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15 states at this point. new york and new jersey hit the hardest when it comes to the power outages with a combined 4 million residents still in the dark. bill: the travel nightmare continues. you have to imagine how many people have been affected by this. show you the scene in laguardia here in new york, one of the busiest in the country. water literally covers the runways. so far airlines canceled more than 18,000 flights because of sandy. flights are starting to move out of the new york area....

Armed services committee, and sir good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. bill: how does it impede an investigation if you cant talk to the only man that we believe is under arrest at the moment, or being held? >> well, bill u know that is hugely important to this investigation, and it plays into part of a larger narrative that weve been asking for several weeks now, and one of them is, did we have the military assets that we needed to defend u.s. interest? if not, why? was it because of all...

Bill: thats a great point. i was especially struck by the comments that your governor made yesterday, chris christie. he was clearly taken aback what he had seen up and down the shore. >> it is just like nothing i have ever seen before. you know, we had irene. last year we had a noreaster in 92. i remember as a kid hurricane donna but nothing like this. there are so many people stranded without shelter. and the damage to the public infrastructure, to the boardwalks, municipal buildings, firehous...

>> first of all, i mean these numbers every year, every presidential cycle in any event are getting bigger and bigger, the pre voting, which is a new trend in american politics and i think its only going to grow, that is one. two, the fact that there are more republicans than democrats voting is not at all a surprise to me because a number of those 30 states that have early voting are red states where there would be predominantly republican votes. bill: how about this -- go ahead, make your poin...

Point out because democrats vote more on election today. in ohio its not even close, in terms of where those absentee ballots, or the early vote ballots are. bill: andreas big point is that its a 22 point swing. >> its a meaningless number, its a meaningless number. 22 point swing for what? youre talking about from 2008 to 2012. youre talking about a number of days for early voting to take place. you dont know how many people are going to vote between now and next tuesday. bill: what about that ...

Technicians but close to a thousand people from other states, utility workers and contractors on the ground here helping us to get power restored. martha: were there lessons learned from irene same time last year that might help this time? >> we did take a number of steps as a result of irene. we are tightly coordinating our efforts with the office of emergency management, with local officials, were using social media to reach out to customers and let them know whatee we are doing. we also spent...

Example, the boardwalk is pretty destroyed. also pier village had a lot of damage. if you go further north into sea bright and monmouth beach, those towns are in bad shape because they were below sea level in parts. further along the bayshore i represent, was in union beach yesterday and union beach within maybe three or four blocks of the bay, the storm surge came in and the waves just pounded the houses so a lot of houses just floated away or reduced to rubble. other towns, similar phenomenon....

We do something. i want you to cut through red tape. i want you to cut through bureaucracy. there is no excuse for inaction at this point. >> reporter: as the campaign sets to resume full tomorrow, jim messina, president obamas campaign manager, has a video out today talking about the state of the race. talking about the advantage president obama has in all of those battleground states. the romney campaign scrambling to get facts and figures to counter that. it should be said and could be said, ...