Eastern Periphery News Today

good morning, monday september 26th, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. where the state of florida is under a state of emergency. officials are warning residents to prepare for the worst as tropical storm ian gained strength in the caribbean and barrels towards the state. the storm is pushing towards western cuba right now but a tropical storm watch is in place for the florida keys. the national hurricane center says ian is close to hurricane strength and could beco...

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>> i want to ask colonel leighton, the sanctions didnt work as a deterrent, so now what? what more can be done at this point? >> thats really a tough question, don. i think a lot has to do with how putin interprets our force posture. by that i mean our position of u.s. forces and nato forces arrayed around the eastern periphery. and this is what we have to in essence what the president has done is move troops into the baltic states. they, of course, there are troops in poland. and romania, and t...

>> the sanctions didnt work as a deterrent. so now what? what more can be done at this point? >> thats really a tough question, don. i think a lot has to do with how putin interprets our posture. by that i mean our position of u.s. forces and nato forces, a raid around the eastern periphery. and this is what we have to in essence what the president has done is move troops into the baltic states. they, of course, there are troops in poland. and those troops are going to basically be the limit at ...

Toward its eastern periphery. again, speaks to how large of a storm that is, and why thats significant is the tropical storm force winds extend hundreds of miles away from the center. so the system itself, the eyewall, the area with those 110-mile-per-hour winds, is about 60 miles off the coast of cape canaveral at this hour. of course when you go closer toward this region were seeing tropical storm force winds all up and down the particular area, and the storm system will gradually shift to the...

Or a category 3 system. really speaks to the significance of what a large player it is at this hour. when you measure the cloud field, it spans some 500 miles from its western periphery to its eastern periphery. roughly the size of the state of alaska. drop this over the state of alaska, it would span nearly the entire width of the state. it speaks to the significance of. when you look at a storm of such magnitude, we know tropical storm force winds extend some 175 miles away from the center. so...

Offshore. forecasters predict dorian could make landfall in south carolina later this week. so lets get more on all of this from our meteorologist pedram javaheri who joins us again. lets go over that path and what people can expect on the way through, and, of course, once that landfall is made. >> yeah, you know, rosemary, were 11 days into tracking the storm system. of course reaches category 5 in the past couple of days. stalls over portions of the grand bahama island. you take a look at what...

Puerto rico between 8:00 and 9:00 in the morning. the update continues to keep it as a category 5. a new eye wall trying to form around the system buzz anywhere you see the white indication, 100-mile-per-hour winds. it will make landfall into the early morning hours in puerto rico. and half of that population is on the eastern periphery. so one of the worst scenarios. but storm surge one of the main concerns with this system, up to 11 feet across the leeward islands. that is 11 feet across what ...

>> yes. its sitting there a category 4 right now. its larger than the size of the state of texas. so it kind of tells you how large of a feature it is. very, very impressive on the visible scale, slightly larger, it would go into the state of new mexico into the west and stretch on into the state of louisiana on its eastern periphery. among the strongest march typhoons weve seen. its between the island of guam and yap. 10,000 people call this area home, but the concern goes farther downstream as...

Huntsman will join us onset and later well continue our education nation series with former governor of florida jeb bush and mayor of newark, cory booker. up next, chuck todd is standing by at the white house and joining us onset nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. but first, lets go straight to todd santos for the check on the forecast. todd? >> hey there. still tracking at least some of these showers. thunderstorms going on across the country. some will have implications t...