and they are now hoping that he made it through the night and can hopefully reach him there today. that is the latest live from stephen son washington, back to you. alisyn: and what were conditions like overnight, was it snowing and very, very windy? reporter: we heard it was basically more of the same, they saw and are hoping for improvement but you can see in stephenson we are quite a bit south and seeing rain and likely could be seeing more snow, and nasty conditions up there today. we ll see what happens. alisyn: mark glyzewski, live, thank you. bill: and the guy who went over is really experienced and he was leaning over a wall of snow, call it a cornice and took off his backpack and jacket to get a look and, there is no support beneath him and you put a little bit of weight on that snow and down you go, and down he went. alisyn: imagine the terrifying position he s now in and they said, he s at a 70-degree angle and could slip down further.
about blanche lincoln in arkansas, but if you think about harry reid, and i can t imagine him deciding not to run, but he s in a peril seat in nevada and his own said, his own son, it would be better for the office if his dad got out. it s a pretty tough time here. bull bill juan will nams from washington, thank you. alisyn: the white house may be taking a bold new step in the handling of gitmo detainees, looking at the option of holding terror suspects indefinitely, side strepping side stepping the trial process all together. details next. bill: rescue teams getting set up for a daring rescue attempt as the sun comes up in the state of washington, a climber, stuck on a crater, inside of mount st. helens. what a night it must be for him, if he s still alive. we re on that story in only three minutes. you can leto
timing is everything. bill: i m trying to find out what is at the root of this, and evan byah was on abc earlier and he said no one is listening to moderates in america and no one listens to independents and those are the people who move elections. now, why would you be so politically tone deaf in washington to ignore the pleas of these people? and to do it really at your own peril, larry? bill, it is a question of how you get nominated. the first stage of an election is getting your patrty behind yu and you have to get the party follow nation and if your party activists are to the left you will play to the left otherwise you could find yourself in a damaging primary challenge or convention challenge and that could hurt you, in the fall election. so, politicians tend to play to the base first. and, then, late, if at all they get around to appealing to moderates and independents, and i think your point is well take, and evan byah s point is well
has fallen into the crater at m mount st. helens, he was standing on a ledge and it gave away and the search is set to resume this morning after strong winds grounded rescue choppers and let s check in with kttv, live in stevenson, washington, and it is 7:00 a.m. and has the rescue begun yet? reporter: we are in the midst of a meeting going on between the leaders of the rescue operation at the sheriffs office and they are trying to figure out the game plan and a lot has to do with the weather and again you are talking about the mt. st. helen s crater, over 8300 feet high and a spot where yesterday a 52-year-old climber fell, down into the crater itself and we are told he made it to the rim yesterday afternoon and he was on a cornice, an icy, snowy overhang and the cornice suddenly gave away and he fell 1500 vertical
robert gibbs the press secretary and what one of these articles today, leslie gelb, an old hand in washington says it is time to get rid of all of them and start over but that is implying that the president has not been in charge of the message and policy. it has been these guys. is that the case. listen, what you are hearing from the white house so far is that the problems they ve had are because the messaging was wrong, they didn t speak about it the right way. the problems were the president didn t focus his comments and directly tie them to the american people and critical ex-on the right would say it s not the messaging, it is the policy, it is the stuff that you are putting forward that them center of the country cannot buy into. and, a lot of people point to the health care reform issue and how the president really focused on that, trying to pass that massive plan and is still dying to do it with the february 25th meeting and it will be interesting to see if more than