venture back. many others can t go back at the moment because their houses are either flooded or might have lost roofs. it s extraordinary to take a year on with a big storm bearing on there were no casualties reported in the tacloban region after a devastating event about this time last year. you re right. it has been a success. it s come at a terrible price, of course, given so many people did die. it s ingrained in people s psyches here. this is a population still traumatized by the events of a year ago and they were going to make sure it wouldn t happen again. there are evacuation centers all over the place. and authorities had stockpiles of food if needed. it hit at 7:00 in the evening. the wind is dropping, rain is lighter and most people say the worse is certainly over and most people are talking about going back home. so encouraging to hear no
the big storm bearing down on the east coast, sandy, now, rick, we ve got a tsunami. rick: to be honest with you when you see the waves starting to come in at a foot, foot and a half it s not that alarming, could have been worse with that kind of an earthquake up there, because it s a place where we don t see a lot of them. don t have a precedent what to expect from those kind of things. it could have been worse, if you see a number of waves coming in around the foot, foot and a half range, i think they re breathe ago sigh of relief. that s good news. we re really going to kind of transition and focus so much energy to this major storm and i may major storms and a lot of people are saying, what are you talking about, it s a storm affecting the northeast. take a look at the map, from michigan down to mississippi the eastern half of the country is going to be dealing with some sort of impacts from the storm the next few days, a lot of people with power outages and we mentioned power
big storm bearing down just a week before the election. folks, we have our october surprise. its name is sandy. good morning from cincinnati. 11 days till election day, friday, october 26th, 2012. this is the daily rundown. i m chuck todd and i m still living on the air in cincinnati. so let s get right to my first read. president obama wrapped up a 48-hour, 8-state battleground blitz in cleveland late last night and with a hoarse voice went after a message he s been dealing all week long. romney s trustworthiness. trust matters. you know what, ohio, after all these years, you now know me. you know that i mean what i say. and almost the exactly same moment 150 mys west mitt romney took the starj in one of the great names in battleground politics, defiance, ohio, and he