Shootings as pressure mounts on Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell to do something when Congress Returns next week. And union jacked. Britains new Prime Minister loses his majority over his pro brexit stance. Even as Public Opinion begins to turn against his insistence on leaving the e. U. By halloween. As the right honorable gentleman knows very well, you dont negotiate in public. And we are making substantial progress. Order. And good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Were following Hurricane Dorian now, heading for the florida coastline, georgia and the carolinas. Theyre bracing for the storm to hit in the coming hours there with destructive winds and life threatening storm surges. There are tropical or storm surge warnings from florida to hampton, virginia. Dorian has decimated large part of the bahamas, especially abaco island where relief efforts are underway. Joining me now al roker and nbcs julia bagg in daytona beach. Julia, first to you, the storm heading for the florida coastline. What are people doing right now . Reporter and let me just show you how the waves have been smashing into the coast here, just in a matter of a few moments. They can come up pretty quickly here. People are out here as you can see taking pictures. This beach technically closed but its a sight thats hard to resist. And so really something to behold, even with dorian offshore just how much fury, how much force this storm has. Weve been talking to people who live around here who know what its like to experience Something Like this. Top, thank you so much for joining us. You live here. What do you think when you see dorian, how close a call this has been . It had me on edge for a little bit. These things are so unpredictable. You cant tell. We have a history of storms coming right up to us and then turning at the last moment. That sometimes can add to complacency. Im amazed the town prepped this time. Reporter we watched this storm for so long. Finally were seeing the effects now when you look out onto those waves you see them coming up here. Were trying to it took a while to get here, thats for sure. They had it on mosey mode. But it gave people extra time, i guess. Reporter it sure did. Thank you so much for speaking with us. I want to show you, andrea, the impacts. We were able to walk out here just a short while ago. A little bit more. But now, again, with the approaching high tide, which hits around 12 30 and dorian just off our coast, this is what happens here. Ive been checking in with police, i spoke to an officer, were not seeing damage in the inland parts. This was the area that was evacuated here and you can see while. Daytona beach famous because you can drive on this beach. Right now, the ocean working to swallow up a great deal of it and speaking with Emergency Managers, beach erosion is a concern here. They had a crew out here checking how things were. Its something theyre going to have to deal with once the storm passes. Andrea s and andr andrea. Thanks to you, thank to tom. Things on mosey mode and now it sure isnt. Lets turn to al roker with more on dorians path. What are you predicting . Heres the deal, andrea. I want people to understand that even though this is down to a category 2 storm, its kind of a give and take here. So theres a little less the winds are a little lower, but not by a lot. Still were talking 100 mile per hour winds plus. But the scope of the size of the winds have increased. The hurricane loses some strength the winds spread out 175 miles from the center. We have had tornado watches, tornado warnings up for st. Augustine. Thats a problem with these systems as they approach the coast. You can see tornados. And so later on, weve got a risk of Severe Weather going on from just east of savannah up to myrtle beach this evening. We could see tropical tornados. They basically are quick to spoon up, they move by quickly and theyre rain wrapped so theyre hard to see. Right now we have tropical gusts for jacksonville, daytona beach, titusville and melbourne. Savannah seeing the winds pick up as well. This is the latest from the National Hurricane center. A category 2 storm, 195 miles south of charleston, South Carolina. 105 mile per winds moving at 9 miles per hour. Not fast by hurricane standards. We have watchings and warnings stretching from florida up into virginia. Hurricane warnings from north of melbourne to Cape Hatteras. Tropical storm watches for virginia and Tropical Storm warning back into northeastern florida. Heres what we expect as far as the track is concerned. Its starting to move a little bit closer in some of the models to the North Carolina coast. By friday morning, between wilmington and Cape Hatteras. Lets show you the other two models. The american model and the european model. The european model makes possible landfall sometime friday morning just south of wilmington and then later on into Cape Hatteras. Well be watching that very, very closely. Heres what we see as far as individual impacts. Today, jacksonville, 30 to 60 mile per hour winds. Storm surge of three to five feet. This is Tropical Storm force wind field. As we move into thursday morning, look at charleston. Look how far inland the Tropical Force Winds could go. Storm surge of four to seven feet. Rainfall of 8 to 10 inches. 55 to 85 mile per hour, a storm surge of 4 to 7 feet and rainfall of 6 to 15 inches. Norfolk, we think thats going to have issues as well as we move into friday afternoon. Theyre going to see, again, youve got the hampton bays area, i think storm surge is going to be an issue as well. Heres what we look at the storm surge potentially, you can see with the high tides 1 15 this morning and it continues into Cape Hatteras by 12 32 in the Early Morning tomorrow morning. Rainfall amounts upward of 15 inches. The other issue is going to be Power Outages. From west palm beach, daytona beach, jacksonville, spread to scattered. Look once we get into coastal georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. Were talking about widespread to extensive Power Outages. And even as you get inland, raleigh, you may be looking in the raleigh area at Power Outages around. Widespread Power Outages into virginia as we virginia as well. Even though its a category 2 there can be extensive damage. I tell you what, andrea, i think anybody along this cone from georgia right on into North Carolina and up into virginia has to be concerned about this system. Andrea . Al roker, thank you. Al, from your reporting today, this storm could have much larger inland impacts than what wed seen yesterday. This model is shifting potentially. Thank you so much. You bet. Its going to be a tough night along that coast. Were learning more about the dire situation in the bahamas after Hurricane Dorian dumped 40 inches of rain, 185 mile per hour winds at the max over that country for 40 continuous hours. At least seven people have been killed so far as far as we know. The red cross is estimating more than 13,000 homes were damaged or destroyed. 62,000 people on the abaco islands and grand bahamas do not have access to fresh drinking water. Im joined by the founder and ceo of bahamas evac services, an air Ambulance Company assisting in rescue operations in the bahamas. Tell us how extensive is the damage and what are you learning about possible casualties . Yes. We have definitely obviously theres a tremendous amount of damage and were currently assessing. The priority is search and rescue and getting immediate emergency supplies to people who need it. Theres significant the weather has been decreasing significantly. Weve been coordinating with the bahamas Civil Aviation and all the emergency authorities here. Everybodys been doing an amazing job as far as that goes. The problem is we have a lot of private and commercial aircraft that are standing by to assist, however, everybody is pmaking te assessment of the runways to insure we can do those flights safely. As you probably are aware, those areas are not they do not have an Operational AirTraffic Control center, so were trying to develop a system where we can safely execute those flights getting emergency supplies in and people out. Theres significant road blockenibloc blockages to those airports. Were working with everybody and trying to get clearance for that as well. One of the issues were having is people on the ground, there is a lack of water and food. Theres a lot of children down there as well. Were trying to get supplies in as much as we can. Were trying to get people to have access to medical helicopters in nassau so we can get approval for them to assist us in getting more and more people that are hurt out. So, you know, they can definitely reach out to us here and well coordinate that with the government officials as well. So like i said, its just an Ongoing Program and were doing the best we can. Its extraordinary just looking at these aerials while were talking, is there a way that helicopters can drop food and water . And can helicopters land where fixed wing aircraft cant . Absolutely. Absolutely. Like i said, were trying to coordinate that safely with bahamas Civil Aviation and also the u. S. Coast guard thats been doing an amazing job on this end as well. Like i said, that is the most viable way to reach the really bad affected areas right now. Like i said theres a lot of fixed wing aircrafts standing by ready to go in but were trying to coordinate with all the air traffic personnel to make sure we can do that safely. Thank you so much for what youre doing. Thanks for checking in with us. Thank you i mean, just the pictures are just extraordinary. Nbcs Morgan Chesky is outside a hospital in the bahamas where many are being treated. What are you seeing there . Reporter were in nassau just outside the hospital where so many of those patients from abaco island have been brought, suffering from injuries sustained during Hurricane Dorian. For the first time today were really starting to see those rescue and relief efforts begin in earnest. We do know a team of military helicopters went back and forth all day yesterday bringing those who needed medical treatment the most here to nassau. But with air strips starting to get cleared off in abaco island and in grand bahama. Multiple agencies are poised to start getting the supplies to those people who need it most. Celebrity Chef Jose Andres handed out 2,000 sandwiches last night. People here in the bahamas are certainly going to need it. We know that as it stands the early numbers are simply staggering. 60 around that number of buildings on grand bahama and abaco island are damages and destroyed. 60,000 people are still without access to clean drinking water. Thats going to be one of the most desperate things that can hopefully get taken care of as the relief efforts get plugged in. A sad note from the Prime Minister last night who upped the death toll from five people to seven. Saying the two individuals that were brought to this hospital succumbed to their injuries. And in following that by saying he expects that number to go up throughout the day and in the days ahead. Because we really dont know yet the true devastation that dorian has brought this chain of islands simply because its still so inaccessible in a lot of those places. I spoke to a relief worker who flew over abaco island yesterday and he says portions of it were unrecognizable. They couldnt put their plane down because there was no place to do so. At this point in time, were starting to see help arrive and it couldnt come soon enough for the bahamian people. Andrea . Thank you. Well continue to bring you the latest throughout this hour and throughout the day on msnbc on Hurricane Dorian moving more quickly toward florida and up the coast. First, money moves. The pentagon diverting funding for military projects to President Trumps border wall. Stay with us right here on that controversy in a moment on Andrea Mitchell reports on msnbc. Oment on Andrea Mitchell reports on msnbc. So, every day, we put our latest technology and unrivaled network to work. 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Starting with House Speaker nancy pelosi who says canceling military Construction Projects at home and abroad and im clearly losing my voice. Phil rutger joins me now to talk about this. Phil, lets talk about the wall. Ben rhodes is joining us from los angeles as well. Phil, first to you. Talk about moving these appropriated funds, pelosi is speaking out about it. This is a looming confrontation but he says hes got the authority. Thats right. Its back to the Government Shutdown at the beginning of the year and the president declared that National Emergency in mid february. This is an outgrowth of that. Hes trying to find the money to build this wall which congress has refused to appropriate, the democrats in the house have refused that. Hes pulling this money away from military Construction Projects domestically and abroad. Hes facing a lot of backlash from Congressional Democrats who say not only is this a misappropriatation of the funds but its an end run around congress. It violates their Constitutional Authority with the power of the purse. The former Deputy National security advisor, does he have the authority . President obama used executive actions frequently when you were in the white house. Why cant he do this . Well, because, it gets to a core power of congress, the power to appropriate and decide how money is spent. We engaged in executive action on things like, you know, regulation and rules that govern certain parts of national policy. The idea that we could say to congress what we dont like that you wont spend money on our priority, therefore were going to take money from the military budget and spend it on the aca, the Affordable Care act. Were going to take money from the military budget and spend it on climate change. That would have prompted an absolute revolution from republicans in congress who often talked about the need to respect the power of the institution. This is a profound extra constitutional power grab by trump. 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