Good morning. Its thursday, september 7th. This morning Hurricane Irma is churning across the caribbean leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. The interior minister says the storm has reft at least eight people dead and 23 injured on the French Island territory. Hurricane irma lashed puerto rico with powerful winds and flooding, including rain. The islands electric utility said last night that over one million customers were left without power. More than twothirds of the people who live on that island. Two american tourists who were visiting san juan road out the storm in the parking garage of their hotel, and Hurricane Irma, as we mentioned, made landfall in the caribbean yesterday. Early yesterday, in fact. The island of barbuda is now said to be practically uninhabitable following the storm. According to the Prime Minister 90 of the island structures are severely damaged or, in fact, destroyed. Hurricane irma is expected to graze the Dominican Republic in haiti before heading towards the bahamas and ultimately florida. Lets get the very latest on the track of Hurricane Irma. Nbc meteorologist bill karins is standing about i. Already so much destruction in the wake of this hurricane, bill, and then really looking ahead, so Many Americans want to know whats going to happen this weekend . And its going to be such a hard call. I mean, the difference in that turn for south florida of about 20 miles will be the difference between billions of dollars of disaster and a glancing blow with minor problems for miami, west palm beach, fort lauderdale. Its going to be almost a repeat of what we had with matthew last year. That was a huge piece too. It just missed and hit the bahamas. You can still see the storm is now pulling away from puerto rico who at a glancing blow category one or two. A Million People without power on the island. Heres the update. Still amazing. Now a twoday straight here of category five strike. Typically the storms only maintain category five status for maybe one day, two days. The record is three days. The next big one will be 11 00 a. M. This morning. It does take it clear of the mountains. Its no longer it doesnt look like any chance at all that the mountains of cuba or of the Dominican Republic in haiti will weaken. Turks and caicos, direct hit later on today. Category five. Theyre going to get crushed. Then the new forecast path from the Hurricane Center, i mean, this is about as bad as a forecast path as youll want to see. Again, the cone of uncertainty still has the whole west coast in a miss, but the center is getting a little more narrow now, and the Hurricane Center has about 2 00 a. M. Close to a landfall of 150mileperhour hurricane almost over the top of miami. This would be almost worst Case Scenario for south florida. That is still in the cards. It still could swing east. Thats our hope. We still have about 60 hours for that to take place. Ill deep dive into the models and show you the intricacies coming up. When we were looking at the spaghetti model, things were trending east, but now this looks like its heading straight for miami now. This is the forecast from the Hurricane Center. There are some that are trending further to the east. Ill get into this now. This is the european versus the american model. You can see the center of the storm here. This is not a big disagreement. This is only about 30 to 40 miles. You can see the Hurricane Center center line is buying more the european model with that direct landfall towards miami, where the american model is actually off shore. This would be just a glancing blow for southern florida with barely Hurricane Force winds. Dicking off on that point that bill was raising, regardless of which model, florida is obviously bracing for this hurricane. How are folks down there preparing for irma this morning . People arent taking any chances even though theres a lot of uncertainty yet. This is the line for canceled flights at 5 00 in the morning. People trying to make other arrangements, trying to leave miami any way they can. We already know that Certain Airlines have canceled flights already. For now Miami International airport will remain open until sustained winds reach 35 miles per hour, but as you see, people are trying to skip town, and thats because the governor of florida is already calling this category five storm lifethreatening, already saying it is bigger, it is stronger, it is faster than hurricane andrew, which pounded south florida 25 years ago. Now, ive been on the ground here in miami for a day now. If you drive around many of the streets, you start seeing these long lines for gas. Many other gas stations that have already run out to start looking like ghost towns. Families already buying the supplies they need, water, flashlights, carrying sand bags to their homes if they can find them. Yesterday we were in miami beach as people were carrying sand bags home. The advice from the mayor of miami beach, get out of the beach if you can. Do not take any chances. That is what were seeing here at the airport this morning. Again, coming on the heels of Hurricane Harvey, folks in southern florida are watching whats happening there and not taking any chances. Marianna live for us in miami this morning. Thank you. Lets turn back to washington. Seven months into his presidency donald trump has made the art of the deal, but shocking republicans, it was with democratic leadership. In a landmark oval office meaning the president agreed with a plan including Hurricane Harvey relief. A debt ceiling increase and a threemonth to fund the government, defying his own leadership. It gives democrats lench forcing two unpopular debt ceiling votes by years end, instead of just one. It all began earlier in the day, and the democrats put out a news release calling for a threemonth funding bill, which got an icy reception from paul ryan to say the least. Take a listen. It emz so like theyre trying to extract something. I think thats a ridiculous idea. I hope that they dont mean that. Lets just think about this. Weve got all this devastation in texas. Weve got another unprecedented hurricane hitting about to hit florida. They want to play politics with the debt ceiling . I think thats a ridiculous and disgraceful, and to play politics with the debt ceiling like schumer and pelosi apparently is doing i dont think is a good idea. Nbcs casey hunt reports inside the oval office. Republicans argued first over an 18month debt limit hike until after the midterm elections. Then they offered six months which the democrats can. Steve mnuchin argued for a longer term debt limit extension. The president cut him off and sided with the democrats. Multiple sources said. Mitch mcconnell said they also add a threemonth government funding bill, an agreement reached. Heres how the president and the man he once called crying chuck reacted afterwards. The whole Republican Leadership group, and ill tell i you what, we walked out of there, mitch and paul, everybody, kevin, and we walked out, and everybody was happy. Not too happy because you can never be too happy, but they were happy enough. Reaction was disbelief among many republicans. In fact, senator ben sass made it clear who the deal belonged to, saying, the pelosi, schumer, trump deal is bad. Senator James Langford tweeted we should have raised the debt ceiling without reform or cuts. Thats the purpose of a debt limit. The deal doesnt do either. A threemonth debt ceiling . Why not do a daily debt ceiling . He is the best deal maker ever. Dont you know . He has a book out. Others like Lindsey Graham were willing to go along with whatever Mitch Mcconnell agreed to, but behind the scenes aides were dire. Matt fuller was told at the Huffington Post the pelositrumpschumer deal equals ptsd for the rest of congress. Heres what Kellyanne Conway said. Some republicans on capitol hill say you defied the party by striking a deal with democrats. How do you respond to that . That is just false. Theres no deal struck with democrats. This is a deal on behalf of the american people. Donald trump is a consequence mat deal maker. What that means for people in washington who have been living and working in the swamp for too long is that theyre just not used to the trump pace of getting things done. Lets talk about this. Joining from washington daniel lipman, coauthor of the political playbook. Good to see you this morning. What seems like the democrats put this deal out there thinking it would not get done. Paul ryan confident that he could actually get something done. This was going to be the republicans moment. Instead the opposite happened. Your coauthor, jake sherman, reporting that the president is having dinner with paul ryan tonight. What happens, daniel, in this meeting . Theres definitely some love lost between the two gentlemen right now. Yeah. He is going to have to rebuild the relationship with ryan, who feels betrayed by his fellow republican. Remember, ryan and trump have had a tough relationship over the years. Ryan said last year after the access Hollywood Tape that he wouldnt defend trump anymore, and a lot of republicans i talked to i talked to one republican operative last night, and that person reminded me that trump is a former democrat, so its almost like his natural habitat is to deal with democrats, but republicans are just infuriated today. So as weve been talking, obviously, weve heard republicans have some real misgivings about President Trumps deal, regardless of how you slice it. How confident are you that this deal will actually hold together . Is there anything that can be done to break it up, so to speak . I think its pretty likely that the deal is going to pass this month, but it just delays the pain for republicans in december because it gives democrats all these bargaining chips that they can hold republicans up at the end of the year, and that will make it much harder for republicans to get their priorities in terms of cutting spending and taxes at the end of the year because democrats now have this, you know, december 31st deadline where they can basically try to get what all they want and so it doesnt seem like trump fully realized the what he was doing with this. Lets talk about sort of what you said cutting that deal when it comes to tax reform specifically. The white house legislative director saying the hope was it was going to clear the deck for tax reform. Whats really the likelihood that thats going to happen . He gives a little bit to schumer and pelosi, and then its easier to make a deal on tax reformulator. Memories are somewhat short in washington as weve seen. Mark short, the director of legislative affairs for the president , is kind of right in terms of that it gives congress breathing space to spend september and october and november working on tax reform, but the issue is that the trust levels between republicans and trump are now at an alltime low. That makes it much harder to get tax reform through, and, remember, the contours of a potential deal with still tough because you have a lot of disagreement among the various constituencies in both the republican and Democratic Party who just dont know if we can get tax reform. Live for us in washington d. C. This morning, daniel lipman. Good to have you with us. One of the subplots from yesterdays meeting came after the president struck that deal with democrats. An aide tells nbc news that towards the end of the meeting, it ivanka trump opened the oval office to say hello, and the meeting careened off topic. In fact, Republican Leaders were said to be visibly annoyed by her presence. The white house aide said the president invited ivanka to the meeting to discuss her Child Tax Credit proposal and that it was quick and productive. The house speakers press secretary says that the notion that republicans were annoyed is false. The first daughter and president ial advisor also accompanying her father to north dakota yesterday where he made another push for tax reform. This time we can confirm that he actually did careen off topic. In fact, one second talking about jobs, and the very next calling his daughter on stage. Take a listen. By the way, ivanka trump, Everybody Loves her. [ applause ] come up. Should i bring ivanka up . Come up. Sometimes theyll say, you know, he cant be that bad a guy. Look at ivanka. Now, come on up, honey. Shes so good. She wanted to make the trip. She said, dad, can i go with you . She actually said, daddy, can i go with you . I like that. Daddy, can i go with you . I said, yes, you can. Where are you going . North dakota. I said i like north dakota. Hi, honey. First daughter spoke for about 30 seconds, thanking the people of north dakota for treating us very well in november. Still ahead, donald trump jr. Heads to capitol hill today. Were going to preview his meeting with Senate Judiciary staffers. Later, new fallout after President Trumps decision to scrap daca. Now teps are planning to sue. Those stories and more coming up next. Every year we take a girls trip. Remember nashville . Kimchi bbq. Kimchi bbq. Amazing honky tonk . . I cant believe you got us tickets. I did. I didnt pay for anything. You never do. Send me what i owe. Ive got it. I mean, you did find money to buy those boots. 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