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We dont need take chances. We dont need take personal oon the line. We need go. Reporter and thats the point. What officials are saying if you decide to leave, you do that at your own parl. Were not going to send First Responders out during the storm to help you. Hopefully people are getting the message. Times running out. Indeed it is. Live for us in North Carolina. From that perspective. From the perspective of the weather and its path, lets bring in bill karnz. Were inching closer and closer by the hour. See destructive impacts at the coast. Did drop down to 130 mileperhour winds. A category three four. We think it will be a category three as it approaches the coast. Again we care what the intensity when its near the coast for the wind and surge. Sethe path, the new one. This is friday at 2 00 a. M. Could be just off the South Carolina coast and then look at this, 24 hours. This thing lingers, drift, loops, stalls, right near wilmington as it sits in the same spot of the friction of the land. Well have a dying storm over about a threeday period over the North Carolina South Carolina boarder and then it drifts through South Carolina as it weakens. Were talking 48 hours of a major hurricane and hurricane forced winds. The forecast has improved for raleigh, but its gotten much worse for areas in especially the northern half of South Carolina. I know you probably know that terrain better than i do. Are the cities along the coast canline in the carolinas generally prepared in terms of infrastructure, drainage system . All of the communities in the South Carolina and North Carolina, they get hit by hurricanes once every four years. So they are prepared. Structurally for a category 2, 3, maybe even 4, 5 nobody is prepared for. Maybe a lowend four. My biggest concern is what happened with all the water. A hurricane that stalled by the coast. You get multiple high tide cycles and youre going to get an incred canabible amount of r. And a stalling hurricane like this is just a nightmare for this area from myrtle beach to wilmington, our friends in that emeral isle area, thats where my biggest concerns are. President trump says his administration is totally prepared for Hurricane Florence. Saying the government is sparing no expense. At one point he was asked what lessons they learned from the federal response to Hurricane Maria that left puerto rico devastated. I think puerto rico was incredibly successful. It was our toughest of all because it was an island. I think it was one of the best jobs that has ever been done with respect to what this sl about. Everybody working along with the governor is tremendous. I think puerto rico is an incredible unsung success. Estimated nearly 3,000 people died in the first five months after the storm hit. They updated the death toll after the findings were published. Senator chris murphy tweeted i mean this seriously, not as a political dig, if youre in florences path and considering riding it out, your president just said a hurricane response where 3,000 die is his measure of success. Get out of there. Now Bob Woodwards explosive new book, fear was released as an instant best seller. And advanced sales apparently depleted stock. Meanwhile, several key figures pushing back. Youve heard about the former white house advisor apparently swiping a letter off the president s desk tee end a trade agreement with south korea. And told them to print money to lower the national debt. Just run the presses, print money to which cohen responded you dont get to do it that way. He was astounded of trumps lack of basic understanding. And the book does not accurately portray his experience at the white house. So he declined to dispute any specific accounts and theres push back from staff secretary rob porter who was undermined for what he said was the good of the country and told him quote this is no longer a presidency, this is no long arwhite house. This is a man being who he is. Like cohen did not mention exactly what woodward had gotten wrong. Hes woodward in an interview with the new york times. After the information then fear started breaking last week. One key person whos in office called me and said everyone knows what youve said here is true. Its 1,000 correct. And then this person has said public things that contradict that and im not happy but i have a smile on my face because the truth in all of this is going to emerge. Theres too much evidence too many witnesses. And theyre gearing up for what looks to be an excruciatingly close race. Senator Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell expressed his own concerned in kentucky. We know this is going to be a challenging election oon the senate side. Ill just list you a bunch of places that are dead even. Arizona, nevada, tennessee, montana, north dakota, missouri, indiana, West Virginia and florida. All of them too close to call and everyone of them like knife fight in an alley. Just a brawl. And everyone of those places. Joining us from washington, White House Reporter. Great to have you with us this morning. Are they genuinely concerned about the comments the leader is now sounding on these raiser thin midterm races . Reporter i think so. I think there is concern in the senate. Is it likely democrats will take over the senate . No. But is it possible . I think thats too close for comfort. I think hes saying dont think this is just going to be a done deal that were going to keep the senate. I think he wants to motivate the base to get out there because it is possible if theres a huge blue wave, that senate could be in play and if that happens, its kind of a done deal for republicans and for President Trump. Which states would likely be up for grabs for the democrats from those nine that Mitch Mcconnell listed for them in order to flip and take control of the senate . Reporter i think each of them is going to kind of play out in their own way. You have a lot of democrats who are kind of in red states. Claire mccaskill and others trying to hold on which is not easy to do when President Trump is relatively popular. But when you have someone like ted cruz whos getting a bit nervous, then you can tell things arent going as well as the republicans would hope because when you have to talk about texas for republicans the fact that texas is up for grabs says it all. Lets switch gears for a moment. Because the nation gearing up for potential catastrophic storm and President Trump touting the u. S. s response in puerto rico as an unsung success. I dont think theyre playing real well. Apparently the governor of puerto rico has responded and talked about the relationship between washington d. C. , basically between the leaders of the u. S. And puerto rico and said that its unfair. This is a storm where the death toll is now at nearly 3,000. So and people were without power for months and months. See it kind of call this is a success. Its tone deaf on the part of the president. Certainly not going to go over well with the folks suffering in puerto rico. Stick round for us. Still ahead theres anger in dallas after a Police Officer shot and killed an unarmed man in his own apartment. And later voters in New Hampshire set up a Historic House race for the midterms. A hotel can make or break a trip. And at expedia, we dont think you should be rushed into booking one. 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Protests are eruptding in dallas over the Police Officer who fatally shot a neighbor after mistaking his apartment for hers. And witnesses providing two very different accounts of what actually happened. Reporter in dallas more anger over the shooting death in his own apartment. Court documents painting a picture of a confused Police Officer, amber guyger coming to what she thought was her apartment. Instead she was one floor above her own unit. She alleged the door was already fully ajar. Inside the dark apartment, she saw a large silhouette. Believing she encountered a burglar, gave verbal commands that were ignored and fired twice, hitting him twice. But that story contradicts what a neighbor heard. They heard her pounding at the door, demanding to be let in. She posted a 300,000 bond ahead of her hearing. Accord thing to witness she heard a man call out oh, my god, why did you do that . Reporter now a question so many here want answered. With less than two monthess until the midterm elections, the Trump Administration is President Trump plans to sign an executive order authorizing sanctions on any Foreign Company or person found interfering in u. S. Elections and saying the order will require any agency aware of federal interference including the nsa and department of Homeland Security to report to the office of director of National Intelligence siting a foreign interference occurred. They say congress has been left out of the executive order drafting process on purpose and reportedly wants the executive order, at least in part because it wants to get ahead of much harsher legislation being considered in both chambers. A worker accused of sexually abusing seven teen age boys, some more than one occasion at a migrant shelter for children. Found guilty of seven counts abusive sexual contact and six counts of sexual abuse of minors. 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Posted 26th consecutive start, all to break the record set in 1910 by chicago cubs pitcher, leslie king coal. Star running back, lave yawn bells holdout is still looming over the pittsburgh steelers, they appear to have removed the player from the depth chart, where it was revealed he was a first stringer. Running back james conor rushed for 200 yards against inbrowns. Still ahead senator susan colins is facing increasing pressure over the fight for brit kavanaughs is Supreme Court nomination. Plus were continuing to track Hurricane Florence and we go live once again to North Carolina where residents have been told to evacuate. Hungry eyes one look at you and i cant disguise ive got hungry eyes i feel the magic between you and i ive got hungry eyes now ive got you in my sights applebees new 3course meal starting at 11. 99. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. Brushing only reaches 25 of your mouth. Listerine® cleans virtually 100 . Helping to prevent gum disease and bad breath. 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Bringing with it a possible lifethreatening storm surge, destructive winds and potential catastrophic rainfall as well as inland flooding. For the very latest on the storm, lets bring in meteorologist, bill karins. How far away is it from making land fall and the immediate 24 hours afterwards . Theres a chance it doesnt even make land fall until saturday. We are expecting the stall. It could stall on the coast or off the coast. So im not going to focus too much on the actual land fall. This is going to be a major hurricane that is going to literally stall for 46 to 48 hours over myrtle beach and willeming stn. And the effects of that and the shift has gone further to the south means this forecast has improved northward, virginia beach, Hampton Roads area to richmond, raleigh. The forecast is much better for you today than it was 24 hours ago. But that means bad news for areas further to the south. Myrtle beach has gotten worse, from florence to dillen. Fayette vill. And now were starting to talk about charleston dealing with heavy rainfall and a little bit of a storm surge too. The element of the storm, the surge, then well get the wind and then well have the rainfall. So for the surge, the worst will be north of the center. So if it come cans up here and sits and spins to the south of wilmington, jacksonville, all the way through emeral isle, this where the worst storm surge will be down the carolina beach, 9 to 13 feet. Thats the best chance for destruction from the storm surge thats throughout friday, thursday night, all day friday and a little bit into saturday morning. Notice high tide times at 11 46 p. M. And we have to deal with the winds as it gets closer. The forecast has gotten a little bit lower so were talking category two and three. And so the strongest wind as we go throughout the clock will be coming as we go through thursday night and friday morning. The one i know for sure is going to cause a ton of damage will be the historic rainfall. Someone could get four feet of rain from the storm by the time its all said and done. Thats what happens regardless of its category. Interesting. So that was the perspective from both the radars the maps. Lets get the perspective from the ground. Msnbcs jay grey is there. Whats itting like there this morning . In terms of the scale. Reporter the opportunity, that window to get ready or get out quickly closing. Weve had a spiting rain. Its going to intensify. Then things go from bad to worse pretty quickly here. Reporter time is running out along the south atlantic oes. Florence, a category 4 hurricane gathering momentum and growing. The waves and wind this storm may bring is nothing like youve ever seen. Even if youve ridden out storms before, this one is different. Dont bet your life on riding out a monster. Reporter evacuations started tuesday and will continue today. More than a million from virginia through the carolinas. Gathering sand bags, boarding up, pang up pulling out. Many wered about what they may find when they come back. Just hope everythings Still Standing and not too much damage. But again this is a very significant storm. Reporter still lorraine and mike taylor say theyll tried out. A home like so many in the strike zone in the path of what forecasters are calling a catastrophic storm now closing in. Wie expect land fall be early friday morning. That means really historic flooding, not only here on the coast but inland as well. A lot geing on here in the next couple of days. Our thoughts for everyone as they prepare. President trump says his administration is prepared to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. Now it comes as he faces new criticismf over his fresh comments of his administrations response on Hurricane Maria. Nearly 3,000 people died as a reswrault of that system, according to one report. Reporter good morning. President trump is insisting his administration is as ready as anyone has ever been to deal with Hurricane Florence. Describe thing storm as tremendously big and wet and when asked about Lessons Learned from the storms that devastated puerto rico last year President Trump praised results and given 3,000 people died as a result of Hurricane Maria. Mr. Trump started his day tuesday commemorate thing 17th anniversary of the september 11th terrorist attacks, greeting people by pumping his fists. Thanks to Kristen Welker for that report. And nounced he will not be supporting Supreme Court nominee, kavanaugh. Tweeting i would have liked to meet with judge kavanaugh personally before deciding how to vote. But fortunately the white house never responded. So im just going to say it. Ill be voting no. He sited his roe v wade as his reezing. And sit on the court of appeals for the district of columbia. Durbin released emails from kavanaughs time working in the bush administration, detailing on theination of William Hanes to fill a vacancy. They allege kavanaugh knowingly misled senators in hanz nomination. He was involved in the administrations detention policy after the september 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks. He preefbiately admitted to being involved in discussions leading to hanz nomination but did not handle the nomination itself. And shah hit back in a series of tweets calling them quote a complete total smear with no basis. Republican senator is facing increase pressure. Collins is facing a high dollar fund raising drive against her that her office has likened to extortion. Shes also received profanity laced voice mails over kavanaughs nomination. According to recordings obtained by nbc news, theyre precing the republican senator over concerns that if confirmed, kavanaugh may help to undue roe v wade. Once again White House Reporter for npr. Great to have you back with us. In the past these kinds of extreme measures, like what senator susan colins is experiencing, have they hurt or helped the chances of a conformation going through . Reporter its pretty unusual, i think at this stage. Sometimes earlier on when a nominee is announced, there have been efforts to get that candidate basically to get the white house to pull that nominee for the Supreme Court. It has happened. In the past. It happened during the second bush administration. But at this point it does seem like cavanaugh has the votes. Shes not said that shes going to do it but it seems unlikely that republicans wont be able to convince her and even if they did, even if collins didnt vote for him, they still need another republican are to actually bring down to actually bring down kavanaughs nomination and that seems unlikely. With all the republicans towing the party line, its unlikely that the democrats are going to be able to derail kavanaughs conformation. Is there any other recourse left for them or is this a done deal for Brett Kavanaugh . Reporter pretty much at this point it seems like a done deal. Theres very little now that democrats can do to stop this from going forward. They can they can raise their concerns, they can certainly make a case to the public and kavanaughs polling is not very high. But as far as what they can do to actually stop the nomination, since republicans only need 51 votes, theres not much that democrats can do. Let me ask you real quickly about the midterm, the sentiments. We heard Mitch Mcconnell saying its like a knife fight in the alley for senate seats. Whats the sentiment to the house . Is that pretty much assumed its not going to remain in republican hands come the midterms . Reporter itsing to be really tough because typically when the party in power loses seats in the house and in the past as many as 30. So the odds are stacked against the republicans there in the house and even if President Trump was popular, the odds are stacked against him and hes not very popular and seems like he would be a drag. So i think house is something where its not a forgone conclusion but people realize that its going to be a tough challenge to keep that. A lot of people are saying it depends who energizes their base more. Thanks for joining us this morning. So democratic voters in New Hampshire back the establishment candidate in yesterdays primary. Expected to win the First District democratic nomination. Thee support of nearly every democrat in the state and defeated his opponent, muresullivan and levi sanders. On the republican side, former pleets chief and navy veteran, eddie edwards. The trumpbacked candidate defeated state senator, andy sandborn. Either candidate would make history. The first openly lgbt member of congress or the first African American representative. 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Maybe thats why most of our clients come from other money managers. Fisher investments. Clearly better money management. Welcome back everyone. We want to get the very latest on Hurricane Florence. Lets bring back nbc meteorologist, bill karins. In terms of of the track of the storm. Heres the latest, 130 mileperhour winds, still a category 4. And its still moving quickly at 17 miles per hour. Its going to move towards the North Carolina coast quickly it hits the breaks and stalls and moves extremely slowly and thats the problem. So heres the force cast point. As we go throughout thursday afternoon, thats where we are 2 00 p. M. , then friday at 2 00 p. M. And off the coast, saturday at 2 00 a. M. This is going to linger from 36 to 48 hours, either over the top of wilmington or myrtle beach or off the coast. High tide cycle after high tide cycle. The winds continue to stay high. More wind damage and then the incredible rainfall amount. You cant ask for a worst forecast for jacksonville, North Carolina, aunz low county area down to wilmington. It continues to get worse myrtle beach. All of these lines on our computers. This is at 8 00 p. M. Thursday. Then we take the storm and notice some of the lines linger and drift here . A couple move over areas of South Carolina. The forecast has improved from raleigh northward, dramatically improved. Gotten worse myrtle beach, georgetown, charleston and areas around Hilton Head Island have gotten worse. Now lets talk about our main computer models, the european model and american model. Theyre in pretty good agreement. Trrs this is 11 00 p. M. Friday lingering off the coast of South Carolina. This is the european computer model path. It takes up towards wilmington and then off the coast all through the weekend the rainfall amounts would be up to a foot on the South Carolina coast as far a south as savannah if the european model is correct. With the all day friday and into saturday. The forecast path with our american model similar up towards the wilmington area brings it down through South Carolina. It would be weakening by the time it got closer to a land fall say it does happen in myrtle beach or georgetown, a category one or two. Still in North Carolina but the fact that this is going to linger and maybe drift down the southeast coastline into South Carolina, even more problemat it includes more people. Very happy they took precautions when they could two days ago and told everybody in coates canal South Carolina to get out of the way friendship for a while taking georgetown southwards. Now they could have quite storm to talk about when theyre done. I was going to ask really quickly. No stranger to hurricanes historically but the cities, are they built for what theyre about to see in terms of walls, drainage, how vulnerable are some of these cities . You think of the areas hit the most by hurricanes, florida, North Carolina has a hurricane once every four years. So the building codes are strict. If we get 120 to 130 mileperhour youll get minor structural damage but not see things blown apart hurricane andrew scenario extreme winds. I would be most concerned with the stall. Just water. Just too much water. When the storm is here, its throwing walter and rainfall inland and then we have the storm surge on top of that. All the rain falling in the rivers, falls in North Carolina and then it flows to the coast. So at the same time we have the water pushing it in and theyre wangs out and that water levels even inland areas, like the nuse river here new newburn area, theres so many implications for a stalling storm. Its all water issues too much of it. Praying for the best. The Trump Administration is responding to nbc newss eexclusive report on u. S. And canadian diplomats in cuba and china. Not exactly a denial that intelligence agencies investigate thing incidents consider russia to be the primary suspect based on intercepted communications. We have seen sort of a fire storm of reports throughout today assigning blame to the russian government, according to some unnamed u. S. Government officials. As you should be aware the investigation continues. Into what has caused what we have called Health Attacks on our state Department Employee whose have been working in cuba. There is no known cause, no known individual or group believed to be responsible at this time. We are looking into it. Our position has not changed. The investigation is ongoing. We have not assigned any blame and we continue to look into this so i want to be very clear about this. The report that msnbc put out and noted that the evidence is not yet conclusive enough to formally assign blame on moscow. The fight to reclaim key territory appears to be nearing an end. 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Officials say the figures were somewhat inflated due to a timing shift for some payments by the government. Earlier analysis from the cbo said deficits wouldnt nearly the 1 trillion the mark until about 2019 and surpass it the following year. Amid the new deficit figures from the ceo, House Republicans are proposing even more tax cuts pushing further into the red. The republicans tax reform 2. 0 would make the individual tax cuts signed into last last year permanent. Those cuts were set to expire by 2025. And the move would add more than 570 billion to the deficit over a decade on top of the 1. 5 trillion the cuts passed last year are expected to add. Some critics have argued the move by republican sess aimed at locking in votes ahead of the midterm elections. House Tax Committee chairman kevin brady plans to put the bill to a Committee Level vote on thursday with a full house vote expected by october 1st. The bill would likely be dead on arrival in the senate where democrats have the votes to shoot it down. Several key figures mentioned in Bob Woodwards explosive new book, fear, are pushing back while Chris Christie is upset claiming woodward never reached out to him to fact checkbooks involving the former governor. The book claims during the Campaign Trump lashed out at his then transition chief saying where the f is the money. I need money for my campaign. Im putting money in my campaign and youre fing stealing from me. Christie issued a series of tweets including this one blaming steve bannon for fanning the flames. If mr. Woodward would have performed rudimentary intelligence gathering he would have had a better book. Coming up on morning joe, hailing the Hurricane Maria response as one of the best. More on the fresh backlash President Trump is facing for his selfassessment on the federal governments efforts in the wake of that massive storm as parts of the east coast brace for impact from Hurricane Florence. And former independent counsel ken starr joins the conversation to discuss his new book regarding the investigation into president clinton and his subsequent impeachment. R a live, it could cost you your life. Its time to get out of line with upmc. At upmc, livingdonor transplants put you first. So you dont die waiting. Upmc does more livingdonor liver transplants than any other center in the nation. Find out more and get out of line today. I think puerto rico was incredibly successful. Puerto rico was actually our toughest one of our because its an island. You cant truck things on to it. Everything is by boat. We moved a hospital into puerto rico, a tremendous Military Hospital in the form of a ship. You know that. And i actually think the governor has been very nice and if you ask the governor, hell tell you what a great job. I think probably the hardest one we had by far was puerto rico because of the Island Nature and i actually think it was one of the best jobs thats ever been done with respect to what this is all about. The job that fema and Law Enforcement and everybody did working along with the governor in puerto rico, i think, was tremendous. I think that puerto rico was an incredible, unsung success. An unsung success. Thats president president citing the governments storm response in puerto rico where nearly 3,000 americans died, where electricity and clean water was so hard to find for so long and where still is. Donald trump picked fights with leaders in puerto rico. And he cites that as