it's the same as hurricane katrina with bush. bush's numbers were high. en people who didn't like him had to acknowledge he was likable as a person. what happened with katrina was the ability to look competent was cratered. that one photograph of him looking out the plane window as an american city went underwater, he never recovered from that. is this website going to recover and the program going to recover in a way that obama can never recover? or is he going to lose the senate in november? the house republicans going maintain a majority? he will be able to do almost nothing certainly through laws, you know, for the rest of his presidency. >> at least president obama did not say sebelius you're doing heck of a job. you have to help us fix not only healthcare.gov but the whole government system for procurement for i.t. is messed up. >> with silicon valley's role in health care, absolutely important. but there's another aspect of silicon valley that promotes problems for obama, that is this increase divide in income. the haves and have-nots. we're seeing

. >> with all of the problems that occurred during katrina why do you think they didn't do a more effective job particularly with the engagement of bush and clinton in haiti? >> everybody hear that? >> the question correct me if i am wrong, after everything with katrina who wasn't there a better job with the engagement of president bush and clinton in haiti and that is a good question. this isn't the first time aid has gone wrong. people that work in aid and development can tell you story after story of places they have worked where they came in and thought it was going to go another way, came in and it went the other way and there are problems with the aid regime. it isn't a surprise to me or to anything who knows haiti or disaster relief that many of these issues occurred. they occur here but in a different way after sandy. i was playing close attention to the news as the storm was coming up. and you saw the same tropes come and you saw the fear of mob mentality taking over. and people were looking for the any sign they could find of society breaking down, the looters coming in, and usually blowing it out of proportion because as th

. >> with all of the problems that occurred during katrina why do you think they didn't do a more effective job particularly with the engagement of bushand clinton in haiti? >> everybody hear that? >> the question correct me if i am wrong, after everything with katrina who wasn't there a better job with the engagement of president bush and clinton in haiti and that is a good question. this isn't the first time aid has gone wrong. people that work in aid and development can tell you story after story of places they have worked where they came in and thought it was going to go another way, came in and it went the other way and there are problems with the aid regime. it isn't a surprise to me or to anything who knows haiti or disaster relief that many of these issues occurred. they occur here but in a different way after sandy. i was playing close attention to the news as the storm was coming up. and you saw the same tropes come and you saw the fear of mob mentality taking over. and people were looking for the any sign they could find of society breaking down, the looters coming in, and usually blowing it out of proportion because as the

. >> with all of the problems that occurred during katrina why do you think they didn't do a more effective job particularly with the engagement of bush and clinton in haiti? >> everybody hear that? >> the question correct me if i am wrong, after everything with katrina who wasn't there a better job with the engagement of president bush and clinton in haiti and that is a good question. this isn't the first time aid has gone wrong. people that work in aid and development can tell you story after story of places they have worked where they came in and thought it was going to go another way, came in and it went the other way and there are problems with the aid regime. it isn't a surprise to me or to

look what happened with president bush and hurricane katrina and governor gray davis and his response to the energy crisis. brown's popularity may depend on how he deals with the drought. >> thank you. and remember, you can watch the governor deliver his state of the state address live right on our website, kpix.com. it all starts at 9 a.m. > we'll have the very latest at noon. >>> right now at 6:10, it's the crisp flavor of beer packed into a jellybean. coming up, when the newest jellybean flavor is hitting store shelves. coming up. >> and kicked out of school for trying to support his family. why this teen's unusual after school job had the administration asking him to go home. >> another round of some record- breaking temperatures possibly today and the fire danger going to be runnin high. we'll tell you where coming up. >> rush hour now at the bay bridge toll plaza where we have backups extending to the 880 overcrossing. i'll have another update on the bay bridge including information on a new accident now in san jose with "kcbs traffic" still ahead. ,, ,,,, for the new mattress m

bush with the iraq situation had gone bad already, afghanistan, katrina, still doing better than presidentma now. that's pretty striking. >> so kirsten, will what the president says tonight with regard to immigration reform, income inequality, minimum wage, do you think any of that will have an impact on his approval rating and raise it? >> state of the union definitely is not going to radically alter the trajectory approval rating even if he was to get a slight bump or drop in it after his speech. this is a much bigger problem they are talking about in the polls, see what they are considering about, complaining about the economy, they are not doing as well as they were. there's a pew poll that says a third of people in 2008 because themselves middle class. they are calling themselves lower class. this is a pretty amazing thing. until those issue issues are addressed, i don't think you'll see his approval rating turning around. >> wonder if it has to do with obama care. will the president talk about the problems with obama care, the most significant domestic achievement. last week we told

with katrina which was the last huge natural disaster, not to equate the two, but huge natural disaster that politicians were seen as struggling with from the democratics governor at the time and george w. bushmost important thing is to be present and almost ever-present. chris christie at the end of 2012, right before the election, was everywhere. bobby jindal, i remember during the conventions of 2012, bobby jindal was everywhere as the storm approached the gulf coast. i think he is taking that advice. which is better for people to see you, even if you don't have that much news to report, see that you're on the case and working on it, because for every person who's stuck, can't get out, it's cold, they want to know that their top elected official has his eyes on the prize. >> and jackie, the white house released new background check regulations from the vice president's office doing something about guns. how effective could this be? trying to address the issue of people with mental health problems not having access to guns. >> right. and this all reflects the fact that the administration has not been able to get any legislation through congress given the opposition of even some democrats a

with the backing of 76 senators and 354 house members. fast forward to 2006, on top of george w. bush's bungling of katrinan economic issue to the national platform they used to win back congress that fall. one of tear key issues was raising the minimum age. the next year, once they were in control, democrats in the house advanced a bill to raise the minimum wage to 7.25 an hour. that's where it now stand at the federal level. 82 republicans support it in the house. if senate added small business tax cuts in the past there overwhelmingly an george one. bush signed it. that was in 2007. that was the last time there was an increase in the minimum wage at the federal level. the issue is on the table again if now, but the opposition from republicans seems far more rigid this time around. the party has changed. the tea party id logs have gained traction. swing moderates are vanishing. within it comes to issue, the party has moved close to rand paul's absolutism. there is one tea party insurgent, joe miller, you may remember, he defeated a sitting republican senator in a 2010 primary in alaska. here he is callin