mayor booker, thank you very much. more of that discussion ahead, of course, and good luck to you as you continue with your efforts r rescue and damage assessment there in newark and the surrounding areas. we're going to take a break here. we're going to continue the discussion. coming up, this really is a test of national preparedness, as mother nature strikes twice this week, we've been mentioning. first, a rare earthquake on the east coast, and then, of course, hurricane irene barreling up the eastern seaboard. how prepared is the country to deal with these unexpected national emergencies? our roundtable's going to talk about it. and of course, the politics never stop. former vice president dick cheney speaks out. and rick perry now ahead of mitt romney in some new polls. our roundtable weighs in mie gangel, columnist david brooks, georgetown professor michael eric dyson and the bbc's katty kay. every time a local business opens its doors or creates another laptop bag or hires another employee, it's not just good fo

i just have one question for mayor booker.k about early childhood education, which is so important, do you think in terms of going beyond the class room at all into the home, into families to deal with issues that families might have, issues of nutrition, health, mental health, security, that sort of thing? >> you're absolutely right. you cannot build a home on a faulty foundation. and if our kids zero to six are not getting what they need to succeed, they're not the going to be successful. so you have to address those issues. i have teachers in my city that are doing four or five different jobs addressing issues that we should be addressing at home and we should be addressing through a community of support. and that's got to be happening as a part of our plan. >> start with nutrition, too. thank you so much. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] it's been a good year for the chevy silverado. and not because of the awards or the accolades. no, it was good because you told us so. the chevy model year wrap up. get in on our gr

cory booker, thank you very much. >> piers, thank you for keeping everybody informed.as done a great job helping my residents out with important information. >> i'm happy to be guilty of the charge of overhyping hurricane irene. >> yes. continue. the real danger is the next hurricane people will take this overhype thing and think, this time i don't need to be super cautious. that makes me worry. it is so much better to be overcautious than later to be overregretful. >> couldn't agree more. cory, thank you very much. you have heard beyonce's baby news. coming up, wait until you hear what she told me about it on june 27th. work out whether you think she knew at the time. next a man who is not shy about his opinions. he's promised to, quote, raise hell tomorrow night. mark cuban is already raising hell with my camera line. [ male announcer ] it's been a good year for the chevy silverado. and not because of the awards or the accolades. no, it was good because you told us so. the chevy model year wrap up. get in on our greatest model year yet. just announced -- celebrate la

mayor booker, cory booker, newark, new jersey, busy man today. we appreciate you being on the line. no longer is irene a category 1 hurricane. it's now a tropical storm. it's still the big issue, and i think chad myers may agree, the issue really is flooding. >> yes. without a doubt, flooding. that will be the key for the next few hours, except for maybe eastern massachusetts and maine, where trees are still falling down and winds are still gusting to 81 miles per hour just in the past half hour. but there is still water uphill from newark. there is still water uphill in binghamton, scranton, schenectady. all that water has to run eventually into the ocean. there's a high-water rescue in fleischman's new york, and they've had to call out the national guard thoerpt get people off the top of their house pause they are on the roof and the helicopter is going out to get them right now. serious situations in some spots and flooding going on all the way from burlington, vermont, back into pars of stall massachusetts, including western new jersey, scranton, binghamton, and all the way back

newark, new jersey, mayor cory booker is one of the voices arguing that the status quo simply isn't goodion nation. he joins me now. let me start with the administration basically giving up on cutting a deal with congress. >> first of all, i think one of the best things we've seen in america is how people on the left and the right, in cities and states have been coming together to make real substantiative education reform. and we can't let the dysfunction in congress undermine sensible, pragmatic changes, that all stakes with republican governors and democratic governors are asking for. so i think the president is again doing the right thing, focusing on the people and the children and not on politics and partisanship. >> and this is what confuses me, mayor booker, because i see you and governor christie on the republican side of the aisle, and you're right, you see a lot of republican mayors and vicer is versa trying to come up with a solution. >> governor christie and i could write a the dissertation on our disagreements up and down the board, but when it comes to children in newark, n

he worked his way through booker t. washington high school and went on to study at lincoln pennsylvania university. when lincoln began a program to train civilian pilots buchanan was not far back in the line of students who went to sign up. it was so exciting because there was something new every day. i don't care who you were there was always something you didn't know about flying and the whole world. he dropped out of college before his junior year to earn money. a friend in atlanta and let him know about tuskegee airfield. the military base under construction at day's driveway in tuskegee, alabama. they instituted training civilian pilots, a primary flight training base that operated under contract for the army air corps. now the war department was building from scratch on the outskirts of town. the idea of building an air base in treat him. he found a job at taft and are carpenter's apprentice and as soon as he got to tuskegee he learned about training black instructor pilots. he used the skills he learned in civili

with us on the phone is newark, new jersey, mayor cory booker. thank you for being with us. you prepare for anything this large that you have a population that has a good deal of poverty within it. therefore, it seems to me that requires some special preparations for people who may not be able to go on the internet easily or may not have the wherewithal to get all these things the government tells you to go out and buy. how do you prepare your city for something like this? >> any large city has a big spread of population and newark is no different. we are making sure, we literally are going out in the streets to look for people that might be homeless from areas we know from recent surveys. we are getting our shelters ready, inviting everybody there. trying to create an environment that is inviting, making sure we have adequate food, cots and generators. we are having people check the internet or even as people know through social media it's not enough. we are making sure we get up on local tv as well as using our public housing authority, using our school system. to get word

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. >>> joining me on the phone is cory booker, the mayor of -- good morning, mr. mayor. >> we've seen a tremendous amount of flooding. we've had to pull on the zodiac boats and recent attitude ten people. so we've asking people to understand that high water obscure a live power line. there are open manhole covers that have been swept away where you might hit toss hazards. this is a time to stay off the streets and let our crews address the issues. we've got a number of areas in our city dealing with blackouts right now. i'm hoping people won't be looking outside and thinks it's not so bad, i'm going to go out. that's not the thing to do. >> same with your colleagues in hoboken. officials have said the same thing. the power lines can electrify those puddles. if there's any debris around them, is that good advice? >> that's great advice. if you go outside you're inviting danger. debris is still falling, loose branches, and again those power lines down all over our city. it's a dangerous thing to do. this is a great day to stay inside, take the day to rest. less us d

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we have heard from both the governor of new jersey, as well as mayor cory booker, and both of them have said let's have folks stay inside, allow emergency crews to do their thing and have today be a work of them, a day of rest for others, so we can get back to business as usual tomorrow on monday. let's go for nbc meteorologist bill karins. he's got the latest with the path of now tropical storm irene. where is it heading? >> we have two concerns. one is all the water that's fallen especially in new jersey on the saturated soils. some case top five all time, other cases top ten. the delaware river runs this way, and this is where the water will be quickly rising, down right along the small river town is where we're going to see the worst of this flooding. that will be peaking soon. to the right of your screen is the center of the storm heading two westchester county and stamford. we have the rivers in jersey, as we go out wider, the ear concern is areas around southern new england, we've been watching the high water, but also watching the radar up there. it look likes we're about to get

. >> dave: he learned from cory booker the newark mayor stay here, tweet, do whatever you have to do to manage this thing. 370,000 people evacuate from the new york area. do you think they have left? >> juliet: times square is pretty empty. >> dave: sure, no one sought and about. >> juliet: shots from last night. people weren't going to the shows. >> dave: broadway is dark tonight and all day sunday. >> juliet: not going to be as busy. >> brian: if you are hoping to see dancing this weekend do it yourself. juliet, what else is happening in the world? >> juliet: i'm glad you asked, brian. libyan's rebels making more progress. they have taken control of the main border, crossing tunisia from muammar qaddafi's forces. this comes as the streets of tripoli were a bit calmer today. the rebels once again celebrating victory by firing guns in martyr's square. a radical muslim sect now being blamed for a car bombing near the main u.n. building in nigeria's capital. at least 18 people were killed in one of the deadliest assaults in the country in the decade. a group which has reported links to

. >> as this thing starts to get legs and i think once booker is in here and other officers start toee the kind of homes that are available in the city, they'll make the same kind of decision he's made. >> msnbc contributor melissa joining me. columnist for "the nation," as well. can a program like this in detroit, can a program like this be enough to bring that city back? >> i don't know if any single program is enough to bring detroit back. it's a city that's struggling in a lot of ways. this is a brilliant program and i think it is indicative of exactly the opposite sort of thinking than what we've seen, for example, in wisconse wiscon. instead of looking at public sectors employers and saying you're a drain on our system, instead, you look at public sector employees and you say, wait a minute, police officers are valuable in our community. we want to get them into our community and particularly with police officers because we know that when community policing is happening and people know their police officer and when their kids go to school together you end up with better quality

he invited george washington carver -- booker t. washington to the white house, that's who it was, and he was just trownsed for that. he was just reviled for doing that, and yet, at the same time, when he ran on the blue moose party, he tried to keep blacks -- he tried to limit their vote because it wouldn't have been well for him, you know, so it's a very mixed bag. i don't think with roosevelt you can say, well, he was this or that. he seemed to be whatever he was at the moment. anything else? >> one more. >> uh-huh. >> if i could -- >> sure. >> did he ever in when he ran for presidency on his own or later, did he ever go back -- [inaudible] >> yes, yes, he did. in fact, i close the book up to the prologe with this -- prologue with this. he went back and running as vice president, he went out there, and then again in 05 and went back, visited the folks he knew there, picked people out of the crowd to come up on the stage with him, and at one point in the journey, he was crossing the dakotas and went on the back of the train, and t

look across the spectrum of people who were behind this movement it's pretty hard to argue and cory booker or the mayor of los angeles are conservatives or some kind of strain of members of the democratic party i think the democratic party has started to shift and that is what really has changed the union's view, the unions are the only in particular because her face, her political base was in the process of shifting and i don't think it is a liberal or conservative issue it is in the democrat or republican issue and it certainly shouldn't be is it a liberal or conservative to say that a teacher ought to be able to comment on reform of the teachers lesson plan in the public school in new york city is that aid issue our concern? >> host: that's not liberal or conservative but everything my ex colleagues at the hoover institution advocated over many years is the mainstream democratic -- >> guest: that is what makes this a great country -- >> host: ronald reagan was right. >> guest: he was president when the first big report when the white house reported about the nation at risk and he didn't

across the spectrum of people behind this movement, it's hard to argue that barack obama or cory booker or the mayor of los angeles are conservatives or some kind of strange string of members of the democratic party. i think the democratic party has started to shift and i think that's what really has changed the unions view. the union i think randi weingarten particular understands that she had to shift because her base, you know, her political base was in the process of shifting. and i don't get the liberal or conservative issue. it sure isn't a democratic or republican and it shouldn't be. is it liberal or conservative to say that a teacher had to be able to comment on the form of a teacher's lesson plan and a new york city? >> guest: >> host: i know everything my ex-colleagues at the hoover institution of advocated is now the mainstream democratic republican agenda. >> guest: that's what makes this a great country. people are actually listening to each other. ronald reagan was not, as you know, as they recounted in the book, he was president when the first big report was issued -- a

spectrum of people who are behind this movement, it is pretty hard to argue that barack obama or cory bookerfor the mayor of los angeles are you know, conservatives or some kind of strange strain of members of the democratic party. i think the democratic party has started to shift and they think that is what really has changed the unions view. the union i think randi weingarten in particular, i think understands that she had to shift because her base, her political base, was in the process of shifting. i don't think it is a liberal or conservative issue. asserts no democratic or republican issue and it certainly shouldn't be, because i don't know, is it liberal or conservative to say that a teacher ought to be able to comment on the form of a teacher's lesson plan in a public school in new york city? is that a liberal issue or conservative? >> host: that is not liberal or conservative but i know everything my colleagues have advocated over many many years is now the mainstream democratic republican agenda. >> guest: that is what makes us this a great country. maybe this is an area where one

spectrum of people who are behind this movement, it's pretty hard to argue that barack obama or cory bookeror the mayor of los angeles are some kind of strange string of numbers of the democratic party. i think the democratic party has started to shift. and i think that's what really has changed the unions have you. the union i think, randi weingarten in particular, i think understands that she had to shift because her base, her political base was in the process of shifting. and i don't think it's a liberal or conservative issue. it sure isn't a democratic or republican issue. and it certainly shouldn't be because, i mean, isn't liberal or conservative to say that teacher ought to be able to comment on the form of a teacher's lesson plan in a public school in new york city. is that liberal or conservative? >> host: i do know that my ex-colleagues at the hoover institution advocate over many, many years is now the mainstream democratic republican agenda. >> guest: maybe this is one area people actually listen to each other. [talking over each other] ronald reagan was not, as you know, as i r

. >> reporter: jenna booker said she might be going to the ham tons this weekend. going to stay at my house. jon: she should work all weekend. >> reporter: don't tell her that. jenna: we won't do that. it's important to pay attention with the entire east coast potentially in the zone, janice. >> reporter: i don't know if the northeast really has a full idea over what this could mean over the next several days. jenna: a good warning, j.d., thank you. jon: new information in the earthquake that shook folks from georgia to canada. the washington monument remains closed indefinitely. yesterday's surprise jolt leaving cracks near the top of that historic 505 a foot tall structure. federal inspectors saying no major damage has been found at the 12 nuclear power plants that got a look over. but despite the big sigh of relief many are saying a 5.8 quake is the wake up call the east coast really needs. joining us now harley benz chief sig scientists for the geological national earthquake center. the west coast has been waiting for the big one for a longtime. when it comes t

things that mayor bloomberg has done, mayor menino, stephanie rawlings blake in baltimore and corey bookerors are on top of these issues and we will carry our cities through. >> bill: you are about to see it as worse as it has ever been in philadelphia. i think a lot of people look at this storm and were scared, once it came and went, they thought, no big deal, we are okay. now is when the story develops, with the flood waters. >> right, it is a big deal. for us in the government, the storm is not over just because the rain tapers off or the clouds start to dissipate. because we got an 7 to 9 inches of rain. we've had wettest month in st so the ground table was already saturated, nowhere for that water to go. we have natural flood prone areas already. we set up shelters, i'm now at one of our shelters in the roxboro section u because we had to put some people up overnight and may have to do so tonight as well. you have to plan for these things. you have to anticipate. the stay has helped, federal government has helped us. it has been totally cooperation effort. that's how you are able to g

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