barely one month into the new year and the president has already made it clear that he wants to see immigration reform happen in 2014. not so fast, however, says house speaker john boehner. announcing thursday that progress is stalled because republican members don t trust the president. he s feeding more distrust about whether he s committed to the rule of law. listen, there s widespread doubt about whether this administration can be trusted to enforce our laws. and it s going to be difficult to move any immigration legislation until that changes. joining me now is kentucky s democratic congressman john yarmouth, thank you for being with us here today. thank you, milissa. how big of a blow are the speaker s comments? i think this is really the subterfuge. i think what speaker boehner is
midwestern temperatures below zero. it s going to be oof frigid blast. new york city feeling the frigid air mass. 1 below for the high temperature in minneapolis but it s going to be a tough couple of days across the midwest and northeast. lots of changes here and feeling winter. it feels like a long winter already and it s already the first week of january. craig? thank you for that. i was in minneapolis a few weeks ago for a shoot, 4 degrees below zero. it is a different kind of cold. your hearts have to go out to folks in that part of the country. milissa, we re going to send it back to you. we ll talk to a few folks who decided to spend a portion of their day in central park. lots of folks in from out of town. a number of people. a guy from australia, this is the first time he s ever seen snow and what a show he got.
get reissued, if that process was already started, those notices were in the mail. remember the post office has to deliver thought mail to people. that they will be ensured. their loss will be insured even though they may not have been current on their premiums. they will to have get current for those losses to be paid. and he gave some tips to people about the unscrupulous folks who might show up here looking to do some contractor type work. all in all things are starting slowly to move along. it feels like day 40 for a lot of these folks. they re starting to get the power back online which should help the traffic problems we ve seen over the past three or four days. one more thing, milissa, the transportation director is asking folks coming down i-35 to try to find, if they don t need to come through this stretch of moore, find other ways. it is really hampering people trying to get in and out of the area. back to you. that is all incredibly relieving news, i m sure for all those h
governor chris christie was on the today show this morning, cutting a five-mile long ribbon on the beach. officially starting the summer tourism season but not all the beaches will be ready for summer unfortunately. the reporter is at the stretch of the jersey shore still on the rebound. what is behind the delay in the recovery where you are standing right now? reporter: milissa, would you believe we are only just about a mile north of where that ribbon cutting took place in seaside heights. still 300 home are waiting to be torn down from hurricane sandy. they needed an order approving that action from fema and that only came on saturday. so where property is municipally opened, where that funding is coming from, where that approval is coming from to rebuild and tear down, that effort is a little more straightforward. where you re concerning private and personal property, homes like the ones you see behind me, a lot more red tape is required to actually get that underway.
hospitals have received at least 29 injured in the storm. seven are in critical condition. the national weather service says the tornado was at least an e-5. that s the second highest strength rating. carries winds up to 200 miles per hour. the white house said the president has been receiving updates on the storm and rescue efforts. the magnitude of the destruction and loss is still emerging but what is clear at this hour, this is a storm that will go into history. the weather channel s brian is joining us right now. i was watching about an hour ago with your report that possibly there was going to be another tornado hitting down, this this tornado was heading towards pauls valley, oklahoma. let me go to milissa right now. she covered tornadoes in the oklahoma city area. i m trying to figure out what we have facing us later tonight,