. >> sandy's wrath is extending into west virgina.e you seen the snow that got dumped on west virgina. look at this scene. blizzard conditions there. up to three feet of snow in some parts of the state. we're live there on the ground now. we're going to tell you what is going on. bill: while we continue to deal with that storm damage we can not forget this. you're six days away from an election, america. new polling numbers sew tight races in several key swing states he said. we have got the numbers. you will see them first here in a moment. [ male announcer ] when was the last time something made your jaw drop? campbell's has 24 new soups that will make it drop over, and over again. ♪ from jammin' jerk chicken, to creamy gouda bisque. see what's new from campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. martha: we are back. that superstorm is now backing blizzard conditions across west virgina. this is just, you know, it is like practically a biblical proportion situation. we look at all the different ways it manifested itself. you have par

high winds spin off the edge of sandy and create blizzard-like conditions across virginia and west virgina. also pennsylvania. janice dean live in the fox weather center with more for us now. >> if you believe it we might have a storm impacting the same region into next week that could just cause more problems and people are trying to clean up. we'll keep up to date on the very latest. it looks like we'll have a storm developing. of course it will not have the same impact as this one but a possible coastal event that will move into the impacted areas early next week. we'll keep you posted. we're still not down with what was hurricane sandy. it is now an extra tropical low but it is far-reaching. the canopy, the cloud canopy stretches as far up as the arctic circle. we're still seeing rotation and tropical moisture streaming into portions of new england. just, incredible that we're still talking about this storm system. and the snow that is flying, over two feet in some areas. so, still a lot of wind and rain and snow to talk about throughout the next 24 to 36 hours. snow totals. can you be

parts of west virgina are digging out of three feet of snow.right from fox news channel is in elkins, west virgina, with latest on that. kelly. >> melissa, good afternoon to you. i just spoke to the mayor or we did, was telling us he is concerned about the water treatment treatment facility. because it flows out into the entire randolph county area. he is concerned about power being out, how might impact that. look at damage here. that is a downed tree. we're in the middle of the city park. there are scores of downed trees like that throughout the area. heavy wet snow has been on the trees. as a result, power lines have come down. trees have come down. everyone has to be careful. there are 14,000 people in randolph county without power alone. some 216,000 people in this region without power. they have to fly helicopters to see what is going on with the transformers and downed lines. the governor is trying to get that done. everything is in the interest of safety because of higher elevations having so much snow. so they're bracing for what is ye

jon: right now snow is falling in the mountains of west virgina. this is beckley, west virginia. it is my understanding this is near the greenbrier resort, well-known resort there in the mountains that has drawn a lot of tourists over the years. this is from the wchs tv-8 towercam. it is creating a travel nightmare up and down the east coast. huge national and international flight delays as a result of airport closures, all kinds of problems in, in airports across the northeast. new york city's century-old subway system shut down because the worst of the disaster, it has, really worst disaster the system has ever been through. the airports in the northeast no better off. thousands of flights have been canceled. and, weary passengers are left trying to find other options. listen. >> pittsburgh, rent a car take it from there. we're about three or four hours from pittsburgh. hopefully we got a car rented there. if we get to pittsburgh, that much closer to home. jon: you might have heard from mayor bloomberg the new york city airports are not expected to reopen at least until tomorro

that is why esidential candidates are careful had in appalachia, ohio, virginia, west virgina to be carefuls why folks have wwr on coal signs in front yard. you see them all over the place. they are scare what is coming. these guys are stepping carefully, these are real people, real voters with real concerns. melissa: that is big issue. thanks for coming on the show. >>> they say sports and politics don't mix. one mitt romney suppter learned the lesson the hard way duringiants-reds baseball game. details coming up next. you can never have too much money. we'll be right back > melissa: it is timfor a little fun with spare change. we are joined with julie baginski and our own dennis kneale. thank you for coming on, guys. first up, this is the start of the giant game last night. it was delayed because the fan ii running across the field with the romney-ryan sign. i think they said something about a statement on a woman's right to choose, obviously, got people's attention. we are talking about it. i cat we people do things like this. what do you think? >> you know, any time th for cops brandish

it is producing heavy snow across the state of west virgina and snow has even accumulated into portions of north carolina. we could see blizzard conditions out there throughout the afternoon hours into wednesday morning. so a prolonged period of time that they will be dealing with winter weather. portions of the great lake do have some storm warnings in effect because some wave heights could reach 25 feet by tuesday morning. sandy a very large storm system, spanning almost a 1,000 miles. we're seeing heavy rain falling across portions of maryland. we've been seeing all day across portions of d.c., baltimore into the state of new jersey down into southeast portions of the state of virginia. the wind is picking up and i want to point out the national hurricane center issued a brand new advisory basically saying sandy intensified some more. maximum sustained winds at 90 miles an hour. the pressure dropped indicating that sandy is continuing to intensify. 943 millibars could potentially be the lowest pressure a hurricane ever had this far north. otherwise the center of it, jon, is 260 miles

portions of west virgina under a blizzard warning. we're expecting two to three feet of? factor that with strong winds you're talking about whiteout conditions across portions of the state of west virgina. toward the coast we're dealing with potential flooding across the d.c., baltimore area. the rain stretches into southeastern portions of west virginia. storm surge to could be high as 11 feet across the new york city area. the storm is turning left. now towards the north-northwest at 20 miles an hour. the pressure in the center of the storm is extremely low, 946 millibars. that means basically sandy is continuing to strengthen. maximum wind now 85 miles an hour. could have maximum wind at 90 miles an hour by the tame it makes landfall across central and southern new jersey as we head into this evening and into tonight. by the time it makes landfall, could become not only a hurricane but post-tropical system. don't pay any attention to that. it will have major impacts across new england and northeast and and southeast we will feel tropical storm wind gusts. expected wate

this blue, that is still snow falling heavily in the mountains of west virgina where they will be measuring this in feet. by the way, eastern end, we have showers and thunderstorms across may. how unusual is the storm? feels like the beginning of septembe in maine today, with dewpoint temperatures in the 60s and showers and thunderstorms that will cause locally heavy rain tonight. again, a slow weakening trend as we move northward by tomorrow. tropical storm sandy across western new york. rain and gusty winds. but nothing we've seen like we saw 24 hours ago. things are winding down. the wind will still be a problem the next 24 hours across the midwest. still southeasterly winds, a little piling up of water along the south shore of long island and also across southern new england but thankfully things will get much, much better. but clouds and showers will linger as we go you there the west rest of the week, melissa. melissa: wow! thank you very much. so far superstorm sandy has left massive destruction in her path. we will need to rebuild and that will take power and fuel no matter where yo

look the state of west virgina, in a primary voted 40%, voted for a convict, compared to president obamaar on coal i believe. and you also have virginia and pennsylvania, still involved with coal. so this could be a big issue but there is no doubt epa's war on coal is forcing these utilities to close. every time a utility closes, utility workers aae getting thrown out. there is nowhere to ship the coal because they're not buying it. melissa: okay. i don't know. i hear you. have people on here say natural gas. we have to have both sides. thanks for coming on. we appreciate it. >> thanks. melissa: time for today's energy report where we break down the biggest headlines impacting the industry and their impact on the economy. natural gas prices we were talking about, extending recent gains. coal snap in the midwest is you will tooing rally. natural gas prices are at the highest level since early december last year. 3.52 though. >>>. epa giving green light to natural gas-fired power plant. blich hills corp will move ahead with the construction of $237 million, 132 megawatt facility in cheyenn

you have snow across west virgina, appalachians region.n you've got the winds in excess of 60 miles an hour across the great lakes and high waves, 20 to 30 feet high for this area. so, you know, this is not just a northeast system. this is going to affect the midwest, even up into canada feeling the effects of this system. let's take a look at the wind gusts. as i mentioned feeling wind gusts all the way down toward the south. because we have high pressure here centered across portions of the south and we have sandy, what is left of sandy the pressure gradient between those two will stip keep winds in our forecast for much of the eastern seaboard, ohio river valley, great lakes thursday even into friday. back to you. david: thank you very much, janice dean. liz: if you didn't see it there is video we have the stretch of queens homes that caught fire due to electrical explosions. there it is, 80 plus homes including a u.s. congressman's home were burned down. home prices how will they be effected a if at all? what about the rebuild? home pr

and we're still monitoring west virgina where there are heevy snows in some inaccessible areas., you know for the most part those four states are really bearing the brunt of this incredible storm. what we've been able to do is preposition and stage commodities, water, power generators, ambulances in some cases, food, medical supplies, emergency supplies and we have over 2,000 fema personnel on the ground right now. their job now that we're moving out of the search-and-rescue phase is to make sure that they are going out and talking to individual communities so people exactly know how they can get the help they need. we expedited our emergency declarations for the state of new jersey and local counties that have been affected. what that means is, that people can immediately start registering for emergency assistance. one of the things i want to emphasize to people in new jersey and throughout the region, now that, you know, you're safe, your family is safe, but you're trying to figure out where you're going to stay for the next couple days, et cetera, it's very important that you

lori: in reading certain reports they're flush out of coal in certain parts of west virgina, right? very little quality stuff remaining. you have that with the emission rules. >> yeah. lori: how do you incentivize the facilities to upgrade and continue to produce and put coal on the market? >> that is interesting, back in the 1990s electric industry put a bet on natural gas seeing it would stay low for a long period of time and didn't work out that way and gas spiked. you need fuel diversity, for 24/7, 365 day a world, price will allow demand for coal to pick up. in appalachia we need to see better gas prices. in illinois and wyoming we could see demand pick up as gas prices move higher. melissa: if president obama gets reelected seems that would be terrible for coal. why do you agree not agree with that. >> it is terrible for coal his administration, negatives for coal during the obama administration has been i can baked into the stocks and fundamentals. even if obama does win he can't control the weather. he can't control china stimulus. demand for coal in china. weather picks up,

east and west virgina there is a blizzard warning covering a large part of that state. in parts a foot and even two feet of snow dropping in west virginia. martha: incredible pictures. back here in new york everybody is waking up to the devastation left behind by hurricane sandy. let me tell you something, it is epic. trees and power lines crashed in homes and cars. really everywhere you can look, the county's largest transportation system of subways and trains in the right now. floods have taken over many of the underground systems in new york city and the brooklyn battery tunnel which connects lower manhattan to brooklyn is basically underwater as well. you will see amazing pictures over next couple hours. they're coming in every minute as we speak. this super storm has literally knocked out power to more than 7 million homes and businesses in 17 states. nearly four million dark in in new york and new jersey right now. this storm plunged parts of lower manhattan into complete darkness. it turned the streets near wall street into rivers. basically, from just south of th

that is out of work here that has took money from our home state in kentucky and virginia and west virgina. and i think, you know, that being able to produce our own energy here through the coal, instead of, you know, forcing china to be able to take the jobs over would help us in a lot of ways. >> host: matthew, are you involved in the coal industry? >> caller: pardon? >> host: are you involved in the coal industry? >> caller: yes, sir, i am. i am. >> host: what do you do? >> caller: worked underground coal mining for nine years. >> host: and are you still employed? are you still working? >> caller: knows. >> host: i've been laid off? >> caller: yes, sir. >> host: all right. that was matthew in pikeville, kentucky. thank you for your time this morning. the "huffington post", this is their headline, chief in command it says. and here is "the washington post." obama presses attack in debate on foreign policy in final clash, a cautious romney. the focus of the last of their three debates was supposed to be foreign policy but both romney and obama used their time to talk about the issues most

we'll bring you a debate for candidates to be west virgina's next governor.eastern also on c-span >> a look now at mitt romney's foreign policy speech yesterday and the role that issue is playing in the presidential election from today's "washington journal.". >> host: editor-in-chief at foreign policy. thanks for coming in this morning. >> guest: thanks for having me. >> host: mitt romney made his foreign policy speech yesterday. did you hear anything new? >> guest: this was an important speech for mitt romney. i think the third important foreign policy speech he made of the campaign. people are paying a lot more attention now that we're in days and weeks of the election. so i think it was an important moment for him. really what he is trying to do is what challengers are always trying to do when it comes to foreign policy. he is not outlining how he would run the country, how he would project american power in the world so much as continuing to draw contrasts with barack obama. i'm reminded of that old line. campaigns are all about accentuating small differ