0 and we will be tracking this all afternoon. all right, dylan, thanks so much for that. we will certainly be back to you as conditions warrant. now, let s go to where the greatest threat is right now, expected this afternoon and evening. storm chaser tim sameris, national geographic explorer, is on the phone for us from alva, oklahoma, on the kansas line. tim, what are you seeing right now? tim? do we have tim there? oh, i think we lost tim. so we will continue with some more information about temperatures here in new york. yeah, we ll wait for tim to get back to us. back east here, we re in day two of 90-degree heat. air quality alerts are in effect throughout the northeast. that s not keeping tourists and locals like out of new york s times square. today is expected to be the hottest day of the week with 92 the forecasted high, courtesy of our friends over at wnbc. for now, people are making the best of the hot weather, lots of water is the rule of the day. area beaches have bee
the american dream, but at which we realize that the american dream can never be fulfilled until every american has an equal chance to fulfill it in his own life. 36 years later in 2008, young men and women voted in record numbers and chose senator obama by a margin of 34 points. their efforts helped to make him president obama. now that president obama is running for a second term, will young voters show up? will they choose him again. will they become permanent voters with a sense of stake and purpose or will they stay at home and leave the governing to the grownups. still with me, once again ben & jerry s ben cohen and political comment state tore valerie kore and matt segal of ourtime.org and felicia wong, president and ceo of the roosevelt institute. obviously young voters are as diverse a group as older voters, in many ways more diverse.
campuses across the country. we know what we need to do with them is to reinvent the way they are going to engage in the political process. so what our young people really want to do, of course they want to vote. of course they want to register. what they also want to do is engage in their own communities. this is both a values driven generation but also a practical generation. they want solutions they can invent, that they can bring into their communities, whether it s improving food distribution, improving green energy. these are things they re able to do themselves. that is a mode of millennial set of engagement that really can work. i think we can see that throughout the presidential. matt? felicia s reference to local communities highlights the die cot ma dichotomy. volunteerism you get an immediate efficacy, you see a smiling kid when you re done tutoring them. when you vote in this country,
at the table, ben cohen, ceo and founder of ben & jerry s, valerie kore, matt segal president of ourtime.org and felicia wong. you were talking a bit about this angst with the presidential election and whether or not they re addressing issues of students. this time magazine cover, i think this might be the second copy. even assigns homework. talk to me about that. is it time to reinvent college? i think the one thing the president did exceptionally well in his state of the union address was, yes your mic is dead. we re having a mic issue today. i promise i ll let you come back. valerie, is it time to reinvent college? i think it s time to reinvent, but not replace. i come from a farming family.
0 as early as tomorrow evening from outer banks to new england. new york, pennsylvania, maryland, virginia and north carolina plus the district of column yeah have already declared states of emergency. a tropical storm warning is in effect for parts of florida. we ll have more updates on sandy later in the program. right now i want to turn to politics. this, my friends, is $26.86. $26.86, not a hunl amount of money. certainly not enough for a spiffy new iphone 5. it will get you plenty of itunes downloads. not enough to take the whole family to the movies, but you could probably treat yourself to lunch at applebee s. imagine that $26.86 compounded every second. that is $1,611.60 a minute. that s $96,696 an hour or $2.3 million a day. suddenly $26.86 doesn t seem so modest because $26.86 is how much both candidates combined are spending every second of every day this election cycle which is why on thursday, we cross a milestone in american politics. a big fat $2 billion milestone. the 2