this to say on facebook about our mainstream is the economic debate in the us is a sham he said sorry lona but i think this debate is real the consensus of economists have brought us to where we are today they are no more to be trusted and the politicians are now i'm totally with you just because most economists agree on something does not necessarily mean that it's true or that it's good policy and the financial crash is a wonderful example of that although of course there are those who are trying to sound the alarms for years before my point yesterday is that the debate that happens in congress above all is not real because above all their interests lie in getting reelected getting more campaign cash furthering the interests of their donors congress really cared about the economy we'd see a jobs bill we'd see wall street be held accountable that's the common sense stuff that just doesn't have the same emotional points that say a debate over taxes just put the most economists would also agree on now our next comment comes from john jeremiah smith who also posted on facebook and he comment

. >> reporter: we are on ba lona in north baltimore, there is a road that is well traveled, it is closed. it's so dark. behind me there is a huge tree that fell on top of power lines. this is the situation we've seen throughout the state after saturday night's storms, saturday morning storms moving in to late last night. that's the situation now. we have been here and seen a ton of cars and trucks turn around. ronnie oliver has been sitting here watching the area making sure everybody knows it's not safe to travel on the road. what can you tell people? >> power lines are always -- you are not supposed to be around, we are protecting the lines. >> reporter: on a personal level you have no power. >> i don't have power right now. hopefully when i get home i will have power. >> reporter: what is that like? >> it's the worst thing in the world. >> reporter: you never seen anything like this. >> that one is bad. >> reporter: thank you for joining us. that's the situation, hundreds of thousands are without power and people have big messs to clean up. it's going to be a big story. over to sherri

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ba lona is closed off this morning. this area has been closed off since saturday, because it's not safe to drive out here. that's the situation around much of the area, we've seen a lot of downed power lines and toppled trees and people have clean up today, which is a huge headache because it's supposed to be hot. this road is blocked off, you better believe in the short time we've been here, we have seen trucks and cars have to turn around. ronnie has been sitting here in the truck where the caution tape is. i'm going to bring you in so we can hear about is situation. have you had an opportunity to talk to anybody? >> no, just you guys. >> reporter: what has it been like for you? have you seen anything like this? i know it's dark. can you describe what you are seeing. >> right now, a big tree laying on top of wires. main thing is keep them off the road here. sometimes people come, ask questions, i can't answer. bge. bge is doing a good job right now. have patience, we will get power on as soon as we can. >> reporter: y

and check in with alone to see what's on today's agenda lauren what are you working on over there lona that is that's all right hey listen we've got a busy show for you today it's ok lauren is going to be on our show because we have our financial check up happening a day early so we're going to look into some of the biggest banking scandals that are out there right now like the entire barclays investigation and all the other banks are investigation under investigation we'll see just how far it could extend well also talk about the trans-pacific partnership agreement because all this week negotiations have been going on in san diego california of course in secret so try and see what details we can get from that and then there's a guy out there a name andrew blake i think you might know he's our web writer here on our team. we got to do here or there he's definitely a character we've got a new part of the show where he talks tech to me about some of the biggest stories that are out there in the tech world well i'm looking forward to that alone and thank you for that update that's coming