of this, they want nothing to do with being on camera. as you can see, the line is all the way back there. i was told some people are waiting 10 minutes. sir, can i ask you where you re from? no english. no worries. you speak english? we re live on msnbc. where you guys coming from? couple blocks. reporter: you re here to fill up for the hurricane, right? yup. i think this is probably the last pump in town. reporter: how long did you look for gas. we ve been driving looking for hours around the town. this is the only place we found right now. i don t know. reporter: this is going to be important for after the storm. how concerned are you? we have plenty of gas. reporter: how long did you wait in this line for? maybe 20, 30 minutes. reporter: that s not bad. it s going pretty quick. i mean, we have the cops, you
a span, though, of more than 200 miles. a huge storm. abc s matt gutman was in goshe, mississippi, and ryan owens in louisiana with some of what they experienced in the few hours. reporter: we are not far from the gulf of mexico and not at all far from the eye of isaac. we expect that will pass directly over us. so far it is not raining. we have seen plenty of rain throughout the night. right now we re in between bands. we have seen some gusty wind. nothing that approaches hurricane strength, not yet. we are next to the public library here, couple blocks from a shelter where 175 people are spending the night. most of them families with small children who said, you know what, we are not going to take a chance ironically, we met one mother there who has a 4-year-old son who is named isaac, she said he is getting quite a bit of grief around the shelter when people find out he shares a name with this storm. mississippi, the rain and the
a span, though, of more than 200 miles. a huge storm. abc s matt gutman was in goshe, mississippi, and ryan owens in louisiana with some of what they experienced in the few hours. reporter: we are not far from the gulf of mexico and not at all far from the eye of isaac. we expect that will pass directly over us. so far it is not raining. we have seen plenty of rain throughout the night. right now we re in between bands. we have seen some gusty wind. nothing that approaches hurricane strength, not yet. we are next to the public library here, couple blocks from a shelter where 175 people are spending the night. most of them families with small children who said, you know what, we are not going to take a chance of losing power, not with small children in the house. ironically, we met one mother there who has a 4-year-old son who is named isaac, she said he is getting quite a bit of grief around the shelter when people find out he shares a name with this storm. mississippi, the rain an
case. i know exactly where you are. what is the cross street? first street and garden street, couple blocks from washington. thank you so much. give our best to folks in hoboken zbloobl. bill: new reports in the newsroom that the bus service for manhattan will begin in about 30 minutes from now. it s been shut down for two days. we re working to confirm that. also the subway system is still down. it s the first time in the history of new york because of the weather the entire subway has ground to a halt. the evacuation orders being lifted about 300,000 allowed to go back to their homes. the mayor is pleading, quote, a tough commute tomorrow. the ferry service out of st. george begins a 3:00 today.
the latest round coming at a time when tehran is embroiled in a diplomatic dispute over nuclear tests. gregg: it s been a week since a terrorist tried to blow up an suv in times square, couple blocks from here. implications of the near disaster is syringe go in. latest rasmussen poll if folks thought there might be another terrorist bombing in the next year. 54% say they considered it very likely. that is up from 42% following the attempted christmas day bombing. scott rasmussen joins us now. what was it last summer? last summer, only 16% thought an attack was very likely. we had been seeing the number decline for several years. christmas day bombing was a little bit of a wake-up call. now, the repeated attacks, or attempts we ve been hearing about has people a little bit concerned that this is going to be on ongoing factor.