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

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

you've got to be thinking i remember how well cory booker did in that same snowstorm.him on the program, and how poorly michael bloomberg came out, and overpreparedness and underpreparedness. but it's very different when you have three days warning, as opposed to what happened in japan, for example. imagine that. how is the country prepared for that? if you had a seismic earthquake of something like the west coast and then a tsunami, you don't have time to prepare in any country. >> i want to get to that point, but before we leave the activism and preparation, we talked to cory booker, mayor of newark. this is a tweet he sent out last night, yes, on saturday. "heading on a pizza run. i'm going to deliver ten pizzas to those staying in our shelter at jfk." so, i mean, if you have the contrast, michael eric dyson, between president bush regretting he had a flyover of the storm zone and here's mayor booker personally delivering pizzas. >> probably prescription medicine as well, as you got pushed. you have to err on the side of caution, and i think these political figures

cory booker gets it. a lot of other politicians don't.d it seems like the tri-state politicians were fully engaged. >> they certainly seemed to be fully engaged to me. and they did the basic thing. you got to show up when this sort of thing happens. if you don't, you get fired. you know, the -- the list of politicians is very long, who didn't respond to a snowstorm or didn't respond to a hurricane or in sort of emergency situation the way people expected. so you know, some people have said maybe there was an overresponse. i think when you hear -- it hear mayor booker and others up in the northeast, you understand that while our area here pretty much escaped the storm, we didn't have serious damage, up there it's bad. >> it is bad. it could have been so much worse. anybody that says there's an overreaction obviously doesn't remember what happened with katrina. because you -- i think mike bloomberg said, you never prepare for the best case scenario. you prepare for the worst case scenario. >>> i want to talk about your column today. then i'

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

let's go to newark, new jersey, with mayor cory booker joining us on the phone right now. i understand you have a lot of trees down, which means you have a lot of streets that are closed and many people without power. describe the situation in newark. >> that's exactly it. we have a number of trees hit homes. i just visited with a family in a homeless she felt they're had to be displaced because of that. a lot of flooding in our streets. we've had about 11 drivers we've had to get out. we've got some serious situations and a lot of open hazards still and a lot of clean nextel cup the next coming days w . we're asking resident os use their better judgment and stay inside. >> talk about the potential danger to your residents there. no reports of injuries but, you know, the governor chris christie reiterating your words, asking people to stay off the streets because you're not completely out of the woods as yet. >> we're definitely not. there are a lot of hazards out there. manhole covers have been moved off of their holes and on sewered by flooded water. anybody wading throu

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

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

look 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

. >>> 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

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