to town homes. at the same time your city employees were getting generous package and pay for benefits. there was a failure in leadership. they felt the money would continue to roll in the property values would continue to wise. that in 2008 stock market crash. real estate prices plunged. at the same time property and sales tax revenue went off a cliff. but when the city went to staff and benefit and pension packages the union not only insisted it launched an ad campaign that johnson took as a threat. stop with the police department put up billboards with a sign that says saekd most
fleet to saekd. nbc s chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski is at the pentagon with this. i used to work in norfolk and i know how important that base is. where are they going? this is pretty much standard operating procedures. any time there s a threat of a hurricane moving into the area, because it s much safer for the huge navy vessels to be out riding out the storm in the open sea than it is to be banging against each other or the pier if they re tied up. all 64 ships from that part of the 2nd fleet, which are still in port, have been ordered out to sea. that process has been going on now for about 24 hours, including the u.s. acraft carrier enterprise and its entire battle group. and so by the end of today we expect that all those ships will be safely out to sea.
left of their lives, looking for a keepsake or memory or anything left to cope. i found his bible and flag. reporter: there are 90 sets of remains still unidentified. you don t comprehend it. look at everything. it s destroyed. it s wiped out. you get up each morning if you sleep at all, and you think, what kind of plan do we have for the day? reporter: how can you plan for something like this? jay gray, nbc news, joplin, missouri. pretty remarkable. you can watch president obama s full remarks at the memorial service in joplin today, and we ll caring it live for you right here on msnbc sunday. and then bracing for saekd round of rain. in montana, the national guard
welcome back to this special edition of yajansing & co. we are in washington. for the ekd is time since world war ii the political party is regaining control in the house. in this case, it is the republicans. we have so much to talk about today. before we get back to more political news we went to head back to richard lui. a lot happening in washington, d.c. we want to get you updated on this story coming out of miami. miami international airport, pictures you see here on that site is that they have bomb sniffing dogs that alerted authorities there of a suspicious package. this happened to be a bag in a secure area of terminal g, according to miami police department. one of the deetectives telling s that flights have been evacuated and flights have been diverted to a nearby terminal. currently the bomb squad is working on the scene.
monitoring some of the other top stories in the situation room right now. what else is going on, mary? wolf, president obama s reaching out to the president of haiti as the two leaders stood at the white house rose garden following an oval office meeting, mr. obama pledged america s commitment to help the embattled nation recover. mr. obama emphasized that the crisis there has not passed and warned that saekd disaster could strike as haiti now enters the rainy season. many people are still without homes after january s deadly earthquake. with tax day fast approaching, the house has passed a bill to allow taxpayers to write off charitable donations to earthquake ravaged chile this year. the current law requires donors to wait until next year. to claim the deduction, donations would have to be made by april 15th. the measure now moves on to the senate. congress passed a similar bill for donations to haiti. 65 years later, recognition for women who served during world war ii. as c