is not impacting the investor con confidence today. speaking at an annual economic conference, fed chairman ben bernanke believes that we are in for long-term growth, and that is what you are seeing, stocks are up. and those remarks come after a federal report that the economy grew at a eager 1%, and still long-term optimism for the chairman, and he is not, martin, making any hurricane predictions, and that it is from cnbc, the first in business worldwide. thank you. and mayor michael bloomberg announced for the first time ever mandatory evacuations here in new york city with the shelters set to open in the next half hour. i am joined by jim cantore in battery park in the evacuation zone. jim, evacuating parts of new york city, and this is historic. it is. it is, you know, you have to keend of think back, when was