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Florida and others on the west side. that will make a huge difference. >> jon: its a storm to watch. this season has been active. is that expected to continue? >> yeah, it is expected to continue. we peak around september 12. were getting close to the peak of the season. if you take a look at what weve seen, two major hurricanes. you know what? all of this activity weve seen and this is the path of every storm, theres another one brewing now. this right now tropical storm jose its behind irma. t...

Attempting to miniaturize that weapon so they can affix it to a ballistic missile. what we are relying on, certainly, political, diplomatic, economic auctions. secretary mattis was talking about that. largely depending on the chinese. but the reality is, no president can accept north korea getting ready to launch nuclear missiles at u.s. bases, allies, or in the continental united states. we cannot accept that. and that is what he is talking about. what that would mean is we would launch a preem...

Endanger the machine people. the american people. uma: if u.s. took some type of action against north korea what type of action would that be, from your point of view? >> to strike or cyber warfare, launch facilities that north korean have, a problem is that developing not just fix sites for these missiles, but also, mobile sites, that makes it more difficult for us to track that, you can bridg bridge bring brinm out of hiding and move it quickly, we would have to detect that quickly. we have ai...

China to change north koreas behavior. the result, they have a nuclear arsenal and have developed medium-range ballistic missiles in intercontinental must also they intend to up and eyes of nuclear weapons. that is highly dangerous to the security of the united states, puts our bases in the region at risk come up with the american people at risk. that is totally unacceptable. what tillerson will be telling that you are coming down with north korea with a military option only. we will have no oth...

China to change north koreas behavior. the result, they have a nuclear arsenal and have developed medium-range ballistic missiles in intercontinental must also they intend to up and eyes of nuclear weapons. that is highly dangerous to the security of the united states, puts our bases in the region at risk come up with the american people at risk. that is totally unacceptable. what tillerson will be telling the trainees is that you are coming down with north korea with a military option only. we ...

Objectives, it is to get at the rockets, and the launch facilities, to get at the infrastructure. what is most important here, israel needs a clear sense of objectives in how to achieve them quickly and decisively which did not happen in 2006. >>trace: you send rockets to tel aviv or the outskirts of tel aviv and a rocket to jerusalem and that changes the game altogether and it increases the odds israel may have to take another step. >>guest: it is a grave escalation by hamas and puts palestinia...

Where food is scarce. the farms are collective, centrally planned but up here poorly funded. we dont see many tractors, few machines at all. mostly farmers with hand tools. the village houses all look the same. after five hours, we arrive at the sohay satellite launch station. we brought nbc analyst jim oburg, a rocket expert, with two decades at nasas houston space center. >> well guide you through the launch facilities. >> reporter: hell help us verify what the north koreans are showing. after...

Were going to modernize the kennedy space center, creating jobs as we upgrade launch facilities. and theres potential for even more jobs as companies in florida and across america compete to be part of a new space transportation industry. and some of those industry leaders are here today. this holds the promise of generating more than 10,000 jobs nationwide over the next few years. many of these jobs will be created right here in florida because this is an area prime to lead in this competition....

Military options could be something we would go with, meaning this country would go it alone. what are the options that these administration officials would be talking about today potentially? >> well, of course theyre looking at a variety of military strikes on different facilities, do you go after the leadership? do you go after the nuclear facilities in do you go after the launch facilities, and the north koreans know what these military options are and they have built around them. they use d...

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