Yasmin vossoughian were going to begin first with what is now a tropical depression sally the storm made landfall yesterday morning as a category 2. More than 2 million lost power due to strong winds. Major devastation there. Water flooded the streets. The National Guard has been called in to assist with Recovery Efforts late last night the National Hurricane center said it was causing torrential rains i want to go to bill karins whos tracking the continuation of the storm bill, good morning to you. As we have talked about in the past, just because we have a Tropical Storm, it doesnt mean as its moving inland, it can cause major damage we saw yesterday how painfully slow this storm is moving. Painfully there was a ton of rain, water everywhere water rescues were taking place all day yesterday in southern alabama. Roads were washed out. Now were going to continue into the carolinas today. Its not going to be as bad, but there will be areas that will have to deal with high water and problems i want to deal with some of the rankings and how the storm played out it was the highest wind gust out of fort morgan, alabama. Thats why the worst damage was down along the gulf shores these have to be verified, but we did get 2 to 2 1 2 feet we thought was possible numerous locations hit over 20 inches thats why we had near record, the record flooding. Thats why so many had flooding. Heres over the last 12 hours. Notice the rain shield way ahead of the storm in atlanta to Western Areas of north carolina, when you start getting heavy rain in the mountains, thats when you start getting problems because it can accumulate quickly were going to watch that possibility today. We have a chance of a few tornadoes too. Right now we have flood warnings and flood watches for 26 Million People including raleigh and elsewhere. How much additional rainfall can we get were thinking in atlanta, maybe another inch on top of what weve already received and then 3 to 6 in numerous locations from greenville to raleigh to richville. Washington, d. C. , youre on the end of this. The rain should stay to your south. As far as severe weather, areas to your south, augusta, charleston, newburn, greenville, washington, theyre at risk. Yes, jasmine, a lot of the damage is done, but this is now just a tropical depression were not worried about wind damage its tornados and flash flooding. When you see atlanta with flash flooding due to the storm, still serious concerns. Absolutely. Thank you, bill. I want to turn now to a look at the state of the president ial race new polling finding joe biden with a narrow lead in wisconsin. The latest abc News Washington post poll showing trump leading 52 to 46 in the battleground state. And in kenosha, wisconsin, you see where theyre turning as far as crime and safety. The latest poll puts biden ahead by 16 in that state, minnesota, 57 to 41 meanwhile an ipsos reuters poll shows joe biden at 50 , dew point donald trump at 41 . That number has only declined in recent weeks those polled were much more interested in a candidate who has aplan for handling this pandemic and the president renewed his attack on mailin voting yesterday. Speaking of reporters, the white house and president claimed the democrats presented a bigger threat to the election than either russia, china, or iran. The biggest problem we have right now are the ballots. Millions of ballots going out. Thats the biggest problem. When you talk about other countries, whethers china o russia, there are bigger threats. The biggest threat to this election are governors from opposing parties controlling ballots, millions of ballots to me thats a bigger threat than Foreign Countries much of what turned up on other countries turned out to be true. Joining me now from the hill, Julia Manchester. What the president said at the very end is the biggest stuff. I feel like hes talking about interfering in our election was untrue this president is still denying the fact that we had Foreign Countries like russia interfering in our elections, especially back in 2016. He is continuing to attack mailin voting ahead of these elections. I think the question is how does this message appeal to his voter base what does he feel like hes gaining with his base by attacking mailin voting well, hes really trying to reassure them at this point. Look during this coronavirus pandemic, we know voters across the country, especially voters in very critical swing states, arizona and florida, home to a large senior population, theyll be voting by mail for the most part, and we know that a lot of the voters in the country right now feel more comfortable voting by mail, because they feel its more safer during the pandemic President Trump and the republicans worry about that because we know vote by mail expands the number of people who are voting and it definitely helps communities that democrats are trying to reach out to, whether thats low income communities that dont go out as much youre going to continue to see President Trump continue to attack mailin voting because arguably mailin voting helps democrats. As for the election interference issues, weve seen President Trump has breached skepticism about what his own Intelligence Community, the u. S. Intelligence community has come to. He seems to take this issue very personally, going back to 2016, saying that because russia interfered in the election or the Intelligence Community found they interfered in the election, its delegitimizing his own win. This is something youre going to mare the president continue to dig in on because hes trying to provide cover to what happens on election day, to legitimize it if he wins or come up with an excuse if he loses to saying look, theres a lot of mailin voting, for example. That helps democrats theres fraud involved im obviously paraphrasing there. Theres no evidence to support it yeah. The web that he is spinning, though, could also affect downballot races as well. We could see how that all played out. Lets talk about some of these suburban polls i mentioned joe biden is still leading amongst suburban voters. Also it seemed like the bind camp is making a calculation and a good one at that in that they care more about the pandemic than they do about law and order, and we know the biden camp is pushing hard on the president s response to this pandemic, criticizing it why do you think the president s messaging on law and order basically a page out of the nixon book, is not resonating with suburban voters i think right now the pandemic and economic fallout from the pandemic are number one priority or both number one and two priorities i think voters right now are concerned about the Public Safety aspect obviously, but theyre also concerned about the economic aspect. Its a little surprising, actually, talking to a lot of republican strategists during the pandemic, the republicans say, they need to focus on recovery, they need to focus on the fact that President Trump built a good economy during the pandemic and he can do this again. And weve heard President Trump and his allies talking about that, but then he seems to really lean into this lawandorder message. It seems to be where hes most comfortable. And i think youve seen him take this playbook before in 2014 it might not have been law and order, but it was the merg message. Remember, he talked about the caravan. It was a little bit of a strategy to scare voters into what would happen if democrats won began won in 2018 we see they didnt vote. It helps them quite a bit. I would say right now, looking at what we know right now in the poll numbers, joe bidens campaign by focusing on the pandemic, is actually very much helping themselves, because we know thats priority number one. I would say President Trump needs to focus on recovery and the economy if he wants to pull himself up in the polls. All right Julia Manchester, thank you. Stay close im going to talk to you again in just a bit. Still ahead, everybody attorney general bill barr accuses some justice prosecutors of being head hunters and interfering in politics. Were going to show you his new remarks. And later the president appears to blame blue states for the growing pandemic and ignores the red states those stories and much more when we come back here . Nah. Here . Nope. Here. When the middle of nowhere. Is somewhere. The allnew chevy trailblazer. Cancer wont wait. It wont wait for appointments to open up or test results to come back. Thats why at Cancer Treatment centers of america, our worldclass experts give you the care you need, when you need it. With appointments in as little as 24 hours and rapid test results to get you a personalized treatment plan. Because cancer isnt just what we do, its all we do. Call today. Appointments available now. Discover whats good pantene nutrient blends sprinting past every leak in our softest, smoothest fabric. Shes confident, protected, her strength respected. Depend. The only thing stronger than us, is you. Name one Successful Organization where employees are deemed san cy sankt. There arent any it is no way to run a federal agency good leaders at the department of justice as any organizations need to trust and support their subordinates, but that does not mean blindly deferring to whatever those subordinates want to do. That was attorney general bill barr critiquing career prosecutors at an event at Hillsdale College yesterday. It didnt stop there barr explained how strange he finds accusations he interferes in classes claiming its his job to oversee junior prosecutors to keep them from, quote rk, headhunting. They interfere in investigations or in cases what do you mean by interfere . Under the law, all prosecutorial power vested in the attorney general, and these people are agents of the attorney general. When i say what exactly am i interfering with when you boil it down, its the will of the most Junior Member of the organization. Individual prosecutors can sometimes being headhunters. Its all too often in other news on the attorney generals possible influence over federal prosecutors, the New York Times says bill barr made a recommendation with sedition some were alarmed with the suggestion of inciting people to rebel against the state. According to sources, barr warned violence in some demonstrations could worsen as this election is approaching the wall street journal writes in part this the call underscores the priority mr. Barr has given to prosecuting crimes connected to violence during months of protests against Racial Injustice leading to Major Property damage, as President Trump has cracked down on the violence barr raised the issue of examining whether seattles mayor could be charged joining me now, msnbc legal analyst Danny Cevallos good morning, danny. Great to see you this morning. I want to talk about the basics this morning, which is the sedition act in general. What is it, and could it even be applied here, considering the reporting considering that so many reporting on the call were surprised that the attorney general would raise Something Like this when it came to charging protesters . Danny, did you hear me . Do you have me, danny . All right. Technical difficulties once again, everybody were going to try to get him back because we do want to talk to my friend Danny Cevallos. Still ahead, a newly confirmed case of coronavirus inside the white house what we know so far, coming up next . Secret aluminum free helps eliminate odor instead of just masking it. And is made with three times more odor fighters. With secret, odor is one less thing to worry about. Secret. That life of the party look walk it off look one more mile look reply all look own your look. With fewer lines. Theres only one botox® cosmetic. Its the only one. Fda approved. To temporarily make frown lines. Crows feet. And forehead lines. Look better. 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Im Yasmin Vossoughian we want to begin this half hour with the latest development surrounding the coronavirus to find the president s own timeline the director of the cdc said in a Senate Hearing yesterday, a vaccine will not be widely distributed until spring or summer of next year. Take a listen. I think there will be a vaccine that initially will be available sometime between november and december, but very limited supply, and it will have to be prioritized. If youre asking when is it going to be generally available to the American Public so we can begin to take advantage of the vaccine to get back to our regular life, i think were looking at third late second quarter, Third Quarter 2021. I think he made a mistake when he said that. Its just incorrect information, and i called him, and he didnt tell me that and i think he got the message maybe confused maybe it was stated incorrectly. No, were ready to go immediately as the vaccine has announced, and it could be announced in october. All right so the Associated Press reports that moments after the News Conference ended that we just saw from the president , trump turned to staff and said, quote, i did the best i could according to a person present in that conversation. So at his Senate Hearing yesterday, the cdc director Robert Redfield came out in strong support of Wearing Masks to combat the virus. Meanwhile the president yesterday again looked to undermine the Health Officials claims. These face masks are the most im