Coast but poses a threat. Millions under storm warnings with flooding, gusty winds and strong rip currents expected. And, sprint to the finish. With the election 64 days away, Hillary Clinton and donald trump begin the last leg in their battle for the white house. As bill clinton takes a break from campaigning to hang with beyonce. Today, monday, september 5th, 2016. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. 7 00 a. M. On the west coast on this labor day monday morning. Im willie geist along side tamron hall. Quite an image to show you Hillary Clinton returning to the campaign trail with a new plane, her Campaign Slogan right on the home strej for both campaigns. Donald trump has his plane, she has hers. More ahead. Lets begin with the current president speaking out following a key meeting with vladamir putin on the sideline of the summit in china. Ron, go morning. Reporter a long day of talks for president obama what turned out to be a 90minute session with vladamir putin. Candid, blunt. They failed to Reach Agreement tease suffering there and the blood shed. President obama said he confronted the leader about cyber hacking, in the u. S. Mr. Obama said hes trying to keep the situation in perspective and not escalate it. Weve had problems with cyber intrusions from russia in the past, what we cannot do is have a situation in which suddenly this becomes the wild, wild west. Russian hackers trying to influence the president ial election. He made a pitch for the trade deal he wants in this part of the world, a deal both candidates run forge president obama. Mr. Obama will become the first sitting u. S. President to visit, a mission he says is to rebuild trust. Back to you. Ron allen starting us off in china. Thanks. During his News Conference president am the ongoing controversy with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, his decision to kneel in the National Anthem in protest to Police Brutality and Racial Injustice hit with heavy criticism. Gadi schwartz has the latest. Reporter good morning. The president weighing in on the kaepernick controversy saying sometimes these conversations are messy but they are the way democracy works. Knee. From sitting to kneeling, Colin Kaepernick silence sideline protest now catching the attention of the president. This morning while speaking at the g20 summit president obama said kaepernick was exercising his constitutional right. When it comes to the flag and National Anthem and the meaning that holds for our men and women in uniform and those who fought for us, you know, that is a tough thing for them to get past. To then hear what his deeper concerns are. Reporter kaepernicks protest has spread igniting both anger and support. The local police union threatening to boycott games with the police chief quick to disagree, saying officers will issue with kaepernicks actions he supported his constitutional right to protest. U. S. Soccer star Megan Rapinoe also knelt before her game on sunday saying it was a little nod to the quarterback and everything he is standing for right now. Meanwhile, a close look at kaepernicks post show his decision to sit out the anthem followed a dramatic shift in the tone of his posts that started around october of last year. Thats when pictures mostly of consistent posts about Racial Injustice, Police Shootings and historic quotes and speeches on inequality. The quarterback even taking to instagraham in explanation about the socks depicting pigs in Police Uniforms saying it was in protest of rogue cops. The sale of his jersey has spiked going from 20th to number one in the nfl store on clearance last season now flying kaepernick has publicly pledged 1 million to charities that help fight facial injustice but has yet to offer specifics on where that money is going to go. Tamron, willie. Thank you. Now to the holiday weather and hermines impact on the labor day plans for millions up and down the east coast. The storm whipping up dangerous storm surge. First, Gabe Gutierrez is out on the east end of long island here in new york. Reporter good morning. Hermine is meandering off the coast, there is a Tropical Storm warning in effect for this area, no rain is expected but there are strong winds and dangerous rip currents in the forecast. All this forcing swimmers out of the water on this labor day. After slogging through the south, and the midatlantic, this morning hermine is spinning off the northeast coast, kicking up dangerous waves and rip the piece of the storm lower than they predicted so we can imagine that some of these effects will last through wednesday. Reporter long island under threat of storm surges. This a view from the cruise ship anthem of the seas. New jersey to delaware to maryland the dangerous conditions keeping swimmers out of the water even with sunny skies sunday. People didnt think it was going to be this nice but as you can see its not a day to go swimming. Saturdays washout the financial hit already stinging on this labor day. The shop owner estimates hermine cost him 80 of business. Before school starts, so its a big deal. You cant fight Mother Nature. Reporter virginia hit hard by weekend flooding, and after still surveying the damage. As the storms torrential rain led to swollen rivers and new flooding sunday. Hermines aftermath not over. At least two deaths blamed on this storm, one in florida, the other in North Carolina. Today, some coastal communities are preparing for the possibility of more flooding while other vacationers are trying to make the best of it this labor day. Gabe in montauk, thanks. Dylan is in for awi on the storm and the holiday outlook. Interesting mix of things. The storm is really offshore. Its more of a coast of thing. Were still looking at some of the clouds working in. Some of that gusty wind is starting to work in as well as this storm tries to move farther to the north and west. Keep in mind, it still has winds of 70 Miles Per Hour so most of the effects of the rain will be felt across nantucket, cape cod, maybe into southern and eastern parts of rhode island. But the storm itself is going to midatlantic saw a lot of sunshine this weekend, its really more of a beach thing. You really need to stay out of the water because now from North Carolina all the way into new england, thats where rip currents are going to be dangerous. We do still have Tropical Storm warnings for parts of long island, also into southern new england. We have the potential of the storm surge w. This storm out here it pushes this water onshore and we skild from about 1 to 3 feet of water above the normal high tide. Thats wheu coastal flooding and beach erosion. Mild to moderate flooding. The winds, most of our windiest conditions with gusts to 45 Miles Per Hour will be across eastern long island and southern new england. Well still see wind gusts near 25 to 30 Miles Per Hour along the rest of nouj into new york city too. Rain is not so much an issue with about an inch and a half. Its weird to talk about this hermine but not so much the problems out there. Dylan, thank you. With the election over two months away now labor day marks the start of the final push in the president ial race. Kristen welker is on the campaign trail in cleveland. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you. Hillary clinton will be back out on the campaign trail here in cleveland after taking several days off for fundraising. Donald trump will also be here in cleveland today. Hes making a new push for africanamerican voters and also getting new questions about his immigration polind he still supports mass deportations, this race kicking into high gear. With the National Polls tightening Hillary Clinton is ramping up, looking to solidify support in ohio today with tim kaine by her side. Shes also sending a team of surrogates to other states, bill clinton, Bernie Sanders and the vice president. And this morning there is ongoing fallout after the fbi released notes from their 3 1 2 saying more than 3 dozen times she couldnt remember something including some briefings on how to handle sensitive information. And that she didnt know the letter c on an email went confidential. Kaine defending her. What these notes demonstrate is in very significant detail why the fbi chose not to go forward with any additional proceedings. Reporter all fodder for republicans. More evidence that hillary candidate for president. Reporter as donald trump makes a push to court africanamerican voters who prefer clinton on saturday trump visited a black church for the first time. Im here to listen to your messable. Reporter protesters said the outreach is too little too late. Trumps efforts may also be complicated by one of his top surrogates, mark burns, bachelors degree from a college where he only attended one semester. This was wrong, i wasnt truthful then and i have to take full responsibility for my actions. Meanwhile, trump is facing criticism over his fiery immigration speech from Arizona Republican senator jeff flake. Arizona should still be a red state but donald trump with the rhetoric hes used and the characterizations of you know, many of the states population, have put the state in play. Reporter trump firing back calling flake very weak, and ineffective. It is a big day for the clinton campaign, secretary clinton is going to be making her Maiden Voyage on her plane with the press for the first time, you see her, these are live pictures of her shaking hands before she boards the plane. This is in west chester, new york, about to take off for cleveland. Now, this comes amid criticism she hasnt been accessible it is yet another indication that this race is heading into the home stretch. Willie, tamron. Kristen welker, thank you. John is the chief washington correspondent for cnbc. Good morning. Happy labor day. Lets launch in. We see the poll numbers, the headlines. What is the state of the race now in this home stretch . Hillary clinton has the advantage. The edge has come off of the postconvention lead she built when she had a strong conventi making mistakes. But she is ahead not only nationally and most of the battleground states. The onus is on donald trump to make something happen, to change the dynamic and hes got two months. Where are the opportunities to change that dynamic . If you look at all of the measures of campaigns he is outspent, 101. He doesnt have the ground game obviously in swing states that Hillary Clinton has. How does he change the dynamic . Well, right willie, he doesnt have the ground game, he has in a popular president barack obama, of former president bill clinton, biden, all the ones kristin mentioned. The one opportunity that donald trump has is the three president ial debates, those start late this month. And donald trump has got to come across in a way that adds to the level of support that he has and stops subtracting and thing likes the argument with jeff flake is the kind of thing that he needs not to do in order to make progress. You look at the month of august for both candidates with Hillary Clinton, the fbi report, the clinton foundation, with donald trump stumbling over how to reach out to minorities, and also his immigration speech which even his campaign is still split over where he stands on mass deportation. With all of that you hear people say this does boil down to sadly what they see as a lesser of two evils. Is that going to be the argument or other person i should say. Yes. We have two unpopular nominees who both have significant problems. Now, Donald Trumps problems are just bigger than Hillary Clintons. Thats why she is ahead. So you see last week the revelation of those fbi interview notes which turned attention to the question about her emails, did she tell truth and what couldnt she remember. On the other hand you had a story about donald trump paying a fine for an illegal contribution from his Family Foundation thats with misreported to the irs. So, everything that Hillary Clinton, all of the baggage shes carrying, is matched by baggage that donald trump is carrying. We are definitely in the home stretch. Remember the days when we kept saying there is so much time. A lot of time ahead. Not much left. Indeed. Thank you so much. Something else to watch in the president race this week the first joint candidate event of to talk national security. And Veterans Issues during a special commander in chief forum. Watch it live on wednesday night, 8 00 eastern on nbc and msnbc. Breaking overnight rescuers searching for survivors this morning after a structure collapsed in tel aviv. Officials say several people are trapped, at least two people killed. More than 20 others injured. Members of the military have been called in. The structure was the Office Building thats under construction. No word yet on what caused that collapse. Dylan is back with the rest of our forecast today. Weve got hermine in the northeast and out west were actually enjoying nice weather, sunshine today from seattle to oregon into california, we do have mountain snow likely across parts of the Higher Elevations of montana. Above 6500 feet. Temperaturewise, its going to be pretty nice. Oregon about bedford, about 81, San Francisco 65. Its going to be cooler than average especially back through the Northern Rockies where temperatures could be 10 to 15 degrees below average. Elsewhere, besides that mountain snow we have this cold front, this is going to trigger a slight risk of stronger storms especially minneapolisst. Paul and sioux city, looking at the chance of seeing isolated tornados, large hail, damaging wind gusts and your torrential downpours too. It is starting to heat up average in the 80s and lower 90s. Some thunderstorms today likely along the gulf coast, we could see heavier downpours near most of southern louisiana, also southern florida. Well likely see some of the heavier rain in the northeast we still have hermine sitting out over the water, so even if the sun is shining in maryland and delaware, rip currents are still going to be dangerous. Well see rain across most of southeast massachusetts. Kelly lots of sunshine. Winds have gotten lighter. The high 92. Overnight tonight looking at clear skies, cooler temperatures. The lows going down to 70 with winds shifting to the west at 510. Lots more sunshine tomorrow with and thats your latest forecast. Thank you very much. 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