apparently not. all right. and this is what i think that he would also say if he were here but he won t come on the record i might add. he would say how do you expect me at this point, when we have he says and senator mcconnell said their mission in the senate is get rid of him, make him a one term president. so he s probably going around the country saying i ve given up on congress because the republicans in the house aren t going to go with me, and especially the 91 freshman. we so disagree on ideology how to get money into the economy, and you have the senate leaders saying their goal is to get rid of them. here s what i suggested today. we passed 15 bills to create jobs over the summer. go back and look at the budget. it says get rid of lower tax rates and loopholes for job creation. he says he agrees on that on business suppose let s do it together? the other thing we say is let s stop subsidizing the wealthy,
insurance now because there is a 30 day window period. once a hurricane is named and identified, you can t get flood insurance for 30 days. but there are a number of things that consumers should be doing right now on the east coast. and, of course, one is making sure that your windows are shuttered up buy hurricane shutters. it might be too late for that. buy plywood if you are a coastal area. remove dead branches from trees. make sure trees that aren t close to your house aren t projectiles into your house. tree damage is one of the major things in a hurricane when it comes to homeowners. make sure you take a video of your house or still pictures. the claims process will go a lot quicker with your adjustor if you can prove what you added or improved in the house. right. have a tarp and an emergency kit and a lot of other common sense things that consumers should be doing. brian: use the word talk for the original reason it was needed. and then finally you just said to take video t
police are urging folks to stay off their cell phones just in order to keep those networks free so some of the people in the area can call their loved ones, call their family, tell them they re okay. but on top of all this, a person dressed up as a policeman walked into this youth camp attended by 700 people and just opened fire. everything is unfolding as we speak. i want to go to nima. bring us up to speed as far as what s happened. does the number seven fatalities, does that number even still hold? our understanding, brooke, is that death toll will definitely rise. emergency services have said that they still are unable to fully access the buildings around that initial blast. one of the government spokes people said that although today was a national holiday, hundreds of people were in those buildings. and they continue to be trapped in there. they are unable to reach those people as of yet. and on the island, a labor party spokesman, the ruling party in norway said that
this weekend with another plan. that doesn t appear to be happening. we do not expect another meeting at this point today. richard? vic, give us a sense of the timeline as we now finish up week one, we re moving into week two. when we might actually see a deal that could get everybody signing off on it. are we going to see that this week? what s being heard? reporter: it really depends on whether this plan being put forward by the republican leader and the democratic leader in the senate, mitch mcconnell, and harry reid, is going to be the fallback plan that would essentially allow the president to raise the debt ceiling and provide a list of cuts that are going to have to be considered by congress somewhere down the road. the problem is conservatives in the house aren t going for it, there aren t the votes for that right now, they re going to have to do these votes in the house and the senate later this week. perhaps it s going to be a lot clearer wednesday, thursday of this week.
okay. dick durbin, he s against spending time on a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. the president says he s against it as well. the president as you know, richard, on friday wanted republicans to come back to him this weekend with another plan. that doesn t appear to be happening. we do not expect another meeting at this point today. richard? vic, give us a sense of the timeline as we now finish up week one, we re moving into week two. when we might actually see a deal that could get everybody signing off on it. are we going to see that this week? what s being heard? reporter: it really depends on whether this plan being put forward by the republican leader and the democratic leader in the senate, mitch mcconnell, and harry reid, is going to be the fallback plan that would essentially allow the president to raise the debt ceiling and provide a list of cuts that are going to have to be considered by congress somewhere down the road. the problem is conservatives in th