a litt a little perspective. on friday, stocks closed the best in four years. the dow climbed 1,500 points in october. we are watching oil prices. falling this morning. down more than 1% at the moment. prices have been relatively low for many, many months. more than a year. trading for half a price from a year ago. that is bad news for oil workers. chevron is the latest to slash jobs between 6,000 and 7,000 jobs gone this year. that s 11% of the work force. profits plunged 64% from a year ago. you look at exxon, conocophillips and they announced thousands of job cuts. halloween is over. that means holiday shopping is here. crowded shopping malls and headaches. retailers put out the promotions yesterday. target offering free shipping and returns until christmas.
and the world series champs are the kansas city royals. they beat the mets in 12 innings. if you missed the game, royals down 2-0 in the ninth, but scored two runs to tie the game and send it into extra innings. they scored five runs in the 12th to put it away. kansas city s first world series title since 1985 and the second in the team s history. the mets just couldn t get it together. they couldn t. and be way down. depressing. always next year. halloween nightmare series for mets. now, el niño taking shape bringing heavy rain and snow in the west to start november. let s get to meteorologist allison chinchar. we are finally going to get some much-needed rain in parts of california. not just rain, but also snow. the system trails in on monday
so see how some towns are responding to keep people safe on this halloween. how is this for a halloween scare? what would you do if you were in an elevator when it suddenly plunges eight floors? don t they have a disneyland ride like this. happened to some at a hotel. what made for, finally made this elevator stop. what should you do, hopefully this won t happen to you, but what should you do if this happened to you. i would have a heart attack on the way down. just me. and do you love your family dog enough to clone him? well, this woman in new mexico cloned her dog, the clone is a 12 week old puppy. how she did it and what that critter is like. cool story for you animal lovers out there this morning. yeah, a good one. i don t know. first, new details on the halloween nightmare created by the snowstorm here in the northeast. passengers on four flights say they were stranded for hours on the tarmac at connecticut s biggest airport. for hours. and with temperatures in the te
first, at least 11 people are dead from the freak storm over the weekend. a rare october scene for sure. states of emergency in effect in new jersey, connecticut, massachusetts, and parts of new york. yeah, severe weather is also creating a halloween nightmare for thousands of travelers around the country. we begin our coverage with larry jacobs. reporter: freak october nor easter proved a nightmare for air travelers. the government is investigating passengers being trained seven hours on a jetblue flight from florida to new jersey that was diverted to connecticut. no food, no water, no bathrooms. the captain notified air traffic control of tension aboard the aircraft. i have a problem here on the airplane. i need to have the cops on board. we got on the ground at 17:24 z, and we have been here now for 7 1/2 hours. reporter: under the passenger bill of rights, jetblue could be fined $27,000 per passenger. except in extreme cases, airlines rarely get the maximum penalty and pass
fans. ouch for us. we re not criticizing the new york mets in the studio. now to some extreme weather. it was a halloween nightmare for those in the south. second day in a row high winds, heavy rains and tornadoes ripping through parts of texas leaving six people dead. south of the city of houston a tornado damaged about 25 mobile homes including this one flipped on its side. two people were injured in a pretty minor way. and up to eight inches fell in the houston area since friday. let s check in with rick reichmuth. what is going on? there has been a crazy couple of days. almost like a spring kind of storm. had this been in the spring it probably would have had more tornadoes with it. that kind of a system setup. and it s getting better today. ear going to still see some rain. i don t think the severe weather today, but we re we re going to see as much of the flooding but we still have the storm, here s where the cold front is. kind of a chillier morning. but we re also goi