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Reporter for "the washington post" said yesterday sometimes his tweets are in all caps that include things like wow, what a big storm like hes just watching the weather channel like the rest of us and thats a fair observation. >> certainly. you see the president trying to play that role. the white house has tried to project the response, trying to show that the president is engaged here, giving read-outs. you saw the president actually record what was sort of bizarre weather update from the rose...

Reverend al sharpton, host of "politicsnation" here on msnbc and president of the action network. i dont have to tell any of you, presidencies can be made and broken and bent in presidents responses to a hurricane. thinking about my own experience with george w. bush and hurricane katrina. donald trump deciding to cancel plans to travel to poland but at the top hes got acting officials at the all of the leadership posts atop of homeland security and fema and their big news the last few days on b...

Dont forget, he did not show this empathy until late yesterday when the storm had already left puerto rico. day before yesterday he was tweeting about how corrupt they were and how he was the best thing to happen to puerto rico. if anyone has politicized it, its him. now that its moving towards florida, towards mar-a-lago, all of a sudden im canceling trips. we all know he doesnt like to make foreign trips anyway, and he already canceled his big trip to go and purchase greenland so this is not a...

Fema administrator, all in acting capacities and added scrutiny will be placed on the federal response to the storm, since its the first one to hit since at announcement was made that fema funds were used for the border policies. covering it for awe with the latest on the storm, preparations and the president, were joined by a special group of reporters and friends starting with nbc meteorologist michelle grossman. michelle, where is the big flow storm right now? >> you said it perfectly, were l...

Fema funds, hes canceled a trip and the other part is he owns property in palm beach county, mar-a-lago. so theres a personal component to this and you would hope politics doesnt overcome too much of this and first responders and people affected can deal with it. but, yeah, its unpredictable. its an unpredictable presidency and hurricanes are unpredictable. so we will see. >> jill, its unpredictable and might be cynical but its cold, hard facts donald trumps response to hurricanes have been unev...

>> thats right, nicolle. and because this is such an unpredictable storm, were seeing that anxiety up and down the eastern coast of florida. 67 counties all across the state in state of emergency but perhaps none more than palm beach county, where i am now. this is right now where this storm is headed. we heard from michelle, that may change, but that is what all of the models are pointing to at the moment. we have 1.4 million people here. it is the third most populous county in the state. and h...

It to go. right now it is 625 easts-west of palm beach, florida. winds are gusting higher than that. want to focus on gusts protecting your home and property. it was faster yesterday, faster this morning and starting to slow down. tonight were going to see the slowdown. almost putting the brakes on it and thats not good news. it will collect more fuel to be more powerful once it goes over land. were looking at the track here, category 3 storm. it came fast. on monday it started out as a tropical...

Mechanism or steering wheel so you have other things like high pressure and low pressure. right now we have a strong area of high pressure in the bermuda ridge that may be breaking down. we have to see those players, whats going to happen to them and where is it going to steer? so probably by sunday we will know closer to where that landfall will happen but its not just where its going now, its all of the mechanisms that come into play. just like football players on the field, whatter they going...

Flooding is the biggest danger and deadliest form of weather. a hurricane watch is in effect for the bahamas, that includes freeport and nassau. heed your warnings now. use your evacuation plans if you can and into florida we will be making plans the next couple of days. look yet, the wind field in the red, about 25-mile-per-hour wind field in terms of hurricane and yellow will be tropical force winds. looking at life-threatening storm surge. this will be a story to watch over the next several d...