friday comes the all-important monthly jobs report. analysts expect 100,000 jobs added in october, leaving the jobless rate stuck where it has been for months, 9.1%. anything less could jolt wall street. october s auto sales will show whether consumers are making big purchases despite recent figures showing a steep drop in confidence. lowe s, kellogg and pfizer reporting earnings. elsewhere, qantas is flying again after an aus trail court ruled against management and labor in a bitter dispute that prompted the airline to ground entire fleet for three days. finally, in vermont, they take their maple syrup very seriously. counterfitting is so wide spret the state s two senators have co-sponsored a bill in congress that would make it a felony to sell fake maple syrup. increasing penalties to five years in prison.
parts of the northeast are crippled in darkness this morning after a rare autumn nor easter dumped a heavy blanket of wet, crashing snow over the weekend. at least 11 deaths have been reported. more than 3 million homes and businesses have lost power. and officials can t say when it will be restored. nbc s francisco has more. reporter: it s not what you d expect to see on the eve of halloween. goblins and ghoul covered in white. this weekend s record-setting snowstorm won t keep kids from getting their treats. we re excited, actually. one s an eskimo and the other is a geisha. reporter: clean-up began in areas more used to raking leaves than shoveling snow in october. i think mother nature played a trick on us. reporter: a trick that has left as many as 3 million from virginia to vermont in the dark, as tree limbs fell, crippling power lines and blocking roadways. snow hit the tree, hit the leaves. the trees got heavy and a lot of tree damage.
parts of it are gone. the town of about 600 people, parts of it washed away. everyone got away safely, but they don t have much to return to. this is what it looks like at ground level. a correspondent who shot this compared it to joplin, missouri after the tornado. she was stranded there by rising floodwaters. she joins us shortly still stranded there, actually, tonight. irene dumped as much as a foot of rain on the northeast onto already waterlogged ground onto already full rivers and waters. look at that truck trying to get through the water. that water has to go somewhere and it doesn t care who or what is in the way. from virginia to vermont, rivers and streams were overflowing, some now well above record flood levels or soon to be. largely because of the flooding, damage from hurricane irene could hit $7 billion, making it one of the ten most expense si disasters in american history. as many as 5 million people are still without power. lines are down everywhere it hit.
reason why. you re looking where the town of prattsville, new york used to be. parts of it are gone. the town of about 600 people, parts of it washed away. everyone got away safely, but they don t have much to return to. this is what it looks like at ground level. a correspondent who shot this compared it to joplin, missouri after the tornado. she was stranded there by rising floodwaters. she joins us shortly still stranded there, actually, tonight. irene dumped as much as a foot of rain on the northeast onto already waterlogged ground onto already full rivers and waters. look at that truck trying to get through the water. that water has to go somewhere and it doesn t care who or what is in the way. from virginia to vermont, rivers and streams were overflowing, some now well above record flood levels or soon to be. largely because of the flooding, damage from hurricane irene could hit $7 billion, making it one of the ten most expense si disasters in american history. as many