Tonight across the southeast. And officials are going house to house now in the florida keys, which took the brunt of the hit as the storm first made landfall. Here is what it looked like here on msnbc when the big storm moved through. This is the rain thats wow. Hitting me. Wow. Why dont you get under the overhang there. This came off one of the palm trees to the east of me. And im not going let go of it because it actually could just fly around. It probably weighs about 25, 30 pounds. The angle of approach can make all the difference. And a storm that is more parallel agh that hurt. That hurts. Well get the latest on irma, now a Tropical Storm, ahead on hardball. But now to the russia investigation into what steve bannon is now saying. Just weeks after he was ousted, bannon is reigniting the debate over President Trumps firing of former fbi director james comey, a subject the white house has tried to avoid amid the obstruction of Justice Administration into the president. Bannon said
Patients are dead. 115 others evacuated. They suffered for days with no air conditioning in the wake of Hurricane Irma. Why a criminal investigation is now under way. Well get to those stories in a moment. We start with the 2016 campaign that almost was. Bernie sanders and President Donald Trump one hour from now both are scheduled to appear from the cameras. Both trying to build coalitions for legacybuilding projects. For sanders its universal health care. For the president its a tax reform package. While sanders is delivering red meat to the base of the Democratic Party, the president may be making his own base a bit nervous with more outrage to democrats. Lets start this hour with our nbc reporters Peter Alexander at the white house, kasie hunt over on capitol hill. Peter, lets start with you, good sir, with the president because, again, hes not only reaching out to a Bipartisan Group of house members this afternoon, hes got chuck and nancy coming back to the white house for dinner.
Right now irma is about twice the size. It could be andrewlike but bigger. A lot of the northern islands, we still have this horrendous video, barbuda, they say 65 of the homes cant be occupied. This is before the eye went over the turks and caicos for four straight hours. Were still waiting for reports and at daylight we can find out just how bad ffs as they went through the northern eye wall. Heres the latest on the storm. Theres the clear eye. The thing that developed last night is it was start to develop an eye wall replacement sickle. There as a nashville is starting to take over. That has reduced the intensity down to a category four. Thats good, we want a weaker storm but if it does the eye wall cycle, it can regenerate before it gets to the coast. It could easily be a five at landfall. Here is a clear picture of the zoomed in eye. This is Crooked Island here in the southern bahamas. Lets get to the allimportant pass of the storm. This is the critical time here, 2 a. M. Sunday.
ELLENSBURG Washington’s economy, its job market and unemployment were topics of discussion at the annual Economic Outlook Conference Monday at Central Washington University.
Dave Reich, executive director of the Washington State Economic and Revenue Forecast Council, said the state is still dealing with the aftereffects of 2020.