Their battle for the white house as bill clinton takes a break from campaigning to hang with beyonce, today, monday, september 5th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on thisab hope youre enjoying great long weekend. Im willie geist alongside tamron hall. Matt and savannah have the morning off. Hillary clinton back on the campaign trail with a new plane. Look closely. Its hard to miss it. Stronger together on the side. Her Campaign Slogan kicking off an Extraordinary Campaign season and now were in the last couple months. Matching plane for plane. Well have more on the president ial race just ahead. Hermines impact. Well get to dylans forecast in a moment. First, nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is on the east end of long island. Gabe, good morning. Reporter good morning. Hermine is meandering off the east coast and this area is under a Tropical Storm warning. Not expecting rain but strong winds and rip currents keeping people out of the water on this labor day. After slogging through the south and the midatlantic, this morning hermine is the northeast coast kicking up dangerous waves and rip currents. The pace of the storm is even slower than they predicted so we can imagine that some of these effects will last now through wednesday. Reporter long island under threat of storm surges. This the view from the cruise ship anthem of the seas. From new jersey to delaware to maryland, the dangerous conditions keeping swimmers out of the water even with sunny skies sunday. Its definitely not a day to go swimming. Reporter in ocean city after saturdays washout, the financial hit already stinging on this labor day. Ice cream shop owner estimates hermine cost him 80 of his weekend business. Its our last chance where we get the crowds before School Starts so its a big deal. You cant fight mother na by weekend flooding and after hermine made landfall in florida friday, authorities there are 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 have been blamed on the storm. One in florida. The other in North Carolina over the weekend. Again, other communities today are bracing for the possibility of more flooding. Gabe gutierrez on the east end this morning. Dylan is in forral and has more on hermine and what to expect. A lot of people in the northeast did see sunshine this weekend. The storm is over the atlantic and its just a coastal impact from here on out. You can see how far away the storm is. Some of these clouds trying to make their way especially into southern new england. The storm itself has winds up near 70 miles per hour. With it sitting here, the mo and closer to nantucket and waves themselves are trying to get pushed onshore. Thats why we do still have the threat of rip currents and also that storm surge. The storm will most likely go a little farther to the west and then eventually take a turn to the northeast by the time we get into wednesday weakening slightly as it does so. Because of the coastal impacts we do still have Tropical Storm warnings across central and eastern long. The same goes for southern connecticut into rhode island and parts of southeastern massachusetts as well. About one to two feet above high tide leading to minor coastal flooding. We could see that threefoot storm surge. Minor to perhaps moderate coastal flooding and lots of beach erosion which weve seen already. As for winds, most of our windiest conditions will be across eastern long, cape cod and nantucket with gusts up to 35 miles an hour. Rain is not really the i were just looking at perhaps an inch and a half of rain across nantucket because theyre closer to the center of the storm. Its really just the water impact. Rip currents up and down the east coast still an issue. Keep an eye on that, dylan. Thanks so much. With the election just two months away, labor day marks the start of the final push in the president ial race. Nbcs Kristen Welker is on the campaign trail in cleveland. Kristen, good morning. Reporter good morning to you. Hillary clinton will return to cleveland today after taking several days off for fundraising. Donald trump has no Public Events scheduled but hes been making a new push for minority voters while questions linger over his immigration policy and whether he supports mass deportations. The race now kicking into high gear. With the National Polls tightening, Hillary Clinton is ramping up looking to solidify her support in battleground ohio to other states. Theres ongoing fallout after the fbi released notes from their 3 1 2hour interview with clinton. Among the revelations, clinton saying more than three dozen times she couldnt remember something including briefings on how to handle Sensitive Information and she didnt know the letter c on an email meant what the notes indicate is why the fbi chose not to go forward with any additional proceeding. Reporter all fodder for republicans. Its more evidence that Hillary Clinton is the most dishonest candidate for president of the United StatesUnited States since richard nixon. As donald trump is making a push to attract africanamerican voters. Im here today your message. Reporter trumps efforts may be complicated by one of his top surrogates, pastor mark burns, indicating he misrepresented key details about his biography like getting a bachelors degree from a college he only attended for one semester. Meanwhile, trump is facing new criticism over his fiery immigration speech from Arizona State but donald trump with the rhetoric hes used and characterizations of many of the states population have put the state in play. Reporter trump firing back at his fellow republican on twitter calling flake very weak and ineffective. Clinton tried to capitalize on the interfire tweeting adding there will be no one left in washington for trump to work meanwhile, it is a big day in the clinton campaign. Today she will start flying in a plane with her press corps. Youre taking a live look at that plane right now. About to depart for cleveland a little bit later on today. It does say stronger together on the side. Thats of course her Campaign Slogan. This comes amid criticism she hasnt been assessable enough to the press. All this another indicate were headed into the homestretch. Kristen welker in cleveland. Thank you. John harwood, good to see you. Good morning. Happy labor day. We see poll numbers. We see the headlines. Whats the state of the race in this homestretch . Hillary clinton has the advantage. The edge has come off of the postconvention lead she built when she had a strong convention and donald trump was making mistakes. Ahead not only nationally and in most of the battlegro so onus is on donald trump to make something happen to change the dynamic and he has two months to do it. Where are opportunities to change that dynamic if you look at the measures of campaign being outspent on tv ads and doesnt have the ground game in swing states that Hillary Clinton has, how does he change the dynamic . Youre right. He doesnt have the ground game. He doesnt have the quality the one big opportunity that donald trump has is three president ial debates. Those start late this month. Donald trump has got to come across in a way that adds to the level of support that he has and stop subtracting and things like the argument with jeff flake that kristen referred to is the kind of thing he needs not to do in order to make progress. Its interesting when you look at the month of august for both candidates with Hillary Clinton, the fbi report, the 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 keep hearing people say this does boil down to sadly what they see as a lesser of two evils. Is that going to be the argument again in this homestretch . Im better than the other guy or other person i should say. We have two unpopular now, Donald Trumps problems are just bigger than Hillary Clintons. Thats why shes ahead. And so you see last week the revelation of those fbi interview notes, which returned attention to the questions about her emails and did she tell the truth and what couldnt she remember . On the other hand you had a story last week about donald trump paying a fine for an foundation misreported to the irs. All of the baggage that Hillary Clinton is carrying is matched by baggage that donald trump is carrying. Were in the homestretch. Remember the days when we said theres a lot of time ahead. Not much left anymore. Something else to watch in the president ial race this week the first joint candidate event of the general election. Matt will sit down with both Hillary Clinton and donald trump to talk National Security and Veterans Issues during a special you can watch it live on wednesday night, 8 00 eastern on nbc and msnbc. That will be fascinating. This morning the current commander in chief president obama is in china for the g20 summit. Overnight he held a meeting with Vladimir Putin. Ron allen is there. Ron, good morning. Reporter a lot of intensity here because this may be the last opportunity that president obama has to hold oneonone meetings with many of the World Leaders assembled here. Earlier today also north korea fired off three test missiles landing close to japan. After frantic efforts, president obama was able to hold oneonone face to face meeting with Vladimir Putin of russia. The issue syria. The two men were unable to work out a ceasefire agreement that would bring some relief to the bloodshed there thats devastated that country. President obama also brought up with the russians and the ing of u. S. Websites and president was trying to downplay the big argument that occurred at the airport as he arrived here. Chinese and american officials were shouting at each other about who could go where on the tarmac and whether the media could cover the event. President obama called it all a misunderstanding and not a snub and reminder this is a communist nation that has its own way of doing things sometimes. The president leaves china and meetings. The nation was bombed heavily by the u. S. During the vietnam war. Tamron . Thank you very much. Breaking news. Rescuers are searching for survivors this morning after a structure collapsed in tel aviv. Officials say several people are trapped. At least one person was killed and up to 30 others injured. Members of the Israeli Military were called in to help dig out people stuck under that rubble. Was the underground parking lot of an under Construction Office block. No word yet on what caused the collapse. Now to the ongoing controversy over that decision by nfl quarterback Colin Kaepernick to kneel during the National Anthem in protest against Police Brutality and racial injustice. His jersey sales are going up. Nbcs Gadi Schwartz has the latest. Good morning. Those jerseys are becoming a hot commodity and other sports are starting to kneel during the National Anthem in support of Colin Kaepernick as well. Colin kaepernick has gone from sitting to kneeling during the National Anthem in a silent sideline protest but on sunday as kaepernick was expected to show up to address a congregation in san francisco, the reverend said this. He had every plan of being here, but because of the rigors of his training and getting will be coming at a date that will be for the entire community. Reporter kaepernicks controversial protest spread across the country igniting both anger and support. The local police union threatening to boycott games with the police chief quick to disagree saying officers will continue to be assigned to patrol games and even though he took issue with kaepernicks actions, he supported his constitutional right to nailed before her game on sunday saying it was a nod to the quarterback and everything hes standing for right now. Meanwhile, a close look at kaepernicks social media posts show his decision to sit out the anthem started in october of last year when pictures of kaepernick himself gave way to consistent posts about racial injustice, Police Shootings and inequality. The quarterback even taking to instagram in an explanation about the socks he wore depicting pigs in Police Uniforms saying it was in protest of rogue cops. Meanwhile, the sale of his jersey has spiked going from 20th to number 1 in the 49ers store flying off the shelf for 100 as many buy his jersey in support. Kaepernick pledged 1 million racial injustice. He is yet to announce specifics. The reverend of the church says kaepernick had discussed collaborating with the naacp as well as other organizations that offer support for children. Willie . Hell be back on the field a week from tonight for week one of the nfl. Gadi, thanks so much. Dylan is back with the rest of our forecast. Of course keeping an eye on the storm. Besides the rough surf and coastal impacts, we are going to see more wet weather back we have a slow moving cold front and thats been producing showers and storms especially in and around minneapolisst. Paul. We could possibly see an isolated tornado. We have mountain snow in the forecast especially in the Higher Elevations back through montana. Above 6,500 feet. Were starting to see a change of the season. You go back to the plains and you wont notice it at all. Temperatures 90s. Above average. Some spotty storms could produce heavier douwnpours. In the northeast we are looking at sunny skies unless youre closer to the coast in massachusetts and rhode island and eastern long island thats where well see most of our clouds. Perhaps a few spotty showers and then again even if youre at the beaches across the midatlantic, keep in mind the water is still very dangerous until Hermine Chris good monday morning, everyone. We have a Tropical Storm warning in place through the south coast of new england, buzzards bay and the cape and the islands. Heres hermine to the south of us. Rain trying the back in pi midmorning across the cape and the islands. Eventually this afternoon getting across eastern mass. A lot of us will not see rain until midtolate afternoon. Gustiest winds 40 to 50mph. A couple gusts past 50 across nantucket and over to the vineyard. Later on this week once we shake and thats your latest forecast. Thank you very much. Coming up, the parents of the little boy who was killed by an alligator at disney world speak publicly for the first time. Well hear from them. One groups mission to care for chimpanzees used in life saving medical research. First, thi norman thats a lot of vitamins there, harold. Harold oh, im stocking up before kelly ayotte gets her way on medicare. Norman what do you mean . 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