BBC News with David Austin.

Latest figures in the United States show many more jobs were created last month than forecast 170,000 although the unemployment rate was

marginally

higher. Both the Obama and Romney presidential campaign seized on the numbers as they campaigned hard in the swing states. Mark Mardell reports from Ohio.

It's just four more days until the election from the Ohio crowd shouted out the support to a newly energized president. He said he wouldn't rest until every American who wanted a job had one, and that today's better than expected figures, 171,000 new jobs created in October was the most for eight months. But Mitt Romney in Wisconsin, one another swing states said the slight rise in unemployment to 7.9% show the economy had

stagnated

. He would put America on a better course. The figures themselves are unsurprising, but in a race this tight, anything that could

sway

, just a few votes may really matter.

Five days after a huge storm wrecked parts of the United States northeastern seaboard, frustration is growing among the victims. Many of whom are still without fuel, and electricity. Motorists in New York have been queuing for hours at petrol stations and workers are struggling to restore power to millions on the east coast. Steve Kingston is in New York.

Emergency crews are here, the debris is beginning to be cleared away, there are

bulldozers

on these streets. But there is a degree of anger from residents who really feel that the authorities in the city should have done more, sooner to help them.