these pumps, the temporary pumps that they have set up is not matching the actual levels that they re reading in the gauges in there. they ve got to figure out why there is a disconnect between the water they re puffering in and the amount of water that they re seeing in the gauges and all the dials that they have inside that plant. once they figure out that disconnect, then they have to figure out how to treat that and then get it out to the people of beaumont. so it may not be tonight before the people get their water back. brian todd, great reporting all this week. thank you so much. one late note. the white house is saying congress, its request for emergency hurricane funding. it s higher than we expect. i should point out $7.85 million according to one senior official. as all of this unfolds, there is another storm out there, hurricane irma. we don t want to freak anybody out. it is a long way off but keep an eye on it. two possible tracks that could mean trouble for the east co
they held it on a saturday night in iowa at the exact same time that the undefeated iowa hawkeyes were taking on the minnesota golden gophers in their blockbuster college football game. did i mention that the game and the debate were both in iowa, both starting at the same time on a saturday night. that debate shaved about half of the audience off the first debate. that brought in about 8.5 million viewers. the third one was this past weekend. this saturday before christmas. it brought in even fewer viewers than the previous one. nielsen numbers look like it s roughly 7.85 million people who watched saturday night. and of course the republicans have been putting up blockbuster ratings for their zillions of prime chaim highly promoted debates, some of which have had over 20 million people people watching them. but look at this. compare these ratings to 2012. remember, in 2012 president obama was running for re-election. so there s no democratic party debates. right? it s just the republ
the audience off the first debate. that one brought in about 8.5 million viewers. the third one was this past weekend. this saturday before christmas. it brought in even fewer viewers than the previous one. nielsen numbers look like it s roughly 7.85 million people who watched saturday night. and of course the republicans have been putting up blockbuster ratings for their zillions of prime-time highly promoted debates, some of which have had over 20 million people watching them. but look at this. compare these ratings to 2012. remember, in 2012 president obama was running for re-election. so there s no democratic party debates. right? it s just the republicans holding their hilarious, riveting, bizarro 2012 primary with herman cain and newt gingrich and all the rest of them. i mean, in 2012 the republican debates were the best show on television by a mile. and i say that as a person with a tv show on television. everybody was watching the republican debates in 2012. you could not turn
the first democratic presidential primary debate this year was the one that happened in las vegas. that was the one where jim webb and linc chafee were still running around. hi, guys. that debate with five democrats on stage, that drew $15 million viewers. the second democratic debate was last month. they held it on a saturday night in iowa at the exact same time that the undefeated iowa hawkeyes were taking on the minnesota golden gophers in their blockbuster college football game. did i mention that the game and the debate were both in iowa, both starting at the same time on a saturday night. that debate shaved about half of the audience off the first debate. that brought in about 8.5 million viewers. the third one was this past weekend. this saturday before christmas. it brought in even fewer viewers than the previous one. nielsen numbers look like it s roughly 7.85 million people who watched saturday night. and of course the republicans have been putting up blockbuster ratings for