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Here is the very latest right now. Barry is packing topped sustained winds of 65 Miles Per Hour. Its not the wind but the rain and the storm surge that is going to be the issue with this storm. President trump has declared a state of emergency for louisiana with 3,000 National Guard troops poised across the state for rescues with boats, high water vehicles and helicopters on high alert. Zeroing in on new orleans, the levies are expected to keep the Rising Mississippi River at bay as the river is expected to crest at 17 feet. That is lower than first feared and three feet below what they call a spillover range. We have the story with all angles. Lets start with Kerry Sanders. Good morning to you. Reporter well, good morning from new orleans right here on famed canal street where were yet to really feel the impact of barry. Thats still a few hours away. To the south down on grand isle, the Barrier Island about 600 people decided to stay put. Right now theyre really feeling it. Power is out. Streets are flooded and it will continue like that for a while. There are tornado warnings there and all the way up to baton rouge as well as into mississippi where a lot of people are basically weathering this now as theyre going to ride this out. Because barry is such a slowmoving storm, were likely to see nasty weather here until monday morning. This morning its not just wind. With the wind gusts we know that were going to lose power. Reporter but the water inundating the gulf coast. Around new orleans the flood gates are closed. This is the first time in the history of lubbock district that weve had to close every single gate, including on the river due to the river being so high. Reporter residents prepare for the worst. Barry is a dangerous and lifethreatening storm. Reporter ready for action, more than 2,000 members of the louisiana National Guard and the u. S. Coast guard Shallow Water response teams. Along the Mississippi River where 8 million gallons of water now flow into the gulf of mexico every second, the storm crashing ashore, a big worry. Its starting to push the gulf of mexico into a clogged drain. Overnight in Saint Charles parish, louisiana, temporary pumps moved in to move rainwater out. So this thing is no longer a threat to our parish. Ahead of barry, tens of thousands of tourists and convention goers packed up and left town. Disappointed that uncomfortable. Go back. We dont need you here. Reporter but in myrtle grove, louisiana, a lowlying town under mandatory evacuation, Warren Lawrence made the dangerous decision to stay put. I moved in knowing that when a hurricane comes or high wind comes, we going to have water. Report and in st. Bernard parish authorities warning anyone who stays to keep out of flood waters. You will get a knock at your door. Youre going to have to deal with us. Period, the end. Reporter the army corps of engineers working with the National Hurricane center, as you noted, have recalculated the storm surge in the Mississippi River lower so it does appear that that threat, which was a lot of concern going into this, is it diminished. Mother nature can be fickle, guys. We will wait to see what ultimately happens. Right now especially here in new orleans they believe that those levies will not be over topped meaning that the water will not spill over which could mean that theres going to be less impact than was initially feared. Absolutely. Well hope for that. Kerry sanders, thank you. We want to get the latest on barry. Wnbcs dave price is here for dylan. This is not the wind but the water today. Yeah, and luck. Were going to talk about it all right now. Lets take a look at where barry is at this point and where its headed. 55 miles to the south southeast of morgan city, louisiana, with winds still at 65 Miles Per Hour. Whether or not this becomes a hurricane all an issue of semantics because as kerry mentioned, this is an issue of surge and rain. Thats what were going to be dealing with over the long term. It makes landfall within the next few hours and continues its path through the Mississippi Valley into the midwest and ohio valley before it makes a turn eastward. The other issue were going to be dealing with is the speed with which the storm moves because as it sits over these saturated areas, the concerns for flooding exist. Lets go through the alerts which are posted. 8 Million People affected all the way east of biloxi and all the way to the west from camryn, louisiana, to the texas border to the north by lake charles. Storm surges 3 to 6 feet at this point. 1 to 3 feet as we head inland and new orleans right along the cusp or we could see significant storm surge, but were going to continue to watch as this water moves in and continues to sit over the area. Flash flood threats even though were focused right now on the coast line, it spreads inland and all the way to the carolinas where we could see rainfall rates through parts of this region at 3 inches per hour and a storm which just sits over this area. Now keep in mind we could see upwards of 10 to 15 inches of rape and rain and in some areas up to 25 inches of rain and thats the big concern for flooding. Kerry mentioned it looks like the levies will hold around new orleans cresting at 27 feet. We have 20 feet of room. All of that is before we factor in the rains. Well continue to keep an eye on it. Another major task for the gulf region, dave. Thank you. Breaking news overseas. A terror attack at a hotel in somalia. Merges are among the dead. Matt bradley has the story. Reporter this attack just ended a couple of hours ago. You mentioned 26 people who were killed. That number has been rising throughout the morning and local Officials Say it could rise even further as the day goes on. So this is what happened. Al shabaab, a terrorist group based in somalia, attacked a hotel where local politicians and elders had been meeting trying to plan elections for september. So among the dead were some prominent local politicians, tribal elders and foreigners, at least two americans are thought to have been killed, but nbc news is trying to verify that with the u. S. State department and were trying to get confirmation once they come in. Al shabab is a terrorist organization that used to control all of somalia and theyve been terrorizing the region, including neighboring countries like kenya, for years. Now they dont really have any land now outside of rural areas but attacks like this show that theyre still very capable of launching major terror attacks in major cities. So heres what happened. They launched a terror attack into this hotel and it launched a 14 hour siege that only ended at 7 a. M. This morning when commandos rushed in. Matt bradley, thank you. We are waiting for what could be a tense weekend across the country. Scheduled raids nationwide expected to round up undocumented immigrants here. On friday the Vice President , mike pence, visited a pair of detention facilities and he got an earful from some of those being detained at one of them. Nbcs molly hunter is following this story for us. Molly, good morning. Guys, good morning to you. On the eve of these raids, thats right, Vice President pence has visited detention facilities down in texas. We have video of him reacting as he first walked into those rooms. He said later he expted the overcrowding because the system wasnt designed for this. Hes firing back calling on democrats to end a crisis. Grabbing onto the chain link fence, detainees shouted to the cameras. No shower, no shower they say. This is what Vice President mike pence saw friday on his visit to a detention facility in mccallen, texas. Journalists inside described a stench and said men had tears in their eyes. We are not terrorists. Reporter earlier the Vice President visited a new facility built months ago that appears cleaner. Are you comfortable . Are you being well taken care of . I couldnt be more impressed with the compassionate work that our customs and Border Protection are doing at this facility. Reporter overnight tweet that go this is a prime example of why we need to secure our borders. The facility is over crowded and our system is overwhelmed. His visit comes on the eve of Mass Immigration raids set to kick off sunday. So people come into our country illegally. Were taking them out legally. Very simple. Reporter the raids canceled last month after plans were leaked to the media, target 2,000 undocumented immigrants in ten major cities including chicago, atlanta, miami, new york, and here in los angeles. The operation is only aimed at immigrants who are now under court orders to leave the u. S. Are your friends afraid . Are your colleagues afraid . Is your community afraid . Im afraid. Im a daca recipient. I. C. E. Can pick me up any time if they wanted to. My familys afraid. My community is afraid. Theyre very afraid. Theyre not alone. Reporter across the country a show of support as so many families prepare for the worst. Reporter and advocates and attorneys hearsay as families go into this weekend, if you dont need to be outside on sunday, theyre cautioning people to stay indoors. Most importantly, to know your rights. Everyone has the right to remain silent. You dont have to share your immigration status when asked and no one has to open the door unless i. C. E. Has a warrant signed by a judge. A lot of really nervous people going into this weekend be. Molly hunter, thank you. Theres been another shakeup in President Trumps cabinet. This morning his labor secretary is out. This after alex acosta came under fire for reaching a widely criticized plea deal with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein back when acosta was a federal prosecutor in florida. Nbcs hans nichols is in florida. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you guys. The president arrived back in the white house after traveling to ohio and accepting the resignation of the secretary in the morning. He departed under controversy. Hes the first to leave for a decision made during the bush administration. This morning President Donald Trump hoping to put his past with jeffrey ensteen behind him by parting ways with his current labor secretary. I just want to let you know this was him, not me, because im with him. Reporter alex acosta resigning amid fallout from a 2003 plea deal with epstein which he tried to defend earlier this week. The goal here was straightforward, put epstein behind bars. Reporter but acosta faced mounting criticism for the deal he helped broker as United States attorney which resulted in epstein spending only 13 months in prison for soliciting prostitution from a minor. I did not think it is right and fair for this administrations Labor Department to have epstein as a focus rather than the incredible economy we have today. Reporter the president explaining his decision to accept acostas resignation. The fact is he has been a fantastic secretary of labor. Reporter while insisting that his relationship with epstein soured years ago i was not a fan of Jeffrey Epstein and you watch people yesterday saying that i threw him out of a club. I didnt want anything to do with him. That was many, many years ago. It shows you one thing, that i have good taste. Reporter the house passed a bill for 9 11 survivors after public prodding and shaming from jon stewart. This is necessary. It is urgent. And it is morally right. Reporter Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has vowed to take up that bill before the august recess. The senate will also need to confirm a new labor secretary. And the news related to special counsel Robert Muellers testimony on capitol hill, that testimony originally scheduled for this wednesday has now been pushed back to a week to july 24th to allow more time for the hearing. Peter. Hans nichols at the white house, thank you. We want to bring in host and joy read, shes author the the book the man who sold america. Good morning. Thanks for having me. Were going to ask you about alex acosta. Were going to ask you about the potential i. C. E. Raid and Detention Centers. Republicans say this is proof there is a crisis. Democrats say its a manufactured crisis and it was created by the Trump Administration. How do you resolve this . Theres no reason to hold people if the idea was to massively deport people who are in the country without documents, this he could simply do that. The fact that the Trump Administration is Holding People for 20, 40, 50 days, long beyond what the law allows, this is Something Else going on. The fact that they preannounced that they were going to do raids to take people who are undocumented into it, you wouldnt announce it in advance. What does it say . It says theyre trying to announce to their base to show his base that they are evicting people who his base doesnt want to be here. So this is visual. I think its meant to appear cruel. I think that the cruelty, as has been said very often, is the point. Let me ask you about acosta, his exit from labor makes another cabinet post not filled from the administration with an unprecedented amount of vacancies. Yes. Without confirmation, can anybody filling in in the interim really do their job effectively . What weve learned about the Trump Administration from a lot of books that have been written and just from reporting, donald trump likes the idea of having acting because it gives him, as he says, more flexibility. Without having congress being able to confirm people, being able to vet people, he can put whoever he wants in there. They can be acting for as long as possible. He has more acting administrators than any other president ial administration weve ever seen. Having that chaos allows him to get around a lot of the restrictions and rules that are supposed to restrict his presidency. Can we talk about democrats in 2020 . The real division among democrats is direction. We have a new poll, the first from nbc news wall street journal after this first democratic debate. It shows that 54 of democrats likely to vote are in a caucus say they want sweeping change, big change. Just 41 say they want smaller, more realistic changes they describe. What do you think the right path forward is . I was looking at a pew poll that showed its about 50 50 between democrats and progressive and liberals and those that are moderate or conservative. Its a party that literally is pulling in two Different Directions at one time but the reality is any time that you have an incumbent in office, its a changed election. So i think its odd to me that democrats are questioning that. You have an incumbent in office. Its very difficult to unseed a president ial incumbent. Is it difficult to go too far left . We have to define it. There is a numeric majority in the country for things Like Health Care for all people. Thats a majority opinion. Yeah. So a lot of things we used to think of as left opinion are now majority opinion. So i think when people are looking at a Supreme Court decision that could end health care for 20 Million People, its a whole different conversation than talking about, you know, health care in the abstract. People can lose their health care. Most americans want americans to act as health care. These arent left opinions. Before you leave us this morning, lets talk about your book. You know this country is so divided right now. What do you hope that book accomplishes . I want to just kind of tell the story and make sure people know how we got here, the truth of how we got here, that it wasnt economic anxiety, that we do have a fundamental challenge in the country. We are becoming a majority nonwhite country. There is a part of the american poll particular that is terrified of that, uncomfortable, that is angry and is fighting it and that the Republican Party has given fully into that fight. So we have a fundamental challenge of having to confront what our history actually is and the reason we have the president we have and we have to confront it because now our foreign adversaries can use our racial divisions against us. Its a National Security threat. It is a serious conversation. Not going to end here. No. Nice to see you. Thank you very much. You can catch am joy at 10 a. M. Eastern on msnbc. Lets check in with dave price now for the rest of the forecast. Dave . Were keeping an