understatement. this is the first time ever we ve had a flash flood emergency declared. reporter: across the northeast, the death toll continues to rise. among the victims a two-year-old. this has been a biblical storm by every meerns. reporter: in queens, the new york police station commissioner says at least eight people died in the basements of home inundated with water. the roads flooded. dozens and dozens and dozens of cars stranded. reporter: across the big apple, first responders rescued hundreds from submerged cars, including commuters in stopped subway trains. roughly between 15 and 20 trains did get stranded and folks needed to be rescued. reporter: kathy hoe kel says it is still not clear where this flooding could have been predicted. i know i deployed resources yesterday morning, but we did
american homes. that s our broadcast for this tuesday night. thank you very much for being here with us. good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. . president trump explains his recent attacks on the late senator john mccain and why he won t let go of local grievances months after the local war hero s death. the part that legal experts say should concern the president. new reporting on how the president may be preparing to the response of the mueller report when and if it is made public. good morning, everyone, it is wednesday, march 20th. we begin with the president and john mccain once again during an ameerns at the white house
that. so i am definitely against piling on, no matter what definition you use. there he is being kind of cheeky there, ashley. what s the relationship right now between the president and rod rosenstein? yesterday he said he refused to say whether or not he had confidence in him. but is it rosenstein that s between a rock and a hard place? or is the president as well? because despite those numbers we just read in the cbs poll, there still is a majority of meerns, including a majority of republicans, according to another set of polling, that say that they don t want the president to fire mueller. they want him to finish this investigation. that s exactly right. i would say everyone is between a rock and a hard place here. there are no good outcomes. you have rod rosenstein who is sort of fighting for his political survival, trying to find a middle ground, trying to buy, it seems, mueller some time to finish his investigation. and you have the president who has made very clear what
process that is currently less than credible. but what s the ability to get it actually done? i m hoping that it can be done. a lot of this will hinge upon the way the american people will respond. the american people will have the last word. if the american people make it known they desire these things, it will happen. many of these meerns are taking recalsitrant positions, if they will let they will know how they feel, you will see a difference. tomorrow marks one week since james comey was fired by the president and you are calling for the president s impeachment. i realize, it is not just that. there are so many issues swirling around all of this. in terms of wanting the president to be impeached, do you think that s going to happen here? given, you re saying. we need the american people to take a stand. that won t happen for quite some time.
meerns get their insurance through their employer. to understand the ways in which the consumer protections of the aca dramatically improved the quality of the health insurance they were getting. so the end of discrimination against those with pre-existing conditions. the ability eep your kids on your insurance through age 26. the end of the ability to discriminate by insurance companies against older americans and against women. the average american didn t realize that was a benefit they got. the debate focused more narrowly on the tens of millions who didn t have health nshls at all and who got it through the aca. that was a big important advance. it didn t touch as many americans as those a got better care. appreciate your time. thank you. still ahead, our round table digs deep entire the resistance and how today s votes will play