flooding for example along the fdr, which is fundamental closed at the moment, as we did in hurricane irene. now, when we close a road, we close it when the water comes up and if the water recedes, for example, as you go from high tide to low tide, we would re-open that. at any moment any of these roads, if it becomes unsafe, we close it. we have lots of people watching. the flooding that could occur later today is why we ordered our evacuation from zone a areas yesterday. last night there was a high tide and tonight a bigger one and tomorrow another one. water levels along our coast and waterways have begun rising and are expected to remain at higher than normal levels for the thex 24 hours. the surge will be roughly at 8:00 tonight, 8:15, plus or minus a couple of hours. remember, if you re in the south bronx, the surge that you re
focused on turnout as are the democrats, that s what s going to change really the impact more this election, is the groups of people out there hitting the doors, making people get out and vote. the get out the vote effort is everything at in the point, because right now the ads are saturated and we have this hurricane in place. getting out the vote is what s key. you talk about the impact. we know specifically the impact in maryland for today, that the governor canceled early voting. i had a chance to speak to him in our special primetime coverage last night about what this means and whether or not they make up that day. they re going to try but it depends on what happens within the state with sandy as they look at it. still early voting is so strategic to the campaign. how impacted is the early vote because this is a lumbering and slow-moving storm? right. i think the obama campaign feels good about their early vote operations across the country,
convention since 1944 which does not include an elected member of the kennedy family. republican vice presidential nominee paul ryan supports prayer in public schools if approved by the states. ryan says it is a constitutional issue for states and a moral responsibility of parents. it is not clear whether mitt romney agrees with ryan s position on that issue of prayer in schools. ah, the separation of church and state. always a hot debate. always a very hot debate. let s just not go there. may get in trouble. another hot debate is the abortion issue. and a moment that didn t get a lot of primetime coverage last night. spoke before the networks joined in, you may remember the name sandra fluke, the name from the rush limbaugh controversy. we saw her advocating for coverage of birth control. she gave a pretty biting speech. one of the lines talks about what america would be like under president romney. an america in which access to birth control is controlled by people who will