there are some news about john back to the white house. he may urge the obama administration to bypass congress on a number of issues. what are you hearing? i think that is old news. has been what has been going on for several years. essentially since the 2010 congressional election. been the wholes strategy on environmental policy and a bunch of other things since republicans took the house in 2010. it is hard for me to imagine how they can double down on that. i think they are doublet that already. i can imagine podesta continuing to carry that out. what is your biggest concern? whichis what it is now, is that the obama administration in many cases in environmental action and others as going beyond his constitutional going beyond their role in terms of executive action. i think that should be a very broad-based concern whether you agree or disagree with what they are doing, just in terms of constitutional democracy. what is the senate roll to stop that if you are oppo
sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. washington journal continues. host: joining us from our new york studio, bernard kerik, former new york city police officer to police police a nomination a nominee to be the interim interior minister, and also a felon. what happened? i had advised president bush that i had hired an illegal anny and failedn to pay payroll tax. i went through a five-year investigation. in november of 2009 i pled eight felonies, most of which were related to my children s nanny. i was sentenced to 48 months in the federal prison and i spent three years and 11 days in a minimal security what was that experience like for you? guest: it is like the same as it is for anyone else that has been in jail or prison. the deprivation of freedom is more profound than anyone knows especially for someone that has been a law-abiding citizen and for someone in my position that has been a law enforcement officerff for i had a 30-35 year impeccable career up
going to go back to school in january. it s a new school where they re trying to replicate like sandy hook. they want every crayon in the right place. we re also going to go, as part of our search for solutions, inside one of the safest schools in the country. you wouldn t believe how they protect the students in school. the question, of course, being are these extreme measures about to become routine in schools? certainly, a fascinating look. also, a shocking verdict in the case of the high school valedictorian in michigan accused of killing his mother. we re going to go inside a stunned courtroom. we re going to switch gears. you saw it in the open. get ready, everybody. it is perhaps our biggest deals and steals event, ever. all for the holidays. how about $15 hockey jackets? just for starts. let s get to sam. that major storm sweeping across the country. and i guess blizzards in some places. maybe tornados in others? exactly. and it s going to be a long st
miguel, you re at what s being described as ground zero of this devastation. what are you seeing? it is ground zero. it is literally like a giant bomb went off, leveled this town, wiped it almost off the face of the earth. for 20 or 30 miles out, it is devastation. this was a light pole. it is shorn off completely, cleanly. this was part of a house that was probably down here. all the house in this area all around us, they re scrubbed down to the foundation. this is what we see through town for the most part as we were going through town. all of that debris, that was a house that is now up against a house that is remaining. there are some apartment buildings, some condos that are in large piece, but for the most part, they are hugely damaged. the roof are off. there are boat in the street. it s a wreck. it s going to be a very long time and a very hard hill for mexico beach to climb. i ve heard from people from all over the place who know this place who love this little tow
life-threatening flash flooding. nearly half a million north carolinaians are without power as a result of a storm, which has knocked out power to more than a million people in six states so far. our brooke baldwin joins us now. walk us through, brooke, what you have been seeing. reporter: sure. so we were one of the very first crews to get on the ground and see what s rested to as ground zero, mexico beach with our own eyes. you know, roads as you were pointing out because of the powerful 150-mile-an-hour winds, roads are impassable. power lines are down. trees were down so we were able to secure a helicopter really early this morning. i started here in destin. as we flew along what is known as florida s gorgeous emerald coast, we started watching the coastline deteriorate from destin to panama beach and as we landed, in looking at it all first hand, you can tell quickly that it s virtually gone. from the air, it s clear, much of mexico beach after this stretch of beach