on wall street saying do something, do anything. this group of freshman republicans aren t really budging. will it have been an impact heez emails and phone calls, who knows. it may mean that house republican leaders have to shift away from what these small group of freshman republicans want. we ll see if it has an impact or not. there s not a whole lot of time left. indeed. thank you so much. we will be talking with nbc s chuck todd in a few minutes. the first tropical system of the year has fizzled out. tropical storm don has weakened into a tropical depression. the storm made landfall along corpus christie. it brought little relief to the record breaking heat in the lone star state. here s with your saturday forecast bill karins. good saturday morning to you, bill. all the hype going into last night is what would don do in texas? don did nothing. don was a dud. look at the radar, it s hard to figure out where the storm would
tonight. get this in the wee hours 1:00 a.m. on sunday. however this thing works out, it s going to go to right to the limit when you add in all the procedure until tuesday at the earliest. that 1:00 a.m. vote will give us some thought tomorrow morning. the stock market just had its worst week of the year. many americans are wondsering if their bank accounts are in for any similar hits. guerining. question, if the deal is not passed by tuesday, how long could it be until americans would feel the impact? could things change as quickly as overnight? i think we ll see ran impact on wall street almost immediately if we get to monday morning without some real progress on a deal some kind of consensus measure turnover
a.m. on sunday. however this thing works out, it s going to go to right to the limit when you add in all the procedure until tuesday at the earliest. that 1:00 a.m. vote will give us some thought tomorrow morning. the stock market just had its worst week of the year. many americans are wondsering if their bank accounts are in for any similar hits. guerining. question, if the deal is not passed by tuesday, how long could it be until americans would feel the impact? could things change as quickly as overnight? i think we ll see ran impact on wall street almost immediately if we get to monday morning without some real progress on a deal some kind of consensus measure turnover weekend. the stock market could react negatively. we saw a gradual pull back all
ask american citizens who are concerned to phone, to email, to tweet their elected officials. how much influence do you think that might have at this point? it s funny that those phone calls and emails and tweets have been very effective in past legislation fights. many the health care bill, for example, that helped sway some members. back when they were discussing the bank bailouts, the tax deal at the end of december. at this point it s something different. you have a big group of new freshman republican members in the house. they are not budging. they re not listening to just about anybody. it s they re going on what they believe is a mandate with this big tea party election in 2010 and they haven t really budged. you re seeing business leaders on wall street saying do something, do anything. this group of freshman