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Over, but complete devastation here in the rockaways from either the surge or the fire. >> thank you so much. well, it is back to business on wall street today after sandy sidelined the heartbeat of americas financial world. plus george lucas makes a blockbuster deal that will bring three new star wars movies to the silver screen. youre watching "first look" on msnbc. ♪ ♪

Last time it was closed was 1888 when blizzard left snow dreists four-five feet new york. >> brian: and the final jobs report before the election. charles, do you expect the numbers friday. >> there was scuttlebutt that they may be exost poned. >> brian: people cant get to work. >> we are talking about numbers for last month and the tabulation process is in full affect. we are scheduled to get the adp report. comparable to what we get from the federal government. how many people are working in t...

We have hundred billions in storm devastation. they have the money to back it up. more importantly to your point, the human toll and the monetary toll is insignificant. >> gretchen: well have to go. well get to the 401s later today. storm surge could mean more danger. joe breaks down the anatomy of a storm surge. >> brian: crane barely hanging on. teetering from a high rise in manhattan. a live report. it was too dangerous to bring down. how does it work? you just he to eat it as part of your he...

Would say. obviously it was 7.8 percent unemployment and numbers suggest that we were sloppy as any other match we have the establishment and household survey. they did not match and people were calling the federal government saying they lied about this. there is incentive if it was 8.4 and we learned about it after the election. >> brian: big picture question. this will cost the economy billions of dollars and insurers 20 billion at least. this is devastating hurricane. what is that for the ove...

Before the subway cars will be back to transporting those. millions use that for. flooding is a huge problem last night. i had a chance to get out in the middle of the storm. wading through the storm surge on frond street and those water in the businesses and homes in the city. this is absolutely terrible, the devastation. and the winds guys were so powerful they tore off the facade of an apartment building in the chelsea area. make its look like a little doll house. but those are apartments whe...

Taking out evacuees by the truck load. nypd in scuba gear who had to suit up go house to house because of all of the water down there. we talked to two gentleman who live in this community. they had evacuate they heard what was going on. and they check it out. it is pure and utter devastation and again, the wind not making it any easier. the other concern is high tide expected to pick up in the next couple of hours. we dont know what that will do to the situation. we know that the fear fights ar...

Get back to see their homes. >> reporter: well, they say that a lot of people have left town or have not been able to be in touch with their loved ones as they search for a place to say. cell phone service is almost nonexistent in most of this area. e-mail, blackberry service also very, very spotty. so traditional and more modern methods of communication is not available to people. when they leave town or try to go to some place relatively close to here to find shelter, they are having a difficu...

relations. are the tensions of recent days any worse? any better? im wolf blitzer and youre in "the situation room." first, breaking news this hour. a large tornado has been spotted on the ground in oklahoma and storm-ravaged missouri is being hit by severe weather and possible in the coming hours, searchers in joplin have been taking advantage of the break in the bad weather for a few hours now. 17 people have been pulled alive from the rubble as of last night. but the death toll is f...

Holiness and played a factor in the process and the speed of the process, that he had so much popular devotion and we have heard amazing stories from the people streaming into rome and everyone if they did not meet him personally, the pope traveled so much and they all have memories, stories about him and as one person who met him many times told us, he said everything about meeting john paul was different from other people, it wasnt about him, it was about you. >> finally, jamie, its not withou...

Lets hope that doesnt happen. >> but people should be ready for it. i know we are going to talk later, you will give us some advice because if may is, in fact, a worse tornado month than april has been, folks all over the country have to be prepared for that chad, thanks very much. >> welcome. president obama is trying to show tornado survivors he definitely feels their pain. taking a closer look at whats saying and doing about the storm devastation. and with gas prices soaring, one oil gian...