to be out, don t come foout for pictures and joyriding and they re here to help to try to get the lights back on for people who will probably spend the next two nights or so without power. 170,000 customers without power. the temperatures will get down into the single digits with windchills going below zero, craig. we re thinking about those folks going into saturday night into tomorrow. back to you. ron mott there in providence, rhode island. thank you. okay. to politics, now. it s becoming a similar thing on the hill. he s changing his or her mind on immigration this week. eric cantor making noise by voicing support for the dream act. one of the great founding principles of our country was that children would not be punished for the mistakes of their parents and it is time to
sure. i don t know how cagey i ve been in the past. i think it s more of a reflection of and to eric s credit, i think when you are confronted with facts or new information or new evidence, i think it s a plus when people change their mind. so i give people credit for evolving. have you evolved at all? has there been any new information that has changed your mind on immigration? sure, and that process is continuing. we ve had one hearing and two days ago i sat down and wrote down 25 potential hearing titles and sent them to our chairman bob goodlat and every time we have a hearing i learned something i didn t know. sometimes i have a position that s reinforced. i think castro was a phenomenal witness, but at least it starts a dialogue. 1986 is the last time there was a real effort to resolve
when david gregory will interview eric cantor and dick durbin on nbc. you know those one-cent coins that were fun to play with as a kid and weigh you down as an adult this week? canada dropped pennies from its currency. the canadians did it first and they said the things are basically too expensive to make. will we follow suit here in the united states? joining me now with his two cents, time magazine writer, we couldn t resist. you studied this topic and other numbers from the u.s. mint. how much money do we lose on the production of pennies? the thing with the penny is it costs two cents to make each one of of them. we re losing about $50 million making the penny every year. is there a lobby out there that s protecting the penny? there is a lobby and that s one of the main renes that we still have the penny. the zinc industry, the penny is
structure on, and we re just saying that we don t have enough confidence that they re always the right decisions and we would like another check on them. the questions may be answered incorrectly and we should have killed people that would have been killed and the structure would give us some confidence that it s being done right. thanks so much for the reality check this afternoon. one of the more powerful women in politics caught snoozing on the job. this was no accidental nap. a new trend in workplace productivity. also eric kabtor with lawmakers changing their tune in immigration policy this week, but what does the new chairman of the house immigration subcommittee think? we ll ask the congressman straight up when he joins us live. because sleep is a beautiful thing™. zzzquil™. the non-habit forming sleep-aid from the makers of nyquil®.
it. the occupy wall street folks have turned the conversation and the obama reelection is going to take advantage of this. eric kabtor got a lot of push back as a mob and last week at the end we had a poll that shows 54% view the occupy wall street versus a tea party in a favorable light. let s play what he said in his choice of the word mob. more important in my use of that word is the fact that there is a growing frustration out there across this country and it s warranted. too many people are out of work. where i am most concerned is we have elected leaders in the town who are joining in an effort to blame others rather than focusinging on the policies that brought about the current situation. what are do you make of the strategy from other republicans. we are at the one-month market