city each and every day. worth weather in this country, minneapolis, thunderstorms. i m sure there s a lot of thunder out there and lightning strikes widespread and spreads to wisconsin. forecast today, all the stormy bad weather from minneapolis to madison, milwaukee, peoria and that s who will deal with thunderstorms. a heat wave in texas. joining us on the west coast, a little cooler than recently in phoenix at 79.
but doing a lot of listening as well because we were able to monitor the situation in realtime and it was the longest 40 minutes of my life, with the possible exception of when sasha got meningitis when she was 3 months old and i was waiting for the doctor to tell me she was all right. the pentagon s chief pentagon correspondent, jim miklaszewski, good morning. good morning. you know the history well of the pursuit of osama. there were many cases they had perhaps a 50-50 shot and did not go in, whether under president clinton or president bush. take us inside that situation room and before the situation, the decision the president had to make to go get osama bin laden despite this 50-50, 50-45 proposition he mentioned. the remarkable thing about all this, with intense intelligence eyes on that compound for about nine or 10 months, intelligence officials
he won t be here. they talked about this message and seriously it goes to the very top. this will be public policy officials taking the slings and arrows tomorrow. lawmakers i talked to said they sort of knew what cookies were and sort of knew this could occur. there have been a number of revelations including this ongoing series in the wall street journal that make it clear collecting, aggregating, selling this information is a big business for a lot of websites. i think that surprised lawmakers and they want to do something about it. you also heard john boehner you all right there? get him some water. my herbal get mike allen some water. unfortunately, there s no one else at politico, as you can see behind him. not one other person. they re out getting stories, news doesn t occur in this newsroom. whatever you need to tell yourself. we understand john boehner is here talking to the wall street crowd. what s he doing?
that s where we find nbc s ja t janua janet. as we can tell, the situation is dire. only getting worse. absolutely, thomas. this is the legendary beale street. better known as home to elvis blues clubs. it is part of the mighty mississippi river. the river at this point excuse me. is only usually about a half a mile wide. right now it is three miles across. the water keeps rising here. swamping neighborhoods and as i said, water continues to rise. with the maighty mississippi being swallowed by the hour, they are urging hold-outs to quickly gather what s important. then bussing them to hire ground and safety. getting it together. we have to go. reporter: evacuation centers have become sanctuaries. for those that made the heart wrenching decision to leave their homes. see heartbreaking in the
watched the operation unfold. i want to go to the situation room. what s the mood? tense. people talking? yeah, but doing a lot of listening as well because we were able to monitor the situation in realtime and it was the longest 40 minutes of my life with the possible exception of when sasha gomeningitis when she was three months old and i was waiting for doctor to tell me she was all right. we are joined by jim miklaszewski. you know the history well of the pursuit of osama bin laden. there have been many cases where they had perhaps a 50-50 shot and did not go in, whether under clinton or bush. take us inside that situation room, to the decision the president had to make