Have seen you see the storm surge that i m walking through here or coronado drive right now. this is as intense as we have seen here on the barrier island where evacuations, mandatory evacs were in place yesterday. they wanted everybody out by 7:00 p.m. and we hope people did, they heeded those warnings. imminent landfall very soon up to the north of me that is a situation very dangerous cat 4, southeast of the eye and all of this energy whipping through here off the gulf of mexico. 200 yards away from me where the gulf is these have started to look more intense like the own rivers, entity as if the water belongs here, which it does not. we were told up to 7 feet by the national weather service could be the surge. right now in some spots, we have got to be seeing above 4.
now you put yourself in what you re calling the reluctant yes category. what is the reluctant piece here? well, i would like it to be a whole bunch better. i mean, i started out working for a single payer and i was the big effort behind the robust public option. we got a public option in the house bill that saved billions of dollars. and we re not even going to have it in the senate bill unless they man up and woman up and have an amendment that will add the public option. but we can add a public option to a health care bill if we pass it. but we can t add a public option to nothing. now all the names that i just listed of who have decided yes or leaning yes actually already voted yes for the house bill back in november. but you seem to be spending a lot of energy now and the speaker is spending a lot of energy whipping votes that were already yeses, but moved into
Category. what is the reluctant piece here? well, i would like it to be a whole bunch better. i mean, i started out working for a single payer and i was the big effort behind the robust public option. we got a public option in the house bill that saved billions of dollars. and we re not even going to have it in the senate bill unless they man up and woman up and have an amendment that will add the public option. but we can add a public option to a health care bill if we pass it. but we can t add a public option to nothing. now all the names that i just listed of who have decided yes or leaning yes actually already voted yes for the house bill back in november. but you seem to be spending a lot of energy now and the speaker is spending a lot of energy whipping votes that were already yeses, but moved into the undecided column. how much of that do you have to