micronesia supporting them. i think the real danger for the israelis in this settlement move now is that they alienate the few friends they do have left and find themselves further isolated. those numbers, 138 voted for, only 9 against. 41 abstentions. so you make that point very well for us. all right, john ray, thank you so much. well back here in the states, a dramatic weather story to report. a rain-soaked northwest is preparing for the third of four consecutive storms. the most intense rainfall begins tonight, and heavy snow is falling in the mountains. nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer is here with the national forecast. good morning. good morning, alex. yes, the rain out west has been very intense. we ve already picked up about five to ten inches of rainfall in portions of california, and oregon. up into southwestern washington state, as well. we are going to see more rain today, but a stronger storm is going to move in for sunday. that one also has the potential to produce a
hopefully that s helpful in some way. we don t become a run away train one way or the other. you re kind of playing devil s advocate at times. yeah, probably. probably. yeah. i think but not just for the sake of doing it, i think i have genuine questions. i mean i have my beliefs. but, i also, you know, i m interested in hearing the other side. so i like having that debate. and that s the beauty of morning joe is we ve created a place where that can happen. and we encourage it to happen and we don t have food fights and this guy s on the right and he s on the left and they go at it. we have real conversations. in the commercials that s when the fighting begins. that s when it gets personal. it gets ugly. talking about each other s moms. we don t like to talk about that right now. we do have to walk about way too early this is a show that you created. such great style about it. but you ve left it. how does that feel? it s a little bit like giving up your baby. there s no q
how are you? i m well. i m thinking this red tie is an honor of world aids day. of course. aids research paints a pretty dire picture. how many people would these cuts affect? well, that i couldn t tell you precisely, alex. what is absolutely clear is that although we have made incredible, amazing advances in the treatment and prevention of aids over the last ten years, really extraordinary, really absolutely extraordinary, it s perfectly clear that if we re going to continue the fight against the pandemic to the extent we ve done for the last ten years, then around the world, not just in this country but in other countries too, we ve got to continue to put our shoulder to the wheel. we ve got to continue to provide funding that builds treatment and prevention programs so that we can do what secretary clinton
mother-to-child transmission of hiv by 2015 which we actually should be able to do, we re a little off track on that. we think that if there is a real push on resources, if we find the funding for it around the world, we can get that back on track. in terms of stopping or reducing significantly the number of new infections, there we re off track. there we re off track badly, and that s something that we really need to work on. so the picture is, you know, we have to remember how much progress we ve made in the last ten years that s been remarkable, but the picture is not one that s great and we have to stick to the job we ve set ourselves. speaking of jobs, you came to one after the international editor of time and newsweek. are journalists covering it as well as they once did, michael? i wish people spent more time looking at the pandemic, alex, than they did. there are two stories that seem to me to be ones that really
negotiate. and not use new york platform instead of negotiation. however, alex, they re not negotiating, and they re going to need the obama administration to push them into it. is this a game changer in the mideast? how does this affect things, this new u.n. status? i m not sure it s a game changer. because the palestinians still don t have their own country, and their own borders, and their own security and so forth. but the fact that they re identified as a state now. i mean, we constantly talk about a two-state solution. right. living side by side in peace. the u.n. says granted they re nonvoting, they re observer, but they are a state. exactly. i mean is that, that whole number of votes that supported that. doesn t it make a huge statement? it makes a statement symbolically, because they re not really a state in practice, because they don t really control every inch of their territory for obvious reasons. but, it s it makes a