0 going to build a new roof anyway. he said the silverdome in tatters in the brief michigan winter is not really the disaster it look like. it s more like a very, very rough phase 1, the demo phase. michigan is amazing. michigan republicans, you in particular are amazing. on inauguration day this week, while the president was being sworn in for the start of his second term, michigan republicans back home, they spent the day talking about turning an island in the detroit area into a new independent country. it would be ruled based on the fictional pseudo economic novels of ayn rand, the patron saint of paul ryan. that s what they spent inauguration day doing. good luck with that. right after the election this year, after insisting publicly over and over again that there was no need to strip union rights in the state of michigan, michigan republicans, surprise, passed a bill doing just that, and governor rick snyder signed it. the whole thing was opened, passed, and shut within a week, n
0 instead of reading it on tv. okay? we expect to read this on florida. not just true crime, but politics. often the political equivalent of the naked pooping carney burglar. katherine harris, the butter florida ballot, the nice jewish people inadvertently voting for pat with you c pat buchanan, hiring fake candidates to run. the largest medicare fraud fine in history. because as governor he would crack down on health care fraud. it s always been seen as the shameless american state. there were incredibly long lines for voting in florida on purpose. the governor rick scott signed a law to cut early voting days in half. the impact of that, at least 200,000 people did not vote in 2012 who otherwise would have voted because they couldn t wait in the eight-hour long lines that rick scott created and defended as the right thing to do the electoral failure was so floor it got a shotout from the president on election night and a huge round of applause when he talked about long lines and said
0 they do not give a bleep. because michigan republicans do not care what anyone thinks of them, certainly not the press, but apparently also not the voters, michigan is my personal nominee. michigan is my nominee for the one state that is shameless enough to actually do what a whole host of other states finally today are starting to get too embarrassed to go ahead with. usually the outlier in american normal politics is florida, right? florida s generally considered to be our weird state. florida is so weird that on the home page of weird, fark.com, the site is divided into sections like sad, strange, weird, scary, or florida. you can click on the florida tag and you just get the stuff that it seems could only happen in florida. enough said, right? if the headline starts with naked florida man and the story includes doctors being unable to determine what drugs he is on, welcome to your newfound celebrity status, good sir that one turns out to be the florida story of an alleged early
several house fires. matt jablow joins us now. reporter: hundreds of thousands of d.c. area residents are now living in fear of losing power again. unfortunately that fear is a reality for folks on arcadia place in northwest washington. i just now started restock my refrigerator. reporter: when jennifer vermillion s house lost electricity today after a huge tree collapsed on power lines in her northwest washington 245eubd she said her only thought was, hear we go again. yes, exactly. reporter: jennifer and most of her neighbors were in the dark for nearly a week after last month s storm uprooted several trees at least one of which, according to people here, had a hollowed out and badly damaged root system. they re beautiful but they take the risk. reporter: fortunately only one tree also with a hollowed out root same came down today. even more fortunately, nobody was injured, and only one house was damaged, and only slightly. we do usually lose power because
craig: i ve realized that i hadn t shown you guys my sore toe. see it? audience: aw! craig: yeah, thanks for going ugh. how did you do it, craig? hurt it. riding an elephant. we re out of time, aren t we? good because i ve got a yoga class. see you, everybody. [cheers and appl the code red weather night is all over but the hail, the high winds and lightning have caused problems all across our area. we have the latest on the damage and more storms in topper s forecast. plus, for the first time we hear from george zimmerman about the night trayvon martin was killed. severe storms barreled through the washington area today knocking down some trees, cutting off power and sparking several house fires. matt jablow joins us now. reporter: hundreds of thousands of d.c. area residents are now living in fear of losing power again. unfortunately that fear is a reality for folks on arcadia place in northwest washington. i just now started restock my refrigerator. reporter: