good morning, everyone. i m christi paul in for randi kaye. so glad to have your company. 10:00 on the east coast. 7:00 on the west. i want to begin with suhurrican sandy, which has regained strength. one area that s really starting to feel the effects is the coast of north carolina and that s where we have george howell. in the last couple of hours, have you seen conditions change there, george? christi, good morning. we re starting to feel a little bit of the rainfall from this system. a lot of that rainfall has remained offshore, but here where we are along the outer banks, we are in position to feel those first bands as they move closer to shore. also the winds are picking up out here. the winds have been right around ten to 20 miles per hour, not too bad, but that situation will change and the best evidence of that just take a look out there. you can see what s happening there on the waters, getting rougher and rougher as the storm moves closer to us. right now, this
i have not heard anything of substance. i m looking for more. i mean we re talking about another four years. the questions are all about the economy. i m not up at the white house. i don t see rich people all the time but i see a lot of poor people. microcosm of the issues we re facing in america. you can find every one of the major issues that were involved in the great recession. housing. when the whole mortgage debacle happened the banks weren t lending any more money. social security, medicare. it s a life saver for me. i want medicare preserved. cut other things besides medicare. this is a state where a quarter of the population is over the age of 60. that s the biggest proportion anywhere in the united states. so these people are concerned about every part of the economy. they want answers as to who is going to be best for them. that s breaking my chops just thinking about them. i think the american people are going to pick it up and i actually
americans want to see changes. four years ago people voted for a partisan president and washington is in gridlock because of it president obama reminds us that he inherited a terrible economy. it s not what he inherited but with the misguided policies that slowed the recovery and caused millions of americans to endure lengthy poverty. eliot: with change in the latest theme for the drive to the white house smith fired back saying, the only ching romney is offering is to take us back to the same failed policies that crashed our economy in the first place. president obama made a similar observation a little more colorfully when he said, kids have have good instincts. they look at the other guy and say well there is a bser, i can tell. president obama is rattled on the defensive. he s running on empty and has nothing left but attacks and insults. with just 11 days ago before election day both camps feel the pressure. likely voters favored romney over the president by one point
i went to the holocaust hume there. you mentioned the navy and we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets. one of the challenges we ve had with iran is they have looked at this administration and the administration was not as strong as it needed to be. you said we have to ask pakistan for permission. if we had, wield not have gotten it. we had to go in pakistan. the president was right. i m still speaking. i love teachers. i love teachers. i think we all love teachers. how you like me now how you like me now how you like me now we ve heard the analysis, we ve listened to the pundits, but we saw that debate with our own eyes. and last night the commander in chief delivered a performance of authority and strength that rendered his challenger almost mute. and now fresh off the stage, it s onto a 14-day push through the all-important swing states with dueling events happening this very hour. the president and vi
with inevitable power outages that could last for days, if not more than a week. that s why hundreds of thousands of people who live, work or play near the water, including the spot you re looking at right now, atlantic city, they re all under a mandatory evacuation order. it s why classes are canceled for more than 2 million schoolchildren. it s why more than 10 million commuters in new york, philadelphia and washington have no bus service, have no subway service today. and thousands of airline flights, almost 10,000, in fact, into and out of the northeast corridor are canceled. if you need to drive anywhere in connecticut today, you better hurry up because the governor of connecticut has just announced he s shutting down the highways at 1:00 eastern. and that is just two hours from now. here where i am in new york and where we begin our mega coverage, my colleague, john berman is down in battery park city, which pretty well can be expected to get battered as the namesake is