just the other side you get out to atlantic beach. or you can drive with a boat and head up on the ferry to go out to the island hear. the road doesn't connect right here in, highway 12. this black line shows us where the center is. in order to get an official landfall, it has to go over land. we may never get an official landfall. but regardless, we have the highest winds right now along the coast. as far as the forecast goes, we only have about five, six hours left. and then dorian will be heading away and exiting the north carolina coast. it'll take awhile. probably until mid or late afternoon. the storm surge not much of an issue anymore. with the high tide between 1:00 and 2:00 in the morning. now we're heading to low tide. so i think inland flooding is my last concern as we go throughout the rest of the morning. and we still have a high risk of flash flooding. especially areas around alamor all the way to virginia beach. this is where we're going to see the heaviest rain through the storm. this area of green is everywhere in a f

coast before moving out into the atlantic ocean. dorian's whipping the outer ban banks. storm surges are expected to be seen throughout the day. hundreds of people could be trapped on an island, dorian made landfall in cape hatteras bringing sustained winds nearing 90 miles per hour an hour with it. this image showing dorian's eye wall engulfing the barrier island entirely. overnight on south carolina's coastline, dorian leaving a trail of mass flooding and hundreds of thousands of power outages in its path. and today we're still monitoring the devastation that remains in the baham

coast before moving out into the atlantic ocean. dorian's whipping the outer ban banks. storm surges are expected to be seen throughout the day. hundreds of people could be trapped on an island, dorian made landfall in cape hatteras bringing sustained winds nearing 90 miles per hour an hour with it. this image showing dorian's eye wall engulfing the barrier island entirely. overnight on south carolina's coastline, dorian leaving a trail of mass flooding and hundreds of thousands of power outages in its path. and today we're still monitoring the devastation that remains in the bahamas. the u.s. military and several rescue organizations are fighting to save for lives from t the horrors after dorian's wrath left both areas in complete ruins. i want to send you down to ali velshi covering dorian live from moorehead city. the sun has come out this friday. >> the sun is out above us. there's some clouds here. this has been a remarkable change over the last ten hours or so when it was hurricane -- it was not hurricane force, but it was tro

for what used to be called the atlantic monthly when i was in high school so i call it the atlantic monthly. the atlantic for recognizing roles of music and arts play in our lives and i do believe that that is a path that can unify us. one way. the you asked about what? the -- let me just say that last tuesday, last tuesday, september 17th, was institution day. was the anniversary of that day when benjamin franklin came out of independence hall and people said dr. franklin, what do we have? a monarchy or republic. he said republic if we can keep it. a republic if we can keep it. on that very day last week, that tuesday, erupted this iraqable set of facts on institution day. and it was about the ige inspector general. at the office of the director of national intelligence saying that there was a whistleblower complaint. then we learned it was going to be blocked from being presented and that the dni was not going to allow it to come forward. let me say this. i am more experience in intelligence than anybody had, at least 25 years. i was a member of the committee. i was the top democr

this is atlantic beach. then we go out in the national seashore. then this is all of the northern eyewall. this region hear from morehead city southwards, this area is what's going to kick to the north. this is what is going to have possibly with it the strongest of those winds. we still have a ton of rain with this too. i've kind of been adjusting my graph here as we've been going along. we just haven't had a lot of reports of bad storm surge, all the way from the north carolina, georgia coast. georgetown had a pretty good one this afternoon, one of the highest. i knocked that down to the minor category. inland flooding threat, we have a lot of flash flood warnings going on right now, numerous locations have received six to ten inches of rain and it's still going to rain for another 12 hours. i think that could have moderate impact. you won't know about those flooding -- especially flash flooding problems -- until tomorrow. as we go over the next hour or two, these are the areas, the cape lookout wind gauge, the morehead city, and the emerald isle

as mentioned tide for the strongest in the history of the atlant atlantic. winds 175 miles an hour. they continue to batter this island. wind strengths at this stage could take roofs off homes in seconds. three feet of water can knock you off your feet and carry cars away. additional rainfall amounts of 2 feet is a concern there. one witness on the ground calling it total and mass devastation. the president spoke earlier at fema headquarters. take a listen. >> our brave first responders have been working very hard getting gasoline brought in because they've never seen anything like it, the rush to get so much. >> mandatory evacuations were ordered in several florida coastal counties. worried residents have boarded up homes and businesses. airbnb opened up a program to provide free housing. >> i should have left. i was a fool to stay. we're looking for a miracle. to have it turn east and go north. >> we're going to go to the bahamas, but first let's go to the weather sender here. bill? >> we've almost never seen a storm like this with an eye this well-defined, this powerful. as far a

mid atlantic and the south. a few showers in the middle of the country and by the end of the week, you get the picture here, record highs possible, as you head toward next weekend, this will be a little more significant, with some stormy weth nir the great lakes, the end of this week, but as far as the east coast goes, very dry. i mean there is no chance of any big rainstorm for maybe the next two weeks. >> thank you, bill. >>> we have some exciting news here at "morning joe" first up. we want to congratulate one of our producers, joseph, there he is with his family, his wife. >> beautiful picture. >> on the birth of their new son liam. liam made his debut over the weekend, quite a weekend to say the least for them and he and mom are doing just great. joseph will be taking some much-deserved time off to help liam and liam's mommy get situated at home. >> and he has been up throughout the night working on "morning joe"'s first look and he is also used to sleep deprivation. >> for a newborn, too. >> exactly. >>> n

>> well, so i think you have to look at both sides of the atlantic on this, right? russia obviously learned that natural divisions are the best way to influence a democracy. and so in the united states that means immigration, religion, guns, race. in estonia obviously that meant national identity. in the united states, what lessons did we learn? sort of no lessons from that. we recall really as a country preoccupied with the terrorism fight, expanding war against al qaeda, the aftermath of torture, warrantless wire tapping, what are we going to do in guantanamo. estonia was seeing an issue of hacking. how do we harden our infrastructure, how do we protect your computer systems. nobody thought of estonia as an influence operation, so nobody went back and looked at the lessons learned and used them to prepare for 2016. >> and a reminder to our viewers that the russian goal was to break up the atlantic alliance and turn friends into enemies. with that, matt apuzo, we will be watching this week's edition of the weekly on sunday night. we thank anybody around here willin

awesome. >> dorian is battering the atlantic coast. high winds, driving rains and a vision storm surge. clinging to the shore line, gaining strength and taking aim at the carolinas where it may make a second land fall this week. >> let's get another check on your weather now with bill karins. >> let me take everybody through the timing. watching the storm where it is evacuated. we have hurricane warnings from georgia, south carolina border. even tropical storm warnings and watch all the way almost to ocean city, maryland. this is at 8:00 a.m. this morning. heaviest rains in charleston and myrtle beach. 65 to 85-mile-an-hour winds. that water right now is at three feet. it is all about the timing. you don't want the surge at high tide. that could be the case around myrtle beach later on. a lot of these areas could get up to a foot of rain. we could have possible land fall around willington with the peek of the around about 11:00 p.m. to midnight. 90 to 110-mile-an-hour winds. hatteras, up to 115-mile-an-hour winds. flash flooding and ra

we got 31 miles from atlantic beach down to that northern eye. this is where the highest winds would be, and this is what we'll be watching to see if that moves on shore. the center of the storm is located down here. that's right in this area here. and so we're going to have to wait and see exactly what distance or how that plays itself up. this path may be along the coast. we're not sure we'll get official lachkd ondfall or not,. we'll be watching that in the next two hours as we go along. 3:00 a.m. is when we estimate we get the eye moving on shore. >> we've been talking about it all week. how much longer will we be talking about it? >> this storm will be moving past hatteras by 10:00, 11:00 p.m. the backside will take another two hours. by 1:00 p.m. it will be gone from north carolina. later this hour we have tropical storm warnings in cape cod, and our friends in nova scotia have the possibility of getting hit by this as a hurricane saturday. i'll explain that and what that means coming up a little later. >> bill karins, thank you very much f

writer for "the washington post," also msnbc contributor and derrick thompson staff writer for "the atlantic" and also host of podcast crazy genius as steve pointed out, one of the other big takeaways for this poll, kamala harris' support dropping by eight points according to this poll what are you hearing from the campaign about why this may be happening or do they know? >> well, i have not reached out to anyone in the harris campaign to find out why this is happening. that being said, i have my own thoughts one, the fact that vice president biden is still rising in support in the polls, as we've been talking about before, has a lot to do with his strong backing from african-american supporters, the fact that elizabeth warren is rising up among -- overall democratic voters, but also getting strong second place support among african-americans, those two things should be troubling to the harris campaign. i think there are two issues here that the harris campaign has to figure out how to overcome one is trying to convince african-american voters that it is okay to vote for another black person

that could then meet withqÑqe1 atlantic here and so we could see a situation where the waterh is over thet( single road that a goes upe1 and down the outer bab potentially trapping people here for at least a little while. for at least a little while. have seen that road washed out. so officials watching that very, very closely and quite concerned that some people are still on thing to stay saying they've ridden outt;/s hurricanes before saying they don't think this on is going to bew3 that bad. officials say do not mess around, today is the timeçó to ç packed up and to get out, ayman. >> all right.ll emergency and rescueand rescueÑi heading to the bams rig heading to the bahamas heading to the bahamas hes right now. now. one ofq our own left for the t bahamasñr to help out. >> reporter: over my sh/t8qq) my you sh/t8 can see some of the helicopters. these aree blackhawks with wit customs and border protection air marineÑi operation. they've already startedxd makin their flights. two of flighte1e1 1e operations. search and rescue as well as as helping those who need evacuations an

and, yes, racism on both sides of the atlantic driving trump and brexit. how do you put those forces back in the bottle? that's why things will only get worse on both sides before they get better. >> there's one other big difference here and i think about this a lot which is you over there keep having deadlines. we have to do this or we're dumping out of the european union. here that doesn't exist. there's not the sense of the ticking time bomb in the background. every day we all wake up and roll the dice that there's not some huge catastrophe. it doesn't result in some genuinely generational horrible happening in the moment and i wonder sometimes if that makes us more complacent here than in the uk where everyone sees it coming? >> yes. and i think that's definitely the case in terms of as i said, brexit is forever. so there's no undoing it. i think there is a sense come november 2020 americans will make things right and get rid of donald trump in an election. and of course the bigger issue is number one will he lose and number two, if he loses will he go

>> well, so i think you have to look at both sides of the atlantic on this, right? russia obviously learned that natural divisions are the best way to influence a democracy. and so in the united states that means immigration, religion, guns, race. in estonia obviously that meant national identity. in the united states, what lessons did we learn? sort of no lessons from that. as a country we were really preoccupied with the terrorism fight, expanding war against al qaeda, the aftermath of torture, warrantless wire tapping, what are we going to do in guantanamo. estonia was seeing an issue of hacking. how do we harden our infrastructure, how do we protect your computer systems. nobody thought of estonia as an influence operation, so nobody went back and looked at the lessons learned and used them to prepare for 2016. >> and a reminder to our viewers that the russian goal was to break up the atlantic alliance and turn friends into enemies. with that, matt apuzzo, we will be watching this week's edition of "the weekly" on sunday night. we thank anybody around here willi

even for the mid atlantic. and i do expect a lot of records to be broken for the carolinas, this afternoon. by wednesday, we are forecasting 100 to 150 locations beating records, and then it shifts to the northeast, we won't be left out of the mix from new york city to boston as well. highs are going to hit records near 90 degrees as well. so we're also watching a system that is going to cause that flooding rain for the southwest. new mexico, you're on our radar here, and we have massive rain for el paso, to albuquerque, we could see one inch per hour, but that is going to lead to days of excessive rain for the plains. so that flood threat will continue for your wednesday. we will start to dry out for the mid atlantic. but you can see the different change in the weather pattern, this is where the cold front is, it will linger across the great lakes, into the mid atlantic, and northeast as well. in the next five to seven days. so a transition is coming. i think more ski resorts will start to open for the midwest

and i bet you the mid-atlantic is going to be included in this too. the wind force is getting bigger and bigger. think of an ice skater. they get real tight and spin real fast. when they start to loosen up it gets a little bit longer. that's what happens with a hurricane. we're going to watch this up and down the coast. this is a big story, yasmine, one for the record books, we're going to talk about this in just a few minutes -- or keep talking about it all day long. >> michelle, i have a couple questions for you as we're watching the radar activity. first and foremost we're talking about the fact it's ticked down to category 4 here, 5-mile-per-hour difference between cat 4 and cat 5. >> one mile per hour. 155, 156 denotes. >> one mile per hour. what's the likelihood as it gains ground and moves towards water, away from grand bahama island that it could tick back up to a cat 5? that's my first question. and then what predicts these really dangerous storm surges which could cause the most amount of damage along these coastal lines, despite the fact th

the category 5 hurricane, one of the strongest storms we've ever recorded in the atlantic basin history. incredible that this big of a storm is only 200 miles away from miami and west palm beach. tomorrow, we'll see it inching closer to the coastal areas. tomorrow, it will be close enough to start tracking it on radar. it will be a very close call for our friends in florida. >> appreciate it. that will do it for us on kasie dc. >>> this sunday, another mass shooting in texas. a man goes on a rampage shooting at people in vehicles from midland and odessa. and tracking hurricane dorian. >> there is nothing in its way. >> the hurricane charting an uncertain path. residents from florida to carolinas forced to get ready. an updated briefing from florida senator. >> renewed questions about whether joe biden's gas raises concern about his age. >> may god bless the memory of those who perished in toledo. >> the generation gap. is julian castro right? >> joining me for inside analysis, andrea mitchell. jeh johnson, daniel pletka and former nbc news senior producer, shanna thomas. welcome to sund

. >>> another danger forming in the atlantic. tropical storm karen is already pack winds of 40 miles per hour. and thoot has eyes on puerto rico and the virgin islands. it is expect today make landfall on tuesday as texans pick up the pieces following tropical storm imelda hthat has killed five people and dumped over 40 inches of rain as it slammed the coast earlier this week. >>> the amazon rain forest fires that gained global attention are still going on. and while the extent of the fires has decreased in recent weerks, experts say the damage and the loss of wildlife remains worse than last year. it is also being blamed on land grabers. >>> turning to the fight against climate change. nbc's kerry sanders went diving off the coast of florida to show us what's threatening the fragile ecosystem underwater. >> reporter: just six miles off the atlantic coast in the florida keys, a view to behold, a 300,000-year-old coral reef that to the untrained eye appears to be thriving. a research scientist at florida atlantic university studie

the forecast for today as i mentioned, there's really nice air in the mid-atlantic. 88 in d.c. it's not as humid, it's still bearable. warm and humid in areas of florida. we're still trying to get rid of the heat in dallas. gorgeous weather chicago to minneapolis. a sneak peek tomorrow a similar day, not going to have a lot of extreme weather this week. it looks like a typical, late summer, early fall week. >> atlanta and the southeast can't get a break. >> it's a little less humid. >> they want that break. >> like a week away from fall, and it certainly doesn't look like it. thank you, bill. >>> still ahead, after botching a question on race, joe biden comes back with a major speech on racism. we're going to hear some of that next. lives to get home to they use stamps.com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the amazing services of the post office only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again! . >>> welcome back, everyone. as se

you got the intercoastal water way as well as the atlantic ocean. they will be monitor that go storm surge that could bring between four to seven extra feet of water into this area. now, those warnings and watches i mentioned will be in place overnight tonight as we watch for more effects from hurricane dorian. >> simone boyce for us in west palm beach, florida. with me on the phone now is mayor mac bernard of palm beach, florida. thank you for being with us. what's the situation as you see it. you're not out of the woods, but things look better than they did earlier. >> they do look better, but ali, we're really concerned about r our -- what's going on in the bahamas. this dangerous storm is basically stalling right there, and so we're just monitoring it and we're really concerned about it because we have so many of our friends, our neighbors who are bahamian in palm beach county and throughout the state of florida. what we hope is that we continue for our brothers and sisters in the bahamas. we look to, you know, if we were able to pass this storm

that was mostly out over the open atlantic. yeah, pretty rare, especially to then land for this long. we've gone from seven days from when it was threatening the bahamas and florida and the southeast coast. 13 miles per hour, that's why it's going to be pretty quickly heading through eastern north carolina. we got a huge shield of rain in here. that's going to be the problem as we go throughout the night. rainfall in tropical systems, we don't want people driving around so we don't have a lot of information. we won't know about it until the morning. this is the position here as we go throughout 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, already past morehead city. we could get back bay flooding on this, nothing like with matthew and florence. new bern, possibly four to five feet. we were never concerned with a lot of wind damage from this storm. it just wasn't going to be strong enough. we thought maybe if it kept onto that strong category 2 and went over north carolina, but we're at 48 in jacksonville. even the buoys offshore in the 60 to 75

editor and chief of the atlantic magazine, jeffrey goldberg. the atlantic festival starts today. msnbc contributor mike barnicle is with us. and former u.s. senator now an nbc news and msnbc political analysts claire mccaskill is here. nbc news correspondent hidedry and political reporter for "the washington post" and name political analyst robert costa. moderator of washington week on pb pbs. three senior administration officials tell "the washington post" that the president ordered his acting chief of staff mick mulvaney to hold back nearly 4-milli4 $400 million from the country just days before the call in which trump pressured ukraine's president to investigate joe biden. that reporting has since been matched by "the new york times" and "the wall street journal." according to the post, administration officials were instructed to tell lawmakers that the delays were part of an interagency process but to give them no additional information. a pattern that continued for nearly two months until the white house released the funds on the night of september 11th. congress is now inve

or it may parallel or rake the coast from wilmington, atlantic beach, morehead city, all the way through the pimlico sounds. that's a possibility. 105-mile-per-hour winds to 90-mile-per-hour winds is nothing to sneeze at. and again, it will cause a lot of issues. as far as impacts go in florida, we're still concerned with the high tide, especially tomorrow afternoon. areas around jacksonville, duval county and st. john's river. as we head into georgia, same thing. near the brunswick area, the inlet area, some storm surge problems. not really concerned too much with the amount of rain and wind. but once we get to the carolinas, if we get to the eye, what's left of it, the center of the storm over land, that's when quo start to have problems with the winds causing issues, the storm surge, and heavy rain and inland flooding. and the same goes for area there's of north carolina. so we'll watch this continually over the next day or two, and we'll have to wait and see where it makes final destination there in north carolina. >> okay, bill karins, thank you for that. i know you're going to keep

that looks to make a big hook up into the atlantic. that bring us to tropical storm karen, very weak storm right now, not looking very impressive at all, and winds are only at 40 miles per hour, northwest at eight is the movement. we just got in the new update from the hurricane center. they do take it and head it towards puerto rico, so that has obviously concerns for them, but notice how weak it is, 40 miles per hour. then it goes to 45, then 50, 60, and 70. so again, this is all clustered, all these numbers here because it's not moving much. it's going to kind of stall out in between bermuda and puerto rico towards the end of this week. the biggest question is what's going to happen after that. all these red lines are one of our american computer models and we kind of like tweak them to see if it will make a difference. some go out to the atlantic, some headed towards the bahamas. this is a week from now. we've got a long time to wait. the only thing we do know for sure is we will have some gusty winds and a little bit of rain over

look at this, by wednesday we're going to see record breaking temperatures from atlantic city, central park daytime highs near the upper 80s to lower 90s. now, on the other side, the pacific northwest we're getting over this massive snowstorm, over 40 inches of snow reported in montana this morning. all alerts have expired at this time, but morning lows 16 degrees. that's 30 degrees below average for this time of year. so the problem is this morning we've had this blizzard like conditions, and they're going to continue to see the roadways, the black ice going to be a problem this morning, and that's why that emergency is put in place. so highs even from northern california to portland, this morning in the upper 20s, and that's really going to continue to for the next few days. that's that strong cold front. so if you like the heat and the warmer air northeast, the plains, i need you to enjoy it five, seven days because this air is moving in. >> to negative 16? >> we won't go there. >> i don't need that big of a swing. thanks janessa. >>> still ahead, more on the trump administration's

today after battering the atlantic coastline for the better part of a week. dorian came ashore as a category 1 hurricane in north carolina's outer banks. with it came landfall a big storm surge. by tonight, dorian's impact will be felt all the way in new england on the outer edge of cape cod and then other the weekend as far north at canada. now to the south and the bahamas where dorian first made landfall as a massive category 5 storm, the death toll now stands at 30 and thousands are still missing. research and rescue efforts are still under way and officials expect that number to rise. relief efforts have been pouring in from governments and private companies as well as nonprofits. accord tog ring to the red cros 60,000 people don't have access to clean drinking water and 45% of homes are severely damaged or destroyed. >> literally looks like we are bombed. everything is gone. >> i've lived here my whole life. been through hurricane floyd which was a 5 also. i tell people this is like a 10. everything is gone. >> i got my two boys, my wife, and we don't ha

warning florida residents of life-threatening storm surge as this massive system makes its way to the atlantic coast. those warnings are being taken seriously from west palm all the way to jacksonville and into georgia and south carolina where we're already seeing mandatory evacuations and calls from officials to make the right decision before it is too late. >> people need to remain vigilant. if you are ordered to evacuate, you need to do that. from palm beach county all the way up to nassau, the florida/georgia border, all those coastal counties have issued evacuation orders and it is important that residents heed those calls. get out now while you have time, while there is fuel available and you will be safe on the roads. >> and we're watching all the developments in the bahamas, where tense of thousa of thousa seen the worth, catastrophic flooding for an island chain facing a major rebuild in the months ahead. let's get into the new details of this storm beginning with al roker. we've been watching your updates throughout the morning on "today." but what have you seen from dorian both as t

by friday, by cape hatteras and continues out toward new england and out into the atlantic. now we're going to put in the european and american model. the american models in blue. the european model in purple. you can see very close they agree. but once we get into north carolina, here's where we have a little bit of wiggle room here. the american model puts a landfall somewhere around wilmington, possibly late thursday, early friday. european model maybe late thursday, early friday, more like friday morning. and then maybe a second landfall in cape hatteras. but whatever happens, even though we're talking about a landfall or not, there's still going to be winds felt. hurricane force winds are 60 miles out from the center. tropical force winds, 175 miles. that brings those onshore winds, daytona beach, melbourne, into tomorrow morning. then wednesday, we're talking about savannah, charleston. storm surge with those winds. tropical force winds and then piling that water up along the shoreline. moving into thursday, we've got wilmington and myrtle beach. morehead city just abo

editor in chief of the atlantic magazine jeffrey goldberg joins us now. the atlantic festival is underway in washington, d.c., ask and boy did you have the number one guest to start off your festival. >> what a day. jeffrey, i'm curious, you know, we went through impeachment before. actually, nancy and i were in the house back in the late 1990s, and i had a very -- i was surprised at my gut reaction seeing her talk yesterday, and it was -- i felt like the breath was taken out of me. i'm not suggesting she shouldn't have moved forward with it, but it was just -- it's a tragedy. it's in the constitution. this is part of the process, but i was filled with a profound sense of sadness that the country is where we are. again, not passing judgments on whether we should be here or not, i think what the president did was grievous. i'm just curious, did you sense that at all in nancy pelosi, someone who loves the institution and has been through this before? >> i felt the same exact thing sitting with her on stage. i felt, obviously, a couple of hours after we did

one of the strongest on the record in the atlantic. bringing 48

but now finally over the open waters of the atlantic. we still have rainfall, heavier rainfall in ocean city, but virginia beach and cape hatteras doing much better. now a category 1 storm and it will remain that way through tomorrow morning and through tomorrow night and finally a subtropical low as of sunday morning. so still a day or two to get through with a category 1 storm. nova scotia will be the third landfall. we've had three in three different countries. bahamas, u.s. and then into canada. and we are talking watches and warnings. we still have? up to the north and east. hurricane watches and warnings here. now in nova scotia, a warning in parts there. and southeastern massachusetts, you will have an inconvenience, but drastically improving over the week he had. and this red is telling us that we have a flash flood warning that means that flooding is happening right now. so do not venture out because that can be a life-threatening situation. water is very powerful. and wind gusts, much better than even an hour ago. 48 in hattera

it's been a week of watching a hurricane tear through the atlantic and watching the president lose his mind. both of which have had big consequences. the devastations in the bahamas is truly horrifying. we're going talk about that in a little bit. thankfully the storm seems to be pulling away from the u.s. east coast and go back out to sea. for most parts of the united states we've been fairly lucky to miss the worst of what could have been. perhaps no place was more lucky than alabama, which was lucky. [ applause ] no effects from the hurricane, none, because it never came anywhere close to alabama. no one thought it ever would, really, except the president of the united states who to this very day, i mean like an hour ago is still trying to convince everyone that when he said on sunday that alabama was going to get, quote, hit much harder than anticipated, that that was actually true. it wasn't true. the national weather service said it wasn't true. everybody knows it wasn't true. so then the president of the united states brings out a six-day-old chart that has clearly been altered

as we move up the coast moving into friday, high tide's atlantic city 2:21, montauk 3:46. up in boston about 6:00. so we'll watch that closely. rainfall going to be really heavy. that's another factor from charleston to kill devil hills. we're talking about 10 inches of rain, 6 to 10 inches. isolated amounts up to 10 to 15 inches. power out ages going to be a problem along the coast, charleston, wilmington, cape hatteras. but with those winds that extend out 195 miles from the center we're looking at possibility of outages from salisbury, richmond, raleigh. charlotte could be on that line depending if they wobble to the west or not. we're not out of the woods yet. we've got a long time go, at least another 24 to 48 hours we're going to be dealing with it. >> to be clear here, so far this storm, the effects that we're seeing, this is a result of the storm hugging the coast. >>ing youing had the coahugginge coast. >> the first chance we might see of landfall as we look over here, we might see landfall somewhere between wilmingtl min wilmington and cape hatteras. it's just hu

second strongest ever measured in the atlantic basin. and so i mean, it's as extreme as it gets. even 140. down to possibly a category 3. wednesday. so we have it as a major hurricane for at least the next 60 hours and then after that going to the north. so we stare at our computer models, all the squiggly lines. this is the canadian model and it makes it into florida and it was into florida earlier today, a little further off the coast but then that will move on shore after this. up towards jacksonville area. the other computer models are off the coastline so that's good news there. then we haven't forgotten about our friends further to the north pause you're preparing for wednesday, thursday possibly into friday here with the hurricane conditions along the coast. yes, it would be only -- only because it's one of the strongest ever, but category 2 making landfall in the myrtle beach area. storm surge, wind, power outages, flooding concerns. then the same scenario for our friends from wilmington to emerald isle, moorhead city out to the outer banks. here's your squiggly lines. i

this is elaina plott got him on the phone and interviewed him for "the atlantic" tonight. and this is the quote attributed to him. it is impossible that the whistle-blower is a hero and i'm not. and i are be the hero. these morons, when this is over, i will be the hero, giuliani told elaina plott of "the atlantic" tonight. further, here is rudolph giuliani tonight on fox news with laura ingraham. >> what do you say to mitt romney tonight, given that he runs to the cameras to express his deeply troubled opinion about this? >> it's like a -- i don't know, it's like a child. look, trump did what you couldn't do. one time bill clinton asked me what's this guy romney like. you know what i told him? he's our al gore. >> all right, rudy, hold that thought. >> peter baker, what's it like to be rudy giuliani tonight and how much jeopardy by your reading of this case does he possibly face? >> it's a great question. any question to rudy giuliani about running to the camera seems rather ironic, to say the least. at this point he has been all over the cameras through this whole thing a

and to our fellow citizens along the atlantic coast of our country tonight. and with that, that is our broadcast for this wednesday night. thank you so much for being here with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> hurricane dorian has intensified to a category 3 storm again and is headed to the carolinas. this as the death toll in the bahamas grows. >> president trump shows a map of dorian that appears to have been altered. he doesn't give up and the idea that alabama faces damage when it does not. >> boris johnson has been blocked by parliament from leaving the european union without a deal next month.

this is elaina plott got him on the phone and interviewed him for "the atlantic" tonight. and this is the quote attributed to him. it is impossible that the whistle-blower is a hero and i'm not. and i are be the hero. these morons, when this is over, i will be the hero, giuliani told elaina plott of "the atlantic" tonight. further, here is rudolph giuliani tonight on fox news with laura ingraham. >> what do you say to mitt romney tonight, given that he runs to the cameras to express his deeply troubled opinion about this? >> it's like a -- i don't know, it's like a child. look, trump did what you couldn't do. one time bill clinton asked me what's this guy romney like. you know what i told him? he's our al gore. >> all right, rudy, hold that thought. is. >> peter baker, what's it like to be rudy giuliani tonight and how much jeopardy by your reading of this case does he possibly face? >> it's a great question. any question to rudy giuliani about running to the camera seems rather ironic, to say the least. at this point he has been all over the cameras through this whole thi

and to our fellow citizens along the atlantic coast of our country tonight. and with that, that is our broadcast for this wednesday night. thank you so much for being here with us. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> we need help. we need help. >> rescues continue in the bahamas as major east coast cities evacuate, and the president shows off a sharpie-altered hurricane map. >> that map you showed today looked almost like a sharpie. >> i don't know, i don't know, i don't know. >> tonight, what we know about where dorian is headed and the president's latest action that will exacerbate the climate crisis. >>> then, are democrats about to pull off a special election stunner in north carolina? my interview with a florida congresswoman who is tired of

millions of others along the atlantic coast are heading

the real worry is not the atlantic coast but actually inland where all of the marshes flood up. so that's what city officials were really worried about. the roads that go from savannah to tybee is flooded. so that road has been cut off from the mainland. that, of course, was the big worry of officials, look, get off the island or you will be in place several hours. we actually got on the island because we didn't want to be trapped out there. in savannah though it's pretty calm. we are feeling outer rain bans but there are a couple of bars open, people taking pictures, checking it out but i imagine that mood will shift when the rain starts to come. >> molly hunter from savannah, georgia, enough for being with us. that wraps up the hour for me. be sure to stay with msnbc for all of the latest on hurricane dorian. you're looking live at jacksonville beach in florida where the category 2 storm is bringing whipping winds and rising waters. thank you very much for watching. you will see ali velshi live from south carolina tomorrow afternoon and "deadline: white house" with nicolle wal

i'm happy to report, that is out in the atlantic. a couple of other tropical waves out here but for the peak of the hurricane center, which by the way is today, usually this is one of the most active days we're not looking at anything threatening over the land areas and even this tropical wave in the bahamas, added rain chances and hurricane center thinks it is a 20% chance of developing. if it did, it would remain a pretty weak storm. that's great. even far out into the atlantic, things are looking pretty good. again, this is the 20% chance of development. this tropical wave is 30% chance. and the one just off of africa, 20%. none of this is really going to threaten any land areas. so a little bit of relief there. so we may have added rain and some showers, in areas through the bahamas which won't help things but it is not going to be anything like, any horrific type weather and if it does develop, most likely will develop in the areas of florida or in the eastern gulf of mexico. so we will move on from that and thankfully everythin

. >>> and this weekend as hurricane dorian ties the record for the most powerful atlantic hurricane to hit the bahamas and continues to threaten coasts of florida, georgia and south carolina, the president of the united states chose to spend part of his labor day golfing. photos of the president teeing up at his virginia golf club surfaced on monday as the hurricane still loomed closer to the united states. white house press secretary stephanie grisham insisted the president was briefed on hurricane dorian and was receiving hourly updates, but he did not have anything publicly scheduled for the day. the president retweeted several updates from the national hurricane center throughout the holiday. trump did take heat for his actions as one mayor told "politico," quote, he is clearly busy dealing with a hurricane out on the golf course. >>> house democrats plan to investigate president trump's alleged role in hush money payments to two women in 2016. according people familiar with the matter the house josÉ diaz-balart is preparing to hold hearings and call witnesses connected to payment

right now, we have six systems, three in the atlantic, we have imelda we just talked about, humberto went by bermuda yesterday with 100 mile-an-hour wind gusts and still has 125 mile-an-hour wind, it is the strongest hurricane this far north in the atlantic, in about 19 years. so warmer water does give extra fuel to these storms. and tropical storm jerry is about to become a hurricane. of course jerry, the next little area to watch, for our friends in the caribbean island and those are sometimes the storms that head to the u.s. we think, pretty much all in agreement, with all of our computer models, we're going to go just north of the leeward islands and puerto rico and stall it out and do that bend. maybe a problem for bermuda again but it doesn't look like it will head to the southeast coastal areas. six storms. the peak of the season. it's the most that they've ever tracked at the hurricane center in miami. talk about being busy but none of them, except the one hitting the area right now, will be hitting the u.s. zbr the >> the there is a there is a lot of fuel in the oceans. >>>

and to our fellow citizens along the atlantic coast of our country tonight. and with that, that is our broadcast for this wednesday night. thank you so much for being here with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> today as the bahamas announce that the death toll from hurricane dorian has climbed in the bahamas from five as of this weekend to seven as of last night, to 20 as of tonight, with the increasingly clear views we are getting of the overwhelming devastation in certain islands on the bahamas, making it all but a certainty that death toll will climb even higher

mid atlantic, ohio valley and sunny skies and great weather conditions. the rough stuff comes friday, the big change, northern plains and finally some rain in texas and oklahoma. >> thank you, bill. >> thanks, bill. >>> co-founder and lead singer of the band the cars ric ocasek has died, his boddo was found in his new york townhouse yesterday afternoon and pronounced dead at the scene. while the cause of the death is not immediately clear, police say no criminality is expected. ric ocasek co-founded the cars in 1976, and merging classic guitar oriented rock with synthesizer driven pop sounds. the band recorded more than a dozen top 40 singles including "my best friend's girl," "good times roll," and "just what i needed." he was 75 years old. >>> the highest civilian honor, as president trump is set to award former yankee pitcher mariano rivera with the presidential medal of freedom. not the first trip to the white house for rivera who participated in the fitness day at the white house in 2018 and named a co-chair of the president's council on sports, fitn

the warm waters of the atlantic is crank canning up the storm. it is sustained winds of over 130 matter of principle rr. the latest models have dorian making landfall late monday or early tuesday morning. but where it hits and how much destruction it causes are open questions. for now the entire east coast of florida up to georgia are in the danger zone. joining us with the latest forecast is meteorologist bill karins. what is the latest? >>> so much is changing and so quickly. we knew this storm would become category 4 and who knows rb maybe category 5. i zoomed in close. these are one-minute images from a satellite. it's a three-hour loop. you can see it clears out the eye, very symmetrical. just incredible. but it's still three days away from land. not like last year. so as long as we still have this with wiggle room, i'm okay with it being this intense right now. and with 130 mile-per-hour winds. so let's get to the good stuff, the positive stuff. this is our latest updated umpurt model. all the sudden these squiggle line saids that never mak

at one point was the strongest storm to make to the eastern most and northernmost atlantic. it strengthened overnight briefly to a category 5 storm. and that was a record. no storm has ever been this strong in this part of the atlantic. >>> back here at home, where there is smoke, there is bound to be fire. but as house democrats focus on interaction between president trump and ukraine's president, are they ignoring the flames in their own backyard? that is a question a lot of people are posing because according to the "washington post," this op-ed right here, the house doesn't need an impeachment inquiry to confirm trump's wrongdoing. just look at his hotel they are saying. his washington, d.c. hotel specifically. my next guest is the author of that op-ed, dana milbank. and you said that is out in plain sight. what is out there that we're missing? >> yeah, that was just one example of this. and i think that the danger is that democrats may be overthinking this and figuring that they need to dig around and find some smoking gun here. there are smoking guns all over the place

we have details on hurricane dorian's small push toward the atlantic coast. the storm just downgraded to a category 2. there are hurricane and storm surge warnings from florida's jupiter inlet all the way to charleston, south carolina. joining me now me, al roker in our weather center. nbc's morgan chesky and gabe gutierrez on the florida coast. al, tell us about the storm and its extraordinary path and its speed, or should i say its slow march. >> it's crawling. it's picking up forward speed. right now, category 2 storm, but we tell people don't pay attention to the category. while it's important, you can get a lot of damage with storms that are not a 4 or a 5. this is a category 2. 105 miles east of ft. pierce, florida, with 110 mile per hour winds. and now its forward speed moving northwest at two miles per hour west palm beach all the way up past charleston. we've got hurricane watches all the way to cape hatteras. inland we've got tropical storm watches as well. that speaks to the size, the growing size of the storm. even though it's in a sense weakening