LET ME TELL YOU THIS HURRICANE

GOING ON IS CALLED SANDY.

IT IS THE BIGGEST ONE IN TERMS

OF AREA THAT HAS EVER BEEN

RECORDED.

ONE EXPERT ACTUALLY ESTIMATES WE

MIGHT HAVE AS MUCH AS 100

BILLION DOLLARS IN DAMAGES.

TREES FALLING, POWER LINES

COMING DOWN, MANY MILLIONS OF

PEOPLE WITHOUT POWER.

THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

CLOSED TODAY BECAUSE OF

POTENTIAL FLOODING IN NEW YORK,

SUBWAYS FLOODING.

DOWNTOWN AREA OF NORFOLK IN

VIRGINIA.

UNDERWATER, SOME OF THE AREAS.

TERRY: NOTHING LIKE WE HAVE

BEEN HEARING.

PAT: OH NO.

WE HAVE BEEN SPARED.

FOR THAT IS WE ARE GRATEFUL.

PRAY FOR THOSE THAT WILL BE

SUFFERING.

IF YOU HAVE HAD POWER CUT OUT

FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, ESPECIALLY

IF YOUR POWER IS CONNECTED TO

LIGHTS AND HEAT.

TERRY: ABSOLUTELY.

WE ARE HOPING IT IS NOT GOING TO

BE AS BAD.

THE COUNTRY COULDN'T BE HIT WITH

SOMETHING LIKE THIS AT A WORST

TIME.

PAT: TORNADOS HURRICANES,

EARTHQUAKES.

TWO REPORTS FROM CBN NEWS,

BEGINNING WITH MARK MARTIN HERE

HE IS.

REPORTER: TRAVEL ALONG MUCH OF

THE EAST COAST IS ON HOLD,

WASHINGTON'S REGION ENTIRE

PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM SHUT DOWN.

MANY MAJOR HIGHWAYS CLOSED AND

ALL AIR TRAVEL CANCELLED UNTIL

SANDY PASSES.

WHEN THERE ARE MAJOR FLIGHT

CANCELLATIONS, IT AFFECTS

TRAVELERS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.

REPORTER: MANY AFFECTED FROM

CAROLINAS TO CANADA AND WEST TO

GREAT LAKES.

THIS STORM IS GOING TO HAVE

THE WORST CHARACTERISTICS OF

NOR'EASTER.

REPORTER: HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH

TIDES ALREADY FLOODING PARTS OF

VIRGINIA.

CBN'S OPERATION BLESSING IS

PROVIDING SANDBAGS AND

PROTECTING THIS CHURCH.

OPERATION BLESSING IS MAKING

PREPARATIONS TO GO WHEREVER IT

IS NEEDED MOST.

LAND FALLS EXPECTED FOR NEW

YORK, NEW JERSEY AREA, STORM

SURGE IS THE GREATEST CONCERNED.

NEW JERSEY, LONG ISLAND, NEW

ENGLAND, YOU WOULD BE PUSHING

WATER BACK INTO AN AREA THAT

WOULD CONTAIN WATER LEADING TO

INCREASED STORM SURGES.

RIGHT NOW A STORM SURGE IN

LONG ISLAND SOUND OF SEVEN TO

TEN FEET.

WE HAVE SEEN ESTIMATES AS HIGH

OF 11 FEET ABOVE TYPICAL HIGH

TIDE.

THAT WOULD LEAD TO UNPRECEDENTED

FLOODING.

THE LAST TIME WE SAW ANYTHING

LIKE THIS WAS NEVER, WAS NEVER

REPORTER: OFFICIALS EXPECT POWER

CREWS FROM ACROSS THE TRUES ON

STAND BY ESTIMATED 10 MILLION

PEOPLE COULD LOSE POWER WILL

LAND FALL HOURS AWAY.

NEW YORK CITY OFFICIALS ARE IN

THE THICK OF PREPARATIONS.

YOU CAN SEE BEHIND ME THE

HUDSON RIVER IS CHURNING UP.

HERE IN NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK

MANY PREPARE FOR THE WORST WHILE

HOPING FOR THE BEST. BIG

APPLE HEEDING THE CALL TO BE

READY FOR THE WORST OF MONSTER

STORM, SANDY.

POWER PLANT WORKERS PLACE

SANDBAGS NEAR THE POWER GRID.

HEAVY RAIN, STRONG WINDS AND

MASSIVE FLOODING ARE EXPECTED TO

HIT THE NATION'S MOST POPULOUS

CITY, HARD.

THEY ARE EXPECTING A STORM SURGE

FOUR TO EIGHT FEET.

EVEN THE CITY'S SUBWAY STATIONS

HAVE BEEN ORDERED SHUT DOWN BY

THE GOVERNOR IN PREPARATION OF

THE STORM.

IF YOU DON'T EVACUATE, YOU

ARE NOT JUST PUTTING YOUR OWN

LIFE IN DANGER.

YOU ARE ENDANGERING THE LIVES OF

OUR FIRST RESPONDERS.

NEW YORK JOINS A LONG LIST OF

OTHER STATES TO DECLARE STATES

OF EMERGENCY AHEAD OF SANDY.

AFTER HARD LESSONS LEARNED FROM

HURRICANE KATRINA, MANY NEW

YORKERS ARE TAKING THIS STORM

SERIOUSLY. WE WENT TO

READYFOOD.GOV.

ALL THE NECESSARY THINGS I

NEED.

WE'LL SEE.

BRING IT ON, HURRICANE SANDY!

DESPITE DARKENING SKIES, THIS

COUPLE PRESSED AHEAD WITH THEIR

WEDDING PLANS.

WE ARE PACKING UP AND BEING

EVACUATED OUT OF OUR HOTEL.

IT IS PRETTY CRAZY.

TOURISTS SEEM UNPHASED BY THE

APPROACHING HURRICANE.

WE DON'T KNOW IF IT IS A

HURRICANE OR A STORM.

IT IS A HURRICANE.

LISA IS HER NAME?

SANDY.

OKAY.

THAT IS BETTER.

MEANWHILE, SANDY IS SURE TO

LEAVE A LASTING MARK ON THIS

CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS.

WORST OF SANDY'S WRATH IS

EXPECTED TO COME ASHORE LATE

TODAY OR EARLY TUESDAY ALONG THE

NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY COAST.

REPORTING IN NEW JERSEY,

CHARLENE ISRAEL, CBN NEWS.

PAT: THANKS, CHARLENE, SANDY

IS SLOWING DOWN THE PRESIDENTIAL

RACE, HERE IS LEE WEB.

REPORTER: THAT'S RIGHT, PAT,

HITTING NORTH CAROLINA, NEW

HAMPSHIRE, AND OHIO,PRESIDENT

OBAMA AND MITT ROMNEY HAVE

CANCELLED EVENTS IN SEVERAL OF

THE KEY STATES.

PRESIDENT ASKED AMERICANS TO

PULL TOGETHER AND HELP ONE

ANOTHER.

TO CHECK ON NEIGHBORS, FRIENDS

AND ELDERLY.

PAUL RYAN ASKED AMERICANS TO

PRAY FOR THOSE IN SANDY'S PATH

AND THE STORM AFFECTS EARLY

VOTING.

MANY POLLS ARE CLOSED.

THIS COULD BE THE MOST EXPENSIVE

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN EVER,

PASSED THE TWO BILLION DOLLAR

MARK.

PRESIDENT OBAMA AND MITT ROMNEY

HAVE RAISED 1.7 BILLION DOLLAR

AND MAJOR POLITICAL ACTION

COMMITS HAS RAISED 3 BILLION

DOLLARS.

AMERICANS WILL CHOOSE NEXT

TUESDAY BETWEEN TWO VISIONS FOR

THE COUNTRY, THAT WAS THE FOCUS

OF REGENT UNIVERSITIES

ANNIVERSARY.

EFREM GRAHAM WAS THERE.

REPORTER: POLITICAL HEAVY

WEIGHTS FORMER WHITE HOUSE PRESS

SECRETARY DIDI MYERS AND EDWIN

DALE.

60 MINUTES CORRESPONDENT STEVE

KROFT MODERATED THE DEBATE.

CAN'T BE A WORLD POWER, CAN'T BE

THE LEADER OF THE WORLD IF YOU

ARE BROKE.

DEBATERS TALKED ABOUT

ABORTION, FOREIGN POLICY AND

TAXES.

BOTTOM LINE IS TWO PARTIES AND

TWO COMPETING VISIONS FOR

AMERICAN AMERICA, REPUBLICAN'S

VISION. NUP FOUNDER'S

VISION.

VISION OF A COUNTRY THAT

BELIEVES RIGHTS COME TO PEOPLE

FROM GOD.

AND THE ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT

IS LIMITED.

DEMOCRATS VISION.

GOVERNMENT DOES HAVE A ROLE

IN MOTIVATED AND INSTIGATING THE

CHANGE IT CAN THROUGH TARGETED

INVESTMENTS AND CREATE

OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE THAT

DON'T HAVE ANY.

THE POLLS MAKE ME TIGHT.

MITT ROMNEY AT 50 PERCENT TO

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA 47.

FORMER PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR ED

REN DALE WARNED DEMOCRATS AS A

POSSIBLE UP STATE WHICH HASN'T

BACKED A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT

SINCE 1988.

CLASH OF TITANS AUDIENCE MEMBERS

WANT TO SEE MORE UNITY.

AT 25, NOMINY IS VOTING FOR THE

FIRST TIME.

AMERICANS NEED TO GET

TOGETHER FOR AMERICA.

I THINK HERE HEARING THAT

TONIGHT, HOW REFRESHING IS THAT?

THAT IS THE CRITICAL ISSUE.

JUSTIN COOK CAME TO HEAR FROM

THESE POLITICAL HEAVY WEIGHTS

BEFORE HE DECIDES HOW TO VOTE.

I WAS AN INDEPENDENT COMING

IN AND UNFORTUNATELY STILL AN

UNFORTUNATE.

REPORTER: EFREM GRAHAM, CBN

NEWS.

REPORTER: PAT, HOW WOULD YOU

RATE THIS DEBATE?

PAT: I THINK IT WAS SUPERB.

CANDIDATES ARE TAKING MOST OF

THE BIG CROWDS.

I THINK IN TERMS OF SUBSTANCE,

WE HAVE HAD FORMER PRIME

MINISTERS, SCHOLARS FROM HARVARD

HARVARD, SECRETARY OF TREASURY,

WE HAVE HAD TREMENDOUS SPEAKERS.

I THINK THIS WAS A GREAT DEBATE.

IT DID THE NATION PROUD.

I THINK IT DID THE SCHOOL PROUD.

BEFORE WE GET ON ANY FURTHER

TERRY, YOU AND I NEED TO PRAY

FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE NORTHEAST.

THIS STORM IS GOING TO SWING

INTO THE DELMARVA PENINSULA

AFFECTING NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK,

NEW ENGLAND AND MAY GO OUT INTO

OHIO.

WE ARE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE

LOSING POWER, BEING COLD, MAYBE

WITHOUT FOOD.

IT IS A VERY SERIOUS THING.

IT IS THE BIGGEST STORM IN TERMS

OF ACTUAL MASS AND VOLUME THAT

HAS EVER APPROACHED THIS NATION.

WE HAVE NEVER HAD ANYTHING THIS

BIG.

MAYBE THE BIGGEST FOR US IN A

WHILE.

THEY ARE PREDICTING, 95 MILES AN

HOUR WINDS.

PAT: IT IS PICKING UP.

IT IS NOT JUST LOOKING FOR THE

EYE.

IT IS THIS GIGANTIC WEATHER

SYSTEM THAT IS GOING TO BRING IN

AIR.

THERE IS A WARM TREND COMING IN

THAT CAN CREATE SNOW.

IT COULD BE LIKE A NORTHEASTER.

SNOW IN THE APPALACHAINS, COUPLE

OF FEET OF SNOW.

TERRY: I THINK IT HAS

ALREADY STARTED.

PAT: LORD, IN JESUS' NAME, I

PRAY THAT YOU REACH OUT TO THESE

THAT ARE SUFFERING.

WE PRAY, LORD, THAT YOU MIGHT

PROVIDE SHELTER.

THAT YOU MIGHT PROVIDE WARMTH,

FOOD FOR THOSE IN THE PATH OF

THIS DREADFUL STORM, LORD, YOU,

ALONE ARE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF

THE NEEDY.

PLEASE DO IT, NOW.

PLEASE REACH OUT TO THESE WHO

ARE IN THE PATH OF SUFFERING AND

HELP US TO HELP THEM, LORD, IN

JESUS' NAME.

AMEN.

TERRY: AMEN.

PAT: TERRY.

TERRY: ELECTION DAY IS RIGHT

AROUND THE CORNER.

WHAT HAPPENS IN THE NEXT EIGHT

DAYS CAN SET THE COURSE FOR THE

NEXT FEW YEARS.

WE ARE GOING TO BE PRAYING FOR

OUR COUNTRY.

LATER ON, A MOTHER HEARS VOICES

TELLING HER TO MURDER HER

CHILDREN.

FIND OUT HOW SHE RESPONDED, ALL

NEXT.