. >>> right after the break, why petco says no need to worry next time there's severe weather. >>> petco workers and managers breathing a sigh of relief. both sides have now ratified a new four year contract. the union says there's also more favorable contract language when it comes to their health care benefits. pepco management has no comment at this time. >>> out on the campaign trail, president obama making his 16th trip to virginia. there he spoke with supporters out of george mason university. both candidates have been courting female undecided. >> i think it's called romnish. if you say you're for equal pay and equal work, but you fail to say if you will sign a bill to protect equal pay and equal work, you might have romnish. here you go, barack obama, is the cure for amnesia. >> paul ryan will attend a rally in daytona beach with country music star john rich. that event gets going at 8:00 p.m. >>> joining us now with more, political director john dickerson. john thanks for being here. let's start out talking about the monday debate. it's going to be all about foreign policy. i th

last information we had was about 2000 customers who were out of power in the city and we understand petco even with the storm being ongoing they are trying address those issues and we are not clear how many they will restore. we have reports of trees being down and none have created a situation where anybody was injured and we have our own crews out to try and remove those trees. they are working on one and we are working on the others, we are still very much at the eye of the storm over the next 6 to 8 hours. >> there are some areas particularly where they are flood prone and one of them is bloomingdale and have there been any precautions where we know there is flooding on a day when we don't have a hurricane. >> well, i was in bloomingdale myself and we have deployed crews to try to remove all the leaves that potentially would block catch basins and flooding problems and we had the water in the neighborhood to distribute sandbags to all the residents who want them. we have homeland security, actually based in blooming dale and we have two or three and we are doing everything we can to m

petco tells us that they have restored many. sandy is blamed for 48 deaths and financial analysts say that the storm is responsible for $20 billion in property damage as well as an additional $30 billion in lost business. we will begin tonight with a problem that is getting worse and could last for days. area wide flooding. we were there as streets turned into rivers in upper marlboro and old town alexandria. >> part of keen street behind me is fine. but look what happened to other parts, under water tonight and it has been under water for hours. you're looking at a block from where the potomac river usually is. it overflowed its banks tonight. you see what happened. what a difference television makes. a few feet lower for me to flooding. the water got to about here. but the sand bags helped keep the water from coming in. a lot of folks around here are a little nervous because this may not be over. businesses on king street had to act quickly. businesses near the potomac were already under water and things were getting worse as.

and a petco company is asking to you throw away dog treats. we'll show you which of their products may be contaminated. >>> and we're watching more clouds spill back into the bay area. we'll wake up to some clouds and misty skies in a few spots tomorrow. as you watch it increasingly stormy pattern in the pacific. we'll let you know that storm right there will have any impact on our weekend weather. [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso. in what world do potatoes, bacon and cheese add up to 100 calories? your world. ♪ [ whispers ] real bacon... creamy cheese... 100 calories... [ chef ] ma'am [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. of green giant vegetables it's easy to eat like a giant... ♪ and feel like a green giant. ♪ ho ho ho ♪ green giant >>> is that space shuttle "endeavour" is running behind schedule. not on the air but on the ground in l.a. it is headed for the california science center but it has to make its way around all kinds of obstacles. trees, buildings, poles, you name it. joining us from just outside the science cent

. >> i rescued the kitten this morning, i came to petco with my son to surprise him with a kitten. >> as soon as the owner put it in the car it hid under the dashboard. >> oh, my goodness. >> they had to call the fire department to help get the kitty out. listen to the rescue attempt. >> leave the cat alone, us a little cat food in the car and let it be. >> you would make a good firefighter. that's what they did. they put out a cat kan of food and let the cat come out on its own. >> if she got herself in there, she will get herself out. >> it's coming, it's coming. right there. doesn't work. she goes back under the dashboard. but they try it again. eventually the cat was rescued. >> the cat was probably freaked out. >> get the cat carrier going. >> there is the cat carrier. she probably didn't put it in the cat carrier in the car. having owned a car you don't put it in the car without a carrier. >> maybe the cat is named cat dash now. >> one woman's video of a not so typical florida rainstorm. >> seems to predict what is about to happen. >> what happened? see it all caught on video, n

. >> a mother in prince george's county is calling some quick thinking petco workers a godsend tonightaving the life of her 3-rolled son. they were working on electrical lines when they heard the smoke alarm goes off inside. the homeowner was taking her kids to the bus stop and had left her 3-year-old son sleeping inside. >> the smoke was very thick. going into the kitchen area, you cannot see anything. all i saw was flames, we put it out, i came back and all i saw was the flames getting bigger. >> the crew probably prevent a terrible tragedy. it is not clear yet how the fire started. bruce springsteen is making his 2012 campaign trail along side president barack obama. republican mitt romney is also using some stark power to appeal to voters. we will have the details new at 6:00. >> there is something fishy going on down here in downtown baltimore. it's heavy lifting. you start with a democratic senator named ben. by getting bwi-marshall funding for new runways, he's helping us serve 21 million passengers a year, which helps keep 100,000 jobs that depend on the airport, and that means

bge has just under 30,000 and petco is down to under 1400. >>> now, dominion did seem to be one of the hardest hit utilities but they made rapid progress. >>> how long might be it be for the remaining 0,000 or so customers without power. good morning. >> good morning. >> where are you now as far as back online? >> we've restored about 93% of the customers who are effected by this storm and we expect we will make great progress today. we have all the right resources and the right number of resources to tackle the work ahead of us. we expect that by the end of the day tomorrow, we will have all of our customers affected by this storm back online with the exception of those that -- where there are some access issues out in the western lavin county area. >> some are surprised that the number of outages you had in virginia compared to some of the other areas in our region, any idea why initially there was so many people without power? >> it's the track of the storm and the force of the storm. and you know, just with every weather system, we just -- it depends on where the storm hits most, a

hca, you mentioned, jp morgan just did a deal for petco. did a deal for joanne's stores.i. did a lot of these are -- the companies may be public, but they're still owned largely by private equity or to a certain extent. >> they're usually private. and they're being done with holding company notes. >> when i start to hear pay in kind or choose to pay in more interest or debt. i get worried. >> i don't think you should be worried, david. because, well, we're trying to sell these notes. we're not worried about it. >> okay. >> the way we look at it is most of these holding company notes have the ability to pay in cash. and so the pick toggle feature is the result of the fact they have covenance. at least in the beginning, there's certainly enough cash to pay all of those bondholders interest in cash. >> jim, before we let you go, lbos, we haven't seen a lot of them, and again, a huge engine for the high-yield market. a, what's the biggest deal you could do right now? and b, why haven't we seen more? >> so the biggest deal, biggest leverage deal we could do right now, we proba