the chiefs of staff for speaker boehner and leader reid and the chief of staff for the president. it s been at that kind of a level here at the capitol through the night. the vice president s been in the room with president obama. certainly, the skillset joe biden brings to this, he knows how congress works better than anybody in the executive branch right now, has personal relationships and can be a deal closer, but i haven t heard anyone in the wee hours here reference him as the guy to go in to try to close it because there s a lot of confidence in those chiefs of staff. i m told by mid-morning they have to let the president know where they are, by noon. so the hours are really shrinking now and everybody s getting a little bit of sleep, get fresh, come back and do it again maybe as early as 8:00. they just don t have a lot of time left. they don t. not much room. don t don t what s that, chris? so savannah, does the white
they play hampton this weekend and then a potential tough game against michigan or tennessee. after that, texas was seeded too low, they re number four seed and i have texas knocking off duke in the sweet 16. that s if texas gets by oakland, my friend. we shall see. that s right. noon. at noon, right? at noon on sports sendse s spo quickly click over and then back to msnbc. andy, thank you for coming on the daily rundown. that s it for us. up next, all the latest from tokyo from chris janising who i there. 1:00, don t miss the interview with secretary of state hillary clinton so much on the national agenda these days. you will not want to miss that interview. we ll see you back here tomorrow. stay with msnbc all day for the breaking news coverage in japan, libya, bahrain, you name it. td ameritrade can. they ve got trading specialists i can call for help. and paper trading. free practice trading that helps me hone my technique. complex options.
that brega what s happening is the first set piece, the first major set piece of the civil war. you ve got two opposing libyan sides, two forces armed, they have weapons, they ve got tanks. one side has war planes, they share the same objective, which is the oil refinery and natural gas facility in brega, so this is really it. yesterday was a bad day for the pro-gadhafi forces. they took brega at dawn, they lost it by noon. the rebels held it overnight, today there were more air strikes trying to soften up the terrain but there were no ground forces coming back in from the gadhafi side to retake that refinery, and gas facilities. so now we have that facility, which is the second largeest in the country secured now, completely by rebel forces. it wasn t entirely bad for the pro-gadhafi forces, because they did here around tripoli manage to take a couple of smaller less
this afternoon, too, all the 11s in a row. let me take you through the time line of the storm. in case you have plarngsz yns, don t want to get caught out driving. you notice the clouds will increase during the day. the clouds are shown in white. the snow is shown in blue. by the time we get to 7:00 p.m., some of the light snow should be moving into d.c. and almost into philadelphia. so it looks like the very tail end of the rush hour maybe light snow. we re not calling for big accumulations around d.c. so not really too concerned. then as we go through about 11:00 p.m., the snow begins to quickly move northward up i-95. that s when the snow should be beginning in new york city right around 10:00 to midnight. philadelphia should be getting moderate snow at 11:00. about it time we get to 5:00 a.m., the heaviest of the snow from new york city now into southern new england. then by the time we get to noon, new york it is ji almost done by noon. it s a quick-moving storm. but when it hits,
five. that s the big story in maine. there s another big story, at the top of the hour, noon, eastern, in the cnn news room. jacqui jeras is with us as well. the other big story we re following for you, is the latest travel snag at jfk international airport. we re talking about a number of planes stuck on the tarmac for hours. couldn t get through customs. a lot of employees just weren t there. elise is at the jfk airport. give us an update. sure. the passengers, not only sitting on the tarmac, some six hour, but now, four, five, six hours for their baggage. the folks i ve spoken to, to say