today we re getting our first inside hints about what s on the president s to-do list now that the election is over. the list includes huge issues like taxes, the deficit, headline making overseas trip and a possible shakeup of his cabinet. let s get right to our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin. she s been doing some reporting. jessica, what are you learning? reporter: hi, wolf. first the reports that the president is going to be delivering a major speech on the economy or on the fiscal cliff are simply not true. no big speech planned for the coming days. the second piece i ll add to that that the president s team believes that they have laid out pretty clearly where the president stands on deficit reduction and how to avoid the fiscal cliff. and the next move now is for the republicans to say where they stand, what they re willing to give and to let negotiations take place to make some progress. the second piece, wolf, of news is pund its have been saying
republicans are already pouncing. they re seizing on the grade the president gives himself for improving the economy. i m wolf blitzer in charlotte, north carolina. and you re in the situation room. this just coming into the situation room. we want to get straight to our brand new cnn/orc polls on the state of the race for the white house on this the heels of the republican national convention in tampa. take a look at this. an actual tie. mitt romney and president obama both at 48% among likely voters. romney gets post-convention boost of just one percentage point while president obama has dipped one percentage point. our chief national correspondent, john king, is over the magic wall along with democratic poster peter hart with a very first look at the numbers. john, a statistical margin of error. this is about as close as it gets. it is as close as it can get. we have one of the best in the business. peter is going to help us understand why romney didn t get a bigge
president gives himself for improving the economy. i m wolf blitzer in charlotte, north carolina. and you re in the situation room. this just coming into the situation room. we want to get straight to our brand new cnn/orc polls on the state of the race for the white house on this the heels of the republican national convention in tampa. take a look at this. an actual tie. mitt romney and president obama both at 48% among likely voters. romney gets post-convention boost of just one percentage point while president obama has dipped one percentage point. our chief national correspondent, john king, is over the magic wall along with democratic poster peter hart with a very first look at the numbers. john, a statistical margin of error. this is about as close as it gets. it is as close as it can get. we have one of the best in the business. peter is going to help us understand why romney didn t get a bigger bounce and what does the president have to do with his convention
yeah, good morning, tamron. it is coming down quite heavily. it has been doing so all morning. the good news is that this is a really fast-moving storm. so, it s really heavy off the coast right now and the ri-state area getting hammered and it is expected to move through quickly. central new jersey has already seen two to four inches of rain and some places are expected to see up to five inches of rain and just to put that in a little bit of perspective you mention areas seeing more rain in a couple more hours than they have seen in monthsp the entire state of new jersey got two and a half inches of rain over the entire month of august. now we re seeing two to four inches over the course of a day. now, flooding is always a concern, especially where we are here. i just want to show you how close we are to the we reten river. it is just about 100 feet away, just over those trees there and that is a river that floods. it has flooded before and where we re standing is actually