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The Manitoba Nurses Union (MNU) has voted in favour of a strike mandate.

The strike vote earned 99% approval. the union has not hosted a walkout. new evacuation orders in hawaii's leilani estates as the threat from kilauea grows. residents have until noon local time to leave. anybody who refuses could be arrested. fissure number eight is on the verge of overflowing in the affected areas. breaches formed by the fissure can result in a fast lava flow. temperatures of the lava now reaching above 2,000 degrees. do you know how to spell? >> k-o-i-n-o-n-i-a. >> that is correct. >> nailed it. karthik edged out a 12-year-old

Similar incident is going to impact the mayor politically? >> well, mayor emanuel won't be -- was just re-elected in 2015. he's in trouble politically but you can't beat someone with no one so there's no one figure that has emerged that is taking on the mayor who you could identify as this is somebody who's going to build a campaign to run against him. there's right now what emanuel has politically is the gift of time. but let's look at the bigger context. the chicago teachers union just had another strike vote. mayor emanuel's policy of trying to close 50 schools mainly in african-american ne...

How likely is that to happen. as you mentioned, there's this upcoming results of this strike vote by the chicago teachers union. it is an embarrassing time for this mayor. >> so i think about sort of how chicagoans would talk about the daley years and how chicagoans would talk about the harold washington years and the question of whether or not there is a strong or weak mayor system in chicago, now that you are looking at what's happening with rahm emanuel with this kind of losing control, what's happening there? >> there is a crisis of governance and he has no legitimacy as an alderman told m...

And called police reporting an officer in trouble. and got the police and the county -- state police to back him up. there are all sorts of problems. the teachers are taking a strike vote starting today. running through friday. they could strike early next year. if there are more layoffs because of funding problems in the city. he's got a lot of things on the plate but by far, kate, this is the biggest crisis rahm emanuel faced in the five years as may why are. >> with us is ari melber here at msnbc. you have been listening to this. john mentions these two cases that just happen to be in court...