is this a bad sign? they are debating about the president s jobs plan but they can t agree on when he should deliver the plan. that s where we are now, folks. the president asking to address congress on one night. the republican speaker of the house says that night doesn t work for us. you know the story by now. obama requesting the joint session for congress on wednesday but the same night the presidential candidates, the republican presidential candidates are holding a debate so speaker john boehner says do it on thursday, mr. president but we have a problem there too. that is the night the nfl is kicking off its season. now trivia, maybe you ll say, but the white house is saying that would be a distraction the white house wants to avoid and wants the country focused on what the president has to say but the president did agree to move his speech to a week from today. next thursday, yes, the same nights the saints and the packers are kicking off the season. the bickering rai
that may come as news to thousands of vermonters that still do not have power or cannot get in out of their homes or towns but have lost their homes or businesses, but four days after irene came and went food and supplies are reaching towns that had been entirely cut off. and there are makeshift roads made for emergency vehicles only, and national guard helicopters are going where atvs can t. some of the 16 helicopters now on the job are on loan from new hampshire, right next door, and illinois, hundreds of miles away. amber lyon is in the town of wilmington. do the folks you met believe the worst is over? reporter: they do. they feel positive, randi. you can t go anywhere look at this. we have construction equipment wheeling by. you cannot go anywhere in vermont without finding road crews out here trying to rebuild and open the communities, randi. when you talk about what is being done there, and you are showing the road and the construction being done, but what are th
alfonso is a spokesperson for the power company. and i had information r my producer in my ear, a concern definitely. tell us the situation with power in new york city, the potential threat that we may be facing now because of what julie banderas, our reporter was the information see was giving us about the flooding? right now we re looking at about 84, 85,000 customers throughout new york city, and they re mostly focused on staten island where we ve got 18,000 and queens where we have about 25,000 customers out. brooklyn, we ve got about 8500, and the bronx about 6900, so, right now, we re waving the system, we re watching, we ve got whoo is called storm riders and they are located at every one of our facilities, especially in the low lying areas that mayor bloomberg has spoke been and they re watching the water levels and waving it in lower manhattan and the meat packing districts and the areas we re concerned with.
a minute of silence one week after the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit. japanese prime minister spoke to his people. we are going to create from japan from scratch, its strong resolve we all must share. there was strong resolve with stricken reactors in the quake zone. fire engines were used to douse the overheating facilities. electric lines are hoped to be operative this weekend. firemen were getting to join other embattled workers and government finally admitted that it as bad as three-mile island. we and not a lot of difficulty with the mission we are given, he said, fire chief. and lives of so many people rest on your actions. many lives are already lost. 6,900 are officially declared dead. 10,700 are missing. with the hope of any survivors
as you can see, life came to stand still in miyagi free if he can chur. it marked only the beginning of the terror for this region. this morning the death toll is again raised. more than 6900 people now confirmed dead. more than 10,000 still missing. that number is eventually expected to climb into the tens of thousands. it took ten years, a full decade, for formally count the dead and missing from the kobe earthquake. brian todd has a closer look at that. reporter: hi, carol. as you mentioned, there are