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Lashing the louisiana and texas coast with 150 mileanhour winds. Good morning, everyone. Im sandra smith. Trace good morning, everyone, im trace gallagher. Right now laura is a category 2 hurricane winds still reaching 100 Miles Per Hour. Sandra a trail of destruction. Blowing off roofs and windows and snapping trees. Hundreds of thousands left without power. The National Hurricane center said there was an unsurvivable storm surge with waters rising up to 20 feet. Governor greg abbott updates the situation in his state. Some regions of texas still getting whipped around by heavy winds and rain...

And this is the worst so far. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good morning to you. Right now Hurricane Dorian which is already a strong category four is actively intensifying according to the Weather Center a few minutes ago. Its churning in the atlantic with sustained wind speeds of more than 140 Miles Per Hour. Parts of the bahamas are bracing for a direct hit. We know that. Look at this thing. Extreme flooding, lifethreatening storm surge is what theyre really concerned about. The latest forecast shows its climbing up the east coast, parts of georgia, South C...

He will attend a briefing at fema headquarters in washington on sunday afternoon. >> now as he prepares to deal with this, it's being called this monster storm, he's surrounded largely by sufficient acting officials including an acting fema administrator, peter gainor. jeremy diamond joining us live. i know there are concerns about the lack of actual appointed, confirmed leaders in place and the experience to really navigate what might be coming with this storm. >> reporter: yeah. that's absolutely right. look, the president headed off to camp david yesterday evening where he says that he's go...

>> florida is still in the cone of sun tornado tee -- uncertainty. there's a state of emergency. several counties have issued mandatory evacuation orders. florida officials are telling everybody three important things -- get the water, get the gas, get the cash because atms may go down. stores might be open, but they may not have power to open cash registers. may need someone to come by and help you move some things, pick some things up, and cash is king in these types of situations. dorian is expected to pass through the northern bahamas tomorrow to early monday. president trump, he's was a...

Administrator peter gainor. >> i got you. >> i apologize for that. jeremy, thank you so much. >> we've been called i can't tell you how many names over the years. i've been called trevor. i'm not going to tell you which correspondent did that. but it's happened. the trump administration is moving forward with its plans to use military funds to construct the wall at the u.s.-mexico border. in july, the supreme court cleared the way for the white house to divert billions of dollars earmarked for fighting the war on drugs and -- and that's specifically what was listed there. to fund the constru...