. >> joining me now msnbc johnathon -- and opinion writer for the "washington post." >> thank you, lawrenceart with the cover of "newsweek." they are calling the cover sexist. tina brown, who runs "newsweek"s intensitis galvanizing voters that. who's right? tina brown says it is intensity. and a national organization says no, this is sexist. >> everyone can be right in this little argument here. tina brown, you know, she's the editor of "newsweek" trying to pull the magazine off the mat. this is not the first controversial controversy that "newsweek" has had under tina brown's leadership. we are talking about it. people have seen the cover all day long. i used it in a piece i wrote today but there are legitimate questions to be asked whether it is proper, or i should say fair, for a female politician to be one called the queen of rage and two to be made -- not to be made to look crazy or unattractive as she is in that photo. she posed for that photo. they, "newsweek" being the they, chose to use an unflattering picture to go with the headline they used. >> the upward angle could be ambition

. >> neil: thank you very much johnathon . congressman out west. he joins us on the phone.ow would governor perry, big on jobs and you in your fine state are particularly concerned about the union tries to prevent boeing from providing a thousand jobs to folks. would rick perry be in your corner on that? >> guest: how are you doing, neal, good to hear fru. i think rick perry is proving himself to be successful in incent vising job growth and that is the position government should have. any time you have somebody who comes down from washington d.c. and government creates job. you need to run away. if government is growing jobs that means they are growing it is government. they have to set the right tax policis and economic policies and so that we can grow jobs and those conditions have to be set. >> neil: it is a tricky balance, right though, congressman. your state's new governor rick scott is cutting the fat and going to the bone and his popularity ratings suffered measurably. i am wondering if there is a boomerang affect. oh, gosh, we have to cool temperature we can't go

johnathon is in atlantic beach, north carolina. you are still getting it there in >> we sure are.e may have been lulled in a false sense of complacency. it was qualm as the eye passed by . the tailent with the winds acting up in the opposite direction we are seeing it ripping the roofing and metal she'ding sliding by and a play house for kids in the hotel below me knocked over and behind me, the fishing pier which has been sustaining damage in the entire storm. now it is sustaining damage to the middle. rails are being pulled off. it is unfolding as we speak. >> three and half machines to the top of the hour. we'll reset and get you updated on the hurricane right after ♪ okay, so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. that's yours. lower cholesterol. lower cholesterol. i'm yummy. lower cholesterol. i got that wrong didn't i? [ male announcer ] want great taste? honey nut cheerios. want whole gin oats that can helpower cholesterol? honey nut cheerios. it's a win win. good? [ crunching, sipping ] be happy. be healthy. can i tr

. >> johnathon. >> u.s. is nationalizing the and russia is privatizing. xru . hommeds the russian rubble and if the economy collapses you got vodka. >> that's it it thanks for joining us. have a good weekend. >> heart breaking in the case of two hikers. shane bower and josh fattal were sentence to eight years in prison. they were hoping they would be released. i amuma in washington. julie ban deras is following the story. despite calls for leniency. shane bower and josh fattal reach reportedly sentenced to three year in prison for illegal entryy to the islamic republic . five years in prison for espitonnage. under islamic law it is pushable by death. >> they were arrested along with sarah shraud.nian plice ard them and saying they illegally entered iran. we got word from the state department and a spokesperson releasing a statement saying they are trying to work to confirm the reports about the eight year sentence and it has called for release of two men adding that shane and josh have been imprisoned too long. the hikers pled not guilty and say they unknowingl

johnathon hunt found a man who would not leave and doing what he could to protect the dream house thatks ago. >> i am securing the cottage. most homes are raised and you know, in this case. we got it five months ago. >> five months ago. >> yeah. just finishing cleaning up. >> that is emotional for you. >> yeah. >> no insurance. and if it goes you lost all of that. >> yeah. i will have to start all over again. i got good friends and hopefully put it back together. we expect the water to come in and i got to get out of the house . then monday we'll hopefully start rebuilding. >> he certainly wanted to have insurance. but there was a timing mistake. he was supposed to get it on monday. hopefully nothing happens. we hope it is there on the dunes. we are interested in the video and peculiars. don't put yourself in harm's way. fox news.com/u reportment this is some of them from new york city . clouds over manhattan before the sun went down and across the river in new jersey and across the hudson river. 81st street and third avenue on the upper east side. that is looking in brooklyn. this is

johnathon, what is the latest from there? >> we are without secretary and without lights and other public utilits since 4:30 this morning. there is a strong wind and clouds are moving by anded hading out of the west. and then the water we noticed is just strong easterly current. and soy it is interesting to see the changing weather patterns. hour or there were heavy gusts that came through here and ripping off siding and roofing materials and metal debris on the balony of the hospital . new's organization became part of the story. winds were coming out of the opposite direction. best place to set up the satellite truck we set up on the west side of the hotel and that allowed us to report throughout the night. but the winds changed directions this morn people were lulled in a false sense of security. and thinking being on the left side of the torm would be a weak side and they would do live shots in the duration. two of the satellite trucks that kept their dishes up. they had the dishes ripped from the top of the truck. back t

>> storm is causing damage in atlantic beach, johnathon is standing by with an update. how are you faring out there? >>reporter: hello again, martha, the back half of the storm is deceptive. there will be long lulls where you think you are in the clear and all of the sudden, huge gusts come up and each time we experience these gusts, we notice the roofs of temporary buildings and building ripped and the roof of the restaurant of our hotel which is a sturdy brick construction, at least some of the roofing materials, not the structure itself are pulled off of the roof. we are seeing metal debris flying by us and so a treacherous situation here. firefighters have been responding to alarms that are going off. each time the power went out. there were several times that the power went out. alarms in local businesses including our hotel go off and firefighters check them out just in case by and large they are were false alarms and finally the power went out 4:30. and the firefighters decided to be safe, they needed to keep the trucks indoors. the winds were getting strong they

. >> johnathon capehart, thank you for joining me tonight. >> thank you. great to see u. >> you can have the last word on our blog at the last word@msnbc.com and you can follow my tweets at m harrisperry. the rachel maddow show is up next. >> good evening. you could have called it sister citizen exclamation point and it would have been on the same shelf as rick perry's book. >> oh, well. >> sub titles are the death of these things. thank you, melissa, good to see you. thanks to you at home. this hour the situation in libya continues to unfold. things are not resolved conclusively, although it appears that 42 years of moammar gadhafi's dictatorship may be coming to an end, as in right now, as in this evening. former cbs evening news anchor dan rather will be with us this hour, but first to richard engel who's been covering the uprising since the very beginning, and he joins us tonight from the central square in the libyan capital city of tripoli, the stronghold, geographic heart for gadhafi loyalists since the beginning of the revolution, richard, what's th

hello, johnathon. >> how are you?o do the snark thing with me. >> this is too much fun. >> it is. but is it he jait jit mate? people presidents are wealthy people. they have ivy league degrees. is fair for us to make fun of romney bulldozing his mansion and building another in its spot. >> when you put it like that it is. mitt romney is smart. he's handsome. he's rich, and on top of it, he's changed his policy positions on a whole host of things that sort of feed in to, sort of makes you not want to like him in that way. remember in the 2008 campaign, there were stories going around how none of his republican opponents even liked him. so the fact that he has a fabulous beach house in california, he's bulldozing it and going to build an 11,000 square foot house in its place -- if you look at guy like really, you were just in the diner in florida saying you were unemployed and even when he did that we crossed our eyes like are you serious. really? are you serious. >> is this a timing issue? we asked last week should the

. >> and johnathon bloom has been following them down market street. he's live now.y're heading into the embarcadero station. what can you tell us? >> and that is right. we're here at embarcadero station. protesters came back out here to the entrance of the embarcadero station here at california and drum street z have been making their way down into the station. those folks can they're being a little bit difficult and you can see if we look to the side these folks started to gather many with cameras and looking down into the entrance to the bart station. some are starting to enter the station. we already know bart shut down civic center station and shut down other stations on the way here. and they are trying to trick the bart police rather into you know what they're doing now? yelling swear words so we're going to have to send it back to you now until we can get to a quieter location. >> pretty stupid of them. presumably they want news coverage. >> this is of course having a huge impact on the commute home. many are now confused and scrambling for a way to get home.

i can't imagine johnathon, bashar al-assad hearing what president obama had to say today, and saying, i'll go. what is the purpose of a statement like this. >> it's an important shift by this administration. we have been standing by while 2,000 people were killed and 3,000 people have gone missing and are presumed dead. it's important we get on the right side of history. i think senator mccain is right. better late than never. i wonder what prompted this. it was a bloody weekend but not more bloody than the last five months. we are going to try to skis the syrian regime. we are going to squeeze the oil sector which is 30% of its economy, and freeze assets in the united states and ratcheting up the pressure a little more. i think the fear here is that we just don't know what comes after this, and i think that's why you're seeing a lot of a timid approach from this administration. rick: the sanctions, though i was reading, we've had sanctions against syria for years now. they have apparently not been effective. they haven't worked as far as bringing about change there. why should we bel