reporter: anderson, we were obviously we re having some connection problems. that is a problem when reporting on hurricanes with the weather. we re going to try to get nick back. let e see if we do have him. nick, are you there? oh, well, lost him. so as we said, the winds are about 70 miles an hour. it s not clear yet exactly where this is going to be making landfall. it is roaring, as we say, toward the gulf coast. it s expected around actually, let s go to allison chinchar in the weather center right now. allison, if you could give us a sense where this is right now, where it may make landfall. right now it s 50 miles off the coast. we mean the center of circulation. winds are still 70 miles per hour. that s only 5 miles per hour off from hurricane strength. the key thing to note is even if it doesn t get up to a category 1 storm, the impacts are still going to be the same, anderson. and that s going to be the very heavy rain.
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i can t stop laughing. we talk a lot about mitt romney s connection problems, his lack of a sense of humor. there are many accounts from those who know him well that say this guy is quite funny. are we starting to see some of that? was this a good week for romney? we were told that about al gore, too. get him in a room alone and you double over in laughter. it s very hard to escape being the groom on the top of the wedding cake. he looks perfect, he s kind of stiff. the fact that he s going to be played by john kerry fits into the personality. in the debate, yes. they are both very stiff. you know, it s probably good he s trying. i didn t mind the joke they re not my, you know, i love them like they re my own, oh, they are, that wasn t so bad, because he doesn t do anything that seems the least bit spontaneous. you know he s handed these things. two of those jokes in there, the one about wiping the hard drives and also the one about pretend to be anybody other than
of that kind of natural damage. so in the sense so i think this is an identity thing. it s a skills test and an identity issue that the obama campaign is going to spend a lot of time hanging around mitt romney when they already know that he s got some connection problems on the most basic level. which is, is this a guy who identifies with the problems you ve got? jon meacham, and then i m going to take it to david, twice now in recent weeks with biden and with mayor booker, you have really made an enormous amount of news. do you think this is an aberration that people are actually answering questions and will telling the truth, or is there a kind of candor because the race is so fluid? it s unusual to have two people, again, sort of tell you what they actually think. well, we re putting something in the mugs now at meet the press. that s good. we are having some success with that. that s good. but in the case of biden, he certainly knew what the
the country. i don t think it s healthy to pit people against each other. mitt romney was dog exactly what he everything dog. it wasn t his fault. he should be paying more. he s going along with the code. of course. people are in the top 1%, top 0.5% are going to have to accept higher tax rates, greater responsibility, greater sacrifice is part of what it means to be an american. his biggest challenge i think really is authenticity. i think people he has been unable i think effectively to explain and justify changing positions. it was funny. i was talking to former gore staffers, they re having flash backs watching mitt romney, feeling as if some of his connection problems are very similar to the same problems gore had with the american public. you can t fake it either. romney has to figure out how to take this maybe weakness, a perceived weakness and figure out how to make it a strength. this is what i do, i m a fix-it