Right now the storm is being blamed for at least five deaths. About 650,000 homes and businesses do not have power right now. Dozens of cars and drivers are still being rescued from the long island expressway in new york. Meanwhile, in plum island, massachusetts, homes are in danger of being swept right into the ocean given the high tide, combined with the howling wind and snow. Bostons mayor along with the governors of new york and connecticut are urging people to stay home. Its clear we still have a lot of work to do. Please stay home so we can allow our crews easy passage to the streets. Stay home, please, unless you have urgent business to be out on the roads. This is going to go on for a number of days. This will not all be done today. No rest for the weary, not even news reporters. I thought i would borrow vickys snowshoes to make this live shot easier. That was a big mistake. So im going to do the rest of this live shot sitting down. We are under two feet of snow. I can show you
America can do this for us. Please. The ad highlights the nras slide towards irrationality since law pierre throated his full support for background checks. The craziness of the extreme progun lobby has been revealed, and that has got to move the debate. Its got to move the legislation to at least some degree. The nra is now revealed as an insan organization, and that matters quite a lot. Criticism of the nra is no longer the purr view of the New York Times proving just how exactly they have gotten. The nra executive Vice President was called out on fox news sunday. Fox news sunday. For his baseless fear of a government gun grab. I think theyll turn this universal check on the lawabiding into a universal rebelling industry of lawabiding people, and lawabiding people dont want that. I mean, my god. Its the last thing. They absolutely do not. I mean, forgive me, sir, but you take something that is here and you say its going to go all the way over there. Theres nothing that anyone in the
Thats all ahead. Plus, the political right all at once, all in unison gets very vocally angry with karl rove. Poor karl. Frank rich from new York Magazine is here on the show tonight. Weve also got the latest Conspiracy Theory about the terrifying photo shopped secrets of president Barack Hussein obama. Did you know his emotional name is hussein . The conspiracies about the president get even more conspiratorial than they have in years past. Were beginning with a big deal, a story you will not see anywhere else, because it is an nbc news exclusive. Nbcs National Investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff has uncovered something that is not classified, but treated as one of the biggest secrets of this administration. Its something the administration has been fighting over with newspapers and with congress and with all different sorts of groups suing them who have been trying to contain what mike isikoff has gotten closer than anybody else to naming. And it is happening right in the mid
Wane la pierre of 1999, may we introduce you to the wane law pierre of 2013 . Its monday, february 4th, and this is now. Joining me today huffington post, Washington Bureau chief ryan grim, nia Malika Henderson of the washington post, senior fellow at the center on budget and policy priorities, jared bernstein, and new york making sfwleen contributing editor Benjamin Wallace wells. President obama takes to the skies with a message on gun safety and will deliver a speech in minneapolis just two hours from now. Among his Top Priorities . Instituting universal background checks, the focus of a sixfigure Super Bowl Ad taken out by mayors against illegal guns and broadcast last night to the beltway audience. The nra once supported background checks. We think its reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show, no loopholes anywhere for anyone. America can do this for us. Please. The ad highlights the nras slide towards irrationality since
Good saturday afternoon, im craig melvin. We are tracking the aftermath of the blockbuster snowstorm that socked the northeast. Heres how it looked from space. Check that out. Right now the storm is being blamed for at least five deaths. About 650,000 homes and businesses do not have power right now. Dozens of cars and drivers are still being rescued from the long island expressway in new york. Meanwhile, in plum island, massachusetts, homes are in danger of being swept right into the ocean given the high tide, combined with the howling wind and snow. Bostons mayor along with the governors of new york and connecticut are urging people to stay home. Its clear we still have a lot of work to do. Please stay home so we can allow our crews easy passage to the streets. Stay home, please, unless you have urgent business to be out on the roads. This is going to go on for a number of days. This will not all be done today. No rest for the weary, not even news reporters. I thought i would borrow