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>> reporter: hi, everybody, rick folbaum in the control room, a lot of new stories we're working on including a story about a killer quake where dozens are dead, including an entire family. more than 150 people are wounded. we'll take you there to the devastation. also, staten island still reeling from sandy, now having to dig out after that nor'easter. we'll talk live, rather, to a local official to see if people are getting the help that they need. agree and the countdown til election day is over, but that debt clock keeps on ticking. a major selloff on wall street yesterday, we're inching...

>>. >> reporter: good to see you. martha: what each candidate is trying to do in the coming days. bill: there are new worries, there are new worries about the national debt and how fast it is growing. check out these numbers. national debt topped $16.2 trillion. it is growing at a rate of $4 billion every 24 hours. that's extraordinary. stuart varney, host of "varney & company" on the fox business network. what to do here? >> it is astonishing how fast we're piling up the debt. i went to check the debt clock and check the calendar for just one moment. back on september the 4th. that was the da...

Forever they will give you a return ticket, as well. jetblue to the rescue for those politically frustrated folks, when your guy loses. that's it for "studio b." now "your world." >>neil: thank you. indeed, we are here for the big debate looking at all sides of it on a day we doled that the economy will be front and center. also, on a day we got two extreme sets of numbers on the economy the one painting a pretty good picture, the other not so promising. but an issue we are told mitt romney wants to bring present and center tonight is the debt. how much we as a country owe. at $16 trillion, pl...

The economy and domestic issues. >> how they can justify raising taxes to the middle class has been buried the last four years. >> dramatic admission today about the president's first term from vice president biden. which gave republicans some predebate ammunition. though he charged bush policies are to blame. >> by the time we were elected they had eight years doubled the national debt. debt clock. doubled it. in addition to that, they had the slowest job private job growth since world war ii under this policy. >> another key debate topic, healthcare. romney is defensive about his massachuset...

Economy. if you can't get it right, it's time to get out. i have to think that these refs work part time for the obama administration in the budget office. they see the national debt clock staring them in the face, they see a debt crisis and they just ignore and pretend it didn't even happen. they're trying to pick the winners and losers and they don't even do that very well. a bit lame. vice president paul ryan forced to compare the president to the replacement refs. we're talking about the lockout and the nfl referees. i asked the question before break, what does it do to american percepti...