this is steady rain here, keira.brunt of the storm, though, what new york is bracing for and really expecting to feel the impact tomorrow morning. it's high tide around 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, and that's really what city officials here are concerned about, the potential for flooding. we're here in lower manhattan, and this is evacuation zone. there's concern about flooding here. residents told to leave. every once in a while we'll see a police car going through with announcements on loud speakers reminding people about that evacuation. you'll see occasionally a person coming through. we just found malaki darcy, a building manager of one of the buildings behind me. malaki, you came out to kind of inspect and see how the water is going. how about the evacuations? did most people leave? >> yes, most people -- it was actually a lot smoother than i had p anticipate had p anticipated. we have only 24 people that couldn't leave. basically, pets, i had someone who had children who just had surgery. everybody was compliant. >> re

keira?pretty wild story we've been seeing on the web. a new book from a british professor actually suggested there was a plan in place to make adolf hitler more feminine. zain virgie told me about this this morning. i was, like, okay, this could be very interesting. tell me more. of course, zain you would be one to find an obscure story like this. >> keira, the plan was to take away his mustache. that was the strategy from a british plot that they cooked up. the idea was essentially and seriously to lace his food with estrogen, a female sex hormone. if they did that, it would make him less aggression. it was also tasteless. he was feared he would be poisoned. they figured nobody would figure out anything was laced in the food. the scientists basically came across this plan when with looking at documents that were recently declassified as to what the potential strategies beyond mill are teitary could be beyon. >> there was some other plots they had as well, right? >> yeah. i did dig deep into

alex armor -- >> and keira?. >> i just wanted to mention as well that my brother has just been deployeded to kandahar. i wanted to give him a shout-out as well. >> go right ahead. >> just got there a week ago. >> is he watching? >> he should be watching, major xavier bruce in kandahar, stay safe and come home soon. >> he's extreming us live on his ipad i hear. let us know if you drum up some business. thank you for your service. we appreciate your brother as well, alex. thanks. >> you bet. >>> if you'd like to do a 30-second pitch, e-mail us. we may get you on the show in the coming weeks. >>> lots of activity in the middle east today. israeli military has been bombing targets in gaza. the military says it's in response to those terror attacks that were carried out against israel in the last 24 hours. let's get more from our kevin flower, our jerusalem bureau chief joining us from the isr l israe israeli/gaza border. bring us up to speed on what's happening there where you are, kevin. >> reporter: keira, after t

>> reporter: hey there, keira.ick perry, listen, it it remains to be seen whether he is just -- this is just his natural way, this texas swagger, this bravado he has or if rick perry is trying to make a splash because he has a lot of kind of campaigning to do, catching ini to do, because he just got into the race, or if this was a serious misstep. i mean, you have a presidential candidate basically saying that we treat the chairman of the federal reserve pretty ugly down in it tex. you can imagine some liberal critics are saying, you know, what is he inciting violence against ben bernanke? so this may have been a misstep or this may have been an intentional comment from rick perry to drum up some excitement and some buzz about his campaign. >> drumming up buzz, drumming up excitement, there you were with the mike making your way through the crowd and you got this little gem. >> reporter: romney took a swipe at you today saying he has private sector experience and he makes him better qualified to make jobs. what do

it's nice to see you again. >> charlie: i am pleased to have keira knightley back at this table. welcome. >> thank you. >> charlie: we were just starting to talk b you just came off stage. >> i did just come off stage, yes. >> charlie: what was the production. >> the play was the children's hour. >> charlie: yes. did you enjoy it? was it somethingou wanted to do? >> the play just therein general. >> charlie: both. >> the may i thought was extraordinary and it' very diffult to find female roles like the ones in that particular piece. and so the director's a man calledan who has his production jerusalem is on brdway at the moment an i loved s work so ieally wanted to work with him. yes, i did one theatre production the year before which was my first, and just it was so interesting and you can learn such a lot from it that i thought i really want to do it again. >> charlie: one of the hallmarks reading about you is the idea of learning and growing. >> mm-mm. i think expansion and trying to get better and growth is very important. >> charlie: your favorite growth and expansion. >> it

the duchess, starring keira knightly. but i actually always wanted to go back. >> host: so you went back to your earlier incarnation as a civil war or slavery historian or something like that. >> guest: that's right. but i also knew that after such a long break i wasn't going to pick up that old dissertation. and also i'd found a new topic while i was researching the duchess. while i was at chatsworth, i was given permission to look at all the archives, and she had married the fifth duke. the eighth duke of devon shire when he was a young man had actually gone out to america during the civil war. >> host: uh-huh. >> guest: now, the reason he'd gone out, actually, was to escape his mistress. >> host: i see. [laughter] >> guest: and he couldn't afford her anymore. so rather than just fessing up, he ran off to new york thinking that she wouldn't find hip. ask about two weeks into staying at the fifth avenue hotel, there was a knock on his door, and it was the mistress. so he then ran to washington, d.c. thinking that, you kn

holmes in today for keira phillips. we're watching wall street.n about a half hour now and looky looky, in positive territory. we'll take it, even though it's early. we have been watching a historical week of volatility. will it end up that way? >>> the republican candidates don't even bother to put on gloves so they it don't have to take them off last night. they he came out swinging. but a new challenger is about to enter the ring. we'll talk about it. >>> in great britain, police are in control and now on the hunt. they're arresting nearly 2,000 people in connection with the riots and looting there. >>> we are talking about iowa being the battleground this weekend, but minnesota seem to be the heart of a turf war right now. tensions really boiled over last night between two officials from that state. the former governor tim lenty and congresswoman michele bachmann, pawlenty accusing her of being a failure in congress. you didn't think that was going to let that slide, did you? >> her record of accomplishment and results is nonexistent. >> you s