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Endure. it's just -- it was an unbelievable storm. it was really well predicted, too, which is scary. even, chris, the power outages were predicted to be somewhere between 5 million and maybe 8 million. what did you say, almost 6 million now? >> about 6 million people. 670,000 just in new york, which is new york city, which is the largest in the history of this city. >> that's the scary thing. four days in advance we thought this was possible and the forecast was very accurate and we still had, what, almost 15 or so deaths and all these catastrophes out there and power outages. just shows you ...

Rain, with fire, with power lines down. it's a very tough situation in greenwich. on top of that, further north in easton, connecticut, you had a firefighter responding to an emergency and a tree literally came down on his vehicle and apparently he suffered some sort of head injury and also suffered a cardiac arrest and he died in the line of duty trying to respond to a fire there. you have towns like westport, connecticut, where 80% of the residents are without power. in new york city, 670,000 customers without power. it is the biggest outage in new york city history. according to con ed. and...

Greed and incompetence and good old fashioned corruption to flush that much money down the drain. >> jefferson county alabama population 670,000 and bankrupt to the tune of $4 billion. >> what words would you use to describe the financial situation of jefferson county? >> hopeless at this juncture. >> hopeless? >> hopeless. >> jimmy steve vines is the district 3 commissioner. he was elected after the price sis began. >> how did the whole thing go off? >> they attempted to build a cadillac when a chevrolet would have worked just as well. >> it is not a tail about cars but sewers and the sort of...

Another sponsorship for michael phelps. it's really important fore those athletes to be able to grab them in that very short olympic winning moment for them because listen, it's very expensive to train. i checked michael's twitter feed last night. he has 670,000 followers and last night i checked a tweet after he won, he wrote, number 18 and number 19 of my career. omg, i'm speechless. lots of thanks to other team manies throughout his twitter feed. but you know what? no controversy, which is rather rare at this point because twitter has been full of controversy since these olympic games began...

Some statistics on how much this conference has cost through the years. back in 2006 the tab was $486,500. in 2012 up to $670,000. they say they need to do this to provide workshops and training and education and networking for the manufacturers and industry experts but that cost has gone way up more than the cost of living increase? >> listen, i'm going to concede that at a time when our deficit is in the trillions, to the average american taxpayer, hundreds of thousands of dollars isn't all that big a deal. i think it's very important timing issue in terms of the politics of this. i play a l...