left there, greg. just complete debris and devastation. go to that before picture one more time. looks like we pinpointed is no longer there. the semi, modern, 1990s building on left and townhouses in the middle, those two structures this is what looks like now. what was destroyed no oh, my goodness, if anybody was there in the building, they will not only have to fight the fire but go through the rubble to find them. they will have to shore up whatever wreckage is there left of the building to do the search. lisa, how many people have you heard have been injured so far. i heard so far 15. some have been taken to lennox hill hospital. when you see that kind of devastation let s hope the number doesn t go higher. see the firefighters on the roof of that building. must be structurally sound. but what a job. those guys in the bucket, they have been facing that smoke for
office. no one there is known for having their own portfolio or being a free agent. so it s really hard to imagine how an e-mail could come from the governor s deputy chief of staff saying it s time for traffic problems and not have the administration involved in this. i mean, this governor said at a press conference, i m not involved in traffic study, yet there s an e-mail from one of his aides saying the governor himself approved the traffic study in another town. and so we see this as a hands-on governor who s involved in a lot of events that go on in his administration. they all have accountability to the front office. it s rally hard to imagine how this doesn t go higher. okay. so the answer is no, there isn t any direct evidence, but you strongly suspect there is based on correct. how governor christie works. i don t have an e-mail with the governor s name on it, but i find it hard to believe that this administration wasn t directly involved in orchestrating this. y
well. homes were completely destroyed. meaning there was a huge environmental issue, nails, broken boards, splintered boards, a safety risk for those officers, firefighters, first responders, medical people going from door to door. this will be something that can help us in the sense of being able to see a little bit better and safely search the homes. lastly, we ve had a stretch of 5 to 15 people reported as casualties. why such expansion? because it s so unknown at this point. we know we have casualties. people asking to us put a specific on it. we just can t. i have heard anywhere from 5 to 15. a good, rough guess. we hope it doesn t go higher. the fortunate side, daylight is here, we ll be able to search better, get an assessment on what kin of damage was done and
going to go back to mitt romney again, if newt gingrich is just the new bubble guy, are they going to go back to romney? is this all there is? peggy lee? joining us now, eugene robinson, washington post columnist, msnbc political analyst. gene, is peggy lee the answer? i think peggy lee is the answer. we re all going to be singing that song at some point. it s amazing. it is. it is. you know, there s mitt romney. the constant one. i mean, nobody s excited about him. he stays at his 21%, 22%, 23% in the polls everywhere and doesn t go higher. he doesn t go lower. and now you ve got newt gingrich who is hypocritical. gee, you know, that s a story that we can t tell often enough. but he is who he is. and he has a long, long history of being kind of intellectually promiscuous, saying the first thing that comes into his head. he s done it time and again.
are republican voters really going to go back to mitt romney again, if newt gingrich is just the new bubble guy, are they going to go back to romney? is this all there is? peggy lee? joining us now, eugene robinson, washington post columnist, msnbc political analyst. gene, is peggy lee the answer? i think peggy lee is the answer. we re all going to be singing that song at some point. it s amazing. it is. it is. you know, there s mitt romney. the constant one. i mean, nobody s excited about him. he stays at his 21%, 22%, 23% in the polls everywhere and doesn t go higher. he doesn t go lower. and now you ve got newt gingrich who is hypocritical. gee, you know, that s a story that we can t tell often enough. but he is who he is. and he has a long, long history of being kind of intellectually promiscuous, saying the first thing that comes into his head. he s done it time and again. he s going to do it, you know,