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How are we doing with the dope factor? is anybody out there, trying to spec at a time the storm? hopefully you're not seeing that. >> reporter: no. we saw one person out here about an hour and a half ago walk out to their boat. which i thought completely unwise. one person went out, checked the ropes and left. none of the boats have come loose but one of the docks did split off and floated away. i suspect there could be more of that in the next hour or so, chris. >> all right. john, stay safe. stay inside. monitor that situation. let us know what we need to tell everybody else. i'll check back...

And afghanistan, and to see it all unravel like this is disheartening. very disheartening. >> afghanistan is the longest war and maintaining more troops for another 2 or 5 years, is that the answer? >> not without a strategy and long- term goal and you line out what it is that you are trying to accomplish. we are sending young people over there, to train and advise. and train and advise what? >> how much longer do we think that the afghan government will stay in power, you not only have taliban but the isis and the new korasan province that is an al-qaeda split off. it is turning into a joint ...

Stat enisland and in new york. we talked to a lot of these people, this is about so much more than these two recent cases. so that's keong lau in chicago. chris welch who is in downtown manhattan not too far from me, northwest of me in tribeca. chris welch, i don't have pictures so i can't see what it looks like from where you are. what have people there been telling you as you' been walking tonight? >> of let me give you a little sense of what we see. within the last half-hour or so, we followed a group, i know you followed a group that went over the brooklyn bridge. we were where that massiv...

And erin stay with us as we are going to a gathering point. it looks like we're stopping. we'll continue to talk to you throughout the night. >> we'll watch them. new york city and pockets shutting down here. chris welch is in downtown washington tonight. what is happening where you are? >> reporter: well, erin, it sounds similar to what brooke is seeing but we are on broadway, it goes without saying broadway, a major thoroughfare here in new york city. and we're seeing crowds of people. we started in foley square, the same place brooke started, where there were a thousand, 2,000 people that c...

Access. that being said, they're responsible for republicans giving up six u.s. senate seats over the last two election cycles. the reality is, if the sarah palin wing of the party did split off, it would be -- it would put back into play many categories of voters that republicans used to compete strongly with but haven't done well with in recent years. >> mike, do you see that as possible, that if there was a tea party split and they got a candidate for president that that would free up the republican from trying to appeal to that side? >> yes, it would. but still, it would elect a democrat. ...