number on your arm so that you can be identified. so there is that take on it tonight. i m martha maccallum. good evening, everybody. this is the story. hurricane harvey is where we begin tonight. the president is monitoring this from camp david with his team at the readies we watch this thing as it churns off the coast of corpus christi about 30 some miles latest estimate. this is where the toughest stuff begins to eat the coast line. we will go live to steve harrigan who is live in corpus christi being hit hard at the outer bands of this hurricane. steve, good evening. martha, good evening. the edge of the eye wall of that storm conditions to get worse over the next four to five hours. right now a category 3 hurricane with sustained winds more than 125 miles per hour. by the time the eye crosses over, it could be 30 with a
deportations, and a formal declaration from the mayor of los angeles, eric garcetti, making it a sanctuary city. over 20,000 people responded to the facebook invitation that they are going to show up. today, i want to bring in nbc s gadi schwartz, who is out there right now. and has been following this immigration issue for us. gadi, what is the crowd size like out there? anything near the 20,000 that facebook said? and especially given the storm conditions on saturday? well, there are definitely thousands out here. a lot of people were worried that not many people were going to show up because of that crazy storm that we had yesterday. but this stretches for about four to five blocks that way. it stretches about six blocks this way. and you see the crowd is extremely sizable. most of these people are here supporting immigration. but there is a whole host of issues. there s, in fact, 90 groups that have put this all together. but one of the signs we re seeing the most is people out h
are about to fly out. there are also light posts that look like they re moving around. right now it s starting to calm down. again, these bands are coming in and out and we will soon see a lot of damage here in daytona beach, chris. word to the wise, that guy who went out in that pickup truck is now safe, boris because chief chitwood told me he is in jail. they re going to get you because you re putting first responders at risk. we ll check back in a little bit. one of the local authorities that is trying to keep the area safe is mayor lenny curry. good to have you with me right now. you re going to get wet. i m already soaked. you ve been with your team to do everything you could to get ready in advance. how s it going? we have been warning people for days and did our first evacuation couple days ago and we are under tropical storm
of daytona beach, more towards the end of the storm as it travels north. on the right side of the screen you are looking at tybee island, georgia, where a lot of the focus moves because that s where the storm is headed. that s where low-lying island where they have had a mandatory evacuation under way. the storm is hammering florida s east coast right now and the storm as you can see it just from those pictures, far from over. matthew is still a dangerous category 3 storm. more than half a million people without power. the first death blamed on the storm was just confirmed. a florida woman died of cardiac arrest. emergency responders unable to reach her because of the storm conditions. the warnings are moving up the coast into georgia, also south carolina. governor haley of south carolina just moments ago urged people one last time to evacuate while there is still time. she really made clear it s not much longer. this looks like it will be worse for south carolina than previously t
i hope he has a wonderful time off. reporter: governor bush in the holiday spirit. the candidates including governor bush down for the next couple days celebrating the holiday with their families. we have heard from a couple of them, for example, ted cruz, sending out his christmas message to supporters talking about the importance of charity. marco rubio putting out an op-ed talking about the persecution of christians in the middle east around this holiday time. they will be back on the trail next week, including donald trump, the front runner. he will be in the first three early states, new hampshire, iowa, south carolina. the first three days of next week. 2016 getting closer. nbc s hallie jackson, in washington, d.c. we want to bring you up to speed on breaking news and go back down to mississippi. we are hearing from the police chief right now who is talking. this is in holly springs, mississippi. let s take a listen to what officials down there are saying about the severe wea