we're back with bryan cranston.s and applause ] that's a wild show. i'll tell you, when i first talked to the writer of our show, vince gilligan, he said he wanted to do something that's never been done before, and that's to take a character at the beginning of a show, turn him from like "mr. chips," a great guy, into "scarface," and i -- i thought, "yeah, can we do that?" and -- and we're beginning to do that, so by the end of this series -- i'll be a -- a vicious criminal. >> jimmy: really. >> yeah. >> jimmy: people who haven't watched the show, you are a teacher. >> i'm a high school chemistry teacher. >> jimmy: nicest guy. >> nicest guy, never got a ticket for anything. >> jimmy: no. >> and, unfortunately, he finds himself with terminal lung cancer with a year and a half or so to live. with that information, he's desperate and he makes this desperate decision to provide as much money for his family as he can before he goes. that's the premise, so -- he uses his chemistry background to cook crystal meth, as one w

joining us now is the mayor of cranston, allan fung. good morning. >> good morning, maggie. >> what is the situation there this morning? are you in unprecedented territory? >> we're definitely in unprecedented territory. right now, the city is still under water in many areas. the pawtuxet river behind us still has not fully crested. we had shut down this major artery between our neighboring city warwick and ourselves early yesterday in preparation, and now the waters continue to rise. it's taken over several city blocks right now. completely inundated the elmwood avenue bridge behind us. probably just about an hour ago i received the bad news that one of our sewer pumping stations has just failed. we're in very difficult times. a lot of our schools are closed and many of our major roadways have some closures on them. >> i can't imagine what it must be like for residents of your town. what has this done to morale? >> it's really frustrating. there's a lot of anger out there. people are just frustrated because it's their homes. we certain

back to sam champion in the floods of cranston, rhode island. bianna standing on the steps of 19 fletcher avenue. if you look up fletcher it's completely flooded as far as you can see. you may remember this shot from yesterday when we were right here when a family here and it was sean, carrie and 2-year-old son braden rescued by boat from this house here and taken down to where the camera is where it's a little drier. this is the -- the water is coming down a little bit. i have to walk gently and delicately because i'll come off the curb in a second. good news for this area. what happens with tributaries, they're draining the water into the main river so the idea here is the main river this flows into, the pawtuxet will not crest for awhile yet and it's going to be an incredible record crest. more than 20 feet, we think. 5 feet above the last record crest that was just 2 weeks ago. quick look at the board, warm-up for the east coast, midwest has had warm temperatures. we get into friday will be in e many places including right here with a temper

reynolds wolf is right there in the middle of it in cranston.nolds, these people already had bad flooding a couple weeblg weeks ago, right? any hopes for drying out anytime soon? >> reporter: it won't happen rapidly. it will take a while for all this water to recede. just to give you our bearings, we are in cranston where it was dry less than 24 hours ago. it's now water. look over the trees, where the pawtuxet river used to run, but now it flows right through here. to be honest, folks, you're not just seeing water. you're seeing history. we're talking 15 inches of rainfall during the month of march, on tuesday, 8 inches of rainfall alone. this has been the result and mandatory evacuations in some places, volunteers here in the ocean state of rhode island. there have been hundreds evacuated, also businesses. they've emptied out as the water has come through. other big problems we've had on roadways, not just the one i'm standing on but secs of i-95 have been closed down. side streets and back roads are in the same condition you see here, water a

even some sunshine this morning but behind me, this is the pawtuxet river, here in cranston is across the river, the other side in -- in parts of rhode island where the river has come up now to 20.76 feet, an all-time crest now, 12 feet above flood stage. it is still coming up, coming up another inch in the past couple of hours. yesterday and monday, heavy rainfall, that's why we've had unprecedented flooding. historic totals in providence, nine inches of rain in two days. over 16 inches so far in march, now the wettest month on record, forcing residents out of their homes, some for the second time in two weeks. the bad news is even though the sun is back out, the rain has stopped. it will take until at least early next week before these floodwaters come back down. this morning many roads and bridges are shut down, including a stretch of interstate 95. that's going to affect not only local traffic but also through traffic across parts of southern new england. tamron, back to you. >> mike, thank you. >>> today president obama is saying the government will allow offshore oil drilling 50

we know that's the same story in cranston. there are many, many stories about where the flooding is happening right now. i certainly can't get to all of them. i'd love to go to cnn.com/ireport. maybe even do a video for us. something that's narrated. we can try to get it on tv. the rain has stopped. the rain is over. the rain is completely gone. at least the next five days. this is 48 hours worth of rainfall. it's all offshore. maybe if you are a gloucesterman, you might get some rain. but the land will not see any more rainfall. and that will eventually allow the water to run off. but as you see the bubbles, they come down the river and sometimes these bubbles still have a lot more energy as the rainfall comes down and has come down. it has to run down. there is going to be a huge warm-up for you. this high pressure. it might be 80 degrees in new england by the weekend. so the -- all of a sudden, what was punxsutawney phil's greatest adventure because it really did last, six more weeks of winter. it's all over and here comes

the tawtuxet -- pawtuxet, the river at cranston and we are watching the river continue to rise and nowfeet, and the flood stage at 9 feet and watch what happens, 24 hours, and they updated the crest to 17.5 feet. and that is two-and-a-half feet over the record. which actually happened two weeks ago. these people are evacuated and sandbagging and doing what they can to protect their lives and property and as we go to cranston, rhode island, these are the historic pawtuxet river crest and the current right now, it has not crested but to give you a perspective the number one crest was just two weeks -- a little -- two and a little bit weeks ago, 14.98 feet and that is the type of flooding we are dealing with and the worst of it is today and tomorrow, showers and people are crossing their fingers, because, we are dealing with historic flooding, in the northeast, back to you guys, and, by the way, the airports, delays up and down the east coast and at least two hours at the new york airports and that will be a ripple effect. martha: boy, the last within we had, everybody, thought, well, tha

inflatable boat, families that have been in their homes for 35, 50 years and never seen flooding in cranston are now flooded out. down in south kings town where i was yesterday you've got the major part of downtown flooded out. it is a real challenge. it's been described here as a 500-year flood. >> what would you like the federal government to do? >> send the cavalry. we have a lot of people who have, you know, rhode island is in tough shape economically. we've been the second or third highest unemployment now through the entire obama administration. we've been in recession for probably 24 straight months. rhode island is a resilient place. rhode islanders are tough, but they've had a lot of economic pressure and particularly after the last flooding just about ten days ago a lot of people cleaned up from that, put businesses back together, and now they're flooded out again. so we've taken a very hard punch and we're hoping the federal government will come in and be very helpful. >>> senator whitehouse, it's sometimes difficult to tell from the pictures but are we talking about hundreds of p

cranston, almost 20 rain gauges picking upwards of 7 to 10 inches of rain.oming up, we'll talk more about the good news as far as the weekend's concerned. a beautiful forecast. >> i like that. todd, thank you very much. >>> up next, an exclusive first look inside the politico playbook. also, a developing story overnight in russia. two more attacks by suicide bombers. we'll have the latest. >>> later, it's been called awesome, adorable, and downright scary. scarface, the school play coming up in "news you can't use." what is that? what's the popcorn? national car rental knows i'm picky. so, at national, i go right past the counter... and you get to choose any car in the aisle. choose any car? you cannot be serious! okay. seriously, you choose. go national. go like a pro. ever wish you knew a retirement expert? let's meet some. retirement's a journey and, we know the territory. we're chartered retirement planning counselors at td ameritrade. we're trained. we're seasoned. experienced. we'll help you with rollovers. consolidating old accounts. opening new ones.

of the floods are literally off the projected charts of what they could have possibly imagined in cranstonad island. and i-95, done, only down to one lane in some spots. so, ung, can you imagine trying to drive on that expressway? >> wow. >> it is just not 71. let's go to warwick, rhode island. not far from the mall. there is an old navy -- or i guess i should say there was an old navy. i think they wish they had a boat, because it's completely underwater at the warwick mall. and the water is continuing to go up. you say, wait, wait, the rain has stopped, no, we still have the water at higher elevations, the water bubbles, the amount of water still has to get to the ocean and it's not there yet. >> chad, thanks very much. we'll keep an eye on the flooding in the northeast. >>> i want to talk about oil. you use oil and gasoline. i don't know if you keep track of it. it's like the days when oil was $140 bucks a barrel, and we probably don't watch it as much as we should. you probably remember this trusty oil barrel that has been part of my life for a long time. this is what oil settled at $8

gretchen from cranston is a laidoff teacher who is receiving cobra benefits that helps her pay for her health care. because of a single republican's obstruction, apparently supported by others, her premiums have increased from roughly $500 a month to over over $2,000 a month. she wrote to me saying how horrifying that i should work hard all my life, paying for my entire education, dedicate my career to helping children in poverty and find that my own children may be among them. gretchen did not expect to be in poverty. she expected that her cobra benefits would continue, but no, we have cut those off. richard in warren wrote to me asking for us to move quickly on cobra. richard's wife has cancer, so they have no choice but to pay for health care coverage. since he lost his job, richard has been paying $400 a month for their health insurance, but the cost has tripled, tripled with the expiration of cobra subsidies. richard should be able to worry about his family, to be able to help his wife through her cancer treatment. he should not have to worry about the political games being played