controversial issues, what are the chances that s a successful strategy? for the republicans? yeah. well, you know, i mean it could be, because any big legislative success, obviously, would reflect well on the president, so they don t want to do anything that would reflect well on the president. it s pretty much that simple, craig. all right. that s a good spot to leave it. always good to see you, amanda terkel, of course, zerlina maxwell in the studio. big thanks to all of you. up next, storm number 18. count them 18. right now, the latest on the system that is spawning thunder snow, freezing rain, and high winds in many places. also, new jersey governor chris christie is going to be speaking to republicans behind closed doors tonight before a trip to d.c. up next, i ll talk live with new jersey congressman frank pallone about the latest accusations in the christie scandal. plus, this well, you already do have gay scouts, whether you like it or
raked florida. of course, last year about this time, a 1 a, the famous road that goes up in fort lauderdale. it did not look like this. the file from then, tropical storm sandy blew pass over the seawall, flooding streets and couple million dollars in damage. three days later october 29th it caused $65 billion damage up north. comparing predictions versus reality, this past may, noaa predicted 13 to 20 named storms, seven to 10 hurricanes and three to six major ones, so far, karen is now just named storm number 11 and we ve only seen two hurricanes, humberto and ingrid, neither of them major. last year for 2012, the prediction was nine to 15 maimed storms, fourthfour to eight, hurricanes. reality was 19 named storms and 10 hurricanes. that was much business ier is than predicted. in 2011 the predicted numbers looked like this at end of the
look what we ve been hit with. this is like storm number 8 since christmas. it s winter. what do you expect? if you don t want the winter, move to arizona. where there s a new controversial immigration law, steve? that s exactly right! if you go to a hospital and you re sick, they re now going to they put a proposal together or proposition together where they re going to ask nurses and doctors to ask for residency status of patients? they re not asking for residency status. they just want to know if you ve got i.d. because they want to know if you are in this country illegally. exactly. and the problem is, say the critics, if you do this, you are turning the health care workers into de facto immigration officers. is that fair? here are both sides of that arizona bill. listen. i think they would probably stop some people from coming in for health care. and it would also create a moral and ethical dilemma for health