i have to ask your first reaction upon hearing these new allegations from the mayor of hoboken. did you have any advanced notice they were coming? were they a surprise to you? my reaction was, wow! i mean, those are very serious charges that mayor zimmer has leveled. we don t know all of the facts that surround it. it s curious that the lieutenant governor and her response admitted that there was a conversation, because she said mayor zimmer s version of the conversation was false. so, at least we have agreement that there was a conversation, but what we don t really know are all the details about it, all the nuance. and i think, that s an important part. i know that as chair of the committee, i get asked the question, is this what the committee will pick up next? we are still working on following our leads, the trail that took us to the governor s office on the george washington bridge. we need to look at these issues carefully, these new issues with hoboken, and make a decision g
craft bobbing in the water there. not going anywhere today. most of the entire central and north part of the state is right now under a tornado watch, not a warning but a watch. a good indication of just the breadth of this storm, tropical storm debby and how far its reach. from tornadoes to water spouts to flooding in the tampa area, to the one death in venus, florida, reported so far. heavy rainfall. maybe up to 20 or 25 inches before all is said and done. we re going to continue to get pounded for at least the next couple of days. soledad? you ll be in the middle of it. john, thanks for the update. we ll keep checking in. tornado and flood warnings are still in effect today. let s get right to meteorologist alexandra steele, in for rob this morning. he made really great points, john, did, because what we re looking at is this is the tropical storm and it is stationary. that s been the biggest problem with this thing. there s no momentum. there s no movement because t
truck. but his who-dun-it is far from over. what do we know? jay carney was asked about this when talking to reporters on the president s bus in north carolina. he said all he knew about it was what he read in media reports and they are not concern about the items inside that truck from a national $security viewpoints. the truck was recovered in a hotel parking lot near richmond airport. we don t know if anything inside was kept by the thieves for they knew the truck carried presidential equipment. the president in the middle of a three-day bus tour selling his jobs plan. even though he s in a bus, his equipment for various appearances travels by truck. that includes the sound equipment and podium marked with the presidential seal. the truck carried $200,000 worth
story and i don t know if it s the full story, they will tell you, look, the senate doesn t want this and the president doesn t want it. we are the only ones that passed the darn thing. so it s a very frustrating situation where it s become this kind of murder mystery game of clue, a who-dun-it. was it senator reid in the senate chamber? rahm emmanuel with the insurance industry in the roosevelt room? it s hard to figure out who put the knife in. if there is an overt plan to kill it and not just a big misunderstanding, three s company style there is a problem. pelosi is saying there aren t the votes in the senate. we know there are at least in terms of what people say, there are 41 votes and it is conceivable there could be 506789 we have dick durbin saying he would whip for it. their explanation doesn t make sense. so you re looking i mean
possibly to the administration to say that it doesn t make sense. maybe they are being told not to include it. look, the administration has said every conceivable sign aside of saying, oh, sure, beooer for it that they are not actually for it. where do you rest this? the white house. every opportunity they could have intervened on behalf of the public option they have chosen not to. i think you re right. the ball is in pelosi s court and the speaker should call the bluff. when they put it on the mark oep-up she should make dick durbin do what he said and make the white house do what he said. everyone s for it but no one s making it happen. we are looking at 3:00 p.m. eastern on monday. that s the final mark-up of the bill? that s the reconciliation package language from the house and after that nothinging s going to change?