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In ten days the world will witness a hallmark of our democracy. [ boos ] no, no, no, no, no. the peaceful transfer of power from one freely elected president to the next, just as president bush did for me. the long sweep of america has been defined by forward motion, to embrace all, and not just some. thats why we cannot withdraw from big global fights to expand democracy and human rights and womens rights and lgbt rights. thats why i reject discrimination against muslim americans, who are just ...

The energy in this storm is quite close to the center. we expect it to make landfall with a decent forward motion. so for it to loiter inland, the inland flooding like florence, were going to see something quite a bit different this time. a lot of its energy is near the center. so if youre unfortunate enough to be near the center and especially just a little to the east of the center, thats where the strongest impacts are going to be from the wind field. and then the geography of the apalachi ba...

Indications of a very strong cat four -- im sorry, a very strong cat two, and it could make its way up to cat three in that direction before land fall. >> how will you compare this storm to others that you have seen? obviously every storm is different. in florence we saw it was much of a rain or water event. >> yes, sir. this is starting to increase its speed. the energy in this storm is quite close to the center. we expect it to make land fall with a decent forward motion. so for it to loiter i...

Down. again, we used an old formula, you divide the speed of a hurricane by its forward motion and thats how much rain you get. moving at 2 miles per hour, you can get up to 50 inches. the forecast measured in feet is realistic based on the storm. people in charlotte, fayetteville, foothills, piedmont, mountains, 12 inches of rain is deadly there because of the way it goes in creeks, valleys, and hollows, and it is deadly. this is not yet over. those areas vice president seha worst of it. as muc...

>> so florence, its a strong category 3 at this point, and it could bring a storm surge of up to 13 feet, jay. do any of these past storms that hit the carolinas look like what were already seeing with florence? >> well, one thing that the history does tell us is that each storm is unique in its own way. every storm has a different size, intensity, forward motion, and track. and you can do some comparisons. hazel was a category 4 at landfall. fran perhaps would be a good comparison as a cat 3 in...

Do any of these past storms that hit the carolinas look like what were already seeing with florence? >> well, one thing that the history does tell us is that each storm is unique in its own way. every storm has a different size, intensity, forward motion, and track. and you can do some comparisons. hazel was a category 4 at landfall. fran perhaps would be a good comparison as a cat 3 in the same region. but fran raised inland to raleigh and became an inland storm in a different way. a lot of flo...

It was technically a category 1 storm. we saw what that did. its 105 miles east-southeast of wilmington. 105-mile-per-hour winds. its slowed its forward motion has slowed. but its west-northwest at 5 miles per hour. so at that current track, we think it puts it right onshore at about 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning with 100-mile-per-hour winds. then continues just north of myrtle beach and then hangs a right turn and heads on up into the ohio river valley. this is something were going to be talking a...

Brothers who were so essential to that campaign, who does loom ever larger in the historical imagination when you think about the stakes in 2008. you think about the situation in iraq. you think about the financial meltdown, a very up ttumultuous time, and yet we had two nominees of what different visions of what they wanted to do with the country, but they essentially spoke in the same vernacular, and shared the same fundamental values. we miss that now, and i dont think we can say that now abo...

A list of house republicans he personally needs to work on to discuss the immigration bill with. the president is meeting with those members shortly, heading on a bus, maybe driving in their own automobiles or taking. >> meet with going to the white house. >> dagen: taking an uber. about two dozen republicans going over to the white house to talk with the president. >> thats great. forward motion. thats what we have been wanting for. >> is it enough to calm the chaos. >> havent given enough cont...

After that g-7 meeting, called him weak, dishonest. but clearly was dazzled by kim, fields a connection with him. said he trusts kim jong-un and is very comfortable going forward to try to come up with some sort of substantive deal in the monthsad to denuclearize the korean peninsula. >> is there any sense of what the actual forward motion looks like. >> well, its going to be more meetings. trump indicated that kim jong-un would be invited to the white house at the appropriate time for a visit 0...