they simply can t afford the new or higher tax rates. nephew of george w. bush makes a campaign filing in texas. it doesn t specify what office he is seeking. statue of liberty is glowing once again after super storm sandy left her in darkness thanks to donated service and equipment. liberty island is among one of parks that suffered major damage from the storm. heather: that is nice sight to see. president obama holding firm to his intentions to tie a tax increase to any negotiation with congress to avert a fiscal cliff. now, the plan is to generate revenue. critics say that big budget cuts coupled with tax hikes is a recipe for disaster. is the u.s. economy headed for a black hole? here is more from washington. reporter: fiscal cliff was
they hang up on you and don t answer. i called them. we can t get an inspector. i have never had anything like this. we can t. it s so hard on me. i don t know what to do. gregg: there you see it. clearly a lot of anger, a lot of frustration. utility crews racing to restore power across the northeast but not fast enough. 12 days after super storm sandy and hundreds of thousands of victims are still in the dark. peter doocy has the latest on restoration efforts from washington. reporter: 3% of new jersey and 2% of the state of new york are still in the dark today, almost two weeks after super storm sandy passed through. it was the storm everyone knew was coming but the large lateralingest power company is
want to know is, what was going on in the real time monitoring of the attack itself. it went on for seven hours and rescue missions arguably could have been deployed and why they were told either stand down or we re not going to help you. interestingly enough, what we know is that once that drone was sending back images of what was going on in real time, everyone knew they needed help. the question is, why weren t the people in washington, we know the president, the vice president and leon panetta were in the white house rick: they get a feed for that stuff directly into the white house. anyone who had access could get this up on a computer. gregg: state department, pentagon, white house, c.i.a. they were all likely monitoring the attack. everybody could watch it. the question is, who in washington wasn t watching it? on my show tonight, we re going to have another time line because now there is just a new time line released where the c.i.a. is at odds with the time
under the right conditions. meaning new revenue, not tax increases. he points to 1986 reagan reforms that eliminated tax deductions in order to lower tax rates. the same approach given president obama by the bowles-simpson commission. in washington, jing angle, fox news. gregg: anger and frustration is growing. hundreds and thousands still find themselves in the dark almost two weeks after storm sandy. what is it going to take to get things back to normal? heather: new questions as well about the resignation of c.i.a. director david petraeus and how it could affect the investigation into the benghazi terror attack. person that came and briefed congress the man that was involved with it during, before and after benghazi and stated this was not a terrorist attack, it was a spontaneous demonstration that was caused by the video that was general
national grid, said last night they re doing extremely well. we are progressing very well based on the unprecedented damage on the storm. i am very comfortable with how we ve performed on this restoration. not comfortable with their performance, republican congressman peter king. he wrote a letter to president obama saying i urge you to personally intervene to insure that all appropriate federal assets and authorities are fully deployed to the impacted region. king and democratic long island congressman steve israel want the army corps of engineers dispatch to do long island. israel says if the army corps of engineergo into baghdad and kabul and turn the lights on, then it s time for them to come to new york and finish the job the utility company hasn t been able to. gregg? gregg: peter doocy reporting from washington. thanks. heather: new jersey thousands of storm victims are calling a tent city home. evacuees, utility and rescue workers, military and volunteers, they re all