obscure the more frightening fact that terrorism may be back with a vengence and america is woefully unprepared. >> what is wicked about this, bret, the real politicalization there are those that only see it will help us in ohio. it may cause us problems in florida. this could go bad for obama. it's really bad to the united states because this is humiliation for the united states. it's bad for chris stevens and bad for sae9sdz smith and bad for tyrone woods. they are dead. they are gone. >> which brings us back to lieutenant colonel andrew wood who saw the deadly debacle coming. >> bret: i can tell you are emotional about it. the ambassador was killed, first one since 1979. he is your friend. >> it's a huge thing to have a loss like that. i grieve for his loss. i grieve for the loss that we suffer as our nation. it was our job to defend the compound. >> bret: benghazi attacks staggered america. we now have another reason to mourn on 9/11. a new unmistakable warning. islamic terrorists that brutalized our citizens were well armed killers intent on doing us great harm. the brave americans in liby

experts say overly optimistic expectations before the march 11 earthquake last year left many areas unprepared for the larger waves that did hit. several japanese companies are taking steps to avoid damage from that predicted quake. one of those is the major precision equipment maker that plans to relocate its plant to the other side of the country. they have more than 300,000 people could be killed if massive quake were to hit the area. that's the reason he still decided to move the plant over 200 kilometers facing the sea of japan. the company ceo, on thursday, briefed the governor and the mayor on his relocation plan. >> translator: there's earth kwa quakes and the city is blessed with social resources. >> he added it could be difficult for the factory to keep producing medical equipment if it remained. >>> people in japan are focused on overcoming the disaster of 2011. they have to rebuild homes and communities. we'll show you their struggles and successes every wednesday at 1:00 p.m. >>> germans are on a mission to make their country neuuclear fr. they lead the world in solar power genera

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he seemed unprepared. in people say he seemed like he's bored. he's weary with the job. he's tired. he was sullen. he didn't feel like he wanted to be there. he doesn't like the debate. all of these thing, i think, played into it. but i think the president has to realize that this is the worst debate performance, just about i have ever seen. >> greta: he's very fortunate in that today, sort of change the narrative, to the jobs numbers. that in fact twent down to 7.8%. people are talking about that. that has moved the discussion a little off his debate performance and more on the discussion of the jobs. >> things do move o. but 7.8% is exact rate barack obama inherited. right? he says, i inherited the worst situation since the great depression. every month since he has been in office, unemployment has been higher than the worst situation since the great depression. in other words, we are right back where he started from. and every month has been worse. how do you say you had a successful economy when the whole time of your administration has been worse than george bush's? i mean, 7.8

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i think people can spot unprepared. i don't think you have to be deeply conversant foreign policy scholar to spot someone who as "the new york times" said appears to have crammed the night before. i thought romney came across as someone who doesn't know a lot about foreign policy but sort of reciting the words, i thought that physically the sweating and just the whole demeanor of him pleading almost with the moderator to give him more time made him seem like a person unprepared to be president. and i think that the social media response to him was sort of to mock him. i'm not sure that's -- that lend itself to seeming presidential. >> look, i just want to say joy, i wish you were right and i don't think the social media twitter responses is indicative of average american. i think -- i truly wish you were right because i think you're dead on. but the second debate was such a clear obama victory and didn't seem to move the polls at all in the president's favor. that's what scares the living daylight out of me. >> that's p

what happened last year in fukushima, revealed they were unpreparred to cope with catastrophe. it would require, utilities meet the new safety standard before they can restart plants that are currently offline. nro officials met thursday with five experts who are reviewing their current guidelines. the discussion focused on meeting international standard. an outlean ine of the plan will announced as early as january. new standard are expected to be completed by july. >>> and the head of the u.s. nuclear regulatory commission says, she is concerned about a possible decline in the number of nuclear engineers. allison mcfarland spoke at a public meeting in washington. >> you are not probably going to see a lot of young people, become nuclear engineers. and, so, this is a concern not only to the nuclear industry but to the regulators because you want to make sure that you have adequate staff to ensure that these facilities operate safely. >>> mcfarland said japan's nuclear regulation authority will be better than its predecessor because it is more independent. >> two women from dif

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let's take a worse case scenario, if you had a category 1 storm hit the east coast we're completely unprepared for it, first of all. gasoline prices are too high, even though they've come down recently they're too high and we don't have any slack in this enomy so this thing would be kicking our compli eco hat a time we're not circling the drain, but on the edge of the toilet. i don't think that consumers can afford the increase in the gasoline prices, nor can they afford the economic hit that they would take in that region, rebuildingt a time, again, where things are difficult in the first place. >> gary b, are you worried. >> i am not. jim had it right and then talking until he had it wrong. the east coast area that might be hit by the hurricane has about 6% of the refining capacity, that will put a little dent, sure, a spike in prices, but i think what jim was talking about, we've been through this before. multiple times, hurricane katrina, hugo, et cetera, et cetera. the snow-ma geddon to hit the east coast, each time people thought this is it. they spike for a little bit. 24, 48 hours and

. >> i think they were unprepared for what was about to happen and they sort of left obama without thees that he probably had prepared. also, i reread the transcript yesterday. and i actually thought on paper obama looks a little better. there is one section which is worse. which was the closing argument, the two minute closing argument which is just terrible, just really bad 2 minutes, for a closing argument, that is something you can script and really think about. and they really got to have a concise argument, here's what by am going to do in the fix hour years. here is why you need me. when you look at the romney closing arguments t is very contrast, he will do this, i will do that, the obama thing was just a muddle. >> but if he didn't do what he needed to do before 60 or 70 million people, mark, can he make up that ground? i mean you got the vice presidential debate coming up next week. how does he make up for what he-- missed opportunity. >> well, staircase humor in the debate he has to say, did -- he should have said, and mitt romney, are you right, he not appearing before 60 o

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> > they do bill, because they walk in unprepared. they may have a product, they may have an idea, but they haven't yet gotten the patent. they don't have a business plan. they don't know who their competitors are. they don't know who their target market is. > > do they sometimes make big promises - "oh, it's going to be a billion-dollar seller." > > yes. in fact i had one game app developer come to see me who didn't have a patent on his product, he had outsourced the work to the ukraine and to pakistan, so he hadn't done any of the work in the united states. he had done things that would disqualify him for the angel tax credit in illinois, where i would be investing. and in his mind, none of that mattered because he was sure that facebook or yahoo would buy his company for a billion dollars. > > so tell me janet, what do you do to present your strengths? what do they have to have in place? > > well, i think the first thing is, when people walk in the door, they should id themselves, because they're strangers to me. i don't know where

optimistic expectations of a smaller tsunami before the march 11th earthquake last year left many areas unprepared for the larger waves that actually did hit. >>> meanwhile, several japanese companies are taking steps to avoid damage from that predicted nankai trough quake. one of those is a major precision equipment maker that plans to relocate from the pacific coast to the other side of the country. tokyo's nikki sew company makes medical equipment and aircraft parts at its factory in the central prefecture right on the threatened coastline. the japanese government estimated in august that more than 300,000 people could be killed if a massive nankai quake and tsunami were to hit the area. that's the reason nikiso has decided to move their plant over 300 kilometers to the east, to kazaa wa prefecture. facing the sea of japan. the company's ceo on thursday briefed both the governor and the mayor on his relocation plan. >> translator: kanazawa seldom has earthquake, and the city is blessed with a good social infrastructure and human resources. >> kai added that it would be difficult for the factory

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judging by the shorts and long lines of people not carrying chains that we saw today, just how unprepared the chp says some sierra travelers were. >> it's early, and it's a lot. >> reporter: so much snow fell all day, we witnessed car after car stuck or spun out in the snow. at times traffic was at a stand still due to accidents. highway 20 was even closed due to the conditions. >> we did a whole complete 360 on the freeway. >> reporter: so much snow had already fallen before noon, that here at blue canyon, it weighted down tree branchs so much so that they obscure highway road signs. did you expect this? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: what were you expecting? >> 2 or 3 inches. >> reporter: and then we came upon this. the chp says the driver was going too fast and plunged down a bank. the driver was lucky to simply walk away. >> pretty amazing didn't land on a tree, nothing pierced a truck. the driver walked away with no injuries. >> that is amazing. >> it is so difficult to drive in the snow if you don't have your chains and you're not prepared. >> we could see more. let's check in with

the monitor, robert warshaw, says police were understaffed and unprepared to confront protestors who tried to reoccupy a camp at city hall. warshaw says he will watch carefully to see whether the department makes reforms that were recommended in an earlier report issued in june. >>> now the first check of traffic. >> lawrence karnow is out enjoying his daughter's birthday. >> we're beginning a cooling trend starting at a as they mentioned so temperatures out the door you will even notice that right now, yesterday at this time we were seeing some mid-60s. that's not the case at all right now. check that out. 60 is one of your highs in oakland. otherwise only 58 degrees in san francisco. 57 in the south bay if you are coming into san jose. so here's your satellite and radar what's going on. we're watching this low off the coast bringing the sea breeze our way so much cooler weather and cooler still for the weekend. these are your afternoon highs. not any 90s. no 100s. so we are going to see mostly 70s and 80s inland. mid-60s around the coast and bay. coming up we'll show you a look at

the obama campaign says romney is unprepared to be commander in chief. >>> much more relaxing to that race for the white house, it was smooth sailing for one of the biggest weekends here in bay area history. more than a million visitors spending their weekend in the city where there was no shortage of a lot of things to do. we had the blue angels up in the sky. on the land the giants and 49ers. castro street fair along with the strictly bluegrass festival. a lot of people taking advice about not driving into san francisco. b.a.r.t. setting a new ridership record this weekend. mass transit in many different cities simple low packed. >> it's crazy is what it is but, gosh, this is what san francisco is all about. it's great weather, beautiful fall day, lots of people, lots of great energy, lots of fun. >> it was lots of fun unless you were giants fans. in addition to fleet week, the america's cup bringing thousands right to the city's waterfront. >>> yeah, it is do or die for the bay area's baseball teams. tomorrow the giants will take the field in cincinnati knowing it could be their fi

, determined to be unprepared, and four americans including an ambassador died. so they went into panic mode. who do we blame? oh, that video. alisyn: let's talk about the bigger issue you just touched on when you say we were decidedly unprepared. we now know from the testimony we've been listening to in the past couple hours that the security guys on the ground were asking for more security. they didn't think they should be sent home. they were going to be sent home in august, and they told the state department, actually, the situation here is getting worse. there are more targeted attacks, in fact, there's a threat against chris stevens on facebook saying that they're going to get him when he goes out for one of his morning runs. why would the state department -- well, let's listen. let me actually play for you the question in case -- >> sure. >> ms. lamb, yesterday you told us in testimony that you received from mr. nordstrom a recommendation but not a request for more security, and you admitted that, in fact, you had previously said that if he submitted a req

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us secretary of state the united states every manipulated cynically manipulated and used forces unprepared when the same forces follow their own political or religious agenda the right seems to have no option but rather stuck with. its debts the tax the the financial. ambassador will join the ranks thank you owed it to us how it was to be thought so us this hour and this was caught. robert nyman policy director of the in a pan think tank jast foreign policy thanks pakistan is sending a sick and tired message to the us independent reports say that the only two percent of the destined drone strikes since two thousand for the top level terrorist leaders so that's not the actual policy narrowly targeted. terrorist either so the the alternative to a policy that cavalierly kill civilians is to not have a policy that cavalierly kill civilians the pakistani government in this now is putting real pressure on the us by giving the international media something to a point on in terms of their claims about civilian deaths and weighing in on the side of the n.g.o.s and then a researcher's if the top sau

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secretary of state the united states every manipulated cynically manipulated and used forces unprepared when the same forces follow their own political or religious agenda the right seems to have no option but to either stop the spread. tuck's. was telling. was hard to listen. to somebody was didn't want. and according to off mic or a she from the puck nationalist forum of pakistan's first political lobbying group there he says that what engines responsible for responsible for both the deadly drone strikes and that surely the militants targeting. this is a major blow. to diplomacy and position in pakistan in this is the first time that a senior official actually come out to say this make this kind of a statement that the majority are civilians were killed by cia drones there is no evidence that the drones have actually helped buckstone control the militants on the contrary pakistan has been very much very successful lives and military in flushing out terrorist from the northern region of so wide back in two thousand and nine and clearing and cleaning up that entire area and if now we se

secretary of state the united states every manipulated cynically manipulated and used forces unprepared when the same forces follow their own political or religious agenda the right seems to have no option but to overstep the weak steps in the sentence from the attacks the financial aid was doing the right things considered the was was substantive hope was to be far too was this is our god this was the stuff was caught. robert naiman policy director of the in a panel think tank just foreign policy thinks pakistan is sending a sick and tired message to the us. independent reports say that the only two percent of the destined drone strikes since two thousand and four the entire global terrorist leaders show that's not the actual policy that nearly john . kerry receives so that the alternative to a policy that cavalierly kill civilians is to not have a policy the cavalry kill signal the pakistani government is pretty low pressure on the us by giving the international media something to report on in terms of their claims about civilian deaths and weighing in on the side of the n.g.o.s and b

catherine sullivan lived in the rockway ways her entire life but was unprepared for what she saw today. >> so many people have lost their homes now, fire, it's just burning and it's very upsetting for all of us. so if anybody's out there to be thinking of us, say your prayers for us, that's what you can do. >> reporter: many in this community lost family members in 9/11. more died next door in bell harbor a few months later when american flight 587 crashed. but even with this latest tragedy, many told us they are not leaving. they will rebuild. >> the whole family lost everything. but i don't know, we'll figure it out. >> reporter: will you rebuild here? >> we have to. there's nowhere else to go. >> reporter: this is the only road leading in or out of breezy point and many residents after surveying the damage are going someplace, someplace now. we walked with a lot of them and as they passed a neighborhood they'd ask "how are you? what can i do for you?" and they lost everything. you hear that term "strong sense of community" in a lot of places scott, but here you get sense they really

us secretary of state the united states henry manipulated cynically manipulated and used forces unprepared when the same forces follow their own political or religious agenda the us seems to have the option to god to stop the leak except it's to scrap the tax the financial aid to the us the point i think the us was a choice was absent the price to the us was so was the was caught. robert naiman policy director of the in a panel think tank just foreign policy things pakistan is standing a sick and tired message to the us. independent reports say that the only two percent of the destined drone strikes since two thousand and four in top level terrorist leader so that's not the actual policy he narrowly targeted. terrorists here so that the alternative to a policy that cavalierly kill civilians is to not have a policy to cavalierly kill civilians the baucus time governments now is putting real pressure on the us by giving the international media something to a point on in terms of their claims about civilian deaths and weighing in on the side of the n.g.o.s and then a researcher's if the pakis

hate the united states i mean manipulated cynically manipulated and used forces unprepared when the same forces follow their own political or religious agenda. and i still have for you here on r.t. that of of the two main us presidential candidates obama and romney bracing for their last duel though pushing other challenges to the margins all of that having a. homeland security now has robot tunas seriously robot fish the drones in the sky spying on you just weren't going to enough effect they've revealed that they're going to be using robotic hummingbirds soon who how cute these things can only see you though above the water now during the one percent or less of your life that you spend swimming homeland security will be keeping you safe since nine eleven we've heard ad nauseum that we need to be kept safe so americans have given up their rights but have things gotten that much safer honestly has any of the stuff are shared in some sort of peaceful utopia no it hasn't the best terrorism prevention would be to not bomb secular regimes in other countries like libya some fanatical wackos c

they responded to occupied threats last october and in that case they were understaffed and unprepared for the demonstration. they have made progress in implementing those reforms and later today attorneys are asking for a federal take over of the defendant. >>> mitt romney delivered a solid performance in his first case against president barack obama. >> i use that term with all respect. >> coming up, we will go live to our washington d.c. bureau and we will look at the poll results showing who won the debate and one comment that is ruffling if he is they ares. -- feathers. >>> he recently shared childhood photographs and he was killed on september 11th when protesters attacked benghazi. they have invited dignitaries to share their memories. >>> the blue angels are invited up in the skies for a practice run before this weekend's big fleet we can show. chopper 2 was there when this flying team arrived in the pay area tuesday. go from 12-4 and there is a meet and greet which starts at 7:15. you can get more information about the blue angels schedule and see the many festivities this wee