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Im Terrell Brown. The 113th congress has been sworn in, and today the house takes up its first piece of business, the bill of providing aid to victims of Superstorm Sandy. John boehner was reelected as speaker of the house, but he sparked a flood of criticism from within his own party. Tara mergener is in washington this morning. Tara, good morning to you. Terrell, the speaker changed course after an angry backlash for the delay. Its the first of two votes to send up 60 million in aid to the victims of Superstorm Sandy. Hes trying to rebuild his home but hes run into a problem. His frustration grew when the last session of congress ended this week without acting on a bill to provide Financial Relief to millions of victims. Its like a slap in the face when you really think about, you know, the way were being treated by the government, that theyre withholding, you know, money that should have been given to us, you know, to help us rebuild. Camarada isnt the only one. Ask any family in li
Twothirds of the voters of virginia which is voting next week say they hold a stark, negative view of the Republican Party nationally. Worse yet, the same twothirds say they are voting for the democratic candidate for governor next week because they cant stand for the brand of the guy running against him. His name is republican. All have such a dread of the grand old party today that now think of it to be feared. Eugene robinson and joan walsh. Both are msnbc political analysts. Well a political storm is brewing in virginia. That could tell us which way the country is headed now. For nearly 40 years covering the last nine elections, the party occupying the white house has lost the following race. This shows that streak may be about to end. Terry mcauliffe leads Ken Cuccinelli by 12 points. His largest margin in the poll yet. And when mcauliffe supporters asked what motivates their vote, as i said, nearly twothirds, 64 , say its the chance to vote against the republican cuccinelli. By j
Right now we know of at least 116,000 homes without power. Those numbers will obviously change. But i just want to hit home this point, that everything about sandy is huge. You see the system. This is on your screen here. The wind field, this is something well talk to chad about, the wind field roughly 900 miles wide, 60 Million People all the way from North Carolina to maine could be affected by this hurricane. About 61,000 National Guard troops have been deployed. The president making the point that a lot of the resources, as best as they can, have been prepositioned in anticipation of this storm. 87 billion worth of homes reportedly at risk. And in manhattan, the New York Stock Exchange closed today and we know it will be closed tomorrow. Also shut down, amtrak, subways in new york, washington, d. C. , philadelphia, and in boston. And at the top of the hour here we can tell you now that new yorks holland tunnel and the brooklyn battery bridge are shutting down, closing. No traffic t
Hurricane sandy is a monster storm, even though its center is still out to sea. Tropical storm and Hurricane Force winds extend, get this now, for 1,000 miles. Right now, damaging winds are blowing from southern new england across long island, new jersey, delaware and virginia. We have the full resources of cnn deployed on the story including crews up and down the Atlantic Coast as well as in cities that arent used to this kind of a disaster. Heres what the storm looked like this afternoon when the International Space station flew over. You can clearly see the eye of the storm. Right now, the center is closing in on southern new jersey. Lets begin our coverage with our meteorologist, chad myers, who has the very latest. Chad, some have said that this is the strongest storm ever north of the carolinas. Explain what that means. That means it has the lowest pressure ever that has been pressured by an aircraft or on land of 939 millibars now. North of cape hatteras, weve never had a storm