travel alert. this is because of this al qaeda threat. it s for americans traveling abroad everywhere, but you especially need to be cautious in the areas in red here. cnn s nick valencia is at the busiest airport in the world, atlanta s hartsfield-jackson. nick, should people traveling here domestically be concerned as well? reporter: victor, domestically business as usual for those traveling today. they should not expect longer lines or delays as related to this travel warning. the state department also says for those that are traveling internationally this weekend, they should not see a visible change in security even if it is happening. we just came from the international terminal. i was inside there, and tfers pretty calm. i spoke to travelers who were going abroad. some had no idea there was a state department travel warning in place while others, they say their plans of travel had changed because of the travel warning. does that give you pause at all to get on a plane today?
ed henry is live with an up close and personal look on this. is anybody sincere about reaching a deal? reporter: that is the big question and the white house has faced this question about the president s outreach in part because you ll remember that story a few days welcome back in the national journal magazine where an unnamed white house official says all this outreach, charm offensive was a joke, a show if you will for the media as benefit to make it look like the president is reaching out to lawmakers. the white house has completely rejected that anonymous quote. they say the president is sane sear about trying to get a brand bargain budget deal with spending cuts and tax changes to workout that with republicans on the hill. yesterday the president sounded optimistic, take a listen. are you making some phrog. i think we ve had good conversations. reporter: the question now moving forward is whether they will come together on some of these issues. the president traveling tod
and bring them together? weather. people are concerned about it as they are heading home for the holidays. the storm system that pounded the midwest leaving a mess on the roads and arnts. tons of planes cancelled as well now heading east. right for us. ohio. pennsylvania. upstate, new york. about to get blasted with snow and powerful winds just days before christmas. for the very latest on what to expect and how it can impact your holiday travel. let s check in with the man who knows rick reichmuth. i hate to say that most of the rain moved through yesterday morning. why do you hate to say this. because we are wrong. i know you read that. [sigh] four more hours won t be the first time. true. so we re cool traveling today, right? it s really not a bad day. the worst of it was on thursday. so we re two days past that we have had a day to settle down and a lot of those flights to catch up. we have wind across the northeast. lake-effect snow is not uncommon this time of y
heather: we normally have scott rasmussen on at this time every week. but he s traveling today. but he had some pretty good polls following the presidential election. so we thought we d look at them. we want to start with this one. the daily presidential tracking poll, now that president obama has been reelected just over half of those polled say they approve of the job that the president is to go. gregg: what about the undecided voters? rasmussen reports finding 70% roughly made up their minds more than a month ago about who should be the leader of the free world. 18% in the last month. 8% in the last week. 4% basically tossing autopsy coin inside the voting booth. heather: how about the president s election night victory speech? 46% said it set the right tone. that is down, 10% from 2008. 32% say the president missed the mark. and 22% weren t sure. gregg: as fort voters themselves as they headed to the voting booths, most were more conservative on fiscal issues
good to have him back. thank you. morning joe detox went fairly well, not perfect. good morning, everyone. dense fog this morning, big issue for folks on the east coast down through jersey and the chesapeake, temperatures are very warm. and people in northern new england are wondering where s our snow? they count on it for the ski season and snow mobile season. that fog should lift by 10:00 on the east coast, traveling today, rain, buffalo, erie, pittsburgh, through ohio, but still very warm, the big cities. a lot of rain coming up from the south. shreveport, little rock, indianapolis, cleveland, and detroit, it s all umbrella weather for you. all the cold air back toward denver. minus 7 windchill, so winter s in the middle of the country. by the end of this week, it ll shift to the east coast, but if you re on the eastern sea board, what a nice start this has been. another mild day for you. you re watching morning joe. we re brewed by starbucks. [ male announcer ] humana and w