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Stands is a slight prepond rains towards obama in the electoral college and maybe a slight tip toward romney in the popular vote which will bring an interesting dynamic as you were talking about earlier. the point is that its close. at this point, the 2000, george w. bush looked about as good as barak obama does today, but then the dui story came out and the late break polls changed. so things are still dynamic and its still possible for things to move between now and 108 hours from now. >> gret...

>> in terms of the infrastructure that youre talking about and the idea that the new york subway system was christened 108 years ago and the george washington bridge in 1931, we were not thinking of a world in which the banks of the rivers that straddled new york city came up over the banks, werent thinking of a world with frequent extreme weather. does there need to be a major rethink, a major re-imagining of the infrastructure that makes new york city possible? >> look, i think, my answer is d...

Out this elaborate subway system. outside of manhattan its basically loss of power because of downed power lines from trees with the high winds. but a very high percentage of people without power. 90% on long island. 50%, 60% in westchester, suburban counties outside of new york city. so we have our hands full. were making good progress. as you said in your introduction, things are getting better. but, you know, its not to have power three or four days, the density of new york, its tough. >> in ...

Before the subways reopen fully again. the system hit with the worst disaster it has seen in its 108-year history. >> i dont think its any secret. sandy hit us very hard. it was a storm of historic insurance tense tee, but new yorkers are resilient and we have seen an enormous outpour of support eager to volunteer, doe in it and help out. we have a plan for recovery, and that recovery is already beginning, im happy to say, its the beginning of a process that we all know will take a while, but th...

Whole new meaning to the windy city. dangerous winds, gusts slamming the lake front. in lake michigan, the surf is extremely high, massive waves crashing over the break wall. well have a live report from chicago in just a few minutes. meanwhile, in cleveland, ohio, sandys rain-soaking roots an her pourful winds uprooted trees and knocked out power. in west virginia, a snowstorm burying that state. sandy bringing blizzard conditions. tonight people digging out from three feet of snow, and then on...

Infrastructure. its infrastructure that allows this place to support this much life. that allows us to cram this many humans into this small a space. and heres what some of that infrastructure looks like tonight. youre looking at a new york city subway station. which now looks like a dirty aquarium. the subway system is the veins underneath this city that provide life. they are the special infrastructure that allows the city to separate. for the rich, the poor, and everybody in between. right no...

The manhattan burro president is calling this the biggest disaster in the 108-year history of this subway system. before this, the only place they had ever operated was in new orleans. tonight they are on their way to new york city. this storm rolled through the most densely-populated place in america. rescue efforts are still ongoing in this region today. in the long run the city is thinking about how it can adapt to survive more extreme weather and more frequent extreme weather if our new worl...

It washed a boat on railroad tracks and there is a tanker that has washed ashore on staten island right there, it is up high and dry on the land now. the historic 14 storm surge in lower manhattan flooding streets and two major tunnels that connect the island to brooklyn and no one knows when water will be out of them. it left parts of the underground subway system underwater causing what officials say is the worst damage in the 108-year history of the city subway system. no one dreamed this cou...

Identify how to restore service as quickly as we can. >> just to give people who may not even live in new york, but to give them a sense of just how bad this is because we had heard it from the mta chairman the other day, when he talked about the effects of saltwater on a 108-year-old subway system, how bad could it be? >> well, theres lots of components of our infrastructure that are very vulnerable to corrosion and saltwater, just the rails themselves, the third rail, which is the -- what we u...

York city subways every day, and this morning the entire system is shut down. seven subway tunnels under the east river are flooded, and the electricity that powers -- runs the system is turned off to contain the saltwater damage. getting the trains up and running again will be a massive undertaking. >> it could be anywhere between 14 hours to four days just to pump the water out. and then we have to, you know, inspect every inch of rail, inspect all of the infrastructure down there to make sure...