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Down a natural disaster. the president calling puerto rico, quote, one of the most corrupt places on earth. his democratic rivals now firing back. this as the trump administration is also choosing at the height of the hurricane season to divert millions in fema disaster funds to border security. kyra phillips is at the white house. >> reporter: president trump tweet, wow, yet another big storm heading to puerto rico. the president has railed against the island since hurricane maria when he tosse...

Florida they find themselves balancing campaign mode with storm prep as hurricane michael barrels toward floridas panhandle. republican congressman neil dunn of florida joins me now via phone as well. and congressman, i understand that you are at the dade county operations center. whats the situation there? are you guys prepared? >> well, youre right, sir. this is one of the ground zero operations. its one of our most populous counties, and we have been camped out here for the last 24 to 36 hour...

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>> john, quickly, is this a done deal >> in terms of -- im not sure of the question. >> in terms of what were talking about birth control and businesses. is this a done deal >> this was clearly as was said this, is clearly an outreach to conservatives. you could see the republicans in congress were ecstatic about this. speaker paul ryan and other republicans hailed this as, you know, religious freedom. they are claiming trump was acting in the name of religious freedom here. so this was somethin...

Energy. regardless how you call it, climate change, environmental or the not. whatever you call it. the fact of the matter is out of the last 17 hottest years on record, 16 of them have been since 2001. >> why cant that be a unification point, everybody agrees, yeah. smarter with storm prep whether you agree this is man made or not? >> number one, its the presidents job, leaders of every countrys job to explain to the public. even if were not sure, the consequences if it is true are so horrendou...

We thought there could be a direct hit on miami, a direct hit on tampa bay. you didnt have that. but i think youll see major devastation in the florida keys. they have difficulty with water, with sewage, with getting food and fuel there. and the situation is really dire down there. and then i think just the urgency of getting all the power back online. there have been some strides made but when you look at these nursing homes. if they dont have power, they cant have air conditioning and florida ...

Hopefully things go well. >> okay. so, the message from the president, we are prepared very well, but you can only prepare so much. in all of these catastrophe situations, if thats what it becomes, theyre always behind the curve because the need is always greater than the ability to meet it. it takes time, incredible dedication, it strains all resources no matter what is brought to bear. so it is good that we hear about local, state, and federal interaction and interconnection in terms of comm...

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That storm expected to pack dangerously high winds and several areas could see well over a foot of snow. the mayor of new york has just announced all city schools will be closed tomorrow. nbc meteorologist indra petersons has the latest forecast and nbcs gabe gutierrez in washington, d.c., where severe storm prep is under way. indra is this the storm of the season? >> one of the biggest orms of the entire season and late in the season. chicago still seeing flurries and lake-effect showers possib...