The president s policy moves, publicly expressing concerns about the state of americas strategic alliances around the world and the state of our democracy . Were going to get to all of that in a moment, but were going to begin with the new forecast out for hurricane dorian. It is getting stronger. Our meteorologist derek van dam is at the cnn Weather Center with the very latest. The forecast just came out. What do you know about the forecasts path and strength . Don, im going to be honest with you, it is difficult to envision a Labor Day Weekend without significant impacts along the southeast coast of the United States. Sustained winds, 85 Miles Per Hour. It is moving away from puerto rico as we speak. Very quickly as well, at a northwesterly pace, about 13 Miles Per Hour. Leaving the British Virgin islands and nothing between here and the southeast coast of the u. S. , specifically florida between it. So there is no land interaction to help slow the storm or help disorganize this storm. So all it has is warm ocean waters to help fuel the storm. Look at the projected path. This is the latest information from the National Hurricane center. Still a category 1 by tomorrow morning. Look how that ramps up thursday evening to a category 2 to a category 3. Really, all of our computer models indicating the potential exists for this storm to become Even Stronger and larger as it approaches the florida peninsula as we head into sunday evening and into the day on monday. This is not what you want to see on a radar four days out from impacting the u. S. A very symmetrical eye wall just north of puerto rico. Wow. And nothing but water between the storm now before it gets to the coast. Ive got to ask you, derek, this storm, dorians path has shifted over the past day. Its erratic. If you recall, just 24 hours ago we expected this to be not such a significant storm system and that was because of a lot of dry air in place. There is an upper level High Pressure system that is going to help drive this storm a little further to the west and, unfortunately, well, fortunately for puerto rico it was spared a direct hit but that was because of a low pressure system just to the west. It just helped push it a little bit further away from the country. But, unfortunately, that spells bad news for florida peninsula as we head into the weekend. All computer models picking up on a major hurricane impacting us by labor day. Derek, youre going to be very busy. Thank you. We appreciate your time. Derek van dam, our meteorologist. Joining me now on the phone is noaa Hurricane Hunter jack parish, hes on board a plane that has been flying through the hurricane. Youre in the midst of this storm right now, passing right through it. What are you seeing . Yeah, we are actually we left the storm about 2 1 2 hours ago. Were coming across florida, returning to our home base. We saw a pretty darn healthy category 1 storm. Made three passes through it. The strongest side was the eastern side and the beautiful radar picture, as you indicated, from the puerto rico radar. So, listen, you know, you heard im sure the broadcast here. You heard derek. You heard me. Could this storm could dorian intensify . You said its a category 1 now. Could it intensify to a major category 3 as it approaches the u. S. East coast and how is this storm going to change as it moves over the open waters . Well, its over the open water. Did not go over puerto rico proper. That would have disrupted its structure. So, again, its got kind of an open running feel now over that warm water. So its just really a matter of whether the inner core wants to intensify. All signs look like thats happening at the moment and were going to keep noaas going to keep sending airplanes out every 12 hours to go through the center and mark the progress of how this storm is what its doing as far as intensification and whether it makes that turn toward the florida coast. Yeah. So, listen, youve been youve done this before. Youve flown over hurricanes. If you look at dorian and you look at the eye and how its intensifying, the open water, how what kind of damage if it continues along the path that its its on now, what kind of damage could folks expect down in florida . You know, the path four days down the road, you know, the average air in there is Something Like 150 miles. So its very hard to pinpoint where the worst damage could occur in roughly four days. It certainly the populated east coast of florida is hard for it to hit a place that doesnt have a lot of buildings and doesnt have a lot of people, so everybody just has to keep paying attention to that, those Hurricane Center updates and reports from the aircraft. We just saw an entirely different storm today than yesterday. Yesterday it was a mess. It was very difficult to make any structure at all out on the radar. Today it definitely looked like a hurricane. Jack parish, our Hurricane Hunter. Thank you very much, sir. Be safe. Well check back in with you. I want to get to san juan and captain eric king of the u. S. Coast guard. He oversees both san juan and the u. S. Virgin islands. So glad to have you, captain. Dorian barrelled right into the u. S. Virgin islands. What are you hearing about the conditions there . Yeah, thanks for having me on. The fortunate i think comparatively for the most recently we compare ourselves to irma and maria. Certainly were spared a blow from that. But our preparations for with for the storm didnt really change. We were still ready to take the impact on and were set to go tomorrow to try to reopen the ports and waterways over there. Youre in san juan now, correct . Yes, sir. What are you seeing . We were fortunately spared, as you saw the track of the storm, it really minimal impacts here in the san juan metro area. Certainly impacts to the east of puerto rico over into st. Thomas, st. John and st. Croix as well. How did the u. S. Coast guard go about preparing for dorian . So, here in san juan we have seven Fast Response cutters and another Coastal Patrol boat. We sent them down ahead of time to curacoa to stage up, to respond back to dorian in puerto rico and the virgin islands. In addition, the coast guard brought aircraft down from florida to set up staging for urgent search and rescue for after the storm. As we roll into this afternoon and tomorrow morning, well send our teams out to do waterways and ports assessments to make sure we can get maritime operation back here in puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands. Captain eric king of the u. S. Coast guard. Thank you no your time tonight. Appreciate it. Thank you, sir. Have a good night. Bringing dangerous rains to puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands. Joining us now the storm hit st. John hard. How are you doing . Whats it been like riding the storm out . Hey, thanks for having me on. First off, im just glad that its over. It was a lot stronger than anyone had anticipated for here. It was forecasted to be just a tropical storm, you know, hitting far south of us with maybe 35mileanhour winds, but it quickly intensified and grew to we had 82mileanhour winds sustained for a little bit there with gusts of 111mileanhour, you know, winds. It was just intense, you know . Nobody really expected that and still a little rattled and frazzled and dealing with my flooded apartment at the moment. Yeah. But hanging in there. Yeah. Glad its gone. Have you been able to venture out . No, were still under an islandwide curfew. Its been extended until 8 00 a. M. Tomorrow. So i havent left the house. We are currently without power right now. Its an islandwide blackout. Im standing on my balcony. I can still hear i guess its a hurricane siren. Its been on all day. And dont really see much light except for st. Thomas. Youve lived in st. John for, what, 15 years now . You were there for irma, hurricane irma. How would you compare the two storms so far . Oh, gosh, irma you cant compare anything to her. She was absolutely terrifying and devastating, to say the least, but this storm while not as powerful was still, you know, it just goes to show you that you cant predict mother nature. And you need to be prepared. I had great advice from a local director of love city strong, which is a local organization on st. John that stormed the day after irma. They said, you know, always prepare for worse than the worst case scenario. So if youre expecting a tropical storm, prepare for a category 2 hurricane. Everyone prepared for the most part that i know of, as did i. And, you know, we were safe and fine, but we didnt board up because the forecast said it was just going to be a tropical storm. Maybe got a little cocky and thought that that was going to be okay, but definitely should have boarded up. All of the storm shutters were slamming against the house all day. It brought back a lot of memories of irma. A lot of tree breaking, a lot of trees down. Hearing from friends across the island. As i stood and watched it from my balcony i could see trees flying down into the valley and snapping in half. Watching a neighbors roof probab people away. Probably not fixed from irma. 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What it takes to protect. ® as florida and the southeastern part of the country are bracing for hurricane dorian, the Trump Administration is diverting 155 million in Femas Disaster Relief Funds and using that money for its immigration crackdown at the southern border. I want to discuss now with ryan lizza and juliette kayyem. Good evening to both of you. Juliette, were just at the start of the Hurricane Season. Do you think this is going to affect femas ability to do its job . Oh, absolutely. The idea that it wont just assumes that money doesnt matter. It matters, and particularly for fema, because the main role of fema is to support local and state entities and surge resources at the time its needed the most, in particular a hurricane. Without that funding theyre not going to be able to have the personnel to guide those resources, nor are they going to have the money just from where we know its being taken from to assist the states and localities after the hurricane hits in terms of rehabilitation and resiliency building. Its a nightmare from the perspective of entering the Hurricane Season and its just idiotic because, of course, we know that the real threat is not, you know, the wall and the border but is actually Climate Change and what were likely to see this weekend. Yeah. Ryan, the president thought this morning would be an appropriate time to insult and disparage puerto rico. Heres what he tweeted. He said fema and all others are ready and will do a great job. When they do, let them know it and give them a big thank you, not like last time, that includes from the incompetent mayor of san juan. Puerto rico is one of the most corrupt places on earth. And by the way, im the best thing thats ever happened to puerto rico. This was an island that was in danger of being hit by a major storm. I feel like im reading something from, like, a 12yearold, you know, girls tweeting, i know you are but what am i . Youre so ugly. Eww. Its unbelievable. Just childish taunts of an island of american citizens as they are facing a hurricane. That the president of the United States is responsible for protecting the territory of puerto rico from that kind of damage. So, i mean, besides being, like, a dereliction of his duty as commander in chief and president , its obviously fairly immature. And i suppose, you know, if you want to be even more cynical, its part of the pattern that weve seen for a very long time of just finding some group of people to attack, to vilify that perhaps he thinks his own political supporters, you know, get a sort of charge out of. And if, you know but wouldnt most people read that and say, what . Like, this is the president . Most people would read when he talks about the squad in the house and think why is he doing that . Yeah. But he seems to always find people and theyre very often people who, you know, maybe are a little darker skinned or speak a different language to vilify. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe that has nothing to do with this this time. Hes just pissed off because some of the political leaders in puerto rico had mean things to say about him, but hes the president of the United States. His job is to protect those people as a hurricane bears down on them and hes undermining that. Go ahead, juliette. I know you wanted to jump in. No, i just think what hes also doing is hes greasing the runway for his failures as commander in chief, as ryan was saying, by moving all of that funding, by denigrating fema over the last couple of years, by not supporting what we call an allhazards approach to homeland security, meaning be ready for anything not just, you know, border issues. He is basically signaling that the federal response is going to be bad, so hes trying to protect himself. Look, ive said often this is the in some ways this is the easy stuff for a president because what people want in a crisis is two things from their leader. They want numbers, right . What resources are being deployed, how many ships, how many people, how many shelters . And number two, hope. Thats what people need in a crisis. If youre puerto rican, all you get is the wall and blame. Not only from the president s perspective crazy talk. For a puerto rican, thats got to be absolutely terrifing. Now the trajectory is moving, but nonetheless its not without its consequences. Listen, i would imagine, juliette, you have teenage kids, dont you . If you saw them tweeting Something Like that youd be like, uh, stop it. Dont do that again. Wheres your phone . Give me your phone. Don, thats such a good point because who look, the teenager here is trump, but who are the parents . Yeah. Who are the people that should be speaking up and standing up . Its republicans in congress. Yeah. Their lack of backbone in challenging him at every turn when he does something that they know and will tell you privately is beneath the office of the presidency, the fact that they dont speak up is what allows it to continue. When you dont face any consequences from within your own political party, you keep doing it. Juliette, you know, i yeah. I cant believe again that we have to discuss any of this, but cnn is reporting yeah. That President Trump is becoming increasingly rattled over potential of an economic downturn. Sources say hes looking for an accomplishment. Right. To run on in 2020. Is that why hes pressing this wall thing and spinning when there is there is no new wall that has been built. Right. This is dilapidated, you know, barrier that has that needed to be repaired. Why is he trying to spin this . Well, because he needs a win. And as i was saying earlier, you know, he sees failure in a lot of places, not just the economy, but in our, you know, in our response and all sorts of things going on. Just as an aside, you know, we may now be designate as a country that has not eradicated the measles. Thats kind of hard to do. All this bad news. Hes shifting it to this one visual. It hasnt changed. It hasnt grown. Lets not forget, hes moved the military there. Hes moved military resources there. Because he needs a narrate that is going to work for him. I dont think its going to work because whats happening now is a think a greater understanding that not only is the wall unnecessary for border enforcement, but that it has consequences, and finally that mexico never paid. And if if in this campaign that is not said every single day then, you know, shame on the other party, but minnesota did not pay. Yeah. Thank you both. Appreciate your time. Have a good night. You too. 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