Tuesday, october 30th, 2012, this is the daily rundown, im chuck todd. Lets get right to what we know this hour. At least 18 people have been killed, early estimates, but the damage from sandy at somewhere between 10 billion and 20 billion, but that figure could rise as people assess in the daylight. Nearly 8 Million People waking up without power this morning. Sandy made landfall as whats being called a post Tropical Cyclone on the Southern Coast of new jersey not too far from Atlantic City at about 8 00 p. M. , sustained winds of 80 miles per hour, thats hurricane force, folks. And hurricaneforce winds extended up to 175 miles from the center of the storm. Tropical force storm winds spread out 485 miles from the center, a 13foot storm surge flooded Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan and that broke a record that had been set in 1821. Records were shattered in sandy hook, new jersey, where tide levels also topped 13 feet. The metropolitan Transportation Authority is calling this the
Crime is ridiculous there. That is another reason people do not want to return. Host got you. Thank you and thank everyone that participated in this program today. Dont forget that 10th anniversary public commemoration ceremony that takes place in portlands at 6 00 and in new orleans at 6 00 tonight. You can look at our website for more information on that. Tomorrow will be joined by Michael Bender from bloomberg. Some issues concerning statements or Hillary Clinton and other candidates. That will be discussed tomorrow. We will take a look at the topic of climate change. The president is heading to alaska to speak about the issue. David krueutzer and daniel weiss will be here to talk about that. See you then. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] on this 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the wall street journal looking get some faces of katrina and where they are today. Fema directo
Nixon had a movie on the wall that showed the campaign. He had an idea that people would write down the questions and pass them on and they would answer just the questions the staff wanted them to answer, but it looked like they only came from the audience. So these are all yours. I might put them in a certain order, but i promise not to edit them. So one of the questions that we have is would the Civil Rights Act have passed if nixon had won in 1960 and 64 . I think it probably would have, because in 1957 when the Civil Rights Act was pending on the senate floor and lbj scaled it back and compromised, dropped entirely this provision that would have allowed the attorney general being sued and compromised the jury panel, effectively all white juries in the south, nixon was close to tears. It seems so paradoxical now, but he had a good record on civil rights. In 1960 when Martin Luther king was in jail, nixon didnt do it because he thought it would look like a grandstand play and he didn
Reestablish our integrity. I think we can do that, and i think we can salvage a system which does provide good care, and we can make that system provide timely access. I am stunned that you would call this, with all the information thats come out, and i dont think were at the bottom of all this yet, that you would call this a good system. I think its absolutely stunning. And i think that the Veterans Administration is the most mismanaged agency of the federal government, and i think that it is not has not been there to serve those who have served this country, but the leadership of the va has been there to serve themselves, and weve had testimony from this committee about all the bonuses, all the bonuses, despite the incredible bureaucratic incompetence and cultural exception. Thats all you seem to be capable of doing is writing checks to yourself. Mr. Chairman, i yield back. Mr. Kirk ps. Kirkpatrick, yo recognized for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman, and i want to thank you and
Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to examine the Current Crisis at the border regarding unaccompanied children. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Today on the southwest border we are facing an escalating refugee crisis. Parents are handing over their Young Children by the thousands to cartels who are profiting by smuggling these kids to the United States. Many are under the age of 10. Including some barely old enough to walk. These children with no parents, relatives or legal guardians risk a perilous and sometimes fatal journey riding buses and trains from Central America via mexico. As a father of five, its unimaginable to me that what would compel a parent to risk the lives of their children on such a dangerous passage. Not to mention the risk of sexual assault, exploitations and the potential to be trafficked. When they arrive at the border, the children are simply turning themselves into the nearest Border Patrol agent. However, patrol stat