today, "new york" magazine, john hileman and rana foroohar and nia-malika henderson and congress getting no where fixing our generation economic prospects. we have chris christie swooned over for telling a reagan library audience that barack obama has to talk honestly about the big challenges. >> lead on the by telling your citizens the truth about the depth ofur approach. about the depth ofur approach. >> economies aren't and historically, ar financial crises, recessions are deeper and they last longer than after the usual business cycle recessions. chris: americans want realism. they know something is different about this downturn. a quarter of the country sees a long-term decline ahead and a third of the country, and the optimismists think it will be more than three years before we start seeing a recovery. rana, this is your piece. tell us what the people are thinking about when we are going to climb out of these bad times. >> we are looking for any light at the end of the tunnel and it's a very long tunnel. it will be three years and the estimation of most of the people we surveyed t

hileman 48. maybe some wet -- the high will be only 48. maybe some wet snow in the mountains in western maryland. sunday, sunny skies and a high of 55. >> since monday night offensive fiasco, joe flacco has taken the worst beating in the media than most of mohammad ali's opponents took in the rain. joe flacco has a 21-5 record as a starting quarterback. blaming all of monday night's misery on flacco is not fair. but he, as the quarterback, not only has to take the heat this week, but make sure his confidence does not suffer. it is no easy trick. fortunately, his disposition is even. success is not get him to excited and failure does not get him to down. -- does not get him too excited and failure does not get him too down. >> it is part of being an nfl football player, moving on to next week and realizing that, hey, this is a game we love to play and we have to go out there and keep it fun. it is more fun when you're winning football games, but you have got to move on. the all the way to live on is to go out the next week and play the best

. >> back with us on set are john hileman and steve ratner. what a weekend!people don't have power. >> a lot of people don't have power. >> like if you're in connecticut -- >> no, no, no, no. >> just assume if there is a 3-mile-an-hour wind that you're not going to have power for a month or two. >> okay. >> i talked to my friends that live up in connecticut. seriously, willie, it's like a four-inch snow. >> your friends? >> friends that live in connecticut, a four-inch snow and there's no power up there like for a week. for a week! >> be proud, joe. >> it's not just -- you know what, there are about three million homes without power. this was a serious storm. this was much more serious than anyone expected. bill karins did call it. >> for once. >> it was very -- it's historic on a number of levels. but look at this, it's not just connecticut, joe, although connecticut does have the highest number. >> and they won't have power until like january. >> this was like an ice slush snow rainstorm. >> so let's go to news. >> herman cain's presidential campaign is on