fewer flyers contributed to revenue declines at united and american. united said contract negotiations with its pilots set the airline back financially. american also addressed pilot contract issues, but said september's flight cancellations due to pilots calling in sick -- did not affect the companies 'bottom line.' the airline plans to hire 25- hundred pilots within the next five years. delta's profits doubled from last year---a result of more passengers. while us airways posted a "record" net income of 245 million dollars. in other corporate earnings... the third-quarter was a mixed bag, and layoffs are on the agenda. procter & gamble beat estimates. the household products maker said it will cut fs 5700 jobs by year-end. rival colgate-palmolive plans to cut fs 6 percent of its workforce by the end of 2016. earnings fell a bit short of estimates but were better than last year. sprint beat expectations on strong revenue. while royal caribbean earnings were weaker than last year, but the company is "encouraged" by increased bookings. energy drinks are

several airlines -- delta, united and american -- they ar say they -- going to waive fees for passengers who are forced to change their flight, starting monday, tuesday and wednesday, because of the hurricane. typically, airlines can charge $150 under normal circumstances if you change your ticket. airline officials are urging all travelers to check the status of your flights. right now, there are no plans to close any airports, but you know, eventually, that will happen. we will keep you updated over the coming days. being prepared is everything with this kind of weather event. coming up, a spokesman for the american red cross will join us for important safety tips and advice on how to get ready. >> jamie: massive hurricane sandy could impact the upcoming presidential election, but isn't slowing last-minute efforts to get votes in swing states. there will be several rallies in ohio. and the president travels to florida. we go live to washington with the roundup. hey, molly. >> reporter: yes, the president will leave tonight, fly to florida, do a campaign event in florida tomorrow and fl

united and american have similar plans as well. best advice, give them a call.chicago, face cancellations. once again, give amtrak a call if you plan on traveling over the next couple of days. new york city could really face a shutdown with commuter buses, trains from around the tristate areas, facing shutdowns. cancellations. massive delays. of course, driving, that will be treacherous, if not impossible in some areas. fierce winds, poor visibility, flooded roadways. downed trees and power lines. all are expected. your best advice, plan on staying home during the worst of it. call ahead, the time to change your travel plans is now, don't wait. >> great advice, john muller and we'll be right back. look i made a face. awesome. why don't we make a pumpkin. what do pumpkins look like? what's... like this. you're my pumpkin! what do you think? i made a bat. [ boy ] i made a sword. [ both laugh ] ♪ you're gonna love those. [ female announcer ] carve out some time with your little pumpkins. boo! boo! [ female announcer ] happy halloween... from rice krispies. looks li

united and american have similar plans, as well.flight is canceled you're entitled to a full refund. amtrak will cancel some trains beginning today between virginia, chicago, washington, miami, new york, even chicago face cancellations. once again, give amtrak a call if you plan on traveling in these areas over the next few days. new york, the largest city in america could really face a shutdown with commuter buses, commuter trains from around the tri-state area facing shutdowns. cancellations, massive delays and, of course, driving, that will be treacherous, if not impossible, in some areas. fierce winds, poor virusability from those flooding rains, flooded roadways, downed trees and power lines are all expected. best advice, plan on staying home during the worst of it and once again if you're traveling on the skies of the rails, call ahead. time to change travel plans is now. don't wait. the time to act is now. guys? >> great advice, john, thank you, and we'll be right back. look i made a face. awesome. why don't we make a pumpkin

the so-called arab spring mini theater here and that in america we will be seeing a latin american spring with different characteristics but where the united states will meddle in the internal affairs of countries like venezuela and they will even trigger and activate a generalized latin american spring which will be turmoil social unrest and even civil war. more stories are videos analysis in store for you on our website r t v dot com including tragic remark online we've got the story of a russian student who found himself severely beaten in a canadian hospital bed after making an innocuous remark. plus how making cars more eco friendly is proving harmful to millions ahead on line to learn why it lands sold for biofuel in developing countries is putting people on the brink of starvation. but the u.s. president is being sued by a chinese owned company for blocking its plan to wind farm investments on u.s. territory the firm believes barack obama acted unlawfully when he banned the operator on national security concerns and with only a month left before the u.s. elections professor joseph chang believes obama is just trying to score cheap p

american standards. you get tv's and wi-fi. you can waven the game and do the work. on the flip side the two worst are american and united and i think uniteed by far. >> how do you explain that because of all of the industry consolidation that made the airlines so poor kierding to customers? >> i think that has a good thing to do with it. they have merged with other airlines they have taken it over gotten bigger as opposed to getting better. i think the focus on growth has hurt them customer service wise. it's not a pleasant experience. there's less flights less seats available more expensive more hassles more waiting. everything. it will is a bad experience. >> what's the top complaint? is it lack of on time arrivals or customer service? >> for me personally it's customer service. i am going through something with united right now. i used to fly american i switched to united when they bought continental. if you call you have to wait on-line forever. if you get a real person. if you send them an e-mail sometimes you have to get a month to get a response. >> who is the best for on time arrivals? >> the best is alaska airl

and deceit in benghazi. from washington, d.c., here is bret baier. >> it looked like this election was all about the economy, but that changed when terrorists murdered four americans at the united states consulate in benghazi on the anniversary of 9/11. americans had questions. who did this and how? should our government have seen it coming? did president obama tried to hide the truth? is this a huge scandal that exposes a failed obama foreign policy? is mitt romney just saying it is. tonight we'll try to give you answers. we'll walk you step by step through the terror of that day and break down the political maneuvering that has followed. we begin with a series of frightening developments and troubling decisions leading up to that horrific night. it's a story you haven't heard. it's told by a man who tried to prevent what happened on september 11th, 2012. >> did you have a close relationship with the ambassador? >> i lived and worked with him for two months when he came on to the time i left, yeah. >> bret: no one understands more the full extent the fiasco that killed stevens. he worked with him for six months before his violent death. 24-year special forces veteran, woods' j

americans and british main scattershot efforts to remain the better per two. the rising prices in the early years, pounded every element of the promise and the problems in the united states. americans faced an especially important intellectual adversary in the form of the british fairest. he was the author of the book and essay on the principle of population. the subtitle and inquiry into our prospect respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils that it occasions. published in england 7098 and reprinted in the united states 893. he offered his model population not as obstruction but on geopolitics. may cause of suffering censored unrestrained reproduction as a moral evil and argues the best way to restrict one array -- runaway population growth for young men and women to delay marriage. they could spend a few more years celibate before they raised families to reduce the final numbers of children born to any given married couple and diminish the overall average size of families with in the country the chief object of the analysis was the rapidly expanding united states. to exert ever control malthus contended that america keeps increasing the indians wi

here and that merkel we will be seeing a latin american spring with different characteristics but where the united states will meddle in the internal affairs of punches like that is with us and they will even trigger and activate a generalized latin american string which will be turmoil social unrest and even civil war. another battle for power base time in the u.s. saw in common how bamma all at sea would take a look at why the president's first televised tussle left his supporters cold while some critics slammed the entire u.s. election system for a lack of real choice. in. the riding that takes your breath away to eating across the sky is always a mohnish good you know the biggest salt lake in europe and more than two hundred species of birds but also it is them are on the verge of extinction on these islands in the south of russia they find shelter before migrating to other parts of the world paladins as well as other species of the monish who do low feed on stage these words are waiting for their parents to bring them food to the best cash for them is in a small area is a lake with the water

and the united states. so this exercise is designed to make sure israel and american systems can repel that kind of attack.g just a few weeks before the presidential election, it also has political messages as well. >> reporter: willtory commanders won't even say the word iran. when it comes to these exercises. they don't have to. the israeli general in charge of planning said the fact we're practicing together is a strong message by itself. iran will see how well u.s. ships and troops can work with israeli rocket shields as they defend attacks from rockets, missiles and drones. the pentagon can also test some new technology it helped pay for, like israel's iron dome. in all the exercise will refer 3500 hus troops. they'll be training over three weeks in parts of israel, europe and the mediterranean. the chairman of the joint chiefs said the u.s. did not want to be come police it in a u.s. israeli attack on iran. >> i think it's a big deal and it's meant to be a big deal. >> reporter: republicans have accused president obama of em boldening iran. >> the president said he was going to put daylight between u

and on monday, united, delta, southwest, american, jet blue and us airways all announcing they will be closed for business on the east coast. a massive shutdown that will ripple nationwide. >> when there are flight cancellations in major hub cities like new york, like philadelphia, like washington, d.c., that affects travelers all over the country. >> reporter: airlines will remove planes from airports in the hurricane's path and hope they can fly back in on tuesday. train travel, too, coming to a standstill. amtrak canceling trains north of new york tonight and virtually all east coast service on monday. now, we're told that folks are spending hours on the phone trying to get throu to their airlines. the best advice, go online, even use twitter to reach your carrier. once the storm passes, the airlines start up again, it will still take a good three to four days to get air travel back to normal. david? >> what a mess this week is going to be. lisa stark at reagan national. lisa, thank you. >>> as we mention, downed power lines could keep millions in the dark long after the storm has p

and friendship to be everywhere. there must be relations between the united states, to allow an exchange of people there are millions of iranian-americans living here. and they are some of the most, amongst one of the most successful immigrant classes to the united states. so the world request no longer be managed through conflict and warfare it can only be managed through friendship and love. and we are quite ready to help. >> rose: mr. president, on behalf of norah o'donnell and me, thank you. finally there is this. the president of the united states barack obama in a speech at the united nations talked about the same issues. >> it's been less than two years since a vendor in tunesia set himself on fire to protest the oppressive corruption in his country. and sparked with what became known as the arab spring. and since then the world has been captivated by the transformation that has taken place. and the united states has supported the forces of change. we have taken these positions because we believe that freedom and self-determination are not unique to one culture. these are not simply american values or western values. they are uni

and of course is the. the entire thing is building up of course against the united states and of course the americans have been trying very very hard to convince folks dunnies that these drone attacks were actually our fault for the betterment of the country and would help the country but i think with this kind of a statement coming from the park from from a senior pakistani minister i think this is totally destroys the position of the u.s. inside box and i think will be i'm sure that the american diplomats at the u.s. embassy here in islam are increasingly applying pressure on washington on their counterparts in specially on people in cia but if you want to but if you're going about sort of pressure on washington it doesn't seem to have been working on for years now these new statistics that have come out from the pakistani government are indeed as you say very disturbing but what can do to make america listen. well it can do three very important things to media actions number one is to withdraw the the you the permission for the use of box on your space that's number one and number two if it's really th

and what. the whole problem around we can rig says is this. american military found so little is so strangely united states back. in europe today and his problems are here and many people most of the people who we who we see outside i'll say the same to see the they think that he's being punished they try to punish him for doing what he thinks is right spreading information blowing the whistle so this is not right this is happening in europe this is inside your jurisdiction as it is it is happening but i don't know think you know that this issues of him. being extradited to sweden and charges that are against him is something that there is in any way connected to the punishment in relation to the work he's doing i know maybe this is a you know a very direct approach to this but in my view i do not think he is under any you know threat in relation to talk to his life or anything. if he goes to sweden and face the judiciary that is known as one of the most independent in the world thank you thank you very much for being with us and just to remind you that my guest today was today and we have i will se

united states and afghanistan soldiers this weekend is undermining hopes of helping tensions between the allies. it started at a checkpoint after a mortar wept off. a united states soldier and american civilian were killed. officials are calling for calm. . >> the city of oak creek wisconsin finding strength in the aftermath of last month's deadly shooting at a temple. at oak creek high school this weekend students and temple members turned out to plant a garden filled with flowers as a gesture of unity. the garden will represent strength and diversity. >> it's really the life that comes, the rebirth of something great after something tragic. >> reporter: the community held a dinner last flight to raise money for those who are recovering for the families who lost loved ones. six were killed in that shooting. three were injured. the gunman then killed himself. >> in election 2012 news, all eyes on denver as romney and the president get ready for their first debate on wednesday night. romney insiders say the debate is important for the republican nominee who has had a rough few weeks on the trail. two former candidates predict romney will do well. >> reporter: the clock is ticking dow

mid atlantic region bracing, monster of unprecedented size and scope, transportation brought to a standstill, united, delta, american, jetblue and us airways have shutdown east coast operations which will have a ripple affect across the nation. >> when our flight cancellations in major hubs, that affects travelers all over the country. >> reporter: amtrak cancelled service along the east coast in new york city are where the biggest fear is the storm surge, all subway and bus transportation suspended, hundreds of thousands of new yorkers ordered to evacuate from low-lying areas. >> if you don't evacuate you are not just putting your own life in danger, you are also engagering the lies of our first responders who may have to rescue -- the lives of our first responders who may have to rescue you. >> reporter: regulators worried about integrity of markets. red cross mobilizing, heading east. >> no tell wag is going to happen. it could be quite -- no telling what is going to happen. it could be a lot of devastation, a lot of flooding. >> no sense of stocking refrigerators if the power guess out, best with reality. >> wha

and northwestern united states. d.c. has united and us airways. philly has us airways. jetblue, delta, americanunited, they all have hubs in new jersey. in the case of delta, they have both laguardia and jfk. talking with the folks at flight operations, their concern is laguardia. because if that water comes up and starts to flood the terminal, how quickly are they able to reopen? nobody knows until they can get in there tomorrow and the afternoon to see what the situation is. >> phil, we've got to leave it there. a lot of passengers stranded not just on this side but people trying to get back to the united states as well. thank you, phil. >>> two of the best minds in the state of connecticut, herb greenberg and peter schiff. they're getting hit by hurricane sandy now but they are not afraid to come on "street signs." we're going to talk to them just ahead. [ male announcer ] do you have the legal protection you need? at legalzoom, we've created a better place to turn for your legal matters. maybe you want to incorporate a business you'd like to start. or protect your family with a will or livi

bracing for sandy slow moving monster of unprecedented size and scope, storm has brought transportation to a standstill, united, delta, american, jetblue and us air ways have all shutdown east coast operations. >> when our flight cancellations in major hub cities, that affects travelers all over the country. >> reporter: amtrak as well as -- has cancelled service east coast in new york city the biggest fear is the storm surge all subway and bus transportation suspended hundreds of thousands of new yorkers have been ordered to evacuate from low-lying areas. >> if you don't evacuate you are not just putting your own life in danger, you are endangering the lives of our first responders who may have to rescue you. >> reporter: stock markets in new york closed monday, possibly tuesday regulators worry about the integrity of markets. red cross workers mobilizing across the country, heading east. >> no telling what is going to happen, it could be quite a bit of devastation, a lot of flooding. >> two freezer full of food now. >> no sense stocking refrigerators if the power guess out. best to stick with reality ii >> what -- can you do

in 2000. >> reporter: cuba and the united states have shared a tense political and economic history for more than a century. after spain lost the island in the spanish american war in 1898. the u.s. became the dominant power and not a -- >> the farmers created a landless work force that would have to work for basically starvation wages in the u.s. owned plantations. >> reporter: peter ross has traveled to russia for a nonprofit think thank. he says decades long discontent led to insurgency by workers under the leadership of castro. socialist rebels decided it was time for u.s. domination to end. >> and the soviet union was there with tremendous offers of aids and over things. it was natural this thing would move forward closer corporations with the soviet union and the united states. >> mr. castro declared cuba a communist republic. president kennedy approved a u.s. sponsored force of cuban exiles to overthrow castro at the fateful bay of pigs. castro surveyed the scene of american sponsored defeat. less than two years later the world almost went to war over cuba. >> unmistakable evidence shows that a number of missile sites is now in preparation on that inp

and deceit in benghazi. from washington, d.c., here is bret baier. >> it looked like this election was all about the economy, but that changed when terrorists murdered four americans at the united states consulate in benghazi on the anniversary of 9/11. americans had questions. who did this and how? should our government have seen it coming? did president obama tried to hide the truth? is this a huge scandal that exposes a failed obama foreign policy? is mitt romney just saying it is. tonight we'll try to give you answers. we'll walk you step by step through the terror of that day and break down the political maneuvering that has followed. we begin with a series of frightening developments and troubling decisions leading up to that horrific night. it's a story you haven't heard. it's told by a man who tried to prevent what happened on september 11th, 2012. >> did you have a close relationship with the ambassador? >> i lived and worked with him for two months when he came on to the time i left, yeah. >> bret: no one understands more the full extent the fiasco that killed stevens. he worked with him for six months before his violent death. 24-year special forces veteran, woods' j

internet access being a huge part of that, and just overall technology, knowledge between white americans and black and latino americans. >> the gap is in the united>> the gap is very real, yes. 50% of african-americans have broadband access right now. 65% of white americans have it. when you start talking about lower income communities, under served communities that, 50% number drops dramatically. almost by half. >> what are the things we can do to close that gap between those that have and those that don't? >> looking at where we are. there is a high level of engagement on smart phones for african-americans, and i think that's why wr we need to take a look at the resources available to really grow a business or compete effecttively from a career standpoint with your actual smartphone, and there are -- >> blik blackberries, iphone. >> android. really want one of those. those are the ways in which you can -- in terms of technology start to take a look at where the value is in those outside of tweeting and liking, you know, if you are looking at facebook. if you have a small business, you can essentially run your business from a smartphone. it's an

national sovereignty and our individual health are being ruined by transnational corporate capitalism is devouring the last remaining bits of the american middle class and turning the united states into the most rapidly undeveloped nation that's ever existed in american citizens are having their property taken from them to boost the profits of a foreign corporation and it's clear that our democratic institutions have failed it's clear that the corporatocracy is now making way too many of the decisions tell everyone you know about the theft of eleanor fairchild's ranch land because if this is allowed to continue and it could be your home your property and your livelihood that's stolen next that's the way it is tonight on the big picture tuesday october twenty third two thousand and twelve and a special reminder coming up shortly on our team will go live to chicago for the third party presidential debate moderated by larry king debating tonight our virgil goode candidate from the constitution party joel stein candidate from the green party. candidate from the libertarian party and rocky anderson came in from the justice party and before the debate starts tom hartman will be

and out. what he should make sure the egyptians should know about us is the reason muslims can worship in the united states in a freeway, with the broad support of the vast majority of the american people and the reason jews can do the same thing, and the reason we have the highest percentage of church-going attendance of any predominantly christian nation in the world, and the reason we welcome buddhists and hindus and bahaies and people of all other faiths is that our government is separated from the practice of faith but protects the right of everyone to practice, to talk about it, to not believe, and to say whatever they want. and that it works for us, and it's made us an extraordinarily, religiously observant country. so we weren't disrespecting islam by not squelching a film trailer that nobody in authority knew anything about, that 99% of us think was crude and disrespectful and awful, but that we have learned the hard way over more than 200 years, that in order to preserve freedom and liberty, including the freedom of religion, you have to allow people to say and do things that you find abhor ant. and you can't react every time you are insulted. i means that's the first

the executive branch the war making and war funding powers clearly granted to them by the united states constitution. >> the invasion of cambodia to us at the americanolitical landscape on fire. a revitalized the anti-were movement, and set the motion, demonstrations all across the united states on college campuses, and culminated in the tragic shootings at kent state university on may 4, 1970. >> the four who died here, the nine who were wounded here, the many who faced a grand jury -- they did more for their countries than all the nixons and the agnews and the reagans to possibly do. >> remember, this was sheer tragedy and lessons. the national guardsmen who were sent to maintain order in kent state, roughly the same age, in fact, a number of them from kent state. one could forecast when nixon extended the war into cambodia that this would happen. >> this tells me that this is part of an old story. >> howard zinn. >> it is really not a surprise that the united states government would turn on its own people. the history of the labor movement is a history of a government forces -- policeman, sheriff, army -- clothing, killing, disabling people who a

15 years, spending a lot of time focusing on issues that affect us and are related to the african-american experience, here in the united states. i had heard of marcus shelby and had been in join his work but never had the opportunity to meet him. we were brought together by the equal justice society specifically for this project. we were charged with beginning work. marquez and i spent a lot of time addressing our own position on the death penalty, our experiences with people who had been incarcerated, family members, friends of friends. pulling our information. beyond that, we did our own research. to create a picture that resonated with humanity. it is the shape of a house. in this context, it is also small and acts like a cell. i thought that was an interesting play on how these people make these adjustments, half to create home. what is home for these people? the home is their cell. people talk a lot about noise -- very noisy in prisons. that is interesting to me. looking at the communication level, the rise of frustration of being caged, wondering, where does redemption fit into the equation here? [singing] i thin

and this is a fascinating story. we're talking about rajat gupta, who immigrated many years ago to the united states and has been living the american dream. he reached the pinnacle of the u.s. corporate world. he was the chief executive of the consulting group mckinsey, he was on the board of directors of goldman sachs at proctor and gamble but in june of this year, that dream turned into an american nightmare for mr. gupta. he faces a judge for sentencing and possibly eight to 10 years in prison. in june he was basically found guilty of passing along company secrets, secrets that he obtained or gathered when he was on the board of goldman sachs. he passed that information to mr. raja rajaratnam, we use that information to perform on the stock market. mr. rajaratnam is serving an 11- ye there were very prominent people who wrote in, like bill gates, the head of microsoft, kofi annan, former secretary- general of the u.n., and their letters were "let me give you a sense of the sky beyond his business career and talk about his humanitarianism." there was another group of letters from family and friends that talked about what a terrif

cannot deny it and that's what i'm trying to suggest and if you would have to understand that because american i believe if you were is john just in the united states and you understand that george can i go to back to you i mean there's absolutely all that you know go ahead george jump in yes you're absolutely correct this was striking that bob schieffer who's a distinguished media talking head takes it as axiomatic that the only issue on the middle east that is salient is iran and therefore is iran going to have nuclear weapons or what's going on in syria there's absolutely no mention of the largest source of instability in the middle east which is the conflict between the israelis and the palestinians and so therefore the. discussion of the. situation in iran no mention of the palestinians none it's like they don't even exist chad you want to jump in there but there was plenty of discussion about syria and syria and you know you had a not only with me. you know when i can speak you had a ninety minute debate you had a candidate mitt romney keep he kept drifting into his his silly economic policy when he couldn't say anything about foreign

and make statements we should know what we're talking about. >> i got to go. >> in this sense of this, we should be united -- we should be united protecting americans and going after the terrorists and really supporting libya in their historic movement towards democracy. >> house members caroline maloney of new york and jason chaffetz of utah. i appreciate it truly. you can see complete coverage of the second presidential debate, not this one but the second presidential debate on cnbc beginning with t"the kudlow report." you can see this one all over again, too, go to cnbc.com. you guys did great. appreciate you doing this. >>> ready for a startling stat? for every dollar the government spends, it spends two more dollars on every entitlements? what's being done to top this nation of takers? two years ago, the people of bp made a commitment to the gulf. bp has paid over twenty-three billion dollars to help those affected and to cover cleanup costs. today, the beaches and gulf are open, and many areas are reporting their best tourism seasons in years. and bp's also committed to america. we support nearly 250,000 jobs and invest more here than anywhere else. we

united states. on the other hand, a safe online pharmacy will require a prescription from your doctor or other health care professionals and will be located and licensed in the united states. we want the american people to know the risks, to know the signs and to know their online pharmacy before they buy, and be safe rx will really help we hope with all three. my closing comment is for my fellow physicians. health professionals can play a very important role in making sure their patients are not purchasing unsafe medicines online. if the medicine doesn't seem to be having the desired effect, ask your patient what he or she actually obtained the prescription. and when you talk to your patient, take a few minutes to warn them about potential dangers of purchasing medicines over the internet. in the age of the internet, advice about online pharmacy and the availability of be safe rx should be part of the conversation that doctors and other health professionals have with their patients. th

american people like to believe that their leadership, and certainly the president of the united statescan companies, respect the workers in these companies, and who are looking out for the best outcomes for workers who get up every day and go to work and work hard. they want them to have a decent wage. they want them to have pensions. they want them to have benefits. this is what romney is not about. this is a man whose company bought companies in china where they paid people $0.24 an hour. this is a company who shipped jobs off shores. what adds insult to injuries, while americans are working hard and dealing with our financial institution, he actually took his money offshore and put them in banks to avoid paying taxes? if that's something that the american people should know about, then i don't know what is is. >> michael: well, congresswoman waters you should write that down and fax it to your president. i appreciate your time, congressman maxine waters from california always a pleasure to talk to you. >> thank you. >> michael: issues that women care about it affects half of the chi

. >>> it was already a tense relationship between japan and the united states, and now it's been strained once more after two american service men were arrested for raping a woman on okinawa. both men attacked the japanese woman sometime tuesday morning. complaints have been lodged with the united states government and military. they are demanding the united states take better preventive measures. the u.s. ambassador to japan says the u.s. military is committed to cooperating fully with the japanese investigation. >>> turning our attention to the race for the white house, mitt romney and president obama will both campaign in new york today. yesterday the candidates focused on women. >> mitt romney told supporters in virginia that women have been particularly hit hard by this economy. president obama told his supporters he doesn't need a binder full of resumes to find qualified women for his staff. tara mergener have more. >> reporter: they will be sporting black coats and white ties at a charity dinner in new york tonight. it's a chance for the candidateses to have fun and tell bad jokes like this one from president