big to look at the dimmest galaxies in the universe. the james webb telescope is not just built by scientists to look into the univery, it s taking humanity on a journey. we re going to enter a completely new part of observational space where we ve never trod before. and every time we ve done this as a species we ve discovered new things. we have just received the 18 hexagon that s make up the big mirror that collects the starlight and focuses in on the camera. gold has very unique properties in terms of reflecting infrared led. this is an infrared telescope. that s why we choose gold. i think people want us to build this telescope because they want to know how we got here. i want to know how we got here. you know, we started the james webb telescope to look at the cosmos and the early universe. but we discovered there s so much more powerful, that it can do new things. and we re seeing teams of people
between now and tuesday. so i would think this would depress to some degree the popular vote this obama would get in new york and new jersey. it s not going to change them to red but it would affect the national popular vote totals. jon: but no affect essentially on the net electoral college vote you think? i don t think so. i was really looking to see whether this storm was going to affect northern virginia. virginia is a swing state, northern virginia is heavily democratic. if the storm had depressed the vote in northern virginia i think that would have been enough to tip the state to romney. it really didn t happen, virginia was not badly affected by the storm. jon: virginia is one of the states both candidates are fighting over. it will be fascinating to see where the numbers come down on tuesday. saba doe at the univery of virginia, thank you. where to begin the recovery from sandy that is one of the questions pwa. you have large swaths of the east coast, like the hard hit