are in pennsylvania, aishah hasnie in georgia and alexis mcadams is following the new york governor s race. first to rich edson live for us in pittsburgh. rich. reporter: good evening, jon. well, i guess western pennsylvania s going to have to be big enough for two former prime ministers. first it was former president obama, now 40 miles away and about an hour from now you re going to get former president trump. he will be campaigning in latrobe, pennsylvania, for a number of republican candidates including dr. mehmet oz who s running for senate and doug mastriano who s running for governor here. he has supported oz since the republican primary. he was the one, the former president, babbed in that backed in that primary in mayment. oz has trained his campaign on crime and inflation. mortgage rates are through the roof. couples all over the commonwealth, new families are worried about crime in their communities, and they re worried about fentanyl in their mailboxes. it d
last three cycles, republicans have been underestimated in the polls at various levels, various stages, various degrees. and so i think if there s my polling error any polling error that s available out there right now, you would have to think it s on the republican side, that republicans are being underestimated. but, again, that s something we won t know until all the votes are count. jon: i wanted to say something that the president said in these closing days of the campaign about the nation s energy future, and i wonder how going to play in states like and west virginia, for instance. here s the president. no one s building new coal plants because they can t rely on it. even if they have all the coal guaranteed for the rest of their existence of the plan. so it s going to become a wind generation. all they re doing is they re going to save them a hell of a lot of money and using the same transmission lines hay transmitted the coal-fired electric on. we re going to be shutting t
what is your biggest concern right now? getting the streets cleared. and, also, you know, just having the electric on. and what advice do you have residents who are still there in melbourne what should they be doing as we speak? well, right now it s real windy. i haven t got a report yet. we have staff out there assessing s streets and i was out there earlier, but, you know, we still have traffic lights that need to be fixed, and, you know, just for their safety. so we re waiting word on the officials. yes, you can go out there and on the streets. and start the cleanup. but that hasn t happened yet. yes. kathy meehan, mayor of melbourne, thanks so much for joining us. good luck. all right. thank you so much. all right. bye-bye. as matthew pounds the coast, bracing for fury.
it keeps a roof over your head. the electric on, the water on. bills, day-to-day living, travel costs, food, everything. how do i feed my four children? how do i feed the dogs? my husband? everything. it s so overwhelming that you don t know where to start. seems to me the impression that the people on unemployment benefits are just kind of sitting around enjoying the money and nothing could be farther from the truth. long-term unemployment in america is as high as it s ever been since world war ii, with about four million people who have been out of work for 27 weeks or more. as you can see from this chart, what caused that trend was the financial crisis. that s it, full stop. either that or a strange national epidemic of laziness that just happened to start at the very same moment wall street almost went bankrupt. and yet today, like every week, tens of thousands of those people had their emergency unemployment insurance run out because republicans in congress refused to exte
what do you think about the government restricting what you can or cannot purchase? i think it s a good idea. it should be good nutritious food. the problem is a lot of people don t know how to make these meals or they don t have the capabilities some of them even because they don t have the electric on, you know, to use a stove. so but i do believe that it would benefit people to be restricted on what they could buy and should buy. you don t think that s interesting. you say you don t feel like that that s big brother or that s restricting your freedom and your choice. no. because it s supposed to be there to supplement. it s like the wyc program. they give you they tell you exactly what you re allowed to buy, you know. i think even they re trying to ban sodas from schools. so if the government is trying