm. so if you believe there is an actual change in the weather pattern, maybe consumers and businesses, traders, will believe they have to be better prepared. that's when you take a look at the names like generac, maker of generators and those who make the engines that goes into the generators. mike, do you believe in that sort of trade? >> i can see where people are coming from on

mike bloomberg scores high in all of those counts, right? you want to put him in.d want to be treasury secretary. that would be working for other people. i thought you could propose him as budget czar in the wild card. the other guy, not just obama, could choose him to do that. that would be an interesting way to reach across the aisle and get something done. >> what do you want people to get out of playing this game? it's fun and a little educational. what is the point? >> really educational, right? it's really fun. no. the truth is i want people to focus on the economic issues. it's all about the debates. the country does face a lot of really serious fiscal issues. if not immediately, although we have created this artificial crisis in the fiscal cliff. it's really boring. people don't want to necessarily focus on how to make entitlement spending work. what do i care about 30 years if i'm 50? maybe it doesn't matter. so the economic team is really important to fixing this. and it's my view basically whoever wins, whether it's obama or romney, is basically going to

even mike bloomberg is opposed to it.o there's a body of wall street opinion who thinks it should go away. it's still there. >> when there was an effort, when the obama white house and others made an effort to revoke carried interest, the fight was led by people like democrat senat chuck schumerck representing wall street. >> new yorkers. >> new yorkers, of course. that's their constituency, ty would say if they were sitting here. but the democratic party didn't come to the aid and relief of working people at that time. >> wely, right. because, again, but it's because you have a small, very, very concentrated lobby that is very, very noisy, and is very, very specific in what it wants and what it needs. and then there's the rest of us who how many people are really thinking about the carried interest tax break? the advocacy against the carried interests tax break is t disbure it's sort of random. it's not focused. whereas the advocacy for it is incredibly organized, it's disciplined, and it has a to of money. >> and it is

mike bloomberg is doing a ton of stuff through his company. they are hiring hundreds of people. i worked at bloomberg 15 years ago, and i was in europe as a foreign correspondent. there were 40 journalists, and now, there are thousands. i think it depends on the interests of certain people, but they are being tapped, and you can get them to lend to foundations and do this type of stuff. it is just creating the bridge from the journalism world into that world, and it is not as hard as you would think, in my experience. >> i would just say that a few of those individuals you had mentioned are not examples of the types of progress of journalism that i think a lot of people are here to talk about and listened of route -- was it about. these guys are kind of villains in a sense of where we want journalism to go. fox news and the daily, who knows where that is going to go, but they are not necessarily public-interested, public radio, public tv, public press minded people. >> that is an opinion that has >> that is an opinion that has probably been ill-served i

the mayor of new york city mike bloomberg and ceo of nyse rang the bell here.arkets trading up after two days of being closed. last time they closed for two con secretary -- consecutive days was in 1888. this happening during the heart of earnings season and a week before the election. more to come as the day just gets going. >> let's get more on today's trade. let's bring in art cashin. art, curious to see what you're seeing right now in terms of what is unusual today whether it be good or bad. >> first of all, the opening looks like it went peacefully enough and peaceful is good. i think that the various phone vendors continue to have some problems. there were cell phone outages and internet connectivity problems and that probably is holding volume down a bit. i think some of the clients not because of here but because of their phone service are having difficulty getting access in. we have opening out of the way for the end of the month. next big deal is going to be who plays at the close. >> in terms of the connectivity issues carrying into friday's session,

theayor of new york city, mike bloomberg said we expect wind gusts upwards to 70, 80, 90 miles an hour tonight. whether they can secure that crane under those type of conditions, nobody knows for sure. we talked to a man who was passing on 57th street when the crane collapsed with his wife. and he said it sounded like a giant sealed door slamming shut. they saw pieces of large metal on the ground. and they were not sure what it was until they got back to the hotel and realized they had escaped a serious accident. brian? >> and of course, rehema, the crane itself is probably ten stories in length and weighs a lot and could become an air borne missile if it becomes detached. >> reporter: absolutely, and the winds are much more gusty than they were a couple of hours ago. and that is just what authorities are concerned about. if it collapses it could sway into another building and slam into an apartment building. and who knows what would happen then or if it was to slam on the ground. so again, this is a collapse zone, no cars, no pedestrian. >> rehema ellis in mid-town, hat ha -- manhatta

. >> reporter: new york's mayor, mike bloomberg, is implementing another rule to try to ease congestion in manhattan. beginning tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m., scott, only cars with at least three people will be allowed to enter the city. >> pelley: it's going to take a while to make it normal again, jim. thank you very much. all bets are off in atlantic city where the casinos are main shut down and the board walk torn up. jeff glor spoke with some people who disobeyed orders to evacuate. >> reporter: zelphia connor chose to ride out the storm, a decision she now regrets. >> this was scary. i mean, scary. like, to not know if the water was going to come over the-- i literally thought the ocean was going to come into my home. >> reporter: it didn't, but a 50-foot section of the atlantic city board walk landed in her garage. >> saw the board walk floating down the street but i never knew its destination was here. >> reporter: in your garage. >> in my garage. i never knew that. >> reporter: a short drive away, parts the pleasantville, new jersey, were left in shambles after being battered w

you're working with mayors, mike bloomberg, i give him credit the mayors who reside and governor urban that are the victims where the victims of gun violence usually find themselves. the mayors have been helpful? >> absolutely. it's a coalition of more than 725 mayors bipartisan, democrats, republicans, mayors without any affiliation, and so it's a group that is very concerned about what is happening in our cities, and what is happening on the streets to american's youth. they're very concerned. >> eliot: it struck me when i was in government, when i would speak to people that the issue of gun violence and gun control broke down not so much along partisan d republican and democrat lines but urban roles where there is a pro live ration of guns where those in rural areas don't quite get it. >> i agree with that. when you look at polling with specific policies, having a background check. 87% of non-n ra members support that. in all areas of gun control support those measures. >> eliot: you have experienced this in a way that hopefully very few other people have or will. you went through h

. >> new york city mayor mike bloomberg said moments ago the rain has stopped but the emergency situation in this area has not passed. that's certainly true here down on 57th street and behind me. i'll have my cameraman pan up while it is dark you can still see the image of this crane dangling and i want to point out to you that this platform of the crane when it first collapsed, was pointed south. due to the heavy, strong winds that platform is now pointed southwest. this is very much an emergency situation down here. we've even see national guard members patrolling the areas and helping out local authorities. they have blocked off the street and evacuated the apartment building, the commercial building and even the hotel on 57th street in front near this luxury highrise apartment building under construction. the guests were evacuated from there. and sent to other hotels as well. they sent some experts up into the building to try to figure out if there was some way they could harness this crane and subdue this danger. it doesn't seem like they were able to do anything. these windless are

>> eliot: i think mike bloomberg has shown the leadership and the sort of staid calmness people want. you want somebody in charge who shows the capacity to think clearly, not with excess emotion. to be empathetic, of course, but also to say look, we know what we're doing. most of the burden falls, of course, it begins with the mayor and the city of new york but then also goes to the crews that really begin the cleanup. you see the sanitation crews out in the street. clearing the street. you see the folks at the mta beginning to bring power back to the subway system. clear out the tunnels. you see the people who are just bringing phone service back. i remember -- you hate to think back to 9-11 but after 9-11 when i went to one of the buildings where the phone company had its switching station, there were hundreds of thousands of wires just completely melted down. you say how will anybody re-create this? they do it. it is slow. it is hard work but it is an amazing show of determination and fortitude and mike is doing a good job leading that effort. >> jennifer: it is an amazing statemen

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new york city says mike bloomberg doesn't have the resources to host the halloween parade.illage at all right now. mayor says he hopes to announce a makeup date tomorrow. it's never been cancelled. the super storm also forcing a supermodel to cancel her halloween party. heidi klum made the announcement on twitter. clumm's annual bash a. lister. haunted christmas party. nothing can put a damper on the celebration in san francisco. look at this. giants fans lining the streets wearing the team's home day colors of orange and black. a celebration of sunday's world series championship. updating some of our top stories tonight. the president today toured the destruction in jersey along with a new jersey governor chris christie. the president says the feds will be helping in new jersey for the long haul. officials say new jersey transit will remain suspended until workers can remove debris like boats and shipping containers from the track to assess the damage. that's a nightmare. wall street in business after first two day shut down of financial markets in more than a century. and

new york city mayor mike bloomberg ran that sweet chime this morning, the opening bell to the new york stock exchange and suddenly wall street was back in business. and even though not all the markets implied -- nasdaq down. you could feel the blood flowing through the veins of the stock market after two days where its heart was stilled. it wasn't just wall street that opened for business today, though. the main street that runs clear across this country may now be open for a new kind of business. one that's pretty darned moribund for years. the business of construction. yes, mother nature dealt a vicious blow and our hearts to go out to families who lost loved ones. but in spite of the tragedy, in our own curious way, sandy has given us the opportunity for a boost since the government rebuilt southern florida after hurricane andrew in 1992. a reconstruction so huge, it moved the country's entire gdp needle just when we needed it, after right a nasty recession. and now that we've assessed the damage, or we're trying to at least, i'll have to tell you one thing. i think this looks like

. >> mike bloomberg as treasury secretary on both ones, by the way, mike, you listening?till love you man, enough call. how did you pick the snails. >> a lot to have is out there erskine bombs, -- erskine bowle, the same thing, when we knew that tim geithner was leaving as treasury secretary, he would be the right guy if you believe fixing the fiscal cliff in budget issues, entitlement, key priority, kind of what we believe. >> different categories for the scoring. you might get a 5-5 for job creation but only a 2-5 for your international diplomacy. >> five criteria. one center national. one is budget. run one is legislative, your ability to work on the hill. the other two -- >> what about looks? good looking. >> didn't put looks in. >> great pecs. >> triedmake sure the guys -- used a methodology so everybody was equally objectively looked at and we found when we averaged each of the sides, 13.4 for each. didn't do that saying we had to be equal, you average for the republicans and democrats, turned out that way. if you had to pick one trait being the most important, put

i know mike bloomberg watch them closely and decided this was not the time to do it. it will take somebody with a lot of money because it is so hard to give your name on the ballot. the other point i want to make -- the answer to our fiscal cliff is out there. is called simpson-bowles. the commission came up with was a clear blueprint of how we can get this country back on track. it is not as if we have to invent something. we have to, but another commission -- is there. now we will find out in the lame-duck session or the beginning of january whether congress and the president will lead and address this issue. or we will face consequences that, indeed you of anybody i have talked to, are catastrophic. that makes me believe that we will probably adopt mostly or in its entirety the commission, which require sacrifice on the part of all parties. [applause] >> i think john is onto something. obviously, i think president obama would have embraced simspson-bowles regardless of the outcome -- i do not think the race could be as close. he was given a bipartisan solution to a

that our hearts, our concern but also our expression of support at many levels go out to mayor mike bloomberg and other mayors in new jersey and other cities. we've already sent some personnel from philadelphia up to new york and to new jersey to try to be as helpful and supportive as possible. these are devastating circumstances. our deepest sympathies to those who have either been injured or certainly family members of those who have died. this is the toughest time to be in public service as you certainly well know. and i just want to state that from the start. >> jennifer: yeah, i appreciate that. it is a great statement of how mayors and governors often put aside their partisan politics when human life is at risk. there is real damage and pain. thanks for stating that and for being a great example of it. how is it going in philadelphia compared to the worst-hit areas to your north? >> well certainly philadelphia, we took a hit. from hurricane sandy. and numerous trees down. the start of the day. we had 65,000 people without power. that number is now a little below 60,000. nearly a million

president obama because he goes about the duties of being president hp he called chris christie, mike bloombergcory booker, governor cuomo making sure he knows everything going on the ground, making sure federal assistance gets where it's needed. it's much harder for mitt romney in that he can't really campaign and yet, he doesn't want to totally disappear and crede the last five days of television coverage. it's still the president of the united states acting like the president of the united states. it's when -- it's how you get into situations like we saw in ohio today. i don't -- i don't question the motives. i think in a short period of time what mitt romney was trying to do is how can we thread this very fine line. so i sort of understand in that way. it's just difficult because when you get this close to an election, andrea, six days, everything is with politics. everything. that's what the hard thing that mitt romney is trying to do, how do you take advantage or at least stay in the conversation, with six days left without appearing to be just overtly political and campaigning. >> mark h

but there are a lot of police who are trying to encourage people as the mayor of new york city, mike bloomberg said, it is better to be safe and stay inside because you don't really know what's going on out here on the streets. you can't see it because there's no power, there are no street lights. it's dark. >> rehema ellis with one of the very important stories that is coming out of this. and, again, there will be far more as we get into the night. and into the early morning hours. and we start to see packetexact extent of the damage. a lot in the state of maryland. joining me, quentin banks, the spokesman for maryland emergency management. one of the most telling statements i saw coming out of maryland is that in some places the water was so deep that emergency military humvees couldn't even get through. give us your update on the situation in maryland tonight. >> well, our town, on maryland's eastern shore had tidal surges of 3 to 5 feet and in many instances forced the evacuation of many of the residents. some have actually gone to shelters while others are sheltering in place on the secon

together as you look at the extraordinary co-op 0 racial you've seen between chris christie, mike bloomberg, cory booker, three politicians who are very strong leaders but often -- andrew cuomo. chris christie and president obama today touring flood ravaged new jersey. last week chris christie was on the trail attacking president obama. i think that people after this e election, whoever wins, and i believe barack obama will and i actually think this money into the states is a very expensive too much money in the system version of somebody putting an ad up trying to drive press coverage. >> interesting. >> what they're trying to do is drive you guys to a momentum story. >> perry, i want to go back actually to the storm, because i want to play something bill clinton said yesterday and it's something we haven't heard on the campaign trail from either candidate on a specific topic. let me show you and let you hear what president clinton said. >> in the first debate, the try up much of the moderate mitt romney, you know what he did? he ridiculed the president, ridiculed the president, for his ef

that is directly from new york's mayor, mike bloomberg, who spoke just a short time ago. there are rescues under way right now as well. we will bring you one of them shortly. if you are in an area on the eastern seaboard and you have power and you know somebody who does not have power, try to listen closely to the information we are going to give you in this hour and pass along that information to someone who does not have power. if you have power tonight and a roof and home, consider yourself very lucky. there are many people right now in this city and elsewhere along the eastern seaboard who do not. i want to show you the scene where i'm standing in the chelsea neighborhood in new york city. no one died in the building over there, the building behind me here on the border between chelsea and greenwich village but the picture says a lot. the entire facade of this apartment building ripped off, fell last night. those four rooms tell the story in miniature. this is actually an illegal hotel. there were a group of australians i'm told staying in one of the rooms on the top

people who are -- and this is repeating the president's appeal, what chris christie has said, mike bloomberg, the appeal to people who are refusing to evacuate because they are putting first responders in danger and as i'm looking at the pictures of you, ron, the shape of that beach along the jersey shore is never going to be the same. this is going to have to be restored in some way because the enormous erosion already is being washed away in front of our eyes. >> andrea, this ocean, the shore here, extends out about 100 yards. it did yesterday at least. it doesn't anymore. how much of that is going to be destroyed and washed away, is unclear. and yes, yesterday there were a lot of people out here who were taking pictures, trying to get one last look because it is an incredible sight to see. i'm not encouraging anybody to come down here. the police were really trying to tell people, please get away. because again, that is one of the worst case scenarios if people stay behind, the first responders have to come in here, risk their own lives to get them out. so again, driving through town, at

here's new york city mayor mike bloomberg. >> if you are still in zone "a" and can find a way to leave, leave immediately. conditions are deteriorating very rapidly and the window for you getting out safely is closing. >> reporter: it's been interesting to watch. some preparations actually still going on this morning, which means they really weren't thinking that clearly about all of this. because some of the conditions were already supposed to have deter rated by now. but a lot of the sandbagging we've seen has been going on today. that, as the mayor said, the window for all of that, for all of those preparations is closing fast. we expect this is going to be a rough afternoon heading into a rough evening, continuing through tomorrow. scott? >> scott, thanks so much from lower manhattan. the mayor already announcing skoo schools will be closed in new york city yet again tomorrow. at the top of the show we mentioned the new york stock exchange and nasdaq are closed for business today. if business is mostly electronic, why are the markets closed? bob pisani has the latest there. it's on

it is a similar appeal to one that mayor mike bloomberg made a short time ago. >> if you are still in zone a and can find a way to leave, leave immediately. conditions are deteriorating very raply and the window for you getting out safely is closing. >> reporter: two of the ways to leave zone a are now closed off to people. at this hour, the brooklyn battery tunnel, which would take people from here to manhattan to brooklyn, that is closed. the holland tunnel, which would take them to new jersey, that is closed as well because of the concerns about flooding. they are watching the bridges closely as the winds kick up. let me give you a quick little orientation of where i am. that is governors island. new york haw bore, can you barely see it anymore. hudson river over there, liberty island. when the storm surge comes in, it will come here as high tide comes in. this area where i'm standing likely to be under water. guys, back to you. >> scott cohn, we'll see you again. be safe, buddy. thank you. >>> meantime, the new york stock exchange is closed again tomorrow and the exchange saying t

mayor mike bloomberg said the city's subway system could be out until sunday at the very earliest and amtrak service in some places is up in new jersey and points south, just certain places, but that doesn't mean that the city is actually car safe, if you're thinking about that. there is unprecedented floodings in all ten tunnels thinking manhattan to the rest of the world. they are describing the damage as the most devastating event in the history of the system. it's not just ground and rail transportation. airport runways, look at this, across the tri-state area remain under water, which means that planes are not landing, not taking off so there's a real ripple effect across the country. at last count 18,000 flights are grounded. msnbc's richard lui is in lower manhattan joining us with this firsthand look at how washed out the subways are. richard. >> reporter: thomas, we're in the southern part of manhattan and this is all the way at the bottom end. as you can see here, this station had water filled halfway at the moment but before as much as to the ceiling. this is a good water m

mayor mike bloomberg will ring the opening bell here. the new york stock exchange, the physical body where i am itself suffered no damage from hurricane sandy. neither did the servers, they are based in new jersey and chicago and other parts around new york. these things keep stocks going. in order to reopen they ran multiple tests yesterday. about 50 personnel from the new york stock exchange actually stayed here overnight and they arranged to have carpools to bring people in, bring traders in this morning, people stayed because a nber of traders as we've been reporting come in from long island, come in from staten island, they got here bright and early this morning. many of them telling me their homes or the areas surrounding their homes were destroyed, pummelled by hurricane sandy but they are here, ready to trade. the one question mark moving forward is the telecommunication system, the systems that connects a trader to the nysc and the trade is the big question. that's the big thing that traders will be watching today. >> and sandy

they are still -- >> that is yor mayor mike bloomberg. essentially that he is closing new york city schools for the second day saying there is, quote, no chance that mass transit will be ready to get people to and from work or school around the city. saying the fdr highway is fundamentally closed in his words. looks like the storm surge according to the mayor will hit at least in the new york city area around -- starting around 8:00 or 8:15 p.m. tonight. he's looking for storm surge between 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. jim, obviously we're not a local channel. our news goes around all of the country and around the world. but this is turning into a storm that new york city for most intents and purposes is going to own. we are in the worst spot. >> this reminds me of the 1992 hurricane andrew. i'm not going to minimize what could happen. health, loss of life. but that was worse in some ways than katrina was the gdp event. because katrina kind of localized. it was a gross domestic product event in that there was so much rebuilding that had to be done

connell: mayor mike bloomberg there with a briefing for the city of new york. new york city uhl system will be closed again tomorrow. i do not think that comes as a surprise for many. some of the tunnels have been closed. the brooklyn battery tunnel, the holland tunnel have been closed. dagen: also confirming what we were reporting earlier that that major artery on the east side of manhattan, the fdr drive is fundamentally closed because of flooding. there is as much flooding on that roadway, critical roadway for manhattan, as happened during hurricane irene. you can see, that is the highlighted area of the fdr drive. that really illustrates, you only have two ways to get around the perimeter of manhattan on the west side, it would be the westside highway on the east side. the side that touches queens and brooklyn. dagen: they are very worried about the storm surge, especially later on today. let's go back to art lover and the former reagan advisor. you think they will come out with a report on friday? >> i do. i do not think it will be very good for the presid

diana taylor is the girlfriend of mike bloomberg. and those two led the effort to get rid of them.nd vikram pandit's job was in jeopardy for months. and it is the smith barney issue. they were selling smith barney in chunks to morgan stanley. kept on its books at a certain level. independent arbiter said $5 billion too much and had to write down that amount of money. that occurred two months ago. once that happens, is goose is cooked, he was done, just a matter of time and this after other issues. they passed the stress test, they didn't. lots of things which made one board member tell the fox business network made him believe that vikram pandit is a smart guy that a bad ceo. it came down to that. does he deserve the scorn he is getting from some quarters? i would say not. vikram pandit was a good caretaker/c e o of a company that needed to be stabilized, needed to make shore it wasn't going out of business, take care of the basics. he deserves that. citigroup is stabilized but tremendous government help is stabilized. the question is for the board. mike colonial would say we need