Low of 42 . That is a fivepoint drop from just earlier this month. These numbers, as bad as they are, dont necessarily exist in a vacuum. Theres a lot more complexity to the current political environment, which in many ways is the story of american politics in the tea party era. Lets talk about the president. Between syria, between the shutdown, between obama care, how are his approval numbers stacking up . Record lows. The president s Approval Rating dropped five points. At an alltime low. Is this more than just the secondterm curse . If he goes below where he is right now, hes going to be in george bush territory and thats hard to come back from. The latest nbc news poll does, indeed, find that the president s Approval Rating is at a fiveyear low, and it is true that his popularity rating is hovering where george bushs was five years into his presidency. But theres an important distinction about where their presidency and where their parties are at. In november of 2005, with presiden
These numbers, as bad as they are, dont necessarily exist in a vacuum. Theres a lot more complexity to the current political environment, which in many ways is the story of american politics in the tea party era. Lets talk about the president. Between syria, between the shutdown, between obama care, how are his approval numbers stacking up . Record lows. The president s Approval Rating dropped five points. At an alltime low. Is this more than just the secondterm curse . If he goes below where he is right now, hes going to be in george bush territory and thats hard to come back from. The latest nbc news poll does, indeed, find that the president s Approval Rating is at a fiveyear low, and it is true that his popularity rating is hovering where george bushs was five years into his presidency. But theres an important distinction about where their presidency and where their parties are at. In november of 2005, with president bush licking his wounds from the spiral iraq war, the devastation
Working to clear some of those drains right now. Jacqui get right over to jeras was on stormwatch. The rain is coming down in buckets. This is a very localized area that has been hit hard over the last hour and a half. Up to two inches of rain is reported. That is flooding streets and causing all kinds of problems. Beensh flood watch has issued in northwestern dcn part of other counties. This is until 2 45 p. M. This afternoon. An additional inch of rain is possible in this area. This is focused on oral. They have been getting hammered for the last 20 minutes. They have been getting an inch per hour. Were also keeping our eye on what happens downstream. That is heading into parts of charles county. This is an area of very heavy rain. The National Weather service has issued a flash flood watch. This just happened to nice to get two minutes ago. File of the rain rainfall totals. Skies are cloudy here in d. C. It is going to be a cool day. I think we will get a break this afternoon. More
Just rips your heart out. Its about a 3yearold and she was killed with a bullet that was meant for somebody else. Police say she was killed by a young man with a really silly fight and a gun. And they really want to find him and so does the childs grandmother who is inclined neither toward forgiveness or mercy. Reporter i had the opportunity to spend time with the family when they brought out the pictures of this little girl, your heart melted. She was so beautiful, so fun loving. This family is so heart broken. She was shot and killed in the upper stories here of this house. We can still see the bullet holes in the siding. A ladder is there because a work crew showed up to repair the damage. Several years ago, crime cameras were installed in this neighborhood. Some neighbors are concerned because the cameras are no longer working. Cameras in the neighborhood where this 3yearold was shot and killed. One is right across the street from the house. Not one of them works. Prince georges co
About the car that was stuck just around the curb. It is no longer there. It has been washed away and now rescue crews have to go and actually find where it is. They think it might be in the channel here at rock creek park. It didnt just flood here. It flooded in many places across the area. Kristin wright live in laurel with that part of the story. Reporter we talked to a woman parked in the lot this morning. She came back and couldnt find her car because it had been moved because of the flooding. She is not happy because there is water in her car. This may be an instance where some people are glad they were towed. A tow truck began pulling cars out of high water in the mark commuter lot next to the American Legion in laurel. Probably six inches of ter in it. Reporter signs in the lot warn it is prone to flooding. Mark notified commuters and pulled out the tow truck. It rescued a nissan. All of them that we pulled out so far had a little bit of water in them so folks will definitely h