solutions. it is one thing to vilify the president and another to have a solutionn. going to be talking about great republicans that we have up here now. no more judge. and country club. we have a new breed to shake things up. steve: one more final question. what percentage bounce is mitt romney/ryan wound up with. the hurricane took a lot. steve: a number. three points. i am going 8. steve: he s going big. todd, shauna and chris, thank you very much. straightt aheadline, the president wants you to believe he s saving medicare. here s what paul rhine had to say about that last night. the greatest threat to medicare is obama care and we are going to stop it. steve: so who is telling the truthh. numbers don t lie . we have them next. bad news for meat lovers, your favorite steak is about to
today. our old friend, former director, max mayfield, who said one of my worst nightmares is a hurricane going up the east coast. what is your fear as we watch over the next 24, 36 hours? i have similar concern. what we are lucky is that it is not major hurricane but it will go up the whole east coast. we will have people experience a hurricane that they probably haven t had in the last generation in some areas there. so there will be some damage as we said, structural damage. mostly north carolina. possibly structural damage north from there. we have spots all the way up the coast and from the west to center, there s a large potential for flooding from rainfall. we are talking about six to ten inches of rain. in the northeast where grounds are saturated, that s a particular problem. again, the winds were all around
forecast from the forecast center suggest the storm is a bit less intense than she was 24 hours ago but still, there is a tremendously large storm. we are in a 200 mile-an-hour airplane and it takes us an hour and a half to go across it. there are intense winds, damaging winds through that whole range. very large storm. it has to move a lot of water, bring a lot of wind and last a long time for areas in its path. there is still an awful lot of energy. there is great hazard and disrupgs to our coastal communities. i find it amazing we are even getting such a clear signal from you and able to talk to you so understandably while you are riding through the middle after hurricane, frankly. tell us about the equipment on board. tell us the reason for flying into this storm. i m glad to do that. this is one of noaa s finest
that s why they were telling residents to get out. they don t want to deal with problems tomorrow for people who decided, oh, my god, i should have left. let me get out of here because the emergency management, the police, firemen, they don t want a 911 call and not be able to respond in the middle after hurricane. have you few people have covered as many storms as you have. you and i talked while i was in the comfort of the studio and you were out in the elements many, many times over the years. give us a sense of this storm as compared to other storms you ve covered and what you re expecting? i think really what is happening here is that this storm is going to impact people who have no clue. they ve never been through this and they are not sure what to do. so they tune into the radio and tune into television and they are watching on cable and they hear, governor after governor after governor say there a state of emergency and it kind of freaks people out. it kind of cares them. y
canes ever. the author of karina s secrets, the storm after the storm. do g to see you. we should tell people, you published this book yourself. we are talking ten states under state of emergency, nine states which never get a hurricane, or very rarely get a hurricane, what do people need to know? well, they need to follow the directions, states. what do people need to know? they need to follow directions, number one. listen to your mayors, and governors, and emergency preparedness people and listen for directions. because what is going to happen next is you are going to get to the phase where the storm is going to pass, and there will be a damage assessment. once that is done, it will not be immediately safe to go outside. you may run out of food so you have to make sure hopefully you have had enough food and water to last you, and then once