york yankees are sponsoring a blood drive in new york city. donors will receive tickets to a yankees game next year. great idea, guys. >>> and don't forget to fall back this weekend. daylight savings time ends at 2:00 a.m. sunday morning. we get an extra hour. love that. >>> all day long you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stories and others as they break on msnbc. and be sure to watch brian williams with "nbc nightly news." >>> and here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. john bon jovi is live in the studio to talk about tonight's nbc universal benefit and the devastation in his hometown. >>> and legendary rockers aerosmith perform live on the plaza. >>> and this sunday on "meet the press" david gregory gets the final word of the 2012 campaign from obama strategist david plouffe and house majority leader, eric cantor. >>> and now keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports, and more. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the d

put their money into new york city and let new york city take care of its own. >> want to talk to all of you al. but let me first -- craig, spoke to j.r. martinez, the guy who won "dancing with the stars" last year. well, he was going to run in that marathon, and he talked now to j.-martinez, and about the mayor who marrily makes a misstep. mayor bloomberg but got plenty of heat. here's craig. >> some people said you shouldn't run the marathon. there's an awful lot of small businesses that depend on these people. >> as thousands suffered without heat and electricity, new york city mayor michael bloomberg defied criticism to allow the 434th new york city marathon to go on, despite a backdrop of devastation. >> bloomberg is pulling the cops off for the marathon which the rest of us don't understand why. >> we have communities in need, and to turn around and show disrespect, like running a marathon, this is the reality of what's going on in new york city right now. >> the mayor finally releapt but not before the new york post-published pictures of marathon generators with the power to ru

these are problems new york has never had before. some say they could be stopped from happening again by building seawalls, levees, or huge surge barriers. one professor, malcolm bowman. >> if we had such things in place, there would have been no damage at all. >> reporter: others don't see that happening. >> i don't think there is a practical way to build barriers in the ocean. when you have an enormous harbor like we do. >> reporter: the questions and the cleanup continue. >> the perspective you get from up here is that this is going to take weeks, maybe months. >> this is not over yet by a long shot. >> reporter: richard engel, nbc news, new york. >>> and we'll have more of richard's reporting and ann curry's reporting on "rock center," an hour devoted to the recovery of this storm. >>> we'll take a break, when we come back, the army volunteers making a difference when lives are on the line. >>> we have, just in, the first new satellite images showing how hard parts of the jersey shore got hit. normandy beach, where houses are sim

we know new york and new jersey likely to go democratic. let's walk over to the state of pennsylvania and look at this, you see this down here, let me help you understand this chart a little bit. i'm going to pop it out and this explains the darker the color the higher the number of people without power so as we come back to the state of pennsylvania i want to show you something. if you look it's obvious to the naked eye in this area here is where you see more people without power, scranton a lentown, reading, down here in philadelphia and the suburbs, about 100,000, maybe a little more than that out of power in philadelphia and montgomery and bucks county alone. let's look at how they voted in the last election. if the problems persist right there that tells you more of a problem for the president and if there's no power at polling stations, no power in houses, if people decide too much hassle i can't vote. pennsylvania is an absentee ballot state but not early vote so long it's not a question now. the question is can they get the power re

and western new york. also showers dampen roads in the northern rockies and the pacific northwest. >> if you're flying, expect residual airport delays from sandy from boston, new york city, philadelphia and washington, d.c. >>> and good news to pass on to travelers this morning. new york's la guardia airport is reopening with limited service today. some subway lines will also begin running. but recovery is a lot slower in other areas. >> like hoboken, new jersey, where as many as 20,000 residents are still stranded in their flooded homes. 25% of the city is underwater. and now, that standing water is becoming contaminated. residents are patient but worried. >> it's scary. you don't know how long you're going to be stuck here. you don't know how you're going to get out of town. >> the national guard has been delivering ready-to-eat meals for stranded residents. others lucky enough to get to a store are finding prices jacked way up. >> the worst flooding in that city in two centuries. >>> and while the storm

power coming back in new york and new jersey. hoboken, new jersey, still largely underwater thanks to the storm trapping residents in their home. jeff flock in hoboken with the very latest. the lines for the gas stations and to get to work is so frustrating, so troubling. what is the latest? >> lines everywhere. a line to get into the cvs. this is a community lot of financial professionals live over here in hoboken. this is the police department, talk about people coming, power coming back on. the national guard still out in force handing out water to people, there are shelters still set up because even the water has largely gone down. you still have problems the water is on but still people getting anything you need power for. trucks come up and will sell food to you. cold beer, hot food, they have a generator running. so there you go. the guys on fox news still in a line. sure enough, there you go. my only caution on that having been in a hurricane situation is at some point if it doesn't clean up, that runs out. that spirit ca

>> we have this in new york. please, everyone, join me in a campaign to elect to elect president willie on tuesday. >> first of all, your name's not biff. i wish you'd write under your real name. this does remind us about bronco bamma from abigail in ft. collins, colorado. take it away. >> i'm tired -- i'm tired of bronco bamma and mitt romney. >> that's why you're crying? oh, it will be over soon, abby. okay? the election will be over soon, okay? >> okay. >> oh. >>> i tell you what, you know, my mom, christie, used to have an expression. joey, if there's something bad, something goodwill come. and i want to tell you what makes me so proud. in moments of crisis, democrats and republicans always came together. i've got to tell you, it was reassuring to be on those calls. i really mean this. it was reassuring. that's how it's supposed to work. we always work better in america when we work together and everyone's in on the deal. and i tell you -- >> that's one way to look at it. good morning. it's friday, november 2

united and visit new york. unite side coming off of a disappointing one-run draw and lost right back andy nahar in the game with the red car in the 70th minute. tonight, not only will they be without rosario, but nah ar as well. >> and i don't think that we would change much. i think from the way we changeed here at rfk, i think we stick with that and team effort we put in is fine and we have to continue to move forward and created -- created some chances. that is going out there and standing the course to be successful. >> to georgetown, tipping off the season on friday against number 10 florida from the deck of an aircraft carrier. the annual classic takes place off of the coast of jacksonville, florida, and giving them a chance for the action. >>> and maryland opens on friday in brooklyn against the defending national champs kentucky and they will have help. and they will play. the ncaa approved his waiver appeal this morning. >> tonight, the wizards are against the celtics in boston. they dropped the home o

this evening, new york city's mayor reversed himself and canceled sunday's new york city marathon. his hand forced by withering criticism. > they got generators over there to keep the runners warm. we need the help! >> pelley: the starting line for the race was to be on staten island, home of the trayna family where at least 19 people were killed. we have a team of correspondents covering the aftermath of sandy. first, we're going to go to anna werner who was there when more bodies were found on staten island today. anna? er reporter: scott, many people here say that they live in the forgotten borough and that that ts never been more true than in the wake of hurricane sandy. the devastation and pain are everywhere here, in the neighborhood where more people died than any other. 13 feet of water swept across mapleton avenue. >> we're leaving them in place. >> reporter: the national guard found the bodies here of two people trapped by the surge. one was in a window. catherine merced was also trapped next door. er i heard her screaming but we couldn't help her. we were too late. >> re

new york city marathon has been canceled. we will have more on this story as we have it but, again, this was a very controversial call made by mayor bloomberg to hold it despite with what's going on with hurricane sandy. right now, this is what we know so far, the marathon has been canceled here. so interesting developments here as we continue to track this story and we'll bring you more on this. we're going to take a short break here for now but stay tuned. much more "options action" straight ahead. and you don't want to miss it with thinkorswim by td ameritrade. you get knock-your-socks-off tools, simple one-click orders, real-time paper trading to hone your skills, plus anytime you need it support. ♪ stocks, options, futures, and forex. get your trading on track. thinkorswim by td ameritrade. trade commission free for 60 days, plus get up to $600 when you open an account. >>> got you. >> breaking news at this hour, the new york city marathon has been canceled. this according to wnbc, our sister station. we want to go on

in 2008 about nearly 4 million people voted in new york and in nassau and suffolk counties in new york, in the suburban counties, a total vote of 4 million people. it seems likely to have a drop-off from the number. how that affects particular races i don't think anyone can say at this point. >> great pleasure having you on. we'll talk with you more on this. >>> in the past hour new york city mayor michael bloomberg defended his position to hold the new york marathon. in some places shelters are closing along the marathon route. we get the latest on this one. there's a lot going on today, and here's some things we thought you should know. republicans are pouring millions into the indiana senate race after their candidate, richard mourdock's remarks on rape and pregnancy. up to 4 million has been spend by groups like american cross roads and the national republican senatorial committee. he's trailing the democratic opponent by double digits currently polling at just 36%. when a twinge of back pain surprises him. morning starts in high spirits, but there's a growing pain in his lower bac

york and new jersey. those lucky enough to have generators are facing fuel shortages with long lines at the pumps again today, people waiting hours for their town only to have if man cases stationed run out of gas before they can fill up. the problems now spreading into eastern pennsylvania and there are fears of a jet fuel short average at the major airports in new york. now the latest from new york but, first, rick is live in new jersey. gas lines. again. rick: unbelievable. we were at a couple of other gas stations here about ten miles outside of new york city, there are hundreds and hundreds of cars lined up and they ran out of fuel. then picture came here to route 3, westbound, and an amazing sight, people lined up with gas cans for fuels or work vehicles, and people who have lined up their cars on route 3, waiting for hours. the people at the pumps now said they waited about two hours. we are told that this line stretches more than three miles. can you not see the end of it because it goes beyond th

this one, in long island, new york. efforts to resupply the region are now taking top priority. >> in new jersey, a brand-new opening in the barrier island on which sits the devastated community of seaside heights, testimony to the storm's power. >> and a woman surveying what is left of her new jersey home. the wreckage there, like a bomb went off. >>> amid all the devastation, there are incremental steps towards normalcy being made. limited amtrak service resumes today along the heavily-traveled northeast corridor. >> crews here in manhattan are working to make good on a promise to restore power, all power, by tomorrow. on top of that, three navy ships, loaded with supplies, arrived here in new york later today. all of this adds up, of course, to a difficult situation. as abc's tahman bradley now shows us. >> reporter: sandy may be gone. but frustration in parts of new york is growing. >> we're going to die. we're going to freeze. we have 90-year-old people. >> reporter: in this manhattan neighborhood, recovery continu

and the anger is building in new york tonight. anger as you saw over the fact that the city thought it would be a good idea to go ahead and host the new york city marathon this weekend despite power outages and standing water. and anger is boiling as you also might have seen in staten island, a part of new york closer to new jersey, surrounded by water, temporarily cut off from the rest of the world and suffering. nbc's ann curry is there. >> reporter: it's becoming clear that staten island, an area three times the size of manhattan, is about 500,000 people suffer some of the greatest losses in all of new york. so far, 19 bodies have been recovered here and while many of the deaths occurred in evacuation areas, today residents complained about a lack of desperately needed help, and their anger exploded. >> we need help immediately. we have nowhere to live. we have small children that have to go back to school on monday. they have no clothes to wear. and we cannot live in our homes. something has to be done immediately, not 14 days

we begin tonight here on new york's staten island with breaking news, news that is especially welcome here on this hard-hit island. the new york city marathon scheduled for sunday which starts here on the island has been canceled for the first time in its 42-year history, and that is a huge welcome relief to a lot of people here, who frankly were just outraged the idea that the marathon would take place and would take resources that are still badly needed here. there's a lot of people here on this island tonight who feel like they have been forgotten and it really wasn't until today that they started to see supplies coming in and a lot of it in the area that i'm in right now, is just volunteers. folks who have come here on their own from other parts of the city or other parts of staten island with food, whatever they can bring. there's a lot of folks who live down the street in pitch blackness and they're afraid to leave their destroyed houses because of safety concerns. they don't want to leave their things out. this is the home of a woman named sheila. it's all that's left of her ho

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the new york marathon cancelled amid suffering after sandy. residents of staten island say they've been forgotten. >> this is new york city, the financial capital of the world. putting right what's happened here is going to take many months and maybe longer. >> and getting ready for new leaders in china. tonight we continue our series of special reports on the challenges they'll face. >> welcome to our viewers on public television in america and also around the globe. with just four days to go before the u.s. presidential election, a new jobs report is fueling arguments on the campaign trail. it seems to have something for everyone. president obama is time-outing that more jobs were -- touting that more jobs have been created than were expected. romney says the overall elm ploit rate is actually up. now startshe weekend blitz and the bbc's adam brooks has been watching the reaction for us. >> the voter in the state of ohio -- >> in 2008 we were in the middle of two wars and the worst economic crisis since the great depression. today our busine

the hardest hit area is staten island new york. the body of two people strapped by a 13-foot surge of water were found today. one was hanging out a window. a few hours before, one woman escaped with her three children. >> it hurts. i mean i cried for a few days, but there is nothing left to do. there is no more water in my body to cry. everything is gone and i'm accepting it now. >> reporter: today they went door to door to deliver water and food. most of the 470,000 people who live in this area are without power, unable to see news that help is on the way. >> the power is expected to go on for 160,000 homes and businesses in parts of new york city tonight. it is new to the people living in the blackout areas of manhattan, waiting all week to hear it. they are pumping water out of the transformers, getting ready to check them before switching it on. the lights could not come back on fast enough for the people left in the dark for days. >> i'm desperate to have the electricity here back on. and you don't realize how much you rely on

in new york. where there are gold right there were surrounding the players but i didn't walk through sure commission of audit and i'm sure none of. the funds you couldn't know me from others like i'm going ok that's what you got to germany get real. i think is william dudley that's the president of the new york fed now whatever. so headline reads max about that gold stored in flood prone lower manhattan max this is from business week and they know that a lot of buildings in lower manhattan were destroyed due to the flooding from hurricane sandy and they ask what about the nearly fifteen million pounds of gold bricks stored at the new york fed well they say it's ok because it's in a vault which is protected by an air tight and water tight seal created by lowering a ninety ton steel cylinder just three eighths of an inch into a one hundred forty ton steel. concrete frame in effect quote similar to pushing a cork down into a bottle that doesn't sound like. but doesn't sound dr evil like no but stacey

new york marathon. we have complete coverage for you in just a few moments. >>> helping people in those storm-damaged communities was the focus of a telethon broadcast by nbc friday night. native new yorkers christina aguilera, mary j. blige and billy joel were among the headliners. we'll have more on that and we'll let you know how you can still help. >>> it is just three days until election day, and president obama and governor mitt romney are making their closing arguments to voters. the election could come down to just a few battleground states, and ohio is at the center of it all. our team is standing by to crunch the numbers for you in just a few minutes. >> and we've all purchased lottery tickets and basically forgot about them without ever checking the numbers. a california grandmother did the same thing and got a big surprise just in the nick of time. her story is coming up. >> love those story sms. >>> we begin this hour with the dropping temperatures and rising temperatures as people go witho

york new jersey area free of charge. anheuser busch has been doing this thing all the way back to the san francisco earthquake of 1906. they are doing a good thing. >>> they'll need it because now a nor'easter is expected later this week. >>> plus waking up to cold, we are here, they are there as well. >>> howard has your weather first and monika has your timesaver traffic. >> daily deals. >> on a samsung. >>> multi-vehicle accidents. we are starting first with the northbound side of the bw parkway heading into laurel, just after route 97, where it started with a deer struck and then several vehicles going above the speed limit, i'm sure, crashed into that vehicle that hit the deer. i'm going to step out and show you the clean up live from our sky 9. looks like a couple of vehicles but it has been there so long we have a two to three mile back- up against the rush hour flow. northbound bw parkway trying to get into laurel. southbound is unaffected by this accident in terms of lane closures. on the beltway here watch out

and new york city. amtrak's president hopes it will be able to resume service between new york and boston later today as well. rail system in talks to borrow trains from canada to provide more service to hard-hit parts of new jersey and new york. >>> in dominion, virginia, they have restored power to all those who lost electricity during sandy. but pg & e is still working to get the lights back on. 400 customers still without power right now. >>> dominion power virginia will help with sandy relief efforts elsewhere. 1,500 workers sent to new jersey to help get power back on for hundreds of thousands still in the dark. meagan mcgrath live at national harbor, where crews are prepping for their big mission. meagan, good morning. >> we're here in the parking lot of the gaylord hotel. the staging area here. you can see the power trucks behind me here. they are sending 1,500 crews to new jersey to help out with the power situation there. some are leaving today. right now, inside the hotel catching some sleep

this morning, new york is opening up. and new jersey is cracking down, in an effort to improve the tri-state gas shortage. the new york port has been open for gas tankers for the first time since sandy made landfall. >> we actually saw a fuel barge coming down the hudson river before. >> reporter: until things return to normal, governor chris christie has signed an executive order, rationing gas for passenger vehicles in 12 counties. >> we're on top of the gas situation. >> reporter: here's how it works. starting at noon, owners of cars with license plates ending in an even number, can only purchase gas on even number days. owners with plates ending in odd numbers on odd number days. two-thirds of the gas stations in the new york metro area are out of fuel. and more than half the stations in new jersey and long island are shut down. some have no power. others, sold out. completely drained. and for some, like joanne hughes, the wait for the pumps isn't just a long line, but a lifeline. with her father undergoing an emergen

commuter rail systems in the new york suburbs are on limited i service, as are new york's three large airports. >> tom: energylso remains a concern. late today the department of energy announced it will release emergency heating oil supplies to relieve a supply crunch due to sandy. meantime, many gasoline stations in the new york-nemajersey area- have closed because they have run out of gas or don't have electricity to get it out of the pump. erika miller reports >> reporter: six hours. that's how long drivers had to wait to fill up at this manhattan station. >> i got here at 6:00 am. >> reporter: the line stretched over 30 city blocks, but at least drivers could get gas. it's estimated that at least half of all staons in the metropolitan area are closed. s mount olive new jersey, some o tried making the best of a bad situation butong waits are still bt fun. >> it's scary. in my lifetime, i've never seen anything like this. >> reporter: given the high level of demand for fuel to run cars and generators, many stations e rationing supplies.e and only taking cash. >> we are going to run

of course, this is the big talk in new york. the cancel of the new york marathon. some of those runners using the time off to go the extra mile instead for victims of hurricane sandy. a can of del monte green beans? ♪ ♪ ♪ grown in america. picked and packed at the peak of ripeness. the same essential nutrients as fresh. del monte. bursting with life. >>> updating our top stories now. it is the last full day of campaigning ahead of tomorrow's election. president obama and joe biden are making 18 stops across seven states in a rush to the finish line. >>> mitt romney and paul ryan are making 24 stops across ten states. the latest abc poll show the latest race is president obama at 48% and mitt romney at 41%. >>> and looking to restore electricity to 1.7 million homes and businesses after a week after sandy. the job is even more urgent as temperatures fall. >>> showers in the pacific northwest. rain from minneapolis to st. louis. showers from houston to new orleans. >>> well, hundreds of runners refused to let months of training go to waste after the new york ma

we would like to thank the new york national guard, the fire department of new york, and the new york police department for their assistance today. that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, i'm scott pelley. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. >>> good evening, i'm dana king. >> i'm allen martin. now, you could knock on a million doors but you would never get the kind of halloween treat giants fans got today in san francisco. >> that's right. they packed the streets to honor the team's world series victory. ♪ [ music ] >> reporter: on this halloween, san francisco is a sea of orange and black. the frenzy along the parade route and a 49er behind the wheel. >> just here enjoying things. >> reporter: leading to the celebration at civic center. >> reporter: and the giants telling their fans, this is all for you. >> your dedication, your unwaiveer having support, i thank you. >>ne

diego arias, telemundo. >>> tambiÉn en new york, el gobernador andrew cuomo. firmÓ una orden ejecutiva que permite a distribuidor de gasolina, entrar temporalmente al estado sin cumplir con los requisitos habituales para aliviar la escasez de combustible que impide a los residentes transportarse. en nueva jersey las inundaciones causadas por la super tormenta, generaron caos entre los residentes de la zona de little ferry en el condado de bergen. viven varias familias hispanas, que comienzan a llegar para evaluar los daÑos a sus viviendas. sofÍa tiene los delts. >>> esta mujer desesperada pide ayuda, mo todos en este vecindades rÍo tienen tarea de sacar, votar y ver como pueden recuperar lo poco que les quedÓ. >>> asÍ que hoy no tenemos nada, tenemos que ir a comer, donde comemos porque no hay nada ahÍ ya. >>> 4 dÍas despuÉs del paso de sandy por nueva jersey asÍ lucen las calles. el ver todo destruido es muy doloroso. >>> parecÍa una pesadilla esto no pensamos que esto podrÍa pasar aquÍ. sinceramente. fue como tan rÁpido. >>> y toda una vid de s

jersey and new york. and it's not clear -- >> and that's an important swing state. we don't know which way it's going to go. >> exactly. and the polls are very close there. and it's unclear if the state will be able to have all of the polling locations up and going by tuesday. they probably will. but it is a concern, i think, that we should raise. >> and it slowed down early voting in virginia, didn't it? >> that's right. there's early voting by absentee in person. so not early voting, say, like in ohio but by absentee in person. it's a complicated process. it probably won't have that much effect on the final outcome as long as polls are open on tuesday. >> and we do have new developments in ohio we should be talking about tonight. that secretary of state, the republican secretary of state out there, is doing everything it seems he possibly can to try to help the romney ticket. >> this is why down ballot races are important. the secretary of state of ohio could end up deciding this election. and he has tr

in new york city today. hundreds lined up to get food and water from the national guard and nypd. among the items being handed out. blankets from the new york marathon that was cancelled. in one area particularly hard hit, staten island. the problems are piling up. when you have a problem, send in the marines, well, they did, as stephanie gosk found out there today. >> reporter: marines on patrol. this season thele monday province, it's the storm ravaged streets of long island. 50 marines in a community that need the muscle. especially the merchants. >> it's a huge job. they said, no problem, we can do it. >> reporter: a kindergarten teacher can't talk about her home without crying. russian immigrants, they worked for years to save enough money to buy their house. demolition is the only way to save what's left. >> of course, it's a big help. we can't do it by ourself. >> reporter: this is the kind of work that is needed all along this block. people are coming by to help out, but they're charging $3,000 to do

at least 28 in new york. and close to 5 million customers are still waiting for the power to come back on. >> cnn has the entire disaster zone covered this morning. our correspondents spanned out across lower manhattan and all up and down the jersey shore. >> first, the economic capital of our country is slowly getting back to normal this morning even while facing extreme damage. power outages and people having to walk for hours just to get to work. meantime, another hospital lost generator power in lower manhattan. right now hundreds of people are being pushed out of bellevue after hundreds of others were evacuated yesterday. our dr. sanjay gupta is live at bellevue but first to rob marciano. the governor says there will be no fares for subways, trains and buses but many of the bus and subway lines are still not up and running yet so how limited is transportation now? >> well, i can tell you from what we witnessed yesterday, it's very limited. for one thing the buses don't run at night, at least south of 23r

york and new jersey. looking back at the hurricanes that have flooded streets, leveled homes and wiped out landmarks across the northeast. i'm julie haener, the past two weeks have seen some of the most severe storm damage ever to hit the eastern seaboard of the united states. hurricane sandy roared north from the caribbean and devastated major portions of new york and new jersey leaving millions without power. but it's not the first time severe weather has ripped across the northeast. in 1821 a hurricane hit new york city and the flooding was so severe that the east and hudson rivers merged. flooding lower manhattan up to canal street. another hurricane wiped away a resort island off the rocaway. dozens of hurricanes and tropical storms have created havoc across new york and new jersey. one of them was in 1992. here is faith banters report. >> reporter: in a city that has seen just about anything, most new yorkers have never seen anything like this. this is fdr drive on new york's east side completely un

here into new jersey and new york and connecticut as quickly as possible. as power starts coming back on, we want to make sure that people can also get to work. there are a lot of folks in jersey who work in new york, in the city, and in other places where transportation may be hobbled. one of the things that i mentioned to the governor is the possibility of us using federal assets military assets as well as taking inventory of assets from around the country that can be brought in so that we can help people get to their work. we're going to have a lot of work to do. i don't want anybody to feel that some how this is all going to get all cleaned up overnight. i want to make sure that people have realistic expectations, but what i can promise is that the federal government will be working as closely as possible with the state and local officials, and we will not quit until this is done. we're not going to tolerate red tape. we're not going to tolerate bureaucracy, and i instituted a 15-minute rule, you urn everybody's phone calls in 15 minutes, whether it's t

this an opportunity to make significant changes to the infrastructure in new york and new jersey? and of course then the question becomes if so how do you pay for it? does the money even exist for that? >> that's the key. that's what i was going to say. you could thak as a moment to make a decision to upgrade the economic infrastructure of the tristate area. then the question is, well, with what money? that's not going to be cheap to do. i think people will have to make decisions about that. >> ed, we did see, which was actually a positive this week. we saw a degree of bipartisanship. president obama touring the damaged area of new jersey with governor chris christie, who was the keynote speaker at the republican convention, heaping praise on each over. does this tell you that come 0 pro-mize is possible in washington or was that just politics? >> i think compromise is always possible in washington. its standard in any kind of negotiation, including negotiations in business between management and unions for things to go down to the 11th hour. that doesn't mean things are falling a

when new yorkers look up and see that, what do you want them to know? >> new york is back. new york is resilient. we're tough. we've gone through a lot but we're the better for it. we learn from it. and i believe we don't just rebuild. we rebuild better. that's what this site is all about. that's what new york is all about. >> for the families who lost loved one on this site. who want to see this come to life again? >> it has been a long struggle but it's coming. it is going to be something magnificent and something to be proud of and something all new york -- >> the governor called me up after we talked, after we had already separated to remind me and to remind everyone of the extraordinary work the men and women who are working on that site are doing and how eager they are to get back to work tonight, to have those lights on so they can start work again on one world trade. we met a lot of the men and women down on the site today. they're incredibly proud of the work they're doing and the work they weren't able to do to pump out so much water. the national guard troops wor

york times, el agente rafael prieto se casó en new york el 3 de octubre de ese año con una productora de televisión y cine, los casó un juez, viiva entre washington , donde estaba su trabajo y new york donde vivía su esposa, su muerte está bajo investigación . >> gracias . >> buenas noches. >> le platicaremos de las remezas entre méxico y de eestados unidos,entérese el nivel más bajo de octubre del 2009, además el terrorismo hizo que la celebración de halloween fuera un baño de sangre . >> en perú rezan por las personas perdidas por el huracán sandy, visítenos en la dirección que aparece en pantalla , nlos tendremos más adelante, volvemos . >> las noticias y la información no el banco central de méxico dijeron que cayeron 20,2 por ciento, representa 1664 millons de dólares, se trata de la peor caída , desde octubre de 2009 que no estaban tan mal . >> en colombia terroristas conviertieron hialloween en una noche de panico, una bomba explotó . >> los niños solo buscaban golosinas, a dos guerrilleros se les explotó una bomba que lelvabanb a la policía, 34 personas

craig melvin is on staten island, new york. coincidentally, but related to this, craig the new york marathon starts in staten island. i've run the marathon, i'm a huge supporter of the marathon, it's a glorious event for new york but one has to ask, despite the need to rally the city and raise money and all of that chick input, people are asking, why now, why the new york marathon this weekend? craig? >> reporter: andrea, bear with me here. i've lost my ifb here. i want to show you what's left of the neighborhood in staten island. take a look behind me, we've seen folks over the past hour go into their homes for the first time, we talked to a number of them, all of them say pretty much the same thing, their homes are destroyed. we've also seen the inspectors starting to look at some of the houses, deem whether any are salvageable. i also spent time talking to folks trapped on the rooftops. three different families on rooftops here got stuck. also, chatted with the man who says he clung to a tree for about seven hours. so the fo

in new york state. this is unprecedented. and it will allow up to 143,000 voters in new york city alone to cast their ballots today. these are people who might otherwise have problems getting to a polling station. now, this is not a perfect solution, the governor admits. it could complicate some local races. but the simple way to put it is your vote will count for the races you are eligible to vote for. the governor says just because you are displaced after the storm doesn't mean you should be disenfranchised. john, he adds after last week, quote, this will be a walk in the park. we'll have to wait and see. the polls open in less than an hour. >> new york not a swing state but everyone counts. it's important to vote everywhere. the price tag for the 2012 elections has exploded and is already breaking major records. the damage, $4.2 billion through sunday for the presidential and congressional races. final figures could hit $6 billion. some 750 million of it devoted to tv ads for campaigns. christine rom

new york's mayor estimates as many as 40,000 people in new york city may need temporary housing. but officials don't yet have a solution. the cost of the damage is staggering: between $30 and $50 billion, according to disaster modeling firm eqecat. and the possibility of more dislocated people will only make the road to recovery more difficult. erika miller, "n.b.r.," new york. >> tom: there is no doubt the damage left from sandy will take years to repair and the memories of the storm certainly will last a lifetime for those in her path. but she's just the latest natural disaster long-term investors have been faced with. i recently spoke with mark hebner, the founder and president of index funds advisors, asking him how long term investments should look at hurricane sandy. >> if they're holding a full equity portfolio they really should be looking at time horizons of like 15 or maybe even 20 years to hang on to that investment, to be in a position to have a reasonably good chance of catch turing the expected return of that portfolio. what is the risk, though, and the impact of th

york new york, right? new york harbor, hudson river, to the erie canal, and you were out west. that was new york. what made manhattan manhattan was the underground infrastructure. that engineering marvel. once you now say, well, that can flood, and you can't even find a way to pump out the water, you take the greatest asset and you make it a liability. and it's a frightening premise to deal with, wroyou know? i think that's one of the reasons why denial is so much easier. because once you say, yes, ex-freedom weather is here to say, we have to redesign this environment environment, well that's a big undertaking and it's threatening to many. i think that's where we are. >> can new york city escape the sort of national flurosis? it's a fight on the national level. out of necessity, can new york state and new york city lead on this issue because we have to, even if the rest of the country isn't ready to arrive at any consensus and make any big national decisions? >> we're going to try. you know, what we pract

that's why new york became new york. a thousand ships. the dutch could see it in the 17th century, could ride and anchor in new york harbor. new yorkers had an extraordinary ability to leverage from the start, that geography. so i'm not content with the geography that nature had given them in the early 19th century. they went out and built the eerie canal, a 363-mile ditch that connected new york harbor and the great lakes. so not only do they have the greatest natural port in the western hemisphere, everything grown, mined, harvested, now had to come down right by the battery that was flooded three days ago. i think the first age of new york was the new york that the harbor provided and the second age of new york was the one that the canal provided. and i think we're in the third age of new york. now this is kind of a blowback taking place. but i think that new york has always been pioneering, because of these extraordinary geographical advantages and the surge of population and commerce has taken place here, it's been on the forefront o

parts of new york seeing 6, 7 inches. rich field new jersey. i had somebody say to me yesterday there's no way we are getting over 2 inches of snow in central park. this is still an impressive storm. bringing bands of snow across new england. still long island. you are getting hammered with snow. new jersey you look to be out of the woods heading up toward new england you are starting to see more snow bands across connecticut and up toward maine. you are not done with this event heading into tonight and tomorrow. it will pull offshore. we should have a day away. wind gusts 60 miles per hour. incredible unbelievable storms. >> we will have good weather for the next couple days. >> i will guarantee it. >> the election has come and gone with no political changes in the landscape in washington. >> obama democrats and republicans vowing to work together for the good of our country. peter doocy has more. >> good morning, ainsley. since the balance of power did not shift as a result of tuesday's election with democrats still controlling the white hous

as for the limited subway service that resumes tomorrow in new york, there in new york, no trains will be running south of 34th street, an area that inclouds, of course, the financial district. sandy's crippled the nation's biggest transit system. some stations remain under water right now. there's catastrophic damage to underground tracks and equipment. the mta says it is too early to tell when full service will return or if every subway line can be fixed. some of them may be beyond repair. millions of riders depend on the subway each day, all of us in the city. a few commuter train lines twhent to service this afternoon. for the most part, commuters relied on buses, on cars, on cabs if they could get them and gouged for prices on the cabs. there is gridlock as m.a.d.d. bad as we have ever seen in manhattan. look at this. this is columbus circle south of central park on the west side earlier today. one massive traffic jam largely caused by the crane which is still dangling over 57th street and closed off the region, about a seven-block area around there. jason carroll is joining me fr

new york city marathon sunday morning. by the time it's over, 51 at 3:00 with northwest winds at 15 miles per hour. rest of sunday, rain in the pacific northwest, lower mississippi river valley and looking for -- what did he just say-plenty of sunshine from the great lakes on into the northeast. that's why the >> there is another event other than the new york city marathon on sunday. it's the best night of the week. that's because it's sunday night "football night in america." the boys head to the georgia dome to take on the falcons. it's a good one. outdoor weather, a few showers. temperatures 66-70 degrees. tony romo, that's sunday night r, "football night in america." >> don't get distract the. we want to take a moment and welcome the newest member of our "today" family, erica hill has been announced as co-anchor for "weekend today." such an honor to have you here. >> thank you, so feel honored and humbled to join this family, such an incredible tradition and getting all choked up but to be a part of nbc news and the "t

and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold more than a year's supply -- over 580 billion gallons of water. almost all of the system is fed by gravity, without the use of energy-consuming pumps. valves open to regulate the flow into the 85-mile-long delaware aqueduct -- the longest tunnel in the world. at hillview reservoir... the water is partitioned into another giant tunnel system. where it travels deep below manhattan. the pressure built u

he moved to new york city in 1948, where benny goodman hire him and he became very famous in new york at the time and he died in new york in 2001. one of the pieces of my ticket to ride is how many cubans of irish ancestry are there. because this connected to my family, that's why i wanted to read it to you. in the 40's, my father moved to new york in search of his destiny. he learned to make brillantine in red, blue and golden colors to give a beautiful sheen to the hair. in his spare time, when he could break free from his alchemist's captive vit, he would go listen to cuban music at the park plaza hotel in manhattan. those were happy times and years later became a happy tomic with me, convinced early on that my father inhabited a magic world. a few years ago, while listening to a recording of cuban blues by chico, i remembered in new york in those stories of the 40's that chico and my father met at club cuba in manhattan and again in havana in the mid-50's. the sessions of chico's house in our neighborhood became so famous that even my father, not particularly fond of cuban jazz, c

this could be the worst storm that ever hit new york and the frustration that people feel in new york is mounting anger, i have to say, from the ones that i know, who are personally suffering, is why, given there was a week to plan for the worst ever storm, are people now facing, as you've just said to me, two weeks without power. it just seems ridiculous. >> well, it may sound ridiculous but the fact is, we knew about the storm, too, and everyone was prepared but there's nothing much you can do once it comes ashore and you've got -- we serve nine million people here in new york city, a lot by overhead power lines, the trees are going to blow into the power lines and the power is going to go out. you have the raging floodwaters that came in two feet higher that came over the walls. we built protections for the substations a foot and a half higher than the most historic storm surge ever to hit new york and it still couldn't handle it. i mean, this was just off the charts and unfortunately we are where we are and unfortunately just like all of the other utilities up and down the east co