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Edition of Morning Joe. We hope you are enjoying your Labor Day weekend. Were on tape this morning bringing you some of our best discussion from the past two months, and we start today with our conversation the morning after Kamala Harris accepted her Partys Nomination for president on the Last Night of the dnc in chicago. Willie, you obviously are in chicago. Describe the scene if you will, because it is awfully hard you know, debates, ive heard one journalist after another say never try to jud...

There can have top winds up to 300 miles an hour. think of hurricane-force winds of 100 miles per hour. this is 300 miles an hour depending on insize of that funnel on the inside. they can leave a destruction 50 miles long. oklahoma averages 55 tornados over year with an average of 21 in the month of may. bill: we put together this graphic to get a better illustration of what is happening. this is way up in the atmosphere. this storm front is visible to the eye on so much video. you have rain an...

four men a, robert bales was brought to the u.s. and speaks to his lawyer for the first time. heres his attorney, john brown. >> i think flfs an effort to paint him as someone who, rather than having a serious brain injury and shouldnt have been there to begin with, had some other factors. the financial situation for all of us is stressful, i think. but, you know, nobody goes and kills women and children because they had financial stresses. >> bales is kbg held now at fort leavenworth ...

Best since the spring 2010. are we seeing forward movement here? >> i think so. they are saying this is a temporary up draft. i think the u.s. economy is gaining momentum. real estate seems to be picking up a bit which is critical to extending the recovery and making it more self sustaining. the labor markets are improving. the u.s. economy seems somewhat immune to at the moment anyway the problems in europe and the slowdown in china. in fact, manufacturing seems to be coming home. were seeing a...

We call the dominator. and it has armor, bullet proof windows, a hydraulic system so we can drop the whole bullet proof shell to the ground and that sbeexerts a downward force. and its shaped aerodynamically to anchor us to the ground. weve built that vehicle to record scientific measurements inside the material that no one can safely collect. thats a mystery of science, how fast can the wind speeds get on the ground. >> i dont know if we have a picture of the dominator to put on the screen. its...

Rods. >> shepard: it doesnt. part of that is because of the high winds weve been experiencing. we are in a wind tunnel here. it can be -- because we are on the side of a hotel. 20 to 25 mile an hour sustained winds have been the or of the day gusts higher. very hard to deal with that. plus you have this heat rising. think about how even in a fire, think of a forest fire a lot of heat creates its own wind. heat rises rapidly. the water trying to fall against this up-draft of heat it makes sense t...

Rods. >> shepard: it doesnt. part of that is because of the high winds weve been experiencing. we are in a wind tunnel here. it can be -- because we are on the side of a hotel. 20 to 25 mile an hour sustained winds have been the or of the day gusts higher. very hard to deal with that. plus you have this heat rising. think about how even in a fire, think of a forest fire a lot of heat creates its own wind. heat rises rapidly. the water trying to fall against this up-draft of heat it makes sense t...