it was so rare to see mike bloomberg having a news conference warning of that. mass transit implications. and to the west of the storm path, there could be very heavy winds and power outages. >> like where you are in d.c., your biggest concern is the heavy rainfall and the trees blowing down in the tropical storm force winds. when we talk about the jersey shore, virginia coastline, all the coastal areas up through southern new england, we're talking about the storm surge on top of an astronomical high tide. even though it's a low end category 2 or category 1 hurricane, we're going to see a significant storm surge for a storm of that intensity. that's why areas around new york city, the battery park area, coney island, out towards southern portions of fire island in long island, there will be a lot of evacuations, andrea. people need to get out there. >> do you expect they have to evacuate nantucket, cape cod, areas like that as well? >> a the love places like cape cod, the visitors may get out of there. but the areas hit more often are more prepared. just areas

mike bloomberg is doing a ton of stuff through his company. they are hiring hundreds of people. i worked at bloomberg 15 years ago, and i was in europe as a foreign correspondent. there were 40 journalists, and now, there are thousands. i think it depends on the interests of certain people, but they are being tapped, and you can get them to lend to foundations and do this type of stuff. it is just creating the bridge from the journalism world into that world, and it is not as hard as you would think, in my experience. >> i would just say that a few of those individuals you had mentioned are not examples of the types of progress of journalism that i think a lot of people are here to talk about

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we're awaiting a news conference from mike bloomberg, and while we wait, let's bring in my colleague andrea mitchell who was in the nbc building in washington, d.c. when this began to happen, and just to redress, retake your steps, andrea, describe what it was like when you first felt this quake? >> reporter: i felt the desk shake. it sounded as though a freight train was coming through the studio. everything wag shaking, papers rocking up and down and immediately the manager came running in and said, it's an earthquake. everybody out. and i initially said, well, can we finish the show? and it was clear that we couldn't finish the program, because everybody was running out and saying, of course, the safest thing, leave and head down the staircase with several other colleagues here we went down three flights of stores. it's a three-story building, and spent some time outside until the allall-clear was give's and people were allowed to go inside to work. a lot more happening around washington. you just heard from luke russert. the historic moments we washingtonians remember at the nati

and here in new york mayor mike bloomberg issued the first evacuation orders in city history for low-lying areas, including the one, the area that we are standing in tonight. and for the first time in modern memory, a hurricane warning is in effect for new york city. meantime as we speak, north carolina's outer banks are getting hit. we've got reporters all around the region. in a moment we'll check with correspondent on the ground there. i want to begin with chad myers who just got his hands on a fresh update from the national hurricane center. chad, what have you learned? >> i've learned now that storm has turned to the north-northeast. that is the continuation of the right-hand turn, anderson, that we talked about for so very long. there's the eye on radar. there's our john zarrella right there, our brian todd here. i'll take you to it. this is a very wet storm right now. wind gusts are 45, 47 miles per hour. and that's going to be the story. the winds will stay between 40, 50, and even up to 60 all night long beforehand fall brings it in as a category one hurricane. maybe a slight smal

moments ago mayor mike bloomberg spoke to residents here.ake listen. >> mta, our local mass transit system is shutting down bus and subway service tomorrow at noon. and once gale force winds arrive later in the evening it's going to be too late to go anywhere. so the mandatory order requires you to be out by 5:00 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. from a practical sense if you're not out tomorrow morning you'll find it very difficult to get out. >> well, earlier new york city, excuse me, new jersey governor chris christie had one last warning for anyone who was still at the jersey shore. >> get the hell off the beach and asbury park and get out. you're done. it's 4:30. you've maximized your tan. >> he said warnings takes many factors including detailed information from aircraft flying through the storm. a few minutes ago i talked to the noaa hurricane hunter who has just been right in the middle of irene. i asked him what it was like. >> yes. i'm on noaa's c-3 aircraft. we just passed through the center of tropical storm or hurricane irene. the south

here's what mike bloomberg had to say about an hour ago.ake a listen. >> staying behind is dangerous, staying behind is foolish, and it's against the law, and we urge everybody in the evacuation zone not to wait until there are gale-force winds and driving rain to leave. and not to wait until the public transportation system starts slowing down today. it's going to be too late. the time to leave is right now. >> reporter: the time to leave is right now. the mayor went on to say that first responders are going to respond to people that are in serious, serious condition. they're not going to come, necessarily, for people that decided to stay behind. he also said that the storm expected to hit new york city tonight. he went on to say, and this is really important, that con edison, the big power provider here, t.j., will have to cut off power for lower manhattan where we are if the flooding is too bad. in this building, they're taking preemptive steps. what they're going to do is they're going to completely stop the elevator in this massive bui

just a short time ago, mayor mike bloomberg announced mandatory evacuations for the most vulnerable citizens, a move he said was pushed in part by his health commissioner, who is a veteran of hurricane katrina. >> we are also notifying the other hospitals in the zone a low-lying areas as well as nursing homes and senior homes in the low-lying zone a areas that they must, i repeat the word must, evacuate beginning tomorrow and complete the process by 8:00 p.m. tomorrow night. unless they get permission to stay in place, based on the ability of the particular facility to keep operating during hurricane conditions. >> mayor bloomberg said a decision will be made by 8:00 a.m. saturday about ordering a large-scale evacuation. but he urged residents in low-lying areas to leave tomorrow before the weather turns, because new york's transit authority, which oversees subways, buses, and commuter rails, could be partially or fully shut down. many people in new york don't have cars, and public transportation is their only means of getting around. meanwhile, bloomberg said earlier today, the city is prep

moments ago mayor mike bloomberg spoke to residents here.ake listen. >> mta, our local mass transit system is shutting down bus and subway service tomorrow at noon. and once gale force winds arrive later in the evening it's going to be too late to go anywhere. so the mandatory order requires you to be out by 5:00 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. from a practical sense if you're not out tomorrow morning you'll find it very difficult to get out. >> well, earlier new york city, excuse me, new jersey governor chris christie had one last warning for anyone who was still at the jersey shore. >> get the hell off the beach and asbury park and get out. you're done. it's 4:30. you've maximized your tan. >> he said warnings takes many factors including detailed information from aircraft flying through the storm. a few minutes ago i talked to the noaa hurricane hunter who has just been right in the middle of irene. i asked him what it was like. >> yes. i'm on noaa's c-3 aircraft. we just passed through the center of tropical storm or hurricane irene. the south

he's in charge of this whole area, right under mike bloomberg, the mayor. take a listen to what he said, especially to those people that are not heeding the warning to evacuate. take a listen. >> you should take this very seriously. you should heed the recommendation, which is if you live in a vulnerable zone, in this case, battery park city in lower manhattan, now's the time to pack up your belongings and hit the road because an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. and we are working all day today to make sure that people understand that this is a very serious situation. no need to panic. no need to get unglued. but if you follow simple recommendations, we will get through this. >> reporter: the biggest change right now since we've been reporting since 5:00 a.m. this morning, fredricka, is that all of new york city public transit is now completely shut down. the mta, the subway which carries 5 million new yorkers a day, it is shut down for the foe seeshl future, until the storm passes and they can take care of any flooding. the buses are all shut

. >> now, christya what do you make of mike bloomberg's performance?christmas thought he had blown the snowmageddon. lots of complaints. how do you think he did in this one? >> they say you don't get a do-over in life. i feel this hurricane was the mayor's do-over for the storm and that does explain why new york took precautions above and beyond, and, you know, we can be monday morning quarterbacks and say, well, did the city go too far, but the down side of overpreparing is pretty low. i think new yorkers are probably saying, the man did a good job. >> imogene, a lot of folks obviously, there was overhype nontrivial damage and death involved, folks saying you could have done this without jumping on top of the mountain and sounding the alarm quite the way we did. how do you think the media performs in all this? >> again, they actually did very well. fundamentally a hurricane was on its way, which was thought to be in the middle of new york city. we were lucky in the end by it going to the east. the "new york times," fascinating today, it's with a '92,

mayor mike bloomberg is telling you if you lived in this area in lower manhattan, you were told to evacuatend if you did not do that, stay put and deal with as best you can where you are, and if you are in a high-rise building, we are near wall street, and if you are in one of the high-rise buildings, you have to get behind the tenth floor, because these buildings are susceptible, and you have to stay away from the glass obviously and get below the tenth floor. you see con edison, a power truck here, but all you see is power trucks and emergency vehicles. natalie? >> i'm not sure whenever you could drive through the streets of new york city and do a live report and not worry about the traffic around you, poppy. >> and even stopping. and we have more information on the tenth death. queen ann's county, maryland, is where it took place. a woman in her home, and a tree fell through the roof and apparently she died in her home. it is one of the unavoidable unfortunate things. this woman was obviously inside of her home sheltering and a tree fell over. i think that we will see more of that. >> ho

you know, where mike bloomberg saw his approval ratings drop, chris christie being criticized for beingdisney world at the time. so, you know -- >> that iconic image, that iconic image we've talked about of george bush kind of looking down out of the plane at hurricane katrina. that in some ways kind of encapsulated for people -- >> that's why you're going to see president obama talk about this today. he has to show that he's in front of something. >> be active. >> yes. >> let's turn to a little bit more raw politics here. we'll get into that a little bit. we'll talk a lot more about the hurricane in the show. mitt romney, maybe the worst week, certainly the worst week in recent memory or mitt romney. saw himself passed by rick perry is polling. what's your readout on mitt romney this week? i mean he had a tough week. mitt romney really had a tough week. in addition to the fact that national polls showed him starting to be behind rick perry. not even by a little. bit was 12 points. i mean, that's a lot in the gallup poll, down 29-17 to rick perry. >> that's outside the statistical margi

one and seven will get into the lottery but if eva hadaway and joel kline had his way and mike bloomberg had his way, seven and seven would get him because they would be able to expand the schools. >> host: what were the plans for improving the education of the over the 1 million children that weren't going to go to charter schools? >> guest: you and i are in total agreement. >> host: i can imagine having 10,000 charter schools in the city of new york. >> guest: there are some misguided reformers who can. i can't. the only way as i say, you are asking this question to me as if it is a hostile question. you know because you have read the book that is my conclusion, is that you have to keep hitting away at the system. the first thing you have to do is allow the people who operate the system to be held accountable and the people who work in assistant to be held accountable. you have to give them the tools for accountability and then you have to go about as i said revamping the contract so that you can pay teachers more even though taxpayers won't pay more and you have to start with the noti

wonder would jon huntsman be somebody who would do something like that, and there's always talk of mike bloomberg in new york city as a possible candidate. martha: it's interesting, when you look at history, a lot of independent candidates can get popular votes. they have a very tough time with electoral votes when it comes down to it. but it feels like a different moment in our history and i think that's something that caddell and schoen are tipping into. >> they could tip states like pennsylvania which could be close next year, a third party candidate could tilt it right to the president and i think there's a lot of room for it. martha: we've got to leave it there. but a prerevolutionary moment according to doug schoen and pat caddell. good to see you both. gregg: that's what we've been asking our viewers, to take our newsroom poll. not scientific, but we'd like to hear from you. today we're asking would a third party candidate make an impact on your vote in 2012. so far, about 40 percent say yes and 60 percent say no, a third party candidate would not impact their vote. very interesting number

they are listening to strong words from mayor mike bloomberg.ant you to listen to the warning he issued last night to all of new york city. take a listen. >> we hope new yorkers living in the areas find places to stay with relatives or friends who live in safer higher areas. if they can't, we are ready to accommodate anybody that needs shelter. there will be, unfortunately, a serious storm coming in and it's better to take precautions and get out of the way of the storm. mother nature is much stronger than all of us. >> reporter: it is true. the storm is stronger than all of us. even tough new yorkers, t.j. 370,000 people have been told they are under mandatory evacuations. a lot of them have been coming to the public school in new york which has been turned into a shelter. 12 people are in there right now. we are expecting more. yesterday was sunny. people did not feel the storm coming. it is just sunrise here in new york. it looks ominous. you find 500 beds. you have blankets from the city of new york. packets. they have water. they are waitin

new york city mayor mike bloomberg saying that only those who lost family members will be allowed to year's memorial service marking that ten-year anniversary. he says there is not enough space for every first responder who worked that scene. listen: >> we can't have everybody and we had to make a decision. there are very few politicians, who say we think there will be an enormous number of family members... martha: people like president obama and george pataki and the head of new york port authority will be sitting front and center and cops and firefighters and paramedics are fuming at this decision. >> the mayor, i don't think, really has internalized this, that everyone in the fire department is family. y lot of our members are hurt, and, some of them are even angry that we have been shut out of the ceremony but i'm pretty sure we will not be shut out of the next terrorist attack. martha: a good point, huh? more than 300 firefighters lost their lives that day. and to claim that that is not family for those people, is maybe considered a bit of a stretch, by some close to that situa

mayor mike bloomberg warning the city saying this is an unprecedented event. you have to take caution. there's concern in new york not enough people are taking this seriously and they're not evacuating as needed. take a listen to the mayor. >> we hope new yorkers living in these areas find places to stay with relatives or friends who live in safer, higher areas. but, if they can't, we are ready to accommodate anybody that needs shelter. there will be, unfortunately, a serious storm coming in and it it's better to take precautions and get out of the way of the storm. mother nature is much stronger than all of us. >> reporter: that is exactly right. this storm stronger than even the toughest new yorkers, t.j. i want to roll some animation to give you a sense of what could happen. we don't know if this will happen, but this is what the city is preparing for. what you'll see is lower manhattan, parts of brooklyn, staten island, that have been evacuated, what you can see is that the water could rise very high and it it could flood a lot of lower manhattan, especial

megyn: we heard from mayor mike bloomberg. this is very serious. the warnings continue to come in.opos of the discussion we just had. i want to share this email from phil. after living in new orleans after katrina you have no idea what you have to go through. get out if you have been ordered to evacuate. folks in new jersey fleeing. governor chris christie not taking any chances. announce can the train system and some highways will close. nearly all of atlantic city's casinos shutting their doors ahead of the storms. rick leventhal live in atlantic city where it looks beautiful right now. >> reporter: this is the first mandatory evacuation in atlantic city's history. the boardwalk is nearly empty, so are the beaches. the governor announced as of noon tomorrow all gaming operations must cease. but most of the 11 today i those have already shut down their casino floors and told have ier toes to -- told visitors to get out by 6:00. roads into atlantic city will shut down at 6:00 p.m. except for essential personnel. the garden state parkway, southbound lanes will be closed. this is goi

guest: in fact, governor schwarzenegger who is a republican, mike bloomberg had become an independent by 2008, and i was the only democrat on the group. we have enlisted a lot of members. scott smith to the republican mayor of arizona -- he and i have authored several op ed piece is all around the country. we have a number of republican people who are part of building america's future. 1 very conservative republican has been a leader in preaching we ought to spend on infrastructure. there are republicans out there who get this issue, who get it loud and clear. it has to be bipartisan. infrastructure has always been a big republican issue. the infrastructure bank is not for the ordinary road paving and bridge rebuilding. that money would still come through the federal transportation act and go out to the states by a formula. would determine how that money is spent just like it is normally. the infrastructure bank, the government money in there, that money would be used to write down interest on loans, maybe on a few rare occasions grants, but mostly loans. let's say we have a project -

because you -- i think mike bloomberg said, you never prepare for the best case scenario. the worst case scenario. >>> i want to talk about your column today. then i'm going to turn it back to the mayor. the headline, "on jobs it's time to be polled." cory booker, i'm going to ask you in a second about education reform. my question is, what's he going to do with the $100 million he's getting from zuckerberg. that's a lot of money. the question is, is there a big idea, or is it going to be a series of small ideas that add up to very little like, for instance, i believe the stimulus package and a lot of spending over the past two years. what should this president do to be big, to be bold, to make sure that actually he moves the meter? >> well, it shouldn't -- in my opinion it shouldn't be a bunch of little things that, as you said, don't add up to a lot. it should be two or three big things, infrastructure, it should be job training. and retraining. it should be perhaps some sort of mortgage relief or -- which is not specifically jobs but the economy. i think it is time -- t

guest: in fact, governor schwarzenegger who is a republican, mike bloomberg had become an independent by 2008, and i was the only democrat on the group. we have enlisted a lot of members. scott smith to the republican mayor of arizona -- he and i have authored several op ed piece is all around the country. we have a number of republican people who are part of building america's future. 1 very conservative republican has been a leader in preaching we ought to spend on infrastructure. there are republicans out there who get this issue, who get it loud and clear. it has to be bipartisan. infrastructure has always been a big republican issue. the infrastructure bank is not for the ordinary road paving and bridge rebuilding. that money would still come through the federal transportation act and go out to the states by a formula. would determine how that money is spent just like it is normally. the infrastructure bank, the government money in there, that money would be used to write down interest on loans, maybe on a few rare occasions grants, but mostly loans. let's say we have a project -

i was an advisor to mike bloomberg on his first campaign from there. 9/11 happened during that campaignnd i think we took a week off, all the campaigns took a week off from electioneering but when people call during that time mike told us and we all felt it, told people that no matter who you vote for on the revised bay you must go weld and vote. vote for us and the other guy we don't care just show up at the polls to vote. and i think that has to be the message going forward so i'm serious when i say you should go and be a city get because it's such a strong message in the way you deliver it i think many more people need to hear at. >> i agree and it's a great not to end the panel on. thank you for sticking with the panel. a great conversation and please visit our website, americanprogress.com. thank you. >>> next members of the national association to evidence acceptance call for changes to the safe schools act which does not specifically prohibit the bullying based on weight, height or physical appearance. the non-profit and volunteer organization also criticized first lady michelle

guest: in fact, governor schwarzenegger who is a republican, mike bloomberg had become an independents the only democrat on the group. we have enlisted a lot of members. scott smith to the republican mayor of arizona -- he and i have authored several op ed piece is all around the country. we have a number of republican people who are part of building america's future. 1 very conservative republican has been a leader in preaching we ought to spend on infrastructure. there are republicans out there who get this issue, who get it loud and clear. it has to be bipartisan. infrastructure has always been a big republican issue. the infrastructure bank is not for the ordinary road paving and bridge rebuilding. that money would still come through the federal transportation act and go out to the states by a formula. would determine how that money is spent just like it is normally. the infrastructure bank, the government money in there, that money would be used to write down interest on loans, maybe on a few rare occasions grants, but mostly loans. let's say we have a project -- michigan decides

it's a very important one of the you know, i was an adviser to mike bloomberg on his first campaign for mayor. 9/11 happened during that campaign, and we, i think, we took a week off, all the campaigns took a week off from electioneering, but when people called during that time, you know, mike told us, and we felt it, told people that no matter what you vote for on the revised primary day, it is your -- you must go out and vote. vote for us, the other guy, we don't care. just show up at the polls to vote, and i think that's the message going forward. i'm serious when i say you should go and be a surrogate because it's such a strong message in the way you delivered it, i think, many more people need to hear it. >> i agree, and that is a great note to end the panel on. thank you, audience, for sphiking with our -- sticking with our panel. thank you very much. it's been a great presentation. visit our website americanprogress.org and see the projects we are doing. thank you, all, have a good afternoon. [applause] blpg >> with the u.s. senate adjourned for the august recess, watchbooktv all

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mike. just fine. >> look at the other story that you marked and you haven't gotten to yet. >> is that bloomberg?o try to improve the lives of poor people in this, the richest city in this country, new york, while the populations of young white, black and latino men in new york are roughly the same size, 84% of those in the city's detention facilities and nearly all of those admitted to children's and family serves facilities are black and latino youth. the disparity between rich and poor in this city is enormous. >> rich and poor, black and white. >> throughout the country it is widening. >> so the mayor -- >> i want to stay on the story about the $1500 shoe. this is an anecdote of something -- one anecdote happening all over america, the wealthy are getting wealthier. there has been a great recovery in this country if you're rich. wall street profits are booming. the "wall street journal" we pointed out a couple of weeks ago, willie, said corporate profits are higher than they have been in five years, but they're not hiring people. the rich -- since 2008, i mean the rich have been getting riche

bloomberg would consider doing something similar. the deputy mayor offered firing up the tank. >> willie geist -- "politico". mr. mike allen. hello. >> we just heard steven colberg's take. another aide is leaving? >> there's less. a little tough to top colberg. yesterday tim cameron who was head of operations at gingrich's think tank said he was leaving to go into the private-sector, to go over to another republican firm. he's been out there having to defend that twitter feed that as was mentioned has been charged with being fleeted. the twitter feed may be okay. it's over a million people. the reason for that is that newt gingrich along with john mccain were two of the few republicans who originally were on the twitter list of recommended feeds. >> mike, we've been tough on newt at times. he deserved it. but this seems to be a nonstory only because newt gingrich -- you go on to any conservative site in the past five, six, seven years newt is all over the place. say what you will about other people. i think newt would be one of the few people that would need to build a following. newt has a huge following outside of washing