interest of the country to have bipartisan support and reach to the other side and have common ground. that is needed at this point, with 70% of americans feeling we still haven t hit rock bottom with the economy. that is an astonishing number. the good news for president obama the majority of americans feel he inherited the economy and the current woes that we have from the previous administration. nevertheless, he has been in quite enough time to dana: the numbers are dropping. they are getting lower. 2 to 1 people say they link president obama policy to the economy, whether it s fair or not that is the reality. bob: go back to the boehner/can cantor request of obama. he should, but the reason they re doing this, the polling data after the debate debacle pointed the finger at the house republicans as a reason it didn t work. or people were annoyed. they re trying to short circuit that saying we got it down, we want to talk to him. legitimate bipartisan thing to do. the idea som
lifetime. it is still, it does not change our thinking on this event. tamron, if i could say one more thing, i put out a notice here that all of these things have happened before. everything that we have talked about has happened before, but never in one hurricane. so, we know that these things can happen, but it is just that this one is a perfect storm of convergence of events. all right. bryan, thank you very much. now, msnbc s mark potter who is actually at nags head, north carolina, where we saw the waves kicking up behind you all morning long. what is the latest there, mark? well, hey, tamron, it has been fairly calm here today. we had a gray overcast sky, but we haven t had any rain yet, and the winds are relatively calm. they are picking up a little bit, and we know a lot more is coming, but they haven t hit yet. the waves are kicking up, but not the spectacular waves yet and all of that to come starting tonight and into tomorrow. the big issue here is evacuations. the touri
haven t hit yet. we are talking about kind of a storm surge that is coming onshore right now. up in northern oregon, along cannon beach which is the picture you re seeing right now, nothing at all. in fact they are expecting waves of only 2 to 3 feet there. the real concern in oregon at least is in southern oregon where curry county residents live along the shore, about 22,000 residents, most live along the coast in three small towns and many have evacuated to higher ground and they are expecting waves hitting 6 to 7 1/2 feet we are being told. the first evidence of any sort of storm surge is coming on right now. again, they are about one hour late. they expected it about 7:15 local time to have that first tsunami wave of anywhere between 7 1/2 and 8 1/2 feet. jon: hawaii or ask who got hit first in the u.s.?
friday are web sites if you haven t hit black friday quite yet. rick: thank you elizabeth. juliet: traveling during the holidays as you probably all know can be a little stressful. airline passengers have those awkward full body scans and have to deal with the pat-downs and all that business. that is getting people up in arms. we have handy tips how you can stay cool and stress me getting to the places you need to do this moan. chris mcginiss is with a travel company. what can we do. we have the sunday and monday after thanksgiving are going to be very, very busy. a lot of people think leaving monday morning they are doing smart things by avoiding all the crowds. sunday and monday is a busy time and you have to watch out for crowds and airport security. business travelers are headed
foreclosures because of faulty paperwork, and attorneys general in 50 states are demanding some kind of an investigation. jenna: according to a new report, investors are also stepping up the pressure on some of these banks, demanding they pay up for mortgage mistakes. what does it mean for the banks? is this the second wave of the crisis that everyone has been talking about? let s ask pao eufer schiff, president of euro pacific, author of how an economy grows and why it crashes . peter, do you want to call it a second wave, a double-dip what what s really going on with the economy now? there are a lot of waves to come. we re standing in the ocean and there are tsunamis that haven t hit. you know, the foreclosures are not the problem, they re part of the solution. the problem is a lot of people bought homes they couldn t afford and they actually need to leave those homes so people who can afford them can buy them. they need to rent something they can afford. what this is going to do