let s put america back to work. john harwood is cnbc s chief political correspondent. there is the lowest job rating for the president. there is 54% that don t believe he ll recover from this rut. is there any good news? reporter: only one. that is finding that 70% of the american people still like president obama whether or not they agree with him. that s a significant asset as he goes into a re-election campaign. almost everything else is negative for the president. 73% of the american people think the country s on the right track. the president s low job approval is more significant than the congressional 82% disapproval number that s institutional rather than personal. this president s got a lot of work to do on thursday night and one other result shows how difficult his challenge is. the president s preparing to lay
certainly a storm and then forget for sometime. chris, back to you. eric fisher take care. one of the concerns we have even though we do position our correspondents in places as he said near a building that s sustained, able to sustain a category 4 storm, can you still get things to break off and fly through the air in those high winds and become projectiles. we hope he stays safe. a big mess all up safe. a big mess up and down for travel, absolutely impossible. amtrak we told you just suspended service for the day tomorrow in the southeast mid-atlantic, northeast and new england regions, subways in new york and boston closed and new york city s five airports are closed through sunday, including the big major airports three of those. over 9,000 flights have now been canceled in the new york area. joining me from new york s laguardia airport is cnbc news
argue that s the last thing people need, other than long-term credibility that it s going to happen at some point in the future. or you could do near-term stimulus and then double up on the amount of savings at the special committee. all decisions that have to be taken in the white house and at treasury in coming days. thanks so much, john harwood, from capitol hill. now joining me from wall street is jim cramer, mad money from cnbc. let s dig deeper into what s happening on wall street today. obviously, a slightly better than expected weekly jobs number, but still, we ve got a lot of turmoil to come. we have not bottomed out, have we? or have we? no, i don t want to say we bottomed because our problems are two-fold. one, do we have an imminent recession because of all the different problems in washington. i m not going to say the problems are on wall street. i m not going to say the problems are with companies. it is washington, and the second thing is the central bank of eu
i mean. exactly! really. that s what i mean. [ mom ] what? shut the front door. right? seriously. who knew? hello sir. bingo! mahjong! for realz. woop-woop! franklin delano! [ male announcer ] hey, there s oreo creme under that fudge! oreo fudge cremes. indescribably good. you re watching live pictures right now, you can see the house gallery there where john boehner, speaker of the house, will be coming in with kevin mccarthy and eric cantor, the other members of the leaders, and they will be announcing the game plan from here on out. they will have a couple hours of debate, then the vote later today on john boehner s proposal. he clearly has now whipped up the votes after a tongue lashing he gave to his house members, particularly those 87 freshmen yesterday at their caucus meeting. john harwood is cnbc s chief
shut the front door. right? seriously. who knew? hello sir. bingo! mahjong! for realz. woop-woop! franklin delano! [ male announcer ] hey, there s oreo creme under that fudge! oreo fudge cremes. indescribably good. you re watching live pictures right now, you can see the house gallery there where john boehner, speaker of the house, will be coming in with kevin mccarthy and eric cantor, the other members of the leaders, and they will be announcing the game plan from here on out. they will have a couple hours of debate, then the vote later today on john boehner s proposal. he clearly has now whipped up the votes after a tongue lashing he gave to his house members, particularly those 87 freshmen yesterday at their caucus meeting. john harwood is cnbc s chief washington correspondent and