fi five. we have to get on the ground pretty quick. everybody stand by. we have a couple of opposite direction arrivals. it is going to be a little delay on your departures. according to the washington post the federal official who reviewed the incident blamed a basic communication breakdown, blamed sloppy procedures and said it was a big screw up for a big airport. let s get right to athena jones live in washington, d.c. this morning. walk me through exactly what happened. you can hear the chaos in the radio transmission. what was at the root cause of it? good morning, soledad. you saw from that graphic, that s what it looked like. this happened just about after 2 p.m. tuesday. it was during a heavy rain storm, driving rain that cause the the air traffic controllers to want to change how planes were coming in and taking off. planes had been landing and departing on runway 1 going from south to north. they wanted to switch that in the rain. they wanted to switch i
damage i have caused. today the rumors are flying and weiner is back over the headlines. telling the new york post he s seriously considering running for the mayor of new york in next year s election to replace michael bloomberg. with $4.5 million in his campaign account, he has the money to get in. but can he come back. and is the time now. joining me now is darryl lewis and alicia menendez. the host of huff post live. thank you both for being here. good to see you. good to see you. you ve covered weiner a long time. how much of this is true? what we re hearing is or
i am going to eliminate every non-essential program i can find, that includes obama care, and i will work to reform and save romney is getting hammered in the wake of that by the naacp. jim acosta is live in houston this morning. good morning. how did it go? well, soledad, whenever you get booed for 15 seconds it is not exactly going well. the romney campaign did send out some of their folk who is do outreach for the campaign with the african-american community to talk to reporters. i was there. they said that they were pleased overall with what he got in terms of applause. he did sort of get a standing ovation at the end of the speech. about half the crowd stood up and plauded. it wasn t all boos for the former governor. soledad, what is sort of interesting is what romney has said after that speech. he went to a fundraiser in montana last night and basically said that he was okay with the reaction that he got. he said in an interview right after the speech on another
menendez, a host of huff post live and felipe matos. in 2010 felipe walked 1500 miles from miami to washington to draw attention to the plight of young, undocumented immigrants. he came here at the age of 14 from brazil. thanks to both of you for being here tonight. thank you. alicia, what s your reaction to romney s refusing to take a position on the new policy from the president? am i supposed to be surprised with this? earlier in the show you played the clip of lilly ledbetter. during this primary he tacked so far to the right on this issue that he is going to find it virtually impossible to get back to the middle. he said he would veto the dream act. he called arizona a model for the nation. he said that immigrants should self-deport. so i am completely unsurprised this is the answer he s giving
joining me now, one of the pollsters who conducted the focus groups, margie o maro, president of momentum analysis, and lisa menendez, a host of huff post live. mar margie o maro, why did walmart conduct focus groups with these women? this has been an ongoing analysis that we ve been talking to these moms over the course of a couple of years, through surveys and focus groups, and really, as far as walmart s involvement, it s really to see what these moms think. and we ve, i think, really injected the views and positions and needs of these moms into the political dialogue. the focus groups that we did last weekend in a couple different states were swing moms. some of them were leaning obama, some of them were leaning romney, some of them voted for