I did watch it, it was using $ values for damage caused, without correcting for inflation, and without correcting for coastal population density increase. The only decent information they had was the correlation between sea surface temperatures and storm intensity.
That chart from NOAA does not match their posted report, which has the US at cooler than average.
State of the Climate | National Overview | October 2012
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•The average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during October was 53.9°F, just 0.3°F below the long-term average, ending a 16-month streak of above-average temperatures for the lower 48 that began in June 2011.
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If your going to cherry pick data at least pick correct data.
It doesn't even match the global which is the most important.
State of the Climate | Global Analysis | October 2012
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•The average combined global land and ocean surface temperature for October 2012 tied with 2008 as the fifth warmest October on record, at 0.63°C (1.13°F) above the 20th century average of 14.0°C (57.1°F). Records began in 1880.
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Globaly this last October was 5th warmest.