my name is irene conway and seeking an appointment to the board of the san francisco health authority. let me tell you a little bit about myself. i currently work as a caregiver for ihss, the in home support services. prior to this i worked in the private sector until my parent was terminally ill and took time off from work to care for him and the experience was profound. this taught me compassion for the sick and the elderly and the under privileged and changed by perspective. after that i decided to work as an in home caregiver and over 12 years i have worked with diverse communities. i have cared for people of different races, age, sexual orientation and disabilities and the terminally ill. the work is heart breaking sometimes but also enriching. this experience gives me incite to every man's health challenges. i see and hear about medical issues, not only of sick people but of healthy people who seek preventive medical care. as a patient myself i too experienced medical challenges. i have sat in waiting room clinics listening to patient's grievances and experiencing my own. i am a

we have had hurricane irene, hurricane sandy.r or worse, we know how to deal with these situations. i feel completely confident the folks behind me and all of the people that work for them prepared. >> a lot more at stake for governor christie now. he has formed a pac to evaluate whether he will run were president -- for president. he is getting closer to the date where he needs to decide. >> has he been embraced by national republicans? >> he was. now there are reports that republicans are turning away from him now that they have just wish -- jeb bush. he has gotten the scorn of local new jerseyans because of bridge gate and how he handled sandy afterwards. a lot of people have not gotten the money to rebuild their homes after the disaster. >> greek elections are in your eyesight as well. >> someone who specializes at looking at emerging in trouble markets -- and troubled markets will be joining us to talk about how the greek crisis is going to unfold. >> more on that and the storm the blizzard of 2015, with betty liu in for tri

. >> we had hurricane irene, we had hurricane sandy. for better or worse, we know how to deal with these situations. i feel completely confident that the folks behind me and all the people that work for them are prepared. you never know how bad the conditions are going to be. >> pennsylvania operating under state of emergency this morning. hundreds of flights to philadelphia's international airport have been canceled. there is limited public transportation in the city. pennsylvania's governor says stay off the roads if you can. >> there will be snow on the roads. big heavy equipment out there. so be careful. if you have to drive. >> no flights are moving right now at major airports in the northeast. newark and jfk and laguardia at a standstill. more than 4,500 flights canceled today. more than 2,000 canceled yesterday. american and united decided to ground all flights today. airlines are hoping to resume service tomorrow. they are letting passengers rebook flights for free. flight cancellations affecting 58,000 travels. that is expectin

. >> i have had double-digit states of emergency imposed on for snow, we have had hurricane irene andandy. for better or for worse, we know

irene and sandy and for the city you know sandy was a big hit as far as the impact but irene didn't quite pan out as much as the forecast said even though it hit upstate new york pretty hard. so it's just kind of a matter of on days like this these big storms i think meteorologists should give a better idea of kind of the uncertainty of which way these storms could go. you know two days before the storm hit on sunday i wrote that there was about a 66% chance of 18 inches or more in new york city. that leaves a big margin of error for something less than that which is what we got. so you know in the future i'm just going to try to play the down side just as much as the up side and kind of try to give the full range of options. >> well eric thank you for talking with me and thanks for your apology. thanks for like you know standing up and explaining things and taking it. we appreciate it. eric holthaus from "slate" magazine. >>> still to come a deal could be in the works to free one of the hostages. a jordanian pilot. they could be considering a swap for a failed suicide bomber. what would

. >> i'm irene krebs and i would bet [inaudible] for the last 45 years. as i have some evidence i've read i guess the new york times and there is some evidence that shows that e cigarettes are not completely safe. for example, a clinical cancer research study found that the vapor from e cigarettes damages human cells in much the same way as the smoke from traditional cigarettes. that was from the consumer reports. april, 2014. then a ucsf study found that adolescents who use e cigarettes are more likely to smoke regular cigarettes and less likely to quit smoking tobacco cigarettes. now, i have a 10-year-old grandson who lives with me. many of my neighbors have young children. we would like to see in the neighborhood 1900 block of ocean avenue is just around the corner from us. we like to see such shops as a bike shop where [inaudible] is at two bikes and the fog lifter which is a wonderful restaurant. you should come sometime. these kinds of businesses. they really help to meet our needs as a community. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next ar

the cancer baker hospital and the irene moore womens' hospital. we anticipate the number of staff at mission bay to be approximately 3,000 employees as well as approximately 5,000 physicians. the childrens hospital of san francisco will offer all pediatric specialties and a roof top hella pad and a pediatric emergency department and we expect it to be 30 visits a day and many by ambulance. [inaudible] at the new childrens hospital of san francisco will be approximately between 2600 to 27000 babies. it's important to us that the patients, faculty and staff. >> >> have 24/7 daily access not only to the emergency room but other facilities as well. we look forward to continuing the dialogue with the warriors and -- [inaudible] access to our facilities is assured. we are an open campus and [inaudible] act responsibly and seek assurances like other neighbors that security and safety are assured. the police department and medical center security staff will coordinate with the san francisco police department. we also understand there should be an overlap

my state offices got flooded in irene so the state offices were wiped out and destroy. i use that as an opportunity when i re-organized to put them in the same office building and in the same cafeteria and guess what? they found out they like each other and they are working much more effectively together to get the job done. now our rna folks will go out on the ground together and make the decisions on the ground that sometimes took two years at now take three days. so it's a big difference. other piece of technology. governors are embracing it across the country smarter ways to do things and residents are willing if they understand it saves tax dollars to be more patient i will give an example. we have cut the cost of our bridges doping bridges significantly raise things to citizens instead of building a detour bridge which you have to go through permitting it takes forever huge cost and i will bet you anything secretary bergquist is doing the same thing that i have my secretary who could speak more eloquently about this but we say if you would let us close that bridge

adriana irene macÍas, a pesar de haber nacido sin brazos, ha sabido enfrentar los obstÁculos y vencerlosas cosas, hasta ver hasta dÓnde llegaba. empezaron a ver que agarraba mis muÑecas. y dijeron bueno, pues que tambiÉn las guarde, que tenga sus tareas. mi hermana, que es un aÑo mÁs grande, tenÍa sus tareas de robar la ropa y tender la cama. y para mÍ eso fue extraordinario, porque me dio la oportunidad de sentirme Útil. >> ¿en quÉ momento te diste cuenta que eras diferente? >> no lo tengo muy claro. toda mi infancia recuerdo que yo creÍ que me iban a crecer los brazos, porque toda mi familia tenÍa brazos. pero vas creciendo, y en la adolescencia, cuando entras en esta etapa de "quÉ estoy haciendo aquÍ", volví al recuento. mis papÁs nunca me explicaron, pero me daba cuenta de que era diferente. pero era un tema como que no se hablaba. yo no sabÍa cÓmo abordarlo, mis papÁs daban por hecho que sÓlo tenÍa asimilado, pero la realidad es que yo no entendÍa. >> hasta que un dÍa se armÓ de valor y le preguntÓ a su mamÁ. >> fue un sentimiento muy fuerte. yo lo que le pude decir era que pusiera

hurricane irene was going to be the one that hit new york. the city braced for it and it was not as devastating. people said look we don't have to worry about these things. a year later sandy came and overwhelmed our capacity. it might not be this one, it might be juno in boston. i think the problem with global warming is that we can expect to see more extreme weather systems like this. we have no choice but to learn how to deal with this kind of stress on our systems. >> have we gotten better at this, one of the defining moments of the last decade was the -- hurricane katrina, the gulf, what that meant, the spectacle, misery hundreds and thousands of lives lost. have we gotten better in have we implemented -- are you seeing things happen that you would not have seen 10 or 20 years ago? >> in some ways we are. seeing political leaders, especially local leaders in moments like this take the extreme weather seriously, the conversation about climate change has inevitably changed the way we prepare for these kinds of things because we know we hav

they did it for hurricane irene. they did it for sandy and it was so well received. but i feel like that raised the bar now that you can do it before it was something that you could not possibly do. >> i know the mayor of this -- these end up being big political tests for anyone in power. mayor deblasio has a fair share of enemies that would like to see him suffer. >> good he dd a snowstorm right when he was elected that by everybody's admission he screwed up. >> including charges that he did not charge the upper east side. >> this is not really a snowstorm, it is so hyped up. it was like ten inches but i don't think the blow back no pun intended is that he overhyped it deliberately. it seems like the predictions were there. >> jennifer, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> if you were paying attention to the president's visit to saudi airabiaarabia. also, the first openly gay state legislature in alabama threatens to expose who of her colleagues is having an affair. expected wait time: 55 minutes. your call is important to us. thank you for your patience. waiter! v

some mitigation work done after hurricane irene was done to that standard and sandy went over. so maybe one percent makes sense for a lot of things but for critical infrastructure like hospitals, fire stations, maybe we should build to a higher standard. we're currently working with an agency on the federal side to look at, should we come up with a more stringent standard, not just building one foot above the base flood elevation, perhaps even building higher, not because we have data to drive that per se but because of the uncertainty of the future data and these investments of literally tens to hundreds to billions of dollars of our future, making sure we're building that future with that uncertainty. >> i very much appreciate what you're saying. the monumental core is irreplaceable. i realize this means further delay -- whether you could look into the 17th street levee and see whether it should be altered now to make sure it meets standards you just indicated may be necessary. could i ask one more question in light of a recent tragedy that occurred here, the ramada tragedy w

they did it for hurricane irene. >> which was like this blizzard. >> then they did it for sandy and it was so well received because sandy was so damaging. but i feel like that raised the bar now that you can do it, before it was something that you could not possibly do. >> i know the mayor of this -- these end up being big political tests for anyone in power. mayor de blasio has his fair share of enemies that would love to see him suffer politically. how do you think he came out of this? >> i think he came out good. he had a snowstorm right when he was elected that by everybody's admission he screwed up. >> including charges that he did not clear the upper east side. >> this is not really a snowstorm, it is so hyped up. it was like ten inches, but i don't think the blow back, no pun intended is that he overhyped it deliberately. it seems like the predictions were there. and that's what he did. >> jennifer, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> if you were paying attention to the president's visit to saudi arabia today, you may have noticed the giant delegation he brought with him. you

conned spokesperson says lessons have been learn from the last two major storms, hurricane irene and prompted con ed to perform what they call storm hardening measures. they have built walls around the substationsstationsstations and installed submersible equipment and resources from other out of state agencies are coming in. that's happening all around the region so far con ed added 46 contract ares to the snow plan and and other power companies are bringing people from the midwest and putting them up in hotel rooms. >> try to stay warm out there. to thank you. >>> a new show for you-brand new from your friends at fox. here's the deal. plenty of people get cash as part of an inheritance or a house but one family gets a 900-acre plot of land with a museum. happy inheritance. one story featuredded on our program that premieres tonight, not here on fox news channel but on fox business network straining inheritances is the name. it's on each monday to thursday, 9:00 eastern time on fbn, and our friend jamie is the host. there's a really strange one about a farm hoarder or something. tel

irene will zoom in on this house. this issis 2112 south randolph. firefighters now moving out of the house.fire is put out. but one person removed from the fire. still not knowing the condition of that person or what the source of the fire was. but we do know the fire is out at this point. we'll continue to give you updates all morning long as we have them. reporting live here if arlington, zachary kiesch news 4. >>> 6:03. immediate changes on the way in response to the underground emergency on metro last week. metro will announce new changes to its protocol including allowing train operators to turn off systems without reaching out to central command in an emergency. you will also see new signage on trains that make emergency exits clearer and tell you what to do in a crisis. you can download the nbc washington app for a push alert about all the changes. right how the ntsb says it's working to figure out why an arcing problem started that caused the tunnel to fill up with smoke. lawmakers are a demanding answers. >> so we they doing now, the urgenc

we saw infrastructure destroyed, not only in irene but in two separate significant storms. this was created by just the kind of rain that we've never seen in vermont where you suddenly get these what i call costa rican style deluges of 10 12 inches of rain dumped on our little state in a matter of hours. just didn't used to happen that way. so we have to remember that we've got a crumbling infrastructure, we've got a climate that is really putting additional pressure on all the assumptions we made about where we put roads, where we put bridges. suddenly we have flooding challenges in places that we never had them before. >> governorky can i jump in on that? >> sure. >> there is an interesting statistic that i think comes out of the national property casualty insurance industry. if you look at the number of billion dollar storm and weather disasters that the country has had in recent decades in the 1980s, every year those billion dollar disasters numbered zero to five. it was the range in the 1980s. you got none or maybe you got as many as five. but that was the range. by th

>> i've been through a bunch of these, irene and superstorm sandy and unbelievable weather storms. we had on hinchs in february '13 in parts of our state. you should always err on the side of caution and safety. it also allowed us to clean up quicker than they otherwise would have been able to you learn as you go along. thank you. you're giving us the best information you have available. it's not just public safety. it's about how quickly you can recover after the fact. i played a lot of rugby against holy cross when i was at boston college. i have a nephew and niece who live on nantucket, he as an orthopedic surgeon out there. and i was a prosecutor in new york city. these are vital places. the people deserve to be protected. that's our job. that's what we get elected to do. >> our expert from "the washington post," jason, how good is weather -- my mom used to stay up all night waiting for the weather. what are we farmers? i still have to go to school. dad as got to go to work. how does is -- what is it 50% right? 7 on% right? >> i think it's better than that weather forecasting h

i've been through a bunch of these, irene and superstorm sandy. and 40 inches in february '13. you should always err on the side of caution and safety. that's why i closed our highway system down at 9:00 last night. but it also allowed us to clean up a lot quicker than we otherwise would have been able to do. you learn as you go along and you always should err on the side of safety. listen let me say this to the meteorologists, thank you, you're giving us upon best information you have available. we need to act on it as leaders. it's not just public safety although that has to be the largest portion. it's about how quickly you can recover after the fact as well. i'm sitting here listening to you talk about worcester, i played a lot of rugby against holy cross when i was at boston college. i have a nephew and a niece who live on nantucket. he's an orthopedic surgeon out there. and of course i was a prosecutor in new york city. these are vital places. the people deserve to be protected. that's our job. that's what we got elected to do. >> let me go to our expert here from "the wa

a friend of hers irene said she should do it, and she's the only guest who ever came to the studio tot was like if she did it and;? would sit. so we got this classic thing i taped secretly, dangerously where, for example, a stagehand said we would have to -- don't at the me what's wrong, just fix it. it was like that. and then we couldn't shut her up, to put it tastelessly. she was just -- a brilliant personality display. >> anyway, you never shied away from political subjects. in fact our current secretary of state in had is youth was just 28 years old when he came on to speak out gentz richard nixon's policies. here he is. >> if in fact we have stated that we do have a date certain, even if it hasn't been put out in front of the people, then some american is going to be killed and is going to be the last guy to die for an admitted mistake. now, i don't think that's right. >> what did you think back then? i assume you were against the war at that point. it was after tet. the war wasn't going to be won in any traditional sense. what was your sense of kerry when you first met him? he w

lines are, and con ed spokesperson says that lessons have been learned from the two storms hurricanes irene they instituted storm hardening measures. >> the underground lines can flood as opposed in west chestest and connecticut, the lines are out and that's a problem. >> we're keeping an eye on the blizzard. we'll be right back. heart health. crowd: yayyyy! heart: i'm going to focus on the heart. i minimize my sodium and fat... gotta keep it lean and mean. pear: uh-oh. heart: i maximize good stuff like my potassium... and phytosterols, which may help lower cholesterol. major: i'm feeling energized already. new delicious ensure active heart health supports your heart and body, so you stay active and strong. ensure. take life in. >>> times square, snow coming down pretty hard. but guess what? this is just the beginning. by this time tomorrow on "the real story," that could be three feet out there. don't miss the "the real story" tomorrow. i'll be here. i'm gretchen. now over to shep. >> breaking news, "shepard smith reporting" live from the fox news deck. >> so it's snowing. ijg': mentioned

that was an important tool that we began using as far back as some damage from hurricane irene with the state of vermont. it's given us flexibility that states and local governments have asked for in building back better. the trends in disasters are not surprising to me. with an ageing infrastructure, a concentration of populations and highly vulnerable areas that don't have a lot of disasters. when they do occur, the costs are substantial. particularly when you look at what happens when the number of public buildings that are under or uninsured are damaged or destroyed, i think things such as dealing with individual losses that weren't ensured dealing with debris costs, dealing with response costs are going to be part of the formula. but when you look at most recently in sandy, the billion dollars or more in some projects we're having to pay to rebuild structures, it's important for us to make sure that in the future we have built back those structures to where they are ensurable and look at making sure the insurance provisions are applied and less opportunities to allow structures to

. >>> we've had hurricane irene, we've had hurricane sandy, for better or for worse, we know how to dealations and i feel completely confident that the folks behind me and all of the people that work for them are prepared. but you never know how bad these conditions are going to be. >> new jersey governor chris christie explaining why he has declared a state of emergency in the garden state as well ahead of this blizzard. offices in the state have started to close and folks heading home early from work. chris christie said flooding is a maimer concern. the nation weather service has issued a coastal flood warning starting at 7:00 tonight and again hearing from governor chris christie and also expecting to here from governor andrew cuomo any moment now. stay with us. more coverage live here on msnbc state ahead. huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know words really can hurt you? what...? jesse don't go! jesse...no! i'm sorry daisy, but i'm a loner. and a loner gotta be alone. heee yawww! geico. fifteen minutes c

we have had hurricane irene we have had hurricane sanity i, for better or for worse we know how to deal with these situations and i feel completely confident that the the folks behind me, and all of the people that work for them are prepared. >> and be aware that the governor has ordered new jersey transit to be shut down by 10:00 o'clock tonight. >>> for more of our team coverage, in new jersey we will go live to "eyewitness news" reporter steve paterson in lumberton township in burlington county, steve. >> reporter: chris, people of south jersey heeding the governor's word or truly one of the great epicenters in the the country right now. there is a gas station the two right, hardware tore to the left grocery and liquor store behind the camera. of course, many people coming here to get prepared. with that there is some truly great hesitation about what the future holds. it isn't the snow cold road, that are the current problems in south jersey yet it is the wind. >> bone chilling. >> reporter: the preparation. >> milk and bread. >> reporter: and the sense that something biggies coming

the experts expending their awareness can ask irene. the paragraph is something koreans have. had a pile of preachy, self-righteous pirates. almost half the students claimed the most famous food in the world and all other nations are envious of it. once to note that the american government had named the official food of 1996. [laughter] when i questioned he said everybody knew this fact since the korean textbook said so. the internet search revealed the teachers had internet, students didn't. a quick internet search revealed that a japanese manufacturer had claimed the japanese -- proposed as an official olympic food, but have been denied. somehow the item had been related and was not treated as knowledge. to correct my students on each bit of misinformation these straying into dangerous territory. another teacher said no way. don't touch that. if the books as its root you cannot tell them how to live. after several lessons a student said to me at dinner, a strange thing happened during our science class this afternoon. social science class was the north korean spy mission of

they did it for hurricane irene, which was sort of a small hurricane -- >> which was like this blizzardy did it for sandy, it was so well received sandy was damaging. i feel like that raised the bar now, that you can do it before it was seen as something you couldn't possibly do. >> do you think -- i know the mayor -- these ended up being big political tests for anyone who's in power. mayor de blasio has his fair share of enemies that would like to see him suffer. how do you think he came out of this? >> i think good. he had a snowstorm when he was early in office which he screwed up. >> including charge ss that he didn't plow the upper east side because there's rich people there? >> everyone's like yeah. >> it was 10 inches you know i mean, so -- i don't think anybody -- i don't think really the blow back no pun intended was that he did it -- he overhyped it deliberately, it seems like the conditions -- he did what he did, he came out well. >> if you were paying attention to the president's visit to saudi arabia today. you may have noticed the first lady doing some things she normally

. >> after my ex had left me, she had my daughter -- we just had hurricane irene. house was wiped out. and then the house was getting fixed, done, we moved back in. six weeks later, sandy came. it was just like a one-two punch. and then i started drinking, like, real -- pretty heavy. like, i won't deny it. >> on the night of his arrest, bernard says his father accused him of stealing his keys and wallet. when bernard denied doing so, he says a heated argument ensued. >> he basically said that i put a gun to his head and that i was going to kill him, which wasn't true. and when they came to arrest me, i was on the second floor of my home. and when they tried take me down to handcuff me, the three officers wound up throwing me down a flight of stairs by accident. and i split my head open, and i broke my two ribs. >> according to the arresting officer's report, bernard was belligerent and began fighting with three officers as they ascended the staircase. they said bernard attempted to jump down the stairs and landed face-first before sliding down to the landing. now b

we've had hurricane irene. we've had hurricane sandy for better or for worse, we know how to deal with the situations. i feel completely confident that folks behind me and all of the people that work for them are prepared. but you never know how bad these conditions are going to be. here's one thing we know for sure. starting later this afternoon, you should stay home if you can. you should only go out in the case of an absolute emergency or necessity. and the same goes for all day tomorrow. we do not need people on the roadways. it makes it much more difficult for us to do our job. and if we get anywhere between 18 and 24 inches of snow, that's a lot of snow to move, to make roadways passable and safe. we would like to make wednesday productive for everybody. the only way to make it productive is for us to give us an opportunity to do our job on tuesday. and this evening. so please stay off the roads. it's not only for your own safety, it's for the operation of the state for us to be able to have the state be