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it weakened slightly overnight but could be re-energized in the warm waters of the atlantic today. nbc meteorologist bill karins joins us now. bill, what's the latest? >> well, chris, it doesn't matter if it weakened overnight. this storm is huge sizewise. the incensety is not going to vary much until it makes landfall. we have about 24 hours before we start to see the devastating winds on the coastline of north carolina. let me show you what the storm looks like right now. this black line, by the way, is the center of the storm. so if you want to know what direction it's heading in....

For them. that's not public yet. >> jonathan, where do you think this is going to actually, you know, hit the floor? how quickly are they going to move on this? >> well, right now there is a billion dollars tucked into a homeland security appropriations bill but no indication that will move anytime fast. i think what you're seeing right now is congress wants the president to make a request, not only for a dollar amount, but for some amount of time in which it is needed to get that money out the door. and there may be some tug of war there. i don't expect to see any money moving in the next cou...

Billions, billions of dollars in reconstruction and relief efforts. usually disaster relief is an automatic yes vote on capitol hill, no questions asked. not in an era of the tea party. some republicans are insisting that any money that is appropriated for missouri or elsewhere must first be offset by budget cuts. let's bring in jonathan alan, who has written the story for politico this is an interesting political quandary because people automatically vote for disaster relief, but now not so fast. >> yes. what you're hearing from conservatives is that if you want to have that disaster relief m...

Sunday. he comes back from his week in europe of summit meetings and saturday and sunday he goes to joplin, missouri, to view the devastation from the storms there last sunday. i know you updated the numbers, 132 killed in that three-quarter mile wide tornado. >> jonathan, it's just devastating. we really hope that they can have some better weather and some better news in the next couple of days. >> yeah. >> i don't know how they get over the shock of what they have -- the loss that they have incurred. jonathan, my best to you for a great holiday weekend. i hope you're off. >> you, too, andrea...

in france with russia's president medvedev who offered to do try to get moammar gadhafi to step aside in libya. chuck todd joins us live from warsaw. could this russian offer be real and where would they get him to go and what is the latest that you're hearing about the efforts to try to get gadhafi out? >> well, the offer is real. look, they signed on in the g-8 declaration. as you know, this has to be agreed upon by all eight countries. this is the wording in the declaration. it says gadhafi has no future and a free and democratic libya. he must go. now, what was interesting here i...