it is late but not usually this empty completely devoid of cars most of those are police officers and utility workers from the power companies to react once the power goes out. not what they expected we were told they could get between three and 6 inches or eight and 12 inches during the storm itself causing severe flooding. but they re not getting the kinds of things for this part of florida but that power line situation will be dire they are fully prepared for that. in mandatory evacuation in
all the of the town of yukon in ten minutes if it didn t lift, it has slowed down some. large lines down across 66. i m going to try to go north. i was almost a banner at 66. i ve got lines down. i m going to have to back all the way out of it and try to get around this power line situation. if rain is wrapping back in. back to you. it s over banner right now and route of 66 and i-40. let s go to the storm scanner.
dealing with no food. we re live on the ground to find out what s being done. and a state lawmaker accidentally undermining her party and her principles with the press of a button. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first to a dramatic moment on the campaign trail. the presumptive republican presidential nominee, mitt romney, firmly stating his position on the u.s. supreme court s historic ruling up hodding obama care and directly contradicting what his top campaign advisor said earlier in the week. our senior congressional correspondent, dana bash, is covering romney in new hampshire on this july 4th. she caught up with him earlier in the day. how did that go, dana? reporter: very interesting answer. remember, it was a revolt against taxes imposed by the king of england that spurred this day we re celebrating today, independence day. so perhaps it is fitting that whether or not the health care mandate is a tax was the question of the day here on the camp
dallas-ft. worth airport confirmed to nbc news that trace amounts of radiation were found on cargo arriving from japan. but officials stress that there is no threat from that and that these levels are extremely low and routinely detected. all right, now we re going to go to ann curry. she s at akita, japan, northwest of tokyo. ann, tell us about this power line situation. how encouraging is this? reporter: it is very encouraging. good evening. the bottom line this has been a major effort by those workers inside this power plant for some time to get this power back on and it s very important because as you mentioned it is a possibility it haze raises the possibility the generators can be restarted and the cooling system that was knocked out can be restarted. however, we don t know at this point what the status of those generators are. it s probably fair to assume they were filled with water during the tsunami so the question is now do they have to