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Those are your headlines. >> boy, the tropical storm nicole; my sisters name is nicole and we blamed her for it. >> she came in. >> two hour delay. you cant blame yourself. it is named after you. >> you get a since in the white whate everybody will kick their feet autopsy. ralm emanuel is out and peter rouse is in as chief of staff. he is known for four lettered words and hand jestered . rouse is the new man on the job. >> this will mean a turn toward the left for the president and he will move ...

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Early as next month. leaving the chief of staff position, theres never a good time for that, but the bottom line, sources ive talked to, say he needs to make his decision, if he decides to go, then the white house will move quickly to put in an interim chief of staff, the name im hearing is peter rouse, somebody whos an old hand on capitol hill, somebody theyve nicknamed the 101st senator. he would be the person to come in. as for emanuels desire to run for mayor of chicago, he has labeled it hi...

Emanuel delegates to pete rouse because he gets it done. in the top of the segment you showed the three shot of them of rahm emanuel, president obama and pete rouse. did you notice how far away pete rouse was from the president and podium? this man is so low key that he wants to stay as far away as possible from the limelight. its a different way of doing things and a different way of being personality wise than rahm e momanue emanuel. >> it was the 101st senator was -- i know youre not a math m...

Rouse takes over on an interim basis. the president took a moment to describe the difference of the two. >> rahm when he was a kid lost part of his finger in an accident and it was his middle finger, so it rendered him mute for a while. pete has never seen a microphone or a tv camera that he likes. >> jonathan capehart is an msnbc contributor an an editorial writer for the "washington post." the first joke never gets old. >> yeah. >> its a good one. lets look at the timing of this. is this a sha...

Not the same storm that we followed even last night where it was a tropical feel here in new york city, now it is a cold feel. it feels very much like october. temperatures back in the 50s and thats where it should stay as we head through the afternoon. tamron, back to you. if you are among the millions to stay dry on the east coast today, upload your pictures at firstperson@msnbc.com. > we are expecting that rahm emanuel is resigning and hes also expected to emanuel replacement and peter ro...

Difference. >> pete has never seen a microphone or a tv camera that he likes. [ laughter ] >> reporter: while quiet, aides note rouse has been involved with almost everything the white house has tried to do. regarding his status, senior white house officials say both the president and rouse agreed to him doing this on an interim basis. aides insist rouse could be the chief of staff long-term but say it gives him an opportunity to try something new. jim? >> jim: mike, thank you very much. the phr...

Saying around the white house "let pete fix it, plenty of problems to solve." the days and months ahead will certainly be interesting because rahm emanuel and rouse have two different styles when it comes to taking care of business. mike, at the white house, give us the differences and similarities between the two. >>reporter: both have work ethics that are required to be chief of staff going long hours, seven days a week. but rahm emanuel is nep for foul language, aggressive personality, you he...

Daley of chicago said he wasnt going to run again for election. that provided the opening for rahm emanuel to attempt to gain the job that he says is a job of a lifetime. and thats to be mayor of chicago. thats why were seeing this happen so quickly and so soon. >> kind of a nice place to kick off the campaign, wouldnt you say? everybody knows it now. >> absolutely. >> lets talk about pete rouse. hes called the fixer. what do we know about him, other than he certainly knows his way around the hi...

Effective player in washington, d.c. but hes divisive and i know he works with republicans and democrats. i know progressives think hes too modest. but hes a divisive guy. you go back and look at what he said during his years in the house of representatives. he said unkind things about republicans, about general petraeus. for a guy talking about hope and change and bringing people together, its unusual to have him as your chief of staff. >> what about this peter rouse? >> hes not rahm. hes a muc...