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that's all rain and snow here in the midwest. that cold air spiraled around the system. we've had reports of a foot-plus, in the mountains of west virginia and southwest p.a. about nine inches of snow. rainfall, up to nine inches across northern portions of virginia and maryland. these waters will be slow to recede the next couple of days. we'll be watching the rivers, watching the water coming down the rivers in the next couple of days. so, we're still dealing with the after-effects today. >> yes. it's all about the aftermath. this hit at night. so, people are waking up now and seeing all of the destruction. sounds like you said that the worst is over. but what kind of effect will we see maybe in the middle of the country, like the midwest? >> well, the midwest united states, going to be very windy today. places like indianapolis, chicago, detroit, cleveland, cincinnati. winds gusting 30, 50 miles per hour. even higher around detroit and cleveland. very windy, chilly day. rain and snow. not amounting to much. but on the grassy surfaces, parts of ohio and kentucky, we co

heather and heather we are talking about temperatures above average across portions of the midwest. a little on the cool side. today is a little balmy tomorrow you will notice cooler weather heading our way. >> it is time russell crowe and his wife are separating. the hectic film schedule is at the root of the split. the couple has two children together. >> do you remember this guy? >> the actor's real name best for his known as carlton on prince of bellaire tied the knot. he got married in california over the weekend. congrats to the happy couple. >> taking two holds on to the top spot at the box office this weekend bringing in 22 and a half million dollars giving it a run for its money but not quite in the top spot. the political thriller debuted at $20 million. >> i still do the crawl when i am out dancing. he will tell me not to all of the time. >> time now for your starting lineup. a roundup of all of the sports stories making headlines at this hour. the texans we begin there. the pack tore was pounding to hand them the fist loss of the season. tieing a franchise record with 6 t

is an issue that resonates so clearly in the industrial midwest. i'm from wisconsin. i didn't grow up that far away from paul ryan. and the impact of gm teetering on bankruptcy was felt across that state. when mitt romney published in a paper they should let detroit go bankrupt and barack obama stood up and said, we'll do something about it, believe me, that set the table for this. now, is it close in ohio? it is really close in ohio. what's most telling to me, if you think about it for a second, there are three home states on the republican ticket. there's wisconsin for paul ryan and michigan and massachusetts for mitt romney. they're not winning in any of them. to me, that is a very telling sign. as a democrat i look at that and say, wait a second, where's the hometown base. it ain't showing up. that to me establishes further this notion of a firewall in the upper midwest. >> it might be what we learn right now in terms of jobs. this came out four hours ago from the bls. the five states with unemployment rates below 7.8%, which is the national ave

we are talking the economy in the midwest, in ohio. integrity issue, the trust issue, romney went to defiance, ohio and told a group of 11,000 people jeep is about to move all of their production overseas. i read that somewhere. not at all true. it's okay to make a flub, but not to correct it. they asked are you sure he meant that? no response clearing that up. there's been a truthfulness problem that connects the economy in the states that matter. >> carly, you have governor romney not focusing on trust. do you want another four years like we have had. >> this is not the time to double down and trickle down on policies that failed us. it's time for bold changes that measure up to the moment and bring america's families up that the future will be better than the past. >> rachel brings up a good point focusing on ohio. 7% unemployment in that state. how much credit does the president deserve for improving conditions in battleground states? >> that important state has a republican governor that's done the opposite of what obama claims he

this is a winter storm bringing 6, even a foot of snow in the portions of the northern plains to the midwestt week of october. look at the 24-hour temperature changes, you can see the cold front moving eastward. 15 degrees temperature difference and that is on the way midwest and to the northeast this weekend. >> janice dean, thank you so much. coming up. undecided votersses are a key to the presidential race this year. what is the one thing that resonated with the voters last night? we have a focus groupp and we'll tell you about their responses when we come back. >> even if you lose you win. how one airline is using clever marketing to get you on board ahead of election day. ♪ ♪ the capital one cash rewards card gives you a 50% annual bonus. and everyone likes 50% more [ russian accent ] rubles. eh, eheh, eh, eh. [ brooklyn accent ] 50% more simoleons. [ western accent ] 50% more sawbucks. ♪ [ maine accent ] 50% more clams. it's a lobster, either way. [ male annncer ] the capital one cash rewards card. with a 50% annual cash bonus, it's the card for people who like more cash. [ italian acc

to the midwest where the storm stirred up the great lakes. here in new york travel within the city was made difficult. subways flooded and a fleet of taxicabs was left under water. the hurricane force winds fueled a fire that decimated a community that left many to wonder what to do next. this morning much of lower manhattan remains in darkness. >> lower manhattan is where we find anise. >> reporter: good morning. new york is trying to regain a sense of normalcy after hurricane sandy. the top priority for officials is trying to restore power and mass transit. the storm has moved away from the shore but the devastation left behind is obvious. homes buried or destroyed. boats tossed ashore. >> very difficult. >> reporter: the national guard spent the day rescuing stranded residents in moonachie and little ferry, new jersey. a tidal surge pushed five feet of water into the town in just minutes. >> we're waiting for rescue. >> reporter: president obama will tour the devastation in new jersey today. >> the most important message i have for them is

it will hook up with that cold front into the midwest. can see that there is still -- still some divergence on most of the models. it has been trending to bring this in further to our north. if that's what happens, it will be better for the dc/metro area as the wind will be coming in from the north east as opposed to the south east. we will continue to monitor any changes we see but it will be a storm that will be affecting millions of people next week. you might want to thank about changing your travel plans. >> all up and down the east coast, residents and power crews and governments are getting ready to deal with hurricane sandy. >> people are starting to pay attention now. we go live to alexandria with more. >> it appears everyone is heeding the warning. pepco has secured about 400 outside contractors. we know all too well what has happened in the last couple of years with power outages when the get storms like this. in old town alexandria, it is a low-lying area and the concern is that how high the potomac river will get. the powerful

we'll see cool air from that system affect the midwest and the interior northeast. a lot of very cool air plunging across the midwest, more unsettled weather midweek, rain and some snow possible on friday. lester, fall is here and so is an early taste of winter. lester? >> we'll dig out the gloves. thanks. don't look now, but we're just 30 days out from the election, and after some potentially game-changing moments for both campaigns this past week, each is now looking to seize a momentum as they hit their home stretch. our team has it all covered. we begin with nbc's ron motte. ron, good evening. >> home here in chilly wisconsin tonight getting ready for a big week of his political career, topping it off thursday with a debate against vice president joe biden. >> we don't want four more years like the last four years. >> reporter: one day ahead of a major foreign policy speech in virginia, today mitt romney continued assaulting the president's domestic record at a rally in st. lucy, florida. >> i have an opportunity for america right now that's going to get this ec

wet roads in the midwest, from detroit to the twin cities.nd much of the same in the pacific northwest. >> if you are flying, airport delays possible from boston to d.c., detroit, chicago, minneapolis, seattle and portland. did we miss any cities there? >> i don't think so. >>> more news, now, from the centers of disease control. they've issued a new warning about the laundry detergent pods. >> the shiny, colorful packets of concentrated soap are becoming a public health hazard. children are mistaking them for candy, eating them and getting sick. nearly 500 children ingested detergent pods. most of them under 5 years old. >> they do look like candy. >>> a body found in san diego trash bin may be linked to a murder mystery in newport beach. the body may be that of quee chadwick. they are charging the husband, saying he killed his wife over money. >>> and l.a. police investigators say the 40-year-old taped conversation between charles tex watson and his attorney could clear up more than a dozen unsolved homicides. a federal judge in texas has b

that is simply from the wound up low pressure system in the midwest. 71 this afternoon, 65 by 9:00 p.m. most of the rain will hold off until after sunset. while we sleep, a few showers here and there around 50 degrees. tomorrow don't be surprised if you wake up to some rainfall. that will be the exception and not the norm for most of us tomorrow. there could be a brief morning shower, 30% chance. clearing on the weekend. cooler temperatures in the mid 60's. fall-like and sunny. >> still to come, a man sells a jug of barbecue sauce for the $10,000. what is it man: to some people, social security is just a number. but to me, it's money that i earned. i count on social security. and i don't want washington politicians like george allen... privatizing it. if george allen wants to risk his own money on wall street... that's fine. but i don't want him risking mine. george allen j just ist watchingout for us. anncr: the democratic senatorial campaign committee is... responsible for the content of this advertising. >> and both dakota man is rolling in dough today because of a jug of barbecue s

the midwest firewall. t's give mitt romney everything except the midwestern states and watch this bar graph move up here. so there's colorado. let's slide over nevada. let's slide over the southern states, virginia. north carolina, florida, and, look at judd fwrgregg, he said s guaranteed, new hampshire. look where it puts them now, 267, three short. so the firewall ohio, wisconsin, and iowa would put you there at 271. so you see the importance of this and the fact of the matter is when you look at nevada right now, if you put nevada in the obama column here, slide it all the way over to show you that we can, you then see wisconsin becomes pretty important if you bring those ten over and then he has to break that one if it's -- if the firewall includes -- if nevada comes over the romney column, then he can just pick off an iowa. so when you lack at iowa and wisconsin, it all depends. if you put new hampshire into the obama column over there and let me put that over there to show you that example. some peopl

flooding entire towns, causing blackouts across the midatlantic and midwest and snoerms frwstor maryla to tennessee. juju chahang spent t the day in lower manhattan and comomes t u from the dangerously flooded streetings. >> rorter: we've sent much of this evening wading through the fldwaters ofmanhattan, rough the evacucuation zozone, this storm now has the dubious distinction of setting a record for a record storm surge but it's deceptively calm no notot lot of rain wi, penn historic canyons of lower man hasn't and the 9/11 memorial began flooding this evening. behind me is litallyly the financial hea of the stage, new york stock exchange shut down today and tomorrow. detectly bind me is what new rk oicials feared,, tonight a ge swath ofower manhattan is under water and without power. storm surgeses of up to 11 feet battering the southern tip of this island. streets and avenues turning to rivers as the water surroundidi manhattan poured over seawalls and the full moon high tide. we were with new york governor cuomo as he watched the water surge at the mouth of one tunnel at the heigh

and we're outperforming every other state in the midwest. if the auto bailout is significant, why is it that we're so significantly outperforming michigan, and why is it that ohio is the number one in the midwest and number four in the country? in terms of romney, look, what i want out of a president is i want stability. look, small businesses get , paralyzed. if they don't know what the regulations are, if they don't no what the taxes are going to be. if they don't know what they're going to do with debt. if they don't know what the people in washington are going to do. they sit on the sidelines. i want certainty. i think there's ways to get an agreement in washington. but it doesn't have to mean higher rates.e it can mean lower rates and eliminating loopholes. we've got to get off of overregulating small businesses. if we get that, we'll grow. what will we get out of him? a movement towards a balanced budget. a stabilization of taxes and for some people, a tax cut. and we will have regulators that will use common sense and not overdo it. we

the largest this nation has seen in four years and drivers in the midwest saw the biggest drop of all, the average price of a gallon of gas in the midwest has gone down 20 cents in one week to $3.49 a gallon. >>> and next that mass shooting at a salon in wisconsin and the new details tonight about a woman, a wife who was living in terror. the gunman had a history of domestic violence. his wife begged for help. she got a restraining order. but tonight the 1 million women with restraining orders are would be dering what does it take to keep them safe. alex perez has the story. >> reporter: xina haughton lived life in fear that her husband would kill her. he threatened to throw acid in my face and burn me and my family with gas she told investigators as she sought a restraining order. his threats terrorized my every waking moment. and as she talked to authorities she feared the protection would not be enough. he said he would kill me if i left him or even contacted the police. her concerns became a tragic reality yesterday. >> he yelled everybody get down. get down, and as i went to get

and then look where he is spending his monday -- it's the midwest. and, david, that's where they feel like they got to pick off a couple of states, not just ohio, ohio plus something else. >> it's interesting, as i talked to the romney campaign at the end of the week, they were emphasizing the momentum argument. they feel the debates gave him a second look in such a way that he can carry that through election day. the obama folks say look at the electoral math. we could be in for quite a finish here, if they're both right. >> they could be both right. because we've talked about the popular vote thing and let me throw you -- we've seen some polling out today. if you look at the president's lead, for instance, on the west coast in california, the lead has been cut in half. i've done some math, you can see where mitt romney makes up some 6 to 8 million votes. john mccain lost by 10 million votes. he could pick up a whole bunch of votes in the battleground states. let's go to our battleground map. we have the president winning in virginia, wisconsin is a

the midwest and northeast are cold and windy and in the 50s. mostly 70s, meanwhile, in the rockies. >>> coming up this friday morning, another space shuttle heads to its final home. >>> but first, something to irritate you on a friday. new evidence that banks are still tacking on plenty of fees. >>> and some welcome news about the airlines. it's all next. >>> welcome back, everybody. well, you better keep an eye on your bank statements. a new pew study says a dozen major banks are still not being clear about their checking account fees. and many are charging more for some basic features. sometimes the fees aren't listed on bank websites. but they're in those checking account disclosure statements that you get in the mail sometimes. the study says they actually run a median length of 69 pages. >>> well, the maker of mini-wheats has a not-so-small problem on its hands. kellogg's is recalling almost 3 million boxes of the cereal because they could be contaminated with small pieces of metal. kellogg's blames a faulty manufacturing part. two years a

jessica, let's starts in the midwest, iowa, wisconsin. the president has a small but consistent lead from the romney campaign's perspective in ohio. how much of the midwest at the heart of the obama path to 270? >> they -- well, they are relying on it pretty confidently, john. they feel good about those states. they think because the unemployment picture is improving there, in many of those states it's actually lower than when the president came into office, because the auto bailout worked for so many of the voters in ohio, also you can look at michigan but even especially in ohio, and because he has an advantage if you look at the latest polling in iowa and wisconsin among women voters in particular, they feel strong that the president has a good shot there and it's part of his firewall against some of these other potential losses in the states you were looking at earlier, for example, florida and north carolina. >> so jim, she uses the term firewall. what's the feeling inside the romney campaign? they have to feel a little better about f

we have a strong cold front across portions of the midwest. we have strong winds out of the south that are helping to warm things up across a very large section of the country continuing through the southeast. we are talking temperatures into the 80s across the carolinas, georgia, mississippi, alabama portions of the plains. upper 80{caseÑ]s for some of yo across texas and parts of arkansas. well above average temperatures ahead of the system. behind that system we will have a significant cool down. some will see a drop in temperatures by as much as 30 degrees. that sharp drop in temperatures is going to produce strong storms across portions of the upper midwest and across the great lakes. we are looking at the possibility of severe weather today across eastern portions of nebraska, iowa, southern minnesota and also into portions of wisconsin. isolated tornadoes will be possible in this region. heads up if you live in omaha or portions of wisconsin. damaging wind gusts also a concern as well. we have isolated showers across the northeast not a

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snow in the midwest.front that will headed our way and potentially interacting with to bring usndy changes. been moving over cuba. it is intensifying over the last 24 hours. jamaica and cuba impacted as a category two storm right now hour.inds of 105 miles an it packs a punch. once in the explorer the s -- once its heads for know whats, we don't means for us. there's a large column of uncertainty. models have been moving coast.to the either way, we will have some storm.from the it is large. this is a google the earth image the cloud shield from north south and then end to end. it's about 1,200 miles. o create a large storm surge. and heavy wind. partly sunny skies this afternoon, 72-77. mostly cloudy tonight with a drizzle overnight into morning, 52-58 degrees. temperatures are sliding down over the next couple days. that could impact with the cold d potentially sandy. changesed for any now and the end of the weekend. back to you. >> thank you. back to you. >> thank you. we wilnow this is a party. mmm. i

we have the midwest represented here, because of the impact on the east coast. scott, beginning with you. what is the short term impact later this week from the markets being closed for two days? >> well, well i think the short term impact if we looked at where the futures closed coming in from the weekend t looked like today, had we been trading at least the start would have been-- would have been a little nasty. so for me, we're in the middle of a pullback here. i don't think it's going to be massive. i think probably in the s&p 500 it wouldn't surprise me to see us trade down to the 13060, 70 level, something like that. we have been looking for a pullback, hoping for more of a pullback. i think we will get one and i think it's an opportunity. >> tom: i will ask you in a moment. rob, do you agree. do you think the selling continues on wednesday? >> i do. i mean it's tough to predict one day and getting close to the end 69 month where there is a natural demand but i do concur that it looks like a correction or pullback is occur-- occurring. and economic fundame

a few showers in the midwest down to the tennessee valley, getting closer to us. low 70s by mid afternoon. could get some thunderstorms, 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. i'm back in ten minutes. a look at your first 4 traffic now with danella. good morning. >> good morning. still checking on the situation in haymark. if you're traveling northbound 15, the ramp to 66 still shut down. the crash here involves two vehicles, reportedly no injury. hopefully that ramp is expected to be open in about 15 minutes. over to i-270 northbound. looking good traveling northbound and southbound, accident-free. no major delays just yet. no issues to report. over to you. >>> 5:32 now. federal prosecutors say one man's plot to blow up the federal reserve building in the middle of manhattan never put the public in danger. this morning, 21-year-old quazi nafis is in jail. yesterday he parked a van full of fake explosives outside the bank and tried to set it off with what he thought was a detonator. the fbi says it was monitoring him the entire time. agents started surveillance in july when nafis met