Top of the hour. Its 4 00 eastern, 1 00 in the afternoon out west. Im ana cabrera in the newsroom in new york. Thank you for being with us. And lets begin this hour with a bold claim from the president. Declaring that the hyped up partisan pemmo released yesterday completely clears him in the russian investigation. He writes of the russian witch hunt goes on and on. There was no coclusion and no obstruction, the word now used because after one year of looking endlessly and finding nothing, collusion is dead. This is an american disgrace. The memo was put together by devin nunes, who was also a member of the trump transition team. This memo alleges the fbi and the Justice Department used the steele dossier to get a warrant for carter page. He says the president has been calling friends and telling them it makes it easier to argue that democratic are biased against him, but the fbi and the doj say thats nut the case. Democratics say this is a sham including cherry picked information. The
Make landfall but its become like everything else, politicized. So much so that President Trump and his team are trying to stay how to have the storm the criticism of the response to it even though the storm has not yet made landfall. We have Team Coverage tonight. Rick leventhal is live in North Carolina, bracing for florence. Kristin fisher in washington with how the federal government and the president are preparing for the monster storm. Shannon, President Trump is already declared a state of emergency for North Carolina, south carolina, and virginia. Hes also canceled Circle Campaign event so he can focus on the storm. Shannon, this could be the strongest hurricane to hit the carolinas in decades. He he said that his administratn is bearing no expense to make sy are ready. We are totally prepared. We are ready. We are as ready as anybody has ever been. President trump us down and confident. You go days before Hurricane Florence is expected to make landfall. Is tremendously big and
Night begins now. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 628 of the Trump Administration and we will get to all it have of it in just a. But first theres been a dangerous change in the forecast, and we want to get to the latest update on the path and intensity of Hurricane Michael. For that we are joined by our meteorologist bill karins. Bill, what do you have . Bottom line, this part of florida has never seen a storm of this intensity. It still looks like Fort Walton Beach the destination area over towards pensacola. Thats on the back side of the storm. It doesnt look like theyll get the extreme damage. Panama city beach, appalachia and cocoa beach, those are the areas that will be devastated. Its deepened over the last couple hours. Its almost to a cat 4 with 125mileanhour winds. The rain band is not far from the coast. This literally is the final minutes of preparation time for anyone in this area, and if anyone still remains in that area,
Headquarters here in new york. Day 628 of the Trump Administration and we will get to all of it in just a moment. But first theres been a dangerous change in the forecast, and we want to get to the latest update on the path and intensity of hurricane michael. For that we are joined by our meteorologist bill karins. Bill, what do you have . Bottom line, this part of florida has never seen a storm of this intensity. It still looks like Fort Walton Beach the destination area over towards pensacola. Thats on the back side of the storm. It doesnt look like theyll get the extreme damage. Panama city beach, appalachia and cocoa beach, those are the areas that will be devastated. Its deepened over the last couple hours. Its almost to a cat 4 with 125mileanhour winds. The rain band is not far from the coast. This literally is the final minutes of preparation time for anyone in this area, and if anyone still remains in that area, they should still get out while they can. Even if i was as far inl
Then he started a hotel chain in alaska. Ultimately he opened a Shopping Center in alaska that included the very first escalator in the entire state. What . Stairs that move . Except at that point alaska wasnt even a state yet. Wally hickel was a key part of alaska lobbying to become a state. He started lobbying for that years before it finally happened in 1959. And then wally hickel became the governor of the new state of alaska seven years later in 1966. So wally hickel was one of those sort of only in america, incredible man of action success stories. Culminating with him becoming both very rich and very influential and becoming governor of his adopted state. After serving as governor, he 1966, 1967, 1968, he ascended still higher. He left alaska, came to washington, d. C. , because president Richard Nixon named wally hickel to become part of his cabinet. To become the new secretary of the interior. It seems pretty clear nixon at the time expected wally hickel to be a down the line,