to his fiancee. i m the victim here. i was the one that was being preyed upon, and i fought back. right. and, then, you know, it s not quite the same, but it made me think of like the old tv shows and movies where, like, how the police used to think when a chick got raped. oh, it was her fault because of the way she was dressed. right. and i m like so it s my fault because i asked them to turn their music down. he is comparing himself to a rape victim who was blamed for what happened? and that wasn t the only time he called himself a victim. you know, i was thinking about that today. i m the [ bleep ] victim here. i was the one who was victimized. i mean, i don t know how i m to put it. like they attacked me. i m the victim. i m the victor, but i was the victim too. i m the victor, but i was the victim too. what about jordan davis, who would have turned 19 years old this week? jordan s parents certainly think he s the victim in this case. and here is what du
they bring everybody else with them. good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. we have talked about trust. tonight i want to use a different word. arrogance. if you re going to be arrogant, don t go halfway, let them have it. be arrogant. sometimes charts show us arrogance. i want to begin tonight with a few charts. we have some new information out there. this chart should be very familiar to you. it s the vulture chart. since the early 1980s, income for the top 1%, it s gone through the roof. everyone else s wages have flat lined, the middle class and below. tonight we have a new vulture s chart and it ain t pretty. i ve been waiting for this one for a long time. these two lines at the bottom are the old vulture chart. the bottom line is the middle class wages and the middle line is the top 1%. wait a minute. the green line is the top .01%. holy smokes! the ultra rich in this country, they are really doing better. better than ever in fact. actions, i be
common place throughout the region. water levels in most reservoirs are at less than 50 percent capacity. for an extreme example, look at pictures the weather channel found of the fol som lake reservoir in northern california. this is what the dam area looked like in august of 2011. now, take a look at it today. simply amazing. one professor told the new york times that california was having his worst drought in 500 years. founding editor of climate progress.org. joe, first of all, in broad terms, simple terms here, how does a drought of this magnitude, how does it happen? well, in this particular case, there s this ridge of high pressure sitting off the coast of the pacific northwest and canada that is steering all of the weather that would normally hit california, steering it up
be a fight between getting water to people and using water for agriculture since agriculture still uses vast amounts of water, tough choices have to be made by the state. joe romm, thank you, always appreciate you. that wraps things up for me on this really snowy afternoon in new york city. i m craig melvin. up next andrea mitchell reports. we leave you with another look, this one from snow in trenton. statehouse in trenton, only february 3rd and already a long winter. i m bill karins, a lot of winter weather to be dealt with. the worst across southern
inch or two at the tail end in baltimore. as far as snow totals, we ll end up at least 6 inches in central park. already we don t have time to get prepare for the next one because it s already here. winter storm warnings up for kansas, this is tuesday and wednesday. this area of blue and pink is of concern and when i show you this map, this will be one of the wider reaching winter storms we ve had this winter with the winter storm first in kansas as we go through tuesday and tuesday afternoon and evening through the ohio valley, we ll see significant icing and could have freezing rain problems along the ohio river and the same areas we re looking at right now from philly to new york city will get another probably six inches of snow mixed with sleet and freezing rain. we ll do it all over again in 48 hours. this one also looks to hit new england harder. they kind of got spared on this one. we re waiting to see what happens. there s a possible coastal storm, maybe like a nor ea