fast forward about 300 years, and today it's known as witch city. e small business community has turned an ugly history into a commercial feeding frenzy. >> kind of a rule in salem is if there's a witch on it, you can sell it. >> i definitely think there are major reason of why people come here. >> look closely. you'll see witches everywhere. they haunt the streets, the police cars, the fire department, the newspaper, the high school band, and just about every street corner. >> witches are great business. we turn a buck for this city every chance we get. and for ourselves. this is all about being successful. >> october is salem's busy season. and the merchants are gearing up to earn a hefty percentage of their revenue selling halloween fun. >> halloween is big business. over $5 billion is spent nationwide on halloween. and a good part of that is spent here in salem. in one month we do what other places do at christmas. ♪ >> tourism event promoter christian day is a modern-day wiccan or witch. he, too, is a part of salem's multimillion dollar hallowee

witch's brew. that is a mixture for a cancer in the city. >> senate democrats reportedly now trying to break up the president's bill in the hopes of getting it through congress piece by piece. the obama administration is now stepping up its pressure on iran in the wake of the country's alleged plot to assassinate saudi arabia's ambassador to the u.s. officials say the foiled plan may have violated a united nations treaty protecting diplomats and could escalate the case to an international court. white house press secretary, jay carney pledged that the u.s. will increase efforts to isolate iran. >> in this arena, we take no options off the table. but in dealing with iran, we are clearly focused on working through economic measures, sanctions, as well as diplomatic measures to isolate iran. and we've had, we think, substantial success doing that. >> speaking in washington yesterday, secretary of state hillary clinton urged other nations to join the u.s. in condemning iran's threat to international security. secretary clinton also made a point of noting that iran had agreed to the u.n. treaty. >> this

witches are attacking civilian homes as they try to take the cities at any cost one eyewitness who was in the money while the days go says revolutionary forces don't care about the safety of civilians while in syria the red cross warns of a humanitarian disaster as the town runs out of medical supplies and food and water . and up next on the kaiser report more bad news for the euro zone max and stacey tell us that for one hundred of the last two hundred years greece has been in or at the point of default find out more next here on our to. max kaiser this is the kaiser report as the world continues to employ financially stacie max cries or bailout saying currency wars are the two big beings for two thousand and eleven right here on kaiser report right that's right well the first headline then is just a number fifty point six yes this is an image from bloomberg dot com but it's referring to the number of years in percentage terms since eighteen hundred greece has been in default or rescheduling its debts and this is based on research from economist ken rogoff and carmen reinhart so fifty

witch's broom. that's a mixture for cancer in a city. >> a reference by vice president biden to the fact that the senates plan and they are going to break it up into parts and try to pass it piece by piece. no accident that the vice president was in michigan. the president is going to detroit tomorrow. he's going to bring a wingman, the president of south korea. >> all right. thank you very much. >>> new government estimates show home heating prices are going to be going up for most americans this winter. the department of energy is talking about exactly that now that bills could climb over $200 over last year. the average household will spend around $2,500 on heating oil. banks are moving more quickly to move homes into the foreclosure process. realty track reporting 14% increasing in first time default notices. the problem is it's taking even longer for those homes to be sold or repossessed. for that very reason, many banks are opting to tear down foreclosed homes and donate the land to local governments. that way they don't have to pay for the upkeep or the taxes. >>> high-tech jobs are going to be t

witch's brew that. is a mixture for cancer in the city. >> into this argument steps the billionaire warren buffett urging congress to raise his taxes and disclosing in the process how much he paid last year. less than $7 million to uncle sam on a taxable next of nearly $40 million. a 17.4% tax rate. to put his rate in perspective, a person making $75,000 pays the same rate. what happened to the capital gains tax rate? >> actually 28 to 20 from 20 to 15 by a president and one in 03. >> so while capital gains taxes go down, median income also goes down, leaving the richest 15,000 americans getting 6% of the wealth. nbc's luke russert is here for us. the republicans are presenting their jobs plan and the president said he is willing to consider a solution so give us the scoop. what is their solution? >> we heard for months now about a house gop jobs plan. about an hour ago, senator john mccain and rand paul did just that. it's a plan that we saw in the house. first and foremost, it's to repeal by the president's health care and the repeal of the bill. on top of that, you would also have a deregulation speci

witch's brew. that is a mixture for cancer in a city. >> i mean, that's the way to handle it. wouldn't you expect this from our president? the latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll showing president obama is struggling to connect with voters. according to the poll 51% of americans disapprove of the way he's handling his job as president. this is paired with the poll from gallup which has the president on the same number. on the economy, the nbc/"wall street journal" poll finds 39d% of americans approve of the president's handling of the economy. on the issue of terrorism, the president received a 61% approval. again, there is support for this jobs bill. >> there's a disconnect -- no doubt about it, willie geist, a disconnect between this president and the people he governs at a time that again would seem to be custom-made for a former community organizer, for a progressive, for a guy that wanted to shape things up and change america. >> it's not that tough an argument to make as vice president biden displayed yesterday, show passion, show anger, show the people who are be

have witches and spieders here, as you can see they really go all out here, and there are police barricades, since they will storm the area. after all san francisco was ranked number one halloween city in america. we have something called trunk or treat in the east bay. there are three which will be decorating car trunks and stuffing them with candy. they also have coffee and some cider for folks and that's located in the fruit mill district. then in cop cord, some students will be trick or treating for food. they are trying to raise money which serves the area and we will have more events and there are some other neighborhoods you may want to hit up for candy. tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> merman cane is now -- herman cane is now facing accusations of sexual harassment. political.com posted an article detailing the sexual harassment claims on its website. coming up at 5:15 we will have a live report with how his campaign is responding to the accusation. >>> we are also learning the san francisco police department recently fired two officers. the other was fired for using police computers to look up confidential information about a private citizens. the details remain shro