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politics nation with reverend al sharpton last night. the reverend asked texas republican joe barden if he agrees with eric cantor s stance that the government should only provide emergency funding for victims of hurricane irene if it can be paid for by other spending cuts. my assumption is that some point in time you headed a congregation and you passed a collection plate around and then you as a reverend for your congregation spent that money and what was best for the congregation but if there s no money in the collection plate you have to make decisions what needs to be paid and what doesn t and nobody on the republican side is saying we shouldn t help the east coast recover from the hurricane, recover from the earthquake, but we need to begin to come up with a process that we get the budget balanced so that there is a special fund or funds and enough
in new orleans. this is first look on msnbc. we begin this morning with irene s widening wake. she may not have been the damaging hurricane that many had feared but with the death toll that s risen to at least 40 and record-breaking floods not seen in nearly 100 years irene s impact will surely be remembered for years to come. nbc s jay gray reports. reporter: the cleanup continues. and so does the water. after ripping a path through the outer banks and north carolina coast the legacy of hurricane irene may be historic flooding. we have seen record flooding in vermont, record flooding in new york. we still have rivers that have yet to crest. the extent of the impacts we still won t know. reporter: rivers hundreds of miles from the coast turned into rapids. roads rushed away. these firefighters in new jersey spent the day trying to salvage what they could from their fire station. millions without power, thousands unable to return to their homes. it s not done yet
impact will surely be remembered for years to come. nbc s jay gray reports. reporter: the cleanup continues. and so does the water. after ripping a path through the outer banks and north carolina coast the legacy of hurricane irene may be historic flooding. we have seen record flooding in vermont, record flooding in new york. we still have rivers that have yet to crest. the extent of the impacts we still won t know. reporter: rivers hundreds of miles from the coast turned into rapids. roads rushed away. these firefighters in new jersey spent the day trying to salvage what they could from their fire station. millions without power, thousands unable to return to their homes. it s not done yet but scary, a lot of people don t have power, and the water is still coming up. reporter: early estimates put irene s wrath at $7 billion in damages but it s the human toll that thousands are now forced to deal with. we ve got a lot of people who have been really just impacted b
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