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Good morning, everyone. Its friday september 2nd im betty nguyen alongside Louis Burgdorf. We want to begin with breaking news. Florida hit with its first hurricane in more than a decade. Hermine slammed into the florida coast early this morning as a category 1 hurricane. Packing winds of up to 80 miles an hour. Its since been downgraded to a Tropical Storm. Forecasters still warn the storm surge and flooding could be life threatening. So lets go right to nbc meteorologist bill karins with the latest on this as we continue to watch hermine as its making its way across the land there in florida. Again, being downgraded to a Tropical Storm. All right, bill is watching all of this as the rest of us, especially those in florida, how bad is it there, bill . Good morning to you, betty. All night long the north florida coastline was the one that sustained the most damage with a lot of Power Outages around the tallahassee area. Thats where they saw the highest winds. We havent seen any reports on land of Hurricane Force wind. It was estimated it was a hurricane at landfall at 80mileperhour winds about 1 30 in the morning. The storm has moved across northern florida, and is now in areas of southern georgia, the current time now downgraded to a Tropical Storm. It will continue to weaken. The wind effects from this storm will get less and less as we go throughout the morning. We still have this huge rain shield and now were going to worry about the possibility of flash flooding, and the possibility of any isolated tornadoes as we go throughout the morning. Right now 50 miles northeast of tallahassee, florida, in southern georgia and its going to make a leeline towards charleston and wilmington later on tonight. One of the things we have to worry about is tornadoes. Some systems typically produce more tornadoes. Others dont produce as many. We dont know exactly the science of that. But there is still a tornado watch. This has not produced any known tornadoes. Thats great. Doesnt mean there wont be later on today, especially this afternoon if we get heating and breaks of sun in between the bands. As far as the tornado threat is up around the savannah, georgia, area. If ee get any more wind damage near valdosta to georgia. Southern portions of North Carolina, the entire southern half of the state of South Carolina and then savannah to brunswick to jacksonville. Again these are typically smaller type tornadoes. Now the Hurricane Center just came out with the new watches, the new warnings, and the new path. Lets break that down. Still under a Tropical Storm watch from just about areas from virginia beach, norfolk area northward. The jersey shore still under Tropical Storm watch. Still some questions about just how close the storm will be to the jersey shore and also maryland and delaware. Still have Tropical Storm warnings from data beach area to cape hatteras. And the actual forecast track does take this as we go throughout the entire day today right through southern georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, exits as we go throughout saturday afternoon. So thats the highest impacts of rain and a little bit of wind gusts on the coastline there of South Carolina as we go throughout the show today ill break down a little more how much rain we can expect and what the effects will be for the Labor Day Holiday weekend in the midatlantic and northeast. Thats a large swath of area being affected. Dont go far because were going to check back in with you in just a bit. Florida residents are already surveying the damage. Parts of cedar key were pounded by high winds. You can see downed trees. A number of homes in the lowlying city are covered in water. Thousands were left without power. Apalachicola is in the dark. Right now a state of emergency remains in effect for 51 florida counties. Of course we will continue to follow the latest with Tropical Storm hermine throughout the hour. Lets turn to politics now. Donald trump is wavering in his rhetoric on immigration once again after giving a stridently prodeportation speech on wednesday in which he laid out a policy of no legalization for millions of undocumented within the united states, trump again said a softening could occur. And in another interview last night suggested his plans were uncertain. The line last week youre softening on immigration, then you come out with a very specific, very proenforcement plan last night. Wheres the softening . Oh, theres softening. Look we do it in a very humane way and were going to see with the people that are in the country, obviously i want to get the gang members out, the drug peddlers out, the drug dealers out. We want to we got a lot of people in this country that you cant have. And those people will get out. And then were going to make a decision at a later date once everything is finalized. I think youre going to see theres really quite a bit of softening. Were going to get rid of all of the bad players that are here. The gang members, the gang leaders, the drug dealers. After that take place, which will be a process, and it wont go that quickly but its going to go as quickly as any human being can do it, after that take place were going to sit back, were going to assess the situation, were going to see where we are. Because well have people in the country that, you know, that have come in illegally. Were going to sit back, were going to assess the situation, were going to make a decision at that time. All right. So in case he left anyone confused donald trump tweeted yesterday morning simply quote mexico will pay for the wall with an exclamation point. But later yesterday president Enrique Pena Nieto responded saying quote i repeat what i told him personally, mr. Trump, mexico will never pay for a wall. Trump, however, had no doubts. Oh, it will happen at the right time it will happen. This is just the beginning of a negotiation. If i win, if i become president , mexico will pay for the wall. He, you know, rightfully said i know their position for a long time. They say they dont want to pay for the wall, and every negotiation starts that way. But mexico will pay for the wall. If you look at whats going on with mexico, we have a tremendous trade deficit with mexico. Tremendous trade deficit. And, its thats so much more. I mean the wall is peanuts compared to the kind of money youre talking about. No, mexico will pay for the wall and i think theyll end up actually being very happy to do so. Now some hispanic leaders who have been advising trump say they feel betrayed following his most recent comments on immigration. Surrogate steve cortez told msnbc said most of trumps hispanic Advisory Counsel urged him to soften his policy while Corey Lewandowski said trumps target audience wednesday was not latinos. I gave him advice on immigration as did other people on the council. He didnt take all of it. But im not the candidate. He is. If you look at the polling data, he has about an 18point lead in the demographic of white males who are voting in this election. They have a high propensity of voting so hes got about on 18point lead on Hillary Clinton in that particular demographic. This speech is clearly geared at those individuals right now to make sure that theyre there. He locked them in for the election. Meanwhile another trump surrogate, marco gutierrez, who is also the founder of the group latinos for trump, made an unconventional argument for the candidates immigration plan last night. We need to understand that this is a different time and were having problems here. What problems . What problems are you talking about . My culture is a very dominant culture. And its imposing and its causing problems. If you dont do something about it youre going to have taco trucks every corner. Well, shortly after that exchange, the phrase taco trucks on every corr began trending on twitter. Hillary clinton has spent the last month working on the donor circuit and the results are in yesterday her campaign reported raising a staggering 143 million in august. 62 million goes to the campaign while 81 million goes to other democrats. To put that into perspective here its 53 million more than she raised in the month of july. Now the joint fund began september with a total of 152 million. In the bank. And they are spending some of it in twrad igsally republican areas expanding into georgia, arizona and even utah. And mike pence was campaigning yesterday the state that gave mitt romney his biggest margin of victory in 2012 and in arizona john mccain is taking on his well funded democratic opponents by seeming to suggest that clinton will win. My opponent, representative Ann Kirkpatrick is a good person but if Hillary Clinton is elected president , arizona will need a senator who will act as a check, not a rubber stamp. A new report says donald trump was forced to pay a penalty over questionable political contribution by the charity bearing his name. According to the Washington Post, the irs hit trump with a 2500 fine this year for a tax Law Violation by the donald j. Trump foundation. The paper says the organization gave 25,000 in 2013 to a group called justice for all which was supporting Florida Attorney general pam biondis reelection campaign. Now at that time, biondi was considering whether to investigate fraud allegations against Trump University but later decided not to pursue the case. The Development Comes amid a new Usa Today Suffolk University poll that shows trump and Hillary Clinton are nearly tied with voters saying they are untrustworthy. 61 to 59 . While on the campaign trail for clinton Vice President joe biden spoke with msnbcs kasie hunt where he tried to defend the controversial practices by the Clinton Foundation that have damaged that trust. Has the Clinton Foundation always been 100 ethical in your view . Look, i think the Clinton Foundation, like all foundations, have found themselves in a position where things are changing, and i think shes going to change, adjust to the realities of of how complicated its all become. And is she clearing herself up enough with that . Should the foundation have stopped taking foreign donations now . Well, i think youll see them stop taking foreign donations. The Trump Campaign pounced on Vice President bidens comments, releasing a statement that reads in part, the fact that even the Vice President cant vouch for the Clinton Foundations ethics speaks volumes about Hillary Clintons terrible judgment. Vice President Joe Biden didnt hold back when it came to going after donald trump while campaigning in ohio for Hillary Clinton. During his stop in warren yesterday, the Vice President ripped trump for not understanding the middle class. Im so sick and tired. I know im not supposed to get angry, but im so sick and tired of hearing people like trump and the chamber of commerce, the National Chamber talking about we get paid too much. That we dont give me a break. Give me a break. This is a guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth, that now hes choking on because his foots in his mouth along with the spoon. Donald trump is set to visit a largely black church in detroit tomorrow as part of his continued effort to Court Minority voters and his campaign is reportedly looking to keep him on script during his conversation with the churchs pastor. The New York Times has obtained an eight page draft script showing Trumps Campaign has prepared answers for the republican nominee to give for a dozen questions by bishop wayne t. Jackson. The times adds that the answers were written with the help of africanamerican republican advisers and it goes on to say that q a session which wont be open to the public or media, will be edited with the help of trumps aides before it airs on jacksons impact network. Jackson told msnbcs tamron hall yesterday that he did not invite trump to his church but rather the campaign reached out to him. A spokesperson for the Clinton Campaign criticized the visit saying in part, Donald Trumps latest gimmick to act as if he cares about the black community is downright shameful, insulting and cowardly. Not surprisingly trumps ignorance on issues like the economy, criminal justice reform, the meaning of quality healthcare or systemic racism, has forced him to resort to scripted conversations, and staged engagements with our communities. And senator Bernie Sanders is set to hit the campaign trail for his former rival Hillary Clinton. Sanders will spend his labor day in New Hampshire where the Clinton Campaign says he will discuss the economy. The move marks the first time the senator has campaigned for clinton alone since he endorsed her back in july. Meanwhile, the closely watched battle for Kelly Ayottes senate seat remains in a virtual dead heat. New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan tops aat44 to 42 within the margin of error there but less than half of likely voters say they have decided which candidate they will vote for so its still a tossup there betty. Yeah well coming up 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick isnt backing down from his National Anthem protest. In fact he found some support in san diego last night. Plus a huge rocket explosion at Cape Canaveral. It leaves spacex engineers trying to figure out what went wrong. Those stories and a check on the weather when we come right back. Using 60,000 points from my chase ink card i bought all the fruit. Veggies. And herbs needed to create a popup pickyourown juice bar in the middle of the city, so now everyone knows. We have some of the freshest juice in town. See what the power of points can do for your business. Learn more at chase. Com ink morning is nothing new. Stion, muddling through your see what the power of points can do for your business. 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I think once the sun comes up the tallahassee area, there will be a lot of trees down and thats where the Power Outages will take the long toast be restored. Estimates over 100,000 in that region especially thats where the storm made landfall. I had a little more time to read the new discussion out of the Hurricane Center, get their thoughts on this. Friction is taking its effect. When the storms were over the open water they were able to get the momentum going easier because theres no friction from trees or mountains or houses, whatever is in the way. Once the storm gets over land friction becomes more of a component and the storms weaken. Thats whats happening now. By 2 00 p. M. Today they think the winds will go from 70 down to 50 miles per hour. When you get to only 50mileperhour max we dont really see a lot of Power Outages after that point. Thats good news for charleston, myrtle beach, wilmington, northern east carolina. Not expecting a lot of Power Outages. By saturday at 2 00 a. M. Only expecting winds at 45. Then the storm exits eastern North Carolina by saturday afternoon. That leaves us with two concerns. One is what happens to the storm this weekend . Because notice it goes from 45mileperhour wind, it kind of loops out here and look how long, this is sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday. This forecast linkers this storm off the midatlantic coast for about five days, and look at the cone of uncertainty it goes all the way back to eastern pennsylvania, central new england and back out here to the open atlantic. So theres still a lot of questions how close this will be here. No matter what will there be large waves, rip currents, and times gusty winds. How close the rain shield gets to areas of the midatlantic, i mean if it was a little closer to the coast, we could do with a three or fourday rain event in this region. Right now its going to be just offshore. The storm surge, we could get another one to three feet of storm surge right around 10 00 a. M. Then when this storm linkers out here that water is going to pile up. Notice the winds out of the east, areas of Long Island Sound thats going to be great concern. Ocean city maryland northwards to the delaware coastline. Wherever the water piles up, it may do so for three or four days in a row. There are some concerns with this storm even after were done with the southeast today. That pesky cone of uncertainty. Thats right. This thing could linger till the middle of next week. Its like the never ending story. All right, thank you bill. Spacex is trying to figure out what went wrong after an unmanned rocket exploded during a test at Cape Canaveral yesterday. It happened two days before a scheduled launch. Nbcs tom costello has those details. It happened on Cape Canaveral, launch pad 40. A massive explosion, an unmanned spacex falcon9 rocket launched in a giant fireball that the company says started in the upper stage oxygen tank. Evacuating complex 41 but its south of 41. Wow. Its still going. The explosion so big witnesses could see and feel it miles away. Even caught on weather radar. Its a rocket segment that blew up. Its heading out towards the beach. Temporarily closing down the beach. Reporter amazingly, no one was injured. It happened during an engine pest fire op on saturday the rocket was supposed to launch an Israeli Communications satellite into orbit from which facebook planned to beam Home Internet access to africa. Facebooks Ceo Mark Zuckerberg saying he was deeply disappointed by the launch failure. Three, two, one, liftoff. Reporter its not the first disapointment for spacex. Founded by Billionaire Elon Musk it suffered a series of setbacks with the reusable rockets. But also tremendous success launching Cargo Resupply Missions to the space station. The falcon 9 rocket is the same design that is supposed to one day carry humans to the station. Former astronaut Steve Robinson is an nbc news news analyst. This is a very competive industry of course and its also very unforgiving industry. You have to balance being hard charging and being extremely careful. That was tom costello reporting. Still ahead, penn state makes plans to honor controversial former head coach joe paterno. Plus the latest from the u. S. Open. Were back in a moment. She spent summer bingewatching. Soon, shell be bingestudying. Get back to great. This week 50 off all backpacks. Office depot officemax. Gear up for school. Gear up for great. Hey, need fast try cool mint zantac. It releases a cooling sensation in your mouth and throat. Zantac works in as little as 30 minutes. Nexium can take 24 hours. Try cool mint zantac. No pill relieves heartburn faster. Yoyeah, i do. E . You guys are working on some pretty big stuff over there, right . 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The message is that we have a lot of issues in this country that we need to deal with. We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that arent treated equally. Arent given equal opportunities. You know Police Brutality is a huge thing that needs to be addressed. There are a lot of issues that need to be talked about, need to be brought to life, and we need to fix those things. Kaepernick added that he plans to work with organizations addressing the issue and will donate the first 1 million he makes this year to other organizations helping communities. And what could be a preview of things to come this season, over in Oakland Seattle seahawks cornerback jeremy lane also chose to sit during the anthem. All right. Penn state will formally honor former head coach joe paterno during a game on september the 17th. The date marks the 50th anniversary of paternos first game as head coach back in 1966. Now, exact details surrounding the event have yet to be released. But you may remember paterno was fired back in 2011 amid the Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal although he maintained he knew nothing about the allegations and was never charged with any crime relating to the scandal, penn state also removed the statue of paterno from outside beaver stadium. He died in january 2012 from cancer. All right. The ninth rapged Tennessee Volunteers survived quite the opening scare last night. The vols had to come back after being down 133 at halftime to ap laven state. The teams fought into overtime and in the extra vols quarter joshua dobbs scrambling toward the goal line. Luckily for them it was the game winning touchdown. Tennessee wins 2013 what a play there. Flushing in new york where serena and Venus Williams both breezed through their second round matches at the u. S. Open. Serena beat king 63, 63 in straight sets with a win serena ties tennis ledge end Martina Navratilovas record of 306 career grand slam match wins a mark she will undoubtedly surpass in the coming years. While her sixth ranked sister venus who at 36 is the oldest player defeated gergous 62, 63 in straight sets. Love that u. S. Open action betty. Absolutely. And the williams sisters are a force to be reckoned with that is for sure. For sure. Well see how far they get this year. Okay. The very latest on Tropical Storm hermine. It hit florida as a hurricane but first for the Sunshine State in more than a decade in the city of tallahassee more than 70,000 people are reportedly without power which may not be restored for days. Well be right back. Its a very specific moment, the launch window. We have to be very precise. If were not ready when the planets are perfectly aligned, thats it. We need really tight temperature controls. 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We want to get right to our breaking news this morning. Florida hit with its first hurricane in more than a decade. Hermine slammed into the coast as a category 1 hurricane packing winds up to 80 miles an hour. It has since been downgraded to a Tropical Storm. Forecasters still warn the storm surge and flooding could be life threatening. Lets go right to mbs neateologist bill karins with the latest on this. How bad is it out there . I think north florida is going to look pretty impressive. They were hit by 80mileanhour hurricane. A low end category 1 storm. You expect downed trees. Of course with a night falling landfall these are the pictures that we have for you. A lot of the blowing of the trees, a lot of the squalls that come through when the sun comes up well start giving you some of the damage pick urs im sure well have a lot of scenes of trees on homes, things like that. Over 100,000 people without power at least and that number continues to grow as the storm and winds continue to crank in northern portions of florida and southern georgia. Thats the power surges there and the sparking of the power lines in northern florida. So lets take you into the storm. Again it did drop to a Tropical Storm we expect that this is one of those weird storms that the highest impacts were what we saw about four hours ago. Then were going to watch it weaken through South Carolina and georgia, as long as we dont get any tornadoes it shouldnt be too life threatening. Then the storm is going to reintensify off the midatlantic coast and could provide significant damage all the way through long island. 70mileanhour winds racing to the northeast at 14 which is good. Thats not sitting in any one location too long. As long as it continues to move that lessens the effects of the rain. The storms that linger like the one we had in louisiana about two, three weeks ago, those are the ones that produce epic flooding. The ones that are on the move we wont see huge widespread flooding. Well get four to eight inches in a large area, but you wont get the 20 inch totals. We do have a tornado watch. We havent had any reported yet. Theyre still going to be possible from jacksonville, brunswick up to safina. As storm as the storm surge went, the highest i saw was around cedar key. Thats a record for the cedar key area. The high tide high tide is about 10 00 a. M. This morning around savannah and charleston. You should expect high water this morning right around 10 00 a. M. That will be about the peak of it for georgia and South Carolina coast lines. Then as the tide settles down and winds die off a little bit the storm surge wont be quite as bad. One to three feet some of the back bay areas could be higher, water rises maybe as high as four feet to five feet. Heres the storm track. This is sunday. The storm is off the coast, becomes a hybrid system. Like a mix of a tropical system and a noreaster and it may sit here for three to four days. If we get that sustained wind coming from the east into areas say, Long Island Sound, that water is going to pile up and every high tide cycle its going to get a little bit worse starting on sunday, possibly all the way out till about tuesday or wednesday. So we may see major coastal flooding problems in areas of Long Island Sound, new york harbor, all the way in to areas here from ocean pines northwards up towards wilmington, delaware area, those are some of the greatest concerns as we head through monday, tuesday, wednesday of next week. Something to keep in mind. We may actually see something where the storm is far enough off the coast for a very little wind problems inland areas. Very little problems with rain. But we still could deal with this horrible storm surge that could do a lot of damage into the upcoming week. Seems like the storm just wont go away. Its lingering. We went and looked. Weve been tracking this storm for the last 11 days, and it looks like it has at least four four or five left. All right, bill. We will check back in with you in just a bit. Florida residents theyre already surveying the damage parts of cedar key were pounded by high winds last night and you can see downed trees on top of cars, and homes. A number of roads in the lowlying city are covered in water. Tens of thousands were left without power across the state. Were told the entire city of apalachicola is in the dark. Right now a state of emergency remains in effect for 51 florida counties. Of course we will continue to follow the latest with Tropical Storm hermine throughout the hour. Lets turn to politics. Donald trump is wavering on his rhetoric on immigration once again after giving a stridently prodeportation speech on wednesday in which he laid out a policy of no legalization for the millions of undocumented within the united states, trump again said a softening could occur. And in another interview last night suggested his plans were uncertain. The line last week you are softening on immigration then you come out with a very specific, proenforcement plan last night, wheres the softening . Oh, theres softening. Look we do it in a very humane way. And were going to see with the people that are in the country, obviously i want to get the gang members out, the drug peddlers out, the drug dealers out. We want to we got a lot of people in this country that you cant have. And those people will get out. And then were going to make a decision at a later date once everything is finalized. I think youre going to see theres really quite a bit of softening. Were going to get rid of all of the bad players that are here. The gang members, the gang leaders, the drug dealers. After that take place, which will be a process, and it wont go that quickly but its going to go as quickly as any human being can do it, after that take place were going to sit back, were going to assess the situation, were going to see where we are. Because well have people in the country that, you know, that have come in illegally. Were going to sit back, were going to assess the situation, were going to make a decision at that time. Some hispanic leaders say they feel detrayed following his decision. Steve cortez said most of the Advisory Council urged the candidate to soften his immigration policy while his former Campaign Manager Cory Lewandowski said trumps target audience wednesday was not latinos. I gave him advice on immigration as did other people on the council. He didnt take all of it. You know what . Im not the candidate. He is. If you look at the polling data, hes got about an 18point lead in the demographic of white males, who are voting in this election. They have a high propensity of voting so hes got about an 18point lead on Hillary Clinton in that particular demographic. This speech is clearly geared at those individuals right now to make sure that theyre there. Hes locked them in for the election. Meanwhile another trump surrogate who is also the founder of the group latinos for trump made an unconventional argument for the candidates immigration plan last night. We need to understand that this is this is a different time and were having problems here. What problems . What problems are you talking about . My culture is a very dominant culture. And its imposing, and its causing problems. If you dont do something about it youre going to have taco trucks every corner. Well, shortly after that exchange, the phrase taco trucks on every corner began trending on twitter. New National Polling shows Hillary Clinton with a solid lead over donald trump. The Usa Today Suffolk University poll has clinton ahead by seven points 48 to 41 . That lead holds in a fourway matchup, 42 to trumps 35 . Gary johnson at 9 , and jill stein at 4 . The New York Times reported last month that trumps internal polling warned him that too many voters described him as racist and in that new National Poll 47 of likely voters say they do not think trump is a racist. More than four in ten, 44 say think they he is. And Hillary Clinton has spent the last month working the donor circuit and the results are in. Yesterday her campaign reported raising a staggering 143 million in august. 62 million goes to the campaign while 81 million goes to other democrats. To put that into perspective, thats 53 million more than she raised in the month of july alone. The joint fund began in september with a total of 152 million in the bank. And they are spending some of it in traditionally republican areas. Expanding into georgia, arizona, and even utah. Where republican Vice President ial nominee mike pence was campaigning yesterday. The state that gave mitt romney his biggest margin of victory in 2012. And arizona john mccain is taking on his wellfunded democratic opponent by suggesting that clinton will win. My opponent, representative Ann Kirkpatrick, is a good person. But if Hillary Clinton is elected president , arizona will need a senator who will act as a check, not a rubber stamp. A new report says donald trump was forced to pay a penalty over a questionable political contribution by the charity bearing his name. According to the Washington Post the irs hit trump with a 2500 fine this year for a tax Law Violation by the donald j. Trump foundation. The paper says the organization gave 25,000 in 2013 to a group called justice for all, which was supporting Florida Attorney general pam bondys reelection campaign. At that time bondy was considering whether to investigate fraud allegations against Trump University but later decided not to pursue the case. The Development Comes amid a new sau today Suffolk University poll that shows trump and Hillary Clinton are nearly tied with voters saying theyre untrustworthy. While on the campaign trail for clinton Vice President joe biden spoke with msnbcs kasie hunt where he tried to defend the controversial practices by the Clinton Foundation that had damaged that trust. Has the Clinton Foundation always been 100 ethical in your view . Look i think the Clinton Foundation like all foundations have found themselves in a position where things are changing, and i think shes going to change, you know, adjust to the realities of of of how complicated its all become. Is she clearing herself up enough with that . Should the foundation have stopped taking foreign donations now . Well, i think youll see them stop taking foreign donations. The Trump Campaign pounced on Vice President bidens comments, releasing a statement that reads in part, the fact that even the Vice President cant vouch for the Clinton Foundations ethics speaks volumes about Hillary Clintons terrible judgment. And Vice President joe biden didnt hold back when it came to going after donald trump while campaigning in ohio for Hillary Clinton. During his stop in warren, ohio, yesterday the Vice President ripped trump for not understanding the middle class. Im so sick and tired. I know im not supposed to get angry, but im so sick and tired of hearing people like trump and the chamber of commerce, the National Chamber talking about we get paid too much. That we dont give me a break. Give me a break. This is a guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth, that now hes choking on because his foots in his mouth along with the spoon. Lets turn to business now where the release of the august jobs report today is expected to be the final factor in whether the fed will raise Interest Rates in september. Cnbcs hadley gamble joins us now live from london. All right, hadley, what do we expect from this report today . Good morning, betty. So what we know right now is that if this number is over 200,000 in terms of the data released later today in this report that we could definitely see a rate hike by the end of the month. The fed last week in their meetings suggesting that that could be the case. All eyes right now on the fed and on whether or not this jobs report is going to hit over 200,000. Another story were watching, is walmart. Apparently their shedding at least 7,000 jobs, and this is all because theyre going to an Automated System for bookkeeping and cash counting. Now its interesting of course that if you look at the total number of jobs 1. 5 million in the u. S. , this is just a very small percentage, less than 1 . But walmart is trying to do something for these folks, and they said that they could add jobs in othareas of the busines. Hadley, thank you so much. Dallas police chief david brown has announced his retirement. Brown, a 33 year veteran on the force is best known for leading his city through the aftermath of the killings of five officers during a protest march in july. In a statement brown says the decision was difficult and that he became a cop during the crack cocaine epidemic in the early 80s because he quote wanted to be part of the solution. He also urged the public to remember the officers who were killed, adding their memory will remain with all of us forever. Brown has not yet given a reason for stepping down although dallas mayor Mike Rawlings says brown had talked to city officers about leaving prior to julys shootings. In the wake of the tragic shootings of july 7th, when we lost four Dallas Police officers, and a dart officer the whole world learned what a special man leads our Dallas Police. Now, under browns tenure the department became a National Model for its emphasis on Community Policing and Officials Say crime rates fell to historic lows. The city of chicago, though, has suffered its worst month for gun violence in decades with 90 homicides, august was the windy citys deadliest month in 20 years. The increase of fatalities in the month of august alone is almost 50 compared to the same time last year. Now year to date there have been over 2300 shootings this year, and 472 shooting victims. Behind new york, and los angeles, chicago is the Third Largest u. S. City and has experienced more homicides this year than both new york and l. A. Combined. Betty, still ahead we continue to follow the breaking news from florida. 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Lawmakers in massachusetts are considering pushing the clock ahead one hour from Eastern Standard Time to atlantic standard time zones. The reason because residents in boston and other areas complain that it gets too dark too early. I hate that. Were also trying to save time here so thats a story that didnt make the cut. Heres one from massachusetts residents in foxborough say wild turkeys are terrorizing quite a story to tell. One of them actually flapped his wings, dropped off the ground and drop kicked me with both of his feet. We prefer our wild turkey here in a bottle betty. A drop kicking turkey. Next up a new study finds that pizza makes employees more productive at work than money. Yes it does. The Research Studies several different incentives giving praised increased productivity the most followed by pizza then money. Not sure about you but id rather have the dough. Not the pizza dough, the green stuff. A court has tossed out Lindsay Lohans lawsuit against the makers of grand theft auto 5. They accuse the company of using her likeness in the hit video game. The court ruled the images are of an avatar not lohan herself. An interesting case, unfortunately we didnt have time for that. Instead when we come back anion date on Tropical Storm hermine that just made land fall in florida as a category 1 hurricane. Using 60,000 points from my chase ink card i bought all the framework. Wire. And plants needed to give my shop. A face. No one will forget. See what the power of points can do for your business. Learn more at chase. Com ink see what the power of points can do for your business. Soon, shell be bingestudying. Get back to great. This week 50 off all backpacks. Office depot officemax. Gear up for school. Gear up for great. Lets get back to the big story were following this morning. Florida hit with a category 1 hurricane thats since been downgraded to a Tropical Storm. Bill karins is back. Whats the latest on this . The Power Outages right now. The winds are still high enough that were still knocking down trees in southern georgia and getting sparking of the power lines and transformers and were still seeing limbs falling on houses and trees and things like that. The winds are going to come down as we go through the morning and the Power Outages will become more sporadic. Still again tornado threat. So theres still life threatening weather going on right now. Water rises will be going on all morning long along the georgia coastline and South Carolina coast line as the center gets closer to you. Its going to be right near the peak of the high tide around 10 00 a. M. Tornado threat throughout the day. As far as the new updates go. Tropical storm watches from sandy hook, new jersey to just north of kill devil hills. These are Tropical Storm warnings. I do not expect a lot of huge gusts. One of the bigger so we had the landfall, which was obviously a lot of damage was done. Well see those pictures as we go. During the day today, its a threat of tornadoes. Heavy rain event, localized flooding. But i do not expect a lot of damage in eastern North Carolina and South Carolina. Yes some sporadic trees go down and stuff like that but there wont be widespread damage. Im really getting more concerned what happens as this storm, its weak exiting North Carolina then reenergizes itself. Its almost going to be like the equivalent of a noreaster sitting off the midatlantic coastline for four to five days. Sunday to wednesday. I mean when you get a stalled out storm nothing good can happen of it. The winds remain consistent. The water piles up on the coast. Every high tide cycle the beach erosion is going to get worse and worse. So theres Major Concerns for all the coastal areas from the norfolk, roanoke, rapids area famous for their flooding. Youre very concerned there. All the back water bays and chesapeake back up through especially New York New York city could sit in a horrible spot with a storm to your south, east wind piling up water to the Long Island Sound. We could have major flooding. I mean we could see water levels rise five feet higher than they normally should be. Thats a possibility. How about the rainfall map . As of now, the storm is just off the coast. This is a rainfall map showing how much rain there is. When we get to the pink and orange, thats five to seven inches of rain. This bullseye here is a one to two feet of rain that is only 50 to about 100 miles off the coast. The worst thing that could happen in the next couple days is you start hearing the forecasters like myself saying that the storm is closer to the coast than expected. Right now its supposed this is the forecast path guys. I mean if we just inch this 50 miles to the west, we start to talk about a foot to a foot and a half of rain on the jersey shore maryland and delaware areas long island, too. So theres a lot of concerns we are not done with this storm. This one could actually cause more monetary damage in areas of the midatlantic than it does down in florida because of the potential for that flooding in the coastal flooding this upcoming weekend. You are painting a frightening picture. 50 miles doesnt sound like a very big margin. For a shift, no. I hope it shifts further out to sea and were spared but i mean its going to be close. With flooding, bill, comes standing water and with that comes mosquito and i think a lot of people are concerned about that risk. And new this morning, scientists are saying more than 2. 6 billion people around the world are at risk of developing zika. Thats over a third of the global population. That number largely depends on weather People Living in these vulnerable areas and have already developed immunity. Now the virus first identified in 1947 was never considered a major Health Threat until the recent major outbreak in brazil. To make matters worse, mosquitoes carrying the virus have now been detected in florida. Mosquitoes trapped in a small area of miami beach are the first ever to test positive in the united states. And when we come back well get a check on the stories in the day ahead. Uhhh, youre really getting the hang of this. Anncr want feedback that helps . Verified reviews. Another reason to join angies list for free. This new ac guy is not that good. No hes not. Anncr. need a job done right . Search toprated providers on angies list. Join for free. Does your makeup remover every kissproof,ff . Cryproof, stayproof look . Neutrogena® makeup remover does. It erases 99 of your most stubborn makeup with one towelette. Need any more proof than that . Neutrogena. 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He will also be acquired to attend drug and alcohol counseling. And donald trump is set to receive his Second Intelligence briefing today. The republican nominee will receive the information sometime this morning in new york city. Trump got his first intelligence briefing last month. And that does it that does friday, im betty nguyen. Morning joe live from washington starts right now. I know you had a meeting this week. I did. I had a meeting with great people, great hispanic leaders and there certainly can be a softening. I dont think its a softening. But 11 Million People are going to be deported. Where is the softening . Oh, theres softening. Even to see there is really quite a bit of softening. Its just so confusing. Softening. It goes. Hardening. Softening. Softening. Hardening. Good morning, everyone. Im saying. What is it . Its either one or the either