John and sandra. Good afternoon. Its a wet friday. Im martha maccallum. Thanks for joining us. We have a big lineup for you this hour. We begin here in the northeast where sandra was just saying millions of new york City Residents are being urged to shelter in place at this hour as torrential and lifethreating rain causes huge highway tieups and subways are flooding in new york city. Theres hundreds of flights that have been cancelled or delayed at this point. Katie byrne reporting live from hoboken, new jersey just across the river. High, katie. Hi, martha. A lot of people that were able to make it in to the city or to hoboken for work this morning are now wondering how theyll get home. We have roads submerged in water here in hoboken. If i step out in the street, the water gets deeper. Weve been here all day. The water has not receded much at all. Its one of those days that you cant get around hoboken by car. Ive talked to a lot of commuters. Were by the Train Station here. Some told
going to get things done. well, we also, don t you get the foleying that 2016 has, just when we were saying presidential cycles can t possibly start any earlier, this seems to have started even earlier. i think there are a lot of factors contributing to that lame duck narrative. i think that makes people uncomfortable. even as the theory of policy was going in the direction people wanted. overwhelming majorities didn t want to see an airstrike. they still were downgrading his performance on foreign policy, even as he was agreeing with what they wanted him to do. that tells you something about not wanting to see a president improvise. going back to ruth, what ruth said in the washington post today, she said, obama may have locked or his secretary of state may have stumbled during an approach that approached if pauline moment. but the indecision, the mind changing, the lurching, obama did not dispute such characterization so much as