Coast of florida as a potential category three hurricane by monday morning. Rwand ron desantis warning everyone to take shelter. 271 milli 271 million in fact, the president did sign an Emergency Declaration instructing all Disaster Relief effort on the island in the wake of dorian. Joining me now is michelle grossman. Lets start with puerto rico. What are conditions looking like surrounding the islands . Thats going to be the next few hours impacting, puerto rico is to be determined if we are going to see the storm skirt to the north. We are watching that closely. At the least, well see Tropical Storm conditions and if not hurricane conditions. Over 74 Miles Per Hour. We are seeing sustained winds at 70. We could also see some flooding rain and landslide. Definitely watching that over the next several hours. Lets talk about where it is now. Were s now impacting the eastern portions of puerto rico with outer bands and we are looking at winds at 70 meriles per hour. Thats a very strong
Big stories of the day. I want to start with Kelly Odonnell at the white house, garrett haque, leighann caldwell on capitol hill, and contributor adrienne el rod for Hillary Clintons 2016 campaign. Kelly, i want to start with you. The president waking up back at the white house today. Hes going to be talking a lot of different topics when we see him this afternoon yes. He will do some of the things that a president can only do using what is referred to as a rose garden strategy, the powers of the presidency. He is doing counter programming of the democrats going after some of those potential candidates, trying to size up the democratic field as he rallies his own base. We saw how the president used cincinnati as his back drop to criticize some of their strategies and techniques as candidates. As well as looking at how we can see how the president is stacking up in the state of ohio. One of those mustwin states for not only republicans but democrats believe they can regain there as well
Reinstatement of the federal Death Penalty. Well go live to washington to talk to our justice correspondent Pete Williams in just a moment. First, the biggest question democrats face today. When will they make up their minds about impeachment . Here to help us answer this question, nbcs hans nichols at the white house. Jake sherman, senior writer, split close. Natasha bertrand, National Security correspondent at politi politico. Brett stephens is here, New York Times oped columnist. Mr. Sherman, ill start with you there on the hill. What are you hearing from your sources there, what are democrats planning next . I mean, listen. The reality that democrats are going to face in just a matter of hours is theyre gone for the next 46 days, theyre gone from now until september 9 thfth. Thats a long time to be gone. It will be an interesting test. Nancy pelosi and democrats have maintained that democrats were put into power on Kitchen Table issues. Takes going to be the test. Do democrats go h
Theyre speaking now. Frlds. Weve had abundance of calls in to 911 so we will start to search and cessation for damage and cessation for damage assess for damage. We are in connection with county staff and as far as other operations we do have people come to work back from the stations and at the current moment we have adequate staffing and personnel addressing ridgecrest city. Weve been experiencing new after shocks, nothing new reported, currently waiting to transition to the Structural Group search. Thats what we have at this point. Thank you. Thank you very much chief mitchell now wed like to give our attention to a subject matter expert. Kin hidna from usgs to speak with us. Just want to say first of all, i owe thanks to the navy base for allowing us access and to the city for their support, mayor, chief of police, we just had briefings as we came out of the field today, myself and january hernandez from geo lockical california surgery and able to do aerial reconnaissance of the su
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