president. joining me with reaction former clinton adviser, dick morris. polling is your business. this is what you love. you read numbers all the time. what do you make? the numbers speak for themselves. i have two additions. first, in an off year election intensity is more important than the actual numbers. turn-out drops 30% from a presidential year to a congressional year. when you dig deeper and you say, do you strongly approve or do you strongly disapprove? the stronglys are 2-1 negative for obama so it is not just that he s losing support it is that he s losing intensity. sean: we go to new jersey, virginia we ve discussed those at length. does it show that this is a sustained, i guess rebelling, sustained erosion? i think it is. first he lost the republicans and the independents over health care. now over the oil spill, and the afghan war, he s losing the left. when i say losing the left, i don t mean they are switching to republicans. they are just much less li
president. joining me with reaction former clinton adviser, dick morris. polling is your business. this is what you love. you read numbers all the time. what do you make? the numbers speak for themselves. i have two additions. first, in an off year election intensity is more important than the actual numbers. turn-out drops 30% from a presidential year to a congressional year. when you dig deeper and you say, do you strongly approve or do you strongly disapprove? the stronglys are 2-1 negative for obama so it is not just that he s losing support it is that he s losing intensity. sean: we go to new jersey, virginia we ve discussed those at length. does it show that this is a sustained, i guess rebelling, sustained erosion? i think it is. first he lost the republicans and the independents over health care. now over the oil spill, and the afghan war, he s losing the left. when i say losing the left, i don t mean they are switching to republicans. they are just much less li
help him. good morning. i m melanie alnwick. sarah has the day off. and we are looking outside. you can see the haze there. that is not fog, it is another hazy day in store and a hot one too. tucker barnes joins us with the latest look at the forecast. thank you very much, melanie. temperatures expected to top out in the upper 90s. and a lot of humidity out there as well. let s look at the current conditions. 77 at reagan national. we are off to a mild start. 77 in ocean city ocean city. and harrisberg checking in with 72. going to jump to the 80s and then well into the 90s by early afternoon. looking at true view radar, just a few clouds to start the day. thunderstorms developing to the north during the evening but they ve dissipated and are pushing out to sea. if you have out door plans, bring a lot of water. we are going to be extremely hot with highs as i mentioned back into the upper 90s. mostly sunny skies, very hot and humid. high temperature, you re reading that
announcer: from nbc world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. good evening. i m lester holt, in tonight for brian. sometimes saying sorry isn t enough which is the position embattled bp ceo tony hayward found himself in as he spent the day under oath and in the hot seat before a congressional subcommittee looking into the gulf oil disaster. hayward told the committee, i feel a great sense of responsibility for the accident. rather than an apology, however, the members wanted specific answers about what bp did or didn t do that may have caused the oil rig explosion. questions hayward mostly deflected, setting off a flurry of testy exchanges. nbc s kelly o donnell has been covering that hearing for us on capitol hill. kelly, good evening. reporter: good evening, lester. we have seen during the crisis that tony hayward said some things that put him in p.r. trouble like wanting his life back. today, it was all about what he would not sa
announcer: from nbc world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. good evening. i m lester holt, in tonight for brian. sometimes saying sorry isn t enough which is the position tony hayward was in as he spent the day under oath and in the hot seat before a congressional subcommittee looking into the gulf oil disaster. hayward told the committee, i feel a great sense of responsibility for the accident. rather than an apology, however, the members wanted specific answers about what bp did or didn t do that may have caused the oil rig explosion. questions hayward mostly deflected, setting off a flurry of testy exchanges. nbc s kelly o donnell has been covering that hearing for us on capitol hill. kelly, good evening. reporter: good evening. we have seen during the crisis that tony hayward said some things that put him in p.r. trouble like wanting his life back. today, it was all about what he would not say, what he refused to say that pu