Italians are thinking of moving all production to china. I will fight for every good job in america. Cenk just not true. Lies, lies lies. All right, weve got all that and so much more for you tonight. Its go time. [ music ] sandy has the campaign scrambling. Were keeping an eye on the ocean back here. Obama our number one priority is making sure that were saving lives. Debris is coming down, and now were watching a partial collapse. And a lot of people are enduring very difficult times. Water levels rising suddenly. Very clear on what youre supposed to do. This is not a time to be stupid. We picked up the obama fema personnel working with government. More droughts, more of this. You cant have fema for every state. Pushing record storm surge. The governor ordered all of businesses in and around this area to be shut down. Were going to cut through red tape. Were not going to get bogged down. Today it is extremely dangerous and. Cenk already, were going to talk about alfas sets of Hurricane Sandy and that storm hitting the east coast of the United States now. It is shutting everything down in new york today including other cities including wall street. It has done that tomorrow. Subways, stock market, all closed. So now were going to discuss whether this has something to do with Climate Change, which unfortunately you wont see with a lot of outlets. Well talk about the politics of it in just a minute. First, as i tell you about how the media is not focusing on Climate Change, its amazing because theyre literally getting battered by the storm and still not recognizing it. Here is a collection of media reports on Hurricane Sandy. Obama ref prepositioned assets where local personnel is working with state governments and we we have Resources Available for those communities hardest hit. Im grateful for the cooperation of our state and local officials. Conversations at this point there are no unmet needs. I think everyone is taking this very seriously. Cenk that was not a compilation of weather reports. Well have that late for you in the show. Thats president obama respond together disaster. Being president , hes in charge. This is a very important moment. I dont know if you know this but were very close to an election eight days away. How he handles this might be enormously important to how you vote in november. Thats the president talking about the importance of fema. When you talk to mitt romney, if he talks like he did during the primaries, he told you hes not interested in fema. Therefema is running out of money and some are saying maybe we are learning what the states role should you. When you take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, thats the right direction. To go even further and send it to the private sector, thats even better. Cenk private sector . So you want to profit off this . Mitt romneys obsessed, man. The only thing the guy ever thinks about is money. He sees a storm and doesnt think how am i going to protect america. No, its how am i going to make a buck of this. This is not the time to privatize. Thats like privatizing the police or fire department. Oh im going to request those people in that storm depending if i make an extra dollar out of it or not. Thats a horrible idea. People on the east coast are living through what serious storm we could have, and could you imagine if mitt romney was in charge . Well it depends you might get rescued if there is an extra buck in it for us. And remember how republicans handled disaster. This is the legendary reaction that president bush with his director of fema at the time, browning. There will be plenty of opportunities to help later on, but right now the immediate concern is to save lives and get food and medicine to people so we can stabilize the situation. Again, i want to thank you all browning youre doing heck of a job, fema director is working 24 [applause] cenk you know what, even brownie said afterwards, the main problem was president bush failed to recognize the magnitude of the storm and did not take precautionary action. Thats the problem with the republicans. They dont believe in the government. They dont believe in it. Why in the world would we put them in charge of it. Look at what romney said, after all the problems under the last republican president under fema, i dont know, why dont we privatize it and make money off it ha, ha, ha. Not interested. Right before the election he said hes very sympathetic and cares a lot about the storm. Quote, out of sensitivity for the millions of americans in the path of Hurricane Sandy were canceling tonights events with governor romney in wisconsin and also canceling all events currently scheduled for both governor romney and congressman ryan on tuesday. Governor romney believes this is a time for the nations leaders to focus on those americans who are in harms way. We will provide Additional Details with regarding governor romneys schedule when they are available. He also added my campaign will be run by the big Oil Companies. If im president you can expect a lot more of these kinds of storms over the next four years because i dont give a dam about Climate Change and the storms they produce. Oh that was not part of the official statement. Okay. And then of course leave it to fox news to say if romneys canceling events. Thats fine. What a gentleman he is. What a terrific human being. If president obama is canceling events disarray. The president left for orlando. Nothing has changed that much. Does it show disarray or discontent within the obama Election Campaign where he comes down doesnt do anything, and then flies back. The president can be unpredictable. A lot of reason why they brought the president back was they didnt know how bad the weather would be in washington. Its the image of him campaigning on the day of the hurricane. He cant do that. Cenk no, no, you know, obama, he doesnt know what is going on. [ chuckling ] coincidentally on fox news. In 2013 the request for the fema budget is a little over 13. 5 billion. You need that, obviously because were getting more and more severe storms every year, including Hurricane Sandy that is hitting us now. Better be prepared as we learned from hurricane katrina. Not if you listen to the ryanromney budget. We give them every benefit of the doubt on Discretionary Spending for the government. They dont specify, of course, because theyre cowards. They dont say im going to cut this program this program this program. Lets assume they do not cut fema any more than they would cut any other program. What would the fema budget under the ryan plan . Well, it would be about 3. 9 billion. Let me did oh some quick math for you guys. That is 10 billion less from 13. 5 billion to 4 billion. Well, ryan is an extremist. Thats not fair to look at his. Lets look at romneys budget proposals stretching through 2015. What would he cut it down to . Less 1. 8 billion. Its even worse than ryans budget. So if you are interested in getting a proper response through fema to these storms apparently youre not going to get one if ryan and romney get their wishes and desires and cut the hell out of our budget. This is a good time to be doing that. Is that a smart move . And under their watch by the way, of course as i said the Oil Companies pretty much announced romney had a meeting with the Oil Companies and then came out and said my plan is basically the oil company plan, which is to do nothing about Climate Change. Its really gross. Lets bring in Michael Shure our political correspondent. Michael, we mostly of course care about what is happening today. We want to make sure that the people in new york are safe. I have friends and family who livewhat is projected to be the hardest place hit place in new jersey. Its the same as gun control. Dont bring politics into it, its too soon. No its too late. Politics happen at the same time that life happens. Libya happened, and you wonder what people do. This gives the president a chance to show what he would do in this occasion, and it gives us a chance to look at what mitt romney would do were he in charge of the country or in charge of fema. In politics, you cannot separate politics because its convenient or unseemly. There is a bad storm coming, and there is a president ial election. You Pay Attention to how each of these people do it. Its almost a gift. Cenk now as you look at that to me when im looking at the actually, facts im stunned that these guys are at a 5050 point. One of the polls take an onepoint lead, but theyre just neck and neck in all the polls on the national level. I mean, are the democrats in some ways too timid in takingin saying, hey minute, these guys will cut the living hell out of fema. He said to privatize it. It was House Republicans who stood in the way of extended more funds to fema. They said without cuts were not going to extend more funds to fema. Then through see questions trace, another 800 million is going to come out of femas budget. Thats bad. Cenk one last question question{ l }. If anything goes wrong president obama gets hurt because he was in charge . I dont think you can blame an act of god, a storm weather on the president. I dont think people blame george bush for katrina. They blame him for what happened after katrina. I think its impossible to say and a fools errand to say how this could be good for the president . How could this be good for romney . This storm is bad and how he handles it is how hell handle it. Cenk the answer is policy. Do we have the right policy in place or dont we. Is it Climate Change or having enough for fema. When we come back were going to talk about climb change. It is causing more and more severe storms . Stay with us. This is the blizzard of 2011. It is a giant. Columbia, south carolina, and nashville, tennessee. Both hit 109 their hottest ever. Cenk later in the program im going to tell you who the elbow is on, the tea party leaders, but who among them is going to lose this election . Thats a great list. Well share that with you later in the program. Good morning ladies and gentlemen, im captain whitaker. Theres 102 souls on board. Lets get em tucked in were ready to push. Current tv knows there are two sides to every story. I have no control on my side this is south jet 227, we are in a dive here we go brace for impact you saved a lot of lives. He was very worried. Looks like a cool character. He reminds you of. Sully. The guy who landed the plane in the hudson. He has to be a hero. He definitely a hero, yea. Now, what if you heard the other side of the story . I had a couple beers the night before the flight. You had alcohol in your system. That could be life in prison. Are you hiding something . Well, theres a darker side to this guy. Makes it a lot more complicated. Theres more depth there. Hes not god himself. So it makes it much more interesting. You saved my mom. Its much more intriguing now. While there are two sides to every story. Its a lie. In the end, theres only one truth. Flight. Only in theaters november 2nd. [ theme music ] cenk all right, were back on the young turks. Youre looking at images of 14th and 8th in new york where the disasters have gun unfortunately, as the storm picks up in intensity. Why is it picking up in intensity . Well we believe not we as in the young turks, but we as the scientists of the world believe if you have Climate Change you will get more severe storms. Here we have a giant unprecedented storm that combines many different fronts into one, that is larger than anything that the Atlantic Coast has seen. Let me give you quotes from scientists. Here is the capital weather gang. The largest hurricane in atlantic history measured by diameter of gale force winds. Another scientist said, i cannot recall ever seeing model forecasts of such an expansive areal wind field with values so high to sore long a time. We are breaking new ground here. And then go to a scientist from Ohio State University lonnie thompson. They claimed virtually all of us climatologists are now convinceed that Global Warming pose as clear and present danger to civilcivilization. How do you like that . I dont like it at all. I have friends and family in new york new jersey, washington and i know many of you do. Many of you live there. This is what happens when you ignore 98 of the scientists in the world. We get incredible storms like this. It is not a coincidence. The droughts earlier in the year were not a coincidence. The Record Number of temperatures we broke was not a coincidence. One weather event doesnt mean anything. A combination of all these weather events is a clear sign that were in the middle of Climate Change. Well go to dr. Reese halter, author of the incomparable honeybee. Thank you, we appreciate it. Hey, cenk. Cenk talk to me why Climate Change whether its the arctic ice melting or the ocean being warmer, you tell me why this would lead to more storms such as this. Get this, Hurricane Sandy is the equivalent of 500,000 atom bombs going off. Its sucking warm energy off the gulfstream and coming onshore. Its the widest, as you alluded to at the top top, its the widest hurricane weve seen. Hurricane irene came last august. She came knocking on the door and no one was listening. Hurricane sandy is in the house and neither president ial candidate can walk away from what is happening. Weve got to begin to plan for whats ahead. The reaction is that its over. Milk is spilt. The climate is changing rapidly. Weve got a super storm that is right in front of us. Weve got the hurricane coming in off the atlantic. Its met up with a noreaster, and then to flow this thing into epic proportion, were missing 1. 35 million square miles of ice in the arctic. So all the heat in the arctic ocean is thrown up into the atmosphere and the jet stream, as it loops south as far south as well into this hurricane and weve got ourselves a super storm. Hello. Its time to get into it. Cenk dr. Halter, let me read you a quote from rutgers situation. She writes, the situation is consistent with what i would expect to see more often as a result of unabated warming especially the amplification of the warming in the arctic. You just mentioned that as well. I want the audience to understand that as well. Why are those two things related. The ice melting in the arctic and what is happening now. The arctic ocean is two degrees warmer. Now that warm air is being thrown up in the atmosphere. The jet stream which is usually a polar jet stream hangs way far north. Since there is so much energy it is now blobbing way far south. It ruined the u. K. Summer and the olympics, and their Food Production and also its really important, the spin machine three weeks ago released some flummery that said the east antarctic is adding so much ice there is no problem. Balls our team down in tazmania the preeminent lab for the antarctic clearly shows that the west antarctic is melting at 180 million tons of ice a day. Thats 500 million tons of ice. What does that all mean . Lets put it in human perspective. The largest living animal right now is the blue whale 125 tons. 11. 5 million blue whales are melting every day. Its throwing the ocean currents into a tizzy. We havent ever seen this. It nullified, it stopped the el nino, which started in june, and thats why cenk, weve got these lateseason hurricanes. Thats part of the warming of the earth. These august machines are now happening in november, and theyre happening farther north. This is a disaster, man. Cenk literally. Thank you, dr. Halter, we appreciate it, and thank you for the quote of the week. I think you know what im talking about. Thank you so much. And look were going to continue to talk about Climate Change. Do you think im mad now . Youve seen flashes of me getting angry about Climate Change . Wait until you see what is coming up later in the program. You aint seen nothing yet. Now when we come back, mitt romney on another topic said oh, i was brilliant in recess stating the olympics. Weve got rocky anderson, Third Party Candidate out here to straighten him out. He was in utah at the time, we also have the numbers. Turns out shockingly he was full of it. Americas winter flip olympics were mired in scandal and deficit. In come mitt romney. He turned t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t the one time its okay for you to miss my show is if thats the only time you can get to a polling place. Make sure that voting is your highest priority on election besides, you can always dvr my show. You really cant dvr the future of the country. To help you make informed decisions, watch current tvs politically direct lineup. Only on current tv. So vote and vote smart. [ theme music ] cenk all right, were back on the young turks. Well Hurricane Sandy has left 2. 2 Million People without power, and then the lower battery section of manhattan of the waves have gotten up to 11. 25 feet. Just breaking a record of 1821. Mitt romney did run the olympics in Salt Lake City. Romney i worked at bain for 25 years. I left that go off and help save the olympics games. My leadership helped save the olympics from scandal and give our american athletes a chance to be as proud as they did. Cenk reason why number 28 i could never be a politician. Awesome, it was all me. Well show you how he did that in a second. But hes running ad with former olympians. Youre training your whole life for that one moment. But the politics were mired in scandal and deficit. They turned to mitt romney. He turned that into a 100 million surplus. Mitt romney delivered the olympics safe and secure. Mitt gets things done. He changed my life. Mitt romney brought a huge sense of hope. Cenk its all true all the skiers and ice skaters were alling all over the place until mitt romney came. Oh thanks god, mitt romney is here. Now i can get gold. Do you want to hear how he quote unquote rescued th