ed lavandera in galveston, texas, and ed lavandera in the weather center. what are you seeing? reporter: jake, things starting to get interesting. sustained winds picked up as has the rain. we ve been at the sea wall here in corpus christi and have seen this water rise slowly throughout the day. it was a little while ago, the water wasn t as far as it is here. seeing maybe a foot of water increase, and we re going to see residents, all morning long, residents who have chosen not to evacuate. one of the last few about to evacuate. what kept you here so long? like i said, i work in ode a odessa. take care of my house. board it down. get prepared for it. this will be the first time being here in a storm here in corpus since i lived here, and i just wanted to see the side of the water before i take off north. reporter: do you believe the
razor wire back. the police are not responding at this stage. this shows the sheer volume of anger on the streets it s because those politicians. able to find a new site for the garbage. there are talks of smells emanating from the port. a real sense of collapse, frankly and this is a government whose collecting trash was one of the minor responsibilities. this country has been without its most senior official for the long period of time, the anger on the streets, saw last year how water wasn t able available, you could physically smell the decay of the political elite in the piles of trash that were piling up around all around the
but one eu member, the uk, is refusing to give up any of its budget powers. we ll get details from our own richard quest just moments from now. and still no agreement in washington on the future of payroll tax cuts. both parties say they want to prevent what amounts to a tabs hike on 160 million americans come january 1st. but they differ on how to pay for it. democrats want a surtax on millionaires. republicans want spending cuts. well, now republicans in the house want to tie a tax cut extension to approval of a controversial oil pipeline. if nothing passes, anybody who draws a paycheck will pay 6.2% into social security in 2012. all this year we pay 4. 2%. that tax cut extension it on the lips of of the gop candidates campaigning in iowa today. front-runner newt gingrich is not there. he s signing copies of his book in washington, d.c. and just four weeks until the iowa caucuses we re seeing more attack ads. now rick perry is being attacked for his attack ad. i m not
thank you, chris, very much. that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. tomorrow on the show, congressional black caucus chairman emanuel cleaver will talk about the cbc job fair in los angeles. and my colleague tamron hall has the newsnation next. thank you, chuck. we are following events out of vermont where the national guard helicopters are delivering food and water to towns cut off by flooding. let the battle begin. we have the latest comments from president obama on as much anticipated jobs plan. where will he draw the line in the sand with the republicans, and this as the republican members of the super committee meet behind closed doors for the first time and why some of the president s supporters say that the only solution is for the president to make a bold move that will likely be rejected by the tea party and other republicans when it comes to his jobs plan, and plus surprising new comments from the father who gave steve jobs up for adoption.
how impassable is it? reporter: well, here s a bit of an example of how bad it is, i m standing on what used to be a road. you can see just here to my life, camera right, it s gone. there s now a river there. this water wasn t here before the hurricane and the floods. and you can see it s ripped out the corner of that building. this water was about 100 yards over in that direction. about 50 yards over in that direction and it was a babbling brook. there used to be a little park with outdoor sculpture. this is an artist colony and the first floor had been completely torn out. across vermont that s what s happened to so many roads and bridges. there are 250 roads that have been washed away. just about every significant road in this state has been impacted by the hurricane in a bad way and there s damage. there s such a problem it s such a problem that they have to airlift supplies to people who