Post Sandy News Today

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In ocracoke have experienced more damage than we have. >> 44,000 people remain without power. what specific areas were affected there and whats the status of the effort to get the power back on for those people? >> here in pamlico right at the mouth of the pamlico sound, the noose river, were in good shape again. our power company has been vigulent. theyve been out all night and early morning. have got most of our residents restored and tourists are in town for the holiday weekend. hopefully wel...

When he visited a week after the storm. as weve been covering extensively on the show, since before chris christie was re-elected, this is the central paradox of chris christie. hurricane sandy was the event that transformed the governor into a superstar. just look at his favorability ratings over the past four years. steady, steady, steady. until the storm. and his ratings shot up only returning to normal after the george washington bridge scandal broke. chris christie defined himself as the gu...

Before chris christie was re-ele re-elected, this is the central paradox of chris christie. hurricane sandy was the event that transformed the governor into a superstar. just look at his favorability ratings over the past four years. steady, steady, steady. until the storm. and his ratings shot up only returning to normal after the george washington bridge scandal broke. chris christie defined himself as the guy who ran to the rescue after the hurricane, who crossed party lines and crisscrossed ...

Last night is one thing. but the facts of sandy recovery are something else entirely. new jersey received billions of dollars in federal aid to rebuild, and $1.8 billion of that came from the u.s. department of housing and urban development to get people back in their hopeless. to get that money, christie promised that 60% of the funds would be reserved for low to moderate income households. right now, it appears chris christie is breaking that promise. of course, we dont know for sure. >> fair ...

>> right now there are thousands of people still out of their homes, one year after the storm hit. >> did you think when all this happened, that a year later youd be in this condition? >> never. we honestly figured maybe six months and wed have a home. >> mortgage defaults are up over the past year in the sandy-hit areas. 75% of new jersey residents affected by the storm say people like them have been largely forgotten in recovery efforts. for many people in new jersey, sandy was the worst thing...

Necessary post-sandy, everyone sees how vulnerable the city is. that kind of drama i think is motivating. the issue about emission standards and whether youre going to have a carbon tax of 4 cents or 6 cents a gallon i think is less so. >> sometimes it does feel like it is a blue state conversation. i mean we had -- obviously big disasters transversed the red state/blue state divide. whether or not people want to believe that climate change is the cause of it, everyone knows that natural disaste...

Piece of legislation is hanging on by a thread? that is next. and what robin kelly says about the politics of post-sandy hook america? that is coming up.

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>> it will generate up to 1,700 watts of pure energy into the controller system. it will take that and put it into a high energy lithium battery. >> thats a publicity clip from the department of defense about the dream products theyve been deploying. >> yeah. i talked to some marines about this. not one mentioned greenhouse gases. every one of them loves these things because its just purely a utility for them. its purely an advantage for them. the connection i was going to make is theyre working...