Completely stall out across freeport. Seeing the backside of the bands. You are looking at the cloud coverage. Look how expansive it is. About 300 miles in diameter here. Nearly taking overall of florida. We are watching this closely. We are seeing sustained winds of 165 miles an hour. The 8 00 a. M. Hour report still has it out of the west at one miles per hour. We are watching the potential of a storm surge across florida and south carolina. I want to do some live reporting here and show you exactly where this storm system currently is. It has stalled out across the northern bahamas. It will sit there at least the next 36 hours. Youll see this innun dags of water and storm surge, really significant here. Everyone is talking about the potential landfalls. The outer band of this system that will push in the water. We are watching very closely from West Palm Beach to the eye of this storm. Currently 102 miles here. From West Palm Beach to the outer bands is about 50 to 55 miles. Well start to really watch that over the next few days here as the outer bands feel more like severe weather. Some of the outer bands, the torrential rain, almost an ef 3 on track. This data thats has it coming in tuesday a. M. With 150mileanhour winds. Im really still uncomfortable from west palm with this major hurricane we are seeing. Even though we dont have land fall in that area, still very significant. This continues to go on. We talked about this storm last saturday. Well be talking about this [ growl ] storm this saturday at 2 00 a. M. Good boy. Now it is starting to hit the hey. Hey. Northeast. Jersey with the potential cone you must be stevens phone. Here. Wilmington. This is too close for comfort. Cat 2 for the outer banks. Know whos on your network and control who shouldnt be with xfinity xfi. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Really unfortunate situation for the bahamas. So this storm could possess a threat all week . Definitely. The big take away is it is moving at its own pace. The consistency here is just inconsistent. Joining us now our correspondent in nassau. Good morning. Reporter that main concern now is helping those people on the hardest hit abico islands. Welcome back. We are continuing to track the we still felt dorian bringing category 5 Hurricane Dorian. High winds and rain. Going now to jenson beach, just consider the damage and the size of that storm in that 90 florida. Gabe, good morning to you. Looks like it is picking up miles to the north, we are there. Talk us through what you are talking 220mileanhour wind seeing so far. Hi, good morning. Yes, we are in jenson beach, gusts and its surthe surge of 1 about an hour or so north of West Palm Beach. Feet. People were trapped yet. We are starting to see some of those outer rain bands. Several Officials Say portions you can see this choppy surf of the island are behind me. Hurricane dorian is about 100s unrecognizable. Right now, dorian is headed to off shore in that direction. Grand bahama island. The concern is that this storm shelters have opened up. Gets dangerously close to the outer edges of florida and up so people can go ahead and make the coast. Right now, you can see the wind sure they have a safe place to really start to pick up here. Stay. Even despite of the dire this is something we are going to see throughout the day. Warnings, only a few hundred deteriorating conditions as this chose to escape ahead of that massive storm scrapes the storms arrival. Florida coast. A testament of the sheer power i heard morgan reporting from of this storm, we know there are the bahamas. Several uninhabited, low lying mandatory evacuations are in effect now for . Islands around the area. Communities in florida along the we are talking about the coast. We are in Martin County and some coastline forever changing as a result of the sheer power of low lying communities were hurkacz dorian. Evacuated. New evacuations today for other thank you for that. We want to bring in our counties in florida, georgia and the carolinas. The concern here, Everyone Wants to see it make that northern reporter in florida. Turn and go up the coast and not as it is getting closer and head any further west. Closer to the United States. Talk to us about how parts of you can see how dangerous this the city there are being ordered could be. This surf could end up on the to evacuate this morning. Beach. We have seen many people take reporter just in the last this seriously. Few minutes, these orders businesses boarded up. Many people have already officially going into effect evacuated in these coastal here at jackson beach. Areas. What that means for families back to you. Are you getting a sense that maybe heading to the beach, they people this time are actually have to leave their Hotels Getting out before the storm starting right now. Ramps up . Ive covered a lot of these hotels will be closing, hurricanes, there is really an including our own hotel. We are under a state of unpredictability about this one. Emergency here in duval county. Beaches are already closed. We heard this track was supposed a beautiful sun rise but now if to take this through southern you go into the water, there florida the last day or so will be no closed when this thing became a category 5 hurricane, and you think about it with winds approaching 200 miles an hour race through the bahamas. That really got peoples attention. People started to say, look, better safe than sorry. We are going to see significant wind and rain and this potentially devastating storm surge. We are at jensen beach about an hour north of west palm, we are still getting rain bands and getting pelted by rain. Thank you, gabe. Stay safe. We are having some connectivity issues. If you are taking a look at a map and wondering where jensen beach is, it is just a little north of palm beach and jupiter, florida. Wondering if hes now beginning to feel those bands coming in. Joining us now, two time Award Winning journalist, author of the geography of risk. It has to do with because the federal government has incentivized it. Why is the government encouraging people to build in these really risky areas . I wish i knew the answer to that a. These programs have evolved over time. I write in my book back to the post war era and the economy where people begin to move to the coast and build second homes and beach houses. As people move, their expectations grow. Those include things like is the federal government going to contribute to build a bridge or road or repair areas that have been damaged by storms. Lawmakers have added all these programs to the mix. Largely because of the expectation of homeowners that also happen to be voters, right that government ought to be contributing to this risky geography. Who bares the financial responsibility for the impact of so many of these storms and the growing strength of some of sthooez as weve seen. In terms of the risk, what i write about and became interested in, after Hurricane Sandy in 2012 off the coast of new jersey and new york, i really began to dig in. What we know is that as recently as 1955, the federal government contributed about 5 of the cost of the recovery after hurricanes. By 1980s that ramped up to 35 . Today, it is 70 . In certain cases, it is 100 of the recovery cost. Weve effectively socialized the risk. What was private is now a public risk. Those are increasing dramatically. My Research Found that hurricane damage has been roughly about 750 billion. 17 of the 20 most destructive hurricanes in history have all occurred in the last two decades. You then consider how much of that is due to Climate Change . We have built out the in these colt al areas. Is there any case studies where theyve really looked at this and done things that are right in terms of recovery and rebuilding . I couldnt find many. There are some modest efforts. New york city after Hurricane Sandy has been adopting some new land use regulations and doing some other things. Are they going to save the city, i doubt it. I dont know. Cities in the pachlk dorian, what theyve done is basically built a pumping system. It works to a point. It is built to a 10year design. It can pump out water when you have these heavy rain storms. But if they get whacked by hurricane 3 or 4 storm that will push huge amount ofs of water up into the city. It has been flooding like mad. Epic storms, rising seas and the cost of the coast. We appreciate it. We continue to follow the slowmoving Hurricane Dorian. We are back in a moment. Tech at safelite autoglass, we really pride ourselves on making it easy for you to get your windshield fixed. Teacher lets turn in your science papers. Tech vo this teacher always puts her students first. Student i did mine on volcanoes. Teacher you did . oh, i cant wait to read it. Tech vo so when she had auto glass damage. 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Teachers drill kids on lets practice finding the main idea and making inferences. It doesnt really matter what kids are reading as long as they are practicing those skills. The problem is that scientists have known the most important factor whether you can understand what you are reading is not skills you can apply generally but how much background and vocabulary you have relating to the topic. It is not rot memorizing but a depth of understanding in a specific area . It doesnt have to be depth. If we are talking about a background knowledge and you come across the phrase achiles heel. You dont need to know the history, you will become confused and have more trouble figuring it out and you may not be very good at make inferences. If you know a lot about baseball, youll under a passage about baseball. Showing kids who were supposedly poor readers did almost as well as good readers if they knew about baseball and the passage they were given was about baseball. Tell us the story of your aha moment when you realized there was this thing we were all getting wrong about education. I was on the board of a Charter School in washington, d. C. It was a high poverty area. I got to know a veteran that was teaching the kids to write. I asked her to go to this Charter School where im on the board, she reported back to me that this method only works fw this theory is embedded in the content and that school isnt teaching content. Thats when i realized, i had no idea what i was looking at. Most people think schools are actually trying to build kids knowledge, then i learned that wasnt even the objective. If our knowledge gaps are compounded early on. Logically, it makes sense that in order to fix the knowledge gap, you have to start at the beginning of the education system. So how critical are universal prek systems . PreSchool Programs are really important, good quality ones. There is a wellknown thing called preschool fade out. They may be ahead but by third, fourth grade, that advantage fades. We are giving them a good start and then putting them in this black hole where there is no content or knowledge they are acquiring. In the end, a good beginning early on only goes so sffar if u dont have the good parental structure and other aspects. Education can do so much more than it is currently doing regardless of family background or cultural attitudes. There was a narrative in the 60s and it is rising now that says, weve tried education and it is really not working. We have to try poverty and culture and things like that. We have kids in school for seven hours a day, spending 600 billion a year on k through 12 education. A lot of that time and money is being wasted. It wouldnt cost anymore to provide a good curriculum. In new york city, there was a scandal that in elite schools, only 8 of africanamerican kids were getting in. Which makes no sense. We know there are a lot more qualified kids are in that community. One of the options was to ensure x amount of spots. One thing they learn is putting so much time in the after School Programs from when they are little. Developing programs that would help kids after school and what they do in schools to advance an agenda . It depends on what the after School Programs would consistent of. I would say after School Programs are important but we also have to look at whats going on during the school day. When you get to a High School Entrance exam, if those kids havent been exposed to knowledge, it is more important. Not impossible. The thing that would help would be intensive tutorring, one on one or one on two tutorring. Not only reading comprehension but looking at your textbook is talking about the civil war, what dont you understand . If you were talking to democrats, what would you suggest looking forward . That is an interesting question, the government has little effect. 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That happened for many reasons. Because of amerimechanics. We are growing corn and soy. They are grown for fuel and junk food. The farmers there are trapped because it is difficult to do anything else and yet, what is happening is destroying the land , destroying the environment, poisoning animals. You say this is a familiar story from missouri. I dont think people realize the amount of control a handful of companies have on the food supply and how few farmers are working for themselves, how few farmers can even decide what day of the month they want to take their animals to market. All according to contract. Im interested in hearing what did you hear about this support of all of this market disruption. All of the corn growers in missouri spent years working on growth in china. Now that has gone up in flames because the china market is gone for beans out of missouri. Is that figuring into conversation of what you are hearing from farmers in iowa . That concern is that someone will take care of us. Well get a check somehow . Right. Well set aside the discussion of tariffs. Thats not my expertise. There is a way in which, if you are growing corn and soybeans,s government always wanted you to do inthat and will figure out a way to pay you for that. Whether or not china is buying it, theyll get sold or it will be planted in corn and thats going to get sold. It gets a little technical. These are such big, familiar problems, there is almost no need to get technical. If you look at renewable food standards, 40 of corn is grown to produce ethenol. It is not even clear that is a particularly useful fuel. No president ial candidate has mentioned the ethenol mandate yet. That could be a total game changer to question why are we growing corn for fuel and not food for people . You have written, you cannot have a good food system without having a good society, and vice versa. Some people, not me, some people would claim that is a wildly broad calculation. Explain that, please. It is wildly proud but also true. The food system is currently supported by the government and an alliance of supporting it. The question i would say is, what is food for . If i said to you, lets develop a question, a board game, what is food for . Most would not answer, it is to enrich corporations. There are two meat factories and those that really profit. Could the food system be something designed to nourish people in the United States and everywhere else as well . I know what i think the answer to that ought to be. I dont think we could do that without restructuring the way our government works. With that in mind, how do we begin to change. As you pointed out, the farmer a lot of times doesnt even know where his items are going. But that they are on this path. It is funny. It to this corny chestnut. Think globally. Act locally. We can talk about massive change. Im not an idealist or revolutionary anymore. When i was 20, it would have been different. We have to look at increment al change. How do we address the Climate Crisis, the Public Health crisis. How do we address the ethenol mandate . What are the small changes we can be making . Those changes are, how do we feed our children in Public Schools and regulate the marketing of junk food . Those kinds of questions are the questions we need to be asking. I like to ask the question, not how do we reform the entire food system. It is a big complicated problem. Im glad you are shining a light on it. Good to see you. Thank you for having me. woman speaking french are you crazy nuts . Cyclist pip pip woman speaking french im here, look at me. Its completely your fault. man speaking french ok . Its me. Its my fault . No, i cant believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my Car Insurance with geico. pterodactyl screech believe it. Geico could save you 15 or more on Car Insurance. 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Airlines are changing change fees. Port canaverals cruise terminal is shut down, so is miami. We started out on saturday to the u. S. Virgin islands. They rerouted us. The storm slamming how big a deal is Labor Day Weekend for you . On. In bervard county, they boarded up the gift shop theyve owned 17 years. I hope a pray it will be a glancing blow. Coffee shop owner is putting up sand bags. We are closed. This is probably the most frustrating storm weve dealt with. Hopefully it will stay off the coast. All we can do is prepare and hope for the best. Gabe is back with us live from jensen beach, florida. Talk to us about what you are seeing, if you are seeing the storm progress since we last spoke. Yeah, what a difference about a half hour or so makes. You can see the sun is out. That is typical when we see these initial bands come through. If you were watching about half an hour ago, we were being pelted. We are seeing winds but for now, the sun is out. You can see that choppy surf. We expect that to get worse throughout the day. Authorities are concerned aboutt of the florida beach. This area could be flooded. One of the hotels nearby plans to close up shop here in just a few hours. We do see some people in the far end of the beach coming out trying to take a look at the impact of dorian before things get really bad here. But again, we expect dorian to, you know, kind of hover and drape the florida coast for the next couple days as it moves north and then georgia and the carolinas at this point right now getting some sunshine but again that could deteriorate at any moment very quickly. Just a half hour ago you saw it was starting to get blown around a little bit right here. Things seem pretty nice but that is the unpredictability of the outer bands of this storm. Unpredictable to say the least but certainly progressing over the next 24 hours or so. Thank you, gabe. Stay safe. For another check on Hurricane Dorian this hour lets bring in our meteorologist. How are things looking . Good morning. I want to back up what gabe is saying. He is seeing kind of a reprieve in this system. The outer bands starting to really let up. Its going to be sporadic throughout the day. Theyll be on the isolated side. The eye of the storm is offshore but well be watching it closely. The bahamas getting pounded. The system has started to still watching sustained winds of 165 miles per hour. I want to show you a really close look. It is not issued just yet for the National Hurricane center but theyre seeing kind of a wobble here. Thats as its trying its best to turn. So were going to watch that very closely in the next update from the National Hurricane center. It is continuing to stall out but the storm surge really for the next three days is going to be the big time issue. I do want to show you all these potential for the coastal areas of florida, with inundation of water potentially up to 6 feet. So were not forecasting a potential landfall for florida but the inundation of water of accumulation of a near 10 to 12 inches is really going to be a problem. The storm surge will over top in some areas here above sea level so thats really what were going to be watching fairly closely. Now i do want to show you our next update. Were going to continue to watch here, the cone of insurgenciy now has made a potential for a landfall across the carolina coast, the outer banks nah the wilmington area. So well see that for late week. Now it does go up around the northeast so well watch that for the next update coming in from the National Hurricane center. The storm surge warnings 4 to 7 feet for coastal areas from West Palm Beach into the northern tip. So the inundation of rain here is really going to be a problem. If you remember matthew, it wasnt that it made landfall in 2016 for florida but it caused over a billion dollars worth of damage here just from the storm surge and heavy rain. Were really getting a lay of the land here, a look at this storm as we are visiting different correspondents in different areas. We saw gabe in jensen beach, florida, Morgan Chesky in nassau, bahamas. Thats just south of freeport, just south of grand bahama island. I think a couple hundred miles south. Morgan not seeing much impact it seems right now from the hurricane as we are seeing the eye of the storm over grand bahama island. Talk to us about why that is. Well, right now he is just south here. This radar is currently the cloud coverage here. So yesterday when we were watching really closely, i want to show you on this radar. We move that over here. Its completely out of the area. So theyre seeing a glimpse of sunshine, High Pressure steering this system and the outer bands really not affecting that area. Where we have a bigtime issue here is freeport into the grand bahamas here where it is completely sitting. The issue is this will not move for 36 hours. Can you imagine that . This is going to be a ton of water here and talking about the left side quadrant really going to be shifting more to the west here and thats why the storm surge potential is very high. All right. Thank you. Before you go i want to talk through what were seeing from the president online on twitter as he has been retweeting things on Hurricane Dorian delaying or stopping his trip to poland and staying here to watch the progression of Hurricane Dorian but also weighing in on what he is calling the lame stream media, attacking the media online. More than a dozen tweets so far from President Trump this morning talking about the economy, talking about the socalled squad, attacking the media. He has no Public Events on his schedule. We assume he is holed up in the white house watching cable tv as he often does and tweeting in real time his thoughts. It would appear based on this twitter feed that his attention is a few other places than what Hurricane Dorian the risk Hurricane Dorian proposes to the country. The u. S. Coast guard is responding to what could be a Major Incident in an island harbor, a boat with more than 30 people reportedly on fire. The coast guard saying a group of crew members has been rescued one with minor injuries. Were told efforts to evacuate the remaining passengers are ongoing. Well continue to monitor that situation as it develops throughout the morning. Stay with msnbc all day long as we continue to track the storm and for all of your breaking news. Chris jansing picks up our coverage after a very short break, back in three minutes. Whyou should be mad that airports are complicated. Hes my emotional support snake. But youre not, because you have e trade, whose tech isnt complicated. It helps you understand the risk and reward potential on an options trade. Dont get mad. Get e trade. 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