we ve been talking all week the similarities between what we ve been talking all week the similarities between what we re seeing up here and what the folks down in the gulf coast experienced back in 2005 with katrina, and i found this online and wanted to read it and close out the week and show this way, this is a letter from new orleans to folks here in the northeast. it reads this. dear northeast, wow, is your week about to suck. potentially it will continue to be so for many months, but ultimately you ll come out it okay. people find a way. you will become very resourceful. you ll bond with your friends and neighbors in ways you never expected, and you ll have a lot of love and help from the rest of us from far away too. all that said i hope you re ready for a fight. there might be someone to tell you whatever happened it was punishment from god, that you re an idiot for where you live, that your homes should be abandoned. there will be a lot of people who will say it s your own d
there on the weekends. this city is a city where we have to go on. the marathon brings the city about $340 million. organizers will use the event to raise money for storm recovery efforts. they ve already donated a million dollars and collected even more in pledges from sponsors, and so that brings us to our facebook question of the day. here we go. we want to know, do you think the new york city marathon should be held as scheduled? let us know what you think. logon to our facebook page at wnnfans.com. you vigorously believe they should go ahead. i do. i know. we ve been talking about this for a few days. yes. i mean i did run the marine corps marathon, and i remember we did it at the u.s. attorneys office, a grud of prosecutors to raise money for aids and aids awareness and raised a lot of mone money. and the district got a lot of
it was the spray and sand that crushed so many people back here just all over the sides of the buildings here. in fact, it was the bay side, bill and jeff, that got the worst of it, not the ocean side. so many cars are literally covered, coated in sand in this area. some of the people say the bay met the ocean. they re separated by 12 blocks but literally at the low lying places the water swept right through. 35,000 people who live here, there was a mandatory evacuation in place. the good news is 90% of them heeded that warning but right now i think they have the hurricane equivalent of cabin peer and everybody felt a need to come back out and check it out themselves. your correspondent and colleague up there in rhode island. ron blome is out there. still seeing fierce winds coming onshore. what an amazing scene behind you. a lot haven t seen the ocean that angry, ron. it certainly has changed when talking to some of the longtime residents they say this isn t
of details to be worked out. it s going to bement in effect in 24 hours. they haven t worked out a lot of the defense. as you said in that area of the world. cease fires come and go quickly. this one was brokered over the span of months and involved the u.s., russia and jordan and had more promise than other ones. the proof is in the pudding and we ll see. we ve seen cease fires there and have a great trip as we watch air force one rolling down the runway at hamburg, just about to take off here as it heads back to the united states and president trump headed back to a very busy domestic agenda, and liz, a senate that s not exactly, shall we say playing to president trump s tune. this is nice as we watch the president take off from hamburg.
who said they were treated unfairly by one west forced out of their homes us behalf them. lot of them are here at this hearing. clear, mnuchin and the team know this is a potential question. he said under questioning i earnestly feel bad for anyone foreclosed against inappropriately. obviously the consequences for a lot of these people were extraordinarily high, halle. we are looking at joint base an dprus. that is the plane, the military plane on which president-elect is arriving in washington touching down live on our air. at any moment we expect to see the president-elect, his wife, members of their emif a, done junior, erik and tiffany are on that plane as wohl as donald trump gets set to begin his inauguration celebration. he is heading to lunch with lawmakers. he will be doing that later this