gas, which is something that normally isn t allowed unless they have special licenses. we can also tell you about the economic impact. fox business is reporting that it could be soaring over $20 billion. guys, back to you. steve: all right. thank you very much for the live report from battery park, or battery river, as it looks more like. peter: i drive through that river most every day. that connects the tip of southern manhattan. if you were driving manhattan yesterday, it s as close to a city wide gridlock as i ve ever seen on the east side, west side, uptown, downtown. so many people have driven their cars in there. new restrictions beginning today that mayor bloomberg put in in terms of car pooling at certain times across bridges and tunnels. it was a devastating, tough day. took people three and four hours to get into new york city and three and four hours it get home. gretchen: those regulations haven t been in effect since after 9-11, the first time that some of the restr
a train an hour. some subways are set to start running tomorrow but not between manhattan to brooklyn or manhattan to queens but inner burrough. the mayor announced mandatory car pooling and at least three people have to be in the car to pass the bridges and all the bridges and tunnels, so all of them, and the new jersey transit is suspend asked there will not be any subway service from look at that, the entire tip of the island from 34th street all the way down, there is still no power and you cannot run subways without power so there are no subways, nothing down there. that area is some of the most departmentally populateed real estate on planet earth. some residents outside manhattan in new jersey right across the river, look at that massive map, right across the river, today
operating if that building with limited phone lines and limited internet. they are slowly getting it back. if i take you over here, these are our friends we offer free charges, locals who, really, are stranded, they do not have a way to charge their devices so we had friends come in and out all day. a guy said a doorman charged 100 for a charge. that is the situation. it is a ghost down and it will return to a ghost town in a couple of hours when the sun goes down. some service the be back up tomorrow, and that 8 help things out and everyone who came to work today that works on the new york stock exchange, they drove down. that is important. there will be car pooling going on tomorrow and it is a dangerous situation. so, surprise to see we saw so many traders in the building showing new york resilience. neil: you have been going
of mexican origin. 14% puerto rico and 5% cuban. in florida, cubans are 32%. puerto ricans 28% and mexicans 9%. president obama speaks to latino officials here this hour. president has a wide lead over mitt romney among latino voters. what s he plan to do? shore up the support, bring in juan carlos lopez to talk a little bit about that and jessica yellin, inside where president obama will be speaking shortly. jessica, i want to start off with you. yesterday we heard from mitt romney. he highlighted the poor economic conditions among hispanics. 11% unemployment. 2 million hispanics living in poverty. how will the president address the concerns of latino community when it comes to the economy? i expect he will draw on the same message we heard recently from the president about the two different visions for the future economy of the nation talking about how he believes he will build on the middle class and fare fair shake, fair future, building on the middle class and mitt r
you get to see everything going by in the window. greta: are you finding more people are not driving in this area because of the prices? riding bicycles and walking and car pooling. and there is the traffic. the traffic here is the second worse in the nation. people make decisions based on the prices. as it goes up they start to drive less. greta: would you pay $5.69 a gallon of gas or drive around for awhile? i would go across the street, $4.15. greta: if you could see it. you would have to know that gas station exists oh fresh there. there was a proprosal to set limits on that. they tried that in the past and led to shortages and long lines and ehe con mists say that would be a bad idea. greta: i haven t seen any cars gassing up here. maybe the sign $5.69 is rather daunting perhaps. are anyway. jonathan, thank you. thank you very much. greta: coincidence or are