frustrated. it s 100 and some degrees heat index outside, and i can understand people getting worked up about this sort of thing. more on politics in a moment. i want to start with a street level view of what has to be considered an emergency. justin bruno heads up the office of emergency management. he is kind enough to step outside and tell us what he has been up today. thank you for making the time and braving the heat. is your city in emergency mode right now? we absolutely are. we have temperatures we have never seen before. heat indexes will be 105 to 115, which are record numbers. the power grid is significant, and you mentioned that in your earlier comments. we do expect to see more power demand than ever before in new york city. we have activated our emergency operation center, a situation room. we have agencies present, and one thing we do here is we are always in close touch with power edison, which is you on power provider, and we have them in all the time, an
million acres. listen to governor rick perry s reaction to this. there s a point and time where you say, hey, what s going on here. i mean why are you taking care of alabama? why are you taking care of other states? for some reason other the letter didn t get lost in the mail. it s not easy for a tea party backed governor to say, is it? this is a governor that at one point talked about succession. he said i don t need the federal government. particularly that language of take care of. there s an attack on the notion of the nanny skate. we want the government small enough to drown in the bathtub. if it s drowning, it can t throw
several new guests including tucker carlson and levee for the post-game wrap up. and union tactics to get back to redeye. i know what you are talking about, nothing that we can t take care of. showed me the roof of the fox news building. [ laughter ] most people don t come back from that? no, they don t. are you doing that hideous nancy grace show? when you put it that way. yes, on wednesday of next week i ll be on nancy grace s show on cnn headline news. you know the original name of show was talking jack-o-lanterns it s very prosecutorial slanted show.
and corporations are underfunded by hundreds of billions of dollars. no question, but they re not contributing money, to the politicians at this point for union rules. the union deal, if the union thinks there s a big problem, why doesn t the union bail them out. brenda: well, pension costs are soaring. is cutbacks an option or is a bailout the only one that you can see? i don t think that a bailout is the only option here, but i do have a take a little bit of offense with gary pulling out of this one example of this one pension worker. my parents both government workers, paid their taxes, health care, most ever their entire lives and i m sorry, the pensions that is coming to them, they deserve to get and i think there are way stories. the private employees get about a third of what the public employees get in terms of pensions, much, much less in the private
absolutely right and by the way, jonas is an example of the corporate pension situation, if they can t pay, they don t go to the taxpayer and say, by the way, taxpayer, you have to pick up the balance, we can t take care of. and the government but let me talk to jehmu for a second. i had two parents that worked two jobs, neither one of them had a pension and guess what, we made it happen. we made it work. we lived, we survived. it s not a situation where, you re not entitled to a pension. and we shouldn t have to be on the hook if the government can t figure out how the index pension toss what s really going on in the economy not just an automatic increase of 3, 5 or 8%. the unions are doing what they re going to what s necessary to protect the pensions of the working families that have contributed to this economy for their entire working career and i think that s a good thing for the economy and i think that s a good thing for the american people. brenda: i m sorry that s go