we'll teeter back and forth with wet snow and rain at times, we don't have an area really bringing theperatures down. at this point, a lot of 30s and 40s and 29 in oakland. the winds are out of the north and they're in the process of turning around to the north east and they'll turn around. they'll be gusty and we have a coastal flood advisory until early thursday morning. the tides will run about 2 feet above normal and it's because of this storm here. and when we put it in motion, it tracks across the south and it's spreading up our way. we're on the outer fringes and the main part of the storm will stay to the south of us and head out to see. -- tosea. there's the potential of moisture from this one, 1 to 2- inchs of snow, and since the areas so warm, a lot of it will be wet on the roadways. we may have accumulation on the snow piles and grassy surfaces and for the most part, we won't see much. the winds continue out of the north and we'll have a sprinkle or flurry, but we'll have a nice trend for the weekend >> and here's how the storm looks. the main part heading offshore and wet

. -- buildings are teetering. it is said to be outside than inside, this woman said, because the house could collapse at any time durin. looting has forced the police to use water cannons. there have been more than 90 serious aftershocks. >> i did not know what to do. >> some of them never end. that is what really has as nervous. >> as crews look for trapped survivors, they are trying to assess what the victims need most. >> we are looking at the items that the president raised in the speech, search and rescue communications, communication capabilities. >> a wave that was 30 feet high destroyed my house, this man says. it was a deadly blow adding to the destruction. about 18,000 americans live in the country. the u.s. ambassador says that they appear to be safe, although he has not heard much from the hardest-hit area. president obama continues his white house-to main stree 2-mai- his white house-to-main street program. while the focus is the economy, you can expect president obama to bring up the health care, too

as the worker mind could only take so much of the stress she began to pull away teeter on the edge between the treen and write lummis. frattali, told her that she was on the training. it was only a nightmare and she felt relief fresh through like a breath. she began to feel the bed sheets on her skin and since the light from the window. she struggled to come out of the treen and open her eyes to what not happen. the feeling is something terrible is happening, a taste of nightmare remained. the year was 1929 and the time that the virginia and her family had no way of knowing she was joining millions of others suffering from a strange global pandemic, a disease that would change medicine itself but vanished from medical history. a disease that would kill close to a million people and leave thousands more languishing in mental institutions the rest of their lives, an epidemic that nearly a century later remains a mystery but could strike again. virginias mother spoke to her in the column tone of voice used for bloody chance or turned ingalls into her room was filled with voices of doctors wha

entire economies globally are teetering. we're now seeing violence break out in places like greece. the paper this morning that there are fringe elements trying to rally people for armed resistance in alaska. really? about 150 people showed up last week in a meeting of the second amendment constitutional task force. i appreciate your passion, i do. violence is not the answer. we are not these people. we need to be these people, but we are not these people. thomas jefferson was leading fools in the french revolution. it ends in tyranny and guillotines. we must be people of faith, hope and charity. please. violence is not the answer. governor sarah palin was on the top of my mind today when i heard about the group in alaska. she's a fox news contributor and author of going "going rogue" and i believe she was a vice presidential candidate. welcome to the program. how are you doing? >> i'm great. you're doing great work. thank you for letting me join you. >> glenn: i wanted to get your thoughts, because as much as people said you're, you know, you're -- what are they calling it? your re

entire economies globally are teetering. we're now seeing violence break out in places like greece.in the paper this morning that there are fringe elements trying to rally people for armed resistance in alaska. really? about 150 people showed up last week in a meeting of the second amendment constitutional task force. i appreciate your passion, i do. violence is not the answer. we are not these people. we need to be these people, but we are not these people. thomas jefferson was leading fools in the french revolution. it ends in tyranny and guillotines. we must be people of faith, hope and charity. please. violence is not the answer. governor sarah palin was on the top of my mind today when i heard about the group in alaska. she's a fox news contributor and author of going "going rogue" and i believe she was a vice presidential candidate. welcome to the program. how are you doing? >> i'm great. you're doing great work. thank you for letting me join you. >> glenn: i wanted to get your thoughts, because as much as people said you're, you know, you're -- what are they calling it? your

entire economies globally are teetering. we're now seeing violence break out in places like greece.in the paper this morning that there are fringe elements trying to rally people for armed resistance in alaska. really? about 150 people showed up last week in a meeting of the second amendment constitutional task force. i appreciate your passion, i do. violence is not the answer. we are not these people. we need to be these people, but we are not these people. thomas jefferson was leading fools in the french revolution. it ends in tyranny and guillotines. we must be people of faith, hope and charity. please. violence is not the answer. governor sarah palin was on the top of my mind today when i heard about the group in alaska. she's a fox news contributor and author of going "going rogue" and i believe she was a vice presidential candidate. welcome to the program. how are you doing? >> i'm great. you're doing great work. thank you for letting me join you. >> glenn: i wanted to get your thoughts, because as much as people said you're, you know, you're -- what are they calling it? your

as our banks teetered on the precipice or went under during the financial crisis, theirs were never inrouble. as a matter of fact, the only trouble may come from the fact that they were told to loan more than they should when the economy went down. it was chinese demand, particularly for natural resources, that powered much of the bull market that peaked at the end of 2007, when our housing bust and incipient financial crisis started dragging the market down like a lead weight to a man out the window. but even as we careen toward banking armageddon -- >> the house of pain. >> -- the strength of china supported many of our industrial manufacturers and infrastructure companies. look, everyone knows that the failure of lehman brothers on september 15th of 2008, a date that will live in financial infamy, hit our economy and our stock market like a wrecking ball and -- >> they know nothing! >> but the fallout in chinese demand for just about everything at the same time helped push us into the brief garden variety depression that lasted until the beginning of march of 2009. and make no mista

. >> host: teeter always confusing partisanship with patriotism that end they change the picture in their hijacking of the politics. >> host: you say the far left and the far right are equally and saying. there is no one has a particular grasp on either side of the fence and at the same time both or eating their own? >> yes i do believe the far right and the far left can be equally in st. and neither party has a claim on virtue or vice. both claim to their outer limits. the power of politics has moved from the center to the fringes and that has created a destructive dynamic one of the things that happens when parties and more polarized recede the hunt for heretics' as i call it in the republican party it is called rhino hunting. a republican in name only and the democratic party you have still the amateur sport but it is growing in popular name it and die now contain democrats in name only. and it is driving anyone out of the party that does not agree with you 100% of the time. those setter call socially conservative but it has a destructive dynamic for the things we hope to see in our po

your home teetering on the edge of a cliff. whwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhh >>> across new england, people are racing to get out of rising floodwaters there as police and national guard troops rescue some people from their homes, too. stonington, connecticut, is surrounded by rising water. major routes in and out of the area are closed. the governor called the flooding unprecedented. and it's getting worse. three straight days of heavy rain are swelling rivers and streams from maine to new jersey. the high waters closing roads, it's shutting down sewer systems. president obama has issued a federal disaster declaration for rhode island. listen to the rushing water there. new jersey governor chris christie is going to ask the president to declare part of his state a disaster area. the river probably won't crest until tomorrow. even though it looks as though the rain has pretty much stopped along the east coast, it doesn't mean they are in the clear. chad myers is in the weather center. did i hear right that it's going to get worse? >> yes.

the financials are teetering between positive and negative.you look at jacobs engineering in the capital goods industry, they're the best performer there, up about 4% today, thanks to an upgrade at jpmorgan. they took it to overweight from neutral. they think it's headed to $51. xilinx, the weak dollar trade could not be more dead today and the semiconductors the hardest hit industry group and none hit harder than the 4% giveback in xilinx this morning. nrg off the conviction buy list at goldman. this is the original nrg energy, if you will, and its price target cut to $28. then lastly, a 30% two-day move, check out pmi. remember them, the primary mortgage insurer? well, they were allowed yesterday by freddie mac to be eligible to insure mortgages again. that's good if you're allowed to do business in what you do, mark, isn't it? >> evidenoh, yeah. >> the market is applauding that. >> very, vethank you, matt nest. right now on capitol hill, the house ways and means committee taking on china's controversial exchange rate policies. some lawmaker

conservative commentator george will calls america's entitlement programs a ponzi scheme, and quote, a teeteringf unkeepable promises, end quote. indeed, this is the true crisis in american health care. we have already made over $100 trillion in entitlement promises we can't keep. but what congress has just done is not reform. it does not bend the cost curve. it does not reform entitlements. it just makes more promises that it can't keep. obamacare pours gasoline on the fire of our entitlement crisis. this congress has squandered an opportunity to save and strengthen america's safety net when they should have put on the brakes, they put their foot on the accelerator. we need to repeal this terrible bill and replace it in a bipartisan way with real reform. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. poe: madam speaker, there's a new push to drill for oil in the gulf of mexico. the drill here, drill now slogan is

american people today, it should be in the minds of the american people because 1/6 of our economy teeters on the verge of change based upon whether or not the senate -- based upon whether or not the senate rule of cloture will be maintained which has been in existence since the founding of the body that is over on the other side of this building. now, whatever -- whenever there's a rule there's someone who will try to come up with a way to get around the rule. that's human nature. sometimes people get around it by breaking the rule, sometimes people get around it by adjusting the rule. the rule is adjusted slightly back in, i think it was 1974, when they came up with a concept called reconciliation. what they were finding was that in the budgetary process, when you have to reconcile revenues with expenditures to make as we know balance your check book, balance your budget, whatever you do at home, don't use the kind of accounting we use around this place, but to make those two things reconciled they put up the process of reconciliation which is for reconciling those numbers. for reconcili

our education system is teetering on the breaking point with schools facing closure or consolidation and with educators and staff being laid off. services for our state's developmentally disabled and support for our sick and elderly have been cut. folks in kansas are hurting. i see their pain when i return to -- when i return from washington, d.c. every weekend home to kansas. in our state, we think differently than they do up here in washington. we don't spend what we can't afford we don't sacrifice long-term prosperity for short-term gratification we don't sidestep our personal responsibilities and we don't tell other people how to live their lives. it pains me to reflect on the bad ideas of this congress, the stimulus, the bailout, cash for clunkers, because i know these mistakes are digging us deeper and deeper into a hole. i was one of only 17 members out of 435 to opposed all of these measures, not because i want to obstruct legislation but because our personal freedom and economic inwill -- liberty are restricted each time we create obligations we can't pay for. kansas, like m

hanna teeter and kelly clark win silver and bronze in the snow board half piefnlg i can say both of them that our entire state are proud of your accomplishments on this international stage. but i am proud of every vermonter who's chosen for the team no matter what their results were. it was a pleasure to watch them, to feel the pride they had just to be there. because one of the things you know, not only that look of pride on their face but for every minute of competition we saw on television, you had hard work and satisfaction -- sacrifice, rather, dedication, thousands of hours of training. they've been great ambassadors for the united states. they've also been fantastic role models to vermont's children, and i'd say congratulations to all of them. and finally, i want to take a moment to recognize two vermonters who missed competing in va vancouver because of seris head injur -- head injuries. they were training in park city, utah, on december 31. and cody marshall, chelsea's brother, an alpine slalom racer, were injured last summer. both have come a long way since their injuries. they

economy was sort of teetering on a cliff for a while. a lot of financial institutions, banks, were on the verge of bankruptcy. the government had to intervene in extraordinary ways to prop up wall street and deal with the crisis and try to restore public confidence. and public confidence and business confidence in the economy were badly shaken. so i think that what we're seeing is the residual of all of this crisis in the last year and a half. and congress is spend ago loft time trying to figure out what happened, how poorly the fed and the treasury department, tim geithner and ben bernanke bernanke at the fed dealt with this crisis, what needs to be done to restore public confidence in the financial institutions, what needs to be done to rein in the banks and financial houses, which engaged in irresponsible and reckless fiscal policies. and so, you know, if the public, the business community is cautious and nervous about all this, well, it's understandable, and i think that there's been this whole populist backlash, if you will, in whic

that they shoot it down -- stripping and half trillion dollars from medicare, a program already teetering on the brink and threatens the existence of nursing homes, hospitals, doctors willing to treat patients, and the well-being of our elderly patients. my mother is on medicare -- and my disabled brother is on medicare. and as much trouble as they are having with medicare, i think that is a foolish move. it is disheveling the mutt -- just shoveling the money from medicare right into the insurance company and i believe they are doing that to get the insurance companies to dump plenty of money into their coffers for the election. host: eric mentions medicare. while final versions of the bill have not yet been released, the president says he wanted to incorporate four ideas from the health care summit that came from republicans, which include undercover investigations of medicare and medicaid providers, and the search for waste, fraud, and abuse. experiment with specialized health-care court -- an idea that had been promoted by senators coburn and mike enzi from wyoming. establish health ca

reid: i ask consent that the call of the quorum be teetered. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: thank you. i ask now that we proceed to a period of morning business with senators allowed to speak up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. so ordered. mr. reid: i ask consent that the foreign relations committee be discharged from further consideration of s. con. res. 54. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate concurrent resolution 54, recognizing the life of orlando disa pa tow zemia who died in the custody of cuba and so forth. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate shall proceed to the matter. reid rioted i ask consent that the resolution be agreed to, that a nelson of florida amendment to the preamble, which is at the desk be be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, motiothemotions to reconsider bn the table, any statements relating to this measure be placed in the record as if read. the presiding officer: without objecti