good evening, everyone. there's breaking news tonight in the flooding and big controversy over how to fund disaster relief. a leading congressman says we should pay for it but only with spending cuts in unrelated programs elsewhere. even though during another big disaster, he wanted relief money for his own district with no strings attached. we're keeping them honest tonight. also in a moment, we'll take you live to a town that's still under water and you'll hear from a man who has been stranded by

hurricane irene and he says forgotten by fema. rising waters leaving him surrounded. roads are gone. nearby houses gone as well. power is out. supplies are still limited. he says he hasn't seen a government official or fema worker and only local sheriffs trying to deal with the problem. he joins us shortly by phone. breaking news tonight, late word that president obama will hit hard hit patterson new jersey over the weekend. flood warnings in effect for the area up and down the east coast in fact days after rain from hurricane irene first began falling. susan candiotti is in the middle of it in little falls, new jersey. parts of little falls have been evacuated. what's the latest on the flooding there? >> reporter: just to give you a sense of where i am standing on the ledge of one of those vacuum cleaners at a car wash now dipping into the water so you can see how high the water is. putting this piece of paper in there to show you how fast the current is flowing. it's cold here. there are 18,000 people in new

jersey who have remained evacuated. 3,500 of them remain right here in this county. they are out of their homes and they don't like it. anderson, you know what? this is like the third time for some of these people they have been out of their homes this year. first time for a hurricane. two other times because of just bad storms. >> you went around the town in a boat today. what did you see? >> reporter: well, there's a street right down here that's a dead ender and someone who has a rowboat with a motor attached to it, we went down there. you know, the homes have water halfway up in many cases. there are some where you see garages where they left the doors open and it almost looks like the homes are on stilts because the water went all of the way in. we went back there with one man who lived here for about 15 years. he said he's never seen it this bad. i asked him what he saw about seeing his house for the first time, he said i don't have the words to describe it. it's just that bad. >> a lot of people there also have been refusing to evacuate. how are they handling it?

>> reporter: yeah. i talked to a lot of those people too. you know, they say we've been through this. i refuse to leave my house. we have flood insurance. a lot of them are simply worried about looting for both themselves and their neighbors. there's a strong police presence out here. we've seen police turning people back if it looks like they don't belong. your heart goes out to everyone not leaving. >> any idea when the floodwaters might start to recede or fully go away? >> reporter: they hope it will be by this weekend when people might start to be able to come back in where the waters are the highest. some people already started the cleanup. they are going to have a rough go of it. >> susan, appreciate the reporting. thanks very much. i want to tell you about the situation in vermont now. they haven't seen things this bad since 1927.

crews have been working hard reopening dozens of roads but people are still stranded from back on sunday including the man you're about to meet. todd is stuck in a small town of guy gaysville. i spoke to him a short time ago. you say there are a couple hundred people stranded in your area. what's the situation now? >> the same as it has been for the last several days since the water came through. a bunch of the major roads have been cut by the flow and local guys are slowly getting it together at least around the bridges and culverts that had problems. there's a lot of activity from the local contractor. any farmer with a front loader is trying to clear roads. >> it's hard for people who are familiar with the region to be stuck in an area with roads being impassible. how is everyone holding up? >> caller: generally everyone has been pretty well. i know state troopers organized something where they were getting prescription medicine dropped in. not everyone has a generator. with he we do. so do the neighbors. people have come up our way. we're housing someone's whose

house the river went through and someone next door the bridge went out and there's a landslide up to the house. we emptied the house out yesterday completely because it won't be safe. they're not staying there. it won't stay on the hillside. >> have you heard from fema or state, local officials? >> caller: just local. haven't seen anyone further up the chain than the local person. i've been out busy doing things. there's a local meeting at the end of the bridge where we get updates. people are trying to talk to insurance people. it's going to be a slow process because there's not a lot of good cell service in the valley. i'm up on this foot trail that we cut because it's got a good spot where i get a decent signal. we get something at the house but it isn't always reliable. >> you had to hike up a trail to get cell service to talk to us. a lot of the homes in the area were washed away. does everyone have shelter?

>> caller: i think everyone at this point has been accounted for. that's the big job we did the first day making sure the neighbors we knew were where they they were supposed to be. i got a phone to someone who wasn't able to talk to the outside and their relatives were worried. we've been passing messages for folks. if anyone has a shower, we can get them into the mix. >> todd, i wish you the best. we'll check in with you and i hope the folks that need medication are getting it regularly. state troopers were trying to make that happen. thanks, todd. hurricane and flooding damage could break the bank for fema. leading congressional republicans say they want to pay for disaster relief by cutting money elsewhere in the budgets. governor chris christi had sharp words for those in washington with that idea and those who

support it. >> nobody was asking about offsetting budget cuts in joplin. i don't want to hear the fact that offsetting budget cuts come first before new jersey citizens are taken care of. you want to figure out budget cuts, that's fine. turn it into that fiasco like the debt limit thing. i will fight to make sure that they don't. >> governor christi taking aim at house republican leaders mainly majority leader eric cantor pushing for those offsets. >> the federal government does have a role in situations like this when there's a disaster there's an appropriate federal role. we'll find the moneys. we'll had discussions about these things before. those moneys will be offset with appropriate savings or cost cutting elsewhere in order to meet the priority of the federal government's role in a situation like this.

>> keeping them honest tonight. in other situations like this, congressman cantor has had a different plan. just give us the money. that was his plan before. this is damage from tropical storm gaston which hit richmond, virginia, back in 2004. the congressman sent out a press release after funding arrived. it reads the magnitude of the damage suffered by the richmond area is beyond what the commonwealth can handle and that's is where i asked the president to make federal funds available for the citizens affected by gaston. the president then was george w. bush and the house was controlled by republicans. he wasn't talking about offsets then. a year later a gop colleague proposed an amendment that would tie relief cut to spending cuts doing precisely what congressman cantor now wants to do. back then, the congressman had a different view and he voted no on putting any strings on disaster relief. what's changed between then and now?

between it being in his district and being in new jersey and vermont? well, the budget deficit is also larger and national debt is bigger but the political climate is also different. keeping them honest. there has never been much of a partisan political issue before. "the new york times" citing research by senate democrats showing that congress has approved 33 emergency appropriations and none of them called for budget cuts elsewhere to pay for them. as for congressman cantor, his office declined our invitation to come on the program tonight and when he asked what the congressman would cut to pay for emergency funding, his spokesman refused to give an answer. he says any cuts would be hypothetical. this is a political food fight.

>> of course he's being hypocritical. he's being political. he's a smart guy. he must see political angle here. i frankly don't. not only did he support aid for his district which was necessary when tropical storm gaston hit a couple years ago and has voted for $50 billion of rebuilding aid for iraq and $56 billion of rebuilding aid for afghanistan with no offsets and he's voted for $40 billion over ten years in aid to oil companies. subsidies for oil companies. i suppose the people hit by the hurricane have two options. hope that cheney and bush invade them and then eric cantor will send them aid or incorporate oil companies because eric cantor supports aid to oil companies as well but not american citizens hit by a hurricane. >> using fema to push for spending cuts during the debt ceiling fight, this now just the agreed upon tactic of using one

issue to fight another battle? is that going to be the way business is done now in washington? >> i'm not sure that it's just a political point or a politically useful issue. i think the president here is blaming atm machine for not giving him money when he drained the bank account. he spent a trillion on a stimulus that didn't work and a health care bill that america didn't want. all republicans say this is important. great. let's take $6 billion we're throwing away on ethanol right now and use it for something more important. >> we see governors saying attacking the cantor approach saying now is not the time to start a big fight in spending cuts in terms of disaster assistance. >> in a trillion dollar budget, something in washington has to be left important than helping the people that we saw with homes flooded and homes destroyed. i think that's what you can get

support for in congress. if it's that important and it is it why did the president spend all the money? >> paul, what about that? what's wrong with an offset for federal spending? >> for emergency spending you don't have an offset because here's the tricky part, it's an emergency, alex. there's a regular order of these things. we should have budget debates through the normal budget process. should we subsidize oil companies the way that eric cantor wants to do? should we spend billions and billions rebuilding afghanistan and iraq with no offsets but no money rebuilding america. those are the kind of debates you can have in the regular order. when there's an emergency, what do you do? americans drop everything and go to help people who are in need. that's what cantor should be doing. >> paul and i are going to agree on this. you should have money saved away for rainy day and president and democrats should have thought about that when they spent a trillion on stimulus and trillion on health care we didn't have and now that rainy day where we need that has come and we don't have it. >> i got to say i helped the

president balance the budget -- >> you can tell the atm it's an emergency and it still won't have the money. >> excuse me for talking while you're interrupting. the republicans squandered the clinton surplus and so they did it here's how tax cuts for the rich which we can repeal if we need the money and i think we do. a war against a country, iraq, no threat to america. we could -- we should revisit these republican parties. when the republicans talk deficits to me, it's like an arsonist complaining about the fire department. it's not the fault of the people who are hit by a hurricane. come on. >> it's not fair to say that it's republicans saying it's anybody's fault. we're just saying the bank account is drained. let's find the money somewhere. if democrats are going into the next election saying there's nowhere in the federal government that we can find a few dollars to help people in

need and nothing less important than that and republicans are going into the next election saying let's try to act like we're broke because we are, then i think that's the advantage that will go to republicans. knock yourself out. >> alex, should eric cantor proposing these offsets, should it be part of his responsibility to least list his priorities for what he would cut in order to do these offsets? >> i think republicans have demonstrated a lot of willingness to do that. that's a good point. >> can we ask cantor's office? they haven't listed specifics. >> republicans are willing to prioritize spending and that would be great place to get democrats and republicans together on the hill and say let's prioritize this stuff because we've run out of money. >> paul, republicans are saying, look, we send democrat controlled senate a fema funding bill and they left town for the month. >> fine. whatever. these people are hurting. we need to help them. i'm serious. they left on their vacation.

whatever. when a storm hits, people need help. they need help right away. they don't need help because they're democrats. they don't need help because they're republicans. they are american citizens suffering through no fault of their own. what is really going on i suspect is an insidious thing where the republicans are trying to discredit government. when they ran fema they discredited it and it is run by competent people. now fema is doing a good job. republicans want to defund it. i think really what they want to show is that the government cannot help you when in fact it can when there's an emergency and we need to help our neighbors. >> if i can offer a slightly different point of view. i don't think republicans are trying to discredit government. it's done a good job of that by itself. republicans are saying where's the money? there has to be priorities. it's time for washington to start acting like grown-ups. >> more with paul and alex in just a moment.

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breaking news. white house of ignoring decades and centuries of protocol. in case you wonder what game playing is about, it's not about jobs or politics. new numbers tonight showing the private sector created fewer than 100,000 jobs this month. president obama requested time to speak to congress to lay out his new jobs plan. the date he asked for would

preempt a gop debate. this evening speaker boehner's office made a counter offer for the following night, opening night for the nfl. the white house says speaker boehner was informed about the address. boehner spokesman says he wasn't consulted. jessica, speaker boehner rejected the president's request to speak before congress. has the white house responded? they're going to address a joint session of congress there are only two days next week they could do it, wednesday or thursday, because those are the only two dates that both houses are in session. so the white house says they picked the first date. clearly there is a disadvantage to going thursday because as you point out the nfl is there -- is playing then.

one white house official says this whole flap was silly. that's what they told me. and they would have been happy to go thursday had the speaker's office said originally that that's what they would have preferred. the bottom line is, this is clearly a case of bad communication, ugly, bad communication between them but also bad feelings between the two offices right now up and not a sign of good things to come as they try to actually work out a jobs plan which as you point out is the main theme here going forward. >> indeed. paul, i've got to ask you. this does it make the president look weak, though? >> reporter: well, yes. but until the speech comes. if the speech is strong the president will look strong. this little tit for tat today, jessica yellin has it right, she's a terrific reporter. it's classic sort of miscommunication. it is the sort of thing that has never happened in my memory. i used to work for the house majority leader who was a democrat when we had a republican president and i worked for a democratic president with a republican speaker.

you work these things out. the fact that the speaker right away kind of went to the airwaves and the fact that apparently the president's staff didn't carefully vet the date with the speaker, it really is a shame. it's going to be a great football game, but hopefully the president can get his jobs speech in before kickoff. >> eric erickson, to jessica's point that it doesn't bode well ahead of this jobs plan, isn't this exactly what american people are sick of, this bickering and the lack of bipartisanship in washington? >> they are sick of it. i think they're sick of politicians in washington flat out giving speeches now regardless of party. i think people are kind of tired of the speeches. i completely agree with jessica and paul both on this. it is kind of a silly affair. there have been these incidents in the past. the last one i could find was actually woodrow wilson back in the 19 teens who had given an address to congress in january, february, march and april of 1914 and i think congress had enough of him and didn't want to

schedule anymore but hadn't happened since then. these things happen. so he goes, wednesday night on the republican debate or he is thursday night. you don't just have the nfl, oklahoma-arizona which i'll be watching. >> that's where your attention will be. jessica, any more details coming on the speech itself, what's in this plan? >> reporter: well, they're being very closely held. but people who have been in consultation with the whoug and made it quite clear i'm given to believe we'll hear about a payroll tax cut extension which is an employee payroll tax cut. also a tax break to possibly employers who hire -- can create new jobs. maybe even an additional could be tax break to people who hire the long-term unemployed, folks who maybe have been out of work for six months or longer. that could be in there. a lot of people think it could also include for example money to renovate dilapidated schools or even money to bring low-income housing up to energy efficiency standards and create new ways for private funding to

get into infrastructure investments in cities and states. all of these are ideas that they've talked to outside policymakers about a lot of people think could show up in the speech one way or another. >> the question is ultimately it's a big night. opening night of the nfl. you've heard what at least the inside jessica's getting about what's in the speech. will the american people be up for listening to it? >> reporter: it may well be, erik makes a great point. the college football game may be better, oklahoma and arizona. there's a great pass sang of scrip tur. man meant it for ill but god meant it for good. i think the speaker and the president have sort of stumbled here. maybe the good news is people will watch and there'll be a highsened expectation of producing a serious jobs program for this country. hopefully the president will propose something big and the congress will pass it. >> eric? >> reporter: maybe. so i've got the sneaking suspicion that american people

are really done with the speeches. and it doesn't matter which political party. i think they're really done with the speeches. they're done with the bickering. they're done with the arguing over fema funding. they just want either washington to do something or washington to get out of the way and let them do something. and i'm not really sure how many people will tune in on thursday night. >> low expectations. jess, is the white house feeling pressure of expectations? i mean, we're talking about this nfl game. but i mean, what's your sense from them? >> reporter: well, there's no doubt. this is a different kind of speech. it's not about talking to the american people as much as it is laying out -- i mean they want to get their message out but laying out for congress a clear plan, very specific, saying here is my proposal from the white house. now it's your turn to act. and so they're taking it directly to congress. are going there because it's his one shot at sort of delivering the message to congress. and then it's up to congress to sort of take it, leave it, take pieces of it.

it's really out of the president's hands beyond that. and after months of hearing criticism that president's in the been specific enough on issues, here's a night when there are very high expectations he better be very, very specific. so they do know that there's a lot of anticipation for this. and the pressure is on for him to deliver. >> indeed. because although you made the point it is about congress he is aware of the wider audience of people looking for the president to get out in front here. >> reporter: absolutely. and a prime time audience, too, most likely. we have yet to see what time it is. they have not yet said what time it will actually happen on thursday night. >> and why is that? is that just -- >> reporter: they still have to figure it out. then there's the nfl game. so they have to figure out the timing vis-a-vis when the game kicks off. i'm sure paul and erik could explain it all to us. >> i'm sure they could. but i think we'll pass on that. jessica yellin, eric erickson and paul bed gall la, thanks to all of you. still ahead on 360, muammar gadhafi's sons are speaking out as a do or die deadline

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11 days after opposition forces stormed the capital and captured muammar gadhafi's

compound they're poised 60 miles outside sirt. they've given the city until saturday to surrender or face attack. gadhafi's whereabouts remain a mystery. two of gadhafi's sons are speaking out. one defiantly and some may see delusionally. he told a syrian tv station, we'll have victory soon. he said he was speaking from a suburb of tripoli. he didn't reveal where his father is but listen to what he did say. >> translator: we are fighting and we're drinking tea and coffee and we're sitting with our families and we are fighting. >> they called for libyans to rise up against the gangsters, rats, mercenaries attempted to get control of his country. wherever you see the enemy attack them, they are weak they have suffered lots of losses and they are now licking their wounds. he predicted loyalist forces would keep control of sirt and keep loyalist square. his brother's comments were a

bit more restrained but suggested there's room to negotiate with opposition forces. nic robertson joins me now from tripoli. we heard from his son when he phoned into that syrian television station. are there any credible reports about where he may be? nic, can you hear me? clearly we're having some trouble getting in touch with nic. we'll try to check in with him in a moment. let's check in with isha sesay. a grim report from amnesty international. it documented the deaths of at least 88 detainees in syria during the five-month uprising against the government. according to the report, at least 52 of the victims' bodies showed evidence of torture. all of the victims were male. some as young as 13. growing tensions in bahrain.

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>> discussing what to name the baby. i don't know. i don't know how they come up with this stuff there. we'll try to get in touch with nic robertson after the break and the latest on the case of the missing american woman in aruba. the decision on whether her traveling partner, gary giordano the main suspect in the case will be released from custody or if he'll be held for two more months. we'll gettett latest from martin savidge from arube back.

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we are back and established communication with nic robertson in tripoli. we hard from one of gadhafi's sons, saif, when he phoned into a syrian television station and insisted that his father was alive and well. any credible information on where gadhafi may be? >> reporter: there's none. already saif discredited himself by saying he was in a suburb of tripoli. it's hard to imagine how that would be possible. he talked about there being 20,000 troops loyal to his father in the town of sirte that rebels surrounded at the moment. that sounds like an outlandish figure as well. there's a lot in there that didn't really add up and certainly what he had to say about his father, i don't think that has anyone particularly convinced. >> the national transitional council issued an ultimatum

yesterday for loyalist towns to surrender by saturday. saif says they are willing to defend those towns. sirte is where his father is from. a, do you think they'll defend that town and b, do you think the national transitional council is going to attack it? we often heard misleading reports from both sides. >> reporter: you know, the evidence on the ground is that the national transitional council is massing rebel force outside of sirte and they do intend to go there. they have to capture it. it's part of the sort of key strategic coastal highway. they have to get to the highway then they can start pushing south. there's another town on the coast they have to capture too. that's important. they do intend to do that. the other town saif talked about also sort of thumbing their nose at the national transitional council, some think maybe muammar gadhafi or at saif and other members of the family may be in that town. maybe no one sure.

rebels also gave that until saturday. now saif said go ahead and attack now. it's anyone's bet with when the ntc will actually lead the advance on these towns. >> you're in direct correspondents with another one of gadhafi's sons online through e-mails. he seemed to go back on something he told you earlier before which is that he's no longer willing to negotiate with opposition forces. why do you think there's that change? >> reporter: i think what's happening here is -- i think what he said on television was consistent with what i was hearing in e-mails. the way that the national transitional council had tried to play what he was saying by saying he was trying to negotiate a surrender. what he said he's willing to do is to negotiate with and talk to national transitional council military commanders. he's not willing to surrender but willing to talk to them about a cease-fire. i mean, what i take away from all this from his sons speaking

at the same time, their first public broadcast with a completely divergent message, he saudi is loyal to his father and various times told to shut up and stay in the corner and now speaking his mind saying something different. we're seeing the first fractures come within the family. this is an indication that for his part he's trying to look to the future about what he's going to do and he's perceived a weaker link in the chain compared to the rest of the family. i think that's what's happening here. >> nic robertson, appreciate it. stay safe. crime and punishment next and aruban mystery the american man held there in disappearance of a woman is not free to go. a magistrate in aruba has decided that gary giordano could be held for another 60 days. giordano says he was snorkeling with robyn gardner and she was

swept out to sea on august 2nd. there have been troubling questions about his story after he told authorities that he's the beneficiary of a $1.5 million insurance policy he took out on gardner. giordano has to stay in jail for another 60 days. did the court elaborate on the decision at all? >> reporter: no. we didn't get any elaboration whatsoever. the judge threw the book at him so we expected there would be some explanation as to what it was the judge heard or saw but instead there was none. the only thing we did get from court observers is this hearing took place at 9:00 in the morning. the answer from the judge didn't come until 4:15 in the afternoon. those who follow the legal system say when it comes to a detainment hearing they've never heard of it taking this long. >> i don't understand under aruban law which is dutch law if i'm not wrong, they can just

continually hold him and then have hearings and then decide to hold him even longer? >> reporter: well, in theory it's not supposed to be so capricious where they say we would like to keep him longer and judge says that's fine, thank you. the way it's supposed to work is every time you go before the detainment judge the level of witness and the level of evidence you have to provide is that much higher. in essence they were going for 60 days. that meant they should have had to provide the judge some very clear proof and some very good persuasive argument as to why gary giordano needs to be held and where their investigation is going. did they do that? we don't know. it was a closed proceeding. that's how it was supposed to be. we assume that's how it happened. >> i want to bring in jean casarez. she's a correspondent on trutv. aruban authorities have got to be feeling a lot of pressure given the natalee holloway. >> two women missing. no bodies.

when i was in aruba last fall because they found a jaw bone they thought was natalee holloway. i pressured him about why they didn't file murder charges against joran van der sloot and they said they didn't have a body. they don't have a body here. >> there's no body here and it makes the case -- can they just keep holding him? if they don't find a body, can they still go ahead with charges if there's not a lot of evidence on the beach? >> that will be determined. it's very difficult when you don't have a body. what else do they have forensically? we don't know as martin said. it's secretive there. the fact is they continue to hold him. they didn't do that with joran van der sloot. they kept letting him go and rearresting him. there's a risk of flight here. as martin said at the end of the 60 days, they have to press

charges if they want this to go forward or release him and he'll fly back to the u.s. >> at the end of 60 days he could pick up and leave the island if he's not charged? >> reporter: well, in theory, yeah. he could walk out the front gate. his lawyer waiting there to pick him up and they would head off to the airport and he would hop the next flight back to the united states. it is possible, i'm told, that the prosecution might ask for an additional 30 days. if they get that far, they better be ready to go to trial and the question is do they really have enough at this point or in 60 days to go to trial. >> jean, if he's released and comes back to the united states, could he be charged here? >> that's a good question. u.s. officials were never able to charge joran van der sloot in the death of natalee holloway. she was an american girl. this is an american girl. the fbi is helping aruban authorities. they weren't asked to do that with natalee holloway. with the text messages and phone records. are there anything that can provide charges on american soil and what about that life insurance policy? he was the beneficiary.

admitted 1.25. fraudulently obtained that? u.s. officials could determine that, i think. >> on that insurance policy, she would have had to know about it, right? >> reporter: right. this is a result of a conversation i had with american express. you can't take a policy out on somebody. you're the beneficiary and they don't know their life was on the line. she would have had to sign a document that said i allow for gary giordano to be the beneficiary if something were to happen to me. the question is did she know what she was signing or someone forged that signature? no proof of anything like that but the question has been raised, did she really know what documents she was signing? >> what is the legal system and law enforcement system like in aruba, jean? you've been down there. are they up to a big investigation? >> that's a good question. i mean, they work with the hague.

they work with the dutch authorities. these are not aruban officials. they are from holland and they are circulated and appointed to serve in aruba. that jaw bone that washed up on the shore was human. it wasn't natalee holloway's but it was human. i could tell they just really weren't aggressively wanting to find out whose human being jaw bone that was. that was a person that died and no one knows who it was. >> appreciate the reporting. up next, tropical storm katia gaining strength expected to become a hurricane within hours. we'll have the latest on its path. plus, why prince harry will head to america this fall. and snooki's latest wild moment we'll have the latest on its path. plus, why prince harry will head to america this fall. and snooki's latest wild moment in front of the cameras. it lands all of the networks on the ridiculist because they have missed an opportunity. i include cnn and msnbc and all those other folks in on that. we'll be right back. >> so, ah, your seat good?

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she's so much more than what you see on "the jersey shore". she drink, dances, parties and smooshs but she also floss phases. she also writes best-selling books. she also holds the key to my heart. so i for one am not at all surprised to see that snooki counts anchoring the news among her myriad of talents. >> i've always wanted to be an anchor woman. and hello, i look hot doing it. >> she's no ann curry. but you need to give it a chance. because the news according to snooki has something for everyone. she covers the important current events like hurricane irene knocking out power in the northeast. >> when you're powerless, you can't like straighten your hair, blow dry your hair, go on twitter, go on facebook. you can't do anything. you can't talk on the phone. you just sit there and do nothing. you can't even watch tv. believe me, snooki. i know what it's like to be powerless. powerless against your charms. she covers all the important environmental issues like global warming. >> every time i go down to seaside i'm sweaty in places i've never sweated before. obviously the sun is coming

closer to earth. >> me, too. she covers medical news with the aplomb with a really buzzed, pint-sized sawn gentleman gupta. >> the surgeon general calls for health over hair. what the [ expletive ] does this one mean? >> that's actually not a lot of spray for an anchor. she's not afraid to show the lighter side of the news. take it away, wolf blister. >> a montana dog becomes a local celebrity for his math skills. supposedly this dog can add, subject. i don't believe that. i mean, i have a dog of my own and she can't even walk straight. i mean, i can't even do math, really. let's get real with that fake story. >> i don't believe that about the dog, either. snooki keeping them honest. she covers news from galaxies far, far away. >> obviously aliens do exist. i've seen spaceships in the air before and i've been abducted by all yens before. i wake up the next day and remember being at the club but don't remember getting home or whatever. so obviously they're real. >> y k