connecticut, new england, the storm surge is going to be anywhere from five to ten feet above normal tides. it s going to be coming in at an astronomical high tide as well. plus add to that a rainfall of anywhere from 6 to 12 inches of rain. you re going to have coastal flooding, flooding inland. and the winds. there are high, there are high wind warnings. we re talking warnings from virginia all the way up to boston. and as far west as west virginia. we re talking 60 million people. and because of those high winds, we expect massive power outages throughout the area. and as the system moves onshore, it s going to be a long-term effect. it s going to last for about 72 hours. and so, we are talking about people who could be without power for at least ten days. and that, as you know, will take it right into election day. so what will people do if they can t get to even the voting booth, or the voting booths don t have power? it s going to be a real mess over the next 72 hours. david? a
washington are going to do, they sit on the sidelines. i want certainty. i think there s ways to get an agreement in washington. but it doesn t have to mean higher rates. it can mean lower rates and eliminating loopholes. but, governor, my question is about david, if we get there, we ll grow. what will we get out of him? we ll get a movement towards a balanced budget. a stabilization of taxes and for some people, a tax cut. and we will have regulators that will use common sense and not overdo it. we have strong regulations here on oil and gas that on fracking, the toughest in the country, but we don t overdo it and when people understand certainty, they invest, david. look, this is not theory. i was in business for ten years. we had a lot of people around debating, never been in business in their entire lifetime. and they don t understand it, i do understand it. and the fact is, when they are confident of the future, they can then invest. and there s a lot of money sitting on t
i want certainty. i think there s ways to get an agreement in washington. but it doesn t have to mean higher rates. it can mean lower rates and eliminating loopholes. we ve got to get off of overregulating small businesses. if we get that, we ll grow. what will we get out of him? a movement towards a balanced budget. a stabilization of taxes and for some people, a tax cut. and we will have regulators that will use common sense and not overdo it. we have strong regulations here on oil and gas that on fracking, the toughest in the country, but we don t overdo it when people understand certainty, they invest, david look this is not theory. i was in business for ten years. we had a lot of people around debating, never been in business in their entire lifetime. and they don t understand it, i do understand it. and the fact is, when they are confident of the future, they can then invest. and there s a lot of money sitting on the sidelines, if romney wins, i believe we re going to see a signi
abortion, about do you trust women enough to let them make decisions about their own lives. this is how she talked about it. if i have to listen to one more gray-faced man with a $2 haircut explain to me what rape is, i m going to lose my mind. frankly, to be fair, the romney campaign is probably thinking the same thing i m going to lose my mind if we have to keep talking about rape in this election. its association with the republican party that he does not want to be associated with. right, but then he picked paul ryan. they have the fight over forced ultrasounds, the government telling you you need to have a medically unnecessary procedure at the order of the state, regardless of what you want or what your doctor says and he picked a guy who picked a forced ultrasound bill for the country, paul ryan was on board with that. paul ryan was a co-sponsor of a bill with todd akin it redefine rape. paul ryan was a co-sponsor of a bill to have personhood, federally. which would not on
england. the storm surge is going to be anywhere from five to ten feet above normal tides. it s going to be coming in at an astronomical high tide, as well. plus, add to that a rainfall of anywhere from 6 to 12 inches of rain. you re going to have coastal flooding, flooding inland and the winds. there are high there are high wind warnings. we re talking warnings from virginia all the way up to boston and as far west as west virginia. we re talking 60 million people. and because of those high winds, we expect massive power outages throughout the area. and as the system moves onshore, it s going to be a long-term effect. it s going to last for about 72 hours. and so we are talking about people who could be without power for at least ten days. and that, as you know, will take it right into election day. so what will people do if they can t get to even the voting booth or the voting booths don t have power? it is going to be a real mess over the next 72 hours. david? al roker, thank yo