Reporter florida is feeling the effects of hurricane sandy. Strong winds are whipping the surf into foam. The waves and heavy rain are flooding the streets near miami. The storm is still hundreds of miles away. Sandy raged over the bahamas thursday after tearing through cuba and haiti as a category 2 hurricane. Florida residents are not taking this storm in stride. As were speaking im filling sand bags. Reporter the center of sandy is expected to pass just off of floridas east coast friday afternoon, but forecasters say the worst of it may be four days and several hundred miles away. Thats because there is a High Pressure system blocking the easterly path, hurricanes usually follow into the open atlantic. Sandy is expected to head up the coast then turn west, making landfall near new jersey on tuesday. Thats where it could combine with a winter storm and cold arctic air. That means theres the possibility of storm force winds, major coastal flooding, power outages, and then inland areas we could be looking at some significant snows. How bad that coastal flooding is will depend exactly how strong the storm is and exact location where it makes landfall. Reporter if pieces of this super storm comes together as predicted it could affect the northeast through next friday, causing at least 1 billion in damages. Danielle nottingham, cbs news, Indian Harbor beach, florida. A suicide bomber attacked a mosque in northern afghanistan this morning. Police say 35 people were killed, 70 others were injured. The bomber struck at the start of a four day religious holiday. The bomb exploded outside the mosque where a large crowd gathered. Many of the wounded are in serious condition. The cost of president ial politics. This Years Campaign passed the 2 billion mark in fundraising. Put it on track to be the costliest election in history. They both have raised 1. 7 billion and another 300 billion in super p. A. C. Ads. They are paying for tv ads in closely contested races. The candidates are working hard to shore up suppor battleground states. Susan mcginnis has more. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. The election is 11 days away, but right now both candidates are working hard to get vote voters to the polls before november 6th. President obama cast his early ballot in chicago as he tried to boost turnout before election day. All of you who have not yet early voted i just want everybody to see what an incredibly efficient process this was. Reporter its a strategy the president s team will hope give it an edge in battleground states that will likely decide the election. The president wrapped up a 40 hour tour through four of those competitive states with a rally last night in cleveland. I need you, ohio. America needs you, ohio. Reporter ohio is also where mitt romney focused his day making three campaign stops. The Obama Campaign is slipping because hes talking about smaller and smaller things. Despite the fact that america has such huge challenges and this is such an opportunity for america and thats why on november 6th im counting on ohio to vote for big change. Reporter no republican ever won the white house without carrying ohio. That has both sides staging aggressive campaigns there to convince voters to cast their ballots now. I want to remove i mmpimpedi there is for everybody to exercise their Constitutional Rights and vote. We see sometimes people missing elections coming out to take advantage of early voting. Reporter more than 7 Million People nationwide have cast early ballots. And this was the first time that a sitting president cast an early ballot in person. Terrell. Susan mcginnis in washington this morning. Have a good weekend. Some prominent republicans are lining up against former secretary of state colin powell after he said he would once again support president obama. Powell a republican endorsed the president on thursdays edition of cbs this morning and the criticism powell received from the gop was immediate and sharp. I signed on for a long patrol with president obama, and i dont think this is the time to make such a sudden change. Colin powell said he would support president obama in the election based on the president s efforts to improve the economy and wind down the war in afghanistan. He also expressed concern about mitt romneys stance on foreign policy. I think theres some very, very strong neoconservative views that are presented by the governor that i have some trouble with. President obama called to thank the former secretary of state and later mentioned the endorsement at a campaign stop. You know i was proud and humbled to learn today that we have Colin Powells support in this campaign. It is the second time powell gave his endorsement to the president obama. In 2008 he broke ranks with the gop to support then senator obama. On cbs this morning cohost Norah Odonnell asked powell if hes still a republican . I think im a republican of a more moderate mold and thats something of a dying breed im sorry to say. Powell served under three republican president s but his support of the democratic ticket rankled some in the gop. Senator mccain responded while campaigning for romney in florida. Hes obviously endorsed barack obama last time and its not surprising he would do that this time. I just wish he wouldnt call himself a republican any more. Mccain said that powell haunts his legacy by endorsing the president and on cnn the cochairman of mitt romneys campaign, john sununu said powells endorsement may have nothing to do with politics. You have to wonder if thats an endorsement based on issues or whether he has a slightly different reason for preferring president obama. What reason would that be . Well, i think when you have somebody of your own race that youre proud of being president of the united states, i applaud colin for standing with him. After that interview sununu walked back on those remarks. He said he respects powells decision and believes it was based on nothing but the president s policies. Leon panetta said the pentagon did not have enough information to use military force when the u. S. Consulate in been yazy was attacked. The Obama Administration is facing criticism that left ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other americans dead. David martin reports. Reporter two and a half hours after the attack began a drone was diverted to the consulate in benghazi. That plus a second unarmed drone dispatched four hours and 15 minutes later were the only military forces sent to the scene of the attack. Commandos were dispatched from europe to sigonella, sicily. By the time they got there the attack in benghazi was over. Leon panetta defended the response saying the situation on the ground was too confusing. You dont deploy forces into harms way without knowing whats going on, without having some realtime information about whats taking place. Reporter he said Senior Officers including general carter hamm and general Martin Dempsey all opposed military intervention. General hamm, general dempsey and i felt very strongly that we could not put forces at risk in that situation. The attack occurred on the anniversary of 9 11. Did you have forces on any heightened alert in that area because of the approaching anniversary . We did. Let me point out, it was 9 11 every where in the world. Defense Officials Say a general alert had been issued to u. S. Forces worldwide. But no special alert for libya because there was no intelligence predicting an attack. David martin, cbs news, the pentagon. Coming up on a friday morning a case in new york of cop cannibalism. Marketplace melee. A violent clash between merchants and police in the capital of peru. This is the morning news. Capital of peru. This is the morning news. [ male announcer ] theres everyday chicken and then theres juicy chicken with hellmanns hellmanns is the secret to making parmesan crusted chicken. [ bell dings ]. So crispy so juicy so delicious its your secret to making dinner disappear hellmanns. Bring out the best nespresso. Where theres a coffee to match my every mood. Where just one touch creates the perfect cup. Where every cappuccino and latte is made with fresh milk. And where clothing is optional. Nespresso. What else . In lima, peru a clash broke out between riot police and merchants who were trying to block a Produce Market to another site. Vendors threw rocks, Police Responded with tear gas. One policeman on horseback was beaten after falling from his horse. The horse was also injured. The violence left one person dead. More than 40 others injured. A heartbreaking double killing in new york city leaves two Young Children dead. Police say the childrens nanny snapped and fatally stabbed the 2yearold boy and 6yearold girl in a bathtub. She then stabbed herself in the neck with a kitchen knife. The childrens mother discovered the horror after coming home with her third child. Heard screams heard by a neighbor who alerted police and who arrived and found the children dead. Unbelievable. It was unbelievable. I cant imagine what the mother is feeling. The 50yearold nanny is in critical condition. Also in new york a Police Officer is accused of a plot of cannibalism. Gilberto valle is facing charges that he planned to kidnap, torture, kill, cook and eat at least two women. Investigators said he kept a database of potential victims and worked with two coconspirators. They found details of 100 potential victims on his computer. He used a National Police database to get that information. Up next, a look at this mornings business headlines with Ashley Morrison plus your friday morning weather. In sports after fighting it out in game one, the San Francisco giants turn a small ball in game two. Two. [ male announcer ] every time you say no to a cigarette you celebrate a little win. Nicorette gum helps calm your cravings and makes you less irritable. Quit one cigarette at a time. Look at these teeth theyre made for meat [ cat 2 ] do i look like im stalking plants . [ male announcer ] most dry foods add plant protein, like gluten but iams never adds gluten. Iams adds 50 more animal protein, [ cat 3 ] look at this body under this shiny coat is a lean, mean purring machine [ cat 4 ] i am too hahahaha [ male announcer ] iams. With 50 more animal protein. [ cat 5 ] yum [ cat 1 ] im an iams cat. Feed me what im born to eat. Meow. Heres a look at the weather in some cities around the country. In new york mostly cloudy 68 degrees. Miami, hurricane conditions, 81. Mostly cloudy in chicago, 50. Showers in dallas 58 and sunny in l. A. 86 degrees. Lets check your national forecast. Hurricane sandy is moving through the bahamas headed towards the eastern seaboard. Tropical storm alerts are in effect along Floridas Atlantic coast. Light snow ends in colorado. Showers and thunderstorms will pop up in the ohio valley. Expect showers and mountain snow in the pacific northwest. Cbs moneywatch time now on a friday. Not the apple of their eye. And a bag of coffee with your fries . Delicious, huh . Ashley morrison has horse. Reporter good morning. Asian markets are lower and on weak housing market. The nikkei lost 1. 3 while the hang seng is down more than 1 . Apple did not shine. It missed investor expectation for a second consecutive quarter. It blames the falloff of producing its new gadgets. Apple shares fell 1 thursday to just over 603 a share. And amazon the Worlds Largest online retailer also missed analysts expectations posting a loss of 270 million. More than half of that is blamed on amazons stake in living social. Online competitor to groupon. It fell more than 2 to more than 222 a share. Wall street posted modest gains. The Dow Jones Industrial average closed up 26 points thursday while the nasdaq ended ahead by four points. Microsoft releases its latest version of its Flagship Software today. Microsoft says windows 8 is the most dramatic overhaul of the system in 17 years. Its designed to run on pcs, tablets and smart phones. Also today microsoft begins selling its own computer tablet. You can soon pick up a bag of Ground Coffee along with a happy meal in canada. It will sell 12 ounce bags for 7 at its stores north of the border next month. No word from mcdonalds when and if it plans to offer it here in the u. S. I like that idea. You can probably fill up your car at mcdonalds after a while. It would being a great. All in one stop. Yes. Ashley have a good weekend. In sports this morning game two of the world series in San Francisco last night. Brian stow was in attendance as a guest of the team. Bottom of the second, tiger pitcher hit in the head with a batted ball. Goes to centerfield for a single. Nightmare. He would stay in the game. Scoreless in the seventh. Giants played small ball. Lays down a perfect bunt that stops in fair territory. It loads the bases. Next batter grounds to a double play. Go ahead run comes home. San francisco tacks on another run in the eighth to lead the tigers 20. Game three tomorrow night in detroit. Thursday night football, tampa bay bucks running back doug martin does a number in the third quarter. 64 yards for the td. He adds a one yard td run. The bucks stop minnesota 3617. Nba commissioner david stern is retiring. Stern has guided the league since 1984 and helped turn it into a 5 billion a year industry. Hell step down on february 1st, 2014, exactly 30 years to the day that he took the job. When we come back, vacations not just for humans. Case in point, elmo took some time off not too long ago. Im so serious. It did him a world of good. A world of good. Like a better breakfast so on august eighth we woke up a sleepy town to show that eating well can be easy and delicious with jennieo turkey bacon and sausage cooked thoroughly to 165 definitely very good its excellent this is delicious makes me want to eat breakfast more its time for a better breakfast i cant stop eating this make the switch look for jennieo at a store near you no real violence, but the protest continues. How occupiers are keeping their message alive. Plus game two of the world series is in the books. The giants playing smallball ad grabbed another winner. And it could be a halloweeno remember. Hurricane sandy is barrels towards the east coast. The path of destruction already left be. Join us for cbs 5 Eyewitness News this morning. Beginng at 4 30. Good morning. Its friday, october 26th. Im frank mallicoat. ,, heres a look at the weather in some cities around the country. Mostly cloudy in washington. 73 degrees. Partly sunny in atlanta, 79. Mostly cloudy in st. Louis, 54 degrees. Morning snow showers in denver, 40. Morning rain in seattle 47 degrees. A florida girl vacationing with her family thought she had lost her cherished elmo doll for good but she got it back and it has a story to tell. This 5yearold took it along to her hotel in florida but headed back to her home empty handed. Hotel employees found it and sent it back with a handmade book showing what elmo did. Lounging around and living large at the hotel. In this hitech world nobody goes above and beyond to do the extra special thing and this guy nelson at the ritz not only returned to elmo to us but made a book that she will have for the rest of her life. She has had that elmo doll since she was born. I mean can i be elmo . Being elmo sounds pretty good right now. Right . Im terrell brown. This is the morning news. ,,,, its an animal that you see quite a bit with halloween approaching thanks to those dracula movies. Bats are actually an environmental friend and one species is in danger of extinction. A fungus thats killing millions of them seth doane reports on an effort to save them. This is one of the entrances. Reporter we were taken to a Tennessee Cave thats the winter home to 160,000 endangered gray bat that could be extinct within a decade. A fungus known as white nose syndrome. This is unprecedented. Reporter scientists are mystified by this fungus that shows up as a white powdery residue and disturbs the bat as natural sleeping pattern. It causes the bats to use up their energy they store during the winter. They come out of hibernation early when its cold and dont make it through. Reporter white nose was first discovered in four caves in new york back in 2006. Now its in 19 states. Researchers are doing everything from tagging bats to understand migration patterns to a project at Bucknell University in pennsylvania where 200 bats have been intentionally infected with the fungus to try to develop a possible treatment. Weve never seen a disease like this. Reporter ann is with u. S. Fish and wildlife which coordinates the patchwork of research programs. How difficult is it to go into one of these caves where youve seen a huge die off of bats . Its pretty grim. Youre looking in and it looks like a carpet of pine needles on the floor of the cave except you know its not pine needles its bones. Well close it off. Reporter cory and the Nature Conservancy are concerned about the tennessee gray bat that they are taking a dramatic 300,000 gamble, building a first of its kind manmade bat cave. The bats will come, hibernate in the winter time. After they leave in the spring we can go in and clean the fungus out of the artificial cave. Reporter scientists hope by keeping the cave clean they can slow the spread of the disease. How many bats do you hope will hibernate in here . Eventually we can easily sustained 10,000 to 20,000. Theres enough surface area for 200,000. Reporter if it works, other artificial caves could be built elsewhere. Which might help save hundreds of thousands of americas most endangered bat. Seth doane, cbs news, stewart county, tennessee. Coming up after your local news on cbs this morning the east coast braces for whats expected to be a super storm, forecasters say two weather systems on a collision course threaten on the unleash Gale Force Winds and heavy snow by late sunday. And the latest from the president ial campaign trail that a little bit later on cbs this morning. Thats the morning news for this friday. As always appreciate you watching. Im terrell brown. Take care everybody. Have a great weekend. ,, your realtime captioner linda marie macdonald. Good morning. It is friday i know. Dont you love it . October 26. Yes, i do. Im frank mallicoat. Im michelle griego. Time now is 4 30. Lawrence is live at the oakland zoo this friday morning. Yes. Guys. And you know what . You know when youre up early and youre at the zoo and not even the animals are awake this morning. Hey, its chilly outside right now. Mostly clear all around the bay area. Temperatures dropping off in the 40s and 50s. But we are look at some very nice weather ahead in fact it is going to be heating up over the next couple of days. Well have more on that and more on the zoo coming up, guys. Back to you. How fun. All right, thanks, lawrence. Taking you out towards our live traffic sensors across the dumbarton and san mateo bridge, we have road