with it heavy winds, rains and the potential for flash flooding, early this wednesday morning, june 29th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs and good morning. good to have you with us on this wednesday. i m erica hill. and i m chris wragge. new poll numbers are out, you were missed the last couple of days. thanks. those poll numbers not the ones we re talking about. really a political poll from cbs news and new york times not a lot of comfort for anybody. president obama s approval rating pretty much where it was a few weeks ago, below 50%, low marks for the way he s handling the economy, not necessarily blamed for it. a lot of republican voters really not happy with their choices at this stage in the game so what could that mean heading forward? we ll dissect that a little bit for you. we have folks coming up with reports from the white house, the key state of iowa as well. we ll get you the very latest. a lot going on, including a big movie premiere in a couple of m
as the city prepares for a looming disaster, early this thursday morning, june 23rd, 2011. captioning funded by cbs and good morning. welcome to the early show here on a thursday morning. i m chris wragge. and i m erica hill. boy what a rough wake-up for so many folks in north dakota in minot. you saw pictures there. it will take days for the flooding to hit record levels but it s not like they aren t already dealing with it. national guard troops are telling people to get out. thousands of homes and buildings threatened. there are very few places as well for folks to go so what do they do in this situation in we re live in minot with the latest on that in just a few minutes but really just the beginning of what will be a tough situation. the sirens sounded early moving the evacuation timetable up. a tough situation there. we ll get to that in a minute. a bombshell arrest of the man next to osama bin laden on the fbi s ten most wanted list. mob boss and suspected
captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs good morning. welcome to the early show here on a wednesday morning. i m chris wragge. erica hill in washington, d.c. for us. good morning. good morning, chris. we are down here getting ready for our town hall meeting with president obama later today. we will be focusing on the economy but there is much that s happening of course both here in washington and across the country this morning. specifically, that terrible flooding that we ve been covering so closely. chris, i know you want to begin with that. he can actually, erika. that is where we are going to begin this morning. it is a big, big concern. officials are double-checking levees in mississippi and louisiana as floodwaters surge higher and threaten the delta. some neighborhoods are under water as one of the most poverty stricken parts of the country is facing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. mark strassmann joins us live with the very latest. mark, g