fact that that s getting killed essentially and they re going to try to do something else, if it had been funded the way it was recommended, would they be killing it now and it s unlikely that they would be, but the fact is, this is where they are and you presented a good point here, this is a political issue for the president. but on the policy front, when you look at the debt and these other spending issues, these are the tough decisions that they re trying to make and now, the president s going there, trying to come up with a compromise. offering help to laid off nasa workers, saying we re going to speed up this program, get these rockets up here. but you re going down to a fundamental question, which is why should there be any privatization with the space program. we re getting into some fundamental philosophical debates that is getting clouded by domestic politics, 2012, state of florida, and by people have this own ownership of nasa and of their government program.
it s still areas from florida, south of florida, miami, in front of the worst of it, and then the storm surge would be all the way through the southern half of the peninsula. still a category two over the top of orlando and even the tarp tampa area. then it weakens rapidly as it heads up to gornl george. forecast has kbraufd for areas of eastern north carolina and also for our friends in coastal south carolina. some minor tweaks and changes overnight, but we re still looking at a brutal storm. 155-mile-per-hour winds versus 160. msnbc s tom hendricks is on the ground with a picture of what that looks like. thousands of people ievacuating. you ve even heard of supermarket shelves running low. what can you tell us? we just experienced the gas