>> i do believe in pluralism, i do believe in separation of church and state. i don't consider abortion a religious issue, i consider it a moral issue. i believe the archbishop has every right to do anything he wants in that direction just as i never call to jesse jackson from taking his message to the black pull pits across this country, just as i never suggested that the anti-nuclear movements be stopped, many of those are led by priests. suddenly because an evangelist feels strongly on an issue people say it is merging of church and state. we favor, and i speak strongly of the president, we favor separation of church and state. we favor pluralism. well, somebody says, you ought to restore prayer in schools. you don't think it is right to prohibit a kid for praying in schools. for years kids were allowed to pray in school. we don't think that's a merger of church and state to have a nonmandatory voluntary, nongovernment-ordered prayer. yet, some are accusing of -- us of injecting religion into plicts. i have no problem what the archbishop does. i have no prob

pero sobre todo mi partido va a ser un partido plural. >> y por quÉ plural, valedor?eto debido. estamos construyendo el futuro del naco! nacos unidos, jamÁs serán vencidos! >> hÍjole, manto, manto! [risas] >> quÉ puedo hacer para ayudarte. >> tranquilas. lo que necesito para mi campaÑa son fondos. >> no, no, los fondos... mejor te presto mis calzones. >> cÁlmate, tÚ! mÉndiga niurka. [risas] >> lo que necesito es que aporten su aportaciÓn económica correspondiente. o sea, que aflojen el billete. es por el bien de todos. >> hÍjole... en buena onda yo no tengo. >> la Última vez me dijiste que te hiciera despacito. oh, chale. >> es por bien de todos. >> victor, creo que es el candidato perfecto. vamos a brindar el apoyo, valedor. >> sÁcale a ver si es cierto. [risas] >> oigan, hay que ayudarle. >> ayÚdalo. >> hÍjole, bueno, chale. Órale, valedor. te ayudamos, pero no nos vayas a fallar, valedor. en buena onda. maÑana cuenta con la lana. >> Órale, órale. si me apoyas sobre todo con unas mantas pintadas. >> cÓmo no. maÑana ahÍ estamos. >> Órale. nos vemos maÑana. Órale. >>

you have cultural pluralism. what you don't have is political pluralism. people are a lot freer to talk among themselves and to say that hu jentoa say he's a turtle head, and no one is going to come after you. whereas if you go to tienanmen square and say that, you're going to be tossed into jail. there are red lines where we're a long ways from seeing progress there. when we have leaders being clubbed in the streets. that would be progress in china because we don't yet have those unions yet in china. mild progress in environmental organizations in economic organizations, and just in the willingness of people to think freely, access information. there is progress, but the government has not bought into it nearly enough. >> gavin: do you feel that this is china's days, or cheap china is no longer cheap china and they'll have to deal with the maturity issues. >> all of the above. i'm basically a believe center china. i think that china is going to continue to become a more important nation, continue to grow. for most of history china has been the most econom

i think that's why a plurality vote for the president, do you agree?agree to an extent, correct. ap i also think that the republican party has not framed it in economic terms as well as they could have. they've attempt today make it as the debt and deficit and need a step further. this economy is in shambles and our fiscal house is not balanced and the generation will have to pay off trillions in debt before they're able to cast a vote and i think you're correct, the younger generations say i support gay marriage and i have to support the president. if we don't balance the budget, we have to balance the budget and understand the fiscal climate that the country is in and the younger generation would vote social side rather than the fiscal. and we need to make them understand the fiscal conditions. stuart: hope you can join us soon and find out how the split was in the vote. charles, appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. stuart: we have breaking news from the world of sports. the wall street journal reports the nhl new york islanders say they will m

but it is no accident, that it is plural is multiple. and also, they told about possible digital evidence. if there are recordings they want to track them down or at least hold them. with the recent suicide there will be a memorial. and many people think thataccording to investigs they will continue with the investigation. hoping to attract down any more possible that comes. it is their job to provide support. >> why did they say that it was important to bring out the evidence? because obviously, with have deceased there is no case. there is no prosecution what is the point? >> there is no trial. and they do not have to disclose any additional evidence. the of that one week. and at albany middle school board there is a lot of anger to the police department. and how could they do that? perhaps they felt back into a corner. they did not issue this statement until recently. and he felt compelled enough to issue this statement late last night that they will continue with the investigation. even the supporters. they showed up at the news conf

>> i do believe in pluralism, i do believe in separation of church and state. i don't consider abortion a religious issue, i consider it a moral issue. i believe the archbishop has every right to do anything he wants in that direction just as i never call to jesse jackson from taking his message to the black pull pits across this country, just as i never suggested that the anti-nuclear movements be stopped, many of those are led by priests. suddenly because an evangelist feels strongly on an issue people say it is merging of church and state. we favor, and i speak strongly of the president, we favor separation of church and state. we favor pluralism. well, somebody says, you ought to restore prayer in schools. you don't think it is right to prohibit a kid for praying in schools. for years kids were allowed to pray in school. we don't think that's a merger of church and state to have a nonmandatory voluntary, nongovernment-ordered prayer. yet, some are accusing of -- us of injecting religion into plicts. i have no problem what the archbishop does. i have no prob

it's a truly plural society. ( speaking malay ) translator: rather than one ethnic group taking on theulture of another, we have people maintaining their own customs and lifestyles while living together. another important thing is that, for instance, the old framework of the chinese being the merchants and the malays being the farmers is changing. malays are aggressively moving into employment outside of the agricultural sector. i think that big changes are on the horizon, and these changes will hold great importance for the future. narrator: today, malaysia has set its sights on entering the ranks of fby the year 2020. under the banner of "vision 2020," it is pursuing long-term ofeconomic development. meade: malaysia's current vision is a cyber country. they want to take cybernetics, information, the future of the computer age away from singapore and to build a whole corridor in the city of the most advanced electronic state in the world. narrator: for now, malaysia has taken steps to becoming an economic tiger in southeast asia. its success will be revealed in how malaysia continues

allowed in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother and for pro-choice americans the plurality is abortion should be allowed only during the first three months of pregnancy. you can see that you have more consensus on the issues and what looks like the very divided nation on the issue itself. public opinion does talk about the fact that they feel that was in this country can protect both the woman and the unborn child. what we do see is when the issue becomes a health issue for women that is a strong, that is a strong argument but that is often polarized in the debate and as it is argued in campaigns and in the public sector. religious liberty. you have been talking a lot about that today as well. basically most people in this country believe in god, our spiritual and religion is very important and people generally see that religious freedom is about being able to practice any religion and it is a very strong driver of public opinion. this is a very important factor. people even think an individual's freedom of religion should be protected even over government was and so this i

. >> in november of 60, the people of atlanta loaded plurality pashtun vote plurality to compromise. they didn't vote for the secession. and then in january, when it came time to elect a delegate to the convention, they voted of secession. in that timeframe, [inaudible] there was a fire. i'm wondering if a compromise proposal, it seems to me with the election of lincoln it was over. [inaudible] >> let me give you an example for the state, george. i won't talk about atlanta% but i will talk about the state of georgia. innocent there's a special committee to try to come up with a solution to this problem. one of its members was a georgian by the name of robert tuned countr. when the compromise proposals came before the senate committee known as the committee of 13, because the 13 members, he said he would accept such a proposal, even though he personally didn't like it because he knew georgians would accept it. if such a proposal had been accepted by the committee of 13, and robert said i will stand for. george would never sissy. it wasn't george the secession convention, the initial v

game, plural. >> we're going with games. >> jessica is crossing our fingers. >> back in a moment. >>> okay, all you germophones, beware. we may want to put down that hand sanitizer. some some experts believe it is possible to be too clean. the dirty little seek that most germs are harmless and many are good for us. that's why some doctors are warning overuse of hand sanitizers might make you more likely to get that next infection that comes along. the summer, researchers found amish children raised on farms in the united states had dramatically fewer asthma and allergy problems. >> i really, really want to use some hand sanitizer right now. let's turn it over to the comcast sportsnet newsroom. >> does that add any legitimacy to the five-second rule? >> yeah, okay. >> all right. coming up in sports, both the giants and a's one loss away from being elittle natd from the postseason. up next, we'll hear from the a's. they got enough magic left for a comeback. that's next. ask me what it's like when my tempur-pedic moves. [ male announcer ] why not talk to someone who owns an adjustable ve

that he is calling for a political solution and syrian led dialogue to agree on a roadmap to a more plural poorest stick and democratic syria but we heard u.s. president barack obama first call for. president bashar al assad to step down and his sentiments were echoed by britain and by france just as the u.s. he says stood by supported and helped liberate the people in libya he would like to see the same thing done in syria but on the other hand you have many other countries such as russia china brazil and so on and so forth saying that there can't be any outside intervention into what's taking place in syria this is a crisis that needs to be decided and it between the parties between the syrian government and the opposition but as we've been reporting for the past week everybody's talking about the crisis in syria but not clear how to exactly solve it . nato chief has admitted the alliance's withdrawal from afghanistan could come earlier than expected a statement comes on the heels of a spate of attacks that brought u.s. casualties to two thousand insider attacks on western soldiers are t

that he is calling for a political solution and syrian led dialogue to agree on a roadmap to a more plural florists tick and democratic syria as as we've been reporting for the past week everybody's talking about the crisis in syria but it's not clear how to accept the dialogue and the disagreement hasn't changed all that much we have heard us president barack obama first call for. president bashar al assad to step down and then his sentiments were echoed by britain and by france obama said that just as the u.s. he says stood by supported and helped liberate the people in egypt in libya he would like to see this. in syria but on the other hand you have many other countries such as russia china brazil and so on and so forth saying that there can't be. any outside intervention into what's taking place in syria this is a crisis that needs to be decided in ended between the parties between the syrian government and the opposition and russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov addressed the general assembly saying that the only way to solve this is through the six point peace plan that was outline

why do they do that they're supposed to be impartial disposed to be saying the news the plural for so you know i mean. every democrat you go. two heads of the same snake and they're both supporting big business big corporations they want to make it look like you have a choice you know but at the same point though it seems like most americans don't know that there are more than two candidates running for president and with only a few days left of voting day chances are obama or romney is going to be elected. while being pulled by the mainstream media third party candidates do have a chance to deliver their messages to the voters here on r.t. and little more than a week the final round of the us presidential third party debate will be who stood on this very channel and there up to the event moderator for montes the big picture shared his view on the significance third parties historically have have influence presidential elections there's never been a third party that actually won one but there have been third parties that have changed the nature of presidential elections i don't think

the basis is interpreting god's word, but it's open to a plurality of meanings, and that's why we believe that actually a close listening to the talmud can serve us in a pluralistic society, in a very enrichening fashion. >> now to bring us back to the reality of the myths and ritual action connected with sacred text like the talmud, let's just take - he happened to open up to vain hatred causing the destruction of the temple and the revolution 70 of the common era - a very, very sad time, a very tumultuous time for the jews. they rise up against the romans and it goes on for about four years, from '66 to '70, but ultimately, the romans prevail. and here, the discussion, the disagreement, the complexity - what caused the temple to be destroyed? and here we have this talmudic passage about vain hatred, and again, it says much about human relationships. but i want to take you to one last place in israel that relates to this, which is the western wall of that very temple, the supporting wall - all that's been left - and as kind of the dialogue, the ongoing dialogue. you may have heard it des

it had plurality in what ben-gurion did was to use that plurality to build a coalition not with the secular right-wing, not the revisionists, not the group who subsequently became the elitist group, the allies themselves, the religious group, there was a covenant between them. he would give them a free hand as far as the sabbath is concerned, as far as the description of religious, the young jewish are concerned. as far as the issue of the personal status was concerned. as long as they left him strategy and foreign-policy. but the floodgates of fundamental religious zionism again opened with the conquest of east jerusalem in 1967. why? because this is the first time since titus and hadrian, the jewish soldiers, were walking on the temple mount. zionist religious triumphalism took off at that point. and episode will illustrate this. as soon as the temple mount had fallen, the chief rabbi of the israeli army, the chief rabbi of the israeli army, rushed to the site and took the israeli commander on the spot by his lapels. do it now, do it now. he was saying do what now? and the man said blow u

in 1825, the united states were still plural and few, not a singular nation state, but sovereign states with a constitutionally limited federal government. as late as 1855 walt whitman proclaimed, quote, "the united states with vaining full of poetical stuff," and lincoln declared they changed the grammar and perception in the 1860s. in 1825, the sea to shining sea continental nation, a patriotic song, still a dream. the land was vast, and control of it was limited. the louisiana territory was purchased two decades earlier, but remained unorganized. mexico's north stretch from the sabine river on the gulf of mexico to the 42nd parallel on the pacific ocean what is now texas, arizona, new mexico, utah, nevada, california, colorado, oklahoma, and kansas. the pacific northwest was open country. back east, the appalachian mountain range guarding the interior from south carolina who what was recently maine threatened to confine the great american experiment to the atlantic sea board. the allegiance of the several transstates was unproven. there, settlers looked west down valleys to the might

. >> jeed plural which is why we have a show. >> jon: here is another example of media values perhaps conservative values in and the kind of treatment they get. these are the lsu, louisiana state -- i lost the name of the -- i forget what they call themselves. at any rated, there is a picture. they have crosses as part of their body paint. when lsu chose to put it out in some kind of university publication, they airbrushed the crosses out and subsequently apologized. i guess, alan you can't be christian. >> i'm not defending this. i don't think they should have airbrushed this out. >> they were using it defense against vampires. vampire movies are big now. >> jon: do voters really care who the hollywood elite support for president? >> hollywood stars and the candidates they support. when it comes to celebrity endorsements, do they really matter? that is next on news watch. >> you know, i got it. when i go to polls in california it will be on points. it's going to be red, white and blue for you know who. >> jon: singer katie perry jumping on the obama bandwagon. we have talked about en

it is worth pointing out that the web site spells the plural of mormons mormon's because apparently punctuation is an abomination as well. the site that features links to donate money to bill keller encourages everyone to write in the name of jesus on their presidential ballot. i, for one seriously crew, could not agree more because what right wing bible belt fundamentalist wouldn't want to vote for jesus. he never spoke english was totally anti-death penalty anti-wealth, anti-family anti-public prayer. that's matthew 6:5 but never once anti-gay, he never mentioned abortion, never fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest nazarenes, he was a long haired, brown skinned progressive activist mideastern jew. and this is why if jesus ever does come back, it will be tough to hear his message of love and compassion over the screams of his followers >>and now to my point. that is a whole bunch of bunk! the powerful my steal an election but they cannot steal democracy. [ voice of dennis ] ...safe driving bonus check? every six months without an accident, allstate sends a check. ok. [ voice of dennis ] sile

it's organized this nonthreatening environment of pluralism, pluralism and that is manipulable, patronized in any sense controlled. but it's actually ultimately useless. and the result, the fundamental reason why algeria is a producing interesting political change, there's all the reason should know about, the fact that any sense it had its arab spring 20 years ago, algerians have a point when the same we been through this movie. we were way ahead of everybody. that's all perfectly true, but the fundamental reason of what is yes, people do not know what to do. of the regime and the opposition have reached the limits of their repertoire. and the western discourse on political change in this region are not suggesting anything useful to them at all. let me leave it there. >> fantastic, thank you very much. hugh as i was been one f the most astute analysts, a very difficult place i know, and he's just a marvelous job of describing the emergence of algeria's own version of liberalized hypocrisy. and, of course, i think he described what i consider liberalized autocracy ultimately to be, and tha

last year and islamist party won a plurality of the votes in an open, competitive election. some in washington took this as an omen of doom but these new leaders formed a coalition with secular parties, and promised to uphold universal rights and freedoms including 4 women. the united states made it clear we would be watching closely and would assess the government by its actions, not its words. this past february, students and civil society activists shared with me their fears about extremists seeking to derail their transition and lasting democracy but also their hope that responsible leaders and accountable institutions would be strong enough and willing enough to turn back that challenge and indeed we have seen an intense debate play out in tunisian society. for example, early drafts of the new constitution labels women as complementary to men, but to nietzsche's active civil society raised strong objections and eventually the national constituent assembly amended to recognize women's equality. society is wise to remain vigilant and exercise their hard-earned rights to s

even within these religions and context, there is a great deal of pluralism, contestation within the religious sector, also within the political sector. entering into those conversations and seeking to support some civil society organizations and religious organizations in a constructive way is something that needs to be done carefully and with as much listening as there is talking and cajoling. one thing i want to throw at the beginning, we often -- working with religious organizations overseas -- we often hear how? how can international, western organizations, quasi- governmental organizations, work with religious organizations and actors overseas in a way that you will not delegitimizing the authorities and the legitimacy that religious factors and institutions have within their society? we know that working with western organizations that can sometimes pain religious actors and institutions in particular ways as untrustworthy, opportunistic, and so on. i wonder what you have to say how with your observations on the ground about how this work has been done effectively by outside o

administration intensely try to mislead americans on attack in libya, a split decision there, but the pluralitystration be forcing this or is it the case that the other side is trying to politicize it to indicate somehow there is no reason for the people, for the american people to trust barack obama on foreign policy, which they still prefer president obama on foreign affairs. >> you think the administration is withholding information that could serve them? this isn't an administration when they did the raid on bin laden, seal team six, they had a ton of information, a lot that should never have been released, served them well and they released it almost immediately and scandalously open way. it exposed our meths about our people. this is not an administration which has shown itself to be a keeper of secrets that would help it. the drone attacks. i mean on all of this. leaks when it will help them. here we know that they know stuff, what happened in the nine hours when they had real-time information and knew what was happening? where was the president? why wasn't he directing actions? who were

notice i said labs in the plural. with another one approximately 60 miles south of us right now.he three nuclear weapons labs that this country has -- >> they're both los alamos national labs? >> an the third one is lawrence livermore, about 30 miles east of san francisco. >> it has been said if in mexico were to secede from the u.s., it would be the third bus powerful nuclear nation in the world. >> that is correct in terms of numbers. people who fly out of the albuquerque airport, if you know where to look, and it is very obscure, but if you know where to look, you can see as you take off about 2 miles out there is a repository that may have up to 3000 nuclear warheads. all the enough, it is a good thing they are there. bush sr. unilaterally retired a bunch of these weapons while there was a possible coup in moscow, but they are still awaiting [indiscernible] what we need to do instead of building up our arsenal, which we're doing, and extending the lives of the weapons, we need to be dismantling them and working off the -- >> chuck montaÑo, your final comment? >> i sympathize

plurality of which are registered as democrats and demographics moved and also latinos are energizedbout the election. 87% nationwide of registered latinos say they'll cast a ballot. 45% said they're more excited than they were in 2008. the numbers up and increasing week by week and very encouraging for the president in florida but, you know, the last factor that actually caused me to move the state in to the blue column is sandy and that's why i moved it just today because i think florida's a state where people really understand the importance of fema, the importance of an effective and strong national response to disasters and i think the president's leadership here as close as the race is in florida could be enough to move it in his favor. >> well, not surprisingly, my race is closer although i still give it to obama. i don't see romney pulling through. >> you will be in trouble. >> i have it close, 268 to 272 and because i'm giving -- >> what was that red in the middle there at the top? wisconsin? wow. >> wait. so i'm giving romney virginia, florida, iowa, new hampshire, north ca

that cost him his plurality. >> i think we won't know until the end of the week. right now we see the campaign sort of in a state of suspension. the president canceled his campaign events and mitt romney has done the same. the president -- >> but not before coming out against fema. now, this is where i talk about the strange things. it's not just the weather. it's the conjunction of weather and politics. now, not long ago in june we're going to look at a picture now, this is when the republican candidate for president, mitt romney, went on the usual ideological facet people take saying let's get rid of this and let the states handle it. nobody is saying that tonight. >> fema is about to rub out of money. some people say maybe we're learning a lesson that the states should take on more of this role. >> absolutely. every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. and if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that's even better. we're borrowing $1.6 trill

it was to take a stand and for the latino community, for the respect of the latino community, a pluralityd for the kmuncommunity. that tled continues now. the more they grow their political influence, political influence the more both parties have to move forward on agenda that addresses the challenges the nation is facing. >> and the romney campaign saying they need 38% of the latino vote, right now they're polling around 31. we'll see if that happens. thank you so much today. >> thank you. >> we asked, and you answered. romney's binder full of women comment, a sideshow or a xhet that hit a raw nerve? dis respectful of women considering he was approached with the binder. it's not the comment's intent. it's another romney lie. binders of research were presented to him. he did not seek it out. and hit a nerve, show a lack of understanding towards women in the workplace. female voters won't forget this comment. keep the tweets coming. [ "the odd couple" theme playing ] humans. even when we cross our "t"s and dot our "i"s, we still run into problems -- mainly other humans. at liberty mutual

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pro-life with exceptions for life and incest and for the life of the mother, there is a majority, a plurality of pro-life. >> what about women voters? >> there were plenty of women that are pro-life and believe this. >> the majority? >> no. it doesn't split the majority way, but when you talk p about total voters, you have to win the election by everybody and not just women or men. i think at the end of the day in this election, i know the democrats want this to be a war on women and social issues. this will be won on the economy and jobs. that's where mitt romney is winning that and will win in november. >> when it comes down to the discussion, it's going to change to foreign policy. let's push forward to monday. michael, the third and final presidential debate will be focused on foreign policy. when we look at that issue specifically, how do both candidates need to make these issues digestible and practice to voters when many of them are saying, let's talk about the economy? >> well, you know, normally i tend to think that foreign policy is a strong suit of the gop candidate, normally an op

, countries with elections but few individual rights, or it could see a gradual evolution toward pluralism and the rule of law. but this discussion is being superseded by a visceral reaction to islam and islamism as hannity's comments suggest that is neither accurate nor helpful in understanding what is happening on the ground. the heart of the problem in the arab world was that the old order was highly unstable. repressive regimes like the one in egypt had created over the decades extreme opposition movements. that opposition often became violent, and it attacked america for supporting these dictatorships. in other words, america's support for mubarak or the saudi monarchy and other saudi regimes fueled the anti-american terrorist groups that then attacked us on 9/11. al qaeda understands that if the arab world democratizes, it loses the core of its ideological appeal, which is why al qaeda's head ayman al zawahiri wrote a book condemning the egyptian muslim brotherhood's decision to support and participate in egypt's democratic process. so while we might despair over a particular state l

the same month, his office put out this press release, coal and oil fired plants, plural, contributeignificantly more air pollution than their gas-fired counterparts, exacerbating acid rain and global warming. this is what the democrats would seize upon and say, classic flip-flop, but does it matter when it you get to virginia and you are campaigning and suggesting this government wants to make your life -- >> you speak to the romney folks, the word they keep insisting isn't coal, it is the word that they used before that now you heard romney say, clean coal. there is a newer, better way to deal -- to use coal for energy purposes, but to make sure it is clean coal and it is going to be less destructive to the environment or whatever. so that's the argument you'll hear from the romney folks, from those who support that part of the energy industry. i do think that as he gets closer and closer and if you take a look at the thrust of what he was saying in the debate and the argument he's been flip-flopping, etch-a-sketch moment, he's gone from appealing to the far right to appealing now

that is she was moving her hands and feet, plural. both hands, both feet. that's really important.think we talked about this a little bit in the context of congresswoman giffords previously. just that kind of movement on both sides means that if she was following a command, doing it in response to someone telling her to do that, that would be a very -- much better sign but just moving them at all is a very good sign. at this point, they usually give the patient a lot of sedation, sort of put the brain to rest a little bit. let it recover on its own, even remove some of the bone around the brain to allow some swelling as they did with congresswoman giffords as well. >> how long before they know kind of the extent of damage? >> well, this is a little bit of a judgment call. i will say that her young age helps her a considerable amount. we talk about something known as plasticity of the brain, the idea that the brain can sort of rewire itself. it's true and in a younger person it's even better. what doctors do at this point is they sort of lift the sedation up every now and then, allo

in the plural. there is no one single girl. and i also talked for a while, as i said earlier, i was teaching. and again i was teaching in state schools where you had a very mixed intake. and again, i met people whose backgrounds were not dissimilar to crystal and whose behavior was not dissimilar to crystal. >> rose: this is the small -- >> she is rooted in reality wz. >> rose: it is the smallest microcosm of government, city council. >> exactly right. >> rose: is that important to foe. >> i think it is. a parish council in the u.k. is the tinniest building block of democracy. and i would say that in writing about it, i became really impressed. you know what, it's easy to is a tirize small town concerns but i, what i merged with was the knowledge of how much their decisions which may seem relatively small can have a huge, meaningful impact on other people's lives. i mean i'm really pro, it is very easy to denigrate the political process and engineer at politicians. and i've done it myself. >> rose: sure. >> but there's no other

that's plural. hundreds of thousands of people from maryland to connecticut have been ordered to evacuate low-lying coastal areas including 375,000 in new york city, 50,000 in delaware, 30,000 in atlantic city. transit systems in new york city and washington, d.c., have been shut down. the federal government is closed. the new york stock exchange is closed. for weather today for the first time in 27 years. and for the very latest on the hurricane's path, let's go right to what mark halperin just described as a national treasure right now, bill karins, our nbc news meteorologist. all right, bill, walk us through -- i know you were saying earlier the storm's taken a little more of a left turn than what was forecast about three hours ago. >> yeah. it's very slight, but it makes a big difference especially for atlantic city, new jersey, long beach island, central jersey. if the storm went right over you, your storm surge would have been less. if it goes south down by wildwood, that means your damage wil

departures plural from apple. john, it is not only the executive in charge of iphone software but as we are learning the head of retail. what do you know? >> that is the cause. the reason why this is stuch a b such a big deal far beyond that. vin seen a reorganization with apple since these jobs returned 15 years you a go. as you said scott for stastall leaving. he got tossed around as a potential successor to tim cook. not that he's leaving any time soon but that's how high his profile has been with apple. also, john browett, who has been hired to head up retail, he is out. now, that's interesting because apple had taken some heat important the way it had been handling retail recently. employees of the retail stores have posted on sites like iso apple, apple store, about the way that apple was cutting back on hours and were some -- they were disgruntled on that scale. br browett had come from a european retailer that -- that was known for being a little more bust buy reich as opposed to apple store-like in the wa

and you can imagine that california would lead the way with a green but they also like what is the pluralpuius? [laughter] of precious pri... home values it jumping 1.3% it is the biggest gain since 2006 according to ziool it is nice that housing is maki a rebound some are thinking that it was going sideways for a while. some of the thinking of as this as an investment and some people flipping their homes. >> retirement being delayed even people going into their 80s. >> why do we work that long? >> age discrimination with 30 percent say they're going to work until 80. that is up 25% and 70 are going to work until retirement that is not always realistic. the median household income is $50,000. and retirement = poverty. the average american thinks they need three and a thousand dollars and they really have only saved $25,000. >> that is going to be a lot of the trailer parks werfor retirement. >> thank you, rob. go to our new channel. comcast 193 for the latest news, weather and traffic updates and on digital 4.2. >> decision 2012. a new election poll points to a clear winner in the race fo

it's possible that if say romney gets a plurality or a majority of 50.6, it's possible to see him losinglectoral college. if he's up over 51 or 52, it's hard to reconcile a two or three point win with an electoral loss. numbers have got to be pretty close. >> because the two are more likely to go in tandem is what you are saying. >> yeah, it's a crazy system. and david and i can have that debate. the electoral college is -- >> we can talk about that next. >> yes, in the off season. but let's understand this. there is a republican advantage in ohio. ohio is more republican than the nation. and internally, this one democratic statewide office holder, democratic senator share odd brown, all the others are held by republicans. republicans have strong majorities in both houses of the legislature and congressional is 12 to 4, lines are drawn 12 to 4 t may end is up 11-5 because bette sutton may win a district. but it's a-- s so it's a republican state going in. the irony is for mitt romney, is that john kasich who you saw in the piece, the governor, is extolling all these good news that we jus