Following Breaking News as a monster hurricane. Milton is just just hours away from making landfall on floridas west coast. Its already making its presence known through winds and rain and bringing florida, its most Tornado Watch mornings in a day on record, 90 Tornado Warnings and counting, youre looking at one of them. One of those tornadoes crossing and i75, heres a Tower Cam that was airing im on Cnn Affiliate Woio And Kay as a reported tornado tore through matlab shaye. If you want to understand how truly devastating the storm could be, just listen to how president Joe Biden described it in a briefing, just this afternoon looking like the storm of the century, many communities in hurricane Miltons Path do not have a moment to catch their breath between Helene And Milton two historic stern storms in two weeks the storm of the century, possibly Vice President Kamala Harris just called in To Cnns Dana Bash and echoed those stark terms. This is unlike anything we have seen before. We
The white house. General election coverage gets underway today. Im Andrea Mitchell reporting from washington along with my colleagues. Donald trump is the Presumptive Republican nominee at nikki haley suspended her campaign this morning without endorsing trump. I said i wanted americans to have their voices heard. I have done that. I have no regrets. It is now up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. We will look to exit polling to see where the haley voters are going. Donald trump is calling for the Republican Party to unite behind him before he is officially declared theexpected. He picked up an endorsement from Mitch Mcconnell in a major sign the party will coalesce behind trump after last nights results and todays announcement from haley. Trump insisting they call it Super Tuesday for a reason when he spoke last night. Theres never been one like this. Theres never been anything so conclusive. This was an amazing night. Its be
Nominee. How it could influence the race to replace the republican leader. And the record busting billions that president ial campaigns will pour into buying a mountain of negative ads. Can all that money buy a winning message or is it just so much white noise . Msnbc chief political analyst chuck todd will join me to talk about that, and why it may takes weeks to get an answer. We start with today, the official start of the rematch most voters say they didnt want. Joe biden versus donald trump, an unprecedented race in extraordinary ways. To candidates, older than any in history, both extremely wellknown yet deeply disliked facing a polarized electorate and toxic political climate, and yet they have essentially cemented their partys nominations even before they have the delegates to make it official. Trump is now the presumptive nominee, after this morning nikki haley suspended her Campaign Congratulating but not endorsing trump with a warning that seemed to directly target him. Our c
a comedienne and the republican are not laughing. especially about her weekend trip to texas where she rallied for abortion rights and called the lone star state s abortion restrictions according to morel. it s not what she did but what she didn t do. the so-called borders are went to a border state but not to th actual border. had a political panel has thoughts on that and the california congresswoman jan ca join me live she has plenty to say about the ongoing crisis at the border. along with a major shakeup on the la city council. after, and supports the president to step down. plus, days after the white hous downplayed president biden s word and oven warning of a nuclear vladimir putin launche a deadly barrage of attacks against several of several cities in ukraine including the capital. we will preview what s ahead as president by the needs meets emergently with g-7 nations on tuesday, but we begin with a renewed focus of the so-called border. that would become a lot harr
night that the president and first lady will head to puerto rico last night which was rocked by hurricane fiona 25 deaths in puerto rico have been connected to the storms. reuters reports that as of friday, 230,000 homes and businesses remain without power. fiona bore down five days after the anniversary of hurricane maria, which wreaked major havoc on the island before moving up the east coast. after puerto rico, the first couple will head to florida to examine the damage caused by hurricane ian. with wind speeds that top 155 miles per hour, tens of thousands of buildings were leveled, millions of people lost power. so far, nbc news confirmed at least 77 people have died from the effects of iain which barreled into florida s west coast as a category four storm on wednesday before veering to the east overland, reentering the atlantic ocean and making a second landfall as a category one hurricane and the carolinas. nbc s steve patterson is in fort myers beach where i left hi