emily, this hasn t been just a weather vaent. it has been an economic event. businesses haven t been able to operate. reporter: hi, gary. it has been such a long week for people. when you see trees like this that toppled and the power lines that came down more than a week ago, it set off a chain reaction so big that the experts, the government and even small businesses say they just haven t been able to add up the total costs yet. what is clear is that as the power comes back on, people are beginning to see just how much they lost. though it only takes an instant for the lights to go out in a storm, things can get darker for days. a chevy chase supermarket just outside washington. disaster hit three days after losing power. a refrigerated trailer compressor blew up and with it the family-owned supermarket s back-up plan. we lost everything in the trailer. then everything in the frozen food case here. basically we ve lost everything in the entire store. reporter: it mean
investors into panic as the dough plunges over 100 points. why the numbers didn t add up for wall street. a rescue from a hot car. it s not what you think. how an unexpected hitchhiker got stuck. good morning, everyone. i m randi kaye. it s 7:00 on the east coast. thanks for waking up with us. we begin in afghanistan. secretary of state hillary clinton carried a message on partnership to work with afghanistan well beyond the planned troop pull out. afghanistan is now designated a major non-nato ally. the u.s. will keep up defense, security and economic relations with afghanistan even after the withdrawal. i am pleased to announce today that president obama has officially designated afghanistan as a major non-nato ally of the united states. we see this as a powerful symbol of our commitment to afghanistan s future. afghanistan joins nations like japan and australia on the non-nato list. shortly after the anuncement, clinton and karzai left for japan for a meeting of in
countries these days. the turnout so far has been pretty good according to the electoral commission. we expect to hear more when the polls close. they re expected to close in about two hours. possible extensions to that. so far we are told more voters than expected have turned out. who s on the ballot today? well, that is one of the key issues here, gary, is people are overwhelmed by the choice. thousands of candidates are running in this election for the national congress. most of them are virtually unknown to the libyan population who, for more than 40 years, knew one man only, moammar gadhafi, and today, his picture was replaced by the pictures of thousands of people. some are individual candidates running, others are representing more than 300 political entity, islamists, liberals, different political groupings. end of the day, gary, they have to work together, no matter who emerges from this election and it s very hard to tell with no real polling who will come out f
what may have caused this shocking end to a life seemingly spinning out of control? and great white shark spottings heightened. fears along the cape cod area. our own brian todd is on a boat with experts trying to track them down. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. right now a disappointing jobs report kicks off day two of president obama s bus tour into overdrive and arms his opponent, mitt romney, with new political ammunition to use against him. look at this. unemployment is stuck at 8.2%. and only 80,000 jobs added in june. the numbers are even worse when you look at minorities. we re covering all sides of this dramatic political story. our own dan lothian and dana bash, they are both standing by live. but first cnn s poppy harlow breaks down the numbers. hi there, wolf. i think the headline for this jobs report is disappointing. only 80,000 jobs created in the month of june. unemployment stays at 8.2%. we need to be creating somewhere between 300,000