this, i want you to look at that parking lot behind me. they tell me with hurricane matthew, that was completely covered with sand and water. and with a storm like florence that is going to linger and keep pouring rain on this area, it could be so much more damaging. hallie? mariana, hang on a second. are there people swimming behind you? are they in the water? reporter: can we point to the surfers over here? hallie, there s at least ten surfers out there. i want to ask my cameraman to point slightly to the left because there s more people headed into the water. and, again, these are the critical hours where people should be hunkering down or skipping town all together. hallie? any officials there, emergency personnel, first responders, telling these people to get to safety? reporter: i ve spoken to the mayor and police chief. they have patrol cars out here but tell me once these sustained winds reach 45 miles an hour they won t be dispatching anymore. the message is if you re
hallie? gabe gutierrez, i will tell you what i have told every reporter on this show. please stay safe. no joke. i know you will. you ve been through this. we ll watch for your reports throughout the day. as we head to break, house speaker paul ryan is talking about all of this on capitol hill. the impact from hurricane florence and that tweet from the president on hurricane maria, an incorrect claim that the death toll was not what they said it was. we ll bring that to you after the break. s. we ll bring that to you after the break. needles. essential for the cactus, but maybe not for people with rheumatoid arthritis. because there are options. like an unjection™ . xeljanz xr. a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough. xeljanz xr can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infectio
cooperate with any investigation that goes on and own up to any mistakes and push forward, and keep going, keep moving on. i want to bring in politico reporter daniel lichtman with his new reporting on fema director brock long, washington post sr. political reporter andrew blake. that series of tweets just this morning, tamara, aaron and daniel, not hurricane florence, the one currently on the way to the east coast but the one that hit puerto rico, leading to the deaths ultimately and eventually of close to 3,000 people. the president now, let s pull up those tweets, is saying, in fact, those 3,000 people did not die as a result of the storm. he is accusing democrats now of actually adding to the death toll. tamara, you have spent 24 hours, prefact checking this, not knowing that the president would tweet this. looking into that death toll number from puerto rico. right. and so what the president is