policy. alisyn: it s interesting what nancy pelosi said this week, god bless these protesters, an organic group of people what she said about the tea party when he those protests started. there s always a double standard with liberals. the difference between the tea party and those folks that are doing the protests down there, some of those people are being tased. some of the people are down there and don t even no, they re not. you guys some are being tased and angela a friend i move more than life itself was path about the tea party and protests and now he s not on and i want to bring john in, there are some reports that the labor unions have gotten involved and maybe paying people to carry signs. what do you think. i don t believe it. if it s true, it s lame and
patrols routinely go through the streets. they re there, even if the people are not. john in? martin savage for us tonight near vicksburg, mississippi. this is a blue collar place. sugar cane is biggest farm crop. the parish president is with us now to discuss the punishing impact of this flooding. thanks for being with us on a difficult night. as you look around this community. this would be dry. the edge of the river would be, gosh, 50 yards out that way. how many homes, how many homes in your parish do you expect because of the decision to deliberately flood it, will be buried? i would say about a thousand homes will be flooded in both upper and lower saint martin parish. that s just an estimate. we re going off the course decision and the weather forecasters saying the river should be at habit 27 feet. that s what we re basing the decision on. we re taking one on the chin not only for america but for louisiana as well. you say taking it on the
show you its powerful punch in many forms. right here the pace of change is slow yet certain. last night we showed you the spillway from above a helicopter ride. the gates open toded to the gates open toded t divert wr away from mississippi. now the water is rising slowly as you see it. you see the rails that go up behind my shoulder. nose are normally dry. that s the edge of the river. it s rising more slowly than the engineers originally predicted. the folks were told by the mississippi crests near here next tuesday many of the homes could be underwater. dwayne moved here four months ago for the peace and quiet. he likes the birds and the schools. a lot of broken hearts right now. a lot of broken hearts. but in the back of our mind we all knew that it would happen. we just didn t know when. so we just, like i said, we just deal with it. that s all we can do. tonight there s a bit of a mixed message from political leaders. on one hand they re pleased with flood control a
concession to one of the demands of the protesters that are out in the streets in various cities in syria, and yet, just about a couple of hours later we see on syrian television announcements urging citizens not to gather in key parts of damascus where the government is claiming there are leaflets claiming people to come out and rally. you see the government struggling. what kind of message do they want to present? on the one hand they know they have a problem. the protest movement is taking root and more people are angry and becoming defiant. on the other hand the government is saying yes, we will see to some of your demands, but they re afraid. they want to keep order and they don t quite know how to go about doing that just yet, john in. the u.s. says there will be no military strikes on syria. there certainly won t be military strikes on u.s. friendly bahrain. the opposition has a real change there for regime change, if you like, but now the government has come down hard on prot
why? narrowly. wow. john in? democrats lose the house and i don t think it will be close. i think republicans could win 45 or 50 seats. i think the house is gone for the democrats. i think that the senate will be closer than people think. i think the democrats will hold the senate but they could lose eight or nine seats in the senate. willie, what is your thoughts right now? after labor day, the campaign season starts. one hand, they said bad time for incumbents but the democrats are going to hang on. i got to call you out for that. i think the democrats lose the house. right now, i m at 35. i think republicans don t quite take over because i ve got real concerns with nrcc. they have lost a lot of special elections they should have won. and if howard dean does what i suspect he is going to do next which is to run the democratic party again because he is talking like a dnc chair this