so it will continue for at least the next couple days. thank you so much. appreciate it. that does it for me here in the cnn newsroom. thanks for spending your day with us. my good friend don lemon continues cnn newsroom at 5:00 eastern. hello. thanks for joining us. a very important week here. i m outside bellevue hospital which is the oldest and one of the largest public hospitals in new york city. you know what i m here today to try and answer your questions about changes that are coming to your medical care and your insurance. this is something that affects all of us. it has been a monumental week. certainly as a journalist but also a doctor and even after all the bitter fighting over the president s health care law we had to see if the supreme court would give its seal of approval. we now know this week it did. the court upheld the law. you ve been sending me questions about what that all means for you. i ll try and answer as many as i possibly can. here is my promis
discount bias. orbitz admits blocking users to more expensive hotels and showing pc users rooms that are $30 a month cheaper. targeted markets or computer discount discrimination? ann curry and matt lauer may be splitting up. where and when will curry go and who will take her place? cnn newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. happy tuesday. i m carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. we begin this morning in florida. much of that state is underwater, including parts of interstate 10 east of tallahassee. tropical storm debby is clinging to florida s gulf coast, dumping more than a foot of rain on some areas and threatening to wipe out another 12 inches before it moves on. many lifelong floridians are seeing their worst flooding in a generation. george howell is there in the panhandle, south of tallahassee. reporter: carol, good morning. i m standing in about a foot of water right now, just outside this convenience store. and if you pan over here, you
across the state dumping rain. take a look for yourself. you can see they are absolutely spilling over their banks. 2,000 people giving mandatory evacuations. a portion of interstate 10 is closed because of standing water and debby isn t done yet. the storm could bring in another foot of rain. we have the storm surge is an issue. explain to me, i know i see some water on days like this. where does the water come from and is it going away? reporter: sure. we always hear head into the right of where the storm makes landfall. even in the case of a tropical storm like this, that still the scenario of where you re going to see that on shore flow, that surge of water. when you have a storm like this that s been moving so slowly toward the coast, you ve had two days of nonstop wave action just coming and coming pushing this water on shore. it s not rain water flooding. it s tidal flooding. this is base shore boulevard here in the tampa bay area. earlier today we were over in st. p
room . all eyes on the supreme court expected to issue its ruling on thursday on president obama s signature first-term achievement, health care reform. it s a hot topic on the2007 supporting president bush s use of the same authority. that s right. and with the supreme court case on health care reform expected to come down on thursday, joe, i think it s going to get a lot hotter. jim acosta, thanks so much for that. appreciate it. now we re just going to get a little more on this with cnn chief political analyst gloria borger. the candidates argue over the economy and who has a better plan for the future. when you start looking at the water s edge, it gets more complicated. it is very complicated. it s very difficult when you re president to talk about how the rest of the world effects us. because you don t want to look like you re whining. you don t want to look like you re assigning blame elsewhere. but having said that, the truth of the matter is that what s g
meteorologist chad myers monitoring tropical storm debby, chad, debby s proven to be pretty stubborn. not moving really at 5 miles an hour. and it s still spinning at 40 miles an hour. so don t get me wrong, it s still there, but it s not moving along, so when it begins to rain in one spot, it rains for hours. in fact one spot in tallahassee picked up 20 meninches of rain. it s still flooding right now. we re still trying to get crews into these areas to see how bad it is. east of panama city, near the panhandle of florida, but not all the way to jacksonville. this is the latest, the 11:00 advisory, east at 3 miles an hour. it doesn t even make landfall until 8:00 tomorrow morning and it s only about 60 miles away from shore. it s going to take a long time to get across the body here of florida, then back out into the ocean and then eventually turning on up into the northeast. and when it gets out here, these are spinning again, because it turns into a tropical storm again,