News from international. Welcome to cnn newsroom. Im suzanne malveaux. President obama is announcing his new cabinet choices that will shape the future of the u. S. Military as well as defense policy and intelligence gathering. The next hour, two more cabinet nominees will be named. Former senator chuck hagel for defense secretary and Homeland Security adviser john brennan for cia director. He has already picked senator john kerry as his nominee for secretary of state. President s choice, chuck hagel for defense secretary already coming under some fire. Some republicans point to comments that hagel made back in 2007, that they perceive as antijewish. Here is how South Carolina Lindsey Graham described the decision to nominate hagel. This is an inyourface nomination by the president to all of us who are supportive of israel. I dont know what his Management Experience is regarding the pentagon. Little, if any. I think its an incredibly controversial choice. And it looks like the second t
Tonight from chad myers, who has late new information in the cnn weather center. Whats the latest on this storm, because honestly, im not sure is this for real . Because we hear so much hype about storms sometimes. You know, its the rub that we worked through last year with irene. We thought it was going to be such a big event for new york and it was a dud. It wasnt a big dud for vermont, New Hampshire, new jersey, because of the flooding. But this is what we have to work through right now. This storm that looks like that, like just literally nothing, still a small category 1 hurricane, but can this morph literally into something that will have 80 to 90 mile per hour winds, put 20 inches of rain down, and cause millions of people to be without power for days and probably some for weeks. Can it happen . Yes. All the forecasts say that it will happen. But you know what, all the forecasts said that irene would be a worse storm than it was and its not. Everyone im talking to believes that
Just to compare this number for you, the romney effort collected 170 million for the entire month of september when the president beat him by 11 million there. Want to listen quickly to mitt romney. He was speaking this morning in cincinnati. You know somethings wrong about the direction were headed right now. You know that we dont want to keep going in the same path weve been on for four years. You know we cant afford four more years like the last four years. You want i mean, do you want real big change in this country . Well, youre going to get it on november 6th. Youre going to make it happen. Well get america on track again. Romney blitzing ohio today. Hearing from him later this hour live speaking to a town outside of columbus. Meantime, president obama day two of his eightstate tour. Here he is arriving in richmond, virginia. This is just earlier this afternoon. Speaking of richmond, virginia, this is where we find jessica llin. Bus. On the phone with us from jehere four more sta
Weather center. Whats the latest on this storm, because honestly, im not sure is this for real . Because we hear so much hype about storms sometimes. You know, its the rub that we worked through last year with irene. We thought it was going to be such a big event for new york and it was a dud. It wasnt a big dud for vermont, New Hampshire, new jersey, because of the flooding. But this is what we have to work through right now. This storm that looks like that, like just literally nothing, still a small category 1 hurricane, but can this morph literally into something that will have 80 to 90 mile per hour winds, put 20 inches of rain down, and cause millions of people to be without power for days and probably some for weeks. Can it happen . Yes. All the forecasts say that it will happen. But you know what, all the forecasts said that irene would be a worse storm than it was and its not. Everyone im talking to believes that this storm will be significantly more impact for new york, new je
Andrew cuomo is very worried about. He declared a statewide emergency this afternoon. Emergency orders also in effect in pennsylvania, virginia, maryland and the district of columbia. A Baltimore Power Company declaring 2,000 out of state linesmen, some from as far away as new mexico. Philadelphias mayor telling people in floodprone areas be ready to leave by 2 00 p. M. Sunday. Im always worried about overhyping a storm, especially this far in advance. Lets just try to get the facts tonight from chad myers, who has late new information in the cnn weather center. Whats the latest on this storm, because honestly, im not sure is this for real . Because we hear so much hype about storms sometimes. You know, its the rub that we worked through last year with irene. We thought it was going to be such a big event for new york and it was a dud. It wasnt a big dud for vermont, New Hampshire, new jersey, because of the flooding. But this is what we have to work through right now. This storm that